We couldn’t be happier about the fact that it’s time to begin accepting listings for the ACP Festival Guide! As the largest annual community-oriented photography festival in America, ACP relies on your great ideas and initiative to create memorable exhibitions and events across the city! It’s time to dream big!

(We sent out an email last night with the details.)

If you’re considering an exhibition of your own work and are looking for a venue, consider locations in your community that mean the most to you. In the past, successful exhibitions have been held at nail salons, donut shops (!), pizza restaurants, and community centers. As always, if you have a venue and are looking to connect with Atlanta’s wide community of photographers, photography collectors & fans, hosting an event or exhibition during ACP is a great way to plug-in to an amazing month (and a half!) of photo-inspired audiences.

Plus, we’ve changed the layout of this year’s online Festival Guide to match the design refresh we made across the rest of the site this winter. The new design is more readable, more accessible (responds automatically to whichever device you’re using), and best of all, highlights your photography like never before.

We can’t wait to hear what you’re planning, and we’re just as eager to share with you the ACP Programs we’re organizing for the fall. Printed Festival Guides will be available earlier than ever this year (around Sept. 1st), so be hasty in listing your event or exhibition, as the deadline is June 30th.

This winter, we re-launched ACPinfo.org to better-reflect the photographic nature of the Festival, and to feature a design that was responsive to whichever device you might be using to view the site, from your phone to the widest TV screen.

We’re carrying this design into this year’s Festival Guide, and we’re excited that your photographs will really shine this year (on the Web, in print, and in the ACP iPhone app!). Here’s a sample listing below from last year’s Festival, presented with the new design.

As you prepare your event or exhibition for this year’s Festival, remember to prepare a great jpg that will make your listing shine. Your jpg will need to be at least 1000 pixels wide. Here’s an example.

(We just sent this out to our email list — please sign-up at the bottom of this page!)

It’s time to begin planning your photo-related events and exhibitions for this fall’s ACP festival!

Each year, ACP works hard to bring you outstanding lectures, portfolio reviews, public art and other great festival programs, but what makes us one of the most exciting photo festivals in the country is tremendous community participation — that means YOU!

As this country’s largest annual community-oriented photography festival, the creative and exciting photo-related events and exhibitions that you plan are the heart & soul of what makes Atlanta a great city for photography! As we celebrate our 15th year, we can’t wait to wow Atlantans and those who travel to our city to see the diverse photography events across the Metro-area during the ACP festival.

Next month, you will be notified of the launch of our ACP Festival Guide listing tool. You will be able to easily list your event, upload your event’s photo, preview your listing, and securely check out, all online. Submissions to the Festival Guide will close in June.

To be an official ACP event, your event must be listed in the Festival Guide where it will be seen by thousands. ACP distributes 15,000 printed guides across the Metro area, and thousands more are downloaded from ACPinfo.org, and like last year, our iPhone app will provide a quick and easy way to access information about every Festival event.

If you’re interested in hosting or participating in an event, please refer to these FAQs:

Get involved as an artist

Get involved as a venue

ACP is primarily an October festival, and the Festival Guide will be distributed earlier than ever this year, at the beginning of September. Please keep this in mind when planning your events.

Each listing in the Festival Guide will have an image. The best way to draw attention to your event is to include an image that you have permission to publish. If you cannot select an image to use, please consider using a logo or a photo of the interior of your venue. See the 2012 Festival Guide for reference (pdf).

With our acclaimed blog ACP Now!, we’re able to promote you (ACP’s participating photographers and venues) and your events year-round. That alone is worth the price of a listing in the Festival Guide!

As always, find the latest on ACP Now!, follow our tweets on twitter, and like ACP on Facebook.

We’re excited to find out about what you’re planning for October!

- ACP

We’re happy to announce the launch of the ACP iPhone App! It’s available in the iTunes store (link launches iTunes) and it provides a great way of navigating your way through the Festival!

You can explore the festival by ACP featured events, by date, by type of event, by artist, by photo, or by location. Using the map, you can find what events and exhibitions are happening near you. It’s a perfect way of viewing what’s coming-up, and ensuring you don’t miss any of the incredible events and exhibitions over the next five weeks!

We’re happy to be able to bring you this free app, and thank our supporters on the ACP Board, at Unboundary and Monumental for their invaluable help with this project.

Download the ACP iPhone app now and let us know what you think!

We’re ahead of schedule this year with publication of the online Festival Guide, which will debut next week. In the meantime, we’ve published this year’s ACP Featured Events.

From our annual Photography Auction on Sept. 14th, to a Special Exhibition on Nov. 1st at the High Museum of Art, featuring portraits made by in-patient teens at Scottish Rite and Egleston, this fall will be a festival to remember!

Have a look, put them on your calendar, and get ready for ACP 2012!

We’ve extended the deadline for participating in Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2012 to Sunday, July 8th, at 11:59pm. You have ten more days to plan and list your photo-related event, exhibition, workshop, book signing, artist’s talk (and more!) at festivalguide.acpinfo.org.

Each and every listing will be published in 15,000 printed Festival Guides distributed across the Metro area, and listings will be viewable (and downloadable, as a PDF) on the Festival Guide website. This year, ACP is excited to partner with Atlanta Magazine to produce the Festival Guide and raise awareness about the festival among new audiences of art and culture lovers!

To be an official event in Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2012, list your event, upload your event’s photo, preview your listing and securely checkout at festivalguide.acpinfo.org. Base price for a Festival Guide listing is $150, and submissions for listings will be open until Sunday, July 8th, at 11:59pm.

A quick heads-up that the 2012 Festival Guide will have the same landscape layout as the 2008 Festival Guide (pictured below).

We feel this layout lends itself to a better reading experience, and most of all, showcases your photos in the best possible light, offering them a bit more pagespace than when the guide is published vertically. Yay!

Participate in ACP 2012 by listing your event or exhibition today!

Starting today, you can participate in Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2012 by listing your photo-related event, exhibition, workshop, book signing, artist’s talk (and more!) at festivalguide.acpinfo.org.

Each and every listing will be published in 15,000 printed Festival Guides distributed across the Metro area, and listings will be viewable (and downloadable, as a PDF) on the Festival Guide website in September. In the printed guide, listings will be arranged chronologically, and on the site we’ll have a calendar of events, a map of locations, and you’ll be able to view the Festival by date, artist, neighborhood or venue.

To be an official event in Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2012, list your event, upload your event’s photo, preview your listing and securely checkout at festivalguide.acpinfo.org. Base price for a Festival Guide listing is $150, and submissions for listings will be open until the end of June.

Please Note:

FAQ for photographers
FAQ for venues

ACP is primarily an October festival, and the Festival Guide will be distributed mid-September. Please keep this in mind when planning your events.

Each listing must have an image. The best way to draw attention to your event is to include an image that you have permission to publish. If you cannot select an image to use, please consider using a logo or a photo of the interior of your venue. See the 2011 Festival Guide for reference (pdf).

With our acclaimed blog ACP Now!, we’re able to promote you (ACP’s participating photographers and venues) and your events year-round. That alone is worth the price of a listing in the Festival Guide!

As always, you can find the latest on ACP Now!, follow our tweets on twitter, and like ACP on Facebook.

- ACP

(From our latest email blast.)

It’s time to begin planning your photo-related events and exhibitions for this fall’s ACP festival!

Each year, ACP works hard to bring you outstanding lectures, portfolio reviews, public art and other great festival programs, but what makes us one of the most exciting photo festivals in the country is tremendous community participation — that means YOU!

The creative and exciting photo-related events and exhibitions that you plan are the heart & soul of what makes Atlanta a photography town! Let’s pull-out the stops this year and wow Atlantans and those who travel to our city to see the diversity of photography events across the Metro-area during the ACP festival.

Next month, you will be notified of the launch of our ACP Festival Guide listing tool. You will be able to easily list your event, upload your event’s photo, preview your listing, and securely check out, all online. Submissions to the Festival Guide will close in June.

To be an official ACP event, your event must be listed in the Festival Guide where it will be seen by thousands. (ACP distributes 15,000 printed guides across the Metro area, and thousands more are downloaded from ACPinfo.org).

If you’re interested in hosting or participating in an event, please refer to these FAQs:

Get involved as an artist
Get involved as a venue

ACP is primarily an October festival, and the Festival Guide will be distributed mid-September. Please keep this in mind when planning your events.

Each listing in the Festival Guide will have an image. The best way to draw attention to your event is to include an image that you have permission to publish. If you cannot select an image to use, please consider using a logo or a photo of the interior of your venue. See the 2011 Festival Guide for reference (pdf).

With our acclaimed blog ACP Now!, we’re able to promote you (ACP’s participating photographers and venues) and your events year-round. That alone is worth the price of a listing in the Festival Guide!

As always, find the latest on ACP Now!, follow our tweets on twitter, and like ACP on Facebook.

We’re excited to find out about what you’re planning for October!

- ACP

We only have a handful of Festival Guides left at the office, which means that 15,000 of them are circulating around town! As always, when creating a document of this size, errors crop-up, and we wanted you to be aware of them. We’ll update this post over time, as well.

Page 55, the Gil Smith event and exhibition has been cancelled.
Page 61, the photo-credit for the Atlanta Friends Meeting Exhibition should be Meredith Reynolds
Page 62, the credit for the logo for Sistagraphy’s exhibition should be Sistagraphy
Page 71, the photo-credit should be Joni Sternbach
Page 72, the opening date for Messages from the Wilderness has changed.
Page 73, the photo-credit should be Chip Simone
Page 79, the screening of Monica Cook’s “Volley” in Grant Park will take place from 6:30-8:30pm.
Page 83, BEE is in Buckhead, not West End
Page 123, the photo-credit should be Corinne Adams