The Blue Ridge Mountain Photographers (BRMP) and the Blue Ridge Mountains Art Association (The Art Center) are pleased to announce their second annual National Juried Nature and Fine Art Photography Exhibit. Monetary prizes totaling $2,000 will be awarded including Best of Show in both the nature and fine arts categories. The exhibit will be on display in the Richard Low Evans Gallery in The Art Center, located in the picturesque mountain town of Blue Ridge, Georgia, from September 10 through Oct. 10.
The judge for this year’s show will be professional nature, wildlife and portrait photographer Todd Sparger of Marietta, Georgia. Todd is vice president of the Georgia Nature Photographers Association and a member of the Professional Photographers Association and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
The juried show is open to all photographers, both amateur and professional, and all original photographic media, including film and digital images. The deadline for entries is July 15, 2011.
Historic Oakland Cemetery partners with Atlanta Celebrates Photography & The Voice of the Arts’ Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas to present the “Cell Phone Photo Contest”. Participants may enter as many photos as they like, with the condition being that pictures are taken from January 17th – February 17th at Oakland Cemetery, and with a cell phone. The contest follows Oakland’s vision to “honor Atlanta’s past and celebrate it’s future”, and launches the same day as the Cell Phone Tour of the African American Section, Monday January 17th, Martin Luther King Day.
Contest Details: To Enter: Contest is open to all. Photos MUST be taken with a cell-phone.
* Visit sidewalkradio.wordpress.com and go to the Cell Phone Photo Contest entry.
* Send your photo, a name for the photo, the type of phone you used, the date the photo was taken, and your contact information to the e-mail from the link provided.
* Visit ACP’s Blog “ACP Now!” on Monday, February 21st to see who won!
What You’ll Win: 3 total winners will be announced on Monday, February 21st.
* Sidewalk Radio Prize Pack – Including: 2 Alternative Apparel t-shirts, 2 Sidewalk Radio CDs, dinner for 2 at Doc Chey’s at Oakland Park, and a bad-to-the-bone ACP baseball cap.
* The winners will also have their work presented on ACP Now and promoted on Facebook and twitter.
ACP has a bus that will be making the journey to the Booth Museum in Cartersville on Saturday for the Ansel Adams reception, exhibition and lecture. And you’re invited! Bring friends, family, and photography fans! The details are below, and we look forward to seeing you on Saturday.
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“Here’s a show of a different kind. All you have to do is send in a winning image file. The Atlanta Photography Group will have it printed and mounted (LARGE) by Digital Arts Studio, and hang it in a six-week long show in the atrium of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Jurored by Amy Miller, Executive Director of ACP. For all the details, download the entry form (pdf). Deadline for entries is July 17, 2010.“
The latest collaborative effort from mus-mus involves vintage flash and film packaging. Deadline for submissions is July 1st! Here are examples of what they’re looking for.
It’s time for this week’s Photolink Round-up, a smattering of photo-rich stories, posts and links from across the online spectrum!
The May 28th edition of On the Media re-aired “Snap Judgements“, which investigates the ethics of photographic portraiture. The story includes a great interview with Platon, who’ll be an ACP Lecture Series presenter later this year.
“To be quite honest, I’m often surprised that I’m allowed to carry on doing what I do every day. But I haven’t been stopped yet, and I’m still waiting to be sent out of the country for bad photographic behavior.”
Here’s a fascinating piece in the Atlantic about the rise of the paparazzi as a profitable business. It makes a great companion piece to Smash His Camera, a new documentary about the life and times of Ron Galella, famous for this image of Jackie Onassis. The doc is currently airing on HBO.
YouTube and the Guggenheim have teamed-up for an exhibition called “YouTubePlay” of the world’s best “creative videos”. They’re currently accepting entries, one per YouTube account.
Check out this story from Greensboro, NC about an unbelievable “Kodak moment”.
If you have 10-grand to spare, someone in Virginia Highlands is selling their Hasselblad H3 digital outfit on Craigslist.
Photographs from former Tennessee senator Howard Baker are currently on exhibition at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library through the end of the month.
“His only source of income comes from the occasional editorial commission, print sales and the books he publishes through his own imprint, Nobody, which he started in 2005. His website has become the key to his self-sufficiency. After the Haiti earthquake in January, he produced 100 prints from his Hackney Flowers series (a continuation of the Hackney Wick pictures) to raise money for the victims; within 15 hours of appearing on the website they had sold out. ‘I could have sold 400 easily,’ he says. ‘A great reminder of the power of photography.’”
The World Cup’s in full-swing, which has sent a lot of photographers back to their archives to see what kinds of crowd-reaction shots they were photographing four years ago. Dean Dorat came up with this set, while PDN reports that Antonio Simoes had 35k dollars worth of gear stolen in South Africa last week.
As Moore’s law still holds, chips keep getting smaller, with increasing processing power, enabling future phone cameras the capability of 14 megapixel images and 1080p HD video. Whoa!
(Have a great link suggestion for Photolink Round-up? Tweet us @acptweets, or send an email!)
Our friends down in Pike County, Slow Exposures have a new site and a current call for entries for their eighth (!) annual contest/exhibition/festival. Deadline is June 15th. Have a look!
The New York Times photoblog “Lens” is running a “A Moment in Time” project. I’ve seen two or three of these happen in the last few years, and they’re always good fun. Lens’ readership is far-and-wide and will probably produce a few standout photographs.
Flux Projects have secured space for public art in Lenox Mall, and are looking for your proposal, due January 31st!!
“Flux Projects has secured a space at Lenox Square for two weeks, February 15 – March 2, during which we hope to present one to three public art projects. (Images of the site are attached.) Over an average weekend, Lenox attracts 105,000 people per day, so the exposure to the public is tremendous. Having a project stand out in the visual density of the mall will be challenging, and we look forward to seeing what you propose!”
“Composition Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking submissions from dynamic photographic artists nationwide for its fourth anniversary exhibition. 3 to 6 images from each of the 4 photographers chosen will be on exhibition at the gallery from Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 through Sunday, March 7th, 2010.”
Our proposal deadline is October 23, 2009. Please spread the word! We are seeking ideas from Atlanta-based artists working across the spectrum of art practices. Notification of awards will take place no later than November 16, 2009.
This year, thanks to the terrific support of Atlanta donors who care about cultivating an environment for artists that fosters experimentation and innovation, we are raising the potential grant award from $1,000 to $1,500. We expect to award from three to eight grants.
Two accomplished and well regarded Atlanta area photographers, Mark Maio and Chip Simone, are collaborating on a Master Class workshop for intermediate and advanced level photographers on October 9 & 10. They describe the Atlanta Photography Workshop as a “serious conversations for serious photographers”. The workshop is limited to 12 participants and is intended for dedicated photographers who want to refine and strengthen their personal vision.
Established in 1998, Atlanta Celebrates Photography supports Atlanta's emergence as an international center for photography. Through an annual October festival and year-round programs, ACP seeks to nurture and support photographers, educate and engage audiences, promote diverse photography venues, and enrich Atlanta's cultural scene. Through these efforts, we facilitate Atlanta's emergence as a world-class cultural city.
