Download Call for Entries. Deadline is July 24th.

Octane Coffee is seeking submissions for its “iPhone aRt sHow” to benefit ATAC.

More news about this year’s edition of Le Flash in Castleberry Hill. Here’s the call for entries, below. Yesterday’s Le Flash announcement is here. Le Flash will be curated by Cathy Byrd and Stuart Keeler.

Le Flash 2009 - Call for Entries

Fresh Perspectives 2009 - Call for Entries

For more information, visit Snapdragonphoto.com.

EarthShare of Georgia wants to see your nature photos. EarthShare is Georgia’s only dedicated environmental fund, and “partners with Georgia businesses and employees to support 62 leading environmental groups through workplace campaigns, Earth Day and other activities.”

“We are looking for photos of you getting outside with your family and friends in Georgia! Just get outside, take some pictures of nature or nature with people, with whatever digital camera you have, and then come back and share them with our online community on Flickr.”

Visit EarthShare’s call for entries in their Flickr group.

ACP is pleased to announce that Le Flash will be making its return to the streets of Castleberry this year on Friday, October 2nd.
Download: Le Flash Press Release (pdf)

“Coming this October, for the second year in a row, LE FLASH ATLANTA will feature over 40 projects in Castleberry Hill’s streets and galleries, vacant lots and windows, warehouses and rooftops.

Fantastical art and creative events will again fill a night out in the neighborhood. Atlanta expects to be showered with the light and sound of installations, performance art, poetry readings, music, video projections and other lens-based projects, an iron pour and art happenings of all sorts.”

More information will be available on June 15th at leflash-atl.com. If you’re an artist who’d like to contribute to Le Flash, there’s currently a call for entries.

A 25k award, applications due July 31st, more info at William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts.

“The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that seeks to encourage African American artists early in their careers through its annual award, The William H. Johnson Prize. Early career African American artists who work in painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, installation and/or new genre are eligible to apply.”

ACP’s public art project this year (curated by Beth Lilly) is going to be amazing, and there are only a few days left to submit. For more info, and details on submitting, see: Curating 12 Local Photographers. And check out other Opportunites and Call to Artists!

Judy Pishneri will be leading a group (or two!) taking part in the Worldwide Photowalk on July 18th. If you like shooting with other folks and meeting new people, head over to the photowalk site for more info. There are three walks currently organized for Atlanta (1, 2, 3). The Worldwide Photowalk is a creation of Photoshop guru Scott Kelby. Please let us know of other area walks in the comments!

ACP’s incredible officemates The Showcase School of Photography are opening-up submissions for SHOTS 09, their annual photo competition. Laura Noel and Manuel Llaneras will be judging.

“Our annual student competition is just around the corner. See attached flyer that will go to all students via email tomorrow. Cards, posters and flyers will be on our counters next week. Please encourage students to submit their best work to us (as many as two images via email) by August 27th. New judges are Laura Noel and Manuel Llaneras! Exhibit will hang in conjunction with ACP in October with an opening reception on October 9th.”

For more Open Calls & Opportunities for photographers, check out the Photography Grants Blog, a great resource for international grants and competitions.

If you’re a student in “higher education”, you’re eligible to enter
Google’s background photo competition for iGoogle. Entries are due by May 31st. Your entry needs to be W I D E: 1000px by 175px, to fit the iGoogle format. Martin Parr is a judge, and winners will be exhibited at Saatchi London.

You can exhibit your photograph(s) up north at the New York Photo Festival this weekend by becoming part of their “We’re All Photographers Now” exhibition.

The deadline is June 1st for the Photo Review International Photography Competition, which will be judged this year by Lesley Martin, Publisher, Aperture Book Program.

Have you responded to the Slow Exposures 2009 call for entries yet? Postmark deadline for this show is June 15th.