Photo Competition – Strong and Powerful
We recently announced that we would be featuring a photo competition every single day within our brand new Competitions category – maximising the opportunities you have to enter great contests and not to miss them. Today, we’re featuring The STRONG and POWERFUL online-juried competition. It is about something that has an impact on you such as expressions, architecture, bold colors, landscapes or some type of digital art. It is about your interpretation of this theme using any style of photography or digital art.
Submission deadline: November 4, 2013; Entry fee: $25 for first 5 images – $4 for each additional image up to 10. Over $2,000 in cash awards and prizes to top three finalists – Awards of Excellence also awarded.
The Judging Criteria used in this competition will be Creativity, Impact, Composition and Consistency with the theme.
Exhibitions Without Walls is a juried on-line competition that features winning works from photographers and digital artists, that includes graphic designers and illustrators. Works that are appropriate for these juried online competitions include any art style where some type of photographic and/or digital process has been applied in creating the work. Our jurors for these competitions not only have an artistic background but also are involved with the “business of art.”
Prizes & Terms
BEST IN COMPETITION cash award of $300 US, PLUS Photographer/Digital Artist Portfolio book (US residents only) and other promotional materials, including fact sheets and releases, tailored to the “Best In Competition” winner (valued at $500); Portfolio Book – 20 pages, hardcover (valued at $125 – US residents only); Photo Bundle awarded by Alien Skin Software and includes Bokeh, Blow-Up, Exposure 5 and Snap Art 3 (valued at $200); An online solo-exhibition following the month of the top finalist exhibition; PLUS One hour of free website consultation awarded by Nexxite Web Developers (value $50); A free – one year membership to Art & Beyond Publications (value $155); and an E-mail press release, released by EWW promoting “Best In Competition”, as well 2nd and 3rd Place, to contacts that include: major media outlets, trade journals, social media, selected gallery owners and/or directors, corporate art representatives, interior designers and other buying markets.
2ND PLACE cash award of $175 US PLUS one hour of free website consultation awarded by Nexxite Web Developers (value $50) and “Exposure 5″ awarded by Alien Skin Software (valued at $150).
3RD PLACE cash award of $125 US PLUS one hour of free website consultation awarded by Nexxite Web Developers (value $50) and “Blow-up” awarded by Alien Skin software
AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE – Seven Awards Of Excellence will be awarded
ELIGIBILITY: International / 18+
72 dpi – jpg file format, No more than 1000 pixels in either height or width.
COPYRIGHT: All photographers and digital artists retain the copyright to their images they submit.
USAGE RIGHTS: Any photographer or digital artist whose image is selected to be placed on EWW’s site and blog, gives EWW the right to use the image for the purpose of display only, as well as, for the 1st place’s electronic media kit, promotional press releases, other promotional pieces and the EWW archives for 12 months. After the initial 12 month period, photographer(s) or digital artist(s) will have to give written permission in order for EWW to continue the archive of their images. There will be no compensation for the granting the above listed rights and EWW has no further interest in the photographers’ or digital artists’ images. All inquiries about purchasing the work will be referred directly to the artist. The images and artist statement/bio of artists who are not selected for awards will be permanently deleted from our submissions library after announcement of results of competition.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
