LensCulture 2014 Portrait Awards Competition – Call For Entries
‘Photographic portraits are part of everyday life in almost all parts of the world. From fine art to spontaneous selfies, from hyper-perfect photoshopped portraits to seductive (and often fictitious) social media profile pics, to mobile phone snaps altered with digital nostalgia filters. Some are candid, some are staged, some are outrageous and silly, others are just plain beautiful’.
LensCulture are on a mission to discover a full range of great 21st century photo portraits. They are open to everything. All points of view. All levels of expertise. All corners of the world. All ideas of portraiture.
Every photo is reviewed by EVERY judge, so your work will be seen by their notable jury. Hundreds of photographers with highly-rated photos get a LensCulture Portfolio account. Winners and Finalists get worldwide exposure to our global audience of over 200,000.
Awards & Prizes
WINNERS RECEIVE
Cash Prizes in two categories:
PORTFOLIO AWARD
1st prize: $1500 | 2nd prize: $500 | 3rd prize: $250
SINGLE IMAGE AWARD
1st prize: $1000 | 2nd prize: $500 | 3rd prize: $250
An Exclusive Feature Article in LensCulture.
Home Page Spotlight: Winners will be highlighted on our home page for six weeks.
WINNERS & FINALISTS RECEIVE
A LensCulture Portfolio Account: Gain access to an invitation-only network of the world’s most cutting-edge photographers.
High-Profile Exposure to their global audience of over 200,000 influential enthusiasts in the global photography marketplace including editors, curators, gallery owners, collectors, publishers, and festival directors.
Plus, 100 top-rated submissions will win LensCulture Portfolio Accounts
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]
