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Firecracker Photographic Grant 2014 – Applications Now Open
The Firecracker Photographic Grant is an annual award providing funding for a female photographer, to aid in the completion of a documentary photographic project. Through a combination of self-initiated fundraising and with the generous support of Genesis Imaging, the Grant fund is a minimum financial contribution of £1,000 plus £1,000 credit of professional printing, mounting and framing services from Genesis Imaging. Applications are open to women photographers born or residing in Europe and submissions are judged by an independent panel of industry specialists from a cross section of disciplines and sectors, including picture editors, commissioners, art buyers and gallerists. Submissions are subject to a £10 application fee, with all funding…
ipa – Int’l Photography Awards – Final Call For Entries
International Photography Awards conducts an annual photography competition for professional, non-professional and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today. Be recognized by receiving a coveted Lucie statue on stage at the 2014 Lucie Awards gala, at Carnegie Hall, NYC. Win the Title of Photographer of the Year and receive a $10,000 cash prize (sponsored by AtEdge) Win the Title of Discovery of the Year and receive a $5,000 cash prize Win the Title of Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year and receive a $5,000 cash prize Win the Title of Moving Images Photographer of the Year and…
Adobe Youth Voices Awards – Winners Announced!
Today, the winners of the Adobe Youth Voices Awards have been announced. Adobe Youth Voices is an online competition inviting students aged 13-19 from across the globe to use digital media to express their vision for driving positive change in their communities. Winners are chosen from seven categories: animation, documentary, photography, music video, narrative, poetry and campaign poster. · A record 2,400 students from 50 countries submitted projects · The 21 winning projects were chosen from a pool of 142 finalists, and over 200,000 public votes were cast. · Winners are showcased on the Adobe Youth Voices website 
Nico Brons – Graduates With A Masters Degree In iPhone Art
Nico Brons is a very well known and accomplished mobile photographer and in December 2013 he graduated with a Masters Degree of photography with iPhone Art. He graduated from the Photo Academy, the largest and most ambitious establishment to study Photography in the Netherlands. This graduation project was undertaken solely with the iPhone. Brons created a book with iPhone art and poetry. He contacted a Arjen van der Linden, a poet from Amersfoort to make poetry with his images, it was a fabulous collaboration. The books consists of 60 pages, 25 images and 25 poems and some introductory text. Further on there is music to accompany the images and poetry.…
MIRA Mobile Prize – Mobile Photography Competition – Final Call
This is the final call for entries to the wonderful MIRA Mobile Photography Competition – the deadline for submission is 15 June 2014. This competition is free to enter and is juried by a highly respected and experienced international group of individuals (including myself)! Fifty images will constitute the short-list and these will be exhibited at the MIRA Forum – this will be launched on 6 September 2014. There’s a beautiful award for the winner – five nights in Porto, this includes accommodation and food and a return trip from any European capital.
Hints & Tips For Entering The Lumen Prize Competiton
Thinking about entering your digital art into The Lumen Prize Exhibition, but want a little guidance? Read on for some handy tips… STILL IMAGES For example an iPad painting, digital collage, photo-manipulation, glitch/fractal art or similar • The formats we accept are JPG and PNG only. • The file size of your image cannot be more than 1MB. • Please note that if your work is based on digital photography, you must have used an app or computer software programme as part of your creative process. If you are unsure about whether your work qualifies, please contact info@lumenprize.com MOVING IMAGE & TIME-BASED WORK For example animation or video • Work…
Olloclip, Hipstamatic, Cinamatic and TheAppWhisperer Team Up – We Invite You! Fabulous Prizes
We are delighted to announce a brand new section to TheAppWhisperer, the Olloclip MicroSite. Within this section, you will find Olloclip tutorials, news, interviews, competitions and other non-biased advice and tips. We will be adding content to this section each week, you can find it here. To celebrate the launch of the Olloclip Microsite to TheAppWhisperer.com we are announcing a fabulous challenge in-conjunction with Hipstamatic and their brand new video Cinamatic app. The overall winner of our challenge will have their video embedded within Hipstmatics Snap Magazine and receive the brand new Olloclip 4-in-1 iPad lens. Two runners up with enjoy winning the Olloclip telephoto lens with circular polarizer filter.…
MIRA Mobile Prize – Mobile Photography Competition
There’s a wonderful new mobile photography competition that we think you should enter – it’s free to and it’s juried by a highly respected and experienced international group of individuals (including myself)! Fifty images will constitute the short-list and these will be exhibited at the MIRA Forum – this will be launched on 6 September 2014. There’s a beautiful award for the winner – five nights in Porto, this includes accommodation and food and a return trip from any European capital. To find out more go here.
The Lumen Prize Exhibition – Call For Entries
The Lumen Prize Exhibition, an international prize and global tour for digital fine art, has opened the call for entries for its 2014 prize. The 25 exhibition works, which will be selected by an eminent jury panel of art experts including Bruce Wands, the Founding Chair of BFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts, New York City and Doug Dodds, Senior Curator at the V&A, will travel to Cardiff, London, New York City, Athens and Amsterdam. All forms of digitally created art are welcome, and in the past Lumen has exhibited work ranging from photo-montage and manipulation, to iPad drawings, interactive art, web art, digital sculpture, animation…
Open Call for Photobook Dummies
After two successful editions, the Unseen Dummy Award is back! Heikki Kaski’s ‘Tranquility’ was announced as the winner at Unseen 2013, and his book will be presented with a festive launch at Unseen 2014. This is fabulous and I know so many of you are working on your own photo books, I hope you submit your individual books to this. Unseen and Lecturis have designed a photobook dummy award to showcase the work of exceptional photographers and designers from around the world and to give them a chance to realise and publish their photobook dummy. The Unseen Dummy Award will give the winning photographer an entry into the international photography industry. An…
