Awesome Things about Look3, in No Particular Order

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I just returned from three (was meant to be four... thanks a lot American Airlines) days in quaint, charming and lush Charlottesville, Virginia and the fabulous Look3 Festival of the Photograph. Look3's motto is "Peace. Love. Photography." and they do a great job at celebrating all three. Here's a list of some highlights, in no particular order:

- Lynsey Addario's heart-wrenching and inspiring presentation of the work she has done on women's issues over the last 15 years.

- Robin Schwartz's presentation of "Amelia's World": Portraits of her daughter with various animals. Her daughter has a magical gift for connecting with animals.

- Camille Seaman's wonderful telling of venturing into the world of Arctic and Antarctic photography, and how we are all connected in this world. So inspiring!

- Sitting under the stars, drinking a miniature boxed wine (think grown up juice box) with David Laidler, Alyssa Coppelman, Timothy Archibald, Andrew Hetherington, Jennifer Whitney and others.

- Piling into a bus with 19 other people to go from the Razon party to the Luceo Images party.

- Burgers and meeting the rest of the Prime Collective members

- Timothy Archibald's fantastic "Echolilia" project, in which he and his autistic son embark on a photographic journey together

- Simon Norfolk's Astra3B series

- Swimming in the river on our last day, while a bunch of baptisms were performed right behind us.

'Til next year everyone!

AI-AP Latin American Fotografía and Ilustración Call for Entries

The deadline to submit work for Latin American Fotografía and Ilustración is quickly approaching: enter work by June 30, 2012 for consideration.

All Latin American illustrators, photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and art teachers living anywhere with work published anywhere for any purpose are eligible. As are those working or studying in Latin America with work created or published anywhere for any purpose. Includes Mexico, Caribbean, Central American and South American countries.

Winning images will be exhibited in New York City as part of the annual AI-AP Party in November 2012 and will be part of a traveling exhibit through 2013. In addition to be part of the Latin American Fotografía and Ilustración book, winning images appear on THE ARCHIVE, at ai-ap.com, attracting over 200 unique visitors per day.

Case Study: Seattle-based Mike Kane

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Seattle-based Mike Kane was looking to improve his freelance career after many years in newspaper photojournalism. As with most projects, rethinking his approach started with us looking through his archive of images. In addition to his great in-depth documentary work, he also had a body of work that would work well for a variety of editorial and corporate clients.  The way he shows life in the Pacific Northwest was especially interesting to me, and I thought it would be good to highlight a mix of editorial portraiture, landscapes, and documentary images.

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Jason Dailey

Jason Dailey is a Kansas City-based corporate and editorial photographer. He was looking for some help in refocusing the work he shows on his website. We started with re-editing everything to show his strengths, especially with portraiture. We then created a new print promo and portfolio for him to take on meetings. Since launching the new work, he has picked up new clients in editorial, healthcare and higher education sectors.

Jennifer Whitney Print Portfolio and Promotions

I worked with San Antonio-based Jennifer Whitney on re-editing her work, building a new website, creating the first of a series of print and email promos and creating a new, custom print portfolio. Scott Mullenberg built the portfolio and designer Doris Palmeros did the new logo and branding as well as designing the first printed promo piece.  

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Marie Claire International Photography Award, 1st Edition

Marie Claire has a great opportunity for professional photographers to reward the best photo reports about women. To participate, register here and upload 10 photos from a single reportage, before June 30th, 2012.

Their international jury will select 10 finalists including one Award Winner, who will receive 5 000€ and a a Nikon D800 D-SLR.

The Award Winner's reportage will be published in Marie Claire France and in several Marie Claire International editions. And to salute all of the 10 shortlisted participants, an exhibition of their work made in partnership with Artelier Vikart will be held in Paris.

LOOK3 Festival and Scholarship

LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia is right around the corner: June 7-9, 2012.

LOOK3 will have photographic exhibitions, presentations, interviews, workshops, and outdoor projections curated by David Griffin and Vincent J. Musi.

10 young photographers attending LOOK3 have the opportunity to apply for a full scholarships to study with famed Magnum street photographer Bruce Gilden. The deadline to apply for this "Street Smart" workshop is May 3.

 

PDN's The Curator

 

PDN's The Curator is an great opportunity for undiscovered and emerging fine art photographers.

The selected artists will be part of The Curator group show in New York City, summer 2012. The opening reception, which is open to the gallery-going public, will be attended by top industry creatives and personalities, all coming together for music, cocktails, and to celebrate your work! In addition, each chosen photographer will receive a two-page spread in PDN's July issue.

Submit work by March 26.

Deadline approaching! Foam Magazine Talent Call

If you are a photographer between 18 and 35 years old, consider applying for Foam Magazine's Talent Call.

The Foam annual Talent Call is designed to showcase exceptional young photographers from all over the world. Every year, Foam Magazine dedicates its Fall issue to publishing the work of 15 selected talents. It is a springboard into the international photography industry for these artists, giving them international recognition and acclaim. Last year the winning portfolios were chosen from over 800 submissions worldwide. We look forward to seeing what 2012 has to offer!

Submit work by April 16 for consideration.

Call for Submissions: In-depth Travel Photo Essays

Update: Thank you everyone for your comments. I wanted to add a bit more information about what we are looking for:

I’m not just looking for a collection of images from a place. I need something with a story behind it. Perhaps it’s a community of fisherman in a beautiful setting off the coast of spain, or a place in Finland where they weave textiles in an abandoned 100 year old school house (I’m making stuff up).

Point is, it’s not enough for it to be just a collection of images from one place. Rather, the images need to be tied together with some theme or story.

Or, they need to be conceptually so unique that the concept or photographic method (wet plate, iphone, etc) is what ties it together.

I hope this helps

Jasmine

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I am the photo editor for a gorgeous travel magazine for the iPad called Travel by Handstand. We are looking to license in-depth photo essays with a travel focus for locations around the world (please see list at bottom). I am not looking for individual stock images, but really a body of work with a cohesive theme.  Aesthetically, we are a bit AFAR, a bit Travel + Leisure.

We are still in beta (download free beta app here) and have published a few feature stories.  Below are some screen grabs of recently published features. The first one, on the Pamir Highway, uses imagery entirely by Matthieu Paley.  This story gives a good sense of what we are looking for when it comes to travel photo essays. Also in this gallery you will find images from features we did on Palm Springs, California and Naoshima, Japan. These stories are not all by the same photographer but they do give a good sense of the style of work we are looking for.

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Currently we are looking for travel photo essays from:

Stockholm (especially related to kayaking)

Sardinia

Charleston, SC

Vancouver

Mozambique

Caribbean

Slovenia in Winter

Singapore

Shanghai

Central America

South America

Ecuador

Perth, Australia

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Would you like your work considered? Please comment on this blog post with a short description of your photo essay and link to a gallery.

Thank you!

Jasmine

SXSW: Another stop in the photo festival circuit?

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SxSW Interactive and Film Conferences have more photo-related seminars than ever before -- a testament to just how prevalent photography is in everyone's lives. If you were lucky *and rich* enough to score one of the sold out badges, here are some of the events you can check out (click the event title for a link to more details):

Is Our Photo-Madness Creating Mediocrity or Magic? Over 100 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. There are 3.5 billion cameraphones in use around the world. Instagram reached 13 million users in just 13 months. We are nearing the end of what Philip Gourevitch of The New Yorker called “the decade in which the world went camera-mad...the decade where everything is depicted, and every picture must be shared.”This panel will address the many ways in which the rise of mobile photography is affecting how we express our creativity, and how we connect and communicate every day. BONUS: We'll conclude with @Koci explaining how he builds his images and sharing a recipe toolkit for audience members to build their own.

 

Bob Gruen

Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen (Film Screening) From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Bob Gruen has captured half a century of music through the eye of a lens. In this landmark documentary, Grammy award-winning filmmaker Don Letts reveals the stories behind some of the most famous rock 'n' roll photographs of all time. "Rock 'N' Roll Exposed" features interviews with Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Billie Joe Armstrong and many more.

Lomography Lomography, a film camera community and company has faced annihilation from not only digital photography, but now from mobile photo-sharing applications. We will talk about why, as a brand, they still grow and succeed; as well as tactics to refocus dying brands and most importantly, why it's a good idea to not please everyone.

Shoot, Share, Repeat In the past 10 years, the advent of social photography has transformed the way we document history. Anyone with a smart phone can take pictures & share them with social networks in real-time, bypassing media gatekeepers to create a new type of living history. News media outlets have tapped into this power by employing content generated by these “phonojournalists,” to extend their reach beyond traditional means. The immediacy & intimacy of this approach resonates with people in powerful ways. One need only to look at images captured during the Occupy Wall Street protests or the Arab Spring uprisings to see how this disruptive technology can be used to inspire change. While social photography satisfies our appetite for real-time, all-access content, it presents significant challenges for existing media models. Join Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein as he discusses how the shift towards social photography is transforming the way we consume media, and what we can do to embrace the change.

Fashion and the New Taste Graph A new generation of social curation communities have risen over the past year with the mission of enhancing shopping and product discovery across retailers. These services provide an easy way to create wish lists and curate styles. Soon we will see shoppers, retailers, brands, media outlets and blogs joining these services to curate photography, new products and news stories. We will explore how social curation is currently being used and its future impact on the taste graph.

SxSW PhotoCamp If photography is your vocation, your avocation, or simply an iPhone obsession, you won't want to miss SXSW's first-ever, day-long PhotoCamp. To give you the opportunity to meet other photo-minded folks, discuss the topics most important to you, and identify potential creative collaborators, each 60-minute PhotoCamp session will include facilitated group discussions, followed by 30 minutes of free time to connect with potential collaborators one-on-one. 9:30-10:30: What kind of collaborator am I? Improve creatively by defining your strengths and weaknesses. 11:00-12:00: Are we collaborating yet? An open discussion of collaboration models. 12:30-1:30: Everyone knows everything. Learn from others' collaboration lessons and revisit your own. 2:00-3:00: Open networking.

Shoebox Full of Photos: Beyond Digital Storage Do you remember when you cracked open that shoebox full of snapshots in your grandmother's attic and discovered a past generation? Will your grandchildren be able to have the same experience? Will they be able to log in and dig up your Facebook albums? Will they be able to boot up your old iPhone? Hundreds of thousands of photographs are uploaded to online services every day with little consideration for the temporal nature of everything we put in the cloud. If Kodak decides to stop making film, the photographs in your closet will remain, but the same is not true if Facebook decides to shutter its photo business. And while a tattered photograph continues to tell a story, a corrupted hard drive or a hacked account can destroy a lifetime of photos in an instant. Is a shoebox full of photographs simply nostalgia, or is it more? Are the images we take just for us, or do we have a responsibility to leave behind more than just a pile of bits for future generations to discover?

 

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (Film Screening, multiple showings) Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters follows the acclaimed photographer’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life. His photographs are like single-frame movies — partly because each composition brims with narrative, partly because he uses cinematic tools such as special effects, hundreds of lights, and huge crews of technicians. As we travel with him — from first inspirations, through countless creative and logistical obstacles, to the instant where all the elements coalesce in a single perfect moment — we realize that, despite their vast scale, Crewdson’s images grow from his most intimate dreams and fantasies.

 

 

Paid Freelance Blogger Position Available

UPDATE: I am happy to announce I have assembled an awesome team of contributors. They are working now on interviewing photographers, stylists, producers and more. Stay tuned for our launch, April 2. I am in the process of launching a new blog dedicated to Texas photography: the commercial and editorial photographers who are based here, the stylists, producers and digital techs they rely on to produce amazing shoots, and the high quality work they are producing.

I am looking for a contributing blogger to join my team. Up to 10 hours of work a week in the first two months, then probably leveling out at about 5-8 hours a week.

If you are interested, please email me at jasmine at jasminedefoore dot com with a resume and cover letter. I am specifically looking for people with a passion for commercial and editorial photography who are familiar with the major photography, publishing and advertising blogs.

Also very helpful if you have your finger on the pulse of what is happening in the Texas photo world: the gallery openings, traveling exhibitions coming through town, etc.

I am based in Austin and it would be great if you were too, but not necessary. That's why we have Skype.

ILoveTexasPhoto.com will be launching in April. Stay tuned!

Texas Photo Roundup:Marketing Strategies Seminar + Portfolio Reviews

12/1/11 Update: Currently the portfolio reviews are sold out, if you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email info@texasphotoroundup.com. There are still spots available for the morning marketing seminar. Austin Center for Photography (which I'm a board member of) and ASMP Austin/San Antonio have teamed up to produce a day of events geared towards professional and semi-pro editorial and commercial photographers. We're dubbing it the Texas Photo Roundup and if you live in Texas, you don't want to miss it!

February 3, 2012

One Day, Two Great Events

Marketing Strategies + Portfolio Reviews

Save the date for this one! Registration opens soon.

Morning Event:

Real World Marketing Strategies for Photographers

ASMP Austin/San Antonio and Austin Center for Photography invite you to join commercial and editorial photography industry experts for a three hour interactive morning seminar and panel discussion. This event is geared to both emerging and professional editorial and commercial photographers who are looking to kick their business into high gear. Topics that will be covered by our experts include:

  • Defining your target market
  • Creating a marketing plan
  • Making the most of your marketing dollars
  • Choosing the strongest images for your marketing
  • Strategies for print and email marketing
  • Social media marketing

You will also have a chance to share your current promotional materials, home page or social media strategy with the group and have them critiqued by the panelists. Follow us on twitter for details!

Please come prepared with specific questions for the included Q&A session with the panel of experts.

Panelists include:

  • Jennifer Kilberg, Creative Consultant
  • Matthew Mahon, Commercial and Editorial Photographer
  • Shannon McMillan, Senior Art Producer, GSD&M
  • Allen Murabayashi, co-founder of Photoshelter
  • Amanda Sosa Stone, Creative Consultant
  • Zana Woods, Director of Photography, Wired Magazine
  • Alison Zavos, founder of FeatureShoot.com and Social Media Consultant

(Read more about the panelists)

Afternoon Event: Portfolio Reviews

Join us for an amazing opportunity to get your work in front of potential clients. This event will give you 20-minute one-on-one meetings with prominent art buyers, photo editors, artist reps, and industry experts.

This event is geared towards professional and semi-professional commercial and editorial photographers.

Confirmed reviewers from a variety of top notch companies will be reviewing work, including:

  • Texas Monthly Magazine
  • GSD&M
  • Door Number 3
  • Men's Health Magazine
  • Renee Rhyner
  • TracyLocke
  • EmDash
  • T3
  • Wired Magazine

(read complete list and bios)

Registration opens October 18, 2011.

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Questions? Email us at jasmine (at) jasminedefoore (dot) com.

Deadline Approaching! The Black and White Spider Awards

Celebrating its 7th year, Black and White Spider Awards is the leading international award honoring black and white photography. This event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers in a prestigious annual competition and globally webcast event, reaching photo fans in 154 countries.

With a collective Judging Panel of the world’s most recognized experts from TATE, BONHAMS, FRATELLI ALINARI, PHILLIPS DE PURY of London and more, the awards are the industry’s most authoritative and important photographic event for black and white and mono art.

Enter your work by December 16, 2011 for consideration.


View a complete list of upcoming contest and grant deadlines organized by month.

Deadline Approaching! Humble Arts Foundation: 31 Women in Art Photography

On July 19, 2012, Humble Arts Foundation, in conjunction with Hasted Kraeutler, will present its third edition of 31 Women in Art Photography at Hasted Kraeutler in Chelsea. Along with Humble’s curatorial director, Jon Feinstein, Natalia Sacasa, senior director of Luhring Augustine, will co-curate the 2012 edition.

Submit work by November 23, 2011 to be considered for 31 Women in Art Photography.


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Deadline Approaching! World Press Photo Contest 2012

Submit work by January 12, 2012 to participate in the the World Press Photo Contest.

The World Press Photo Contest is an annual competition in which the jury looks for the best photographs made during a calendar year. Details about the photo contest, as well as names of the contest judges, are announced in October/November.

The photo contest judging begins at the end of January and the winners are announced in the second week of February. The annual Awards Days, a celebration of the prizewinners, takes place in Amsterdam at the end of April or beginning of May. The first edition of the multimedia contest in 2011 followed a similar timeline, but a different entry procedure. Details about the next multimedia contest setup will be announced later.


View a complete list of upcoming contest and grant deadlines organized by month.