Get your work out there: Top 5 Opportunities for Photographers
Here are the Visual Arts editor’s top 5 opportunities for emerging photographers, in Ireland and Worldwide. No more excuses for your work to go unseen or for your ideas to go unexplored- get your work out there and start submitting!
D&AD Next Photographer Award
The Next Photographer Award aims to discover and showcase the next generation of talented photographers from around the world. If over 50% of your income has been from your own photography for over 3 years, you don’t qualify. If that’s the case and you’ve done a great piece of photography recently, the D&AD Professional Awards are for you. Professional experience isn’t a must. You must be out of full-time education. There’s no age limit.
Deadline: 17th February 2016 | Submit here
Blow Photo 14 Self Portrait | How do you see yourself?
Blow Photo is a creative platform conceived in Ireland for all things photography. They aim to promote national and international photography through inspiring publications, exhibitions, events and talks. Open call for submissions BLOW Photo 14 ‘self portrait’ | how do you see yourself? Submit up to 15 jpegs sized 72 dpi at 1000px on the longest side, a bio/statement in .doc form (no pdfs please) in a zipped folder to: [email protected]
Deadline: 20th February 2016 | Find out more here
PhotoIreland call for proposals: The Library Project
PhotoIreland is an organisation dedicated to stimulate a dialogue around Photography in Ireland. In 2010, they launched Ireland’s first international festival of Photography & Image Culture: PhotoIreland Festival. They celebrated Ireland’s first Book & Magazine Fair in 2011, dedicated to Photography. PhotoIreland invites local and international talent to submit proposals for The Library Project Programme 2016/2017.
Deadline: 29th February 2016 | Submit here.
Foam Talent Call
Foam is an international organisation within the field of photography with their house in Amsterdam. Foam stands for talent. They scout, follow and present young, talented photographers in order to discover and stimulate exceptional quality. The tenth annual edition of Foam Talent Call runs from 4 February until 20 March 2016. Photographers between the ages of 18 and 35 are invited to submit their work for consideration. Selected photographers will be published in the Fall Talent issue of Foam Magazine, be part of the Foam Talent exhibition, gain international exposure, and have the opportunity to meet with experts and collectors.
Deadline: 20th March 2016 | Submit here.
Fotofilmic Call for Entries
FotoFilmic is a global film-photography publication and curation platform dedicated to emerging and unknown photo talents attached to the film medium worldwide. FotoFilmic organizes each year a global juried film photography call for entries culminating in an international travelling exhibition open to all ages and nationalities. Unique in its scope and genre and presently in its 3rd edition, the FotoFilmic Competition aims at bringing the entire world community of photographers attached to film and preceding historical processes closer together in an effort to both promote emerging talent and help redefine the artistic significance of the medium’s contemporary practices.
Deadline: April 3rd 2016 | Submit here.
