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The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards ( WPGA – www.thegalaawards.com ) open a Juried competition for students and recent graduates of photography, fine art and design students of institutes, colleges, schools and universities worldwide: The Nadar Award for Students. The first prize will be the attendance (including round trip from the country and city of residence, lodging, and tuition) to a Workshop organized by Santa Fe Photography Workshops, and will the winner images will be widely promoted internationally. Selected images will be exposed during 2010 in US and Europe. As in other contest organized by WPGA who partner with Save the Children, a portion of its revenue (entry fees and sales of works in exhibitions) will be donated to that humanitarian organization.

WPGA invites all photography and fine art students working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome to The Nadar Award.

CATEGORIES:

The students and recent graduates who submit their images to The Nadar Award will compete separately in the following categories:

• Portrait, People and Figure.
• Documentary, Editorial and Current Affairs
• Digital enhanced and alternative processes
• Fine Art
• Citiscapes and Architecture
• Landscape and Nature

Any image can be submitted to one or more categories. There is no limit in the quantity of images to be submitted and in the date the images were taken.

JURORS:

Reid Callanan (Director, Santa Fe Photography Workshops) and Roy Flukinger (Senior Research Curator, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas in Austin).

DATES:

The competition will open in November 3nd, 2009. There will an Early Bird Deadline with discounted entry fees on December 29th and a Final Deadline on January 17th, 2010. Jurors’ selection will take place during the month of February, and the final announcement will be on March 11, 2010.

ENTRY FEES:

The entry fees for submitting images to The Nadar Award will be:

Before the early Bird deadline: $15 for the first 3 images (the minimum of images to submit is 3); $5 each additional image.

After the Early Bird deadline and until the final deadline: $25 for the first 3 images; $7 each additional image.

An image can be submitted to more than one category, counting as an additional image without discount.

AWARDS AND PRIZES:

The Nadar Award will be given to the best of show student or recent graduate. Honorable mentions will be awarded by the winners in each category.

The winner will earn a free attendance to one of the Santa Fe Photography Workshops, including round trip, lodging and tuition. The winner and Reid Callanan will choose together the workshop which best fits for the student. The winner will also receive a cash prize of 1,000 US$. Nadar Award Second and Third prize will also be awarded. Second Prize Winners will receive a cash prize of 600 US$ and Third Prize a cash prize of $400. The winners in each category will receive cash prizes 300 US$ each.

In every category Honorable mentions will be awarded at discretion of the Jurors.

All awardees’ images will be posted in WonderPick, the online gallery of WPGA, where their works could be sold in large additions. Awardees’ works who accept to sell their works in WonderPick in large editions, at affordable prices, will receive a 60% commission. Sale of the images in large editions is optional by the awardees.

All awardees will be invited to expose their in October 2010 in a venue in US or Europe to be decided on a later date. The exposed works will be sold –in limited editions of 3- at the exhibition: artists will receive 40% commission; another 40% will be donated to Save the Children, and the remaining 20% will be used for exhibition organizational and promotional costs.

SPECIAL RULES:

All Awardees will have to send proof of his student or recent graduate condition, by email at contest@thegalaawards.com, as a mandatory condition before getting the Award.

It is understood that a recent graduate is somebody who has graduated no later than end of November 2008.

Students and recent graduates from schools, colleges, institutes and faculties other than photography, fine arts and design, consider as “amateur photography student or graduate” are also welcome to participate.

COPYRIGHT:

Submitted photographs may be reproduced for the purpose of marketing and promoting WPGA contests, in catalogs, posters, postcards, publications, and on the Internet. Such use is granted for not more than two years after the announcement of the awards, and without payment to the photographer or featured models. Photographers will receive photo credits with each use, and will allow WPGA to sub-license their photographs to the press for reproduction in connection with the contest and WPGA exhibitions. 

ABOUT SANTA FE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP (www.santafeworkshops.com):

Founded in 1990, the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops is a world leader in photographic education and inspiration.  Over 200 workshops are offered each year in Santa Fe and via around the world travel programs.  The Workshops offers the most talented and influential photographers working today as teachers for its week-long workshops, weekend intensives, and one-on-one mentorships.

Located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of historic Santa Fe, the Workshops’ campus provides a tranquil backdrop for the creative workshop experience to unfold. Participants of all skill levels and from around the world come to magical Santa Fe to engage their passion for photography and improve their technical skills.

The six-week winter/spring season includes workshops that inspire creativity, photographing people, studio lighting techniques, mastering digital cameras and workflow, and workshops for Photoshop, Lightroom and digital printmaking in the state-of–the-art digital facility.  The summer season, from mid-June through early August, offers seven different workshops each week with subjects ranging from beginning photography with digital cameras, darkroom techniques, and lighting techniques for both beginners and pros.  A fall series of workshops takes advantage of the beautiful colors and landscapes of Northern New Mexico during this spectacular time of year.  Evening presentations by visiting instructors add to the sense of community, camaraderie, and inspiration that infuses the experience. 

Travel workshops take photographers to the four corners of the globe.  And new in 2009, the Photography Mentorship program is a unique opportunity to work with a master photographer, one-on-one from your home.

ABOUT THE JURORS:

Roy Flukinger: As Senior Curator of Photography & Film at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Mr. Flukinger is currently in charge of the development, administration and application of the collections. He has and continues to lecture and publish extensively in such fields as: regional, cultural and contemporary photography, the history of art and photography, and film. He has produced nearly fifty exhibitions ranging from classical photohistory to contemporary photography, and from photographers' retrospectives to American/regional/Texas photography. He serves as juror, reviewer and evaluator for contemporary photographic events, institutions and support organizations, as well as finds and developes acquisitions for the HRHRC Photography & Film Department. Mr. Flukinger serves as liason for the Department with fellow professionals worldwide throughout the fields of Photography & Film.

Reid Callanan: Reid is founder and director of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, currently in its twentieth year offering workshops to the international imaging community.  In addition to campuses and educational programs in Santa Fe, New Mexico and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the Workshops partners with National Geographic to offer photography workshops around the world. In 1994 Reid founded the non-profit Santa Fe Center for Photography, now known as Center, and is currently an officer on its Board of Directors. Reid started photographing in 1974 and has been working with Polaroid imagery since 1976.  He has recently published a book of his Polaroid images from his Homescapes series.