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The Jacob Riis Award is named after the Danish-American photographer (1849-1914), and is organized by the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) following its partnership with Save the Children, and sponsored by Eyemazing Magazine. It will focus in portfolios (minimum of 8 and maximum of 12 images) inviting photographers 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 will be welcome.

The Award is open worldwide to all professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. There is no theme for this Award, and the images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work (a theme or images representing the artistic trajectory of the photographer), rather than individual images. The Award will consist in the publication of the winner portfolio in Eyemazing Magazine (to be published during 2010).

ELIGILIBILITY and THEME

There is one category, and the Award it is open to professional and non professional photographers who will compete together in color and/or black and white, or mixed, portfolios. The themathic is open.

JURORS

WPGA 2009 Annual Contest is pleased to announce that the following jurors will be selecting the portfolios submitted to The Jacob Riis Award:

Susan A. Zadeh, Netherlands (www.eyemazing.com) is the founder, publisher, editor in chief and artistic director of EYEMAZING, an international magazine on contemporary photography based in Amsterdam, and one of the most sensual, oversized and lushly printed art photography publications in the world. A quarterly magazine with 196 pages of cutting edge images by internationally known and unknown talented artists, EYEMAZING won the Lucie Award for the 2008 Photography Magazine of the Year. Also in 2008, Susan was chosen to be a juror for the International Photography Awards, and recently was a juror in the WPGA 2009 Annual Contest. She is also the director of Picture Booklets Publishers B.V Amsterdam. Prior to this Susan was the founding publisher of Freeye Magazine, and was the director of the New Vision Art Photography Foundation in Amsterdam.

Paul Cava, United States (www.paulcava.com) is a photo-based artist known for his sensual and emotionally driven collage work. Concentrating on the human figure and body, Cava’s work speaks to the most intrinsic of human concerns, love and loss.  Paul Cava has exhibited paintings, drawings and photo-based works from 1976 to the present in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and his work has been collected by a broad range of private and public institutions, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, and The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. His work has been featured in many publications including Eyemazing Magazine and Das Magazin. Cava was a recipient of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants in 1981 and 1999. In 2005, the German publisher Galerie Vevais, published “Walt Whitman / Paul Cava , Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass” – a bold union of Whitman’s erotic poems and Cava’s art work. His work has been collected by a broad range of private and public institutions, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, and The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.  In addition to his impact as a fine artist, Cava is notable for the two decades (1979-1999) during which he owned and operated the Paul Cava Gallery.  The gallery was, for Philadelphia, a unique showcase for cutting edge photography, painting and sculpture.  Cava brought to local and national attention a number of important emerging and, at times, controversial photographers, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray Metzker Joel-Peter Witkin, Lynn Davis, Jock Sturges, Sally Mann, Lee Friedlander, Irving Penn, John Divola and Richard Misrach.  The gallery also showed Sean Scully, Jannis Kounellis, Mel Bochner and Robert Morris.  Cava continues to work as a private photography dealer and publisher.

Per Valentin, Denmark (www.pervalentin.com)  is a graphic designer and artist. Per’s interest in photography began already as a 12 year-old, when he inherited his grandfather’s camera, developer and other equipment. His interest lay dormant until a couple of years ago, when he acquired his first digital camera. He was recently appointed chairman for the Association of Danish Photography,which was founded 50 years ago. In the 3 years he has been taking photographs, Per has managed to win several awards and entries at international Salons of Photography. Per’s photos are extremely expressive and full of feeling. He currently travels to different photographic events and conferences, and gives lectures on his world of images. He has recently been potraited in the famous American Magazine for collector’s of art - Black & White.

Alexander Sholtz, Germany (www.galerievevais.de) is Director of the book publishing company Galerie Vevais.

PRIZES & AWARDS

 The winner of the Jacob Riis Award will have her/his portfolio published in Eyemazing Magazine during 2010, and will receive a cash prize of $ 3,000. Additionaly the images of his/her portfolio, together with the portfolio of the finalists will be published in the book The Jacob Riis Award 2010. The portfolios selected by the jurors will be exhibited in Europe and/or US in July 2010. As in all WPGA contests, artists commissions of exhibition sales will be 40%, and donation to Save the Children will be 40%. The remaining 20% will be applied to organizational costs. All selected images will be also posted in the Gallery WonderPick for online sales in large editions (option of the photographer).

AWARDS' DATES

Early Bird Deadline (with discounted entry fees): November 23rd (midnightPST).

Final Deadline: January 24th, 2010 (midnight PST).

Juror's Announcement: Last week of March, 2010 (exact date to be determined one week after the deadline; Juror's announcement will be emailed to all participants and posted in this website).

Inaugural Exhibition: July, 2010 (date to be determined 30 days after the Juror'sannouncement, and emailed to all participants).

ENTRY FEES

(each portfolio should be composed of a minimum of 8 images and a maximum of 12)

Early Bird: $ 60 USD for the first portfolio; $ 30 for each additional portfolio.

After the Early Bird deadline: $ 80 USD for the first portfolio;$ 40 for each additional portfolio

Payment must be made online by credit or debitcard card (Visa, Visa Electron, Master, Maestro, Amex, Discovery) using the secure payment process that follows your registration and before images of the portfolio are uploaded..Participants will receive a receipt following submission of their portfolios. Until the deadline, participants may replace a submitted image without additional cost. There is no limit to the number of portfolios that may be submitted to the contest.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

 Please have read the Rules of Entry before submitting your entries. If you have not read the Awards’ Rules, please click HERE. By reading the Rules you accepting them.

Image Preparation. Prepare your images as required before beginning the submission process. Submissions are only accepted via the online process. Submissions as email attachments, on CD, or prints are not allowed in this Award and will not be returned.

Digital image files must meet the following specifications:

• 8 bit JPEG files(CMYK and 16 bits files will not be uploaded),
• the largest dimension should be1280 pixels (width or height) ,
• resolution of 72 dpi,
• JPG compression quality of 7
• Layers must be flattened. Images will be viewed by the jurors as RGB images; therefore Adobe RGB 98 or SRGB profiles should be used.
• Image title may not exceed 40 characters. Please note that image title is the name of the artwork, not the file name. Start the name with Porfolio 1 (Portfolio 2, Porfolio 3, etc, if you're submitting more than one porfolio). i.e "Portfolio 1 name of image". 
• Files may contain a maximum of 25 characters, not counting .jpg.
• The file name may not include characters such as #, $, &, periods or other similar characters as part of the file. There will be only one period in the file name, just prior to the file extension (i.e. filename.jpg).

Submission. Submission of entries can only be done online through our very simple and intuitive process. Once you click the below displayed SUBMIT button you will be forwarded to the Entry process consisting of: 1. Registration; 2. Payment of entry fees via credit card; 3. Uploading your images.

If you have already submitted one or more portfolios and want to submit additional portfolios at a later date (before the final deadline) just press the SUBMIT button, then log in using the same user name and password created when you initially registered.

SUBMIT: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND/OR TO SUBMIT ONLINE