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THE JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARD

Sponsored by ZOOM Magazine, where the images of the awardees will be featured

and by Professional Women Photographers (PWP)

Juried by Mary Ellen Mark, Olivia Arthur, Rosanna Checchi, Carol McCusker,

Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kim Weston and Vanessa Winship

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) with the sponsorship of ZOOM Magazine and Professional Women Photographers  (PWP) open the call for entries for a Juried competition for women photographers only: The Julia Margaret Cameron Award. The winner images will be published in ZOOM Magazine. As in other contest organized by WPGA a large portion of its revenue (entry fees and sales of works in exhibitions) is donated to Save the Children.

ELIGIBILITY and CATEGORIES:

The Julia Margaret Cameron Award is addressed to professional and non professional women photographers worldwide, who will compete separately in the following categories:

• Portrait, People and Figure.
• Street photography
• Nude
• Self Portrait
• Children
• Documentary - Reportage, Current affairs and Editorial
• Fashion and Advertising (only Professional section)
• Architecture and Interiors
• Landscapes and Citiscapes
• Nature
• Abstract and Still
• Fine Art

There are no age restrictions, as well as no restrictions regarding the date the images were taken.

WPGA will be inviting in this occasion 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.

JURORS:

The Julia Margaret Cameron Award will be juried by the photographers Mary Ellen Mark, Kim Weston, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Olivia Arthur, Vanessa Winship; Carol McCusker, curator of the San Diego Museum of Photography; and Rosanna Checchi, Editor in Chief of Zoom Magazine. See below the bios of the jurors.

DATES:

The competition will open on November 2nd , 2009.

There will an Early Bird Deadline on December 13th, and a Final Deadline on February 7th, 2010.

Jurors' selection will take place during the month of February and March, and the final announcement will be on April 6th 2010.

ENTRY FEES:

Before the early Bird deadline: 25 US$ for the first 3 images (the minimum of images to submit is 3); 7 USnbsp;each additional image.

After the Early Bird deadline and until the Final Deadline: 35 USnbsp;for the first 3 images; 10 USnbsp;each additional image.

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

All submissions can be only done online.

AWARDS:

 The Julia Margaret Cameron Award will be given to the best photographer in the professional section.

The best photographer in the non professional section will be awarded with The Julia Margaret Cameron New Talent Award.

Both winners will receive a cash prize of 3,000 US$, and their works will be featured in Zoom Magazine during 2010.

The winners in each category will receive a diploma from The Julia Margaret Cameron Award as Outstanding Photographic Achievement in her category.

In every category Honorable mentions will be awarded at discretion of the Jurors. Zoom Magazine will give additional special Honorable Mentions

All awardees, including the honorable mentions of each category will be published in the book "The Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2010".

All awardees will be invited to exhibit their selected images in Berlin, Germany during the month of September, 2010. The 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. Awardees will also be invited to post and sell their images online, in large edition, at affordable prices, where they will get a 60% commission.

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.

SUBMIT: CLICK HERE TO  SEE THE SPECIFICATIONS OF IMAGE PREPARATION,
TO REGISTER AND TO SUBMIT ONLINE

Bios of the Jurors

Mary Ellen Mark (www.maryellenmark.com) has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. For over four decades, she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Today, she is recognized as one of our most respected and influential photographers. Her images of our world's diverse cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary photography. Her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses, and brothels in Bombay were the product of many years of work in India.

Mary Ellen was presented with the Cornell Capa Award by the International Center of Photography in 2001. She has also received the Infinity Award for Journalism, an Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and a Walter Annenberg Grant for her book and exhibition project on AMERICA. Among her other awards are the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Matrix Award for outstanding woman in the field of film/photography, and the Dr. Erich Salomon Award for outstanding merits in the field of journalistic photography. She was also presented with honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from her Alma Mater, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of the Arts; three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Photographer of the Year Award from the Friends of Photography; the World Press Award for Outstanding Body of Work Throughout the Years; the Victor Hasselblad Cover Award; two Robert F. Kennedy Awards; and the Creative Arts Award Citation for Photography at Brandeis University.

She has published sixteen books including Passport (Lustrum Press, 1974), Ward 81 (Simon & Schuster, 1979), Falkland Road (Knopf, 1981), Mother Teresa's Mission of Charity in Calcutta (Friends of Photography, 1985), The Photo Essay: Photographers at work (A Smithsonian series), Streetwise (second printing, Aperture, 1992), Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years (Bulfinch, 1991), Indian Circus, (Chronicle, 1993 and Takarajimasha Inc., 1993), Portraits (Motta Fotografica, 1995 and Smithsonian, 1997), a Cry for Help (Simon & Schuster, 1996), Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey (Aperture, 1999), Mary Ellen Mark 55 (Phaidon, 2001), Photo Poche: Mary Ellen Mark (Nathan, 2002), Twins (Apeture, 2003), Exposure (Phaidon, 2005), Extraordinary Child (The National Museum of Iceland, 2007), Seen Behind the Scene (Phaidon, 2009.) Mark's photographs have been exhibited worldwide.

Aside from her book and magazine work Mark has photographed advertising campaigns among which are Barnes and Noble, British Levis, Coach Bags, Eileen Fisher, Hasselblad, Heineken, Keds, Mass Mutual, Nissan, and Patek Philippe.

Carol Mc Cusker, Ph.D., is curator of photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. In her eight years at MoPA, she has curated more than thirty exhibitions. These include "First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot" and "The Birth of Photography, American Noir: The Photographs of James Fee", "The Roads Most Traveled: Migration Photographs by Don Bartletti," and "Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone."  McCusker is co-author of Paul Outerbridge (Taschen, 1999) and contributing essayist to Terry Falke: Observations in an Occupied Wilderness (Chronicle, 2006), Phil Stern: A Life's Work (powerHouse, 2002), James Fee: Peleliu Project (Seraphin, 2002), and Three Visions of Peru (Throckmorton, 2002). With MoPA director, Arthur Ollman, McCusker created the catalog and exhibition, "First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and The Birth of Photography," the only time Talbot’s photographs were exhibited in a solo show in the U.S.  Her exhibition and catalog, "Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism," explored women working in the mass media before and during WWII, and was bracketed by three exhibitions that enhanced its thesis, "Shooting in 35: The First 35mm Photographs," "Animating the World: The First Newsreels," and "Today’s Pioneers: Two Women Photojournalists in Iraq and Afghanistan." "Breaking the Frame" was voted #2 Exhibition-of-the-Year by the San Diego Union Tribune.

Alessandra Sanguinetti (Magnum nominee since 2007 - www.alessandrasanguinetti.com)  was born in New York, 1968, brought up in Argentina from 1970 until 2003, and is currently based in New York. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Hasselblad Foundation grant. Her photographs are included in public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her book, “On the Sixth Day”, was published by Nazraeli Press in January 2006. She has photographed for the The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek, and New York Magazine. Other fellowships and wards include Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Peabody Museum at Harvard University; National Geographic Magazine Grant; Cajasol Visual Arts Grant, Seville, Spain;  John Guttman Photography Fellowship Award; MacDowell Fellowship; and  Joop Swart Master Class, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fonds national d'art contemporain, France; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; Joy of Giving Something, Inc.; and Lightwork, Syracuse.

Kim Weston (www.kimweston.com) has been a fine art photographer for 30 years specializing in large format photography. His main body of work consists of silver contact prints made from 8x10 negatives. In addition to the 8x10 format he prints in 11x14 and 16x20 sizes. 
Kim also photographs with a Mamiya 67 that he inherited from his father Cole Weston. He prints in Platinum and lately he has added paint to his photographs.
Kim is a third-generation member of one of the most important and creative families in photography. He learned his craft assisting his father Cole in the darkroom making gallery prints from his grandfather Edward's original negatives. Kim also worked for many years as an assistant to his uncle Brett, whose bold, abstract photographs rank as some of the finest examples of modern photographic art.

Olivia Arthur (Magnum nominee since 2008 - www.oliviaarthur.com) was born in London and grew up in the UK. She studied mathematics at Oxford University and photojournalism at the London College of Printing. In 2003 she moved to Delhi to work as a freelance photographer covering assignments around the Indian Subcontinent. In 2006 she was invited for a one year residency with Fabrica in Italy, where she began work on ‘the middle-distance’, a project about the lives of young women along the border between Europe and Asia. This work was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of a Fabrica group show and later travelled to the Milan Triennial, the Shanghai Art Museum and the Shiodomeitalia Creative Center in Tokyo.

For the past two years she has continued to work on a long-term project about women and the east-west cultural divide. This work has been supported by the Inge Morath Award from Magnum, a Bursary from the National Media Museum and the OjodePez-PhotoEspana Award for Human Values. Olivia's Awards include: Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère; OjodePez-PhotoEspana; National Media Museum Bursary, UK; Inge Morath Award; Joop Swart Masterclass; Magenta Foundation ‘Emerging Photographers’; Scholarship to Fabrica; and Guardian Student Photographer of the Year.


Vanessa Winship (www.vanessawinship.com). Vanessa's awards includes The Godfrey Argent Prize, National Portrait Gallery; World Press Photo, First Prize, Portrait Stories; Sony World Photography Awards, Iris D’or, Overall Winner; Orvetia Book Prize, Italy; The Oskar Barnack Prize, Finalist in  2008 and Honourable Mention in 2003; and World Press Photo, First Prize, Arts Category Stories. She was invited exhibitor at Rencontres D'Arles and particiupated in the World Press Photo Global Tour and the Sony World Photography Global Tour. Her works have been published in British Journal of Photography, Eyemazing, European Photography, Foto8, Private, and IZ. 

Rosanna Checchi: Editor in Chief, Zoom Magazine (www.zoom-net.com)

ABOUT ZOOM MAGAZINE:

Zoom magazine is an international publication, founded in 1980, and dedicated to the full spectrum of the photographic image: portraiture, landscape, fashion, documentary, fine art and digital images. In addition to photographers of world renown, it also offers the artistic work and commercial projects of young, up-and-coming photographers from both Italy and around the world.

It represents a key informational tool for many photography professionals, including gallery owners to publicize their events, art directors for their research, photographers and their projects, and photography lovers who, even simply as observers, are looking for a panorama of the photography scene.

Zoom puts the major emphasis on the images themselves, offering them in large format and with impeccable print quality.

Each issue features a range of portfolios with articles dedicated to individual photographers, in-depth reviews of photography books, information about the most interesting exhibitions on an international level, announcements of gallery shows in Italy and abroad (the US, Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Japan, China, etc.), as well as news of the most prestigious photography awards, workshops and auctions.

ABOUT PROFESSIONAL WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS:

 The mission of Professional Women Photographers (PWP) is the advancement of women photographers through the creation of a dynamic and supportive environment while promoting public interest in photography.

As a premier women’s photographic organization, our members create a collegial, proactive and professional culture that respects and inspires women’s photographic vision.

Membership is open to any woman photographer regardless of age or place of residence.

Current membership dues are 100 US$;per year for general membership,

Effective 1/1/10 dues will be 125 US$ per year for general membership, 100 US$;per year for membership outside a 150 mile radius of NYC, and 75 US$;for members 30 and younger.  Please refer to PWP's website - www.pwponline.org -  for additional membership choices and to join.