ET("foo", {"data":[{"description": "The Clarence John Laughlin Award was created by the New Orleans Photo Alliance (NOPA) to support the work of photographers who use the medium as a means of creative expression. \r\n\r\nIt honors the life and work of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985), a New Orleans photographer best known for his surrealist images of the American South. The Clarence John Laughlin Award grants one $5000 prize annually to a photographer whose work exhibits sustained artistic excellence and creative vision. \r\n\r\nJuror \r\nJohn Wood, Editor, 21st Editions \r\n\r\nEligibility\r\nBoth emerging and established photographers residing in the U.S. may apply. \r\n\r\nDeadline\r\nAll required materials must be received by the New Orleans Photo Alliance between July 15, 2010 and September 15, 2010. \r\n\r\nApplication Fee\r\nApplication fee is $25. \r\n\r\nHow to Apply\r\nApplications will be accepted online only through the New Orleans Photo Alliance website.\r\n\r\nEligible Work \r\nThe New Orleans Photo Alliance invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to apply. Still images made from all photographic processes, both traditional and digital, will be considered. There are no restrictions on subject matter or genres. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal and emotional statements are all welcome. Still photography or photographic techniques should be integral to the works submitted. \r\n\r\nWork Samples\r\nApplicants must submit a portfolio of 10-20 image files representing a cohesive body of work. Applicants should demonstrate the ability to build a strong series of images. If your work is best communicated visually by showing its physical nature, you may use one or more of the required images for installation or detail views.\r\n\r\nWritten Statement\r\nApplicants must submit a written statement explaining their images, process and intent. The purpose of the statement is to give the juror a better understanding of your work while they are viewing it. Your statement should be clear, concise and relate to the work samples you submit.\r\n\r\nJudging Criteria\r\nThe main criteria for selection will be the strength of the applicant's portfolio and written statement. \r\n\r\nSelection and Notification\r\nIf more than 100 applications are submitted, a committee of independent curators and photographers will prescreen all submissions and select 100 portfolios to present to the juror. The juror will select a single winner. At the juror's discretion a select number of finalists may be asked to submit a print portfolio for the final decision. Finalists will be notified by October 1 and required to mail portfolios at their own expense by October 10. \r\n\r\nThe winner will be announced on November 1, 2010. The recipient's portfolio will be featured on the New Orleans Photo Alliance?s website for one year. \r\n\r\nThe New Orleans Photo Alliance will present the prize to the recipient during the Fifth Annual PhotoNOLA, held in December of 2010 in New Orleans, LA. If the winner is unable to accept the prize in person, other arrangements will be made.\r\n\r\nAbout the Juror\r\nJohn Wood is an award-winning poet, critic, and photographic historian. The Southern Review called him 'the most lucid and engaging of the post-modern Southern poets. His most recent work, Endurance and Suffering, a book of poems based on 19th Century photographs by O. G. Mason won the 2009 Gold German Photobook Prize. Wood co-curated the landmark 1995 Smithsonian Institution Museum of American Art exhibition Secrets of the Dark Chamber, and the book based on the exhibition was a New York Times Book Review Best Books of 1995. He has written books on the daguerreotype, the autochrome, Romanticism and photography, and other subjects. His books have been named to the 'Outstanding Academic Books of the Year' by the American Library Association, Wall Street Journal's Year's Best Books, and the American Photographic Historical Society's Outstanding Book of the Year. His translation of poems from Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal with a critical introduction and photographs by Eikoh Hosoe received the 2007 Independent Book Publishers Bronze Medal, and Sally Mann, a selection of Mann's photographs and poems, which he edited, won a 2005 Lucie Award. He has published and edited over thirty books and written the introductions to more than twenty others on photographers as diverse as Josephine Sacabo, Jamie Baldridge, John Metoyer, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jan Saudek, Arthur Tress, Luis Gonzales Palma, Flor Garduao, Michael Kenna, Wouter Deruytter, Connie Imboden, John Dugdale, Robert ParkeHarrison, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, David Halliday and Greg Gorman. He has also written the texts for more than ten catalogues of art and photographic exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Germany, Greece, Japan, and Mexico. He is the Editor of 21st Editions, holds a Ph.D. in English literature, held Professorships for thirty years in both English Literature and Photographic History and served as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at McNeese State University. He now lives in Vermont and is at work on a retrospective book on the work of Masao Yamamoto.\r\n\r\n","jury_end_date": "Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:00 +0000","id": "166","widget_id": "155","submit_end_date": "Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:00 +0000","prefs": "000110009090000011111100000000","categories": "","title": "Clarence John Laughlin Award"},{"description": "'It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.'--William Faulkner\r\n\r\nThere are a relatively few topics we can all relate to, the big ones being birth and death. But what happens in-between, for most of us, is the process of living, of getting by, of succeeding, of toil, and of searching. Work could be your job, your 9-5, it could be someone else's, or it could be the absence of employment, an affliction all too common in this day and age. Work is what we do to feed us physically, emotionally, mentally. Chasing dreams or dollars, show us your WoRK.\r\n\r\nThe New Orleans Photo Alliance is seeking images that depict the daily drudgery, struggle, joy, and determinism in the life of the human being.\r\n\r\n**'WoRK' will have a sister-show in Lawrence, KS at the Lawrence Percolator. Both shows will focus on the same subject, but utilize different mediums. Receptions will be linked up via web-cam.**\r\n------------------------------\r\nJuror \r\nAndy Adams is the Editor / Publisher of FlakPhoto.com, a contemporary photography website that celebrates the culture of image-making by promoting the discovery of artists from around the world. An online art space + photography publication, the site provides opportunities for a global community of artists and photo organizations to share new series work, book projects, and gallery exhibitions with a web-based photography audience.\r\n\r\nRecent features include 3030 Press' New Photography in China, Humble Arts Foundation's 31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography, Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine's Inside Burgerworld, the Photographic Resource Center's EXPOSURE: The Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, Big City Press' Hijacked, Volume One: Australia & America, Center's Review Santa Fe 2009, David Wright + Ethan Jones' Pause to Begin, the Center for Fine Art Photography's 2009 International Exhibition, Blurb's Photography.Book.Now, and the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2009.\r\n\r\nExhibition Timeline \r\nAugust 30 - Submissions deadline\r\nSeptember 8 - Notification of acceptance\r\nSeptember 25 - Accepted works due \r\nOctober 2 - Soft Opening - Art for Arts Sake\r\nOctober 24 - Opening in conjunction with Lawrence, KS show of same theme.\r\nNovember 21 - Last day of exhibition\r\n\r\n Eligibility: Open to photographers of all levels using any photographic process. All art submitted must be original work created by the applicant.\r\n\r\n Submission Guidelines: \r\n-Include up to 5 images per submission.\r\n-Please save digital files in jpeg format at 72 dpi and 864 pixels on the longest dimension.\r\n-Title each image with: lastname_firstname_title_medium_size. \r\n(ie: Doe_Jane_TheFarm_ArchivalPigment_16x20)\r\n-Accepted works should be presented professionally, wired and ready to hang.\r\n-Work that arrives after the delivery deadline will not be included in the exhibit.\r\n-Shipped work must have return postage included in package.\r\n-Artwork will be insured while on premises. Insurance during shipping is the artist?s responsibility. \r\n-Sales/ Commissions: 70% Artist / 30% Photo Alliance\r\n\r\n Non-Refundable Entry Fee: \t\t\r\nMembers: $25\r\nNon-members: $35\r\nMembership + Submission: $60 \r\n \r\nAccepted works should be mailed to: \r\nNew Orleans Photo Alliance \t\t\t\t\r\n3110 Magazine St., #134\r\nNew Orleans, LA 70115\t\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Photo Alliance reserves the right to reject any delivered art that does not match the online submission, or fails to meet framing and matting requirements. Artists will be given notice regarding a rejected submission and it is their option and responsibility to replace or correct it, time permitting. The Photo Alliance is not liable for any damages in shipping to or from the gallery, or for work left 30 days after the closing of the exhibition. \r\n\r\n Questions? programming@neworleansphotoalliance.org \r\n\r\nSee website for membership details: www.neworleansphotoalliance.org\r\n\r\nNew Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery - 1111 St. Mary St., New Orleans, LA 70130\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","title": "WoRK","show_end_date": "Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:00 +0000","prefs": "000110009090000011100100000000","jury_end_date": "Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:00 +0000","widget_id": "155","categories": "","show_date": "Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:00 +0000","submit_end_date": "Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:00 +0000","id": "171"}]} );