The Art of Photography Show International Competition and Exhibition Announces 2010 Awards

April 9, 2010 - PRLog -- San Diego, CA, The sixth annual Art of Photography Show, an international competition and exhibition of photographic art, proves to be a tremendous opportunity for photographers around the world with an expected exhibition audience of 30,000+ visitors, cash prizes totaling $10,000 for the top photographers and an opportunity to have photographs reviewed by acclaimed curator Natasha Egan, the Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

“Our mission for this annual project is to create an ideal forum for photographers to exhibit and sell their work, reaching our very large community of art collectors, affluent individuals, corporate heads, civic leaders and very influential people who make up the Art of Photography Show audience,” said Steven Churchill, producer of the Art of Photography Show. “We will be pursuing a vigorous marketing campaign, to bring maximum media attention to the artists who are juried into the exhibition. Our great love of this art form, and being photographic artists ourselves, prompts us to 'pull out all of the stops' in order to showcase a truly excellent presentation of photographic art, to elevate and promote this art form, and to provide substantial benefits to the exhibiting artists.”

Entry Period: Photographers are called to submit their photos now and will have until June 1, 2010 to do so. The finalists will be meticulously selected by Egan and will be featured in an exhibition from August 28 to November 7 at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery, located at Horton Plaza in the historic Gaslamp Quarter in Downtown San Diego.

In addition to cash prizes, there are many substantial tangible benefits to photographers who participate in this major photography competition, including intensive marketing and sales plans, resulting in 30,000+ people viewing the show, broad publicity with considerable media attention to the art and the artists, the opening reception is a world class event with many buyers and collectors in attendance, an elegant show catalog will be printed, which will be a great marketing tool for the artists, and having the opportunity to be selected by Natasha Egan is an extremely significant accomplishment which can be very valuable for a photographer’s bio.

“The Art of Photography Show is the very best photography competition among all of the competitions which were represented at the APA/LA panel, by far. You guys stand alone as being a pure high-end photography exhibition, produced with excellence and with integrity,” said Jim McHugh, Advertising Photographers of America, Los Angeles Vice Chair.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of this competition and exhibition is that the judge is always a highly acclaimed museum curator or director. Past judges have included Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Charlotte Cotton, director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hugh Davies, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Carol McCusker, curator of photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts; Arthur Ollman, director of the Museum of Photographic Arts; and Tim Wride, director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

For more information about the Art of Photography Show, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com.

Natasha Egan is Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Egan has organized numerous international and national exhibitions such as Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Consuming Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama, Dan Holdsworth, Mark Ruwedel and Toshio Shibata; Manufactured Self, photographs about how we identify ourselves through what we consume with international artists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States; Made in China, visually focusing on the global impact of manufacturing in China through photography, video and installation; Loaded Landscapes looking at historical and contemporary sites of trauma and conflict; The Edge of Intent examining the utopian aspirations of urban planners and how their visions adapt to changing environments; Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture; and The Road to Nowhere? for Fotofest 2010 Contemporary US Photograph with eighteen US artists. Egan has contributed essays to such publications as Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Photography Plugged and Unplugged (Contemporary Magazine, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Gütschow LS / S (Aperture, 2007); Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008); Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008); and Stacia Yeapanis (Aperture 2009). In addition, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, an MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian studies.

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