Call for Entries - The Jacob Riis Award

The Jacob Riis Award is organized by WPGA in partnership with Save the Children and sponsored by Eyemazing Magazine.Photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Award: publication in Eyemazing Magazine + $ 3,000.
 
Dec. 2, 2009 - PRLog -- 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 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

Final Deadline: February 21st, 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

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