PDN Student Photo Contest
Winners and selected honorable mentions will be featured in the Spring 2010 issue of PDNedu and on pdnedu.com. Additional Web winners will be featured on pdnedu.com in our Winners Gallery. Grand Prize winners, one per category, will receive a Nikon digital camera and a Crumpler bag. Student winners will also be displayed in an exhibit at The 2010 SPE National Conference is in Philadelphia, March 4-7, 2010. All winners and honorable mentions will get a one-year subscription to PDN.
Grand Prize winners will receive an portfolio consultation with a PDN editor The Pre College winner will receive a review with Dennis Keeley: Chair of Photography and Imaging at Art Center College of Design.
FASHION / PORTRAITURE
Channel your inner Annie Leibovitz and give us some close-ups; self-portraits welcome.
DOCUMENTARY / PHOTOJOURNALISM
From the prayer rituals of Tibetan monks to the local demise of a farming community, show us the issues,
people and events in your periphery.
STILL LIFE
A glowing bowl of edamame or your mother's Tiffany lamp - if it's stationary, it counts.
TRAVEL / LANDSCAPE
Spring break in Mexico, studies abroad in Australia and camping trips-we want to see where you've been.
FINE ART / PERSONAL WORK
Your chance to get all avant-garde on us - the offbeat, unique and beautiful work that doesn't fit in the above categories.
*Late? Pay $5 additional per entry for an extended deadline of 12/21/09. All entries uploaded after 12/7 will
be charged an extended deadline fee of $5 per entry.
Students can submit a single image or a series, up to six images per entry. There is no limit of entries a student can submit; however, ALL submissions must be made by students currently enrolled in college or high school. Online entries only. If you're an educator looking to submit on behalf of your class, contact John Gimenez at jgimenez@pdnonline.com for special group rate deals.
Dennis Keeley - Chair of Photography and Imaging - Art Center College of Design.
Bill Hunt - Hasted Hunt Gallery
Mickey Boardman - Editorial Director - Paper Magazine
Dan Westergren - Sr. Photo Editor - National Geographic Traveler
PDN Photo Annual
Prizes/Awards/Recognition
An awards celebration for the winners will take place in May 2010 in New York, NY. The winners and their work will be featured in the May issue of PDN and on our Web site.
NEW THIS YEAR! The Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation and Maine Media Workshops Scholarship and Prize for New Directions in Creative Photographic Portraiture. Photographers are invited to enter portrait photography for consideration in this new category.
The winner will receive $15,000 and a solo exhibit at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.
Prizes total over $20,000!
MARTY FORSCHER FELLOWSHIP
Categories
Advertising
Magazine/Editorial
Photo Books
Photojournalism/Sports/Documentary
Corporate Design/Photo Products
Personal
Stock Photography
Web Sites
Student Work
Entry Fees
SINGLE ENTRY:$45
CAMPAIGN/SERIES:$55
ARNOLD NEWMAN PRIZE:$55
STUDENT:$25 (single or series)
Entry Deadline
12/21/09*
Late? Pay $10 Per Entry For
An Extended Deadline 1/25/1
Have a really sweet website? They also do a self promo contest, and an Indie Photo contest, and a wedding photo contest... go to www.PDNonline.com
www.commarts.com
Photography Competition
Deadline: March 26, 2010
Enter the most prestigious competition for creativity in photography, the Communication Arts Photography Competition. Any photograph first printed or produced within the last twelve months prior to the deadline is eligible. Selected by a nationally representative jury of distinguished designers, art directors and photographers, the winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Photography Annual and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work. As a service to art directors, designers and art buyers, a comprehensive index will carry contact information of the photographers represented.
What to Enter: Information on eligibility, categories and fees.
How to Enter: Information on preparation of entries and forms.
Photography Competition FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions about applications and file formats.
What to Enter
Any photograph first printed or produced within the last twelve months prior to the deadline is eligible. Entries may originate from any country. Explanation of the function in English is very important to the judges. Submission of entries acknowledges the right of Communication Arts to use them for publication and exhibition.
Photography Competition Categories/Fees
These categories are judged by the Photography jury and will appear in the Photography Annual:
Advertising: $35 single entry/$70 series
Books: $35 single entry/$70 series
Editorial: $35 single entry/$70 series
For Sale: $35 single entry/$70 series
Institutional: $35 single entry/$70 series
Multimedia: $80 single entry/$160 series
Self-Promotion: $35 single entry/$70 series
Unpublished: $35 single entry/$70 series
Each photograph is a single entry. A printed piece with several photographs must have a dot or some other mark indicating which specific single photograph is to be judged. If a single photograph isn't indicated, the entry will be disqualified.
Campaigns or series are limited to five photographs. If the entry has more than five photographs, indicate which five are to be judged. If this isn't indicated, the entry will be disqualified.
How to Enter
All competition entries are processed through our online entry system. Printed Call-for-Entry forms are no longer used.
Before you begin the process of entering a competition, please have the following information and materials ready. This will make the process go quickly.
- Your contact information for registration and notification.
- Title and brief description of each project.
- Any digital files you might want to submit saved as RGB (not CMYK) JPG format (maximum 1024 pixels wide X 768 pixels high @72dpi).
Entries can be submitted in the following formats:
Unmounted printed samples: ad tear sheets, pages or spreads, brochures, annual reports, posters, books, etc. (pieces over 18" x 24" must be submitted as digital files).
Digital files: RGB (not CMYK) JPG format with a maximum width of 1024 pixels and a maximum height of 768 pixels (72dpi). Digital files will be projected for the judges.
Multimedia entries: Submit multimedia entries on Beta SP NTSC, DVD NTSC (viewable on a standard DVD player) or mpeg files on CD-ROM. Include 4 seconds of black, no slates or bars. Single entries must be on individual cassettes/disks. Series should be edited together on one cassette/disk with 2 seconds of black between each entry. Computer-based formats such as QuickTime or Flash should have a maximum screen size of 1024 x 768.
Please do not send any pieces of art you want returned. NO ENTRIES WILL BE RETURNED. No exceptions. CA is not responsible for damage or loss of any entry. All entrants grant Communication Arts the right to reproduce work selected in the 2009 Photography Competition on the Communication Arts Web site and in materials used to promote the magazine and/or future related promotions.
Preparation of Packages
Send entries, unmounted, in flat packages only, no mailing tubes (they frequently arrive damaged). Address packages to Communication Arts Photography Competition. Non-United States contestants should mark each package "Materials for Contest Entry. No Commercial Value." No provision will be made by CA for U.S. Customs or airport pickup. International entries should be sent by international courier. All entries must be received by the deadline date.
Forms and Entry Fees
After choosing a form of payment you will have access to PDF reports summarizing what you entered. If you chose to pay by check, you will have an invoice available for printing. If you chose to deliver entries via mail/courier, you will also have entry forms in PDF format that you will need to print, trim and attach to your entries. Tape an entry form to the back of each entry. If the entry is a print-based campaign, you will tape an entry form to each part of the campaign. Tape an entry form to the outside of each disk/video case. Multiple digital files may be placed on a single disk. Please tape all applicable entry forms one on top of the other so we can flip through them to verify the contents of the disk.
Make checks payable to Communication Arts. Non-United States contestants must send an International Money Order or a check in U.S. funds drafted on a U.S. bank. Please include the check with your entries if you are delivering them via mail/courier. If your payment is being sent under a separate cover, please send your entries now, with a note saying that the check is coming under separate cover. If you submit all of your entries online please write the Communication Arts invoice number on the check. The invoice number can be found in the Entry Forms PDF file. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. Charges for your entry fees will appear on your statement as "Commarts"). Credit card charges can be done only online. We do accept wire transfers, however there is a fee of $25 (U.S.) to cover fees charged by the banks to process the transfer. Please contact our office at (650) 326-6040 (9-5 PST) for instructions.
Mail entries to:
Communication Arts Photography Competition
110 Constitution Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025-1107 U.S.A.
(Via United States Mail, FedEx, UPS, etc. Entrants submitting from outside the U.S. please use an international courier)
Notification of Acceptance
Only accepted entries will be notified two months after the deadline date. Complete credits and any additional material necessary for reproduction will be requested at that time. No additional fees are required. Award of Excellence certificates for the photographer, client and art director of each accepted photograph will be mailed in one month after the publication date.
Questions
If you have any other questions or want to request a call for entries, you can reach us at:
Email: competition@commarts.com
(650) 326-1648 fax
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