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The Visual Culture Awards

Lucia Demarchi — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:15:48 -0000

Dripbook is happy to support and promote a new international contest: The Visual Culture Awards. This year the contest is based in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina in the United States of America. This first annual contest will fixate on the visual realities of the photograph. Focus will persist in the emotive context of the image and how it brings the photographic reader to find the captured feel; this that hopefully conjures a story, an event, and morso a very culture. This contest serves the international and local communities as a means to involve the integrity of the maker of a visual within our visual culture and to uphold these makers as positive and productive members of our communities.

MIKAYLA MACKANESS is the founder of The Visual Culture Awards. Her priority for these awards is to uphold visual cross-cultural communications and to extend gratitude to visual makers for their roles within their communities and recognize how they affect the weight of this world.

For more information:

http://www.visualcultureawards.com/

Pix digital imaging contest 14.

Lucia Demarchi — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:48:34 -0000

Pix digital imaging contest promotes digital imagery and innovative techniques divided in 7 categories:

[1] advertising campaigns
[2] portraits / celebs / music
[3] travel / lifestyle
[4] fashion / beauty
[5] personal / work
[6] new talent (students / emerging talent)
[7] websites

The deadline for entries is the 1st of August 2008.

Prizes:

GRAND PRIZE WINNER FOR A EACH CATEGORY WILL RECEIVE:

Samsung digital camera
PhotoServe Portfolio (Value: $860)
PhotoPlus International Conference Gold Expo Pass
Crumpler photo bag

PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD

Viewers have a chance to judge their favorite image online and win a PDN Swag Bag!

ALL WINNERS

Featured in November issue of PDN and in online gallery at www.pdnonline.com
Featured in a gallery at the winners party during PDN's Photoplus International conference and Expo

Judges:

Robert Bowen - Robert Bowen Studios
Deborah Dragon - Photo Editor - Rolling Stone
Julieanne Kost - Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist - Adobe Systems Inc.
Lisa Oropallo - Associate Director of Art Buying - Digitas Inc.

For more info and enter the contest visit: http://www.pixdigitalimagingcontest.com/index.shtml

World in focus, the ultimate travel photography contest.

Lucia Demarchi — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:28:50 -0000

National Geographic Traveler and Photo District News are seeking the best travel photographs for their annual World In Focus contests.

There are prizes for both professionals and amateurs.

For professionals: The Grand Prize winner will receive free tuition for a 6-day professional photography workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, one Nikon D-80 Digital SLR, an Expedition tripod and head, a NG5737 backpack, and a PDN PhotoServe portfolio. Category winners (travel portraits, outdoor scenes, sense of place, spontaneous moments, and photo essay) will each receive one D-60 kit, a Tundra photo/video tripod, a NG2475 shoulder bag, and a PDN PhotoPlus Expo Gold Pass. Fees are $35 per entry.

For amateurs: The Grand Prize winner will receive a 15-day trip for two to Antarctica aboard the National Geographic Endeavour. The runner-up will receive a trip to the Cliffs Preserve in Patagonia, Chile; 3rd Prize includes a cruise for two on a Maine Windjammer schooner; 4th Prize includes and a seven-day photography workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico. Fees are $12 per entry.

Select winning images from both contests will be displayed at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo October 23-35. Winning amateur images will be featured in the January/February edition of National Geographic Traveler, and winning professional images will be featured in a winners gallery in PDN's February 2009 issue, online at pdnonline.com.

Entry deadlines: August 21, 2008; or September 8 with $10 late fee.

For more information, and to enter, visit www.worldinfocuscontest.com.

Enter to win: Billboard and PDN's Summer Music Moment music photography contest.

Alex Wright — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:15:12 -0000

Billboard and Photo District News magazine present: SUMMER MUSIC MOMENT photography contest.

"We're looking for YOUR Summer Music Moment! Show us the crowds! Show us the
artists! We're looking for the moments, the music, the scene through your
eyes."

Billboard and PDN have joined forces to produce the first annual SUMMER
MUSIC MOMENT photography contest, the ultimate music photography contest for
amateur and professional shooters. The SUMMER MUSIC MOMENT photography
contest is the premium source for music lovers and photographers alike.

Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: Performance, Crowd,
Place and Spontaneous Moment with one grand prize winner amongst all.

Fore more information and to enter,
http://www.billboardphotocontest.com/

BERLIN CALLING Photography by Alex Flach

Lucia Demarchi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:01:45 -0000

The book launch and an exhibition of photographs from the book "Berlin Calling" will be held at:

Pool Gallery
Tucholskystrasse 38
Ecke Augustrasse
Berlin

Vernissage July 10th at 6 p.m.
Exhibition from July 11th to August 9th

MOLOTOV HIGH HEELS

Lucia Demarchi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:35:42 -0000

STREET ARTIST XOOOOX SHOWS UP WITH A BERLIN SOLO SHOW "MOLOTOV HIGH HEELS" AT

www.circleculture-gallery.com

OPENING: JULY 17TH AT 7 PM

XOOOOX has been a prolific graffiti artist since the mid 1990’s. Early experiments with collage gradually evolved into the artist’s signature stencil work, typically life-size figures or appropriated designer logos found predominately on the streets of Berlin and in Paris, Milan, Vienna, New York…

XOOOOX manipulates immediately recognizable logos of upscale brands like Coco Chanel, re-contextualizing these elitist class signifiers within the inherently egalitarian space of the urban public sphere, while commenting on the visual power of branding in general. Life-sized stencils of females, conspicuously posed and styled as models often are, depict the icons of fashion’s cult of worship and recall the work of street art legends such as Blek le Rat, Misstick and Banksy, functioning as both traditional figurative studies and ironic representations of society’s obsession with the superficial.

Although XOOOOX’s stenciled images are inspired by the fashion spreads seen in magazines such as Vogue and avant-garde publications like Purple, this work is not a deconstruction of couture culture. On the contrary, each stencil, created painstakingly by hand, pays homage to the art form that is couture fashion, while criticizing the mass-merchandising and advertising campaigns of global retail chains.

Citing Pop Art, DADA and, of course, graffiti as major influences, the artist states, “You can use the power of fashion like a personal weapon. It can act like a shield, or it can destroy you.”

CHECK INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL PRESS QUOTES:

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,564287,00.html

http://www.art-magazin.de/szene/7883/

http://artillerymag.com/

http://www.shift.jp.org/

http://www.mybudget-magazin.de/artikel_strassenkunst.php

URBAN AFFAIRS: Streetart and Urban Art Exhibition in Berlin.

Circleculture Gallery — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:22:28 -0000

The art festival URBAN AFFAIRS is pleased to announce a large-scale exhibition featuring current positions of Contemporary Urban Art and Street Art from July 5th to August 3rd in Berlin- the global epicenter of this international art movement. Forty-five artists from ten countries, all major players in the Urban Art genre, have been invited for a three-day residency at the Galerie Friedrichshoehe, a new cultural center in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Located in a post-industrial building, this 900 sq. meter exhibition space is the ideal location for the largest and most comprehensive Urban Art exhibition in Germany to date.

A NIGHT AT SPLASHLIGHT- Thank you!

Resource Magazine — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:11:52 -0000

A NIGHT AT SPLASHLIGHT

Resource Magazine wants to thank all our contributors and the 1,000+ guests from all areas of the industry for what was an amazing evening at SPLASHLIGHT STUDIOS. Featured at this event was the sounds of DJ MOOSH, a captivating sculpture by the industry's own SET IN ICE, and contributors gifts which were provided by POWERHOUSE BOOKS and ALIEN SKIN SOFTWARE, contributors.

Our guests included executives, business owners, accalimed editors, distinguished artists and of course all of those who compose the industry ranging from the top of their field to upcoming talents. They are trendsetters and early adopters, always on the look out for the next big thing. They shape pop culture as they create, design, style and photograph advertising campaigns and magazine editorials.

Thank you for joining us. Until next time!

Images will be posted on the resource blog shortly www.resourcemagonline.com/blog

Fresh on the Shelves of the Resource Website!

Resource Magazine — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:00:15 -0000

Resource Magazine is announcing 2 new contests on their website, get your work published, be discovered and let the world see what you're really made of!

www.resourcemagonline.com GO TO PHOTO CONTESTS.

Resource Magazine's Interns are partying their way home.

Resource Magazine — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:40:21 -0000

Resource Magazine is now accepting new interns. On May 9th Resource Magazine is holding a big industry event for their Spring 2008 issue. Marking another successful issue, another occupied shelf, and a sad farewell to our trusty interns. However, this also gives all of you a chance to experience, the Resource Experience.

If you have any interest in the photo industry or publishing industry, give us a try. We promise, we'll work you to the bone! And you'll experience things that school only pretends to know about.

For more information go to:

www.resourcemagonline.com

or www.resourcemagonline.com/resourceinternship.html

or email us at jobs@resourcemagonline.com

or call to set up an interview 718-222-1393

As for the party, we're expecting about 1000 people, it takes place at Splashlight Studios and...well its invite only. However, if you think you are destined to go, send your dripbook site to rsvp@resourcemagonline.com and if you're lucky, we might be sending you an invitation back!

-Resource Magazine

Dripbook Users: SNAP, SUBMIT, WIN and GET PUBLISHED!

Resource Magazine — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:10:12 -0000

Resource Magazine's premium photo spotlight showcases photographers from around the world. Submit your photo for the International Productionist Photo Contest! Winners will have their work published in New York's most direct photo production magazine!

Mission : Submit photos that represent the photo production industry in your area. Please include title, description, and city that your photo represents.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT, WIN AND GET PUBLISHED!