Major upcoming events and contest deadlines:
September and October: Magnum Workshops in New York.
Magnum Photos is holding a series of five-day intensive photo workshops in New York City. Sessions will take place Sept. 12 to 19 and Sept. 26 to Oct. 3 with David Alan Harvey, Oct. 20 to 24 with Alex Webb (with Rebecca Norris Webb) and Bruce Gilden, and Oct. 27 to 31 with Constantine Manos and Chien-Chi Chang.
More information online here.
Sept. 1 to 7: Professional Week at Visa Pour l'Image
The 20th annual Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival is set to hold its professional week from Sept. 1 to 7 in Perpignan, France. There are 30 exhibitions on the preliminary schedule, including a major Horst Faas retrospective, a show of work by David Douglas Duncan and a retrospective of work by the late Alexandra Boulat.
Details online here. Related PDN story here.
Sept. 5: First Book Prize Deadline
The biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize competition is open to American photographers of any age who have never published a book-length work. The judge this year is photographer Mary Ellen Mark. Submissions for the 2008 competition will be accepted from June 9 to September 5, 2008. Details are online at the
CDS Web site.
Sept. 13: MWSPE Project Support Grant Deadline
The Midwest Region of the Society for Photographic Education is accepting applications for a $5,000 Project Support Grant for SPE members in the Midwest Region (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin). Detailed information and application forms can be downloaded at
www.midwestspe.org/grant/.
Nov. 15: Deadline for Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography
The fall deadline for the twice-annual Getty Images grant competition is November 15. Getty will award two $20,000 grants to outstanding documentary photographers.
Information online here.
Nov. 15 to 22: FotoWeek DC
The first FotoWeek DC is scheduled for Nov. 15 to 22 in and around Washington, D.C. Founding sponsors include National Geographic and Chrome Imaging. A gala and awards ceremony is set for Saturday, Nov. 22 at the National Geographic Society headquarters.
More information is online here.
Dec. 5: Deadline for Moving Walls 16 Applications
The Open Society Institute invites photographers to submit a proposal and completed body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 16 group exhibition. The deadline to enter is December 5.
Information available here.
Dec. 31: Fresh M.I.L.K. Contest Deadline
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 1999 M.I.L.K. competition, M.I.L.K. Licensing (a subsidiary of PQ Blackwell), in association with Elliott Erwitt, is conducting a new competition founded on the themes of friends, families, lovers and laughter to create a new collection of 150 images. The 150 winning images will be published in a new book entitled Fresh M.I.L.K.: Friends, Families, Lovers & Laughter in Fall 2009, and on selected licensed products. The competition is open to professional and gifted amateur photographers. The overall winner, chosen by Elliott Erwitt, will receive $50,000. The competition closes Dec. 31. Details at
www.milkphotos.com.
Send suggestions for upcoming events and contests to dlang@pdnonline.com.
