Photocompete

• Copyright: You will retain all rights to any photograph you submit. Winners in the competition grant The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum a nonexclusive right, in perpetuity, to use, in connection with the current and any future Photo Contest, the submitted image(s).
• Entry fee: $35 for 3 images if submit before Oct 15 and +$10 if after. $10 per one additional photo
• Entry deadline: 14th November 2013
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide.

Theme: Landscape

Awards:

• 1st Place Award:  $500 + Santa Fe Photographic Workshop Intensive; O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, which reproduces the exhibition’s paintings and photographs, and includes essays by Barbara Buhler Lynes, and by the well-known writers Lesley Poling-Kempes and Frederick W. Turner; Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land.  This exhibition catalogue reveals the little-known breadth of Georgia O’Keeffe’s interest in northern New Mexico and illuminates her keen sensitivity and deep respect for the Native American and Hispano cultures of the region; and a select item from the O’Keeffe Museum Shop.
• 2nd Place Award:  $300 + O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, which reproduces the exhibition’s paintings and photographs, and includes essays by Barbara Buhler Lynes, and by the well-known writers Lesley Poling-Kempes and Frederick W. Turner; Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land.  This exhibition catalogue reveals the little-known breadth of Georgia O’Keeffe’s interest in northern New Mexico and illuminates her keen sensitivity and deep respect for the Native American and Hispano cultures of the region; and a select item from the O’Keeffe Museum Shop.
• 3rd Place Award:  $200 + O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, which reproduces the exhibition’s paintings and photographs, and includes essays by Barbara Buhler Lynes, and by the well-known writers Lesley Poling-Kempes and Frederick W. Turner; Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land.  This exhibition catalogue reveals the little-known breadth of Georgia O’Keeffe’s interest in northern New Mexico and illuminates her keen sensitivity and deep respect for the Native American and Hispano cultures of the region; and a select item from the O’Keeffe Museum Shop.
• Student Awards:  $100 + O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, which reproduces the exhibition’s paintings and photographs, and includes essays by Barbara Buhler Lynes, and by the well-known writers Lesley Poling-Kempes and Frederick W. Turner; Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land.  This exhibition catalogue reveals the little-known breadth of Georgia O’Keeffe’s interest in northern New Mexico and illuminates her keen sensitivity and deep respect for the Native American and Hispano cultures of the region; and a select item from the O’Keeffe Museum Shop.
• Honorable Mentions: 20 will be chosen; posted to the Museum website only.

Winners’ names will be available online at okeeffemuseum.org on or about January 13, 2014.

Image requirements: JPG format with compression at level 7 (or medium); 72 dpi resolution; 1,280 pixels on the longest side; sRGB or RGB color space (standard); less than 2MB total size. Finalists may be asked to submit a high-resolution file of at least 300dpi at 8×10 inches.

Online submission of digital photographs via the website. Each entry consists of an entry form, an entry fee, and up to three images. Additional images may be submitted for additional fees. There is no limit to the number of submissions per entrant.

Judging criteria: originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit.

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