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TPS 24: The International Competition

Texas Photographic Society   /   Deadline: 03/02/15

Texas Photographic Society sets a March 2, 2015, deadline for TPS 24: The International Competition, an annual juried show. This year, TPS 24 will be juried by Dr. David Coleman, Director of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, where the show will be on display from June 1 - July 3, 2015, before traveling for one year. Dr. Coleman will award $1,000 total in cash prizes, and a Blurb catalog will be designed to accompany the show. The exhibition is open-themed, and submissions from artists of all levels are encouraged.

Location

This year, TPS 24 will be juried by Dr. David Coleman, Director of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, where the show will be on display from June 1 - July 3, 2015, before traveling for one year.

Fees

Entry fee is $30 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. Photographers may enter up to 10 images. Please don't forget to include your membership fee, if also joining TPS at the time of entry.

Eligibility

TPS 24 is open to photographers of all levels internationally. You do not need to be a member of TPS to enter this competition. However, you may join TPS and enter this show at the same time if you are not currently a member. Works exhibited previously in a TPS show are not eligible. All entries must be submitted digitally. Current members of the TPS Board are permitted to enter, but are not eligible for awards.

Requirements

1. Files must be 1000 pixels in the longest dimension and no larger than 2 MB each. Please save in JPEG format at the highest quality setting. Images should be saved at 72ppi in RGB.

2. Label each file with your full name followed by consecutive numbers. For example, SamJones1, SamJones2. Do NOT use spaces in the file name (use underscores if necessary), and do NOT use special characters such as :'"/?}{()[ ]+-=*&^ %$#@!. (use only alpha-numeric characters).

Submit Entries Via Email
1. Please provide the following in your email message: (1) print title, process, dimensions (in inches), and price/NFS for each entered image. Be sure to number each image to correspond with the number of your file name (file naming conventions indicated above); (2) your name, address, city, state, zip code, and telephone number (3) a note indicating your method of payment for your entry; and (4) your images attached as jpegs.

2. Email your images and information to shows@texasphoto.org. TPS reserves the right to exclude entries that are incomplete or images that are not prepared/saved according to specifications.

3. You may make payment online or by mailing a check (payable to Texas Photographic Society) to P.O. Box 1924, Johnson City, TX 78636.

Awards

First Place = $500
Second Place = $300
Third Place = $200
Up to five Honorable Mentions may be awarded.

Evaluation Criteria

This exhibition will be juried by Dr. David Coleman, Director of the Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Dr. David Coleman has been the Director of the Wittliff Collections since 2011. He also serves as the series editor for the Wittliff's Southwestern & Mexican Photography Book Series with the University of Texas Press.

Dr. Coleman previously served as the Chief Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also served as a department head from 1996. A native of Dallas, Texas, he attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he earned his bachelor's degree in art history. He earned an M.A. in art history from Hunter College, City University of New York, and then earned his Ph.D. in art history, concentrating on the history of photography, from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and writing his dissertation on the photography of Henry Peach Robinson. He has curated dozens of photography exhibitions with subjects ranging from nineteenth-century artistic photography to late twentieth-century documentary photography and photojournalism, and he has been a reviewer at Fotofest's Meeting Place in Houston since 2002.

Juror's Statement
Despite the fact that we are perpetually bombarded with images, we still actively seek out images that describe a scene, define a moment, or distill an emotion. For me, being inundated by images only heightens the pleasure when I find an image that speaks to me directly. As a museum director, I try to apply the same criterion to all possible acquisitions-will this image, framed on the wall, stop someone dead in their tracks and inspire them to pause, even if just for a moment, and focus only on that one photograph?

Contact Information

Amy Holmes George

W: http://texasphoto.org/contests/TIC/24/TPS24.html
E: amy@texasphoto.org