The sixth annual Art of Photography Show, an international competition and exhibition of photographic art based in San Diego, announces the last call for entries. The final deadline is June 1, 2010. This opportunity proves to be very valuable for photographers, giving undiscovered and emerging talent the opportunity to get their work critiqued by acclaimed judge Natasha Egan, the Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
San Diego, CA, May 21, 2010 — The sixth annual Art of Photography Show, an international competition and exhibition of photographic art based in San Diego, announces the last call for entries. This opportunity proves to be very valuable for photographers, giving undiscovered and emerging talent the opportunity to get their work critiqued by acclaimed judge Natasha Egan, the Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
“We have been so impressed by the range of skill and experience that have backed the incredible photography submitted and selected in past years,” said Steven Churchill, producer of the Art of Photography Show. “This is an opportunity for all photographers to share their images with a major museum curator, with the opportunity to be discovered and have their work showcased in an exhibition that is expected to be viewed by over 30,000 visitors.”
A tremendous opportunity for photographers around the world, the Art of Photography Show rewards top photographers with cash prizes totaling $10,000.
Photographers are called to submit their photos now and will have until June 1, 2010 to do so. The finalists will be meticulously selected by Egan and will be featured in an exhibition from August 28 to November 7 at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery, located at Horton Plaza in the historic Gaslamp Quarter in Downtown San Diego.
In addition to cash prizes, there are many substantial tangible benefits to photographers who participate in this world-class photography competition, including intensive marketing and sales plans, resulting in 30,000+ people viewing the show, broad publicity with considerable media attention to the art and the artists, the opening reception is a world class event with many buyers and collectors in attendance, an elegant show catalog will be printed, which will be a great marketing tool for the artists. And having the opportunity to be selected by Natasha Egan is an extremely significant accomplishment, very valuable for a photographer’s bio.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of this competition and exhibition is that the judge is always a highly esteemed museum curator. Past judges have included Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Charlotte Cotton, director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hugh Davies, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Carol McCusker, curator of photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts; Arthur Ollman, director of the Museum of Photographic Arts; and Tim Wride, director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
For more information about the Art of Photography Show, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com.
Natasha Egan is Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Egan has organized numerous international and national exhibitions such as Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Consuming Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama, Dan Holdsworth, Mark Ruwedel and Toshio Shibata; Manufactured Self, photographs about how we identify ourselves through what we consume with international artists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States; Made in China, visually focusing on the global impact of manufacturing in China through photography, video and installation; Loaded Landscapes looking at historical and contemporary sites of trauma and conflict; The Edge of Intent examining the utopian aspirations of urban planners and how their visions adapt to changing environments; Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture; and The Road to Nowhere? for Fotofest 2010 Contemporary US Photograph with eighteen US artists. Egan has contributed essays to such publications as Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Photography Plugged and Unplugged (Contemporary Magazine, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Gütschow LS / S (Aperture, 2007); Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008); Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008); and Stacia Yeapanis (Aperture 2009). In addition, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, an MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian studies.
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