Texas Photographic Society is proud to present #NewVisions2023, our annual online, open-themed collegiate student photo competition. The exhibition will be juried by V. Elizabeth Turk, Professor of Photography at Savannah College of Art & Design and a photographer with work in the collections of the High Museum of Art, the Polaroid USA Collection, and others. For more details, see the Juror's Statement and Bio below.

Submissions from college undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students of all skill levels are encouraged. Students may submit up to 12 images and each image will be judged independently. CASH PRIZES and a FUJIFILM Camera (X-T30 II body with XF18-55mm lens kit) will be awarded.  See details below.


JUROR'S STATEMENT

Photography has been magical since its inception in the early 1800s, and ever since, humans have been drawn to both the technology and art of capturing an image. As students of photography, we find inspiration in its history, technical advances, methods, and processes, and we also learn from critical discussion of the ideas sparked by images. As humans on earth at this particular time, we are influenced by the abundance of photography in our lives: in news, advertising, science, social media, family history, on the walls of thousands of art museums and galleries.

Interesting work is work that shows intent, whether the result is exactly as planned or the “happy accident.” The strongest images show a risk taken, a decision or choice made, whether from a highly orchestrated studio shoot, an “out of the corner of your eye” image with a smart phone, a stroll through your neighborhood or an experiment in the darkroom.

All media and approaches are welcome for submission to this exhibition: digital, film, photograms, chemigrams, lumen prints, antiquarian processes (cyanotype, Van Dyke, palladium, collodion). All genres are welcome too: documentary, fashion, street, landscape, portrait, self-portrait, representational or abstract. Or mix it up!

Honor your own experience and influences when you create an image for submission. I encourage you to submit images that reflect your vision, your exploration of the world, your curiosity and passion for photography.

- V. Elizabeth Turk

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

November 12, 2022 Call for entry opens
February 28, 2023 Deadline for entry (11:59 pm Mountain Time Zone)
March 21, 2023 Exhibiting artists announced and online gallery opens

AWARDS
New! Grand Prize = FUJIFILM X-T30 II with XF18-55mm lens kit 
First Prize = $300

Second Prize = $200
Third Prize = $100
Up to 5 Honorable Mentions may be awarded

The juror will select 50 images for the online exhibition. The selected images will be showcased on our website gallery and promoted to our extended TPS community including members and photo/social media contacts.

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee for current TPS Student Members is $25 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. The non-member entry fee is $30 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. You may enter up to 12 images. You do not have to be a member of TPS to enter. However, you may enter the competition, join TPS or renew as a member at the same time and pay the Current TPS Student Member entry fee of $25.

TPS Student Member Benefits - Annual $20 Student Memberships include Member feature opportunities via our Members' Gallery, Member Spotlight, Members' News, Members' Instagram Takeover, social media accounts and E-Zine, entry fee discounts to all competitions and discounts to programs and services offered through our partnerships.


All entry and membership fees are nonrefundable. Note: as this is an online show, you will not incur any additional expenses for printing, framing or shipping.

Thank you to FUJIFILM USA for providing the Grand Prize of a Fujifilm X-T30 II Camera with XF18-55MM kit lens, and for their promotion of previous #NewVisions winners.  NewVisions2023 is made possible through a partnership with Fujifilm, a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts, and the support of TPS members.

ABOUT THE JUROR

Artist V. Elizabeth Turk was a student of painting before making a life in photography in the 1970s.

Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the High Museum of Art, the Polaroid USA Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, the Lamar Dodd Art Center in LaGrange, GA, and Il Museo Palazzo Riso, Palermo, Italy–and in numerous private collections. Recently her photography was featured in the High Museum of Art exhibition Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection and at Photo London 2022.

In 2005 she co-authored, with writer William P. Baldwin, Mantle Pieces of the Old South: Lost Architecture and Southern Culture (The History Press).

She holds a Master of Visual Arts Degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta; and as a professor of photography has for decades mentored students at the Savannah College of Art & Design.

Her work is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA.

Application Requirements

IMAGE REQUIREMENTS

All entries must be submitted via CaFÉ. Need help resizing images? Go here.

Please submit JPG files only, minimum of 1200 pixels on the longest side and 5 MB maximum. For each image you will need to provide the image title and the process used (Archival Digital Print, Silver Gelatin Print, Platinum/Palladium Print, Wet Plate Collodian, etc.)


Eligibility Criteria

ELIGIBILITY
#NewVisions2023 is open to college students at least 18 years old who are enrolled in a college credit course (both undergraduate and graduate) or continuing education/noncredit course. All skill levels are encouraged to apply. Any photographic-based work is welcome including digital, silver, alternative processes, mixed media incorporating photography, collage, and book arts. Works exhibited previously in a TPS exhibition are not eligible.