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* DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 24, 2020! Given the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on our community and classroom, we are extending the deadline for submissions to April 24, 2020.

Texas Photographic Society is excited to announce our online, open-themed collegiate student photo competition. 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 will be awarded!

The show will be juried by Paul Thulin-Jimenez, Graduate Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University. For more details, see the Juror's Statement below.

Please help us share this photo competition with faculty and students!

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

02-18-20 Call for entry opens
04-24-20 Deadline for entry (10:59 pm CST), (11:59 pm MST)
05-01-20 Exhibiting artists announced and online gallery opens

AWARDS

First Place = $300
Second Place = $200
Third Place = $100
Up to 5 Honorable Mentions may be awarded

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

ENTRY FEE

Entry fee is $30 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. You can submit up to 12 images total. You do not have to be a member of TPS to enter. However, students may enter the competition and also join TPS as a member at the same time, for a discounted Student Member rate: $15 for 1 year (normally $20), or $33 for 3 years (normally $48).

TPS Member Benefits 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 most 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.

ELIGIBILITY

#NewVisions2020: A Student Show 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 show are not eligible.

IMAGE REQUIREMENTS

Please submit JPEG or 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.)

Need help resizing images? You can resize via a Mac or PC computer, or use a number of third-party applications, many of which offer free trials or solutions. Please go here for suggestions.

ABOUT THE JUROR

Paul Thulin-Jimenez lives in Richmond, Virginia and works as the Graduate Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Paul Thulin-Jimenez’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally at United Photo Industries, NYC; Ogden Museum, New Orleans; Miami Scope; Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA; Chicago Art Fair; PPAC, Philadelphia; AAC, Washington DC; Toronto Art Fair, Foto Gallery, Barcelona; Grand Prix Fotofestival Lodz, Poland; the Athens Photo Festival, Greece; the Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado; Mt. Rokko Photography Festival, Japan; the Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Nera di Verzasca Photo Festival, Switzerland, FIF\_BH - International Festival of Photography, Brazil; and the Noordelicht Photo Festival, The Netherlands.

Thulin-Jimenez has been the recipient of a variety of photographic prizes and awards including a 2001 TPI National Graduate Fellowship, a 2006 Virginia Commission for the Arts Artist Fellowship, 2013 Conveyor Magazine Exhibition Grant, 2015 Hariban Award Honorable Mention, 2015 Critical Mass Top 50 and the 2015 Lensculture Emerging Talent Grant. His series Pine Tree Ballads was one of ten emerging talent portfolios selected for GUP magazine’s (NLD) tenth-anniversary issue as well as highlighted in the May 2016 British Journal of Photography. 

Thulin-Jimenez's first monograph, Pine Tree Ballads, was published by Candela Books in March 2019. He is currently working on a new research project, Isla de Las Palmas, which explores Puerto Rican identity in the 21st century.

JUROR'S STATEMENT

For this exhibition, I will, of course, seriously consider images that are well-behaved, compositionally balanced and technically advanced. You know -- the images that are traditionally considered visually striking and should be included in any respectable photography exhibition. However, what I am deeply invested and hopeful in discovering is photography that purposely and creatively challenges convention --- artwork that explores the unknown, makes what is wrong so right and builds a foundation in the unsettled.

Put forward your most experimental and risk filled images. The work you have always loved in private but are scared it's too challenging, too political, too punk, too messy, too pretty, too funny, too forward thinking or even too backwards thinking. Feel free to shed your "I always need to be accepted" comfort zone in regards to your treatment of a subject matter, process, exposure, form and materiality. Nothing is off the table - full contact sheets with markings, found photos, blurry portraits and landscapes, rough cut magazine collages, images with text, unexposed paper and even cute puppy pictures! As long as the work attempts to establish an original style, reads as genuine, is aesthetically aware of itself and hints at the importance of being a publicly exhibited artist at this moment in history, I am fairly sure it will catch my eye and will be rebelliously amazing!

—​ Paul Thulin-Jimenez

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions, please contact TPS Executive Director Susan Edgley at susan@texasphoto.org.

Application Requirements

Eligibility Criteria