CALL FOR ENTRIES: Galore!

No less than four calls for entry are now open to photographers. "Abstractions in the Landscape," at The Darkroom in New Orleans, is inviting submissions of non-representational urban and/or natural landscapes. "Railway Reflections," an international railroad art exhibition, is seeking one hundred works to be displayed in at the Nevada State Library Gallery in Carson City, NV. The Art of Photography Show is still accepting entries, with the exhibition taking place at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery in Historic San Diego, CA. Last but not least, Communication Arts magazine is now accepting entries for their 49th Photography Competition, with the winners to be published in the August 2008 Photography Annual.

"Abstractions in the Landscape," juried by photographer Sandra Russell Clark, is open to all processes and media, with an entry fee of $20. The juried exhibition will open May 17, 2008. The deadline for entries is April 11, 2008. Click here for details.

"Railway Reflections" offers $5,000 in cash awards, is open to the mediums of painting, photography, sculpture, and drawing. Entry fee is $25 per piece, up to a limit of three entries. Deadline for submissions is May 14, 2008. The exposition, running July 17 to August 17, 2008, will donate 30 percent of its proceeds to the reconstruction of the historic Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Click here for details.

The Art of Photography Show takes place April 25 to May 23, 2008. $5,000 cash awards are available for first to fourth place, as well as 11 honorable mentions. Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, will serve as juror. Entry fee is $25 for the first entry, $10 for each additional entry, with no limit to the number of entries per photographer. Deadline is March 1, 2008. Click here for details. Go here for a trailer from the 2007 Art of Photography Show.

Communication Arts' 49th Photography Competition is open to any photograph printed or produced between March 14, 2007 and March 11, 2008. Winning photographs are selected by a panel of distinguished art directors, photographers, and designers, then published in the August 2008 Photography Annual, of which 70,000 copies will be distributed worldwide. Deadline for the competition is March 11, 2008. Click here for details.