CALL FOR ENTRIES: 28th Annual College Photography Contest

Presented by Photographer's Forum Magazine and Nikon, this competition has awarded over $200,000 in cash prizes since 1980, its first year. This time around, Photographer's Forum is presenting two ways to enter, by either uploading your images online via the official website, or by sending prints or slides along with a traditional entry form. Winning Photos will also be published in the magazine's May 2008 issue. What's more, all finalists will be published in The Best of College Photography Annual 2008.

The Final deadline is on November 19, 2007.

The entry fee is $3.95 per photograph. Awards for this year include $4,200 in cash grants, two Nikon cameras, and entrance into Nikon's Emerging Photographer's Hall of Fame.

Click here to visit their official website.

Special Notice: CameraArts delay

Due to circumstances beyond our control concerning the lateness of CameraArts July/August 2007, we have decided to forgo the printing of the September/October issue in favor of the November/December issue.

Read more about it here.

New Book and Interview with Sean Perry

Transitory: The Abstract is Sean Perry’s (CameraArts November/December 2006) photographic study of architecture with text by Roy Flukinger. An interview with Perry will be featured in the column "Publishing the Photography Book" co-authored by Darius Himes & Mary Virginia Swanson. Look for it in the Fall 2007 issue of Photo-Eye Booklist.

From Sean Perry's Transitory website:

The first volume in a series of three, Transitory: The Abstract is a plate book featuring ten tipped-in artist prints and one free-standing platinum print...it is letterpress-printed and hand-bound in a quarter leather binding. The book and platinum print are enclosed in a full cloth drop spine box. Handmade by book artist Jace Graf and published by Cloverleaf Press in a limited edition of eighty-seven numbered and signed copies.

A .pdf of the Foreword can be found here.

Now Available: CameraArts July/August 2007!

The wait has been worth it—holding the CameraArts July/August 2007 issue in my hands, I have to say that it may be one of our best-looking issues ever! On the cover, our featured photographer Lisa Holden makes an immediate impression with her mesmerizing imagery. Smith Eliot, Cole Thompson, and Richard Quataert round out this edition's roster of photographers, George DeWolfe has contributed Part One of his new article series, The Contemplative Genre, and regular columns from Jim Hughes and Bryan Dahlberg make up our new issue. The Artists' Showcase has returned as well.

Click here to preview the table of contents!
Copies are now available at our Back Issues section.

Black and White's finalists announced for Whats Your Book?

Black and White Magazine (B&W) has announced the vote for its Whats Your Book? competition finalists. 150 entrants ended up submitting their ideas for a photographic book. Self Publishing Solutions’ Director Eddie Ephraums and B&W Editor Ailsa McWhinnie have narrowed the playing field down to three finalists. You can vote on them here.

The three chosen series are as follows: Michael Copsey's "Some Terra: Panoramas 1982-2007," whuch consists of tiny-format copy tranparancies; Trevor Crone, whose "Snapshots of the English Coast" combines images with quotes from well-known authors; and Andy Ilachinski's "Sudden Stillness: Visual Echoes of Timeless Myths," which compiles exotic, mysterious images of nature into four movements: chaos, order, complexity and decay.

Andy Ilachinksi has also been featured in our Preview Portfolios section. You can view a gallery of his images at our site. If you haven't heard of this special hands-on feature at CameraArts, click here for more information about Ilachinski and the other photographers who have been chosen for these online exhibitions.

CameraArts July/August 2007: Table of Contents posted!

We have just posted the table of contents preview from our next issue of CameraArts, July/August 2007. Check it out here. Among the photographers featured will be Lisa Holden, Smith Eliot, Charlotte Grace, Ann Ginsburgh-Hofkin, Cole Thompson, and Richard Quataert. As always, Jim Hughes will be penning his column, The Long View, and Bryan Dahlberg will present the next installment of Second Sight. If that weren't enough, Hamidah Glasgow will be making a report on the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph. George DeWolfe will share his thoughts on photography and Chinese painting (and how the two share more connection than one might expect). The issue will be available soon!

Coming Soon: CameraArts July/August 2007

Our next issue is on its way, and our cover has been unveiled at www.CameraArts.com. The photography of Lisa Holden will be one of our many features for the upcoming July/August 2007 issue. Other features include: full feature portfolios from Smith Eliot, Cole Thompson, and Richard Quataert; George DeWolfe's first installment in a new series of articles about the contemplative photography of China; a new edition of The Artists' Showcase; articles by Bryan Dahlberg and Jim Hughes; and much more.

Speaking of upcoming releases, Tim Anderson's Poser: A Sketchbook of Idea for Artists and Models is at the presses. The style of this book, with Tim Anderson's sketches and commentary, is truly unique, and many photographers (as well as a model or two) lend their perspectives on capturing the human figure. Contributors include Kim Weston, Lucien Clergue, Robert Farber, and Jeff Dunas. You can pre-order your copy here.

Keep checking back for more exclusive extended articles and portfolios at www.CameraArts.com.