NOPA Potluck & Portfolio Night

NOPA Members:

Please join us tonight for our fifth annual Potluck & Portfolio Night, graciously hosted by Millie Fuller.

Bring some food, drink and photography to our annual summer social. This is a fun opportunity to share work with fellow members in a casual setting. Print portfolios or laptops are welcome.

Thursday, July 28, 2011
6-9pm
More info here.

August 1 Deadline for PhotoNOLA Exhibitions Listings

Planning a December photo exhibition in New Orleans?

Please submit your information here by MONDAY, AUGUST 1 for inclusion in PhotoNOLA brochure and website listings:

2011 PhotoNOLA Exhibitions Listings Form

Festival dates are December 8-11, 2011 with most exhibitions remaining on view throughout the entire month of December.

Thanks!

Call for Entry deadline is August 9 for 'Dreams' exhibit

The Fort Collins, Colorado-based Center for Fine Art Photography is calling for entries for a juried exhibition, "Dreams," that will open in December 2011. The deadline for submission is Tuesday, Aug. 9.

The exhibition will begin on Dec. 20, 2011 and run through Jan. 7, 2012.

The juror for "Dreams" is Aline Smithson, the Gallery Editor for Light Leaks magazine. Her photographs have been featured in publications including the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Artworks and many others.

The competition is open to all photographers, working in any medium. For information on submitting work, and more specific information about the exhibition, please see the Call for Entry at the Center website.

NOPA CFE: NOIR & Workshop questionaire

New NOPA Call for Entries is now live!  Gather and submit your entries for our next show: NOIR.

 "I know you like a book, ya little tramp. You’d sell your own mother for a piece of fudge. But you’re smart with it. Smart enough to know when to sell and when to sit tight. You’ve got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart." --The Killing (1956)

Dangerous dames, hardboiled gents, stark black & white contrast, curling smoke, shadows and dark alleyways, these are the signature moves of a classic Noir moment. But don't let that confine you, doll. Just because it's black & white, does not make it Noir, and if it's in color, it doesn't mean it isn't Noir. Submit your photos for the New Orleans Photo Alliance's call for entries for "Noir". Whether you're taking a cue from the classic films of the 40's and 50's, or re-creating the tone in the present day, show us the dark, grainy, smoky, somewhat hopeless side, with a hint of sexual innuendo, if you please, darling.

Juried by: Thomas Allen
More on Thomas Allen
Images by Thomas Allen

This show will take place during Art for Arts' Sake AND Prospect 2, both crucial art events that are attended by many here in New Orleans.  More info.
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Also, we want to hear from you!  Please take a brief moment to answer a question regarding workshops at the New Orleans Photo Alliance.  Click here.

Spanish photo festival competition seeks entrants

The Guillem Viladot Private Foundation and Emergent-Lleida '11, a photography festival held in the Lleida in the Catalonia region of Spain, is seeking submissions for its first-ever international competition.

The deadline for entry into the Lo Pardal First International Competition is Wednesday, July 20.

The selected works will be exhibited on the facade--to be clear, on the exterior, not the interior--of the Guillem Viladot de Agramunt Foundation building in Agramunt, Spain. The exhibit will begin on Saturday, Oct. 8 and run through Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011.

Any emergent artist of any nationality is eligible to submit work. The photographs must be submitted in digital format through the Emergent-Lleida website. Entrants may not enter more than one project for consideration.

The organization will announce the winner before July 31 through the festival website.

Special presentation by Bryce Lankard and Donn Young at the Gregg Museum, Raleigh, NC.

F-Stop seeking submissions for next two issues

F-Stop, an online magazine that focuses on contemporary photography, is seeking submissions for its next two issues. The fist deadline is Friday, July 15, for the August/September 2001 issue, "Relations." Submissions are also being requested for the October/November portfolio issue, with a deadline of Thursday, Sept. 15.

For details, as well as specific submission guidelines, please see the F-Stop website.

Image: Photo by Stanislavs Olehno.

'Generation LA' opens at NOPA gallery on Saturday

"Generation LA," a new exhibit that features work from emerging Louisiana photographers and graduate students, will open on Saturday, July 9, at the New Orleans Photo Alliance gallery. The exhibit will run through Sunday, Sept. 18.

An opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. It will take place at the NOPA gallery, located at 1111 St. Mary Street in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans.

The photographers with featured work include Shannon Kolvitz, who recently completed his Master of Fine Arts in photography at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

The other photographers with featured work include NOPA members Joli Livaudais Grisham, who is working on an MFA at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, and Kelly C. Tate, a graduate student LSU who will receive her MFA this summer.

Image: "Fallow," by Joli Livaudais Grisham.

NOPA Accepting Submissions for $5000 Clarence John Laughlin Award

The New Orleans Photo Alliance (NOPA) is pleased to announce its offering of an annual $5000 award to recognize and reward a fine art photographer who is creating or has completed a significant body of photographic work.

The Clarence John Laughlin Award was created by the New Orleans Photo Alliance to support the work of photographers who use the medium as a means of creative expression. It honors the life and work of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985), a New Orleans photographer best known for his surrealist images of the American South. The Clarence John Laughlin Award grants one $5000 prize annually to a photographer whose work exhibits sustained artistic excellence and creative vision.

George Slade, Curator for Photographic Resource Center, will serve as this year’s juror.

Complete details, guidelines and the online application form are available on the NOPA website here.

Deadline September 1, 2011.