AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Directors Post

Picture This, Bristol
40 Sydney Row
Spike Island
Bristol BS1 6UU
UK
t + 44 (0) 117 925 7010
f + 44 (0) 117 925 7040
lisa@picture-this.org.uk
http://www.picture-this.org.uk

4 days per week
£35,000 pro rata
Closing date: 15 July 2011
Interviews early August

Picture This in Bristol is seeking a Director capable of taking the organization to the next stage of its development as one of the UK's leading specialists in artists film and video production and exhibition. The Director must be capable of providing a creative, curatorial and artistic vision for the future. These skills should be combined with strong management and a strategic organisational direction across all aspects of Picture This' work.

Professional photographers can enter an international contest.

The Master Photographers Association is calling for entries in its 2011 Master Photography Awards competition.

This year's competition includes eight new or updated categories, including wedding, portrait, landscape, scientific, commercial and many others. The submission fee has also been reduced from EU€8.50 to EU€5.00 (about US$7) per entry.

The awards are open primarily to fully qualified members of the association, plus there are open categories for other professional photographers on a worldwide basis. Please see the list of categories for eligibility.

For more information, click here.

http://www.masterphotographyawards.co.uk/index.php

from Art4Development

Russian photographers are invited to participate in a photo contest.

Organized by the State Darwin Museum in Moscow, the theme is the colors of nature.

Categories are nine colors: white, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green, brown and black. To qualify, half of the picture must contain one of these colors and the color must reflect nature.

The best entries will be exhibited in the State Darwin Museum.

To participate, send entries via email here:photo@darwin.museum.ru

from Art4Development

The New Holland Award for Photojournalism honors works that portray rural life and agricultural work in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina.

Sponsored by farm equipment manufacturer New Holland, the competition will select 40 photographs to be part of a traveling exhibition in major cities of the four countries.

Images must have been produced in any of the four participating countries from January 1, 2010 to June, 30 2011. They may be published or unpublished.

Cash prizes range from BR$5,000 (about US$3,150) to BR$18,000 (about US$11,300). Photos that do not receive prizes but are selected for exhibition will be acquired for BR$800 (about US$500) each.

For more information (in Portuguese), click here.
http://www.premionewholland.com.br/

interested in creating documentaries ... apply for a travel scholarship to Australia.

World Nomads is accepting applications for a travel documentary scholarship. The winner will spend seven days with the Arnhem Land Marine Rescue Program with World Expeditions, filming the remote Yolngu Aboriginal communities.

Only non-professional documentary makers are eligible to apply. Anyone over 18 with a valid passport is eligible to apply.

The winner will create their own short documentary under producer Trent O'Donnell to air on the National Geographic Adventure Channel. The value of the prize is approximately AU$5895 (about US$6,270).

For more information, click here.

Non-profit organization the Seven Fund seeks entries from around the world for a photo contest about entrepreneurs.

The goal of the photo competition is to inspire photographers and document entrepreneurs leading training programs and running for-profit businesses in ethical ways.

The Seven Fund is a non-profit organization that aims to change the terms of discourse surrounding poverty by presenting entrepreneurs in a new light.

The competition will award four prizes (US$250), one every three months, as well as a grand prize (US$1,000) that will recognize one of the final four photographs as the overall competition winner.

Professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit photos illustrating the importance of development of sustainable energy and transportation.

Sponsored by OSCE, citizens of its 56 participating member states from Europe, Central Asia and North America are eligible. Each participant can submit up to three entries.

Lithuania, which holds the 2011 OSCE Chairmanship, is focusing on the promotion of sustainable energy and transport as one of its priorities. Because of this particular interest, Lithuania proposed "promoting common actions and co-operation in the OSCE area in the fields of development of sustainable energy and transport" as a theme.

Voices of the Sea
Artists Commissions
Call for expressions of interest

Deadline: 11 July 2011

www.lighthouse.org.uk/opportunity/commissions.htm
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Voices of the Sea is a unique commissioning opportunity created by a partnership of arts organisations. In Brighton and Hove, UK: Fabrica, Blast Theory, Brighton Festival, Lighthouse, Photoworks, the University of Brighton and in France, the Musee de Beaux Arts Calais.

We seek to commission two artists, each with a strong track record, to create two major new works, responding to the coastal context and maritime heritage of South East England.

Call for Applications

Sam Prize for Contemporary Art 2011

Deadline to apply: September 15, 2011, midnight

The aim of the prize is to allow the selected artist to carry out a project which they will conduct in an emerging country in the Southern hemisphere, and exhibit in France, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, in the following year.

With its grant of 20 000 euros, this competition is open to all artists corresponding to each of the following criteria:

• over the age of 25
• french or who have been resident in France for at least 2 years
• who have a a signed contract with a gallery in France.

Every kind of expression and all the visual arts disciplines are accepted : painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video…

KEYHOLDER RESIDENCY PROGRAM

The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are one year long, starting on October 1, 2011, and take place in the Printshop’s shared Artists’ Studio. Facilities are available for intaglio, relief, monoprint, waterbased silkscreen, digital processes, and other techniques that employ the tools at hand.