National Photography Contest

National Photography Contest

$20 Entry Fee (1-5 prints)

$30 Entry Fee (6-10 prints)

*** $500 First Place Prize ***

Postmark Deadline: December 3, 2012

Viewing Period begins August 15, 2012

ENTRIES POSTMARKED BEFORE OR AFTER THESE DATES WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AND WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Alligator Juniper seeks quality black-and-white photography for its 2013 issue. $500 prize for one winner; finalists will be noted as such in our journal, selected for publication, and paid in copies.
 

Submission Guidelines

• Photographs must be black and white, unmounted, not exceeding 11 x 14 inches.
• Labeling should be placed on the back of each photograph, including your name, address, phone number, title of photograph, date made, and indication of top.
• Those submitting digital images must also submit a digital file on CD, in TIF format, no larger than 100mb.
• Every entrant must submit, on a CD, the following two documents (ideally, saved as Microsoft Word docs):
         1. A brief artist's statement--for possible publication purposes, this should address the specific image(s) you are submitting
         2. A brief bio.  Again, should you win the contest, this bio would be used in the credits of Alligator Juniper.
• Appropriate packaging and return postage should be included for return of your photo(s). Entries without return postage will be discarded after judging.
• Include entry fees as follows: $20 for one to five prints; $30 for six to ten prints. Ten-print maximum. Make checks payable to Prescott College/Alligator Juniper.
• Payment of fee does not guarantee that any photographs will be published; payment does guarantee that all entrants receive a copy of the 2013 issue, a $10 value.
• Prescott College reserves the right to publish winning images in any college publication.
• While we handle all entries with care, we cannot take responsibility for damage that may occur to submissions.
• No slides accepted.
• Postmark Deadline: December 5, 2012. Entries postmarked after that date are returned unopened. We return entries with response in late spring. Winning photos will   be returned in the summer of 2013.
• Send to: Alligator Juniper Photo Contest, Prescott College, 220 Grove Ave., Prescott, AZ 86301.

The 2013 issue comes out in late spring 2013. Back issues are available; send $10 to above address and request a copy from any year, 1996–2000, 2002–2006, or 2008–2012.
 

The 2013 Photo Contest Judge:

Sant Khalsa is an artist, educator and activist living in Southern California since 1975. Her artworks develop from her inquiry into the nature of place and the complex environmental and societal issues present and visible in the landscape of the American West. Her work is widely shown internationally and has been acquired by permanent museum collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Nevada Museum of Art, UCR/California Museum of Photography, and others, in addition to private and corporate collections in the U.S. and Europe. Her most recent solo exhibition, River Run: Photographs from Sant Khalsa’s 20-year Journey with the Santa Ana River, was curated by Colin Westerbeck at the UCR California Museum of Photography in Riverside, CA (May 7–August 13, 2011).

Khalsa is a recipient of prestigious fellowships, awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the California Council for the Humanities, Arts Foundation of San Bernardino County, the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, and others. She is Chair of the Art Department and a Professor of Art at California State University, San Bernardino, where she is one of the founding faculty of the Water Resources Institute.