January 27th is the last day to submit to the 2011 Center Awards, and consider marking your calendars now! Since 1994 Center has been at the epicenter of all things fine art photography, providing opportunites to gifted and committed photographers. Besides providing two major portfolio reviews during each calendar year, Center’s Award program offers photographers the chance to have their work seen by major players in the photographic world.

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This year’s line-up:
PROJECT COMPETITION
Jurors:
Simon Baker, Curator of Photography, Tate, U.K.;
Christina Cahill, Deputy Director, Editorial Reportage by Getty Images;
and TBA

PRIZES $5,000 cash, exhibition, publication in Fraction magazine, admission to Review Santa Fe, and more.

SUBMIT 20 images from a body of work, artist statement, resume, $35 members/$45 nonmembers

In 2010, Dana Popa’s heart breaking series on sex trafficing, Not Nastasha, was selected for First Place

PROJECT LAUNCH
Jurors:
Dewi Lewis, Publisher, Dewi Lewis Publishing, U.K.

PRIZES $3,000 cash, exhibition, publication in Fraction magazine, admission to Review Santa Fe and more.

SUBMIT 8-10 images from a work-in-progress, artist statement, resume, $25 members/$35 nonmembers

Sam Comen won the 2010 Project Launch Award for this exploration of Lost Hills, a community in California’s Central Valley

CHOICE AWARDS
Jurors:
Curator’s Choice
Erin O’Toole, Asst. Curator of Photography, SF Museum of Modern Art

Aaron Huey’s image was selected for Curator’s First Place

Dealer’s Choice
Dianne Vanderlip, Curator, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Steve Beckly won the Director’s Choice Award

Editor’s Choice
Todd James, Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic magazine

Jamey Stillings recieved First Place for the Editor’s Award

REVIEW SANTA FE
SELECTION COMMITTEE Three professionals representing different aspects of the field such as a curator, an editor and a publisher

EVENT Receive 9 portfolio reviews, inclusion in an on-line listing, receptions, a night of Portfolio Viewing and more; June 2-5, 2011 in Santa Fe, NM

SUBMIT 20 images from a body of work, artist statement, resume, $45 members/$55 nonmembers (discounts if you apply to both Project Competition and Review Santa Fe)