APA Chicago Artist’s Perspective - Call for Entries, Nov 20, 2018

APA Chicago Presents

Announcing Liz Miller-Gershfeld, VP, Executive Art Producer at Energy BBDO will curate this year's exhibition.

APA Chicago is holding our 6th Annual Artist’s Perspective Personal Work Exhibition culminating with a one-night gallery opening on Friday, January 25, 2019, at Bridgeport Art Center. We are excited and proud to announce that Liz Miller-Gershfeld, VP, Executive Art Producer at Energy BBDO will be curating this year's exhibition. Liz has been a strong advocate for original photography and photographers throughout her accomplished career.

This is a personal work exhibition and is open to all photographers - professionals, enthusiasts, and amateurs. 

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Submission deadline: November 20, 2018 at 11:59 p.m.

Personal work makes a statement

In our numerous interviews with agency creatives, we've learned the most effective way to break through and get noticed is with a well conceived and executed personal assignment. Personal projects give photographers the chance to art director their own vision - taking a blank sheet of paper and making it their own. Agency creatives rely on a photographers personal work as insight into their world view. At APA Chicago our annual competition celebrates the best in photographic personal work.

I think it's incredibly important for photographers to constantly be working on their craft by shooting personal work. It doesn't matter where an artist is in their career–personal work is all about the concept. I feel so privileged when a photographer shows it to me because it is really putting themselves out there.

— Liz Miller-Gershfeld

Top reasons to enter:

1. Superb opportunity to advance your career, display your own photographic style.
2. Our 6th annual personal work photo exhibition.
3. APA members receive a 50% discount on the entry fee.
4. Online Gallery of the exhibit will be up for all of 2019 and beyond
5. Top placed images proactively promoted to agency creatives via email.
6. Simple, reliable, secure online entry procedure, through the APA National website.
7. No limit to the number of images you can enter.
8. No date-created limitations.

World class curator

Liz Miller-Gershfeld, VP, Executive Art Producer at Energy BBDO
Liz is a producer with over 20 years of experience collaborating with artists, creatives and clients to create effective and award winning content. Possesses a deep and flexible understanding of the visual process from concept to finish. Awareness of visual trends, artists and agencies. With specific experience finding appropriate photography, art and production solutions to fit the budgets and creative needs of clients. Clients ranging from art and cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations to major international snack food, confection companies, beer, wine, spirits, pharmaceutical, government and banking organizations.

Entry fees

$20/entry: APA members
$40/entry: Non members
Not an APA member? Now is a great time to join APA and receive up to a 50% discount on each image you enter.

Exhibition date, time, and location

Friday, January 25, 2019
7 PM to 11 PM
Bridgeport Art Center
1200 West 35th Street
Chicago, IL 60609

Exhibitor prints

All images that are selected for the one-night gallery exhibition will be inkejet printed at 16" x 20" and then mounted to 1/8" graphic quality tempered masonite, edges are beveled at 45 degrees, a UV non-glare film is applied to and finished with a a 3/4" deep recessed floating cleat backframe. Lamin-8 service bureau has offered us a non-profit volume discount so Print Fees (including sales tax) will be $70. There is no APA frame mark up, no hanging fees, and the finished piece is yours to keep. This year we are again accepting entries from all photographers, no matter where you live. If you, or someone you trust are unable to attend the Exhibition and take your framed print(s) home at the end of the event, and would like it shipped to you, please note that you will need to provide, in advance: a FedEx Air or Ground account number and a $30 check for the packaging and handling fee for each framed print.

Print raffle

If your image is selected by our curator to be printed and featured in the exhibition you will be contacted by APA Chicago to see if you are interested in donating your print to be raffled off the night of the exhibition. Donating your print for our raffle is 100% optional.

Contest rules

• Only digital images and payments are accepted, through our online entry process.
• A single entry is one image.
• There is no limit on the number of single entries submitted.
• You may not win for an image that has won an Award in a previous Artist's Perspective competition.
• There is no restriction on when the entry images were created.

By entering the 2019 Artist's Perspective Annual Photo Competition, Entrants:

1. Warrant to APA Chicago that they have created and own the work submitted (including all elements of the work) and that nothing within any work has been copied or added from another person’s work.
2. Warrant that the whole copyright and any other form of intellectual property right in the work is vested in them.
3. Warrant that they have not in any way assigned, licensed, disposed of, or otherwise encumbered any of their rights which allow them to deal freely with the work and the copyright therein.
4. Warrant that they have obtained model or property releases from any persons and/or property owners requiring such, featured in their submitted photographs allowing publication in any and all media forms.
5. Agree that their work may be exhibited or shown during APA sponsored events, as well as on the APA website and APA promotional materials, allowing for the photographer to retain complete control over the licensing and sale of their work.
6. Agree that APA may reproduce and may allow reproduction of winning images in APA approved publications. Credit will be given to the photographer for any image(s) used.
7. Acknowledge that APA Chicago relies fully upon the warranties and license given by Entrants when submitting their entries for consideration to the 2019 Artist's Perspective Annual Photo Competition. Entrants indemnify and hold APA Chicago harmless from any claims, actions, proceedings, costs and expenses arising as a result of any allegation that the relevant Entrant did not own or is not wholly entitled and authorized to allow publication and reproduction of the work by APA.
8. APA Chicago reserves the right to disqualify any winner not providing the required personal information, headshot, and/or winning image in the requested file format and size within one week of APA Chicago's request via the contact information supplied by the entrant. Replacement winners will be selected at the judge's discretion.
9. Judging is a blind process. Photographer's names will only be disclosed to the jurors after the judging process has been completed. The decision of the judges of the competition shall be final and binding.
10. Entrants retain full copyright to their images and grant no usage to APA Chicago other than those granted herein. APA Chicago, the Sponsors, or Venues showing an exhibition of winners shall not be liable for any loss or damage of any entry. Submission of an entry to the competition automatically constitutes the contestant's acceptance of all conditions set forth in the above rules. It also acknowledges the right of APA Chicago to use the photographer's likeness and information, as well as the winning images, in exhibitions and promotions, in any and all forms of print, electronic and digital media, related to the APA Chicago Annual Photo Competitions for up to 24 months following the 2019 Competition winners’ announcement.
11. Entry fees cannot be refunded, once submitted.
12. Winners will be announced on about December 5, 2018.

Submission guidelines

Please read contest terms, and then follow these guidelines and image requirements carefully to ensure proper submission of your entries.

• APA member's can login using their APA credentials. Non-members can enter images into the contest by creating a guest account with business name, email address and password.
• A single image entry is one image.
• Please note, this year there is no "series" category - only single images.
• You can upload as many images as you would like during the process.
• All files must be jpgs, no smaller than 800 pixels on the longest side, and at most 1280 pixels, 72 ppi, sRGB color profile, with no visible identifying text/symbols.
• Image files need no unique title by the entrant; they are assigned an arbitrary ID for "blind" judging.
• You'll see a preview of your images.
• We have only one (1) category "Personal Work.".
• Preview your submission.
• Pay Fees, Receive Confirmation
• Once you have paid, your submission is final and you will not be able to edit your images.
• You can return to your account to enter more images.

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