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Event History

Publishing since 1976, The Photo Review covers photography events throughout the country and serves as a central resource for photography in the Mid-Atlantic region. Now in its 34th year, The Photo Review Competition has featured numerous photographers who have gone on to international acclaim, including Andrea Modica, Jock Sturges, Fazal Sheikh, Elinor Carucci, and Shimon Attie to Roger Ballen, Chris Jordan, Shen Wei, and Jess T. Dugan, among many others. Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitions, have had their work reproduced in other leading photography magazines, and have sold their work to collectors and museums throughout the country.

What Makes this event different?

Rather than only installing an exhibition that can only be seen by a number of people, The Photo Review will also reproduce accepted entries in its 2018 competition issue and on its website. The accepted photographs, thus, will be seen by thousands of people around the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition.

Copyright Policy

Artists retain copyright.

Image Usage Rights

The Photo Review reserves the right to reproduce accepted work in the contest catalogue and for contest promotion in both printed and electronic forms. Artists retain all other rights.

Call to photographers.

Sarah Meister, Museum of Modern Art Curator of Photography, will be the juror for the 2018 Photo Review Photography Competition. Among her mutiple accomplishments, her most recent books include One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016) and Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017). She is a co-editor of and contributing author to the three-volume series Photography at MoMA (1960 to Now, 1920 to 1960, and 1840 to 1920), co-director of the August Sander Project (a five-year research initiative with Noam Elcott, Columbia University), and she is the lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs on Coursera.

The Photo Review is a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography. The Review is sponsoring its 34th annual photography competition this year with a difference. Instead of only installing an exhibit that can be seen by a limited number of people,The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2018 competition issue and on its website. Accepted photographs will be seen by thousands of people across the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition.

Prize-winning images will be selected for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Forrest Old, the director of the Red Filter Gallery, will select a single photographer for a one-person show on the online gallery. Additionally numerous Editor’s Selections will be exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries.

Due to their inclusion inThe Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitions, have had their work reproduced in other leading photography magazines, and have sold their work to collectors throughout the country.

Awards include a $500 purchase prize for inclusion in the Haverford College Photography Collection, one of the largest and most comprehensive college photography collections in the United States, selected byWilliam Earle Williams, the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in Humanities; Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photography, at Haverford College; a Mission Workshop Rhake, Weatherproof Laptop Backpack with The Capsule, Padded Camera Insert; a 24"x50' roll of Museo Silver Rag; a $200 gift certificate from Shades of Paper, a leading supplier of inkjet photo paper; a 20"x24" silver gelatin fiber print from Digital Silver Imaging; a ThinkTank Airport Advantage Plus camera bag and a ThinkTank Airport Advantage camera bag; a “The Complete Photographer’s Set” fromTog Tees (https://www.togtees.com/collections/all-t-shirts); and several Kodak Mini Shot Instant Print Cameras (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077BF7KG7).

There is an entry fee of $35 for up to three prints or images and $8 for each additional image entitles all entrants to a copy of the full-color catalogue. Additionally, all entrants will be able to subscribe toThe Photo Review for $36, a 20% discount. (Higher rates apply for non-US subscribers.)

All entries must be received by May 31, 2018.

You can download contest rules and submit images by clicking APPLY. For further information call The Photo Review at 215/891-0214, 340 East Maple Avenue, Suite 200, Langhorne, PA 19047, info@photoreview.org.

 

THE PHOTO REVIEW

Publishing since 1976,The Photo Reviewcovers photography events throughout the country and serves as a central resource for photography in the Mid-Atlantic region. The quarterly journal, printed on coated paper with high quality reproduction, contains reviews, portfolios, interviews, book reviews, and news. The Photo Reviewhas presented previously unpublished images by Duane Michals, Weegee, and Frederick Sommer, and catalogues for a James VanDerZee exhibition, a show of Lois Greenfield’s dynamic dance photographs, “Changing Visions of the American Landscape,” and a widely praised catalogue celebrating the centennial of Stieglitz’s Camera Work. Its writers have included A. D. Coleman, Frank Day, Shelley Rice, Peter Hay Halpert, Barbara L. Michaels, Daile Kaplan, Jean Dykstra, and Mark Power. Subscriptions are $45 per year for the quarterly journal and the newsletter, which is issued eight times a year and sent as a PDF by email with live links and which contains exhibition listings, exhibition opportunities from around the country and the world, and news.

The Photo Review 2018 International Photography Competition is sponsored by Digital Silver Imaging, Museo, Shades of Paper, Kodak, Mission Workshop, ThinkTank Photo, Haverford College, Red Filter Gallery, and Tog Tees.