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39th Annual Competition - one of the oldest continuous photography competitions in the country. Many leading photographers, curators, and gallerists have been jurors. Competition winners have included Andrea Modica, Fazal Sheikh, Connie Imboden, Elinor Carucci, Lyle Ashton Harris, Chris Jordan, Roger Ballen, Jeffrey Milstein, and Jess T. Dugan among many others.

What Makes this event different?

The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2024 competition issue and on its website. Thus, the accepted photographs will be seen by thousands of people all across the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition.

Copyright Policy

The photographer retains copyright.

Image Usage Rights

Winning images will be reproduced on The Photo Review website and in the competition catalogue and may be used for promotion related to the competition.

NOTED CURATOR JOEL SMITH TO JURY THE 2024 PHOTO REVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

Joel Smith is the Richard L. Menschel Curator and Department Head in Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. At the Morgan he has mounted collaborative exhibitions with Emmet Gowin, Duane Michals, and Nina Katchadourian. His books include Please Send to Real Life: Ray Johnson Photographs, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, The Life and Death of Buildings: On Photography and Time, and Saul Steinberg: Illuminations.

 

The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 39th annual photography competition, one of the oldest continuous photography competitions in the world. The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2024 competition issue and on its website. Thus, the accepted photographs will be seen by thousands of people all across the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition.

 

Also, the prizewinning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at Philadelphia’s noted Woodmere Art Museum. Plus numerous Editor’s Selections will be exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries.

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 throughout the country.

 

Awards include a $1,000 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 by William Earle Williams, the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in Humanities; Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photography, at Haverford College; a $500 gift certificate for printing at Booksmart Studio; two $100 gift certificates to PhotoLounge; a $200 gift certificate from Shades of Paper, a leading supplier of inkjet photo paper; a $200 gift certificate for Red River papers; several Think Tank camera bags; numerous fabulous items from Photogenic Supply; a 20″x24″ silver gelatin fiber print from Digital Silver Imaging; and a feature on the Laurence Miller Gallery's Picture of the Week email blast.

 

The entry fee is $40 for up to three images and $8 for each additional image. In addition, all entrants will be able to subscribe to The Photo Review for $40, a 20% discount. (Higher rates apply for non-US subscribers.)

 

All entries must be received by May 15, 2024.

 

You can download contest rules and submit images at https://photoreview.org. 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 Review covers photography events throughout the country and serves as a central resource for photography in the Mid-Atlantic region. The semi-annual journal contains reviews, portfolios, interviews, book reviews, and news. The Photo Review has 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 $50 per year for the semi-annual 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 2024 International Photography Competition is sponsored by Booksmart Studio, Digital Silver Imaging, Shades of Paper, PhotoLounge, ThinkTank Photo, Haverford College, Red River Paper, Photogenic Supply, and Laurence Miller Gallery.