APPLICATIONS CLOSED FOR 2012

A fantastic opportunity to show your photographs to
professionals who publish, exhibit, write and teach.
Get new ideas, make connections, and find opportunities to distribute, publish and exhibit your work.

To submit, send an email of inquiry to:
thom@photoalliance.org


application: http://www.photoalliance.org/ourworld.pdf

Send us an email letting us know you are applying so we can anticipate receiving your application. thom@photoalliance.org

Our Mailing address:

PhotoAlliance
PO Box 29010
San Francisco, California
94129

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PhotoAlliance
616 Key Boulevard
Richmond, California
94805
415-425-5608



Entry Procedure and Requirements:

• Work:
All two-dimensional works, using any photographic process including digital and/or analog, are eligible for review.

• Registration:
Registration is a TWO-STEP process.
1- An initial review of portfolios submitted by CD with $40.00 non-refundable entry fee.
2- Sixty photographers will be selected from these submissions for the weekend review. An additional $575.00 payment is then required for final participation if selected.

• Calendar:
Feb. 17th - CD Entry due
Feb 20th - photographers notified
March 9-11 - Portfolio Review in San Francisco

• Entry: JPEG images on CD only for application process.

EARLY SUBMISSIONS ENCOURAGED.

See entry checklist on Entry Form.

Send all information to:
PhotoAlliance / Our World Portfolio Review
PO Box 29010
San Francisco, California 94129.

CD’s will be returned only if a self-addressed stamped
envelope of appropriate size and with appropriate postage is submitted with entry.

• Entry Fee and Procedure: A non-refundable entry fee of $40.00
for each 20 images.

• Digital Submission Requirements: Files should
be on a CD in JPEG format. Image size should be no larger than 2Mb or:
Horizontal - 8 inches
Vertical - 8 inches
Resolution 150 pixels/inch.
Files named as follows: Lastname_Firstname_imagenumber.jpg

Optional: submit an accompanying sheet with a list of name, title, date, medium, and dimension of each piece.

• Selection: A panel of jurors will be pre-screening all of the
entries. 60 photographers will be selected for the weekend
portfolio review. An additional fee of $575.00 is then required.

This will be the 6th annual event.

Current list of reviewers:

Richard Barnes, Photographer, Educator, California College of the Arts
David Bayles, Artist, Educator, Author
Debra Bloomfield, Photographer & Educator
Linda Connor, Photographer & Educator, San Francisco Art Institute
Luis Delgado, Photographer, San Francisco
Janet Delaney, Photographer & Educator, San Francisco
Robert Dawson, Photographer & Educator, Stanford & San Jose State University
Taj Forer, Founding Editor, Daylight Magazine
Geoffrey Hiller, Photographer & Editor, Verve Photo, Portland, Oregon
Rebecca Horne, Photo Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Jason Houston, Picture Editor, Orion Magazine
Michael Itkoff, Founding Editor, Daylight Magazine
Ann M. Jastrab, Gallery Director RayKo Photo Center
Rupert Jenkins, Executive Director, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver
Whitney Johnson, Picture Editor, The New Yorker
Anne Kelly, Associate Gallery Director, PhotoEye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Dennis Kiel, Chief Curator, The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte, NC
Stefan Kirkeby, Owner, Smith Anderson North Gallery
Gwen Lafage, Founder, Carte Blanche Gallery, San Francisco
Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, Artists, Electric Works, San Francisco
Aimee Le Duc, Gallery Manager, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
David Liittschwager, Photographer, National Geographic, San Francisco
Ericka McConnell, Photographer, New York and San Francisco
Chuck Mobley, Associate Director, San Francisco Camerawork
Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Curator of Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
Ted Orland, Artist, Educator, Author
Darcy Padilla, Photographer & Educator, San Francisco Art Institute
Kirsten Rian, Independent Curator, Writer, Artist, Portland, OR
Thom Sempere, Director, PhotoAlliance
Rebecca Senf , Assistant Curator of Photography, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Ada Takahashi, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Anne Veh, Art Consultant & Independent Curator
Lewis Watts, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Deborah Willis, Photographer, Curator, and Educator, Chair, Department of Photography & Imaging,
Tisch School of the Arts, NY