The West Collects organization, which acquires work for the West Collection of the Philadelphia, Penn. area, is seeking new artists for its collection in 2012, with $275,000 to be spent on new acquisitions. The deadline for application is Sunday, April 1. All artists of age 18 years or older, working in any medium, may apply for… Read More »West Collects seeks artists for $275,000 in acquisitions for 2012

OffBeat, a monthly publication that focuses on New Orleans and Louisiana music and culture, is looking for music and food-related photographs for its upcoming New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival edition. The images are sought by the morning of Monday, April 2. The monthly magazine pays $30 per published photo. OffBeat is publication that is distributed for… Read More »Offbeat seeking music and food shots for upcoming JazzFest edition

Country Roads Magazine, a publication that focuses on the culture and places of the Great River Road region between New Orleans and Natchez MS, is seeking images by Friday, April 13 for its “Name that Country Road: A Louisiana Photographic Project” feature. The magazine’s staff is, meanwhile, still hoping to put together a poster that features… Read More »Country Roads seeks entries for feature series, poster by April 13

The coming month promises to be a landmark for NOPA member Michel Varisco and her photographic work on the Louisiana wetlands and the Gulf of Mexico, with a solo exhibit of her work set to open at the Crescent City’s Odgen Museum of Southern Art on April 19. She is asking for help with funding,… Read More »Varisco seeking funding for Odgen exhibit companion book

Daylight a non-profit that promotes photography through book and magazine publishing, as well as multimedia programs, is seeking submissions for its Daylight Photo Awards, an international competition. Winning entries will be selected by jurors associated with a number of prestigious publications and institutions, including the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and The New… Read More »Deadline is May 15 for 2012 Daylight Photo Awards entry

The Oxford American, a National Magazine Award-winning quarterly that is published by the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Ark., has included NOPA member Frank Hamrick of Ruston, La. in its “100 under 100: New Superstars of Southern Art” list. The work of Hamrick, photography coordinator for Ruston’s Louisiana Tech University School of Art, is featured… Read More »NOPA member Hamrick on magazine’s southern art ‘superstars’ list

F-Stop Magazine is seeking submissions for two upcoming issues, including an open-themed April/May 2012 issue and a June/July 2012 issue that will focus on the practice of serial photography. The deadline for submissions to either issue is Tuesday, May 15. The magazine notes that practice of serial photography involves a repetition of subject matter, but… Read More »F-Stop Magazine sets May 15 deadline for upcoming issue entries

The 18th Latin American Documentary Photography Contest, a project of the Escuela Nacional Sindical (National Labor College) of Medellín, Colombia, is seeking competition submissions by a deadline of Tuesday, March 20. Cash prizes of $1,300 in American dollars each will be awarded in four categories of photography, including: Women Workers, Childhood Workers, Men Workers, and Immigrant Workers. Entrants are otherwise… Read More »Entries sought for 18th Latin American Documentary Photo Contest