Camera Obscura Photographic Art Competition

The Camera Obscura Journal of Literature and Photography is hosting its second photography competition for both professional and non-professional photographers. Non-professionals may also enter the professional category.

The artwork need not consist exclusively of photography. Photography-based mixed media artworks are encouraged for submission, in addition to straight photography.

Camera Obscura is a Latin term that simply means "dark room."A camera obscura is therefore nothing more than a dark box or room with a pinhole at one end, and at the other, the projected image, in color, upside down, of the world outside the dark box by virtue of an amazing natural property of light traveling through a small hole. Add a mirror and you can turn the image right side up or direct it, add lenses to magnify the image, warp it, or project it onto paper and trace the image as Vermeer did, as Caravaggio was rumored to have done. We are the dark box. Your work is the pinhole.

Deadline for current photography competition is September 1, 2010.

Camera Obscura Journal accepts for its photography contest any photographic-based artwork. The artwork need not consist exclusively of photography. Photography-based mixed media artworks are encouraged for submission, in addition to straight photography as long as it can be submitted electronically.

*Criteria considered in judging these photographic artworks include:
artistic merit
technical proficiency
theme: Open (We're looking for the best, most visually intriguing photography we can find)

$2500 total prizes (for international entries, this is in U.S. dollars payable through paypal which exchanges currency).

All photographs are considered anonymously in the following categories.

• Professional
• Prize - $1,200 cash award and publication in the Camera Obscura Journal of Literature & Photography. Selected finalists also receive publication.
• In addition, finalists receive a professional marketing template from © The Polished Photograher - worth $100.
• entry - $15 per photo.
• Professional designation: photographers who earn more than 25% of their income from photography.
• Non-professionals may also enter the professional category.
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• Non-professional
• Prize - $300 cash award and publication. Finalists also receive publication.
• Entry - $10.00 per photo.

Finalists in both categories will be selected and assessed by the photography judges who will select the winner.

Winners Announced October 1, 2010
Direct questions or concerns to editor(AT)obscurajournal.com