Professional Women Photographers (PWP). International Women Only. Call for Entries. THEME: CONTRASTS Dark and light, fast and slow, young and old, urban and rural, soft and hard, funny and sad, real and artificial, smooth and craggy, solid and fluid, rich and poor, true and false, etc.

There are as many examples of contrast as there are adjectives and adverbs in the English language. PWP invites women photographers from around the world to submit images they feel illustrate contrast in the world and in their photography.

Open to ALL WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS WORLDWIDE: PWP MEMBERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC, AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL. PWP invites women photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate. Only 2-D work is eligible, but experimental and mixed techniques are welcome. Final artwork for SohoPhoto Gallery show must be limited in FRAMED SIZE to 24 x 30 inches. If you are submitting diptychs or triptychs, the combined FRAMED SIZES OF ALL IMAGES must not exceed 24×30 inches.  Note: Images selected by jurors for exhibition by PWP in the previous 12 months are NOT eligible. Images previously submitted but not previously selected for exhibition may be resubmitted as often as you wish.

Exhibition juror, Ruth Fremson will award $2500 in cash prizes, a group show in Manhattan’s SohoPhoto Gallery, an online exhibition and a feature article in IMPRINTS Magazine Spring/Summer 2011 issue.

JUROR:
Ruth Fremson is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer whose photographs are in the collection of the Akron Arts Museum and in the traveling exhibit, “War by Women Photographers.” Her images appear in five books, including GAME FACE, Photographs of Female Athletes, A NATION CHALLENGED, September 11, 2001, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE US ARMED FORCES, SINS OF THE MOTHER, and CAMPAIGNS, A Century of Presidential Races. A New York Times staff photographer, Ruth is a frequent contributor to the newspaper’s LENS blog.