International Juried Photography Call for Entry Fall 2013. The New York Center for Photographic Arts (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process (print, image transfer, emulsion transfer, encaustic, black and white, color etc.). Winners will receive over $2,500 in cash awards and be featured on the NYC4PA Online Gallery. The Grand Prize winning image being posted on the NYC4PA home page.

We are very excited that winners, juror’s selections and honorable mentions will have the opportunity to participate in a cutting edge gallery show at the SOHO GALLERY FOR DIGITAL ART. This new gallery features 16 40” screens to show off your images in the best light. One screen will be dedicated to the Grand Prize winning image. For the other winners, their images will be displayed on a rotating basis on the additional screens.

Winners and juror’s selections will be invited to send matted prints to be displayed in racks and be available for sale. Display prints are limited to 20 inches on the longest side, matted.

In addition, an exhibition catalog of the group show will be available.

URBAN LANDSCAPES – The cities we live in, the cities we visit. They share so many characteristics yet each has its own unique identity. Whether it is the architecture, the street scenes, the people or parks, the landscapes that mark a city can be beautiful, emotionally stirring, dramatic or whatever it is that you see. Send us your interpretation of what an Urban Landscape means to you.

JUROR: Charles Traub

Charles H. Traub is Chair of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He holds an MS from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and a BA from the University of Illinois.

A founding chairperson of the Photography Department at Columbia College in Chicago, he also organized the development of its prestigious museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Formerly the director of the prestigious Light Gallery of New York, he is now President of the Aaron Siskind Foundation for support of creative photography. He is one of the co-founders of here is new york: a democracy of photographs, which received the Brendan Gill Award of the Municipal Arts Society, Cornell Capa Infinity Award, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Children’s Aid Society of New York.

He is currently represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York, and his forthcoming books, Objects of My Creation, and Still Life in America, are due out in 2012.