Professional Women Photographers (PWP) invites all women artists working with any photographic process to submit images. Submission deadline is September 30, 2012. The exhibition juror will be Deborah Willis, Chair of NYU’s Department of Photography and Imaging. The contest includes $5400 in cash awards, the cover and inside spread in IMPRINTS Magazine, a 6-month online gallery exhibition, and valuable prizes provided by Datacolor, global leader in color management solutions and color communication technology.

CATEGORIES:
Winners will be selected in each of the following four categories:
• The Human Experience (Portraiture, Street Photography, etc.)
• Our Earth (Landscape, Cityscapes, Animals, Nature, etc.)
• Travel (Any subject or genre, taken while away from home)
• Digital Imagination (Digitally enhanced images, including Composites, Montages, Abstracts, etc.)

ELIGIBILITY: This Call for Entries is open worldwide to ALL WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS; NON-MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF PWP, AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL. PWP invites women photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate. Experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is the Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Professor Willis is an educator, curator, fine art photographer, and author. Among many honors, she recently received the honored educator award at the Society for Photographic Education.

She has curated numerous exhibitions, including: Posing Beauty which is touring the US, 1968: Then and Now in fall 2008, Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits at the International Center of Photography in 2007, and Engulfed by Katrina: Photographs before and After the Storm at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Publications include Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (WW Norton, 2009 and NAACP Image Award Literature Winner), A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois and the Photographs from the Paris Exposition (Amistad Press, 2003), and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (WW Norton, 2009.)

Exhibitions of her work include: A Sense of Place, Frick, University of Pittsburgh, 2005; Regarding Beauty, University of Wisconsin, 2003; Embracing Eatonville, Light Works, Syracuse, NY, 2003-4; HairStories, Scottsdale Contemporary Art Museum, Scottsdale, AZ 2003-4; The Comforts of Home, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, 1999; Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, 1999; Memorable Histories and Historic Memories, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1998; Cultural Baggage, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1995.