Call For Entries: 7th Annual Juried Photography Exhibit | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    WASHINGTON, NC     The 7th Annual Juried Photography Exhibit by the Beaufort County Arts Council (BCAC) is scheduled for July 18 - August 17 in the BCAC Gallery at the historic Turnage Theatre in downtown Washington. Entries are being accepted for the exhibit through Saturday, June 7 at 4:00 pm.

    BCAC began the annual juried photography show in the summer of 2008 in response to the overwhelming amount of entries in the organization's annual Fine Arts Show.

    Categories for the exhibit include Documentary/People, Landscapes/Places, Nature/Wildlife, Mixed Media/Alternative Process, and a special Youth Division (under age 18).

    BCAC is pleased that it has been able to increase the Stewart Jewelry Store Best In Show cash award from $150 to $250 beginning in 2014, thanks to that award's sponsor.

    Other cash awards include the Washington Daily News Award for best example of photo journalism ($100), and the Jeff & Helen Sommerkamp Inman History Award for work best depicting a sense of history ($100). ASAP Photo & Camera of Greenville is sponsoring two awards - Best Color digitally enhanced and Best Color non-enhanced. The ASAP awards are a 16" X 20" print of the winner's choosing that includes a canvas wrap, a $90 value. A special youth category includes awards sponsored by Kevin Scott Cutler - the Ernest E. and Ethel Harding Cutler Memorial Award ($50) and the Jesse Lee and Corinne Mayo Smith Memorial Award ($50) for outstanding work.

    Each category will receive a $100 First Place and $50 Second Place cash award. Third Place and up to nine honorable mentions in each category, along with all Youth Division awards, will receive ribbons.

    A maximum of four entries may be submitted. The entry fee is $20 for one or two works and $7.50 for each additional entry. Photographers may submit images on a CD with a .JPG format of 300 dpi. Actual prints, framed or unframed, may also be entered. Submission of entries does not guarantee acceptance for exhibition – only juried work will exhibit. Entries may be mailed to PO Box 634 or dropped off at the arts council at the Turnage Theatre at 150 West Main Street, Washington, NC, 27889. Photographers whose work has been juried into the exhibit will be notified no later than June 17.

    BCAC is especially proud to announce the juror for the 2014 Photography Exhibit. Jerome De Perlinghi will be the sole juror for the exhibit.

    Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1961, De Perlinghi works mainly in the United States for European and American newspapers and magazines. His photographs have been published in Liberation, LeMonde, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Telerama. He has published six books including one about Shanghai, Catlaya Editions, Paris. You can find his work in collections at The Library of Congress, La Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and le Musee de la Photographie of Charleroi in Belgium. He is working on three new book projects: The Rust Belt Cities, a two-year reportage shot from Cleveland to Buffalo, from Duluth to Milwaukee; The Portraits, a set on artists from Conductors to Bluesmen, from Writers to Actors, shot from 1996-2010; and a book on Chicago where he lived for ten years, a ballad in black & white through all the neighborhoods of the Windy City.

    For more information, visit Mr. De Perlinhi's website at http://www.jeromedeperlinghi.com/.

    For a complete show prospectus including additional entry requirements and guidelines, call the Beaufort County Arts Council at 252.946.2504 or email info@beaufortcountyartscouncil.org.

    Contact:

     Joey Toler
      Executive Director, BCAC

      PO Box 634
      150 West Main Street
      Washington, NC 27889

    252.946.2504  •  beaufortcountyartscouncil.org  •  info@beaufortcountyartscouncil.org