So you've entered, or are preparing to enter, HHS! 2010. You've already gone through the laborious and yet self-edifying process of culling your work down to a discrete set of strong, stand-alone images, and you've penned a thoughtful and engaging artist's statement. Now that you've crossed that off your to-do list, why stop there? Get as much artistic mileage from this as possible! Who's to say that whatever you're thinking and making might not resonate on a wide-scale with a variety of different audiences?

This Saturday, May 15th, is the deadline for the inaugural Daylight Magazine/Center for Documentary Studies Photo Award. All of the entries are submitted electronically, so you've still got plenty of time to enter.

Daylight Magazine is the result of the work of the Daylight Community Arts Foundation, which works with established and early-career artists, scholars and journalists to showcase contemporary photography and to share stories from underrepresented communities.

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke has long been a staple in the photography community, promoting collaborative and in-depth documentary work for decades. From the CDS website:

CDS promotes documentary work that cultivates progressive change by amplifying voices, advancing human dignity, engendering respect among individuals, breaking down barriers to understanding, and illuminating social injustices. CDS conducts its work for local, regional, national, and international audiences.

This is the first year of the international competition, and there are two award categories: A Project Prize and a Work-In-Process Prize. The roster of jurors are exactly the sort of people that you'd want to take a good look at your work:

Vince Aletti, writer/critic, the New Yorker magazine;
Darius Himes, editor/curator, Radius Books (who also happens to be on the HHS! panel)
Julie Saul, gallery owner/director, Julie Saul Gallery;
Alec Soth, photographer;
Hank Willis Thomas, photographer;
Jamie Wellford, international photo editor, Newsweek;
Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff, editors, Daylight Magazine
Alexa Dilworth, publishing director, CDS
Courtney Reid-Eaton, exhibitions director, CDS

PROJECT PRIZE
For an extended documentary project or fine art series. Edit photographs with care as the project photographs will be judged on the coherence of the work as a whole. The full panel of jurors will choose one First Prize Winner. Each Guest Juror will also select one photographer to receive a Juror's Pick Prize and write a short statement about why he or she choose the work.

The First Prize Winner will receive a solo exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies, a multimedia Daylight podcast, a feature in CDS's newsmagazine Document, presentation in Daylight and CDS online galleries, and $1,000 for exhibition-related expenses.

Juror's Pick Winners will be part of a group exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies and featured in Daylight and CDS online galleries. Ten Honorable Mentions will be named on Daylight and CDS websites.

To enter, submit: 20 images, a one-page artist's statement, and CV. $60
Deadline to enter: May 15, 2010, 8 P.M. (EST)

WORK-IN-PROCESS PRIZE
For a documentary or fine art essay/work-in-progress from a single body of images, the full panel of jurors will choose one First Prize Winner. Each Guest Juror will also select one photographer to receive a Juror's Pick Prize and write a short statement about why he or she choose the work.

The First Prize Winner will be featured in print in Daylight Magazine and CDS's news magazine Document, as well as in Daylight and CDS' online galleries and be part of a group exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies.

Juror's Pick Winners will be part of a group exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies and also be in Daylight and CDS' online galleries.

To enter, submit: 5 images, a one-page artist's statement, and CV. $30.
Deadline to enter: May 15, 2010, 8 P.M. (EST)

Download the full submission guidelines here and start applying right here!