The High Tide by Alejandro Chaskielberg, 2009 grant recipient

As we briefly mentioned in last Friday's week in review, Magnum photographer and burn magazine editor David Alan Harvey has announced that Magnum Photography is now receiving submissions for the 2010 Emerging Photographer Fund. This year's award is $15,000; funding is awarded with the goal of aiding a photographer to complete a personal project. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2010, with winners to be announced in June.

The jury is typically composed of both Magnum photographers as well as respected members of the gallery and publishing realms. Last year's jurors were: Martin Parr, Gilles Peress, Eugene Richards, Carol Nagar, Fred Ritchin, Maggie Steber, David Griffin, John Gossage and James Nachtwey.

Of the inception of the EPF and burn magazine, David Alan Harvey writes:

I started BURN MAGAZINE just before Christmas 2008. So we have been rocking along now for just over a month. BURN is a spinoff of my 2 year old Road Trips blog which was heavily influenced by both Alec Soth and Martin Fuchs. The very nature of my blog, and the evolving BURN, is a clear educational imperative and so in 2008 I created a $5,000 grant to be given to an emerging photographer who needed financial assistance with a project. Sean Gallagher was the first recipient of the Emerging Photographer Fund grant of $5,000. to continue his environmental series on the "desertification" of China...With the publishing world changing right before our eyes and a recession hanging over most of us, I do see more opportunities than ever before. It will take a quick wit and some nimble thinking and stealth, but I truly believe that the audience will in effect become the publishers. I do see a time for BURN when the online audience will be sufficient enough to create the sponsorship for not only stipends to finish self started projects, but will lead to an annual print publication as well.

Magnum is a hallowed name in the photography world, whose history and trajectory is as complex and fascinating as the members themselves (if you're ever in the mood for a great contextual read on the legendary agency, this is it). A persisting misconception is that Magnum is dedicated to straight documentary work. The award of last year's EPF to Alejandro Chaskielberg, whose work is concerned with the Paraná River Delta and writes that his intention is, "...to work with photography in the border between reality and fiction," should mitigate that point-of-view.

For more information on this fantastic grant, take a look at this entry in burn magazine and the submission form for the competition can be found here.

Center, based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has four open calls for entries with a deadline of next Friday, January 27th. Center produces the annual Review LA which took place last week simultaneous to Photo LA. They are also host to Review Santa Fe, a fantastic weekend conference for photographers to meet with curators, editors, publishers and galleries, and have their portfolios reviewed.

The Project Competition is open to photographers working on documentary projects and fine-art series. One First Prize and three finalists are selected by the jurors, who include curator Tina Kukielski (Whitney Museum), editor Markus Seewald (GEO magazine) and our own Hey, Hot Shot! panelist and CEO of Chronicle Books, Nion McEvoy. The first prize winner is awarded $5,000 cash, an exhibition in Santa Fe, admission to Review Santa Fe and feature in an online magazine. To learn more about how to enter and to see the work of previous winners, visit the Project Competition page.

Center is also accepting submissions to Project Launch, an award to help a single photographer complete a body of work currently in-progress. This award is also open to documentary projects and fine-art series. A single First Prize of $3,000 cash is awarded, with an exhibition at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, Feature in Fraction magazine, a tuition voucher at the Santa Fe Workshops and participation in Review Santa Fe. Two honorable mentions will also receive $500 cash and participation in Review Santa Fe. For more info and to apply, click here. Project Launch will be juried by Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching, co-directors of Klompching Gallery.

The final competition is the Choice Awards, which selects individual photographs in three categories: Curator's Choice, Director's Choice and Editor's Choice. As for the other two awards, the winners will also receive exhibition and publication. Applications can submit up to four images for $25, with a $5 fee for each additional photograph. The Choice Awards are juried by curator Roxana Marcoci (MoMA, Dept of Photography), Directors Laura Valenti & Chris Bennett (Newspace Center for Photography) and editors Kathy Ryan (The New York Times) and Scott Thode (Fortune).

All of the photographers who apply to the above three competitions are also encouraged to submit to Review Santa Fe. Those who apply for both the Project Competition and Review are eligible for a discounted fee. Last year's The Review Santa Fe 100 contains a list of stand-out projects from last year, and is a frequent source of inspiration for work being made by emerging and increasingly established photographers today.

Several people in the JBP office have attended Review Santa Fe in the past, and the experience—both as a reviewer and a photographer—is exceptional and rewarding. If you have a body of work in progress, or recently completed, we highly encourage you to apply.

We're pleased to offer hearty congratulations to the ten talented winners of the Too much chocolate + Kodak film grant. Each recipient of the award will be awarded their choice of Kodak film to execute a new or ongoing personal project, to be completed during the 2010 calendar year.

Congratulations to all ten photographers:
Murray Ballard
Anna Beeke
Magda Biernat
Phil Jung
Collin LaFleche
Molly Landreth
Caitlin Price
Andy Spyra
Leah Tepper Byrne
Susan Worsham

We're also thrilled that two of our Hot Shots, Leah Tepper Byrne (read a recent Q + A with Leah) and Molly Landreth as well as Honorable Mention, Magda Biernat were among the ten selected from an entrant pool of over 450 contenders.

We look forward to seeing the work created with this grant this year. Head over to Too Much Chocolate to see the projects and images submitted and learn more about the TMC + Kodak collaboration.

Image by Hot Shot and 20x200 favorite, Carlo Van de Roer

Holy cannoli!
You definitely want to secure a space on the Critical Mass Top 50 list, trust me. Have a glance at the index of past winners and you'll see many familiar stars from HHS, 20x200 or JBG fame. Wondering what exactly Critical Mass and Photolucida are all about? Well, in their own words:

The aim of Critical Mass, and all Photolucida programming, is to provide participants with career-building opportunities and to promote the best emerging and mid-career artists working today. Critical Mass is a program about exposure and community.

The Critical Mass competition is juried by the best of the best in the photography universe (Jen is one of them, of course), so you should buckle down and register your best efforts here. The deadline for entries is around the corner on July 22nd! Hop to it and buona fortuna!

More information on photolucida.com.