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One Week Left to Apply for FotoWeek DC International Awards Competition

FotoWeekDC's International Awards Competition is looking for extraordinary work. This year's competition honors professional and emerging photographers from the DC area and around the world. FotoWeekDC is now accepting entries in the single image, series, multimedia categories, and two new categories for 2012: Photo Book Competition and Modern-Vintage Category, Photo Competition (Images captured with Brownie, Polaroid, Holga, Diana, Lomography, pinhole cameras and mobile devices). Winning Entries Receive: Cash prizes totaling $26,000 Exhibition during the FotoWeekDC Festival Great online exposure Also, the People's Choice Award is back by popular demand. Entries will be judged by a distinguished panel of industry experts, who will select the top three winners in each category. In the People's Choice Category, the 20 images with the highest number of votes across all categories will receive one subscription to FotoPage Annual Subscription and online exposure through a top 20 feature on FotoDC.org's People's Choice Gallery. Applications due by September…

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AI-AP Motion Art Awards Deadline Approaching

American Illustration-American Photography (AI-AP), the leading juried annuals in North America, introduces the inaugural International Motion Art Awards to celebrate photographers, illustrators and designers who make their work move in all media. As a natural (and long-awaited) spin-off to the American Photography and American Illustration award annuals, the IMAAs honor the artist's original and singular vision. Submission Details Eligibility Dates: All work created or broadcast within the 12-month period from September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2012. Entry Fees: $25 - all self-initiated, unpublished, personal work in any category; $75 - all commissioned and commercially produced projects in any category; $10 - all work created by a full- or part-time undergrad and graduate students. Submission Deadline: September 21, 2012. Jury: An independent jury will view all work submitted in every category and select the winning collection. Submissions: Online submissions accepted now at www.ai-ap.com/cfe/motion/. About IMAA In recognizing the author's "eye" and "hand"…

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PhotoShelter Hosts First Luminance Conference in New York

Next week PhotoShelter will be hosting Luminance 2012, a fresh new conference that will bring together leading voices from across industries to answer the question: What’s next for photography? This two-day conference will feature two dozen top speakers from a variety of organizations that help to create, consume and define photography in a myriad of ways. Each speaker will present a 20-minute TED-style talk on a topic relevant to their area of expertise. A brief Q&A will follow each session. Photographers, technologists, designers and those who care about the direction of photography are encouraged to attend. Conference Details Date: Sept. 12 - 13, with kickoff events on Sept. 11 Where: BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York City Registration: www.photoshelter.com/luminance/register. Speakers PhotoShelter recently finalized there speaker roster with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, who will discuss his role capturing some of the most iconic images from the International Space Station, as well as…

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