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Final Week for International Photography Awards Applications

Calling all emerging and professional photographers! The 10th Annual International Photography Awards competition invites you to submit your best photographs to put your work in front of a jury panel of over 80 international photo industry professionals, to compete for over $20,000 in cash prizes, recognition at the Tenth Annual Lucie Awards in Los Angeles, and an exhibition of your work during Lucie Week! Advertising, Editorial, Nature, Book Photography, and more, are welcome. IPA is also pleased to announce its brand new Moving Images category, celebrating all forms of the moving image. Extended Deadline: July 16, 2012 (11:59pm PDT) Visit www.photoawards.com now! The International Photography Awards is celebrating its 10th Anniversary, and has awarded nearly $200,000 in cash prizes, and has recognized photographers like Alex Prager, Nadav Kander, Paolo Pellegrin, and more. Add your name to the list!

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MediaStorm Presentation at Opening of Photoville This Weekend

Make this a Photoville weekend. Photoville opens tonight at 4pm! Photoville is a new Brooklyn-based photo destination - a veritable village of freight containers transformed into temporary exhibition spaces, taking place this summer from June 22 to July 1, 2012. Photoville features a feisty mix of exhibitions, lectures, hands-on workshops, nighttime projections, a photo dog run, a camera greenhouse, and a summer beer-garden with food trucks that will create a photography destination like no other. Occupying more than 60,000 sq. feet in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, Photoville is located on the uplands of Pier 3, along the Brooklyn Waterfront between DUMBO and Atlantic Avenue. Nighttime Projection: Storytelling @ MediaStorm Saturday June 23, 8:30pm No Registration required, seating is first come first served MediaStorm founder and executive producer Brian Storm will present on digital storytelling and the cinematic narrative. Storm will discuss how the digital age gives filmmakers, documentary photographers and…

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Recap: MediaStorm World Premiere of A Shadow Remains and Rite of Passage

From left: Brian Storm, Maggie Steber, Phillip Toledano and Tim McLaughlin at the premiere. Photo by David Keenan. Last night MediaStorm hosted the world premiere of A Shadow Remains by Phillip Toledano and Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. MediaStorm founder and executive producer, Brian Storm, started the evening by welcoming the audience to the event and then quickly turning to the films, first screening Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber, then Phillip Toledano’s A Shadow Remains. After watching the films, Brian invited Phillip, Maggie, and one of the films' producers, Tim McLaughlin, (producers Jennifer Redfearn and Rob Finch were not able to attend the event) to the stage for a Q&A with the audience. Before opening the floor to questions, Brian explained how the projects came to be. He initially approached both Maggie and Phillip about working together on their pieces over four years…

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Support ‘Bring it to the Table’ on Kickstarter

Talking Eyes Media (TEM), a non-profit organization with a long history of producing powerful media for pressing issues, needs your support for their Bring it to the Table Kickstarter campaign. What is Bring it to the Table? It's a video and web project that brings citizens together around issues that normally tear us apart. The Problem Somewhere along the line, politics replaced sex as the one thing in America we don't discuss in mixed company – even amongst friends and family. Democracy is founded on robust dialogue, and if we can't have conversations across party lines, democracy doesn't work. The Solution Bring it to the Table is a participatory online platform, community engagement campaign, and a series of webisodes aimed at bridging political divides and elevating the national conversation. The project is for those who are tired of hyper-partisanship and want to steer political discourse back into the hands of the American…

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Register Now for Kansas City Digital Storytelling Forum

Are you a story writer? A videographer? A software designer? A web designer? Are you an entrepreneur? If so, the Digital Storytelling Forum is your opportunity to learn about the future of this industry, how to do it and why. You'll learn from local entrepreneurs doing really cool work in Kansas City and beyond. Meet other creatives looking to make their passion for digital storytelling into a business or solid career opportunity. We're bringing in Frank Rose, contributing editor for Wired, to talk about the future of Digital Storytelling. He'll be showing you examples of where this industry is going. We also hope to inspire participants to develop their own capabilities in digital storytelling as they learn more about this promising area for career and business development. June 21 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. American Heartland Theatre Agenda 8:00 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast 9:00 a.m. The Future of Digital Storytelling 10:00 a.m. The…

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