Expose Your World - Australian photo competition

Expose Your World - Australian photo competition
by Photo Competitions
Deadline: July 25th, 2008
The focus of this year's expanded competition is travel with winners
sharing more than $70,000 worth of prizes from major sponsors
including Abercrombie & Kent, Tarraleah Lodge, Nikon, SanDisk,
AsukaBook, Asus and Vibe hotels. As well as a bigger prize pool, we've
extended the opportunities for photographers – both professional and
amateur – to be recognised for their exceptional work.

Finalists in all categories will also be part of an end of year
winners' exhibition with photos and video presented by Pixel Perfect
Prolab. A selection of the winners' images and stories will feature in
the Australian Traveller magazine, be displayed in the stunning
RovingEye coffeetable book by Asukabook and have the opportunity to be
represented by RovingEye.

Winners this year will vie for two magnificent experiences from
Abercrombie & Kent and Tarraleah Lodge in Tasmania. The winner of the
newly introduced Single Shot category will take part in a
trip-of-a-lifetime with A&Ks Turtle Rescue program, a seven day 5-star
experience in Queensland's Cape York region. The Lodge at Tarraleah
has just recently been voted one of the 65 top new resorts by Conde
Nast UK. The winner of the Photo Essay category will not only take
home the sensational Nikon D300 DSLR but will spend five nights, all
inclusive, lapping up the luxurious surrounds set in the heart of
Tasmania's wilderness area.

RovingEye believes in encouraging new talent and supporting the
industry and the search for Young Australian Photographer of the Year
does just that. The overall winner will take home a Nikon D60 DSLR
with an AF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G ED II lens. The winner will choose a
Vibe hotel in any Australian capital city to spend five nights
shooting the urban life of the city, which will be feature in the
Australian Traveller magazine. To be judged by Alan Davies, the
curator of the State Library of NSW, this is the ideal opportunity to
be seen and judged by the best, to fast-track a young career and to be
part of this exclusive community of winners.

RovingEye's 2008 Expose your World photo competition is setting new
benchmarks in providing opportunities to profile the works of known
photographers and unearthing new talent both here and around the
globe. It's a company on the move, and it wants to take as many
talented photographers, writers and filmmakers along with them for the
ride!

Photography categories:

Photo Essay
- Australian Story
- A Traveller's Tale
- Environmental Issue

Single Shot
- People
- Place
- Event

Young Australian Photographer of the Year
- People
- Place
- Event

Entry Fees:
Photo Essay (open category). $A20.00 per entry. No limit on entries
Single shot (open category). $A20.00 per entry. No limit on entries
Young Australian Photographer of the Year (aged 21 or under). FREE.
Limit 10 entries

Copyright:
Entrants retain all copyrights and other equivalent rights to entered
photographs. RovingEye reserves the permanent, non-exclusive right to
publish, reproduce, display, distribute, and show on screen any
winning photographs on websites, in photo exhibitions, tradeshows, or
any other media which is under their management for the purpose of
promoting the contest.

Where, oh where, has Exquisite Corpse gone?

C'mon, I need more distractions from school!

satisfaga sí

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Happy Thoughts

so, I was just reading the blog and comments and I have to say.  we rock.  just feeling all warm and sappy over here.  plus, I miss you guys, well at least those that I'm not seeing right now on a daily basis...they'd be tough to miss :)  anyway, love to the exquisites!

MrC back in Hot and Sticky and Loud NYC

Caitlin told me to "make a PERSONAL work that reflects your EMOTIONAL responses to being back in New York. Make your emotions visible to the viewer. It should be about present feelings, so no history lessons! it can be photographic, video, writing, sculpture, whatever."

Depending on your attention span, you can read the LONG or the SHORT statement:

LONG Statement:

Arriving back in NYC it seems like a completely different city than when i left. New York is hot, with damp hot air that sticks in my throat. I can't trot up the subway stairs like I could a month ago without losing my breath. My NYC insane schedule is gone (at least temporarily), and i have days off for the first time i can remember. I'm by myself... & after spending alot of time with alot people in sydney, being alone is weird. I don't know what to do with myself. I walk around the city and everything seems loud and shrill, especially the people... people look at me more than i remember.... My jetlag keeps me from sleeping and I have a constant low-grade headache that's always there, especially when I'm in the hot wet air outside. My exquisite friends are all scattered... my girlfriend Heather went off to alaska ... And just about all of my friends are out of the city. My best friend Ida is in india or somewhere. The few people I do know that are here I don't really want to see right away. About 2/3 of the people I work with are in europe. It's just me and the cat. But most of the time I'm not miserable or even unhappy, mostly just clueless about what to do each day. I'm extremely out of step, and I see what people mean when they talk about how loud and confrontational the city seems.

SHORT statement: The pictures are about feeling alone in the city, being out of step with it for the first time that I can remember, and choking on the hot summer air.


click a picture, see it big.

Mark's Assignment...

Looks like I'm first....yikes.

Ok Mark's assignment was this:

your project is about the way you relate to the city. Its just the two of you, no other human beings involved. (It can also be the way the city views meghan!) What is special about this relationship? You can use any medium you like, but there should be a combination of at least two. Have fun.

So a big part of my relationship to Sydney was finding the familiar. I also really started to understand how I get to know a city, which always involves emotional mapping. I usually start to connect physical space of a city with the emotional connections I make, through relationships and experiences. For New York, the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) was a conduit for these emotional ties and experiences. I took the LIRR frequently to shows where I built a community of friends, and to visit Mookie (and maybe a few others...). My time spent on the LIRR became significant and was always spent in deep personal reflection.

While I was in Sydney, Mookie had to go to the hospital. For about 24 hours I was calling him, worried, wishing I was there with him. During this exact time I rode the City Rail for the first time and was shocked at how similar it was to the LIRR. Both double decker trains, the stations were the same, the seats, the tickets, the light, the noise, the announcements, the confusion... I took photos of the familiar in between frantic calls back home, trying to get through to Mookie. I had a strange experience feeling like I was on my way to him in the same physical space all while being a world away.

This was an exploration of the physical, emotional, and spacial similarities of the two trains. I mixed photos from both journeys, created a new map with both the LIRR and City Rail maps, and continued the ticket project from the LIRR where I wrote the lyrics to whatever song was the soundtrack for that journey on the ticket.







(you can click on any image for a larger view)

Word.

From an interview with the curators at ICP:

Wherever you travel around the world today, you find a thin layer of the kind of globalized consumer culture that we all know: Starbucks, Armani, Blackberry, Louis Vuitton, iPod. But if you take a moment to scratch that thin surface layer, you always discover rich, complicated local cultures that are continuing to develop according to their own dynamics. That's where the most interesting art and photography are coming from at present...

Sydney's version of the infamous Godfather horse head scene...

What an insane Biennale you Aussie's have.

Ho hum another bright blue spectacular sunny Sunday

What else does one do on another sunny day in emerald city? ferry to cockatoo island of course to see some mind blowing work from the Sydney Biennale and a gallery site to die for..(DIA Beacon ha! eat your heart out).

=[

You have all officially left our shores and I would like to be the first to announce that we are definitely feeling your absence.

My partner in hardcore crime has flown the coop, and I'm pretty much walking around in circles while Carly gets her final assessment done. (Wish her luck!!)
Mine was yesterday, and I'm officially free from uni assessments for six glorious weeks =]

Can't wait till September.............

Xxx