A World of Infrared Photography Exhibition & Competition

Runs March and April 2008

MaxMax.com provide a number of products of interest to infrared photographers, filters and camera conversions, among others.

Welcome to an international online exhibition of infrared photography of all types that is also a competition with a great prize. This is an unusual event on DIMi as it is both an exhibition and a competition.

The call is for submissions for an online exhibition entitled ‘A World of Infrared Photography’. You can enter five images a month for the two months the process is open for submissions: March and April. So each photographer can enter up to 10 images. Along with your entry must come an artist’s or photographer’s statement of roughly 250-500 words that explains what it is you love about infrared, how it fits into your wider photographic or art practice and your equipment and technique choices.

The exhibition is open to everyone, including staff of DIMi and external jurors. All entries will be evaluated by a selection panel (obviously DIMi staff and any outside jurors will not be involved in judging their own work), which will produce the finalists who will be exhibited in the online exhibition. Infrared photography of any type may be entered, so long as they have actually been photographed used infrared wavelengths (so no simulated IR) and the images were captured within the 24 months prior to the close of entries. Collages and manipulated images are allowed, as well as ‘straight’ IR photography.

The highest ranked work in the exhibition (excluding that from DIMi staff and jurors) will win a prize provided by MaxMax.com. The prize is a $400 allowance towards any product or service MaxMax offer, such as filters or a camera conversion. The winner and all finalists, along with the photographers’ statements will be exhibited online on a special part of the DIMi site. We will be looking to make the exhibition an annual event so that over time it will constitute a great document on the power and magic of infrared photography.

Entries and photographer’s statements along with full contact details are to be emailed to awoir@dimagemaker.com. Closing dates for the first month is 31st of March 2008 and that for the second month is 30th of April 2008.

Note - We are looking at possible follow on activities with the finalists, such as a physical exhibition or a book. Such activity would be completely optional for finalists (and the winner for that matter).

For articles on how to shoot digital infrared and examples of shots taken with normal digital cameras, see the special infrared photography section on DIMi.

So, how do I enter?

Read the general terms and conditions here.

Entries will be accepted in the months of March and April 2008 only. For this competition an infrared photograph is any photography (digital or analog) that has been shoot using the infrared part (substantially) of the light spectrum. Apart from that, anything goes.

An individual may make up to five entries each month. Any additional after the first five will not be examined. Acknowledgements of receipt of entries will not be made, so please do not ask. Entries must be of still images. You must email a JPEG, sized to less than 1000 x 1000 pixels, but make sure the width is at least 600 pixels. All files should be named with your initials followed by a sequence number. Included in the email must be the full title of each image keyed to the filename. Also include your full name, mailing address, email address and web site (if you have one). Please also indicate in your entry if you are happy for a link to your web site to be displayed with your entry. Sometime during the period of acceptance of entries you must email us a Microsoft Word document containing your artist/photographer's statement.

EAll shortlisted entries and the winner will be displayed on the DIMi web site, with appropriate attribution, for at least 12 months after the competition closes, to serve as inspiration for other web site visitors. Judging will be performed by DIMi and no discussion will be entered into.

Email your entries to awoir@dimagemaker.com

Your entry indicates your acceptance of both the general and above specific terms and conditions.

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