UK Photography Awards 2010 – National Media Museum
UK Photography Awards Provides Resident By National Media Museum At UK In 2010
Job Description:
The National Media Museum seeks to increase public awareness of contemporary photography by promoting the work of emerging and mid-career photographers. To encourage these aims, the Museum and Photoworks, in partnership with the Wilson Centre for Photography, will award a series of annual awards up to a total of £20,000 in each year. The awards will support talented photographers to produce an ongoing or new body of work for exhibition or publication, allowing them to develop their practice and enhance their profile.
Awards are not limited to traditional photography applications and artists that work conceptually with photography, or include photography within wider applications will be considered. The number of Awards and the amount of each award will be dependent on the nature of the projects and extent of public awareness likely to be generated by them.
The Awards are an annual initiative and projects should be completed within one year of being made. Successful applicants are expected to work independently, but will receive support and guidance from staff at the Museum, Wilson Centre and Photoworks, if required. Furthermore, while Awards will not be made for start-up or travel expenses, they may be used to make work overseas, or to allow photographers to present work to gallery owners and at portfolio review sessions outside the UK.Awards may be used towards the mounting of exhibitions or publishing of books; however, they will not be made to photography students for graduation shows. Where awards are made for exhibition or publishing, applications should be accompanied by letters of confirmation from confirmed gallery venues or publishers, as appropriate.Applicants must provide a brief written synopsis of the project together with their CV and a detailed breakdown of the funding being sought. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which the award will develop the applicants practice and this should made clear in the application. Evidence of any funding already obtained, or likely to be obtained, from other sources for the project must also be shown. Applicants should also provide supporting materials in the form of examples of the photographs that form the basis of their application, which may be in paper or electronic form. Original photographs or artworks should not be sent.At the discretion of the Museum, awards may be paid in stages, on the understanding that payments will only be continued if the project is proceeding and being completed as agreed at the time the award is made.At the completion of the project, successful applicants will be expected to donate one work from an edition, or one edition of a series of works, to the National Media Museum.The Museum, Photoworks and the John Kobal Foundation must be given a credit for the Award in or alongside the finished project, in a form to be mutually agreed.The Museum, and any other funding bodies that have contributed to the Award, will have the right to be able to use, without charge, up to four images for promotion of their involvement.The deadline for submissions is Friday 1st October 2010. Applications received after first post on that date will not be considered. Applications are invited from all nationalities providing that they are resident in the U.K. at the time of the award.
Last Date To Apply:Friday 1st October 2010.
Source:http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/photography/photoawards.asp
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