NEWSPRINT AWARD 2013 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Bookdummypress and Reminders Project Stronghold have joined forces to launch a new photography publication award. It celebrates the newsprint’s contribution to the evolving creativity of self-publishing. Newsprint is a medium with minimal commercial strings attached and allow for a range of experimentation. It has the potential of reaching a diverse audience, the work will be spread to a wider area, faster. It is an autonomous medium accessible to all. This award is intended to stimulate to take a renew approach towards this format and to introduce photographers to a way to self-publish and self-distribute their work.

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APPLICATION DEADLINE
Submissions accepted from March 20th – May 1st, 2013.
Please submit to
NEWSPRINT AWARD 2013 SUBMISSION FORM HERE

*Give us the link to access your pdf file, or send it through any file transfer website.
If you have any questions: newsprint2013@reminders-project.org
PLEASE DO NOT ATTACH THE FILE AND SEND BY EMAIL.

GUIDELINES
The Newsprint Award is an award open to individual photographer/artist. Submissions must consist of coherent photo projects for a 24-page newsprint publication, not a portfolio of the images, tabloid size (43.18 cm × 27.942 cm)(17 in × 11.0 in), color or B/W.
All submissions should be in PDF format with approximately 400-word project description. Any text within the project must be in English or Japanese. No Entry Fee.
– PDF file (Tabloid size, 24pages)
– Project Description – 400 words (EN or JP)
– Résumé / Narrative Bio – 700 words (EN or JP)

AWARD
The winning project will be announced on June 1st, 2013 and will be published in July 2013. He/She will be awarded with an opportunity to have their work published in newsprint and exhibited in Tokyo, together working with RPS and bdp to ensure the dissemination of the project to as wide an audience as possible.

The winner of the Newsprint Award 2013 will be announced on the 29th of June 2013 at OBSCURA Festival, in George Town, Penang Island. 

CONTACT INFORMATION
Newsprint Award: newsprint2013@reminders-project.org

JURORS ARE TO BE NOTICED IN FEW DAYS!

We will keep you posted on our progress through FACEBOOK page!
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