Deadline Extended To Friday To Enter International Photo Competition

TAMPA, FL — Photographers are the eyes of the community and the world. Photographs are the universal language of the 21st century. Everyone has hundreds, maybe thousands of images to share and tell the story.

With that in mind, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Tampa is extending the International Photo Contest 2022 deadline to May 13 at 11:59 p.m.

Winning submissions will be notified by June 5. The top entries will be exhibited at FMoPA from June 10 to July 17.

Winners will be selected by a panel of judges based on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact, artistic merit and as otherwise determined by the judges. For each category, three winners will be selected. An overall winner will be selected from all submitted photographs.

Each winning submission will be printed for exhibition in the FMoPA Community Gallery.

Winning submissions are granted permission for full use by FMoPA including the sale of the work, use of the work for promotional purposes and/or use of the work for marketing.

Prizes will be awarded as follows: Best in Competition will receive $1,000, be considered for a public art exhibition on a billboard, be part of a group exhibition at FMoPA and be taken into consideration for a solo exhibition at FMoPA.

First-place winners will receive goods and services valued at $100, be considered for a public art exhibition on a billboard and be part of a group exhibition at FMoPA.

Second-place winners will be considered for a public art exhibition on a billboard and be part of a group exhibition at FMoPA.

Third-place winners will be considered for a public art exhibition on a billboard and be part of a group exhibition at FMoPA.

Photographers can submit their work here.

Meet The 2022 IPC Jurors

Guinevere Ras works at the Nederlands Fotomuseum as a curator and expert on multivocality. Ras focuses on decolonizing the narrative space with exhibitions that both question and complement the dominant Western narrative.

She has recently been involved in the Gallery of Honour of Dutch Photography (2021). Her career includes work on Afterlives of Slavery (Tropenmuseum, 2018), Healing Power (Museum Volkenkunde, 2019) and Africa Inspires (Afrika Museum, 2020).

She has also participated in drafting national guidelines for researching traces of slavery and colonial history when cataloging art collections (Handreiking onderzoek naar sporen van slavernij en het koloniale verleden in de collectieregistratie, published in 2021 by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands).

Tracey Woods is the director of photography at The Luupe and a freelance creative consultant and producer. Before that, she was the photo director at Essence Communications.

An out-of-the-box thinker and astute problem solver, she has overseen projects ranging from celebrity portraiture, fashion and beauty to reportage, travel, food and lifestyle photography for brands such as Mari by Marsai, EmblemHealth, Revlon, Verizon, Wiley Publishing, as well as Ebony and InStyle Specials magazines.

Additionally, she’s conducted portfolio reviews, participated in panels and judged photography contests and curated exhibitions for a number of the industry’s leading organizations, including American Photographic Arts, Eddie Adams Workshop, Leica Women’s Summit, New York Times Portfolio Review, Palm Springs Photo Festival, Photolucida, Photoville, Society of Publication Designers, and World Press Photo.

As an artist and photographer, Woods draws inspiration from the beauty of the unexpected. During the summer of 2020, her signature artwork adorned the windows of Macy’s flagship stores in New York, San Francisco and Chicago.

Woods holds a master of fine arts degree in photography from Pratt Institute and earned her bachelor of arts in graphic design from Rhode Island College. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, she now calls Brooklyn, New York, home.

Jaime Aelavanthara works at the University of Tampa, where she teaches 2-D design, digital photography and experimental photography.

She specializes in alternative photographic processes and is interested in traditional analog techniques and the newest digital strategies.

Aelavanthara's work is exhibited around the country, from the SOHO Photo Gallery in New York to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, among others.

Her work graces quite a few books, such as Designing Darkness by the Design Museum Den Bosch, Netherlands, Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice and Using Botanicals to Tone Blueprints Naturally.

She received several prestigious awards, including the Best in Show and a purchase award during PhotoNOLA's 2016 Magdalena Exhibition.