i've just received an e-mail from the Curator of the Hyères 'Emerging Photographers' prize, Michel Mallard, saying that they are now accepting submissions for the festival next April. You can download a PDF here (and if you're interested, you better had soon, as their deadline is 5 December 2006), but for more specific guidance, here's the man himself: The competition is open to all practices and genres of photographic media (landscapes, portraits, fashion, still-lilfe...) Criteria for selection is both innovation and originality in style and coherence in intention. Ten photographers will be selected by a jury of preofessionals chosen from the fields of museums, galleries, magazines... By 'emerging' we mean that neither photographers who have had a solo show in a big venue nor those whose work is regularly published should apply.
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