Local photographers encouraged to enter Camera USA competition

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The Naples Art Association has put out the call for entries for its Camera USA 2019: National Photography Exhibition & Award. All photographers residing in the United States are invited to submit one photograph taken in the U.S. after Jan. 1, 2015. Entry deadline is March 4.

Now in its ninth year, Camera USA was created by NAA to inspire and encourage photographers of all skill levels and from all regions of the country. Three jurors will choose the winning entries, which will be on exhibit at the NAA June 3-July 5. A $5,000 grand prize will be awarded along with five $100 honorable mentions.

Entries can be made online through CaFE at www.callforentry.org.

For more information, visit naplesart.org/call-for-artists/.

Camera USA 2019 jurors are Tracie Davis, photographer and art director at www.Zola.com; Karen Irvine, chief curator and deputy director at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago; and Carol McCusker, curator of photography at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

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Ms. Davis earned an MA in historical and contemporary photography from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and a BFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. Four years ago she started the photography and video department at www.Zola.com, an e-commerce startup specializing in the wedding space.

Ms. Irvine has organized more than 50 exhibitions of contemporary photography at the MoCP and other venues including the Hyde Park Art Center, Rockford Art Museum, Lishui International Photography Festival in China, Daegu Photography Biennale in South Korea and the New York Photo Festival. She holds an MA in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA in photography from FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic, and a bachelor’s degree in French and international relations from Tufts University.

Ms. McCusker earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and an MA and Ph.D. in art history with an emphasis on photography from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She was recently awarded National Endowment for the Arts and Andy Warhol Foundation grants for her traveling exhibition and catalogue, “Aftermath: The Fallout of War –America and the Middle East” (2016) that featured 12 international photographers along with award-winning authors and poets.

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