Call For Entries: 2013 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial

For the past three years the Hearst Corporation has held the 8x10 Photography Biennial, "a competition to recognize and showcase the professional work of talented young photographers." It's an incredible opportunity for emerging photographers to get their work seen by an important audience. Every year approximately 100 photographs by 8 winners are shown in the atrium of the Hearst Tower in the Alexey Brodovitch Gallery and Hearst Gallery.

Last year's winners ran the gamut from portraiture, photojournalism, architectural, digital manipulation and  landscape. We particularly like Rena Effendi's series of Georgian refugees (shown above and below) -- we feel like they'd fit right in amongst Magnum's school of photojournalism. 

Judges this year include ELLE’s Roberta Myers, Town & Country’s Alexandra Kotur, Gallerists James Danzinger, Yancey Richardson and Yossi Milo, collector John Demsey and photographers Matthew Pillsbury and Timothy White. Submissions are open for photographers aged 18 - 35 until August 1, 2012. The winners will be announced in January 2013 and the exhibition will run through May 2013. In the meantime, peruse some of our Photography classes. Who knows? You just might be able to make that August deadline.