THE 2024 PHOTO REVIEW 39TH ANNUAL

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

The 2023 Prize Winners and Winners Gallery are now live!

Enter the 2024 competition via SmarterEntry here.

This year’s Photo Review International Photography Competition will be juried by Joel Smith, the Richard L. Menschel Curator and Department Head in Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The Photo Review Competition enables thousands of people across the country and the world to see the accepted work in our 2024 competition issue and on our website. Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the prestigious Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.

Savannah Faith Jackson
Washington, District of Columbia
www.savannahfaithjackson.com
Morgan in a Moment of Self Reflection, 2023
Archival pigment print, 10″ x 8″
2023 First Prize

Awards

  • Prizewinners exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
  • Accepted entries reproduced in The Photo Review journal and on our website
  • Editor’s Selections exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries

Prizes include:

  • A $1,000 purchase prize from Haverford College

  • A $500 gift certificate for printing at Booksmart Studio

  • A $200 gift certificate from Shades of Paper

  • A $200 gift certificate from Red River Paper

  • A 20×24˝ silver gelatin fiber print from Digital Silver Imaging

  • Two $100 gift certificates from PhotoLounge

  • Several high-quality camera bags from Think Tank

  • Numerous valuable items from Photogenic Supply

  • A feature on the Laurence Miller Gallery’s Picture of the Week email blast

Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitions, have had their work reproduced in other leading photography magazines, and have sold their work to collectors throughout the country.

An entry fee of $40 for up to three images, and $8 for each additional image, entitles all entrants to a copy of the full-color catalogue. In addition, all entrants may subscribe to The Photo Review for $40, a 20% discount. (Higher rates apply for non-US subscribers.)

All entries will be registered through Smarter Entry. Digital images can be uploaded using Smarter Entry here

All entries must be received by May 15, 2024.

View the 2024 Contest Rules here. 

Meet the Juror: Joel Smith

Joel Smith is the Richard L. Menschel Curator and Department Head in Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. At the Morgan he has mounted collaborative exhibitions with Emmet Gowin, Duane Michals, and Nina Katchadourian. His books include Please Send to Real Life: Ray Johnson Photographs, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, The Life and Death of Buildings: On Photography and Time, and Saul Steinberg: Illuminations.

Previous Winners

Cindy Konits
Owings Mills, Maryland
cindy.konits@gmail.com, www.cindykonits.com
Memoire Involontaire #6, 2019
Self Portrait Installation Photograph: 1 still-frame from 8mm family film c1940 composited into 1950 RCA-TV screen. Second still frame projected overhead. Archival pigment print, 12.5″x19″
First Prize 2021
Cindy Konits
Owings Mills, Maryland
cindy.konits@gmail.com, www.cindykonits.com
Memoire Involontaire #6, 2019
Self Portrait Installation Photograph: 1 still-frame from 8mm family film c1940 composited into 1950 RCA-TV screen. Second still frame projected overhead.
Archival pigment print, 12.5″x19″
First Prize 2021
KunsmanEr-5852359196-Grape-and-Orange-Mini-Mart-111-Orange-Street-Rochester-NY_1
Eric Kunsman
Rochester, New York
eric@booksmartstudio.comwww.erickunsman.comInstagram: @eric_kunsman
585.235.9196 – Grape and Orange Mini Mart, 111 Orange Street, Rochester, NY, from the series Felicific Calculus: Technology as a Social Marker of Race, Class, & Economics in Rochester, NY
Archival pigment print, 20"x20"
First Prize 2020
Mark Wlaz
Sanibel, Florida
Tokyo Talk Radio
Archival pigment print, 25"x34"
First Prize 2019

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