Call for Submissions: PN Awards
Book Prize
Photography Network welcomes submissions for its 2024 annual book prize that honors innovation in photography scholarship, expression, and dissemination. The book prize will be awarded to a scholarly monograph, edited volume, exhibition catalog, or photobook published between June 1, 2023 and June 1, 2024. Submissions must be in English and authored by current members of Photography Network. Not yet a PN Member? Become a Member. Note: PN does offer a limited number of free need-based memberships in recognition of the uneven distribution of resources in the field.
To submit an eligible book for consideration, email your name, book title, and a brief description of the publication to Awards Coordinator, Candice Jansen at photographynetworkawards@gmail.com with “PN book prize 2024” in the subject line by June 1, 2024. You will be asked to supply 4 copies of the book (both in hardcopy and ebook) to the awards coordinator and to members of the jury. Awards will be announced at the Photography Network symposium in October 25-27 2024.
Project Grant
Photography Network seeks submissions for its annual project grant designed to help emerging scholars, curators, and artists with funds needed to complete a work in progress. This grant of up to $1000 will support the publication of a book or article, or the mounting of an exhibition that cannot be completed in its most desirable form without a subsidy. Funds can be used toward future expenses or to reimburse expenses already incurred. Applicants must be current members of Photography Network. Not yet a PN member? Become a Member. Note: PN does offer a limited number of free need-based memberships in recognition of the uneven distribution of resources in the field.
The grant proposal must include: a 500-word description of the project, a publishing or exhibition timeline, a detailed budget, a list of other funding sources (if any), and a current CV. Please email grant proposals to Awards Coordinator, Candice Jansen at photographynetworkawards@gmail.com with “PN project grant 2024” in the subject line. Grant proposals are due by June 1, 2024. Awards will be announced at the Photography Network symposium in October 25-27 2023.
2024 Jurors
George Mahashe
Mahashe works in the field of photography, particularly at the intersection of artistic practice, archives, museums, and the afterlives of anthropology. His research takes Khilovedu [Khelobedu] as a central idea, drawing on its capacity to complicate ways of knowing and encouraging trans-disciplinarity. His current research project includes‘––defunct context’ which engages the synergy and collaboration between art, technology, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Mahashe’s upcoming publication ‘—defunct context: Ambivalence to Important Work’ explores the artist book and its assembly as a process of inscribing his archive of practice as a physical dreamscape. Mahashe is based at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
Raquel Villar-Pérez
Raquel Villar-Pérez is an art curator and researcher whose practice focuses on de- and anti- colonial discourses within contemporary art from the Global Majority. She is currently developing a PhD research proposal for the University of Edinburgh focusing on the work of women-identified image-makers who address notions of migration, transnational feminisms, social and environmental justice, and do so in original, expansive ways. She currently serves as the Curator at Impressions Gallery of Photography in Bradford, UK. She regularly mentors photographers, sits on jury panels and contributes to publications such as British Journal of Photography, Intervenxions at NYU, A-Desk*, and C& América Latina.
Heather Diack
Dr. Heather Diack is Associate Professor of History of Art, Photography and Visual Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University. An active curator and arts writer, she is the author of Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art (2020) which was awarded an inaugural Photography Network Book Prize, co-author of Global Photography: A Critical History (2020), and co-editor of a special issue of the journal photographies entitled “Not Just Pictures: Reassessing Critical Models for 1980s Photography.” Her current book project interrogates the role of art in relation to the humanitarian crisis of forced migration in the context of the twenty-first century.
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