Bonnie Portelance - Abyss, 2004

© Meg Escude, Father and Son, 2007
2006-07 New Works Winner
and featured artists in Nueva Luz 12#2

New Works Photography Awards

NEW WORKS #12 DEADLINE: July 7 2008

JUROR: Deborah Willis, curator, author, photographer and Chair of the Photo & Imaging Dept at NYU/TISCH

Guidelines and Entry Forms can be downloaded HERE

En Foco's New Works Photography Awards is an annual program selecting three or more U.S. based photographers of Latino, African, Asian, Native American or Pacific Islander heritage through a national call for entries.

New Works helps artists to create or complete an in-depth photographic series exploring themes of their choice, and providing the infrastructure for a professional exhibition of their new work in the New York area.

A photographic artist's work can be in any photo-based style or genre (documentary, autobiographical, landscape, abstract, digital, pinhole, alternative processes, etc).


The New Works #11 ('07-08) Winners and Honorable Mention recipients were selected by juror Melissa Harris, Editor in Chief of Aperture Magazine:
Kesha Bruce, Adriana Katzew and Donald Daedalus,
Charlie Grosso, Myra Greene, Esther Hidalgo and Wanda Acosta

The 2007-08 Winners received:
a $1,000 honorarium;
professional tripods from Bogen;
camera bags from Lowepro;
Gift Certificates from Print File;
A satellite exhibit at Modernage Custom Digital Imaging Labs;
a feature article in the Spring 2008 issue of Nueva Luz,
an exhibition at El Taller Boricua Gallery - up through the end of July, 2008
a photographers page on enfoco.org

Read about New Works #10 here