clevelandphotofest Competitions / Calls for Entry
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Crooked Rivers Connected: Pulse of the City: A Celebration of Neighborhoods & Culture In Cleveland & Pittsburgh
Crooked Rivers Connected:
Pulse of the City: A Celebration of Neighborhoods & Culture
In Cleveland & Pittsburgh
The Cleveland Photo Fest invites your participation in a photography exchange program with Pittsburgh’s Ketchup City Creative.
The CPF will accept 50 of Cleveland (NEO) photographer’s images to be displayed in Pittsburgh. In exchange, Pittsburgh will display 50 of their images at the Tri-C East Gallery on Thursday, May 29th 2025. At the CLOSING of the exhibition in Cleveland, on Thursday, July 10th, you will be given the opportunity to choose one image from the Pittsburgh exhibition for your personal enjoyment.
Detailed information:
We invite each photographer to submit 2 images.
Smarter Entry: 1 image $25 / 1 additional image FREE.
We will select ONE image per each photographer/Entry.
CLE Images to be shown at: Ketchup City Creative (https://www.ketchupcity.cohttps://www.ketchupcity.com)
Submission DEADLINE: Jan 1st 2025 (Cleveland Photographers)
Cleveland images will be on display in Pittsburgh from 2/1/25 to 2/26/25.
Pittsburgh images will be on display at: Tri-C East Gallery from: 5/29/25 to 7/10/25
(https://www.tri-c.edu/arts-and-entertainment/art-galleries/eastern-campus-art-gallery.html)
Opening: Thursday, May 29th, 2025
The CLOSING and SELECTION date is: Thursday, July 10th, 2025.
ALL images must be unframed and printed on standard photographic or DIGITIAL PAPER.
Maximum size of print: 16 x 20
Minimum size of print: 11 x 14
NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!
CATography Show
Show us Cats in their noblest, most elegant, memorable, and humorous portrait.
We will skip the usual clichés (Scratch around for your best entry!) and instead beseech you to intently consider the CAT essence of Your Best Friend. No credit cards, no staying out late with the boys/girls (well, OK, so they stay out REALLY late), no electronics…just love…their own empty box, and a daily sunbath for an hour or so. If you want to know pure, unadulterated and everlasting LOVE, well, MAYBE, just MAYBE, CAT will provide.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
A maximum of 3 images can be submitted.
1 image $15
Each additional image is $10
ACCEPTANCE: The exhibition will consist of approximately 60 photographs chosen from submissions. Photographers will be notified of their acceptance approximately two weeks after the submission deadline. Instructions for delivery or shipping of all artwork will be included in the acceptance email.
AWARDS: Opening night The People will select their Favorite for an award of $300. The Judges will present Three ‘Too Good Not To Be Mentioned’ $100 awards at the their discretion. All award recipients will be given free entry to a future CPF sponsored exhibition. The exhibition will be curated by internationally exhibited CATographer Anastasia Pantsios, and judged by Barbara Tannenbaum, cat fancier and Cleveland Museum of Art’s Curator of Photography.
IMAGE SUBMISSION FORMATTING: Submissions are ONLY accepted through our online Smarter Entry ™ site in digital files. Please prepare your files as follows:
FILE FORMAT: Images must be saved and submitted as Jpegs.
IMAGE SIZE: Images must be 72 dpi and 1920 pixels or less on the longest side. Images must be 2 MB or less.
FILE NAME: Image Title_by_First Name_Last Name. For example: You’re Sitting In MY Chair_by_Helene_Frotzmeir.jpg.
EXHIBIT FRAME AND PRINT SIZE:
R E A D C A R E F U L LY ! ! !
ALL exhibited portraits MUST conform to gallery standards:
~ ALL photographic images must be no smaller than 11 x 14 inches and no larger than 16 x 20 inches.
~Alternative process images may be of any size but MUST be framed 16 x 20.
~All images must be professionally framed, either by the photographer or professional framer.
~ALL FRAMES MUST BE 16 x 20 inches.
~ALL frames must use UV PLASTIC, not glass.
~ Frames MUST be black, white or gold, metal or wood is acceptable.
~ Frames MUST be wired for hanging. NO D rings or sawtooth hooks will be accepted.
~ Full frame images are permitted.
Return postage/shipping must be included with your submission.
SALES:
Photographers who have designated their images for sale to the public will be promptly contacted as to the sale of their work. The CPF will take a 30% commission on all works sold. At the close of the exhibition, all non-sold work will be returned to the artist at their expense.
COPYRIGHT and USAGE RIGHTS:
The artist retains copyright of their own images. Accepted artists grant the Cleveland Photo Fest the non-exclusive right to use, print or reproduce submitted digital files for the purpose of the exhibition, to promote the artist or related CPF programming, and subsequent display on the Cleveland Photo Fest webpage. The artists name and photo title will be included WHENEVER POSSIBLE, wherever the photographs are displayed or published.
DELIVERY INFORMATION will be sent via email upon acceptance.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at