“Black-and-white photography eliminates the colored distractions and brings a model’s emotions to the forefront”.
It is also said that style is essential for artistic photographer especially for someone who explores expressionism and cinematic design, in order to obtain intriguing result with their own photography. How to tap into the poetic potential of photography and capture the subject’s emotions with camera, if you carefully craft every detail of composition? How to understand what influences a black and white picture the most, rather than focusing on color, focus on tonality, light, and shadow within compositions? There are images containing shapes of neutral grey from black and white.
NYC4PA, has a call, it is once again focusing on black and white for images still so central to the field of photography despite the introduction of color film and the vast array of image capture. The call is for monochrome images where all the emotion, texture and beauty are expressed in shades from white to dark. It is a call for terrific monochrome image, black and white or sepia. All NYC4PA calls all 2D photo mediums are welcome. Prize summary is $4000. Deadline is 11 December 2022. There is entry fee $35/3 $10/EACH ADD’L. All details you can find at
The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process. Winners will receive $4,000 in cash, be featured in the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the BLACK and WHITE catalog. There will be 10 cash prizewinners, 20 Juror Selections and 20 Honorable Mentions. Grand Prize: One photographer will receive $1,100. The image will be featured on the home page of the NYC4PA website. First Prize:3 photographers will each receive $400.Second Prize:3 photographers will each receive $325.Third Prize:3 photographers will each receive $250. All prizewinners will be included in both the online gallery and catalog and be presented with a certificate. This Call for Entries is open worldwide to both amateur and professional photographers.
Jurior is Dan Burkholder, known for looking over photography’s horizon to discover new ways of capturing and expressing the photographic image. In the early 1990’s he wrote the groundbreaking book Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing. Burkholder recorded the chaos of post-Katrina New Orleans in his poignant monograph The Color of Loss, the first coffee table book photographed entirely with high dynamic range (HDR) techniques. Dan earned his BA and Master’s degrees in Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
For payment and upload go to: https://client.smarterentry.com/nyc4pa JPG files are preferred with a file size of 1MB more that sufficient. Smaller files too. Please save the file as a JPG and then look at the file size. The call applies to the US and non US applicants, software used has several other countries and if “state” is not part of address simply leave field blank – it is not mandatory.