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Press Release December 8, 2009
CONSERVATION PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS INVITE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Submissions are now open for the 2010 International Conservation Photography Awards (ICP Awards). Photographers from around the world are invited to submit conservation-themed photography in a variety of categories including: Landscape, Flora, Wildlife, Underwater, Environment at Risk, and a new category this year, Community at Risk.
A special category, Puget Sound at Risk, seeks work from Northwest photographers who have photographed images that manifest the particular environmental challenges facing the Northwest’s Puget Sound. This category is sponsored by Puget Soundkeeper Alliance.
More than just a competition, 75+ of the juried photographs will be exhibited in 2010 via a new partnership with The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, on the University of Washington campus, “a development that continues to raise the bar for this program,” said ICP Awards director Chris Gorley. “Each year the ICP Awards strives to increase its reach and influence to photographers from around the world as well as to diverse audiences who will be inspired by the work,” Gorley said.
The Burke Museum exhibit will run June 19 – September 6, 2010.
The ICP Awards was founded in 1997 by Seattle native and renowned nature photographer Art Wolfe. A grand-prize is given to the recipient of the Art Wolfe Award for the photograph that best exemplifies the program’s mission and Wolfe’s original vision of creating “an event for the advancement of photography as a unique medium capable of bringing awareness and preservation to our environment through art.”
Microsoft ® Icons of Imaging is a primary sponsor of the 2010 program; Washington Environmental Council is fiscal sponsor. For more information on the ICP Awards and Exhibit, and to enter the competition, visit www.icpawards.com
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IMPORTANT DATES
Opening Day - June 19
Exhibit tours with Cynthia Hall
and two talks by Art Wolfe
Web Galleries of Winners
will post here on June 19.
With appreciation to all the photographers who submitted
their outstanding photos for consideration this year.
Juried Exhibit
June 19 - September 6, 2010
at The Burke Museum of
Natural History and Culture
at the University of
Washington, in Seattle.
