INPHA 8
8th International Photography Annual
An Award-winning Juried Publication of Works
of Contemporary Photography & Photo-based Art
$2,000 in cash prizes, including a $1,200 first place award
INPHA is not a gallery exhibition. It does not require shipping works to Manifest. It is an award-winning non-profit hardcover publication with cash awards.
INPHA is open to a very broad range of lens-based and photographic submissions. This is not just for 'photographers' and 'photography' but also for anyone working creatively in a visual art (or design) field with work that incorporates the lens or photographic process in some significant way, including manipulated and mixed processes.
As with all Manifest projects, we are open to learning just what's being done that fits within this broad scope.
The goal of Manifest's annual international publication of contemporary photography is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current,
and relevant photographic art on an ongoing annual basis. In 2012 INPHA became the third in a suite of Manifest books charting contemporary art around the world. In early 2013 the INPHA 1 received a bronze medal award in the 2013 IPPY Book Awards in New York City
(Photography category) from the Independent Publisher Association. In 2019 the INPHA 5 received another bronze medal award in the 2019 IPPY Book Awards (Photography category). The INPHA joined the International Painting Annual and award winning International Drawing Annual as a major new product of Manifest Press. This project represents a further expression of Manifest's unique process for assembling diverse and compelling multi-national projects, as well as its commitment to a wide variety of methods for creative visual expression.
Learn more about previous INPHA volumes and the artists involved here.
For this call for submissions Manifest is eager to receive works in a wide range of types, including traditional, digital, and experimental photography, and other lens-based work*. As with its other book projects, Manifest is open to unexpected solutions, broad interpretation, and surprise. Works submitted must clearly feature the photographic/lens-based process as a primary, but not necessarily exclusive, characteristic.
*note that artists submitting time-based art (video, etc.) must realize that for the purpose of the publication only still imagery will be used to represent the project in print.
After reviewing the full prospectus below, find the required entry form here.
Eligibility
The International Photography Annual is open to any artist submitting
original works of art created within the time frame of 2017 - 2019 (the past three years).
Artists in ALL disciplines are encouraged to submit.
Manifest is eager to receive works in a wide range of applications
with the
qualification being that artwork submitted is "photography or lens-based art."
Note that artists who previously exhibited at Manifest or had work included in our publication projects ARE eligible to submit. Our juries are always conducted blind, and we do not disqualify folks who have success in past juries.
Media (artwork)
Open to any media applicable to the practice of photography or lens-based work, including
but by no means limited to traditional, digital/new media, photography, printmaking, mixed media, collage, etc. All are possibly valid.
Essays and other drawing-related writings (OPTIONAL SEPARATE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS)
Manifest calls for scholarly, critical, and creative writing for publishing in each of its three publication projects. Information about this, and a separate entry process, can be found here.
Jury Process
Manifest's selection process involves a complex two-part system. This project will be juried by a 9-12 member panel of professional and academic volunteer advisors representing a broad range of expertise from across the U.S. and beyond. Jurors will not be expert exclusively in photography, although most will be. Jurors will include 'image makers' and 'object makers'. The jury will then pass along their scores to Manifest staff who will assemble the final selections from the jury-approved pool.
Publication
Each artist/author selected for inclusion in the INPHA
will receive one complimentary copy of the publication. The books produced for Manifest's other ongoing Annuals have increased in page count and print quality each year, with recent publications reaching 200 pages in length. In 2011 the INDA 5 was awarded a national silver medal award from the Independent Publishers Association in their New York City ceremony and the INPHA 1 followed it with a bronze in 2013. The INDA 8 took another bronze in 2015. And the INPHA 5 and MEAs10 took bronze and silver respectively in 2019. These awards were garnered through competing with books by such publishers as Yale University Press, Harvard University Press, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of Art among many others. Manifest's books are distributed to bookstores across the country, including museum libraries, and are available through Amazon.com as well as at Manifest Gallery and on the Manifest website. Arts patrons, artists, professors, and art students around the world collect our publications, and our books are often used to supplement course work in college level classes.
Manifest's MEAs10 is our most recent
Silver Medal Winner of the 2019 IPPY Book Awards (Fine Art category)
by the Independent Publisher Association. INPHA 5 also took a Bronze in the same competition in the Photography category.
Online INPHA Resource
An Internet-based online International Photography Annual
Resource website will be published to accompany the printed Annual.
This will feature information and sample detail image for each artist included.
Entry Fee
For Season 16 we have adjusted our fee structure, reducing the average fee to submit per-work by 25%, and reducing the fee to submit additional works beyond four by 50% per work.
$40 for up to FOUR entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry. Fees are non-refundable. Number of entries is unlimited. For the purposes of this process an 'entry' is an individual work of art, regardless of number of images used to represent it in this submission.
Entry fee must be paid by U.S. check or money order made payable to MANIFEST,
or by credit card via PayPal. (If paying by PayPal PLEASE use the paypal link provided on the page that follows the submission of the online entry form.)
Beyond this nominal fee, the requirements spelled out here, and providing print-quality digital images of selected works, there are NO hidden costs or obligations associated with participation, and NO obligation to purchase additional copies of the printed publication.
What is my fee used for?
Manifest is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and publicly-funded charitable organization operated by artists, for artists, with no substantial reserve or endowment. All proceeds from entry fees fund project-related expenses. Not unlike paying a fee to enter a marathon race, this democratically enables our organization's projects to happen. For over a decade and a half Manifest has earned an international reputation for producing quality exhibits, and benefiting the artists involved, and the public, over time on its meager budget. Our board of directors and small dedicated staff work hard to make involvement with Manifest projects well worth the effort and cost to do so. It is important to note that this jury fee is the only cost charged by Manifest for participation.
Simply by participating in a Manifest project you are helping this grass-roots nonprofit organization do its work and achieve its mission.
How many works can or should I submit?
The average number of works submitted to typical Manifest calls per entrant is slightly more than three. Some artists like to submit several more, especially if they have a couple different bodies of work which they'd like our jury to consider, or if they have a suite of works that are interrelated. While we have absolutely no minimum number required (other than one), nor do we give an advantage to those who submit more (this is not a lottery!), it is helpful to have a number of options to select from. Our jury often gains insight into one work by seeing it in context with others by the same artist. We do routinely accept pairs or sets of work by artists once they are determined to be a finalist. It is also worth noting that our book projects like the INPHA, INDA, and INPA are not limited by size of work nor gallery space, so we are able to more easily include, on average, more works by each artist if justified by our jury scores.
Awards and CASH PRIZES
First, Second, and Third Place awards for VISUAL works will be decided by the
jury committee. Each award winner will have a brief artist's statement
included in the publication. There will be three cash prizes of $1200, $500, and $300 for first, second, and third place winners.
Text Entries (OPTIONAL SEPARATE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS)
Find guidelines and a separate entry process for written submissions here.
Entry Images
Manifest accepts only digital images/files for consideration. See specifications below. The Gallery will retain the submitted images of accepted artwork and reserves the right to use the images in publications and gallery publicity. Beyond such use, the artist retains full copyright of exhibited work. Submission CD's will not be returned.
Digital Format: Digital images can be submitted on CD or by e-mail
(send to: show@manifestgallery.org). The email and online submission process is HIGHLY PREFERRED because it makes our process more efficient and saves postage and materials for the artists. Hi-Res, print-quality images will be requested for accepted works upon conclusion of the jury process. If suitable images are not provided, the work may not be included in the season publication.
Entry images must meet the following specifications:
FILE NAMING:
All entry files (regardless of type or media) must be named with artist's last name (underscore) first name, followed by the entry number as noted on the entry form
(i.e. Jones_Mike_1.jpg). Please DO NOT include any other information in the file name, such as title of work, etc.
Detail, installation, or alternate view images must include the word 'detail' in the filename (i.e. Jones_Mike_1_detail1.jpg). If you do NOT include the term DETAIL as part of the filename for any additional, extra, installation, or closeup images supporting your entry these will be counted as additional separate entries and our system will expect a corresponding fee for them. The copy of your entry form sent by email will provide samples for file-naming.
EXAMPLE:
Information for detail images should NOT be included on the entry form. The image files should be in HIGH QUALITY JPEG format,
images should be no smaller than 1000 pixels in any direction (about 13”) and be exactly 72dpi. This should result in most image files ranging from 700kb to 2mb in file size but this is only approximate.
Please do NOT submit links to jpeg files (Google Docs or otherwise). Please attach images directly to one or more emails. Multiple emails with separate entries, if required, should include a number in the subject line (1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3, etc.). Only video or other extremely large files should be transferred via Dropbox.com or similar service if necessary.
** Be ABSOLUTELY sure you are sending files at the correct size AND that your email app. does not automatically downsize the attached images when sending. Apple Mail, for example, provides a setting for resizing attachments in the new message composition window.
Images must be oriented properly (i.e. top of image is top
of artwork) and should not include text info or borders that are not part of the actual work. When emailing images, it is preferred that you do not include messages in the body of the email, nor attach anything other than the entry images to the email (no resume, bio, receipts, signature image, or statement). Our system automatically files the attachments of each message without reading notes. If you wish to comment or ask a question you may send a follow up email with no attachments. Any essential information regarding the nature of entries should be included in the notes section for each work on the entry form. Any communications should reference the exhibit title in the subject of the email.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING VIDEO-BASED SUPPORT MATERIAL
Manifest requests that all video or interactive submissions, or details illustrating an entry, be in the form of a link to a viewable online copy of each work. The sample should be shown online in its full length. It is understood that online versions of video files may be lower quality due to compression and Internet formatting.
Note that a jpeg still image should still be submitted to represent a purely video-based entry in addition to the video material, since as a book project the INPHA will represent video works via still images. Please email us if you have any uncertainty about this (info@manifestgallery.org)
Links to video support materials should be provided on the entry form for each entry in the 'notes' or other relevant section on the form, and should link directly to online streaming content that does NOT require a login, password or membership to view. These may be in the form of Youtube, Vimeo, Dropbox, or other similar links. Effort should be made to eliminate confusion or extraneous information that may interfere with the jury's viewing of the work. Any extraneous information, or material not considered to be 'the work' will inevitably detract from the jury score for that work.
Links to video material must remain valid and active through the notification of jury results.
Sending Images
EMAIL
To send via email: (send to: show@manifestgallery.org). The email should include the artist's full name as subject along with 'INPHA 8 submission.'
(It is important that our system can identify emails with entry images by searching for "INPHA" or "International Photography Annual" in the subject lines).
Please do not send links to Google Drive documents. Jpegs should be sent as email attachments only.
If sending via multiple emails please number the emails sequentially in the subject line (e.g. 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3, and so on.)
Calendar*
March 1, 2020
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Deadline for entry EXTENDED! |
| June 30, 2020 |
Notifications
sent by e-mail (by or before June 30)** |
| Mid 2021 |
Publication
available and awards announced sometime by late June 2021. |
* dates subject to modification or some variability due to project requirements or production schedule changes. If any change are necessary, they will be noted here, and all entrants will be updated by email.
** note that our notification emails are sometimes not received due to aggressive filtering by email servers on the recipient side. For this reason we also post the results of the jury on the project page of the website soon after sending the notifications (usually within a few weeks). We encourage all entrants to white list (allow) email from the manifestgallery.org domain to help ensure our communications arrive. Our notification timeframes for our publication projects can vary widely because they are very large projects with many jurors weighing in, as well as because of numerous other variables. Nevertheless, we send multiple status update emails to all entrants as we progress through the selection process.
Entry
Checklist (for your reference)
If
sending through the USPS, mail materials to:
Manifest
Creative Research Gallery
Attn: 8th International Photography Annual (INPHA 8)
P.O. Box 6218
Cincinnati, OH 45206
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e-mail
show@manifestgallery.org with
questions
PLEASE feel
free to print, share, or forward this information. The success
of this project will rely largely
on word-of-mouth publicity.)
