Mirela Paduraru

By IFTF

Are you a female photographer, either professional or emerging artist? Or a woman who runs a business, social enterprise or craft? If so, Invest for the Future (IFTF) is putting out an open call for a curated show featuring portraits by female photographers of female entrepreneurs for an online and travelling exhibition and coffee table book to be distributed at the next IFTF International Women’s Day conference in March 2014. IFTF is seeking professional photographs that not only feature the women owners themselves, but also the tools of their trade to convey their entrepreneurial story in a creative and artistic manner. IFTF believes pictures can unite, and seeks photography that demonstrates both country and individual-specific themes and universal women’s issues.

There is no entry fee to join, and the show will be curated by a panel of professional artists and women’s issue leaders, so participation can lead to a resume-builder for photographers at no cost to themselves, and a chance to win prizes such as free online art classes and a chance to attend regional travel and training programs.

Curatorial board is led by IFTF Virtual Curator Leah Kohlenberg of The Roaming Studio, a professional artist and photographer who has shown her photography and paintings in New York, Budapest, Armenia, and Croatia. The Roaming Studio (www.theroamingstudio.com), offers online art classes to art students all around the world.

Contest requirements: Photographers, please send no more than 3-5 low resolution j-peg images Această adresă de e-mail este protejată de spamboţi; aveţi nevoie de activarea JavaScript-ului pentru a o vizualiza , including your name, age, artist biography (no more than 1-2 paragraphs, please), and photo captions describing each photo, including full name of the person(s) photographed, when and where the photographed was taken, business name and industry including any other relevant information about the photo subject as well as the model release form.

While a low resolution version will be submitted for review the original photograph should be in a high resolution format such as 300 dpi and longer side of the photo should be at least 15 cm (5,9 inches), suitable for printing.