So, remember when I wrote about a few awesome opportunities for photographers? Well, I have good news: one of those contests, Hey, Hot Shot, has extended its deadline to August 31, 2010 (that’s this Tuesday!), increased its grand prize from $5,000 to $10,000, and is offering every Hot Shot $1,000 to produce a book on Blurb. Plus, all winners’ work is exhibited at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York and one lucky person is eligible for two years of representation by Jen Bekman Gallery.
More from the official Hey Hot Shot blog:
As part of this community, you are well aware of how hard we work at creating opportunities for artists and spreading the word about the competition. The good news is—it’s working! After we announced that we were teaming up with Blurb to offer each Hot Shot the chance to produce their own book a few weeks ago, a buzz of excitement percolated ’round the web, and created quite a stir.
We’re happy to hear that you’re excited—all the energy is bringing new photographers into our community at this eleventh hour. We want to share the love, welcome this new community around us, and give them—and you—a little more time to get your entries in, which is why we’re doubling the Grand Prize to $10,000 and extending the deadline to August 31st.
Jen has always wanted the prize to be as big as it can be, and though we were happy to offer you $5,000, we’re ecstatic to offer to $10,000. Over the last 5 months, we’d been wracking our brains to figure out how to bolster this amount. We considered working with other companies to increase the prize, but in the end, dug deep within JBP to offer you an amount that we think can make a real, positive change on the possibilities for an artist.
I know of a couple of photographers who were offered gallery shows just from being featured on the blog. And although that entry fee is plenty steep ($80), the benefits one could potentially gained from participating would make that fee worth it.
Leave a comment and let me whether or not you applied!
Danielle Scruggs is a photographer and writer currently living and working in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Md. Her work has been exhibited in Baltimore and Brooklyn and published by The Washington Post, Stop Smiling magazine, FILE magazine, and F-Stop Magazine. Scruggs holds an M.A. in Digital Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a B.A. in Journalism from Howard University. She is still very much in love with Charm City, albeit from a distance.