Noted photographer, teacher, author to jury Photo Review competition

Deborah Willis, Ph.D., university professor and chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will jury 2023 Photo Review Photography Competition.

Willis is also the director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture.

Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, contemporary women photographers, and beauty. She is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Dr. Willis has received awards including the Outstanding Service Award from the Royal Photographic Society in the U.K., and the 2022 Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art.

She is the author of “The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship” and “Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present,” among others.

Most recently, Dr. Willis was named the 2023 Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence by the Norton Museum of Art.

The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 38th annual photography competition, one of the oldest continuous photography competitions in the world.

The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2023 competition issue and on its website. Also, the prizewinning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at Philadelphia’s Woodmere Art Museum. Plus numerous Editor’s Selections will be exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries.

Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitions, have had their work reproduced in other leading photography magazines, and have sold their work to collectors throughout the country. Awards include a $1,000 purchase prize for inclusion in the Haverford College Photography Collection.

The entry fee is $40 for up to three images and $8 for each additional image. All entries must be received by March 26.

Download contest rules and submit images at online. Visit photoreview.org/. For information, contact The Photo Review at 215-891-0214 or info@photoreview.org.

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