APA | SD presents: Peer-to-Peer Critique

Do you have a photography project or series that you are passionate about? Curious about what your peers and others think of it?

Join APA San Diego and the photo community for an in-person conversation to share your own work and/or to comment on the work of others. Five photographers will be selected to present and discuss their personal work or project in an in-person critique session.

Send us a link to your project for consideration. Submissions should be ready to share and present to an audience.

When:
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
6:00 PM PST

Where:
5343 Banks Street
San Diego, CA 92110

APA | SD Members: Free
Non-Members: $10

RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!

Email director@apasd.org to submit your project.
Deadline to submit is April 10th, 2023

APA | SD Happy Hour | Wednesday, March 15th

Join APA | SD for Happy Hour on Wednesday, March 15th, from 5:30 – 7:30 PM at Panama 66 in Balboa Park. This happy hour is 21+ and open to the larger photo and creative community. We’ll be outside in the covered patio area enjoying some drinks and food. Registration isn’t needed, but we would love to know if you could join us.

APA | SD members are encouraged to attend! Live music begins at 7PM with GILBERT CASTELLANOS YOUNG LIONS.

The Food & Beverage menu can be found here.

Panama 66 is located next to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park at: 1450 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101

Email director@apasd.org for questions and to reserve your spot.

APA | SD presents: Peer-to-Peer Critique

Send us a link to your project for consideration. Submissions should be ready to share and present to an audience.

When:
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
6:00 PM PST

Where:
5343 Banks Street
San Diego, CA 92110

Free and Open to All

Email director@apasd.org to reserve a spot or to submit your project.
Deadline to submit is February 3rd, 2023

Untitled 2022 Winners and Gallery Exhibition

Clockwise from left: Rebecca Grant, Art Streiber, Dana Hursey

Thank you to everyone who entered Untitled 2022! Please join us to celebrate the artists at the one-night-only exhibition on Saturday, November 12th, 2022 at Bread & Salt Gallery in the Brick Room. The top three (3) images will be announced and awarded prizes. See all competition entries shown in a rotating slideshow, sip craft beer, and support the photo community. Our APA chapter will donate 20% of the contest entry proceeds to The Gordon Parks Foundation in support of their Arts & Social Justice Fund.

To preview this year’s winners visit UntitledShow.org

Thank You to our jurors:
Katherine Ware, curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art; Photography consultant and curator, Julie Grahame; and Photo editor, researcher and founder of the non-profit, Free Juice, Allison Retina Stewart.

When:
Saturday, November 12th, 2022
6 – 9 PM

Where:
Bread & Salt Gallery
1955 Julian Ave.
San Diego, CA 92113

Thank you to our sponsors:

APA Awards Call for Entries is open! Deadline Extended to July 28

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Our annual competition is open to all photographers at every level, worldwide — everyone from emerging photographers to established professionals.

Our Judges will select 43 APA Award Winners this year.

APA members save on each entry. APA Leader level members save over 35% on each image.

Now is a great time to join APA : enter enough images and your first year of membership can be free.

Like to upgrade? Please email: membershiprep@apanational.org

Awards Deadline Extended: Tuesday, July 28

MORE INFO AND TO ENTER NOW CLICK HERE

Untitled 2018 Call for Entries Open!

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APA | San Diego is calling for photography that represents your best work. Images that show your unique vision, creative passion and individualistic style, titled or untitled. The top 20 images will be chosen for display at a one-night only benefit auction on Saturday, November 10th, 2018. Proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Museum of Photographic Arts. All entries will be judged by acclaimed photography author and educator Thomas Werner and prizes will be awarded for the top 3 images. All entries will be represented in the exhibition slide show on the night of the event.

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Visit UntitledShow.org for entry information and submission guidelines.
Deadline for entries is October 9, 2018. Additional fees for deadline extensions will apply.

APA Awards Deadline Extended to July 27

Call for entries extended to Wednesday July 27!

Register now until July 15th at no additional fee

Starting July 16 submission fees increase $10 per entry

Enter just one image and you could walk away with thousands of dollars worth of prizes! Enter as many images as you like and increase your chances even more!

Winners are seen online, and also in print to help you earn recognition from people who can hire you. For the cost of an entry, imagine what you could win!

Plus, enjoy knowing that your entry fees support the association that’s working on your behalf — Win. Win.

Need more reasons to enter? We’ve got 17 of them right here.

UNTITLED 2014: A Photographic Exhibition

APA would like to thank everyone who submitted images to the 2014 UNTITLED exhibition. If you missed the event, you can see the winners along with the 30 selections that were on display for the silent auction here:

: 1st Place Dana Neibert

: 2nd Place Ed Masterson

: 3rd Place Jason Smith

CALL FOR ENTRIES! APA | San Diego presents: Untitled 2013: A Photographic Exhibition

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