The Art of Photography Show International Competition and Exhibition Announces 2010 Dates and Acclai

The sixth annual Art of Photography Show, an international competition and exhibition of photographic art, announces the 2010 schedule and sets big goals to increase exposure opportunities for photographers. Today, Producer Steven Churchill announced the name of the acclaimed judge for the 2010 show, Natasha Egan, the Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Egan has organized numerous international and national exhibitions, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries national exhibitions (a detailed list follows below).

"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Natasha for this year’s competition," said Churchill. "The fact that the Art of Photography Show is judged by a major museum curator each year is what differentiates this competition from other competitions. Photographers rarely have the opportunity to reach these respected and influential people, which is why the show receives so many entries from world-renowned photographers."

Photographers are called to submit their photos now and will have until June 1, 2010 to do so. The finalists will be meticulously selected by Egan and will be featured in an exhibition from August 28 to November 7 at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery, located at Horton Plaza in the historic Gaslamp Quarter in Downtown San Diego.

"The 2009 competition surpassed our expectations, attracting 16,000 entries from 57 countries, with about 25,000 people viewing the exhibition at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery," said Churchill. "We are expecting an even bigger response this year."

In 2010, the Art of Photography Show is expecting over 30,000 people to view the exhibition during the ten-week run. Over 1,000 people are expected to attend the Opening Reception Gala on Saturday, August 28th.

Past judges have included Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Charlotte Cotton, director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hugh Davies, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Carol McCusker, curator of photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts; Arthur Ollman, director of the Museum of Photographic Arts; and Tim Wride, director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

For more information about the Art of Photography Show, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com.

Natasha Egan is Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Egan has organized numerous international and national exhibitions such as Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Consuming Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama, Dan Holdsworth, Mark Ruwedel and Toshio Shibata; Manufactured Self, photographs about how we identify ourselves through what we consume with international artists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States; Made in China, visually focusing on the global impact of manufacturing in China through photography, video and installation; Loaded Landscapes looking at historical and contemporary sites of trauma and conflict; The Edge of Intent examining the utopian aspirations of urban planners and how their visions adapt to changing environments; Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture; and The Road to Nowhere? for Fotofest 2010 Contemporary US Photograph with eighteen US artists. Egan has contributed essays to such publications as Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Photography Plugged and Unplugged (Contemporary Magazine, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Gütschow LS / S (Aperture, 2007); Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008); Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008); and Stacia Yeapanis (Aperture 2009). In addition, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, an MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian studies.

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