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CMES Annual Photography Exhibit: Call for Photos

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies

CALL FOR PHOTOS

Deadline Friday, June 26, 2009.

For the past eighteen years the UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) has organized and hosted an annual photography exhibit featuring images from the Middle East taken by CMES friends, faculty, students, and colleagues. Selected photos are enlarged, mounted, and displayed in the Center and remain on display throughout the academic year. With the photographer’s permission, images may also be published on our website and selected for CMES advertising and promotional purposes.

We seek images that embody the significance of water in the Middle East.  As a natural resource, it is scarce; in culture and rituals, it is fundamental; and in politics, it can be divisive. Water is also a source of beauty and, in fountains and by the seaside, of calming sounds. We welcome photos from celebrations, landscapes, architecture ... use your imagination! Pairs of photos are welcome. We hope that submissions will reflect the many natural, cultural, and historical dimensions of the footsteps of water in the Middle East.

Submission Guidelines for the 2009-2010 CMES Photography Exhibition:

  • All entries must include the completed 2009-2010 Submission Form. Download the form here or come by the Center to pick one up. You can also call CMES to ask for one to be mailed to you: (520)621-5450.
  • The submission limit is ten (10) images: slides, prints with negatives, and/or digital files (see file requirements, no. 4 below) per person. Photos of submitter’s original artwork are also accepted. Slides, prints and negatives will be returned by mid-September. CDs are not returned.
  • Please be sure to label each photo with your name and corresponding number (1-10) given to it on page two of the submission form, under “Photo Identification.”
  • Digital file requirements: a) 300+ dpi resolution; b) RGB color or grayscale; c) in tiff or jpeg format; and d) saved on a CD or flash drive labeled with your full name. CDs will not be returned. You may submit photos via email. Email photos to mideast@email.arizona.edu with an attached submission form.
  • Images chosen for the photo exhibition are enlarged, mounted, and displayed for a full academic year at the Center. At the close of the exhibit you may pick up the enlargement or you can indicate that you would like CMES to keep it to sell for future fundraising.
  • All submissions must be received on or before the June 26, 2009 deadline.

Questions? Email the center at mideast@email.arizona.edu or call us at (520) 621-5450.