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Event History
The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 40th annual photography competition, one of the oldest continuous photography competitions in the world. Jurors have been famous photographers, curators, and gallery owners. Numerous winning photographers have gone on to remarkable careers with representation by leading galleries across the country.
What Makes this event different?
Through our publications and many years of contacts with galleries and museums, many thousands of people around the world view the work of our competition winners.
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We reserve the right to publish photographers' images online and in print in relation to our competition. Photographers retain their copyright and all other rights.
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We reserve the right to publish photographers' images online and in print in relation to our competition. Photographers retain their copyright and all other rights.
NOTED GALLERIST PETER FETTERMAN TO JURY THE 2025 PHOTO REVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
Born in London, Peter Fetterman has been deeply involved in the medium of photography for over 40 years. Initially a filmmaker and collector, he set up his first gallery over 30 years ago in 1988. He was one of the pioneer tenants of Bergamot Station, the Santa Monica Center of the Arts, when it first opened in 1994.
The Peter Fetterman Gallery has one of the largest inventories of classic 20th-century photography in the country, particularly in humanist photography. Diverse holdings include work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Willy Ronis, André Kertész, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lillian Bassman, Pentti Sammallahti, Sarah Moon, and Jeffrey Conley.
Peter has also written multiple books on photography including The Power of Photography, Women: A Celebration, and Cornell Capa.
His daily blog, The Power of Photography, has promoted the work of scores of photographers and is seen by many thousands of people around the world, including leading museum curators and serious photo collectors.
The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 40th annual photography competition, one of the oldest continuous photography competitions in the world. The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2025 competition issue and on its website. Thus, the accepted photographs will be seen by thousands of people all across the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition.
Also, the prizewinning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at Philadelphia’s noted 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, one of the largest and most comprehensive college photography collections in the United States, selected by William Earle Williams, the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in Humanities; Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photography, at Haverford College; a $500 gift certificate for printing at Booksmart Studio; a $250 gift certificate from Digital Silver Imaging; a $250 gift certificate for Red River papers; two $100 gift certificates to PhotoLounge; a $200 gift certificate from Shades of Paper, a leading supplier of inkjet photo paper; $100, $75, and $50 gift certificates for Think Tank camera bags; two $50 gift certificates for PhotoFlashDrive; numerous fabulous items from Photogenic Supply; a feature on the Laurence Miller Gallery's Picture of the Week email blast; and a feature on Peter Fetterman’s The Power of Photography email blast.
The entry fee is $40 for up to three images and $8 for each additional image. In addition, all entrants will be able to subscribe to The Photo Review for $40, a 20% discount. (Higher rates apply for non-US subscribers.)
All entries must be received by May 15, 2025.
You can download contest rules and submit images at https://photoreview.org. For further information call The Photo Review at 215/891-0214, 340 East Maple Avenue, Suite 200, Langhorne, PA 19047, info@photoreview.org.
Publishing since 1976, The Photo Review covers photography events throughout the country and serves as a central resource for photography in the Mid-Atlantic region. The semi-annual journal contains reviews, portfolios, interviews, book reviews, and news. The Photo Review has presented previously unpublished images by Duane Michals, Weegee, and Frederick Sommer, and catalogues for a James VanDerZee exhibition, a show of Lois Greenfield’s dynamic dance photographs, “Changing Visions of the American Landscape,” and a widely praised catalogue celebrating the centennial of Stieglitz’s Camera Work. Its writers have included A. D. Coleman, Frank Day, Shelley Rice, Peter Hay Halpert, Barbara L. Michaels, Daile Kaplan, Jean Dykstra, and Mark Power. Subscriptions are $50 per year for the semi-annual journal and the newsletter, which is issued eight times a year and sent as a PDF by email with live links and which contains exhibition listings, exhibition opportunities from around the country and the world, and news.
