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Shallow Left Center by Don Hamerman

No. 46 by Don Hamerman

Can't-wait-for-the-weekend greetings, collector friends! Generally speaking, I'm not a TGIF kinda girl, but with two of my favorite fellas flying in from California on Saturday, and a long weekend of barbequing Upstate with a friends-like-family crew to look forward to... well, let's just say I am counting the minutes. And speaking of counting, today's new photographs from 20x200 MVP Don Hamerman make us just shy of a dozen of his offerings in our archives.

Shallow Left Center and No. 46 come from Don's beloved-by-many Found Baseballs series. Like many of our artists, Don gets a real kick out of the fact that 20x200 has gotten his photographs into the hands (and onto the walls!) of many collectors. Knowing that, I think he'll get a kick out of the tale that follows.

Loving writing newsletters though I do, inspiration about exactly what to say doesn't always come easy, especially when I've already had a lot to say about someone. Riding the train home last night, I was kibitzing with Team 20x200 superstar Stephanie Curran about how I needed to figure out what to write about today's editions. She was excited to hear that Don was up at bat, since she knows lots of friends who own or have given his prints as gifts. I'll close out today's announcement with an email she sent me later in the evening, telling the tale of one of Don's editions:

At Christmastime, a friend of mine found one of the unraveling Don Hamerman baseball prints on our site and immediately knew that she had to get it for her dad. A total pack rat, he has spent many summer evenings walking around the neighborhood golf course, pocketing found golf balls. Their garage was littered with buckets full of them, many busted and unraveling. Don's print reminded her of her dad, her neighborhood, summertime and growing up. The best part? He totally had the same reaction to it when he opened his Christmas gift, and the whole family had a good laugh about all the balls in the garage...

Psst! If you're looking for inspired gifts for your own gift-giving, there's a secret, super-limited stash of framed prints available right now.

Have you ever wondered how artists get their work considered for 20x200 editions? For photographers, the only way is to apply to Hey, Hot Shot!—our photography competition. Many of the photographers you know and love on 20x200 have been introduced to us through the competition. There will be only one season of competition this year, so don't miss it, submissions close on August 22, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. (EDT).

Panelists
A diverse panel of photography professionals—including founder Jen Bekman, Aperture Foundation publisher Lesley A. Martin, Chronicle Books chairman and CEO Nion McEvoy, a founding editor of Radius Books Darius Himes and photographer Todd Hido—reviews every entry.

5 Hot Shots: $500 + Group Exhibition
+ A $500 honorarium.
+ Participation in the 2010 Hot Shot Exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery.
+ The opportunity to release an edition on 20x200.
+ A $1,000 credit at Blurb to create your own photography book.

1 Grand Prize: $5000 + Gallery Representation
Jen Bekman will select one of the five 2010 Hot Shots for the Grand Prize and announce the recipient on March 15, 2011. In addition to the honors as a Hot Shot, the grand prize recipient will be awarded:

+ A $5,000 honorarium to support a personal project.
+ A solo exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery.
+ Representation from Jen Bekman Gallery for two years, commencing with his/her selection.

Curator's Choice Awards
If you apply by this Friday, August 20th, esteemed photographer and Hey, Hot Shot! Guest Curator, Alec Soth will also review your work. Alec will select one artist to receive a "Little Brown Mushroom Love Pack" which includes three amazing books and a screen-printed LBM t-shirt.

Lots of Exposure, Far and Wide
As we mentioned, all entrants are reviewed for participation in 20x200. In addition, we've been featuring one contender each weekday during the competition on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog (and have already written about over 90 photographers this year).

Questions?
Check our FAQ, which we've been updating as we go. If your question hasn't been answered, send us a Direct Message on Twitter to @heyhotshot or an email to hey@heyhotshot.com and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

West Forty-third Street (Yellow Cabs) by (two-time Hot Shot) Joseph O. Holmes

Untitled (Max)
by Dorthe Alstrup
2008 1st place Color, Singular Image

Hello and Happiest Monday Greetings! Today I bring news of three opportunities for those of you who are collectors and photographers::

REVIEW SANTA FE
Event date: June 4-6, 2009
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: JANUARY 23, 2009
CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Review Santa Fe is a juried portfolio review event scheduled for June 4-6, 2009. It is a two-day conference for photographers who have created a significant project or series and are seeking wider recognition. Up to 100 photographers meet with esteemed curators, editors, art directors, publishers, gallery and agency reps, and alternative market professionals.

PROJECT COMPETITION
DEADLINE: JANUARY 23, 2009
CLICK HERE TO APPLY

The 14th annual Project Competition honors committed photographers working on long-term documentary projects and fine-art series. Three jurors reach a consensus on the First Prize and three finalists. Each individual juror also selects a project to receive one of the three Juror's Choice awards.

Jurors: Alice Gabriner, Time Magazine; Karen Irvine, Museum of Contemporary Photography; and Maarten Schilt, Mets & Schilt publishers

SINGULAR IMAGE (3 CATEGORIES)
DEADLINE: JANUARY 23, 2009
CLICK HERE TO APPLY.

The Singular Image recognizes outstanding individual photographs. We have updated and expanded this competition to include three categories with more opportunities to get your work seen.

NEW CATEGORIES AND JURORS
Categories are no longer seperated by technique (i.e. Black & White and Color); all photo-based techniques, medium, and subject matter are accepted into each of the categories.
• The Curator’s Choice award
Juror: Corey Keller, Assoc. Curator of Photography, SFMoMA
• The Editor’s Choice award
Juror: Simon Barnett, Director of Photography, Newsweek
• The Publisher’s Choice award
Juror: Michael Mack, Publisher, SteidlMack

The deadlines for all three of these opportunities is less than a month away, so hop to it!
Good Luck!

Congratulations to Preston Gannaway, who won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for Remember Me, an incredibly intimate chronicle of a dying woman's last few months and her family's subsequent struggle to get through the death of a parent. I've been sitting here trying to write about the photographs and the journey they document for a long time but I have no words; anything I could possibly say seems trite and inconsequential whenever I think of this photo.