6 Great New Photography Projects, Last Call for Emerging Talent Awards, Free Guide to Photo Competitions

Last Call – Seeking 50 of the Top Emerging Talents  Open to ALL types of photography, ALL themes, with NO AGE LIMIT! FINAL DEADLINE: June 22, 2014, 11:59 PDT — No Extensions Learn More Just Published! Free Guide to Photo Competitions Great advice to help you finish your Emerging Talent entry!  35 pages of valuable information on how to get the most out of photography competitions. Tips and advice from 19 international expert jurors, stories from previous winners, and a listing of 25 competitions that deliver great results for photographers. Get the Guide Great New Photography This Week in LensCulture Heliographs Using old chemical techniques, traces of time, light and energy are merged onto the photosensitive paper and grow intriguingly visible as deformed and beautifully palpable images. By Claus Stolz   The Earth Is Only A Little Dust Under Our Feet Belief in magical beings is widespread in Iceland. But as this enrapturing series shows, if there is any place to believe in magic, Iceland must be that place. By Bego Anton   Lo inevitable — Portraits from Gambela A series of portraits from Ethiopia intended to increase the visibility of the inhabitants of a land rife with forced resettlements — and also to promote reflection about the identity of a culture in the process of irreversible change. By Antonio Perez Rio Renaissance Cubism An artful photographic mash-up of Renaissance art and Cubism, with an Argentinian twist. By Romina Ressia   Arriving Somewhere Not Here As a result of the global economic crisis, 10 year-old Andrei's father was fired from his job in Romania, and his mother moved to Italy to find work. This is his story. By Fabio Moscatelli.   ToledoContemporánea:   13 Views of El Greco's City 12 world-famous photographers were commissioned to create contemporary views of the ancient, mystical city of Toledo — with astounding results.