The Hey, Hot Shot! competition is now accepting entries for the Summer 2007 Edition. Run by the Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the work of 10 winners will be exhibited from from September 5th - 9th, 2007. The deadline for entry is Tuesday, August 7th, 2007.

Jen Bekman Gallery Press Release

jen bekman’s Hey, Hot Shot!, the premier seasonal competition for emerging photographers, is now accepting entries for the Summer 2007 Edition. The entry deadline is Tuesday August 7, 2007! Selected contenders are featured daily on the Hey, Hot Shot! Blog (http://www.heyhotshot.com/blog ), so it pays to get your entry in early before the deadline crunch.

Submitting your entry is fast and easy:
Go to http://www.heyhotshot.com/enter
Fill out the brief application, including an artist’s statement and bio, pay the handling fee ($60), and then upload three photos.

Read on for more information about the competition:

Hey, Hot Shot! is the leading opportunity for emerging photographers to gain footing in the contemporary art world. Gallery owner and competition founder Jen Bekman is widely esteemed for her efforts to discover and promote new talent -  American Photo named her the Gallery Innovator of the Year for “developing a new generation of photo artists.”

The amazing panel includes: Jen Bekman, herself, alongside a multi-talented group of photo big shots, including Joerg Colberg (founder of the fine-art photography blog Conscientious), Stephen Frailey (Photography Department Chair at the School of Visual Arts), Darius Himes (Editor in Chief of Photo Eye Booklist), and Lesley Martin (Publisher of Aperture Books).

Winners selected by the panel are featured as one of 10 photographers in the Hey, Hot Shot! 2007 Summer Edition Showcase , to be held at the gallery from September 5 – 9, 2007, with an opening reception on Wednesday September 5th from 6pm – 8pm. The winners are also eligible to be one of the 4 finalists whose work gets shown in the Hey, Hot Shot! Ne Plus Ultra Annual show in January. The Ultras are represented by jen bekman in the gallery’s inventory and via it’s website for the following year, with the goal of having a future solo exhibition.

Hey, Hot Shot! winners have ongoing relationships with the gallery: Spring ‘05 Hot Shot Christine Collins and Fall ‘06 Hot Shot Shen Wei are both featured in our critically acclaimed Summer group show, A New American Portrait. Summer ‘05 Hot Shot James Deavin’s solo show at the gallery, Photographs from the New World was featured in dozens of print and online publications. Spring ‘07 Hot Shot Nina Berman’s Purple Hearts series will be featured at the gallery in August and countless Hot Shots participate in our ongoing jen@joe exhibitions.

Hey, Hot Shot! is the best thing going for emerging photographers — you have until Tuesday, August 7, 2007 to get your work in, so apply now: http://www.heyhotshot.com/enter

Still want to know more?
Check out the Hey, Hot Shot! blog:
http://www.heyhotshot.com/blog

Read up on all the Hot Shots here:
http://heyhotshot.com/hotshots.html

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