How to Participate:
- Submit your photography for consideration to the upcoming Issue listed below.
- Suggest a theme for a future issue.
- Submit a photography review, short essay related to photography, or an interview of a photographer. You may want to propose your idea before writing.See HERE for details.
- Promote a photography project on F-Stop. See HERE for details.
PHOTOGRAPHY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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Issue #33 : : : Open Theme : : : February | March ::
Issue #33 will have the an open theme. All entries for issue #33 should be received between December 1 and January 15 with an expected publication date of February 1. Please follow the submission guidelines below.
Issue #34 : : : Collaboration : : : April | May ::
Issue #34 will be collaborations between photographers. We will put you in a pair or a group to collaborate with, and then you can choose how you want to work. There are two possibilities: 1. One photographer gives detailed instruction to the other on what to photograph and/or how to go about making a series of pictures (each photographer would give instruction and take pictures) 2. one photographer makes a picture and sends it to the other who then makes a picture using an element from the original picture. Then that picture is sent to the next photographer to do the same thing until there is a series of 12 images.
If you are interested send an email letting us know between December 1 and January 25 and we will match you up with a partner by Feb. 1.You will have until March 20th to submit the resulting images. All finished entries for issue #34 MUST be received by March 20th with an expected publication date of April 1.
PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW CAREFULLY THE GUIDELINES BELOW!! SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IF THE GUIDELINES ARE NOT FOLLOWED
Email Subject line should indicate which issue you are submitting for. Please send your images in 1 email if at all possible and please try to attach the files NOT embed them.
A. Image Specifications: Submit up to 12 images as jpegs at 72ppiand 600 pixelsFOR THE LONGEST EDGE (for a horizontal picture=width, for a verticle picture=height) .
B. Image Quality: Please be sure to clean up any dust or scratches before you send your files (unless it is intentional).
C. File Naming: Please name the files with your FIRST name OR FIRST name and LAST INITIAL and a number with NO SPACES OR DASHES or non number or letters!(firstname1.jpg, firstname2.jpg etc) If you send links to your images make sure the images are the proper size and have the proper file names as described above -however it is preferred that you send your images as attachments.
Submissions Email: fstopmagazine@gmail.com
Please include with your submission:
- your name
- where you are from
- the titles for your photographs (in the text of the email not in links or file names)
- your email address in the text of the email (leave blank if you dont want your email listed on the contributors page if included in the issue)
- a url if you have one, even if you have submitted before, in the text of the email.
The chosen featured artist from issue #33 & 34 will also recieve a camera pack from FStop Gear - F-Stop offers a line of hardworking packs and bags that are ready to go anywhere you need to be. No matter how severe the conditions they will protect your gear and keep you organized. www.fstopgear.com
If you have any questions or have difficulty sending your images please email.
By submitting photos for publication in F-Stop Magazine you are stipulating to us that you own copyright to these photographs or have permission from the copyright holder to submit these photographs. You are granting F-Stop Magazine a non-exclusive license to use the photograph in its submitted form, subject to re-sizing to fit the magazine format, for publication on the F-Stop website for as long as the website exists. Please note that back issues of F-Stop may remain available in the archive for as long as the website exists.
None of the photographs may be downloaded, stored, printed, manipulated, distributed, or used in any form without prior written permission from the copyright holder. Works published on this website are protected under domestic and international copyright laws and are not considered to be public domain.
Should you, for any reason, wish your photographs to be removed from the website, we will make every effort to do so. However, please note also that third parties such as educational institutions, search engines or individuals may download, save, store or archive this (or any other) website with or without our knowledge. F-Stop Magazine will have no control over such downloading and subsequent use and therefore cannot accept responsibility for any such use.
WRITING SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
F-Stop Magazine is looking to add photography related writing to the site: photography exhibit reviews, book reviews, short essays, photography projects with a written component, or an interview with a photographer of interest to a broad audience.
If you are interested, please submit your writing or proposal to the email address below.
Email: participate@fstopmagazine.com
PROMOTE YOUR PROJECT
Do you have a body of work or current project you would like more people to see? You can have an image and text based link to your site or your project on the F-Stop site. In exchange we ask for a donation of any amount to our humble no profit cause of putting out the magazine. Here is what to do, send an email with your name and a description/artist statement of your project and a link to the work. We will review each submission and choose 3 for each issue. Once you are accepted you will have the choice of creating your text/image link in accordance with our specifications or you can submit your information and a few images and we will create one for you. If you have questions email: participate@fstopmagazine.com