Identities Now: Call for Entry

Deadline: December 3, 2010

Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, a private NYC gallery focusing on young and emerging artists, is currently accepting submissions for a book showcasing contemporary figurative/portrait photographers titled Identities Now: Contemporary Portrait Photography.

Submitted photographs will be reviewed by a selection committee of top photography professionals, including:

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders,Photographer/Director

Peter Hay Halpert (PHH Fine Art / Art dealer, professor, author, lecturer, curator and collector. Peter Halpert has been a Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper, Photograph Magazine and American Photo, and has taught at colleges and universities throughout the world. He served on the Guggenheim Museum Photography Committee when it was first started, and work from his collection has been exhibited at numerous institutions in the U.S.),

David Harris (Vanity Fair Executive Design Director),

David Schonauer (American Photo / David Schonauer was editor-in-chief of American Photo Magazine for twenty years. He has worked with and published many of the world's most famous photographers, including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, James Nachtwey, Annie Leibovitz, Mary Ellen Mark, Herb Ritts, Ansel Adams, and Harry Benson. David has written for publications as diverse as Atlantic Monthly, Outside, Worth, and The New York Times. He is currently working on a book project about the history of sports photography and writes a weekly blog called "I Like to Watch".),

Sam Shahid (Creative Director for Abercrombie & Fitch. Former Creative Director for Calvin Klein, Banana Republic, and Perry Ellis, Sam Shahid is also head of the New York-based ad agency Shahid and Co.).