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Portfolio Competition

Close on February 05, 2021
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Portfolio Competition
Territory: North America
Theme: Open
Eligibility: 18 +
Entry Fees: $65
Prize: Exhibition
Soho Photo Gallery, located in lower Manhattan is New York City's longest-running cooperative photography gallery. The gallery is awarding solo shows to three winning photographers. A panel of jurors will make their initial selections based on digital submissions. Final selections will be based on prints.

The Jurors
Members of Soho Photo Gallery's Portfolio Review Committee will jury the competition. The committee has reviewed thousands of portfolios since the gallery's beginning in 1971. In so doing, the gallery has exhibited prints by some of the finest contemporary photographers throughout the world.
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