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For the second year in a row, a prize of 7500 Euros will be given to the best contemporary portfolio presented to the international jury that will come to the Encontros da Imagem at Braga, Portugal.

The Photography Prize EMERGENTES DST, will be awarded after the Portfolio Review which shall give photographers the opportunity to show their work to commissioners, gallery owners and expert editors, thus establishing solid foundations for the promotion of their work.

Each applicant must submit no more than 20 digital images (b&w or colour). It must be an original and recent Portfolio (images ... with no more than three years).

Applications are open between July 15 and August 15, 2011 at the site www.encontrosdaimagem.com or for the mail emergentes@encontrosdaimagem.com.

Every creator who uses photography as main expression may apply regardless of nationality, gender or age.

A pre-selection from a committee of experts will select 70 authors who shall be invited to submit their portfolio to further review from specialists and photography and visual arts analysts.

The winner of the Photography award EMERGENTES DST receives 7.500 Euros and will have an individual exhibition at the Festival Encontros da Imagem - 2012.

The lecture of the portfolios will take place the 1st and 2nd of October.

The International Photography Award EMERGENTES DST is an initiative and a production of Encontros da Imagem, sponsored by Domingos da Silva Teixeira company, with a prize money that will be granted to the best 2011 Contemporary Photography Portfolio.

Confirmed jury list:

Beate Cegielska - Curator at Galleri Image, Ârhus, Denmark

Bill Kouwenhoven -Hot Shoe Magazine International Editor | New York, USA

Jim Casper - Lens Culture director | Paris, France

Lisa Fetisova - Gallery Russian TeaRoom | Paris, France

Mário Teixeira da Silva - Gallery Módulo | Lisbon, Portugal

Nathalie Herschdorfer - Independent Curator | Lausanne, Switzerland

Paço Salinas -Encuentros Fotográficos director | Múrcia, Spain

Paul de Felice - Senior Lecturer (Visual Arts) at University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg

Peggy Sue Amison - Sirius Arts Centre artistic director | Cork, Ireland

Krzysztof Candrowicz - Lodz Fotofestival director | Lodz, Poland

Sandra Vieira Jurgens - Artecapital magazine director and editor | Lisbon, Portugal

Simone Rodrigues - FotoRio Festival curator| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Xavier Canone - Charleroi Photo Museum director | Bélgica