WOMEN STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS — WOMEN STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS

THE ARTIST RESIDENCY CALL IS NOW CLOSED. CHECK BACK NEXT YEAR.

Winner, first runner-up and second runner-up announcement is around September 29.

ALL EXPENSES PAID (worth $8000) :

– Two-week stay at the El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, NEW YORK CITY, USA

– Round trip ticket from anywhere in the world

– Visa fee, subway pass, SIM card

– $50 daily stipend

– Mentorship with Nina Welch-Kling

– Solo exhibition during the annual "Women Street Photographers" group exhibition

– Exhibition curation and review with Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova

– Participation during WSP and Leica Women Foto Project Festival in NYC, April 11-13, 2025

– Welcome reception and networking with local women photographers.

DURATION OF RESIDENCY:

MARCH 30 (arrival) -APRIL 14 (departure)

WSP and Leica Women Foto Project Festival in NYC, April 11-13, 2025

***REQUIREMENTS FROM THE WINNER***

Ability to shoot street photography daily and in any weather condition

Create new work for the solo exhibition

Availability for @womenstreephotographers Instagram Live interview

Availability for press inquiries

Expectations of the artist
To produce a solo exhibition.

$50 PER ENTRY/PER SERIES. **

Maximum 10 photos in one entry/series (same theme or style).

You can enter up to 3 series. Use a new submission form for each series.

Artist statement should reflect what your project submission is about, why winning the residency is important to you, and why you are the best candidate to win the residency.

** You can also pay with paypal to hello@womenstreetphotographers.com . Include your name.

If you can not afford the fee or can’t pay because of USA sanctions write to hello@womenstreetphotographers.com to request a free entry form. Include your reason.

Winner, first runner-up and second runner-up announcement is around September 22.

Accommodation:
Large studio with kitchen at the the landmark building Artspace PS109 in New York City, USA

JUDGEs:

Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova, WSP funder

Debrani Das, THE WINNER OF 2020 ARTIST RESIDENCY

Nina Welch-Kling, WSP Artist Residency Mentor

WATCH A CONVERSATION WITH 2024 WINNER DEBRANI DAS AND HER MENTOR NINA WELCH-KLING

Q&A (more questions will be added as they come)

No! Any camera users!
We prefer series of street photography. You can submit other genre but your artist statement must reflect street photography. We will be judging both, the work and your statement, equally
If you can not afford an entry fee or live in countries effected by US embargo you can request a free submission form. State your reason (for example- live in an economically challenged country).
Email to hello@womenstreetphotographers.com
One submission per person.

PAST WINNERS

**DEBRANI DAS, 2020 ARTIST RESIDENCY WINNER**

**VALERIE SIX, 2019 ARTIST RESIDENCY WINNER**

Exterior of Artspace PS109 and the entrance to the galleries

ABOUT WOMEN STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS

The Instagram feed of Women Street Photographers (@womenstreetphotographers), and the traveling exhibition, is a platform of well curated, quality street photography done by women.

By focusing strictly on the work of women photographers, we provide extra exposure for female artists. Additionally, it is our goal to create visibility for dedicated women street photographers and to encourage other women to follow their passion.

The Instagram feed of Women Street Photographers (@womenstreetphotographers), and the traveling exhibition, was founded by Gulnara Samoilova, a street and fine art photographer based in New York City. The project began as a personal Instagram catalog for a future exhibition, but has quickly become a prestigious platform for both amateur and professional women photographers.

ABOUT ARTSPACE PS109

https://www.artspaceps109.org/

El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 is a community-driven project which has transformed an abandoned public school building in East Harlem into an arts facility with 89 units of affordable live/work housing for artists and their families and 10,000 square feet of complementary gallery space for arts organizations.

PS109 is an impressive building. Designed by Charles B.J. Snyder and completed in 1898, this structure is five stories tall with a steeply pitched roof. Exterior details include several copper-clad cupolas and a wealth of decorative terra cotta.

PS109 contains 89 units of affordable live/work housing for artists and their families with 3,000 square feet available for a resident gallery in addition to 10,000 square feet of non-residential space for arts and cultural organizations on the ground floor and lower level.

ABOUT ARTSPACE

http://www.artspace.org/

Artspace is non-profit organization that uses the tools of real estate development to create affordable, appropriate places where artists can live and work. They consistently develop these projects in ways that also support more stable, healthy communities anchored in existing assets. Because Artspace owns each of the projects it develops, they are able to ensure that they remain affordable and accessible to artists in perpetuity. Over the last three decades, Artspace has led an accelerating national movement of artist-led community transformation. With headquarters in Minneapolis and offices in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington D.C., Artspace is America’s leading developer of arts facilities and has served as a consultant to hundreds of communities and arts organizations nationwide.