The 2011 International Loupe Awards, previously known as the Aperture Awards, are currently open for entries. This is the fourth time that Labtam Communications is celebrating the best from the world of photography and this year will also be recognizing the best of the best from medium format fine art. A huge set of prizes is available for the best entries! The are cash prizes, printers, backpacks, an exhibition and so on. The International Loupe Awards Competition and the International Loupe Awards Medium Format Fine Art Prize are open to all photographers worldwide.

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Black Spectacles is boldly stating that most design competitions today are wasteful. It takes a lot of hard, gutsy work to bring something to reality, and most competitions stay at the surface. By introducing a different approach, Black Spectacles invites you to take part in the Un-Competition Project. The Un-Competition Project is the opposite of a competition project. You’ll get inspired to create, but there is no brief. You make the project up yourself, big or small- you sell it, and you figure out how to get it built. Then document it in a video, and Black Spectacles will show it to the world.

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