Looking for the next Ten photographer. . .
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 07:51PM Are you a photographer with a great idea for The Ten? Well then, we’ve been looking for you!
About The Ten
The Ten is a highly curated monthly online exhibit of ten photographic images. Each image is available at a 13x19 size in an edition of 25 for $250. The uniqueness of The Ten comes from its curation and its exclusivity. Images on The Ten cannot be sold in any other size in any other location. Once an image has been included in The Ten, it must be retired from sale. The only opportunity to purchase that image is on the website for The Ten, and once 25 are sold, it is sold out forever.
The Ten was createdy to be an opportunity for photographers as well as for collectors. We handle all of the printing, packaging and shipping of the sales. You can provide guide prints and/or approve a test print for each image (the photographs will be printed digitally by a professional printer in Atlanta). As the photographer, you will make $100 on each sale with no cost to you. 
But in order to maintain the exclusivity of The Ten, you would be required to sign a contract agreeing to only ever sell that particular image on The Ten. You can exhibit it, show it online, include it in a book. . . but it would only ever be available for sale on The Ten. No other editions or sizes would be made for sale.
Submissions
Please email a short description of your idea for The Ten along with up to three sample images (if you have them) and a link to your website to info@thetenphoto.com.
The submission fee is $10. After your submission is received, you will be emailed a PayPal invoice for your submission fee. You may choose to mail a check if you do not wish to pay online.
Deadline and Notification
The deadline for submissions is June 30. Entrants will be notified by July 10 via email. The selected photographer will be featured in October (Tenth month!). If the submissions are strong, additional photographers may be selected to be featured this fall.
Reader Comments (12)
10$! Really??? Isn't 60% of print sales enough?
this is a joke, restricting your author rights on your own images!!
This is SO ABUSING!!!!! 100$ from 250$ ? Entry fee? Sorry, but who you guys think you are?!
What kind of photo? I wanna try
I would have considered it, but adding a 10 bucks entry fee to a profit margin of just 40% is simply insulting.
Wow...something tells me they're going to make a fortune! The same people that are thrilled just to get a credit will be all over this.
10 bucks outlay for doing very little? Hell it would cost you more than that to go and see a gallery and get abuse from the manager of the gallery who thinks that they are doing you a favour!
A 40% is not very high, but they are paying for the printing, the framing, the advertising, doing all the above, and it costs you $10.
If they don't sell any images, you can cancel the contract and try elsewhere, they don't hold that over you.
I don't have a problem with the commissions. However, to agree to never sell your submission ever again in any form is just stupid. I would never submit my best work under such terms. But I would consider submitting my secondary images to hopefully raise some interest in my other, better work.
What the!!! You're kidding right????
The goji juice multi-level marketing gig wasn't pulling in enough cash for you?
Giving up the rights of my best photographs for a louzy 100 bucks??? No way!!! Are they thinking that photographers are idiots or something????
Add a zero to all of the dollar amounts, then see who takes it seriously and how much interest it gets. Better yet, add two zeros.