The 1st annual GO INDIE Awards, sponsored by Leica, Photo District News, IPNStock, and Crumpler are going on now! They are looking for the “creative, quirky, and unique images that you’ve cooked up”. There are five submission categories and great prizes –the Grand Prize being a Leica V-LUX 1!

The entry fee is $10 per image submitted by December 15th. Submissions received later will incur a late fee of $5, but can be submitted through the extended deadline period ending January 15th.

For more information go to www.goindiecontest.com

Attention Lomographers!

Brooklyn’s Stay Gold Gallery is now accepting photography submissions for an upcoming exhibition, “blowup”, which the gallery says, will showcase the photographic versatility of the point and shoot camera. Submissions must be received at the gallery by February 1st. The show will run from February 23rd through March 25th. For the full details, please visit their website, www.staygoldgallery.com.

This has the potential to be a great show! Being the toy camera enthusiast I am, I definitely plan to submit!

An amazing photography exhibition is currently on view in the Howard Gilman Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit consists of approximately 20 large-scale color photographs by Robert Polidori taken between September 2005 and April 2006 that document the devastation New Orleans suffered after the massive flooding due to Hurricane Katrina. Polidori brings you into these images, showing you years of memories washed away—allowing you to experience the aftermath for yourself.

The exhibition runs through December 10th
The museum’s recommended admission is $20 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens.