Events Calendar

Explore National Geographic photography exhibitions, art fairs, workshops, contests, seminars, grants, awards, and more.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GRANTS, AWARDS, AND CONTESTS

National Geographic Adventure "Life's an Adventure" Action Photography Contest
(Contest Deadline: January)
Send in your best adventure shot for your chance to win prizes from Columbia Sportswear.
www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/photo-contest.html

National Geographic Traveler "The Great Outdoors" Photo Contest
(Contest Deadline: March)
Celebrate the world outside. Grand prize is a 7-Day trip for two to The Big Island, Hawaii.
thegreatoutdoorsphotocontest.com/

National Geographic Expeditions "Expedition Moments" Photo Contest
(Contest Deadline: May)
Submit a photo from your National Geographic Expedition for a chance to win a trip for two to the Galápagos Islands!
photocontest.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/

National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
(Contest Deadline: September)
Send your best shots for a chance to win a first-prize trip for two to the Galápagos or Norway (sponsored by Lindblad Expeditions)—your choice! Other prizes include a seven-day photography workshop in San Miguel, Mexico (sponsored by Santa Fe Workshops), a six-day cruise on a Maine Windjammer Schooner (sponsored by Schooners American Eagle and Heritage), and a Nikon Coolpix Digital Camera with zoom lens and Bogen National Geographic Model tripod kit.
www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/photos/photocontestannouncement.html

National Geographic Photography Contest
(Contest Deadline: October)
As a leader in capturing our world through brilliant imagery, National Geographic magazine sets the standard for photographic excellence. Now, we're inviting you to share your vision of the world through your own photography. Submit your entry online in any of these four categories: people, landscape, animals, or photo essay.
magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/photo-contest.html

National Geographic Traveler "Mobile World" Photo Contest
(Contest Deadline: November)
Send your best shots taken with a cell phone camera—and you could win a ten-night Galápagos tour.
www.mobileworldphotocontest.com

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO SUBMISSIONS

National Geographic "Your Shot"
(Ongoing Submissions)
"Your Shot" features editors' selections from photographs submitted online by National Geographic magazine readers each month. Submit a favorite photo of your own, on any topic of your choosing, for possible publication in an upcoming issue of National Geographic magazine.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/yourshot/

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS

National Geographic Expeditions
Join National Geographic photographers on photographic expeditions to spectacular settings around the world with personalized mentoring, photo assignments, and critiques of participants' work.
www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/~Trips~Photography.html

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER SEMINARS

National Geographic Traveler Seminar
Join National Geographic Traveler photographers Jim Richardson and Catherine Karnow for a one-day seminar on how to make travel photos that tell a story. Instead of simply producing "pretty pictures," discover how to capture the spirit of a place by using a cultural documentary approach to your travel photography. Great photos of your travels will ensure great memories.

National Geographic Traveler Seminar: A Passion For Travel: Photos that Tell the Story
Washington, D.C.: February 24, 2008
Kansas City, MO: March 9, 2008
Portland, OR: March 30, 2008

Registration at NGTravelerSeminars.com

National Geographic Traveler Seminar
Unravel the mysteries of digital photography with Ralph Lee Hopkins and Bob Krist—from choosing the right camera to developing your own workflow to strategies for covering your travel destination.

National Geographic Traveler Seminar: Travel Photography in the Digital Age
Atlanta, GA: January 13, 2008
San Diego, CA: January 20, 2008
Dallas, TX: January 27, 2008
Minneapolis, MN: June 1, 2008
Vancouver, BC: June 8, 2008

Registration at NGTravelerSeminars.com

National Geographic Traveler Seminar
Today’s photographer is bombarded with choices—cameras, hardware, software—but in the end, memorable photographs come for the synthesis of a great eye and solid skills. Join fine art photographer Eddie Soloway and National Geographic Traveler photographer Michael Melford on an informative and entertaining journey designed to put the zing in your images of nature and the outdoors.

National Geographic Traveler Seminar: Put the Wow in Your Nature and Outdoor Photography
Jacksonville, FL: February 9, 2008
Houston, TX: March 15, 2008
San Francisco, CA: March 29, 2008
Chicago, IL: April 6, 2008

Registration at NGTravelerSeminars.com

National Geographic Traveler Seminar
Taking great photos while hiking, biking, skiing or hanging off a ledge requires special skills and a minimalist approach to gear. Hear how National Geographic Traveler senior photo editor Dan Westergren and Traveler photographer Peter McBride trek all over the world and come back with great photos from the edge.

National Geographic Traveler Seminar: Photos from the Edge: Bringing Home Great Adventures
Los Angeles, CA: March 2, 2008
Seattle, WA: May 4, 2008
Toronto, ON: May 18, 2008

Registration at NGTravelerSeminars.com

National Geographic Live!
Mark Moffett’s mission is to find stories that make people fall in love with the unexpected: insects, frogs, and other of nature’s small wonders. One of only a handful of people to earn a PhD under the world’s most famous ecologist, E. O. Wilson, Moffett has produced over two dozen articles for National Geographic magazine. An entertaining, irreverent presenter who uses humor to open peoples’ eyes to the small wonders of the natural world, Moffett has made appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Colbert Report. Join this intrepid and eccentric ecologist as he shares the beauty and marvels of life in the treetops.

Masters of Photography Lecture Series: Army Ants, Orchids, and Dancing Frogs
Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic Society, 1600 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/washingtondc/s2008/masters/moffett.html

Visit the National Geographic Museum exhibition, "Face to Face with Frogs: The Photographs of Mark Moffett" and "Frogs! A Chorus of Colors", January 25 through May 11, 2008, 17th & M Streets, Washington, D.C. 20036

National Geographic Live!
At the age of 12, David Doubilet took his first underwater photograph off the coast of his native New Jersey using a Brownie Hawkeye camera sealed in a plastic bag. Now considered the leading underwater photographer in the world, whose images are prized as much for their scientific value as for their aesthetic beauty, Doubilet has shot over 60 stories for National Geographic and introduced a generation of readers to the mysteries and wonders of the deep. Recent assignments have taken him to the northern corner of Botswana, where the Okavango River empties into one of the largest inland deltas on Earth, and to the remote Indonesian waters of Raja Ampat in the newly established Bird’s Head Seascape, known for having the world’s greatest coral reef biodiversity. Join us for a magical evening as Doubilet takes us into these remote, delicate, and sometimes dangerous underwater edens.

Masters of Photography Lecture Series: Secret Underwater Edens
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Mesa Arts Center, 1 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85201
www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/arizona/doubilet.html

National Geographic Live!
A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tommy Heinrich began climbing at an early age in northern Patagonia and the high mountains of the Andes. This background put him securely on a path to becoming the first Argentine to summit Everest, a feat he accomplished in 1995. Discovering a passion for photography that rivaled his passion for climbing, he has become one of the world’s leading mountain and climbing photographers, in which capacity he has photographed expeditions to Everest, Dhaulagiri, and Argentina’s Aconcagua. His first story for National Geographic, coverage of a Polish attempt to summit Nanga Parbat in winter, was published in the January 2008 issue. In his first National Geographic Live! appearance, he’ll offer thrilling images and stories of this and other expeditions to the highest places on Earth.

Masters of Photography Lecture Series: High-Climbing Adventures
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic Society, 1600 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/washingtondc/s2008/masters/heinrich.html

National Geographic Live!
Over the course of his 25-year career shooting for National Geographic, photographer Sam Abell has covered topics as varied as Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, the Civil War, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Amazon, Australia, and Japan’s Imperial Palace. For the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase in 2003, Abell photographed the mighty Mississippi River for a National Geographic book, The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation, exploring the entire length of the river, from its source at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to its mouth at Delacroix Island, Louisiana. From majestic panoramas to intimate portraits of the people who live along its banks, Abell assembled an evocative and comprehensive portrait of a river that resonates in American history and legend. Join this master photographer for an unforgettable voyage down the river that knits our nation together.

Masters of Photography Lecture Series: The Mississippi: A Photographer's Journey
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
State Theatre, 805 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55402
www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/minneapolis/abell.html

National Geographic Live!
At the age of 12, David Doubilet took his first underwater photograph off the coast of his native New Jersey using a Brownie Hawkeye camera sealed in a plastic bag. Now considered the leading underwater photographer in the world, whose images are prized as much for their scientific value as for their aesthetic beauty, Doubilet has shot over 60 stories for National Geographic and introduced a generation of readers to the mysteries and wonders of the deep. Recent assignments have taken him to the northern corner of Botswana, where the Okavango River empties into one of the largest inland deltas on Earth, and to the remote Indonesian waters of Raja Ampat in the newly established Bird’s Head Seascape, known for having the world’s greatest coral reef biodiversity. Join us for a magical evening as Doubilet takes us into these remote, delicate, and sometimes dangerous underwater edens.

Masters of Photography Lecture Series: Secret Underwater Edens
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
The Field Museum, The James Simpson Theatre, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois
www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/chicago/doubilet.html

National Geographic Live!
One of the first female staff photographers hired at National Geographic, Annie Griffiths Belt’s assignments have included stories about Jerusalem, the spectacular ancient ruins of Petra in Jordan, England’s Lake District, Lawrence of Arabia, and the Badlands region of South Dakota. When her children (daughter Lily and son Charlie) were born, she took them right along on her assignments, turning what some might see as an obstacle into an opportunity. “In some of these cultures, I’m a bizarre character—a woman from another world, traveling without a chaperone,” she explains. “The fact that I’m a mother provides common ground.” In a presentation based on her new National Geographic book, A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel, Belt shares the secrets of her peripatetic life, and relates intimate moments and touching stories, along with her portfolio of emotionally rich photographs.

Masters of Photography Lecture Series: A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel
Monday, March 31, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic Society, 1600 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/washingtondc/s2008/masters/belt.html

Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
State Theatre, 805 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55402
www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/minneapolis/belt.html

Sunday, May 11 and Monday, May 12, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benaroya Hall, 200 University Street, Seattle, WA
www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/seattle/belt.html