MEMBERSHIP
Who is eligible to apply for IRIS membership?
Any woman who makes photographs, photography based images, digital, or installations, or who writes on photography and who is not currently an undergraduate student can submit work to be considered for membership.
1. MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
You will become part of a network dedicated to raising the profile of high quality work by women with an established international network and decade of experience.
You will be part of an organisation that is changing the educational experience of photographers today.
You will provide a positive role model for emerging photographers.
You will receive your own dedicated web presence.
Your work will be considered for all appropriate educational, exhibiting and publishing opportunities facilitated by IRIS.
IRIS acts as a gateway and first port of call for many researchers, curators, publishers, collectors and commercial ventures looking for work.
2. MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA
We do not accept work from undergraduates.
All submissions must fulfil application guidelines and formats. View our current submission guidelines (LINK)
All work must demonstrate a high level of technical ability and be of a professional standard.
You must be actively making and taking pictures.
You must demonstrate a real engagement and commitment with the medium.
All work selected will be at the discretion of IRIS.
3. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please submit the following four sections, in addition to the membership form, saved to CD formatted for Mac, and use appropriate text formats. Submissions that do not conform to these guidelines will not be considered.
A maximum of 6 images as digital files saved in TIFF format at 300dpi, with and image size of approximately 20cmx25cm, each file being around 20 Meg in file size, (These files will be reduced in quality to 72dpi for the web to protect your copyright). We require all 6 to be the same format and size, whether that is landscape, portrait or square.
An artist statement of 500 words (maximum).
A short paragraph of biographical details, (no more than 250 words) Starting with your name, city and country of birth, year of birth (optional), a line or two on qualifications and current employment. Then ‘cherry pick’ the high-lights of your artistic career, for example three key exhibitions, residencies, publications, collections, awards and anything else you wish to include.
A document with details of image titles/series (please use the same titles or abbreviation as the file is saved as), format, size in metric centimetres or meters of the images, year the work was made and any captions or supporting information i.e., ‘commissioned by’ as a word document on the CD with the images. We also need to know if there is a series title and running order for the images. If images are abstract please make sure they are submitted with the correct orientation. If scanning from prints please crop and orient the image as you would wish it to appear on your page.
If you wish to submit additional bodies of work to be held on file please do so on a separate CD and label each clearly. We also accept additional ephemera such as Catalogue essays, flyers etc to be held in your file, please note we do not accept prints.
Please complete and send the following form with your submission.
Please send to
Mort Marsh, Iris
Loughborough University, School of the Arts
Epinal Way
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
