New Orleans Jazz Fest Volunteer Photographers 2013

The Volunteer Photographer Program is a community outreach project of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation's Archive. The mission of the program is to provide documentation of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the Foundation Archive, including the "internal culture" of Jazz Fest—the food, art, culture and people who attend the festival. The program joins photographers from a variety of backgrounds with the Festival and Archive to provide the unique experience of photographing the world renowned New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. Volunteer Photographers must be at least 18 years of age.

Volunteer Photographers must be able to manage and edit hundreds or even thousands of digital images and understand that the work of photographing the Jazz Fest is physically demanding. Photographers often walk many miles a day around the Fair Grounds Race Course and are responsible for their own photography gear. There can be a variety of weather conditions—rain (lots of mud) or shine (lots of dust) and potentially very hot weather. Selected volunteer photographers are responsible for providing the Archive with CDs of the images taken at the festival along with a complete index of images on the disk. The images are owned by the photographer and may be used to promote the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation and for non-commercial and educational purposes.

A four-person jury consisting of one member of the NOJHF Archive Committee and three photographers/curators will select photographers based on artistic merit (60%) and experience photographing live cultural events and/or professional reliability (40%). Applicant categories include Student, Amateur, and Professional. The festival dates are April 26-28 and May 2-5, 2013. No more than 150 applications can be accepted. Applicants must submit 6 images.