EXHIBIT Closed on June 18th 2017

Juror: Bruce Gilden

Juror's Choice Superhero, 2016 by Merrilee Luke-Ebbeler Cincinnati, OH USA

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.   Bruce Gilden

Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change)
Exhibit Opens:	25 May 17
Artists' Reception:	10 June 17 17:00
Exhibit Closes:	18 June 17
Streetwise Exhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto The Darkroom Gallery Difference

Street photography records the human experience as it happens, minute to minute, second to second. Its hallmark is immediacy and its challenge is to capture, at precisely the right instant, the drama of everyday life. While street photography is so often associated with big cities, especially New York City, any public space, from small town Main Street to the county fair, can yield genuine human drama.
If your pictures aren’t good enough, then you’re not getting close enough. Robert Capa

Getting close enough to one’s subject(s) is difficult for most of us, and yet it’s essential to making effective street photographs. For this exhibit Darkroom Gallery and juror Bruce Gilden looked for photographs that illustrate the interplay of human activity and that seize the moment.

 

Juror’s Statement: It was a very hard choice to pick the winner but in the end, there was something in the photo of the boy with the mask. This photo is not a cliché. Overall most of the work missed the mark, some narrowly others by a mile. Many of the photos were too cramped on one side and had too much space on the other side. A good photograph works well across the whole frame. In closing, street photography as a genre is very difficult to do well. One suggestion I have: keep it simple. Crawl before you walk. Bruce Gilden

Superhero, 2016. Juror's Choice Merrilee Luke-Ebbeler Cincinnati, Oh United States	untitled Honorable Mention John Waller Holyoke, MA United States	Steps Honorable Mention Merethe Wessel-Berg Oslo, Norway
Agricultural Fair Honorable Mention Robert Rutoed Vienna, Austria	Willets Point People's Choice Cat Cutillo South Burlington, VT USA	Petticoat Lane Market, London A.G. McQuillan Missoula, MT USA
Wedding on the Hudson 1 Barbara Ehlers New York, New York United States	At the Ice Cream Truck Barbara Ehlers New York, New York United States	Herb Boba Fett Remulak, Space France
kids. Crummy Gummy Orlando, FL USA	Dolly Danyelle Farrell Boston, Lincolnshire UK	The Shopper Danyelle Farrell Boston, Lincolnshire UK
Hypnotized Clown Darren Port Northampton, MA USA	Double Birthday Darren Port Northampton, MA USA	Hat, San Jose, CA David Clarkson Monterey, CA United States
Lipstick David Whitney Andover, MA United States	Lost in the city Dimo Dimov Sofia, Bulgaria	Subway Glance Erik S. Lieber Brooklyn, NY USA
42nd Street, January 21, 2017 Gabrielle Robinson New York, New York USA	An older self, Tamarama Rocks Joey Solomon Forest Hills, New York USA	untitled John Waller Holyoke, MA United States
You'll Never Walk Alone Jolanta Mazur Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Onwards We Go Jolanta Mazur Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Views Kristen Victoria Harner Damascus, MD USA
Cinema, 1 Lawrence Michael Lee New York, New York USA	telephone Maureen Bond Granada Hills, CA USA	Explorer Meredith Moore Brooklyn, NY United States
Spring Grove Cemetery Wedding, 2015. Merrilee Luke-Ebbeler Cincinnati, Oh United States	Dark CIty #2 michele palazzo new york, New York United States	5th avenue 1 Nei Valente New York, NY United States
5th avenue 2 Nei Valente New York, NY United States	Lost Elmo Nei Valente New York, NY United States	Blue Front Cafe Norma McGehee Woodward Fredericksburg, VA USA
Easter 6 ORESTES GONZALEZ long island city, New York United States	Easter 10 ORESTES GONZALEZ long island city, New York United States	Soho Paul Kessel New York, NY USA
South Williamsburg Paul Kessel New York, NY USA	Western & Santa Monica, L.A. #1 - 2014 Richard Greene Los Angeles, CA USA	Christ Died for Our Sin, NY, NY, 2015 Robert A. Virga Fort Lee, New Jersey USA
5th Avenue, NY, NY, 2012 Robert A. Virga Fort Lee, New Jersey USA	Chauffeur, NY, NY, 2015 Robert A. Virga Fort Lee, New Jersey USA	Holiday Fair Robert Rutoed Vienna, Austria
N.O.A.H Tao He Baltimore, MD United States	N.O.A.H Tao He Baltimore, MD United States	N.O.A.H Tao He Baltimore, MD United States
Got a Light? WEDNESDAY AJA Dana Point, CA USA	Homemade Cookies Zoe Perry-Wood Lexington, MA United States

• All selected entries are exhibited in our gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog;
• Juror's Choice receives a 30x48" vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image, free entry into a future exhibition, a free exhibition catalog;
• Honorable Mentions receive free exhibition catalogs and free entry in a future exhibition. 
• People's Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.
• We offer free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of our exhibition, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs.

Juror: Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden and his photography are inextricably linked. Hours as a child looking at tough guys on the bustling streets of Brooklyn from his second-story window shaped Gilden’s attraction to his photographic subjects. Gilden is a street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photos of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had numerous books of his work published, and is the subject of the documentary film: Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden (2007). He has worked in black & white photography most of his life, but recently has begun shooting color and digital in recent years.