Past Exhibits
An Exhibition of Photos of the Town Of Essex Including Essex Junction
 Train Hop ©Ken Signorello |
We asked for the submission of photos from the Town of Essex, including the Village of Essex Junction, for our first exhibition specifically of photos of the local area. Participating photographers could live anywhere, but the photos they entered had to be taken in Essex and Essex Junction.
The challenge was to picture what it is about Essex, the town, and Essex Junction, the village, that's unique, that stands out and makes this place feel like home. We were rewarded with an eclectic variety of images from photographers ranging in age from high school students to seniors. The resulting exhibition was a delightful and creative mix of photos ranging from casual shots captured with cell phones to more formal compositions made by skilled photographers using high-end equipment. Viewed together, the photos in the exhibition comprised a view into the varied lives and visions of this dynamic and ever-changing locale.
The Details:
- You don't have to be a resident of Essex, but your photos must have been taken in Essex including Essex Junction
- Age doesn't matter. Minors will need a parent or guardian to submit their work.
- All levels of photographic experience are welcome.
- Submission deadline is 11:59pm October 2, 2019. All entries must be received by the deadline; no exceptions!
- All selected prints will be displayed at Darkroom Gallery from October 18 to November 24, 2019
- All entries must be submitted on-line, by email or in person via any delivery method as long as they arrive on time.
- Entries should be submitted as high quality JPGs no larger than 1280 pixels on the longest side.
- You may submit your own prints as long as they are no larger than 11x14 inches, or you can have us make prints for you at a cost of $10 for 8x10 or 8x12 luster prints
- Entry is free.
- All selected entries will be displayed on our website, as well as in the gallery
- There will be an artist's reception at the gallery and open to the public on Saturday, October 26 from 4pm to 6pm
- Photographers may pick up their work at the gallery on or after November 24.
Juror: Johan Hallberg-Campbell
Time-oriented photography; vintage, futuristic or rhythmic imagery.
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Clocks, watches, pendulums and metronomes tick the seconds away. At a most elemental level, the moon, sun, stars and shadows tell us time as the tides and waves of the oceans create a rhythm we exist within. A river can cut away a rock face in time as waves can clear a beach. People become worn, gnarled and aged over time as the rings of a tree count the decades. Retro furniture, fashion or surrounding atmospheres can automatically date a place. Darkroom Gallery is calling for explorative visual depictions of time. Pasts and futures can often collide...and what of time travelers and quantum physics? Lastly, photographs can be truly devoid of time, they can have a sort of classic "timelessness". Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) Exhibit Opens: 29 January 15 Artists' Reception: 22 February 15 16:30 Exhibit Closes: 22 February 15 
Chronograph
Exhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto
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Juror's Statement: Once I began looking, the literal description of time became almost arbitrary, a consideration, but not the reason for choice. How do you record time in a photograph? Essentially, as soon as you click the shutter you are recording a moment, a moment created conceptually or literally, a moment made by you, a moment of time. Each photograph was something special, the artist’s attempt to connect with the viewer, their version of time and what that meant. I liked that thought. I looked for images that had connection, that felt honest, made me pause and made me think. The stranger the picture the more I was drawn in. I felt I could make my own story. Johan Hallberg-Campbell |
| Funeral of Father Juror's Choice 
| Family Vacation Honorable Mention 
| Cadere [To Fall] I Honorable Mention 
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| Grandmother, Granddaughter People's Choice Honorable Mention 
| De heer Roodenburg with great grandson; commissioned family portrait by the grandson and father
| Teen Angst
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Time Still No. 2
| Unexpectedly So
| Baptism
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Penelope
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| Last Supper
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Graduation
| remembered
| Bound 
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Far Away
| Fingers of Thought
| Romeo y Juliet
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Fifth Term
| Untitled #15, From The Drive-by Series
| Ebb and Flow
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Reentry
| If Only
| in the lead.
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Mechanoreceptors 1-3
| Je Ne Sais Plus [What Is This Feeling] #1
| Hands, Philadelphia
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Summer Breeze
| Rocking Horse
| Woman on Horse
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| Liftoff
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Time Capsule
| The Tension Between 
| Residual
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Faded Glory
| Only Trees Will Tell
| Time, In Pictures
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Boy, in time
| Entropy
| Las Vegas
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Shadow of the self 01
| Birdscapes: Voting Day 2014
| Time for Memories
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- 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, and 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.
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Juror:Johan Hallberg-Campbell
Johan Hallberg-Campbell was born in the Highlands of Scotland and has been living and working in Canada since 2007. He is a Graduate of The Glasgow School of Art. |
Juror: David H. Wells
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Photographs that transport you to a unique time and location, that portray a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state, images that have no geographical limitations.
Travel the world and capture the many communities, landscapes and cityscapes that make up this planet. From barren deserts to icebergs floating in the sea the natural environs are numerous, then take into account the human societies continually evolving in these latitudes: from bustling metropolises to single room dwellings. And what of the anthropological side of things? How do the multitudes of communities forge their lives? What is the underlying current that makes each tick?
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 6 November 14 |
| Artists' Reception: | 30 November 14 16:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 30 November 14 |
 Far Away PlacesExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
For this exhibit we called for images that deftly define locations all their own. Far away can easily be a close by locale, but reinterpreted in a way to feel exotic. From the far corners of your backyard to the far away country it takes weeks to traverse to, we want to see where you end up when you go "far away".
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Juror's Statement: I kept in mind the call for entries: "From the far corners of your backyard to the far away country it takes weeks to traverse to, we want to see where you end up when you go 'far away'." As I was selecting the winners, I enjoyed going around the world with the 114 photographers who submitted 632 images. Yet, some of the best work was not made in a far away, foreign land either, reminding us that the idea of far away is as much about a mental or emotional journey as it is a physical one. The best images were technically flawless and perfectly composed. They had one or more added elements, be it an especially dramatic time of day, an unusual angle, an experiment with time or with focus, for example. Some, but not all then had an element of post production that supported the narrative in the image, be that making the image B + W or pinhole or panorama, etc. These added elements ALWAYS supported the story in the photograph and never looked like they were thrown in to improve an otherwise mediocre image. The Juror's Choice goes to "Ruins Jumieges, Normandy". This has all the elements I noted above. The light is magical, the composition dynamic, the birds flying through make it a moment, the choice of black and white adds to the drama and the square format keeps our attention within the image unlike a rectangular image, which tends to move the viewer through the image. The photographer who submitted it may have taken a look at my work in advance and seen how I use the play of light and shadow in much of my work. One reviewer wrote “Wells uses light like a surgeon.” That idea, previewing the juror’s work and adjusting the submission accordingly, can improve your chances. It was a real thrill to go around the world in a weekend (which is how long it took me to pick the winners.) I never had to go through security, fight for a seat or argue with a surly customer service representative. Sure, going all those places would have been real blast, but seeing those places and those people enabled me to go “Far Away” from the comfort of my home. David H. Wells |
| Ruins Jumieges, Normandy Juror's Choice 
| Cut-Throat Cuban Style Honorable Mention 
| Golden Glow Honorable Mention 
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| Old San Juan Honorable Mention 
| Main Courtyard in Afternoon Sun, Machu Picchu, Peru People's Choice 
| Wood for the Campfire
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Blossom
| Contentedness
| Does Anybody See a Picture?
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Monastary- Puri, India
| Ice Cream Vendor in Chandipur, India
| Lalibella Priest
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Ethiopian Shepherd 
| Checkers
| Vagabond
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WWII Memorial Window
| Archer in Competition, Nikko, Japan, 2005
| Campfire
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Samegua
| Far From The Ocean
| Mudra
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Watching the Break
| Economic Regality
| Navajo Shadowlands
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Il Duomo, Firenze, at the Heart of the Renaissance
| A Winter Tree
| Paradise in Ruins
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Golden City
| The Face in the Sky, close by and far away, unveils a Secret
| View from the Office
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Circling the Arc de Triomphe
| Moonrise over the Mare Nostrum
| the Breakfast Guest
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Opalescence
| Two Trees, Etosha
| Morning Has Broken, Bagan
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Flutist
| Lamp, Window, Buttress. Santa Fe, NM, 2011.
| Siena
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VARANASI
| Pigeon Park
| The Daily Grind
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Africana
| Nebraska
| Beggar, Athens, Greece
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Untitled 1
| Behind the scenes
| Tivoli (Copenhagen)
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two wheels (Copenhagen)
| Copenhagen
| At the Stream
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Time, Ice, and the Warm Rain Falling
| Low Tide #3
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- 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, and 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.
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Juror:David H. Wells Past assignments have been for Life Magazine, National Geographic Publications, the New York Times Magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, to name a few. He has worked for numerous corporations including Consolidated Natural Gas and DuPont as well as numerous non-profit organizations including Brown University, the Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund, among others. His work has been featured in one-person exhibits at Brown University, U.C. Berkeley and Harvard University. His work has been part of group exhibitions at the Houston FotoFest and the Visa pour l'Image Festival in Perpignan. He has been an Artist in residence at the Visual Studies Workshop and the Light Works Photography Center. He has taught classes at the University of Pennsylvania and workshops at the Maine Media Workshops. He is on the faculty of the International Center for Photography in NYC and is a Visiting Faculty at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka. He was featured in Photo District News as "Best Workshop Instructor." His photo-essays have been funded by fellowships from Nikon/NPPA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation's Program of Research and Writing on International Peace and Cooperation, the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. His project on the pesticide poisoning of California farm workers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Philadelphia Inquirer. As an Olympus Visionary, Wells has been contracted by the camera company to produce images and provide feedback on new products. David was an invited photographer on "America 24/7," the largest professional photo book project ever undertaken. A frequent teacher of photography workshops, his blog, The Wells Point, appears at http://thewellspoint.com
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Juror: Tim Clark
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They say, "a picture is worth 1000 words". For Con[text] we examine the relationships between textual symbols and images.
Combining written word with images has a long history in art. Medieval manuscripts in Christian Europe are interlaced with pictures that exist in a rhetorical relationship with the written text to create layered meaning and verbal or visual puns. William Blake, eighteenth century British poet, published books of his writing with his own illustrations and quickly learned that the synthesis evoked meanings beyond the power of words or pictures alone. Dadaists in early twentieth century Europe combined fragments of found text with appropriated photographic images to open alternative, sometimes irrational, paths of communication they felt were missing from art itself.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 2 January 15 |
| Artists' Reception: | 18 January 15 16:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 25 January 15 |
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Juror's Statement: The 'Grocery image' really piqued my curiosity and stood out as a firm favourite. It's a simple yet deceptive picture, photographed from a cool, analytical distance. Graphic, textured and verging on abstraction, the formal qualities are all there on the surface for us to see. But it also subtly speaks of time and its passing through the traces left via scrawlings and notes which coupled with a gentle humour makes it very human. Tim Clark |
| Call Me Juror's Choice Honorable Mention 
| Only Now Exists Honorable Mention 
| Twenty 3 Honorable Mention 
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| Irene I see you in my dreams Honorable Mention 
| " People's Choice 
| Kenmore Square 11
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ATM
| Fish Ma
| Advisor
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| Love and Hieroglyphics
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Times Square, NYC
| This System Destroys Humanity
| Morning ritual
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Taylor Swift made you cry
| The morning you left
| Keep Out
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Second Amendment
| To Do
| Carcosa Beach
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ATM Alley - Laramie, Wyo.
| True Blood
| Apartment 3B
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| Emergency Supply
| Hygenic Dog Food CO
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Composition with Sign Fragment 1
| A Light Into the Dark
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| Untitled 9
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| Krakow Graffiti
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- 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, and 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.
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Juror:Tim Clark Tim Clark is the Editor-in Chief and Director of 1000 Words Photography Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to contemporary art photography in the UK and beyond.
His writings have appeared in The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, FOAM, Time Lightbox, The British Journal of Photography and Next Level amongst other publications as well as in exhibition catalogues. He also regularly organises workshops with high-profile photographers such as Antoine d’Agata, Anders Petersen, Erik Kessels, Roger Ballen and Jeffrey Silverthorne in various cities across the globe. Clark has judged a number of awards and competitions such as The Paul Huf Award, freshfacedandwildeyed and The Google Photography Prize, and in 2011 joined the Academy of nominators for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. He has also been invited to review portfolios at The Saatchi Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery, FORMAT International Photography Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Encontros da Imagem and FotoFest Houston. Clark has previously held positions at galleries in both the public and private sector including Michael Hoppen Gallery, London. Recent curatorial projects include 'Rebecoming: The Other European Travellers' at Flowers Gallery, London from 10 September-11 October 2014.
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