Exhibits
EXHIBIT Closed on August 14th 2016
Juror: Davy Rothbart
 Detritus - The Aeroplane Juror's Choice by Jeff Moorfoot from Lyonville, Victoria Australia |
Relics of the past rediscovered and redefined through the medium of photography.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 21 July 16 |
| Artists' Reception: | 5 August 16 17:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 14 August 16 |
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Just as Vivian Maier’s story, the secretive nanny-photographer who becomes a photography world sensation shortly after her death, spurs levels of excitement found in the rolls of undeveloped film and unacclaimed genius, a dropped scarf on the city street can alter the scene in many ways. It can become the scene.
Juror Davy Rothbart's musings on this theme, "discarded items found in the weeds; abandoned buildings; broken-down trucks in a field; scraps of metal left to rust and decay. I'm reminded of a koan that my mom, a Buddhist teacher, often shares. She'll hand someone a fresh scrap of paper, ask them to crumple it into a tight ball, and then uncrumple it. "Do you see," she'll ask, "within the crumpled paper, its original perfection?" All of the decayed, lost, abandoned places and things in these photographs possess their original glory and perfection and their wizened present hints at a rich, textured journey which is up to us to imagine."
Darkroom Gallery is calling for photographs that redefine found objects or subjects of the past. Whether you are foraging in a far away land or in your own backyard we are looking for images that embody this murky realm of faded glory; haunting happenstance, and beauty found in the lost details of the human condition.
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Juror's Statement: For 15 years, I've been collecting notes, letters, and photos plucked up off the ground or found on the street, and publishing them in an annual print zine called FOUND and on our daily FOUND Magazine website. Each scrap of paper offers a raw, revealing, and riveting peek into someone else's life. The same instinct that compels me to treasure lost love notes, To Do lists, and journals, and marvel at the stories within also beckons me into abandoned spaces to examine the traces of lives that passed through these spaces years, decades, even centuries before. I don't believe in ghosts, exactly, but inside each sagging barn I've explored, each abandoned pickup truck lost in the woods, each eerie ghost town saloon, the presence of those who once called these places home is always close at hand. I feel powerfully drawn to these places, like a crow to the graveyard, and am frequently rewarded by a jolt of self-recognition and a tingle of discovery. What struck me, as I pored over hundreds of beautiful, striking, poetic images submitted by a global array of deeply talented artists, was the thrilling fact that so many other people share my fascination with abandoned places and things. It brought me great joy to imagine each photographer on their own journey of discovery, jolted and tingled themselves, as they explored a shambling house at the edge of town, a rotting cabin in the desert, a junkyard heaped with ancient vehicles. These pictures gave me a chance to explore a range of haunted and exquisite spaces I might never have reached on my own, but more than that, they gave me a sense for just how many kindred spirits we have out there, a vast community of folks who share a particular curiosity and sense of wonder. Thank you for exploring; thank you for your unique vision; thank you for documenting what you've found. —Davy Rothbart, creator and editor of FOUND Magazine & host of the FOUND Podcast (launching July 13th) |
Detritus - The Aeroplane
Juror's Choice
Jeff Moorfoot
Lyonville, Victoria AustraliaBillboard, East 13th Street
Honorable Mention
Bruce Berkow
New York, NY USAWhere did all the money go
Honorable Mention
Ibai Rigby
Austin, Texas USA Tire and Mulga Ant Nest in the Desert
Honorable Mention
Karen Burgess
Frenchs Forest, NSW AustraliaBabe the Blue Ox
Honorable Mention
Nancy Stalnaker Bundy
Minneapolis, MN USAWhere we used to Walk
Honorable Mention
Rachel Eubanks
Lucedale, Mississippi USA Untitled (Snow)
Honorable Mention
Ruth Raveh
Brooklyn, NY USAFlashbacks
People's Choice
Shannon Beaston
Blain, PA United StatesWeathered
Alexandria Donovan
Westport, Connecticut USA Within the Oz House
Amanda Marie Harner
Damascus, Maryland USAWeak and Powerless
Amy M. Krencius
Clackamas, OR USA2016
Barbara Redondo
Coral Gables, FL USA Repairs
Ben Davis
Rochester, NY USAAlley Reflections
Ben Davis
Rochester, NY USAForgotten Trophies, Waycross, GA 1-2015
Benita VanWinkle
Winston-Salem, NC USA Cakewalk, Black Hawk, Mississippi
Betty Press
Hattiesburg, MS, Mississippi USAMidnight Snack Shop, Midnight, Mississippi
Betty Press
Hattiesburg, MS, Mississippi USABillboard, Paris Metro
Bruce Berkow
New York, NY USA Abort, Retry, Fail?
Dana Dal Bo
Montréal, QC CanadaConey Island
Dave Levingston
Springfield, Ohio USAStar for Sgt. Friscia, Staten Island
Edward Coppola
Staten Island, NY USA Burt's Bed
Edward L. Rubin
Los Angeles, CA USAAluminum Cans
Hsien-Chih Chuang
Taichung City, TaiwanTyre Graveyard
Ibai Rigby
Austin, Texas USA Played.
Jeff Wiles
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USALost Memories
Jeffrey Olson
Coral Springs, Florida USASurvivor
Jeffrey Olson
Coral Springs, Florida USA Megalithic Monument, France
Julie O'Connor
Weston, CT USAPeople's History Awaits Fate, Chicago
Julie O'Connor
Weston, CT USAWilliford House 1
Kristin L. Ware
Huntsville, TX USA Old Master
Les Schmidt
New Orleans, LA USAWhat Once Was
Lora Mancini
Shaftsbury, VT USATreasure Island Transitions 2
Mark L. Hannah
Sunnyvale, US-CA USA End of the Road
Mark Melnick
Palm Desert, CA USAGarage
Matt Brittenham-Jones
Montpelier, VT USAFlags
nancy oliveri
Brooklyn, NY USA Pullman
Nicholas Teetelli
Manalapan, NJ USAAbandoned Dreams
Peggy Reynolds
Essex Jct., VT USAOut of Service
Pete McCutchen
Alexandria, VA USA Alex, with grandmothers lace collar
Rebecca Moseman
Purcellville, VA USAGreen Giant, Los Angeles
Richard Greene
Los Angeles, CA USAOld Atlanta Prison Farm #3
Richard Greene
Los Angeles, CA USA A New and Accurate Map of the World
Richard K. Kent
Lancaster, Pennsylvania USAZenith
Ronan Considine
delta, bc canadaRoute 66
Sandra Chen Weinstein
Lake Forest, CA USA The View
Sandra Jungling
Sun City, Az USAChinatown Window
Shannon McClatchey
San Francisco, CA USALost Words
Stephanie Guillen
Zurich, Switzerland Ugandan Legacy
Stephen Milne
Alliston, Ontario CanadaMormon Row Outhouse
Steven Winker
Mascoutah, IL USAIce Sculpture. Greenland
Thomas Pickarski
New York, New York USA Chalkboard 5
Tom Morin
Houston, TX USAEntrance, Samson Tire Factory, Los Angeles CA
Wayne M. Peterson
Philomont, Virginia United StatesThree Crosses, Monterey CA
Wayne M. Peterson
Philomont, Virginia United States The Fun Is Gone
Wil Scott
Annapolis, MD USA
- 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.
Juror: Davy Rothbart
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Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine, a publication dedicated to discarded notes, letters, flyers, photos, lists, and drawings found and sent in by readers. The magazine spawned a best-selling book, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World, published in April 2004. A second collection was published in May 2006, a third in May 2009. The magazine is published annually and has a worldwide following, it's online blog is updated daily.
Rothbart is a frequent contributor to This American Life, and author of My Heart Is An Idiot, a book of personal essays, and the story collection The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ and Grantland, and his work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Believer. He is also the founder of Washington II Washington, an annual outdoor adventure for inner-city kids. Rothbart lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Los Angeles, California.
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EXHIBIT Closed on September 11th 2016
Juror: Lance Keimig
Join Lance Keimig for Light Painting: A Night Photography Workshop at the Darkroom Gallery September 10th- September 11th, 2016
 Juror's Choice: Repetition #4 I by Cindy Crane |
Mind-bending magical photography can be conjured through a multitude of processes.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 18 August 16 |
| Artists' Reception: | 9 September 16 17:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 11 September 16 |
 Optics IllusionedExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
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Juror's Statement: There was a wide breadth of entries, as might be expected from the enigmatic theme. The entires varied widely in quality, subject, and technique, and also in interpretation of the concept. There were a number of outstanding images that didn’t really match the theme, and unfortunately had to be left out of the exhibit. There were multiple exposures and composites, and images that worked on a conceptual and/or a visual level. There were many night images and a number of light painting images as well. The images that I responded to the most not only fit the theme of the show, but also made a strong visual impact and had me wondering how they were made. I was glad to see a number of people working in series, or what seemed to be ongoing projects because this demonstrated the people were exploring the concepts and ideas of the theme. One thing that stood out was that there were very few “straight” images, or ones that were created entirely in camera. Jurgen Lobert’s “Warping Reflections”, and Ginny Newton’s “Skatepark” were great examples of confounding imagery created entirely in camera. Congratulations to all who entered and to those in the exhibit. Please remember that the exhibit is based on the subjective interpretation of one individual- it does not mean that your work wasn’t excellent. -Lance Keimig
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- 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.
Juror: Lance Keimig
Lance Keimig is best known for his night photographs, which are often made at the juncture of the built and natural environments. His book, Night Photography- Finding Your Way In The Dark was published by Focal Press in August of 2010, and has been translated into 6 languages. A revised and expanded second edition was published in July of 2015.
He has taught at the New England School of Photography in Boston since 2000, and has also taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, The Houston Center for Photography, and leads independent workshops across the country. Russell Brown, senior creative director for Adobe, said that Keimig may well be “one of the finest photography instructors on the planet.”
Keimig is a frequent speaker and workshop instructor for photographic events around the country. He has presented and taught at the Photo Plus Expo in New York, and was a featured speaker and workshop instructor at Estudio Brasil in Saõ Paulo, Brazil. He has lectured and taught for the Scottish Photographers Association in Glasgow, The School of Visual Arts in NY, B&H Event Space, and The New England Camera Club Council among others.
Keimig continues to teach night photography and light painting workshops around the country, and also leads photo tours to Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and Cuba. His work has taken him to such far flung places as Zimbabwe where he did documentary photography for a medical mission, the Philippines to photograph a museum collection, and Japan where he photographed Buddhist temples. His photographs are held in numerous collections including The Art Complex Museum In Duxbury, MA, The Boston Athenaeum, The Boston Public Library, and the The Grace Museum in Abilene, TX.
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EXHIBIT Closed on March 22nd 2015
Juror: Rebecca Senf
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Lines are powerful compositional elements that control the way eyes move through a photograph.
Lines add impact to an image, place emphasis to a particular area of the composition, or tell a story or to draw a connection between different elements in a photograph. Lines can be straight, curved, broken or jagged. They can bisect one another, cross or overlap and be the driving force behind interpreting perspective.
In the Renaissance, painters needed to be able to translate the three-dimensional world around them onto the two-dimensional surface of a painting, called the "picture plane." The solution was "linear perspective"; the idea that converging lines meet at a single vanishing point and all shapes get smaller in all directions with increasing distance from the eye. Photographers can take this artistic function for granted, or they can harness perspective in unique and creative ways to focus or push the eye around the image.
Lines of some sort can be found in all photographs, formed by natural or artificial elements. Naturally occurring lines can be rivers, shorelines, waves, sand dunes, and rows of trees while roads, fences, bridges, street lights and skyscrapers are examples of architectural or linear constuctions. The effect that lines have on an image varies depending upon the orientation and direction. Horizontal lines convey a sense of width, stability, calm, lazy, security, relaxation, constancy and timelessness. Whereas vertical lines convey a sense of strength, height, integrity, solidity, dominance, power, peace and tranquility, substance or permanence. Darkroom Gallery is calling for images that utilize lines in innovative and dynamic ways, how are your photographs enhanced or translated by line?Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) Exhibit Opens: 26 February 15 Artists' Reception: 22 March 15 16:30 Exhibit Closes: 22 March 15 
Lines
Exhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto
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Juror's Statement: A juror’s job is always a struggle. To review a group of images, united by a theme, and select a small group for exhibition is a challenge. Unavoidably, many good pictures – well seen and provocative – are left out. It was interesting to see how photographers responded to the call for pictures about lines. Images of both manmade and natural lines appeared. Buildings, horizon lines, contrails, trees, railroad tracks, beams of light. I found myself drawn to photographs that were intriguing – in which the arrangement of space was obfuscated and unclear. Those visual puzzles attracted me. On the other hand, some of the most minimal and straightforward pictures, of power lines or jellyfish tentacles, struck me as wonderfully beautiful. Although I look for innovation and new approaches, I am also engaged by a straight photograph that is well made. We don’t see it often in photography, but I always appreciate photographers who incorporate humor or playfulness in their work. In creating this selection I strove to bring together a diverse approach to the concept of lines, pictures that surprise and delight and are just great images, and I hope you enjoy Lines as much as I have. Rebecca Senf |
| Wire Sketches 16 Juror's Choice 
| Last Visit Honorable Mention 
| beach day Honorable Mention 
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| Chinese Willows Honorable Mention 
| Maple Leaf People's Choice 
| Squiggles
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Form
| Rows
| Plant Bowen 2
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Chester
| the sea - reflection I
| Parking Lot Colors and Lines
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Art & Architecture, NYC
| Green Bean
| Blinded
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Ice Formation, Morgan Run Creek
| Stiff Upper Lip
| Untitled
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Apologies to Jackson Pollack
| Frost
| Final Curtain
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Election Day Across the Universe
| Memorial
| Lines #7
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"Density in Downtown Austin,"
| Next Stop: The Crusher
| Untitled
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StrangeAngels 0023
| the kids are doing okay - letter to Lucasville prison
| Field Museum Chicago - Ceiling
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The Heart
| West Chester #9
| This Too Will Pass
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Onto the Abyss
| Split Screen
| Penguin Plunge 
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Lines and Shadows
| Promenade
| Dark composition
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The Urban Lines of Toronto 
| Geometry
| Moon Fog
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Therapeutic View
| Somerville, MA 2014
| Line & Form #06
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Heart Of The Sun
| Sailboat lifeline at dawn
| july
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Night Stories
| Commuter
| Coney Island
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Untitled #2 from the Focused Chaos series
| AbstrActure 03
| The Musk Ox
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Balance
| Listen
| The Flow
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National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing
| Waiting
| Onward
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Ward's, 2014
| Night Flight 10, from the series Airplanes
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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:Rebecca Senf Dr. Rebecca Senf is the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment at the Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum. She curates three exhibitions a year for the Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography in Phoenix and her past exhibitions include Debating Modern Photography: the Triumph of Group f/64; Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence; Human Nature: the Photographs of Barbara Bosworth; Edward Weston: Mexico; Odyssey: the Photographs of Linda Connor; Charting the Canyon: Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture; Exposing Time: Capturing Change Through Photography and the Steele Gallery exhibition, Ansel Adams: Discoveries of January to June, 2010. Senf grew up in Tucson and went to undergraduate school at the University of Arizona, studying the History of Photography. She spent ten years in Boston, Massachusetts where she earned a Ph.D. in Art History at Boston University. In Boston she worked on the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s major exhibition Ansel Adams from The Lane Collection, for which she also co-authored the exhibition catalogue. In October of 2012 her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press. Recent projects include exhibitions on the photographic book and in the next few months she will open two exhibitions focused on platinum photography.
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EXHIBIT Closed on July 19th 2015
Juror: Dan Burkholder
Juror's Choice: "Delicate and Unique" by Greg Bennett from Hampden, ME USA
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Wild, wild wilderness, its grandeur and grace epically and intimately explored through photography.
Humans have always looked upon the beauty, majesty, and ingenuity of the world around them with reverent wonder. The regular rhythms of the sun and moon, the myriads of living creatures in all their splendid diversity, the magnificence of a flower, a butterfly’s wings or a snow crystal – The ancient Greeks aptly called the universe kosmos, a word denoting order and harmony.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 25 June 15 |
| Artists' Reception: | 17 July 15 17:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 19 July 15 |
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Many of nature’s patterns are related to the golden section and the Fibonacci numbers. For instance, the golden spiral is a logarithmic or equiangular spiral – a type of spiral found in unicellular foraminifera, sunflowers, seashells, animal horns and tusks, beaks and claws, whirlpools, hurricanes, and spiral galaxies.
Darkroom Gallery is calling for photography that investigates this intrinsic magic in the natural world. From macro shots to large scale landscapes show us your examples of this otherworldly complexity within our natural realm.
Juror's Choice & Honorable Mention winners received free custom prints for the exhibit that are ecologically sound, sustainable and recyclable created by EcoVisualLab!
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Juror's Statement: If you truly love Photography, you love the way constant change has increasingly become one of the heartbeats of our medium. And as photography morphs in so many new directions so does our concept of what’s “natural.” What doesn’t change is that a good photograph will still give you pause to consider the subject, the treatment and, most importantly, the photo’s ability to hold your eye, perhaps leaving you with more questions than answers. You might say the best photos are unexpected. The final images in this exhibition weren’t always the most technically perfect, the most color faithful, or even of the most tried and true compositions. But they are the ones that will stick with you long after your iPad’s gone dark. Dan Burkholder |
| Delicate and Unique Juror's Choice
| Between Honorable Mention 
| Mountain Goats, Mount Evans Honorable Mention 
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| Winter Park Honorable Mention 
| Polar Bear People's Choice 
| Morgendunst
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Quarry Stone
| Lenticular Cloud at Dusk
| Total Eclipse, March 29, 2006
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Capitol Reef National Park
| Great Smoky Mountains Tennessee
| Boat in the Fog
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Ditch Plains II
| Grasses on a September Morning
| Cascade II
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Soft bloom
| Adirondack Mts TinType
| Zephyr
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Cambium
| Owl Eye Moth Wing
| Lone_Tree_Marcay_France
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Peekaboo
| The Birds
| Wemmershoek Storm
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Symmetry 
| South Dakota Sunset
| StarryNight
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South Shore Suite, May 2, 2015
| Green spiral
| Swallowing Seas
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Mirrored Sky Meditation: Egret
| Green Abstract
| Winter Rain
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Succulent Quartet
| Cattail Creek, Glass, Arkansas
| Evaporation
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Window View
| Ghost Ship
| Pampas Strata
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Fall Impression at Bellevue
| Motion
| Complexus
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Stardust
| Antarctica Rising
| Midnight In The Lemaire
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Crotalus horridus
| Angry River
| Junkyard Bloom
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Passage
| Badlands #2
| Malecon
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The Trees of Arnhem
| Le Tournesol
| Omnibus 61 par le delta
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Walls of Ice, Greenland
| La Quinta Hike
| Egret, Reflected
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Swiftcurrent Falls
| Fire on the Mountain
| Cretaceous
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Life's journey
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Juror's Choice receives a signed copy of Douglas Beasley's Earth Meets Spirit: A Journey Through the Sacred Landscape.- 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.
- Juror's Choice & Honorable Mention winners will be offered free custom prints for the exhibit that are ecologically sound, sustainable and recyclable created by:
- 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: Dan Burkholder
Dan Burkholder was one of the first photographic artists to embrace digital technology in the early 1990’s. True to his love of the traditional photograph, Dan uses digital technology to build images that still look and feel like realphotographs, not like something from a graphic designer’s portfolio. Melding his unique vision with mastery of both the wet and digital darkrooms, his platinum prints are now included in many museum and private collections.
 Originating the digital-negative process in 1992, Burkholder has helped open doors for all black and white photographers interested in moving into the new electronic technologies. His award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, is regarded as the most authoritative work in the field.Dan has taught classes and workshops at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the lnternational Center of Photography in New York, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and others. Active with the Texas Photographic Society for many years, he is currently serving on the Advisory Board for this organization.Dan Burkholder was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, an agri-industrial community in the Appalachian Mountains. He attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, where he received his BA and Masters Degrees in Photography.
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