Exhibits
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.
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| 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 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 |
 Natural RealmExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
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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Angry River
| Capitol Reef National Park
| Great Smoky Mountains Tennessee
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Boat in the Fog
| Ditch Plains II
| Grasses on a September Morning
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Cascade II
| Soft bloom
| Adirondack Mts TinType
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Zephyr
| Cambium
| Owl Eye Moth Wing
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Lone_Tree_Marcay_France
| Peekaboo
| The Birds
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Wemmershoek Storm
| Symmetry 
| South Dakota Sunset
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StarryNight
| South Shore Suite, May 2, 2015
| Green spiral
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Swallowing Seas
| Mirrored Sky Meditation: Egret
| Green Abstract
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Winter Rain
| Succulent Quartet
| Cattail Creek, Glass, Arkansas
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Evaporation
| Window View
| Ghost Ship
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Pampas Strata
| Fall Impression at Bellevue
| Motion
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Complexus
| Stardust
| Antarctica Rising
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Midnight In The Lemaire
| Crotalus horridus
| 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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EXHIBIT Closed on April 19th 2015
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The study of inanimate objects; subject matter, placement and compositional balance imply meaning that surmount everyday functionality.
Historically, a still life composition is an array of commonplace objects, inert and set in space. These objects often include natural components such as plants, fruits, vegetables, nuts, flowers accompanied by man made objects like dishes, boxes, mirrors and vases within an interior setting at eye level like a table top.
While still life painting can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians, it was with the Dutch painters of the 17th century that it was borne its own as a fine art genre. The rise of still life painting in the Northern and Spanish Netherlands reflects the increasing urbanization of Dutch and Flemish society, which brought with it an emphasis on the home and personal possessions, commerce, trade, learning. All the aspects and diversions of everyday life.
The key feature of a still life image is the degree of control that an artist can exercise over a work. Key elements that make up a still life can be arranged or composed by the artist at will within a studio setting the lighting can be designed and directed minutely. Still life compositions are recognized to be a pure form of art, while being pleasing to the eyes, they can be coupled with dizzying underlying meanings.Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) Exhibit Opens: 26 March 15 Artists' Reception: 29 March 15 17:00 Exhibit Closes: 19 April 15 
Still Life/Life Still
Exhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto
Items are often used that symbolize earthly pleasures: vanity and deluxe luxury juxtaposed by the fleeting nature of these types of objects. A ripe apple implies something completely different from a rotten one. Needless to say, the world has changed a lot since 1600 AD, so modern still lifes may harbor materials and objects that the old masters could never fathom, such as plasticine, fake fruit.
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Juror's Statement: In my selection of the still life photography submissions, I chose images where I found a visual narratives over experimental photographic technique. Sometimes too much artificial creativity in a photograph loses the viewers engagement. I normally like looking at stories with multiple images that have some visual elements rather than single images, but I saw potential from the submissions. In some cases, the single images illustrated many emotions and I could come up with questions and produce my own answers to the image. It's just like I am enjoying a Zen dialogue over the image. I could also define the meaning of the image without knowing the photographer's intention or how they want people to react to the photograph. Yumi Goto |
| Linda’s Angels, from the series, “Collections" Juror's Choice
| Tackle Box Memories Honorable Mention 
| Presence Honorable Mention 
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| Roadside Distraction #11 Honorable Mention 
| Discarded Dispositions People's Choice 
| Thief! People's Choice 
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circles
| Thanksgiving II
| Tune Out :: Turn On
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Milkweed
| Two Eggs, Four Yolks
| All Is Still
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Untitled
| Salamander
| Signs of Life
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Found Bird 64°07'40.7"N 21°55'35.3"W
| Spring Thaw
| Untitled #2, from the series, Collections
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Josephine and Napoleon
| Daybed
| Bear, Currier’s Quality Market, Glover, Vermont
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Mona Lisa
| Moths
| The Ripple
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Frozen Bananas
| Untitled #8
| Untitled Photograph
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Untitled Photograph, paired with found photograph
| If I knew where to send them, I would have sent you flowers
| He hid me behind a couch
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Snow Grass
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| Crossroads Women 3
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Quandary#3
| Quandary#1
| Red Rag in Drain, 2014 
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Frozen Dino
| Life Force
| Everyday Artifact 1.2
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Untitled
| Broken
| Hairpins
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Trinidad Turquoise
| Havana Living #3
| When I was 3, I wanted to be Heath Barkley from The Big Valley.
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Feathers & Turquoise Chair, 2014
| Santa's dream
| Asylum - Ode to Thomas Eggleston
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The Hong Kong Leaf
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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: Yumi Goto Independent photography curator, editor, researcher and consultant who focuses on the development of cultural exchanges that transcend borders. She collaborates with local and international artists who live and work in areas affected by conflict, natural disasters, current social problems, human rights abuses and women’s issues. She often works with human rights advocates, international and local NGOs, humanitarian organizations and as well as being involved as a nominator and juror for the international photographic organizations, festivals and events. She is now based in Tokyo and also a co-funder and curator for the Reminders Photography Stronghold. |
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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