Exhibits
EXHIBIT Closed on May 17th 2015
Join us for an artist talk and book signing with Ed Rubin during the reception at 6PM
Juror: David J. Carol
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The whole of a person caught within a single frame; portraits can be reactive, didactic, contemplative and illusive.
"Semblance" refers to the outward appearance something or in this case, someone. Portraits can be especially dynamic when certain characteristics of a person are highlighted, coaxed into the light and captured as prized specimens.
Juror David J. Carol states:
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 23 April 15 |
| Artists' Reception: | 17 May 15 17:00 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 17 May 15 |
 SemblanceExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
Darkroom Gallery is calling for photographs that explore the portraiture genre. The semblance of a person can be but a whisper of true personality or a roar of honest, glowering character. We can’t wait to fill our gallery walls with a newly visioned works - portrait as character and caricature.
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Juror's Statement: I was presented with the task of selecting a finite number of photographic portraits for a show in a gallery. Does that mean select the best photos? Does it mean to select a group of photos that make a cohesive show? Does it mean I should be cognoscente that there is an equal distribution of B&W, Color, Men, Women and Children? Does it mean I should be sure to include interiors, exteriors, daytime and nighttime images? The answer for me is yes and no. Here's what I did. I selected what I felt were the most unique, compelling, curious, interesting, fun and/or any other attribute that made the photo stand out from the rest. This first set of images was approximately twice the size of where we needed to be for the show. Now the hard part. Break these photos down into a group that A) made sense together and B) stood on their own individually. In the end I had to remove images that were very good but didn't make sense to me for the flow of the show. Its always tough to cut a good image, but that's the reality of putting photos on walls in rooms. Cheers, |
| Untitled from "You Who Never Arrived" Juror's Choice
| Stand Up Straight - as triptych Honorable Mention 
| Peyton Honorable Mention 
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| Cloud Nine. California series Honorable Mention 
| Incantation People's Choice 
| Untitled
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Rick
| Avenue B
| Untitled
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Untitled
| Man Staring at a Puddle
| Ralph
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coffee in bed
| Turkey Man
| Rachel
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Portrait Within
| Lawrence W. Hamel, Hardwick, Vermont
| the cocoon. 
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No. 17, Radiator conversations soaked in yellow lamplight
| Closed Eyes
| untitled
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chapter two: cameron
| Untitled
| THE MOURNER
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Lancaster, PA, August 2012
| The Mitchell Project, December 2011
| Untitled from "You Who Never Arrived"
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Untitled from "You Who Never Arrived"
| Emotive Untitled # 1
| DayDreamer
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Sandbox
| Captiva
| Air and Space Museum
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The instrument repairman
| Sisters II
| Sisters
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Toy Soldier 2
| Mickey in Tub, Scranton, PA
| My real Mom and Dad, at Lake Oscawana, NY
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Missed the bus, again
| Charles Ashana, Pflugerville, Texas 2015
| pondering?
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Girl on a bicycle 
| Man In The Tiger Shirt
| At The Museum of the Art Istitute of Chicago
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On State Street
| Brady Street #27
| Michigan Avenue #57
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Amanda
| Magdalena
| Alex in the garden
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Ben in the snow
| Portrait of Earl
| Shelean. San Francisco
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Untitled
| Uncle David, 2012
| Postcards, Newberry, South Carolina
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Waiting, McCammon, Idaho
| Portrait of anonymous orthodox pilgrim in Poland
| Venice, Italy 2014
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Miami, 2012
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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, a free exhibition catalog and a signed first edition of Edward L. Rubin's book Vermont: An Outsider's Inside View.
- 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 J. Carol
David J. Carol is a photographer. He attended the School of Visual Arts and The New School for Social Research where he studied under Lisette Model. He was the first assignment photographer for The Image Bank photo agency (now part of Getty Images) at the age of 26. He currently works daily in the real world of commercial photography as the Director of Photography at Outfront Media (formerly CBS Outdoor). Yet he also loves giving other photographers a platform to share and discuss their work with the photographic community. He is able to do this as a contributing writer and contest judge for Rangefinder Magazine and PDN. He also serves on the Board of Advisers for the Center for Alternative Photography.
David is the author of three monographs, 40 Miles of Bad Road..., ALL MY LIES ARE TRUE... and "THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!". He recently completed a trilogy of books, "Where's the Monkey?", "Here's the Deal!" and "All My Pictures Look the Same." with Cafe Royal Books, London.
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EXHIBIT Closed on June 16th 2015
Juror: Chris Kovacs
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Black & white photography is a timeless art; always relevant, always contemporary despite being historically ancient.
Photographer Robert Frank states,
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 21 May 15 |
| Artists' Reception: | 12 June 15 17:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 16 June 15 |
 Black & WhiteExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
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Juror's Statement: I wish to thank everyone who entered the “Black and White” competition. I am honoured to have been asked to Juror this event. It was both a joy and a challenge to judge the submissions as there were a number of amazing images which made it very difficult to narrow down the finalists. Every juror has their own unique eye when it comes to viewing submissions. I personally try to keep it simple. I look for the usual things such as lighting, composition, form, curves, lines, technical excellence, etc… However, the most important thing for me is my first impression of the image. How does the image make me feel? Does it convey some kind of emotion or story? These are the same criteria I follow when selecting images from submissions to publish in Adore Noir magazine.
Juror’s Choice: Superhero In Training by: Shannon Wilkinson
The image is remarkable, it clearly evokes a sense of excitement, joy and nostalgia. I was able to connect with the subject immediately, which was largely due to the composition, there was nothing in the image that did not need to be there to get the story across. The mid air shot, the smile on his face, his Flash boots and Captain America shirt are all perfect details that compliment the overall feel of the image. Great work!
Honorable Mentions
1. Corporate Landscape at Night by: Daniel Farnum
2. High Bar by: Denis Sivack
3. The Dark and the Light, Iceland by: Thomas Pickarski
Again, all of the submissions were excellent! And I wish everyone nothing but the best in their future endeavours. Congratulations to all of the finalists.
Best wishes,
Chris Kovacs ,
Adore Noir Magazine
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| Superhero in Training Juror's Choice
| Corporate Landscape at Night Honorable Mention 
| High Bar Honorable Mention 
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| The Dark and the Light, Iceland Honorable Mention 
| Saratoga People's Choice 
| Echos of My Past No. 1
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Weekend
| Nebel
| Street Soccer, Madrid
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a winter's tale I
| a winter's tale II
| a winter's tale III
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a winter's tale IV
| the sea
| NEBELLEBEN
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winter aquarelle
| Sand Beach
| Dance with Me
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Growing Up with Dinosaurs
| Bent
| Face Book
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Man Holding Bottle
| Woman Holding Child
| Man Wearing Bow Tie
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Iris
| Rose
| Otherworld
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Compressed
| The Light Between
| Beach Selfie
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Big Chief Diesel
| The Man Who Drowned by a Ripple
| Hands on a Viola
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Dhaka Trenches
| LAX
| Rodeo Cowboy
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Goats and Bamboo Leaves
| Skyrian Village Breeze
| Twirling Tizzy
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Visions of Sugarplums Danced in her Head
| Where Have All the Children Gone?
| No Escape
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Hats 
| Timeless
| Dark Waves
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Henry County Illinois, December, #6
| Beauty is...
| Being Not Being
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Herald
| Numb
| As if In a Dream
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Mandala in Black & White 1
| Mandala in Black & White 2
| Mandala in Black & White 3
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Mandala in Black & White 4
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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: Chris Kovacs
Chris Kovacs is an award winning photographer best known for his black-and-white fine art photography.
Chris combines his love of science with his photography and the results are multiple exposure images of a dreamlike quality. The possibility of multiple universes (see Multiverse) is something that inspired Chris to create this latest series of images. Magazines worldwide have published Chris’ works, one of the most notable being the 2011 portfolio issue of B&W magazine (issue no. 84) in which he earned an excellence award. Chris is also the editor and publisher of a popular digital magazine, Adore Noir, which celebrates black and white photography.
Chris resides with his wife and two sons in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Juror: Russell Joslin
 Juror's Choice: Notes from Underground Ralph Hassenpflug Camden, ME USA |
What is it that haunts you?
We all have things that seem to follow us around… memories, artifacts from the past, our successes and failures, objects and relics with special meaning, fleeting glimpses from the corner of an eye. And for us photographers there are the unexplained flashes of light, streaks, and ghostly figures that sometimes appear in our images that sometimes defy logical explanation.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 13 October 16 |
| Artists' Reception: | 28 October 16 17:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 6 November 16 |
 HauntedExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
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Juror's Statement: As someone who leans toward skepticism when it involves matters of the supernatural, I often consider that which is “haunted” as being the interior traces of my memories of people, places, and/or experiences that I haven’t let go of. In other words, for me a “haunting” is interior, psychological, and personal, not exterior (as in ghosts or spirits of unknown others that inhabit an old hotel or house). As Stephen King says, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” Whatever one believes, it can be said that such matters traditionally makes fertile ground for storytelling. In terms of photography—a medium that is largely dependent upon reality—such concepts are often expressed or symbolically utilized by a variety of effects (motion, blur, manipulation of light, etc.) in an attempt to visually express the suggested or non-visible. For this exhibition, I viewed a compelling variety of interpretations and approaches to the theme Haunted to arrive at the selection you see here. In the end, I hope that viewers will not only consider the photographs before them, but what haunts them personally as well. Russell Joslin, September 13, 2016 |
| Notes from Underground Juror's Choice
| Untitled Honorable Mention 
| Guardian of the Coup People's Choice 
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House of Voodoo
| Abandoned Croft, Scotland
| Untitled (Transference #2)
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Misthaven #7
| Misthaven #32
| Entry
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Riverside Park October Night 1
| Through Trial and Tribulation
| Inside Out, Disarranged
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Cercopithecus Ascanius
| The edge of tomorrow
| Naraka - Buddhist Hell #07
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Naraka - Buddhist Hell #14
| Impressions
| It was the last time..
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In the Beginning
| Untitled from the series "How I feel these days"
| Cotton Hollow
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After the Party
| After the Party
| Emily
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Almost (self portrait)
| Orleans Haunting_I (now that i have lost you)
| Orleans Haunting_III (now that i have lost you)
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Final Exam
| Noir Street
| Stare
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Stolen
| Window Guest
| dream-house
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Manifestation of Spirit Mound
| Wanigiyata
| The Bride
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Faces in the Window
| Temptation
| Untitled
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Empty Arms
| Headless Jen
| ghostofyou
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Ectoplasm
| Satori
| Untitled
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Twisted
| Forgotten Roots
| BardoUntitlred #3
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The Last Wave By No.21
| Strange Figures
| Day Dreams
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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, a free exhibition catalog and will also receive a signed copy of juror Russell Joslin's book BLACK FOREST: Four Visible Poems (http://www.russelljoslin.com/blackforest.html)..
- 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: Russell Joslin About his work: It is commonly believed that the primary function of dreams is to psychologically balance and compensate for matters left unsettled during our waking hours. In the dream world, the censors of our mind dissipate and the material in our heads becomes fluid and nonlinear—our past memories, fears and desires all surface symbolically, revealing to us a deeper understanding of ourselves. Metaphorically, this is how I have come to understand my photographic work. I see my photographs as visual manifestations of my subconscious mind—images that bypass intellectualization to reveal authentic feeling. Bio: Russell Joslin has worked primarily in photography beginning in the early 90s. His work has been internationally published and exhibited in numerous solo and group shows. In addition to being a photographer, he is the Editor & Publisher of SHOTS Magazine, an independent, reader-supported quarterly journal of fine art photography that reaches an international audience. His first book, Black Forest, is now available from Candela Books. He lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
Juror: Shana Nys Dambrot
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Jurors Choice: In Absentia
©Mark Melnick
Palm Desert, CA USA
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"A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he (she) is being photographed, and what he (she) does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he (she) is wearing or how he (she) looks." -Richard Avedon, paraphrased.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 15 September 16 |
| Artists' Reception: | 30 September 16 17:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 9 October 16 |
 The Environmental PortraitExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
For this exhibition we're inviting you to submit images that get to the essence of your portrait subjects, providing a look, perhaps an intimate glimpse, into their lives and personalities. Your subjects will be posed, of course, but can you present them as if they're truly inhabiting their surroundings?
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Juror's Statement: I almost never photograph people. I’m drawn to architectural elements, depopulated vistas and street views and especially to abstract details and scenic etant-donnes. Portraiture is another matter altogether -- and environmental portraiture even more so. With elements of street photography, social and anthropological documentary, and biographical narrative, the challenge in choosing from an impressively diverse and talented pool came down in many cases to interpreting the terms -- seeking to include images which portrayed more than a subject’s happenstance, but the affirmative choice to be and be seen in those settings. I looked for signs of the subject embracing and orchestrating their environments, for elements radiating a sense of their owner/occupant’s inner life through deliberate external expressions. Besides imparting intimacy in content, these images must also be affecting, thoughtful, emotional, and artfully made compositions across a range of styles and voices, presenting a cross-section of humanity as it wishes to be seen. - Shana Nys Dambrot |
| In Absentia Juror's Choice 
| Cpl. Mac McWilliams, USMC Honorable Mention 
| Mary C. Fernandez, Fernandez Hardware Honorable Mention 
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| Dave Sipe Woodcarver Honorable Mention 
| La Cocinera People's Choice 
| Woodstock is back 
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echoing back
| Kasey
| A Grilling
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The Stillness The Dancing
| Janet, Buster and Roo
| 1st Lt. Josephine Reaves, Army Nurse Corp
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Olof
| JoJo Suicide
| Jo
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Psychic
| Hotel
| Mothers Coffee
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Alana Webb, Hardwick Boxing Club
| Peter and Elka Schumann
| The Tailor
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self portrait 
| Floyd - Vermont Hill Farmer
| Sponge Diver Family - Mangrove Cay Bahamas
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Harry G - violin bow maker
| The girl in floral print clothes
| Endangered Alphabets
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The Playwriter
| Ethiopian Joy
| Concierge. Hong Kong. China.
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Afternoon Drinker, Hanoi
| Multi Tasking
| Robin and Rose from The Modern Day Diana Series
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Cindy from The Modern Day Diana Series
| Manny
| Sam in Her Room
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Midway John 
| In Celebration
| Proud
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Posing Practice 
| Sigurdur
| Birgir
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Julia swimming
| Mister G Takes a Moment
| Fashionista
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Where's Waldo?
| Family I - Kaunas, Lithuania
| Family II - Kaunas, Lithuania
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DOORMAN TRUMP TOWER NYC
| RABBI KLEIN TEMPLE EMANU-EL DALLAS
| Reading Room
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Fredericksburg, Texas - 2015
| Angela
| Dave
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The Good Life
| Mother - 2016
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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.
| Juror: Shana Nys Dambrot
Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Los Angeles. She is currently LA Editor for Whitehot Magazine, Contributing Editor for Art Ltd., and a contributor to Flaunt, the Huffington Post, The Creators Project/VICE, Fabrik Magazine, Palm Springs Life, Vs. Magazine, Porter & Sail, and KCET’s Emmy-winning Artbound series. Formerly Managing Editor at Flavorpill.com, previous publications have included the LA Weekly, Modern Painters, Art Review, Artweek, ARTnews, Desert Magazine, Montage Magazine, Bespoke, The Believer, tema celeste, Angeleno, Art Asia Pacific, Bluecanvas, Scene, Coagula, THE Magazine LA, and Juxtapoz. She studied Art History at Vassar College, has written hundreds of essays for art books and exhibition catalogs, curates one or two exhibitions each year, publishes short fiction, and speaks in public at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. An account of her activities is sometimes updated at sndx.net. Dambrot sometimes exhibits her personal photography practice, and as an artist she is drawn to elements of the natural and built environments encountered as étant donnés which are free to be enjoyed rather than analyzed, appreciated for synchronicity rather than evaluated for intentionality -- as a respite from her job as an interpreter and a way of soothing, sharpening, and purifying the quality of her attention. There is no need to ask a tree or a crack in the pavement to explain its meaning.
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