Exhibits
EXHIBIT Closed on September 13th 2015
Juror: Daniel Power
 Juror's Choice: Victoria by David Aimone from Saratoga Springs, NY USA |
Figural works, depicted and exposed by fine art photography.
Portraying the human form has been among the greatest challenges, preoccupations, and supreme achievements of artists throughout the ages. The earliest known representations of the human body come from Europe and date to between 25,000 and 12,000 years ago. These carvings were made of stone and ivory, ‘Venus’ figures representing the female form and may have been associated with fertility. Humans feature in other prehistoric art including the cave paintings of early Europe and in the rock paintings of southern Africa. Although there is no way of telling for certain, the production and meaning of art amongst these cultures was probably spiritual, the figures perhaps representing deities or ritually important people.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 20 August 15 |
| Artists' Reception: | 21 August 15 17:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 13 September 15 |
 RevealExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
Darkroom Gallery is calling for figural nudes that push the confines of the photographic medium. Images that are expressive, evocotive and revealing. A timeless subject matter redefined and propelled into contemporary resonance.
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Juror's Statement: I looked for work that embraced simplicity in depicting beauty, daring in depicting fresh perspectives on tired cultural cliches, and flashes of eroticism in composing stark and compelling compositions of the living, breathing still life. Daniel Power |
| Victoria Juror's Choice
| Anastasia Honorable Mention 
| Secret Lover Portrait, I Honorable Mention 
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| Laina People's Choice 
| Prague nude (3)
| Form
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Kafka light
| Sugar, Mia
| Meditation
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The Temptation of Eve
| Homage to Vargas
| Alive, Again (2015)
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Theodicy (2014)
| And Then the Day Came
| Les coups de soleil 
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Devil's Play
| Ayn On Rocks and Moss
| Kelsey On Maine Rocks
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Maine Rocks
| Nude, Scotland, 2004, #2
| Breanna Marie
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Jacs Diptych
| Untitled
| Brianna in Stairwell
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Brianna, Sumner, Maine
| Brianna Behind the Barn
| Maya, 1874
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Forest Dance
| Ballerina's Lines
| Sortie
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Human Landscape II
| Untitled (1)
| Lazy Noon
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Skin Portrait
| In the Flesh
| Tremor Portrait
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Momento Mori Portrait, I
| Bloom
| Grate
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Horn #22
| Nude #2
| Davey #7
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Sabrina & Sahara
| Untitled (Sandra #3)
| Wrath of Fortuna
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Attitude
| Surfacing 
| Woodland Avenue #10
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Travis 1.9 years
| Travis 2.6 years
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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: Daniel Power Daniel Power is the Founder/CEO of powerHouse Books, a world-renowned publisher acclaimed for its diverse publishing program and its ethos of perpetually challenging popular conceptions of the role of the “art book” in contemporary culture. He is also the Director and Co-Founder of the New York Photo Festival, a series of Brooklyn-based photography events focusing on the Future of Contemporary Photography. With a focus primarily on photography, powerHouse publishes both photographers and artists known for work in other fields. It partnered with Charlie Ahearn on Wild Style: The Sampler, a behind-the-scenes look at Ahearn's 1982 Wild Style, considered the firsthip hop film. In November 2008, the book Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign by Scout Tufankjian sold out its initial print of 55,000 a month before its official December release, prompting powerHouse to print 22,000 more copies. Other prominent photographers published by the firm include Jack Pierson, Ron Galella, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, and the cooperative Magnum Photos. |
EXHIBIT Closed on October 11th 2015
Juror:Lance Keimig
Juror's Choice: Atacama Hand by Scott Martin San Antonio, Texas USA |
Nighttime photography; delve into the darkest hours to uncover secrets and mysteries.
Photographers have long embraced the literary and artistic tradition of the night as theme and subject in their work. The romantic notions and sense of mystery associated with the night, and the transformation from the mundane world to the unknown provide ample material for photographers to explore through their work.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 17 September 15 |
| Artists' Reception: | 2 October 15 17:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 11 October 15 |
 NocturneExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
Juror, Lance Keimig states, " The night holds secrets- secrets that may engage our curiosity, shelter us, or frighten us. There are those who seek comfort in the night and those who recoil from it. Brave was the anchestor who stepped outside of the fire circle for he might never return. The interplay of light, shadow, and extremes of contrast heighten this uncertainty - and when the element of time is added in the form of long exposures, the Night Photograph is indeed a worthy vehicle to express these themes."
Darkroom Gallery is calling for nighttime imagery that conveys mystery, surrealism, isolation, loneliness, and time/timelessness.
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Juror's Statement: It was a pleasure, but a real challenge to jury the Nocturne competition. Narrowing 630 images down to 55 was not easy, and trying to select a cohesive show based on the theme was even more of a challenge. I was looking for suggestive, rather than literal imagery that conveyed the themes of mystery, solitude, and surrealism. There were many more excellent images than the gallery could accommodate, and many excellent images that either did not fit the theme, or work with the show as it came together. For example, there was a great series of images with an owl and the moon, but they just didn’t work with the theme of Nocturne. Please know that if your work was not selected, that doesn’t mean that I didn’t think it was good, or that I didn’t like it. When entering a juried show, it is important to remember that the selections are just the opinion of a few people, or in this case, one person. I included work that I felt spoke to the theme. A good number of photographers submitted a series of related images, and I tried to find a balance between including multiple related images, and as many different photographers as I could. Newer digital cameras that are capable of shooting at high ISOs have led to a proliferation of Milky Way and astro-landscape photography images, and I found many of those to be lacking in some way. A simple landscape with the Milky Way rising through the frame was not enough to make the cut. A few Milky Way images stood out, such as Lisa Ryan’s Milky Way at Eagle Lake. Scott Martin’s Atacama Hand image stood out immediately from all of the rest- it is technically strong, gorgeous, and exemplifies the themes of mystery, solitude, and surrealism.
-Lance
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| Atacama Hand Juror's Choice
| Lunar Eclipse and Aurora Borealis People's Choice Honorable Mention 
| Milky Way, Eagle Lake Honorable Mention SOLD 
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| Starry Night Honorable Mention 
| Pr0n
| Fenway Park - No Game
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Untitled 
| Untitled IV
| Storm Clouds
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Night Tracks, Ropesville Texas
| Plainview Parking Lot - Plainview, Texas
| Cloud #9
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Night Club
| Beam Me Up
| Epiphany: Lighten the Path #1
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Fire and Wind
| Two Boats
| The green troll
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Conjuror
| Five Footballs
| Blue Moon Junction
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Lauterbrunnen Fog
| untitled #1
| Night Walk in Prague
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Summer Solitude. Bean Rd, East Charlotte, VT
| Moonless Self Portrait, Bodie Ghost Town, 2014
| Fae Sleep
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Done Loading
| Flooding the Past
| Ridgeline
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Dinner and a movie?
| Red Gold Blue
| Kenduskeag Bridge Twilight
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Insomnia 2
| Watching Fires Burn
| Route 20 Reflections
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Self Portrait in Erice
| Out of the Shadow
| Overnight Delivery
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Incoming Storm
| Cape Cod Railroad Bridge
| Quiet Night on Newbury Street
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Untitled
| Snow Mounds
| Going Into the Light
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Dreamless Sleep
| Potomac
| Midnight
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Cobblestones in Fog
| After the Party
| Atacama Dream
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DRAFTY WINDOW
| Night Tracks
| Shuttered
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O-blique
| Where it All Began
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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: Lance KeimigLance 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. |
EXHIBIT Closed on December 6th 2015
Juror: Oliver Wasow
 Juror's Choice: "Fire, San Jose, California. 2013" by Michael Martin from San Jose, CA USA |
Strange, eerie and illusive; photographs that lend themselves to an implied narrative or otherworldly oddity.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 12 November 15 |
| Artists' Reception: | 22 November 15 16:00 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 6 December 15 |
 OddityExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
In contrast, some odd works are less about exposing the weirdness of reality but more about the artist constructing an alternate universe. Photographers have created images that intentionally perplex the viewer as early as the 1860s; Henry Peach Robinson was a pioneer of combination printing, creating the illusory photo montage long before there was Photoshop.
Darkroom Gallery is calling for images that lead one to the edge, encouraging the mind to leap. Documentary shots, multiple exposures, constructions, staged, anything goes, just go ahead and leave the viewer baffled.
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Juror's Statement: To make an “odd” photograph is, in some to ways, to disrupt the very foundations of what a photograph is thought to be. Even in this digital age, when photographs are as malleable and open to manipulation as paintings, we continue to ascribe a certain assumption of objectivity to a photographic image. If we see a photograph that is in some way disconnected from spatial or temporal specificity, we're tempted to ask questions we would never think to ask of a painting, things like “what is that…where is that….when is that?”. Perhaps because of the desire to sever this tie to objectivity, many of the photographs submitted for this exhibition turned to tropes and imagery traditionally associated with Surrealist Painting. It’s not an exaggeration to say that dolls, masks and dreamscapes make up a majority of the pictures I reviewed. And yet the images that seem in many ways the oddest to me, and those that hold the most appeal, are those that somehow rest between the real and the imagined. The oddest photographs are those that keep one foot planted in the plausible, forcing the viewer to question whether what they are looking at is made or taken, and reminding us that in the end fact is indeed stranger than fiction. Oliver Wasow
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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.
| Fire, San Jose, California. 2013 Juror's Choice
| Playpen Honorable Mention 
| Two Toilets Honorable Mention 
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| über die innenstadt Honorable Mention 
| Fragrant Pink Couch, China 2011 People's Choice 
| Echo no. 87
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Em & Ruth
| Lake Champlain wreckage
| You're the One
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Untitled (Defaced)
| Indian Grain Worker
| Trapped Selfie 2
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Three Fold
| Morning Fog
| Recourse
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concrete cemetery
| Lost In The Illusion
| Online To Offline
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“Untitled” from “Found and Fabricated Phenomena” series
| Where the Sidewalk Ends
| Silent Chaos
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Figure with Vapor, 
| Untitled
| Angela and Steve
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The Gannons
| The Collector
| Randa
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"We need more ice."
| In the Mind of the Creator
| Benchless
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Loaded
| Driftwood
| Tree, Berlin. 2012
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Salton City, California. 2015
| Big Bird Whizzing
| Outer Peace
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Rainbow Over San Jose Airport
| Retro
| Disconnected
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Father, Son
| 51.383831, -0.770176
| Maintenance
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Persephone
| Self Asleep for 4 1/2 Hours, San Francisco CA 1984
| Barbershop duet
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FanBoy
| Fish Drying Rack, an Iceberg Passes, Greenland
| CAT
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Juror: Oliver WasowOliver Wasow is a fine art photographer and collector of found photography oddities currently living and working in Rhinebeck, NY. He received his BA from Hunter College and his Master’s Degree from the Transart Institute, In Austria. His work is currently represented by Theodore:Art Gallery in NYC. Wasow has had a number of one person exhibitions, including shows at the Josh Baer Gallery, Janet Borden Gallery, Tom Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles, The South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, and Galerie De Poche in Paris, France. His work has also been included in numerous national and international group shows, including such benchmark exhibitions as ‘Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Image World,’ at the Whitney Museum of Art in NYC, and ‘The Photography of Invention,’ at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. His photographs are included in a number of private collections and are also represented in various prominent public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and The Milwaukee Art Museum. Reviews of his work have been featured in most major art publications, including, among others, Art Forum, ArtNews and The New York Times. He has been the recipient of various grants and awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 1999 and, in 2000, his second New York State Council on the Arts Grant. |
EXHIBIT Closed on November 8th 2015
Juror: Sarah Hadley
 Dreams Caught Juror's Choice by Mark Allen Dierker Dubuque, Iowa USA |
Planar lines that wind, wend and soar through a image's field of focus.
Curving components within a photograph give the image depth, allowing the viewer’s eye to move through the frame almost effortlessly. It is almost as if the photographer takes the viewer by the hand, draws them into the frame, and points the way. The viewer’s eyes are compelled to follow the line of the curvature.
| Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) | |
| Exhibit Opens: | 15 October 15 |
| Artists' Reception: | 1 November 15 16:30 |
| Exhibit Closes: | 8 November 15 |
 CurvilinearExhibit Catalog now available at PrestoPhoto | |
Darkroom Gallery is calling for images that possess this curvy compositional trait.
"In life,
as in art,
the beautiful moves in curves."
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Juror's Statement: I found the process of jurying very rewarding and was pleased to see so many great photos that explored the theme of curvilinear. There was so much dynamic work submitted and I found numerous images that were well composed, well executed and which addressed the theme in a provocative way. I had a hard time narrowing it down, but in the end, I chose images which presented the world to me in a new way or that made me feel something. For me a good photograph should be exciting, risky, sublime or a bit personal and should ultimately ask more questions than it answers. Sarah Hadley |
| Dreams Caught Juror's Choice
| The Sensual Periphery Honorable Mention 
| Bubbles Honorable Mention 
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| Billowing Breeze Honorable Mention 
| Autumn Air People's Choice 
| "RS"
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Septet
| Rowboat, Rockport Maine
| Wondering Dog
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Distance
| Vera_J_09-27-2014--05BC 
| Field #2
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Sandstone Spine. AZ
| Reaching Out III
| Clean
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Hands To Waist
| American Dipper in Lake O'Hara
| SANCTUARY
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You Belong to Me
| Drying Clothes
| Curvilinear 3
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Lost in My Head
| Stephen Fry
| Untitled
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Glass
| Ullandhaug Tower
| Curved Track on Ice, Hills, Mist - Post Pond
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Red
| Semblance XXIV
| Nun with Towel
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Man, Lower Manhattan, NYC
| The Peninsula
| Re-Turning the Page 2
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Amaryllis I
| Arise
| Apartment Life
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Salzburg Summer
| Clip
| Seeing You
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The Ride
| Silent Fountain
| Sign of the Times
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Bite
| Untitled in Iceland
| Untitled
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Shadowplay
| Flooded No.9
| Double Helix
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Black-Eyed Susans
| Spiral
| Iceland
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Tendrils
| Steps into the Sky
| Pink Tenderness
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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: Sarah HadleyPhotographer and Filter Photo Festival Executive Director, Sarah Hadley, is known for all the excellent work she is doing in Chicago, but she happens to live in Los Angeles. Born and raised in a prestigious Boston museum (see below–well, she wasn’t born in the museum..), she developed an early artistic sensibility. While in college, Sarah strayed to Venice, Italy where she fell in love with all things Venice and began her photography career. She returned to the states and finished a degree in Art History and went on to work at the National Gallery and the Library of Congress. After being inspired by Robert Frank’s retrospective, Sarah received a degree in photography at the Corcoran College of Art and went on to work for newspapers and magazines. She eventually moved to Chicago, went to Ragdale, the artists and writers colony in Lake Forest, IL, and discovered the prairie. She was later asked to photograph the amazing Howard Van Doren Shaw house for “The Ragdale House Speaks”. Sarah now lives in Los Angeles, where she regularly returns to Chicago for Filter business and to Venice to make work. Her passion, besides photography, is travel. In 2011, Sarah traveled for the second time to China as a curator for the Lishui Photo Festival and will continue to travel much of 2015. |
