Call for Entries - Exhibit Competition
"Alternatives - Where Process is Paramount" Competition
Download the Call for Entries PDF Flyer: Alternatives - Where Process is Paramount
Description
In this age of digital photography, more and more photographers are seeking an alternative. This return to labor and craftsmanship resists the quick-fix of inkjet technology and values something much more satisfying and elusive. The best examples are, first and foremost, great photographs. Yet, these are photographs with a richer tale to tell - one that shows the mark of the maker, and the effects of light on a hand-coated surface. These are not just images, they are objects.
If selected your work will hang in the Mpls Photo Center galleries along with photographers from throughout the world. The exhibit will hang for 6 weeks in the Mpls Photo Center's new Main Floor Gallery: First place Award: $300; Second place Award: $200; Third place Award: $100. All exhibitors are included in the Mpls Photo Center’s online gallery.
A call for all things alternative with occasional forays into future processes. This call focuses less on the camera, albeit, Pinhole, Holga, traditional plate, film or digital, but exclusively on the final (non-silver) process. Poloroid Transfers, Gum Dichromate, Platinum, Palladium, Tintype, Albumen, Cyanotype, VanDyke, Bromoil Printing, Wet Plate Collodion, Carbon Printing, Bromoil Printing, Calotype Paper Negative, Salted Paper Printing, Photoshop Manipulation and Inkjet Prints. No silver process will be allowed. Submissions must be created through the accepted processes previously noted, whether created analog or digital in the wet or dry darkrooms. Creativity in process is paramount to the jurors selected images. Almost anything goes, though, Keith Taylor, the juror reserves the right to decide what alternative means.
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010
Submissions Open: August 15, 2010
Results Announced: October 5, 2010
On Exhibit: November 5, 2010 - December 6, 2010 at the Mpls Photo Center
Opening Reception: November 5, 2010
Cost for Entry: $35 for the first five images submitted; $10 for each additional image
Exhibition & Awards
If selected your work will hang in the Mpls Photo Center galleries along with photographers from throughout the world. The exhibit will hang for 6 weeks in the Mpls Photo Center's new Main Floor Gallery: First place Award: $300; Second place Award: $200; Third place Award: $100. All exhibitors are included in the Mpls Photo Center’s online gallery
Eligibility
The exhibition is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide.
Submitting Your Entries
Follow this link to submit your work: Mpls Photo Center Smart Entry System
To submit click on Account Login to begin. Create an account if you don’t already have one. Simply pay online then upload your images.
All entries are submitted via our on-line system. When you see the image thumbnail under Submitted Images, you image has been received for the show/contest. You will be able to change an image or add additional information regarding that image, at no cost, by logging into your account. Changes may be made up to the appropriate deadline.
To prepare your images for uploading, please adhere to the following image file specifications:
- sRGB or RGB color space (standard) - NOT CMYK (typically used by printing industry)
- save files to 72 ppi resolution; any layers flattened, 8 bit JPEG files (16 bit will not upload.)
- sized to 1,280 pixels on the longest side, the other size width or height proportional
- JPG format, compression at level 7 (medium). This compression level will not affect the quality of images viewed on a monitor.
- Use period preceding jpg in the file name. The following characters will lead to image uploading problems: !@#$%^&*()_+
Acceptance
All entrants will receive an e-mail notification. Accepted images will be posted on the Mpls Photo Center’s website along with instructions for gallery presentation.
Sales
If your work is for sale you will receive 60% of the sales price with 40% going to the Center.
Exhibit Prints
Mpls Photo Center traditionally frames images with a bright white mat and a black wooden frame. For the convenience of those not living in Minnesota we offer optional printing and framing services. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance into the exhibit.
Use Rights
By submission to this Call for Entry, artists who are accepted grant Mpls Photo Center the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition, exhibition catalog, and subsequent display on the Center’s website of exhibitions. Artists grant the use of their images as stated without further contact or compensation from the Center. Artist’s recognition is provided with any use.
About the Juror
British-born Keith Taylor is a photographer and printmaker living in Minneapolis.
His photographs have been widely exhibited across the US and the UK, he is a two-time recipient of the Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and his photographs are held in many private and corporate collections. He writes for photographic publications, and also lectures and teaches on historical processes.
Completely self-taught, he now specializes in platinum-palladium, polymer photogravure and 3-color gum dichromate printing, both for his own work and for clients in the US and the UK.
"Urban View / Rural Sight" Competition
Download the Call for Entries PDF Flyer: Urban View/Rural Sight Call for Entries
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010
When artists think about place, whether it be rural or urban, they often think of it as a point of departure. One path may lead deeper into the site itself and its character, a sense artists want to absorb and express. Another path may lead away, beginning its course from connections that originated there. Perhaps a third is more fantastical, one suggested by the unexpected, yet significant, connections that the imagination creates. All of these ways are journeys and explorations that do not feel complete until they are shared.
Results Announced: November 18, 2010
On Exhibit: January 7 - February 14, 2011 at the Mpls Photo Center
Opening Reception: January 7, 2011
Cost for Entry: $35 for the first 5 images submitted; $10 for each additional image
Exhibition & Awards
If selected your work will hang in the Mpls Photo Center galleries along with photographers from throughout the world. The exhibit will hang for 6 weeks: First place Award: $300; Second place Award: $200; Third place Award: $100. All exhibitors are included in the Mpls Photo Center’s online gallery
Eligibility
The exhibition is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide.
Submitting Your Entries
Follow this link to submit your work: Mpls Photo Center Smart Entry System
To submit click on Account Login to begin. Create an account if you don’t already have one. Simply pay online then upload your images.
All entries are submitted via our on-line system. When you see the image thumbnail under Submitted Images, you image has been received for the show/contest. You will be able to change an image or add additional information regarding that image, at no cost, by logging into your account. Changes may be made up to the appropriate deadline.
To prepare your images for uploading, please adhere to the following image file specifications:
- sRGB or RGB color space (standard) - NOT CMYK (typically used by printing industry)
- save files to 72 ppi resolution; any layers flattened, 8 bit JPEG files (16 bit will not upload.)
- sized to 1,280 pixels on the longest side, the other size width or height proportional
- JPG format, compression at level 7 (medium). This compression level will not affect the quality of images viewed on a monitor.
- Use period preceding jpg in the file name. The following characters will lead to image uploading problems: !@#$%^&*()_+
Acceptance
All entrants will receive an e-mail notification. Accepted images will be posted on the Mpls Photo Center’s website along with instructions for gallery presentation.
Sales
If your work is for sale you will receive 60% of the sales price with 40% going to the Center.
Exhibit Prints
Mpls Photo Center traditionally frames images with a bright white mat and a black wooden frame. For the convenience of those not living in Minnesota we offer optional printing and framing services. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance into the exhibit.
Use Rights
By submission to this Call for Entry, artists who are accepted grant Mpls Photo Center the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition, exhibition catalog, and subsequent display on the Center’s website of exhibitions. Artists grant the use of their images as stated without further contact or compensation from the Center. Artist’s recognition is provided with any use.
About the Juror
David Travis is the retired Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago where he directed photography exhibitions, programs, and acquisitions from 1972 until 2008. He was the founding curator of the Department of Photography in 1975, and directed and designed the major state-of-the art renovation of the galleries, study room, laboratory, and vaults in 1982.
