CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Photographer’s Eye Collective and Gallery announces
LIVING and Photographing IN AN IMPERFECT UNION
A Juried Online Photography Exhibition
Images Courtesy Brandy J Sebastian©
Images Courtesy Brandy J Sebastian©
Images Courtesy Brandy J Sebastian©
Images Courtesy Brandy J Sebastian©
The Photographer’s Eye Collective is announcing an on-line juried exhibition based on photography made as reaction to the outcome of the recent U.S. election and concerns about our future.
OUR STATEMENT
The 2024/25 U.S. election results have millions of people celebrating but many have reacted with anxiety and depression. With the prospect of this new political era, one of the best ways for artists to express our feelings and ‘do something’ will be through invoking our creative spirit. Photography allows us to speak our mind, record our environment, and helps us to deal with the contrasting themes of fear and hope. It creates dialog and activates us. How are you LIVING AND PHOTOGRAPHING IN AN IMPERFECT UNION?
Let us see your photographs. We are looking for work from fine art photographers as well as citizen photojournalists. All ways of making images are acceptable using subjective or objective points of view. Collage and works in diptych or triptych will be allowed. This will be an online exhibition with a printed catalog of our juror’s top 30 picks. The Juror and the Director of our gallery will choose three images to receive monetary awards. Our Juror is Arthur Ollman and we are grateful in his participation.
10% of the funds received will be donated to: The Carter Center Democracy Program.
WHAT TO KNOW
- The exhibition will be available for viewing online on our website
- Deadline is: President’s Day February 17, 2025
- Submit 10 Images Max
- The gallery will be producing a show catalog of approximately 30 images selected by the Juror.
CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT DATES:
- Call for Entires: Monday December 9th, 2024
- We will receive online work until midnight PST: Monday February 17th, 2025
- Juried: February 18th-21st, 2025
- Acceptance Notification: Monday February 24th, 2025
- Online Exhibition Dates: March 3rd - May 31st, 2025
- Catalog Availability: TBD
AWARDS: $600 US Dollars value in cash, goods, and/or services.
FEES: $35 for up to three images, additional images $5 each, Max of 10 images.
(Please see our PAY and SUBMIT buttons below.)
HOW TO SIZE YOUR IMAGES FOR JURYING: jpegs 2000 pixels on the long side and up to 3mb each.
HOW TO NAME YOUR IMAGES: Your last name_title_Image #
Examples: Jones_Title_1.jpg, Jones_Title_2.jpg
STATEMENT ABOUT THE WORK: You may add up to a 150-200 word statement max for a series or per image. Please add this into the caption section of your metadata for each image and in an attached word document. (NO BIO NECESSARY)
SUBMISSION OF WORK: Please submit your images and statement document in a compressed Zip file. Submission is by email below in the "submit images here" button.
ELIGIBILITY: There is no restriction as to age, experience, or location.
ACCEPTANCE: Once accepted into the online exhibition, you will be notified by midnight Monday, February 24th. If also selected to be included in the catalog, we will contact you to ask for a high resolution image that will used to design and print the catalog.
COPYRIGHT AND USAGE INFO: Artist retains all rights. Artists whose work is chosen for the online exhibition grants us permission to use images for promoting the exhibition or our Gallery and its programs. Images may be used for social media, promotion, and print media. Artists grant usage as stated without further compensation.
SHOW CATALOG: The Gallery will be producing a show catalog of approximately 30 images selected by the Juror. It will be available by TBD.
IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE WITH SUBMISSION
PLEASE GO DIRECTLY TO OUR EMAIL,
TO SUBMIT ENTRIES: [email protected]
ABOUT OUR JUROR:
Arthur Ollman
Arthur OllmanImage by Jörg Colberg
Arthur Ollman has been a photographer for 55 years. He has had more than 25 one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. His work is held in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. Between 1977 and 1983 he was Chairman of the Board of San Francisco Camerawork. In 1983, Ollman became the founding Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts, in San Diego, serving there for 23 years, and curating more than 100 exhibitions. He built a museum collection of more than 6,000 objects and a library of 25,000 books. He coordinated two capital expansion campaigns. He has written all or parts of 25 books and museum catalogs, and numerous articles for journals and periodicals.
From 2006‐2011 he directed The School of Art and Design at San Diego State University. In 2020 he was named Professor Emeritus at that institution. Ollman was Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography based in Lausanne, Paris and Minneapolis from 2013-2019.
Ollman continues to photograph, curate exhibitions, and write. His recent traveling exhibitions include Vik Muniz, with the accompanying book published by DelMonico Prestel, and Hard Truths: Five Photojournalists from the New York Times. Ollman lectures and teaches workshops, including The Ansel Adams Yosemite Workshop in 1980-1983, and more recently in Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Portugal, India, Mozambique and Los Angeles.
Image by Arthur Ollman
Image by Arthur Ollman
ABOUT THE GALLERY: The Mission of our non-profit Collective and Gallery is to provide a location for the exhibition of fine photography by regional photographers and beyond; to make available a darkroom for analog and alternative photography practices; to encourage learning through classes and workshops for the community, and to share knowledge of the craft free of cost to young people, seniors and the at-risk population.
Journey Exhibition: Gallery 1