CM20 Reichmann Project Grant Recipients!
It is time to announce the five recipients of our Michael Reichmann Project Grant! Alanna Airitam, Marisol Mendez, Emeke Obanor, Andre Ramos-Woodard and Ada Trillo have been selected from the 2020...
View ArticleCM20 Keeper of the Hearth Book Awards
Much has been written about Odette England's Keeper of the Hearth / Picturing Roland Barthes' Unseen Photograph (Schilt Publishing & Gallery) - two terrific reviews can be found in a...
View ArticleCM20 TOP 50! Yes!
Image: Kevin MooreCheck out the (wonderfully diverse) portfolios of the Critical Mass TOP 50 HERE!Congratulations (and respect) to:Alanna AiritamDirk AnschutzMatthew ArnoldCody BrattRachel BujalskiGary...
View ArticleCritical Mass 2020 - Finalists Announced!
Image: Cassandra Klos, a 2020 MFA Student Scholarship recipientIt's one of our favorite days of the entire year - the prescreening jurors have finished their voting and the results are in! We are...
View Article2019 Michael Reichmann Project Grant Recipients - Where are they now?
In 2019, Photolucida was able to offer a new Critical Mass award made possible by a generous endowment gifted to us by the Luminous Endowment for Photographers – an organization created by the late...
View ArticleMeet Some New Critical Mass 2020 Jurors!
David Chickey - Publisher and Creative Director Radius Books David Chickey is the Creative Director of Radius Books, a non-profit publishing company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico that focuses on...
View ArticleKeeper of The Hearth (and Critical Mass!)
Photolucida is excited to award 25+ copies of the newly publishedKeeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes' Unseen Photograph to Critical Mass finalists this year! At least 25 finalists will be...
View ArticleCritical Mass 2020 Print Initiative!
The Critical Mass Print Collecting Initiative is back as part of our programming this year! We are so pleased to be offering these images from Matt Eich and Priya Kambli as part of Critical Mass 2020...
View ArticlePhotolucida Photographers at Lishui
The Lishui Photography Festivaltook place November 8-12, 2019 with the theme A New Start from Lishui – and as one of China’s premier photography festivals, it continues to strive to promote (and...
View ArticleAnita Hamremoen: From Norway to China
I have just arrived back home after a fantastic journey to China, all thanks to Photolucida! In September I got an invitation from the Chinese curator Guo Jing, whom I met at Photolucida’s Reviews...
View ArticleMichael Reichmann Project Grant 2019 Recipients!
We are so excited to announce the very first recipients of our new Michael Reichmann Project Grant! Kristen Emack, Casey Jackson, and Annie Tritt have been selected from the 2019 Critical Mass Top 200...
View ArticleMatt Eich on his Rauschenberg Residency!
The Rauschenberg Residency came about via Photolucida’s Critical Mass at an important juncture in my life and work. For the past 14 years I have worked as an independent photographer, doing my best to...
View ArticleCritical Mass 2019 Finalists Announced!
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View ArticleCM19 Prescreening - What Matters to Photographers Today?
Images: Critical Mass Student Scholarship RecipientsAs Critical Mass prescreeners finish up their jurying (finalists to be announced shortly!), I would like to share some prescreening observations on...
View ArticleNew CM 2019 Jurors - Part 3!
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View ArticleLaura Stevens on her CAMPO Residency
I have just returned from the CAMPO AIR residency, which I was awarded fromPhotolucida’s Critical Mass2018, and am full of appreciation for the opportunity I was given. It was the first time in my...
View ArticleNew Jurors, Round Two! Critical Mass 2019
Each year, Photolucida puts together a diverse and talented team of 200 jurors for Critical Mass. It's a fantastic panel of museum curators, gallerists, publishers, editors, festival directors, and...
View ArticleTOP 50 Show to be at the Center for Photographic Art!
Photolucida is super-pleased to have the Critical Mass 2019 TOP 50 Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California! This means the artists that make the TOP 50 this year will be...
View ArticleCritical Mass & GUP Magazine
Photolucida is excited to enter a collaborative endeavor with GUP Magazine as one of our Critical Mass 2019 awards! A selection of Critical Mass Finalists (somewhere between 6 and 10 artists) will have...
View ArticleWhy, Hello! Some of our New Critical Mass Jurors!
Each year, Photolucida puts together a diverse and talented team of 200 jurors for Critical Mass. It's a fantastic group of museum curators, gallerists, publishers, editors, festival directors, and...
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