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Good-bye Portland Photo Month and Last Screening of THEN.NOW.HERE. project!
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'Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else' Opens Tonight at Rayko!
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| Kent Rogowski - 'Contents' |
Photolucida's Critical Mass 2011 TOP 50 traveling exhibition opens tonight at Rayko Photo Centerin San Francisco. This is the third leg of the west coast tour of the exhibition, preceded by time spent at Photo Center NW in Seattle and Newspace in Portland. Our huge thanks to these three great photography centers - working with them has furthered the mission of all four photography organizations (including Photolucida) to bring top emerging talent to the public.
If we know Ann Jastrab (and we do!), the opening tonight at Rayko is sure to be a well-attended, lively event! Many thanks to Darius Himes, also a resident of San Francisco, for his curatorial contribution to the exhibit - we think it is brilliant - please click here to read his juror statement. We are thankful he found time for this project in addition to assistant directing at Fraenkel Gallery and thinking about racoons. Darius and many of the artists will be attending the opening this evening!
If you are in San Francisco, go, go, go! Reception begins at 6!
Here at Photolucida, we are gearing up for Critical Mass 2012, which opens next month. Stay tuned for more information on that!
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Some success stories and gearing up for Critical Mass 2012!
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©Bryan David Griffith |
We love it when success stories cross our desk - the point of our programming is exposure for emerging photographers - and it is fun to hear about results:
Opening last weekend is an exhibit for Bryan David Griffith at Galerie BMG in Woodstock. 'In a Big World Wandering', Bryan combines old-school, large format equipment and 19thc platinum palladium printing process to create contemplative images that read as a metaphor for the experience of being human in a complicated and sometimes isolating world. Bryan has submitted work to Critical Mass and attended our Reviews, meeting Bernard and Judi Gerson in 2011. Galerie BMG is also representing Angela Bacon-Kidwell and Tami Bone, also connections through Photolucida.
We want to get an appreciative shout-out to Scott Jones, who runs Camerawork Gallery here in Portland. Scott has been giving shows to many people he has met through Photolucida for years. Currently up in Camerawork Gallery is Albert Normandin's 'In a Golden Land', images from Burma. Scott met Albert through Photolucida, and many other photographers as well that he has given shows to: Doug Landreth, Rachel Wolf, Maureen Delaney, Andrea Galuzzo, Edis Jurcys, Caren Alpert, Robbie Kaye, and Wendy Sacks. Thanks, Scott for the work you do!
Critical Mass 2012 opens June 1 (soon!) and we are gearing up for that. We are really really excited about some partnerships we have this year. First, we are working with amazing publisher KERER VERLAG on our book award in a co-publishing endeavor. Second, we have two solo show awards this year, one offered by our friends at Blue Sky here in Portland, and now also Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado. We have a new flight pattern for the exhibit this time, with the TOP 50 Solo Show traveling to the Southeastern region of the United States, landing at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta, and Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach next summer. And...we are excited that the famous and infamous W.M. Hunt will be the curator for the exhibition - fun!
Have seen some great new success stories in the last week, which will be up on our website shortly, but wanted to put forth a nice one from Susan Worsham - just in:
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| ©Susan Worsham, Wild Plums |
On the day after my inclusion in the Critical Mass Top 50, I received an email from an art researcher at Random House Books, asking to use an image for a vintage international book cover. Now one of the photographs from my submitted series "By The Grace Of God" is the cover of William Faulkner's 'Requiem For A Nun', and I can only hope that it's on some teenager's summer reading list this year. I was also featured in Oxford American Magazine's "100 Under 100: New Superstars of Southern Art". One of the people who nominated me had just reviewed my work through Critical Mass.
Right afterwards I was featured on NPR's blog where they singled out 5 photographers from Oxford American's list for their Visual South Series. Aline Smithson did a heartfelt write up about reviewing my work on her blog Lenscratch, and I would have to say... that was my favorite to see. I want to thank all 200 of the reviewers for taking the time to be apart of this wonderful opportunity.
Nice, huh? We hope you might be gearing up for Critical Mass, too!
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The Johnny Appleseed Theory, Lucas Foglia and Deborah Hamon
What is the 'Johnny AppleseedTheory'? It is the idea that one can plant numerous seeds out in the world, and hopefully, over time, some seeds will grow into trees.
What does this have to do with Critical Mass?
If you are a finalist, Critical Mass puts your work in front of 200 people, and the idea is that people will remember your work, will hopefully connect with it immediately, or pass it onto someone who might use it, or perhaps come back to it over time. The seed of seeing your work has been planted in people's 'eye-memory', and sometimes that leads to bigger things down the road.
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| Andrew and Taurin Drinking Raw Goat's Milk, Tennessee, ©Lucas Foglia |
An example:Lucas Folgia submitted his work to Critical Mass in 2008. Photolucida did an interview with himon our blog the following November. We watched his great series filter out into the world over time and were happy to see that Nazraeli Press just published his monograph titled "A Natural World". I was happy to do an interview/book review for the book, which is currently on photo-eye's blog. Long story short, the work has sprouted and grown, and hey, if you are in New York City, tonight is Lucas' book signing at International Center for Photography. Go!
Photographer Deborah Hamon's note to us illustrates the 'Johnny Appleseed Theory' as well, remarking on juror connections sometimes being immediate, and sometimes taking time:
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| Manicured, ©Deborah Hamon |
Sometimes it may take more time: the editor of ‘The Picture Professional’ Magazine contacted me about featuring my work in their summer 2012 issue. The publisher, Jain Lemos, had seen my work in CM 2009 and had commented positively so I had kept in touch. Additionally, I have been juried into exhibitions where the juror was a CM juror, so perhaps this was an indirect result from participating in Critical Mass. And finally, there are a number of contacts that I have made over the years, and Critical Mass is a nice way for them to see my new work and keep my work in the forefront of their minds for possible new opportunities."
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Focus on CM2012 Travelling Exhibition - W.M. Hunt curates and show tours SE
One of the programming perks of those who make the Critical Mass Top 50is the inclusion in the traveling exhibition. For the past three years, we have worked with PCNWin Seattle, Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, and Rayko Photo Centerin San Francisco, bringing great emerging photography to the people of these great cites. A successful run by all means (education of the public as to what strong emerging photography looks like, and yes, sales happen!), we decided this year we would change direction geographically, and bring the tour to the southeast region of the United States.
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Darius Himes & Ann Jastrab © David Lees Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else Critical Mass 2011 |
This year, the tour will start at the Jennifer Schwartz Galleryin Atlanta in June, and then travel down to the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach and be on exhibit there July through September, 2013.
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| Photograph of W.M. Hunt © Elizabeth Paul Avedon |
We look forward to working with W.M. Hunt, Jennifer Schwartz, and Kevin Miller on the southeast-bound show this spring!
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Juror Profile: Yan Li of High Noon Culture
Part of our goal here at Photolucida is to develop relationships with jurors/reviewers who are able to provide opportunities for participants in our programming. Here is a profile of a great opportunity-giver that we have worked with over the past few years, Yan Li of High Noon Culture, who is based in Beijing, China.
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Yan Li © Noelle Swan Gilbert, 2012 |
Yan Li has tirelessly funneled both photographers and curators into many exhibition opportunities in various photography festivals in China, resulting in a multitude of group field trips that were over-the-top educational on many levels: photographically, culturally, socially. To be able to travel to China with one's work and with a community of one's photographic peers has been a valuable artistic and life experience for many Photolucida/Critical Mass participants. Certainly the long bus rides, Walmart excursions, and 'guess-what-is-for-dinner' jokes have helped build community as much as hanging an exhibition together in a culture with a different but ever-curious photographic sensibility.
Yan Li has worked with several Chinese photography publications including 'China Photographers' and 'China Popular Photography' in publishing the portfolios of many American photographers listed below, furthering the exposure quotient of the work.
I will attempt a rough summary of all the cultural opportunities that Yan Li has brought to both photographers and curators (most people listed below have been part of Photolucida's programming, apologies if I have left anyone out). Please click on linked names to read about personal experiences/imagery connected to trips to China:
2009 - Dali Photo Festival (Brad Tempkin)
2009 - Lishui Photo Festival- (photographers: Ernie Button, Cat Gwynn, Joni Sternbach, Mitch Dobrowner, David Ellingsen, Douglas Ethridge, Catharine Stebbins, Rich Scott, Rita Maas, Betsy Schneider, Susan Lakin, Mark Tomkins, Cyrus Karimipour, David Wolf, Stan Raucher, Karen & Stephen Strom, Loli Kantor, Rick Scott, Mark Tomkins, Mark Jaremko, Sarah Hadley, Jonathan Lipkin, Philipp Scholz Ritterman, Charles Rozier, Mary Parisi, Mariette Pathy Allen, Carol Isaak. Curators: Laura Moya, Paula Tognarelli, Carol McCusker, Crista Dix, Eric J. Keller, Evan Mirapaul, Ellen Boughn, Jason Houston, Brooks Jensen, and Taj Forer)
2010 - Tangshan/Daquing Photo Trip (Brad Temkin, Shawn Records, Victoria Sorochinski, Michael Itkoff)
2011 - Xiang Sha Wan Photo Week Exhibition - Inner Mongolia - (Brooks Jensen, Brendan R. Kingsley, Chris Rauschenberg, Harold Ross, Justine Reyes, Lauren Semivan, Mo Ruddy Burkhart, Tom Alleman, Walt Strickland)
2011 Yu Tai Shan Exhibition - curated by CM juror Kirsten Rian - (10 photographers)
2011 Lishui Photo Festival - (photographers: Rachel Barrett, Jesse Burke, Susan Worsham, Jamie Gordon, Fran Forman, Noelle Swan Gilbert, Chris Churchill, Michael Kirchoff, Kirk Crippens, Lori Hepner, Ken Sklute, Andy Freeberg, E. Brady Robinson, Wendy Sacks, Amy Stevens, Aline Smithson, Susan Worsham, curators: Ellen Fleurov, Bob Morton, Ann Jastrab, Jennifer Schwartz, Crista Dix, Karen Irvine, Larissa Leclaire, Melanie McWhorter, David Bram)
2011 Xiang Sha Wan Photo Week Exhibition- Inner Mongolia - curator: Laura Moya (Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin, Nancy Newberry, Jane Alden Stevens)
2012 - Wudong Mountain Photo Festival - (Josef Hofleher, Lauren Semivan)
And this from Yan Li last week:I want to let you know that I am planning to submit the work of 12 photographers' portfolios as candidates for Shanghai International Art Show in October, 2012. The theme of the show is "CITY", and I chose the work from Critical Mass photographers. At this point, these are the photographers I have included in group of candidates: Susan A. Barnett, Victoria Bjorklund, Tami Bone, Andrew Burman, Bryan David Griffith, Gabriaela Herman, Liz Hickok, Joseph Holmes, Borhisa Hosaka, Chris Rauschenberg, Traer Scott, and Jacqueline Walters.
Thank you Yan Li, for bringing so many adventurous opportunities to our photographers! And, in a larger sense, helping to further the ongoing dialogue about cultural perspective, personal motivation, and the genre definitions of photography.
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Crista Dix © Ann Jastrab |
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| Desiree Edkins, her exhibit 'Borderline', Lishui Photo Festival |
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| Nancy Newberry, Magnum photographer Eli Reed & friends |
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| Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin, Laura Moya, Nancy Newberry |
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Speaking of going to China...do you want to?
Wanted: Quickly! Landscape photographer willing to travel to China mid-July. Must submit work and information below by June 25!
Theme: Landscape
Location: Panjin, Liaoning (Northern China)
Date: Mid July, 3-5 days
Expenses: All expenses covered, including international travel, local transportation, hotel and food
Travel: Round trip to Beijing, and then take express train (airport pickup and drop off in Beijing)
Delivery: Each photographer will need to deliver 10 landscape images and statement within 7 days after the trip. the images will be used for possible exhibition and local tourism promotion. Photographers retain copyright.
Contact: If you are interested in the project and can go, kindly contact Yan Li (yanli88@yahoo.com) with the following information:
100 words of bio
Artist statement (100 words)
15 landscape images (300k)
Portrait
Nationality
Please contact Yan Li directly at e-mail address above with any questions!
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What does Portland, Oregon and Ft. Collins, Colorado have in common?
Both geographic places are home to important contemporary photography centers: Blue Sky Gallery and Center for Fine Art Photography will each host a different solo show award exhibition in conjunction with Critical Mass 2012.
Photolucida's collaboration with Blue Sky yields another solo show award, third year running. Previously, Mitch Dobrowner(2010) and Nigel Dickinson (2011) were recipients of the Critical Mass solo show award, each photographer exhibiting during the month of April during Portland Photo Month. This year's recipient will have their solo show in April 2013, during Photolucida's Reviews, our biannual event that brings 60 curators, publishers, gallerists, and collectors to Portland, along with 160 mostly out-of-town participating photographers. Plus, the attention of the river of public passing through during Portland Photo Month. So - many curious and important eyes will see the exhibit!
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| Image by Ferit Kuyas |
A gorgeous, gracious, space, Blue Sky (founded as Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts in 1975) has exhibited a long history of important and socially relevant work.
The Center for Fine Art Photography is also extending a solo show award to a finalist in this year's Critical Mass. Founded in 2004, the Center for Fine Art Photography houses two galleries, educational facilities, and a membership base of 1,300 representing 33 countries worldwide. It has quickly become and important visual and educational reference in the fine art photography world. Past exhibitions have been juried by Susan Spiritus, Catherine Edelman, Mary Ellen Mark, Nick Brandt, Michael Itkoff, Chris Jordon, and Darren Ching & Debra Klomp Ching.
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We extend our thanks to these two prestigious institutions in working with us to provide exhibition opportunities to two finalists from this year's Critical Mass!
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Kehrer Verlag co-publishing Critical Mass book award publication!
Photolucida is over-the-moon excited that our Critical Mass 2012 book award publication will be produced in collaboration with exemplary publishersKehrer Verlag!
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| Kehrer Verlag's Fall Catalog |
Those savvy to the world of photography book publication know that Kehrer Verlag, based in Heidelberg, Germany, leads the field in innovative production and design of fine art and photography books. Working closely with international photographers, museums and cultural institutions, Kehrer Verlag creates its monographs in alliance with Kehrer Design, the affiliated design agency.
Photographers who have attended international and national Portfolio Reviews and book fairs have most likely encountered Kehrer Verlag's engaging and tireless advocate Alexa Becker, who is on the Critical Mass pre-screening committee this year.
Kehrer books have a strong and wide-spread distribution map with includes most European countries, the United States, Canada and Asia. One can browse through Kehrer's most recent catalog here!
So, the book award winner this year will not only join the roster ofprevious Critical Mass book award recipients (Photolucida will send a copy of the published monograph to all the jurors who juried Critical Mass and all the photographers who entered) but have their monograph designed and distributed by Kehrer Verlag internationally.
Pretty sweet, yes?
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Two past Critical Mass photographers going to China!
As a postscript to the earlier call for entries for the project in China, Yan Li has let us know that Camille Seaman and Hollis Bennett were chosen.
Camille Seaman was one of our Critical Mass 2006 book award winners, and Hollis Bennett was a Critical Mass finalist in 2011. We hope these two travelers have a grand adventure in China.
I am going to take this opportunity to trot out a past testimonial from Camille Seaman, because it is one of my favorite, and it speaks clearly about the "tipping point" that Critical Mass has the potential to provide:
I am not exaggerating or being dramatic by saying that Critical Mass changed my life, for it is very true that you can make the best images in the world but they mean nothing if all they see is the inside of a box. Critical Mass has been just that for me, that tipping point that has made so much more possible, like some video game I have found the gold key and may now advance to the next level!
Because of Critical Mass, JD Talesek found me, and told 'American Photo' about me via Brian Clamp and since then I have had magazines from all over Europe and the US including ' Outside', 'Focus Magazine', and 'Men’s Journal' publish my work. I even got a call from 'Time' magazine. I have made many print sales through my galleries. I will be speaking at PCNW on Feb 1st and my big shindig at the National Academy of Sciences will be on March 2nd. Not too shabby, huh?
— Camille Seaman
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| ©Camille Seaman: From 'The Last Iceberg' series |
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| ©Hollis Bennett: From 'American Weekend' series |
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Some Frosting on the Critical Mass Cake
As part of Critical Mass this year, Photolucida is happy to give three "golden tickets"* to our popular biennial Portfolio Reviews event to three finalists in this year's Critical Mass!
Our nextPortfolio Review event is April 18th-20th, 2013 during Portland Photo Month. Traditionally, registration for this event fills up in a blink of an eye (last time, 160 spots were filled in 20 minutes)...and we are reserving three spots pulled from the Critical Mass finalist group. Three names will be randomly drawn - it is our thought that if your work is strong enough to be in the finalist group, you are ready to attend the Reviews.
The Portfolio Reviews eventis an exciting four days - one meets with 18 top-notch Reviewersto receive feedback on one's work, establish relationships and make connections that possibly lead to opportunities. Lectures, lunchtime chats, social events and city-wide photography exhibitions are part of the event. (note: all links above are for the 2011 event)
Past "golden ticket" scholarship recipients include Robert Knight, Christopher Churchill, Rachel Barrett, Michael Tummings, Noelle Swan Gilbert, Alexis Pike, M. Bruce Hall, and Sika Stanton.
Yet another reason to enter Critical Mass!
* borrowed terminology coined from Roald Dahl's great "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and first used in this context by Noelle Swan Gilbert.
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| Reviewer downtime - © Harris Fogel |
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| Natalie Young - © Tom Hubbard |
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| Tony Bannon at Portland Art Museum - © Tom Hubbard |
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| Portfolio Walk at Portland Art Museum - © Daniel Cronin |
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Photography Competitions, Critical Mass, and...Money!
Every year during Critical Mass registration, the topic of entry fees pops up – and we often see the query, “Why is Critical Mass so expensive?”
Let’s back up, put on our thinking caps and look at photography competitions in general, and then specifically, Critical Mass. I will make this all-important note here, just because we often feel like yelling it from the rooftops: Critical Mass is not just a competition! Even though there is jurying involved, it is a multi-layered program about EXPOSURE that has awards as well. It is a long-established, community-based program, and not a "photo contest". Read on and you will see why our submission fees reflect this.
Cut to the big picture: It seems that more and more photography competitions are popping up left and right, and unfortunately it is left to the photographer to investigate which fall in the “legitimate” “semi-legitimate” and the “genuine scam” categories. Add this to your list of things you have to do on top of just making your work.
AS YOU NAVIGATE YOUR "COMPETITION" OPTIONS, HERE ARE SOME COMMON-SENSE QUESTIONS TO ASK:
1. Is the photo competition being produced by a non-profit organization or a for-profit business?
(We are not saying legitimate competitions are not held by for-profit businesses, but it helps if they exist on a non-virtual level, such as being a mortar-and-brick gallery. Also, please note that "photography competitions" fall under a different category than "juried exhibitions with submission fees".)
2. Does the organizer have a website built solely for information about the contest? Or, is it part of a larger website where you can get information about the umbrella organization? Is there evidence as to how long the organization has existed?
(Non-profits are required to list their staff and board of directors on their website. They make it easy for the general public to contact then. Often, less-than-legitimate competitions will make it hard for you to get in touch with them, perhaps just giving a generic e-mail address, with no real names involved.)
3. Other things to question: Does the competition organizer announce winners after the deadline? How many jury members are there? What makes them qualified? Can one link the jurors to respected institutions?
(Reputable competitions announce their jury members, prizes, timelines, etc. Final results/material should make it out into the public domain in a clear, timely and useful manner.)
4. As with anything, read the fine print! Don't skim over this.
(There are a number of organizations that are promoting contests as a way to collect imagery to use in various ways, with no compensation to you - and you end up having no say. Don't sign away the rights to your imagery.)
4. As with anything, read the fine print! Don't skim over this.
(There are a number of organizations that are promoting contests as a way to collect imagery to use in various ways, with no compensation to you - and you end up having no say. Don't sign away the rights to your imagery.)
And, as a related topic (hopefully it's own blog post at some point) - now currently on everyone’s radar: Organizations (businesses and non-profits) who are using Kickstarter to fund programming. Which people have mixed feelings about, thus producing a pressure for these organizations to show some accountability for how funds raised during their campaign have been spent.
So – we are looking at both “transparency” and “accountability” as key words here.
NOW, WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH CRITICAL MASS?
Every year, as photographers weigh the pros and cons of entering Critical Mass, the question of money comes up. Critical Mass has a two-tiered entry fee - $75 US ($90 International) to enter and $200 if you make the Finalist round. Yes, this might initially seem like a lot of money compared to other “competitions” out there, but please pause to consider the total workings of Critical Mass – there is a lot to absorb! So, stick with us here, and read on.
QUESTION: HEY - WHAT DOES PHOTOLUCIDA DO WITH ALL THOSE SUBMISSION FEES?
For details on where the registration income goes, AND many more interesting facts about Critical Mass, including a cost/benefit analysis, please look at our FAQ page. We have taken the time to spell it out for you here.
Photolucida has annually addressed the Critical Mass money question on our blog in the past:
And, we were pleased when Joerg Colberg picked up on our 2011 post and used Photolucida's example as a call for industry transparency in hisConscientious blog.
This is a topic that is on a lot of people's minds.
This is a topic that is on a lot of people's minds.
You may not know that Photolucida gives back as well as takes in. In addition to the Critical Mass awards and the DVDs and monographs sent out to entrants and jurors, we do some behind-the-scenes things that are pretty neat:
Photolucida gives Critical Mass scholarships to “foreign” photographers from countries that might be under-represented in mainstream awareness of emerging photography and/or truly unable to pay submission fees. Photolucida also gives scholarships to our Portfolio Reviews event to deserving photographers as part of the Critical Mass programming. We also have a Library Program where we send each year’s Critical Mass publications to over 30 Oregon art school, college, university and public libraries. And, we send the finalist DVDs to educators who request them, as it is a great teaching tool in photography classes.
QUESTION: OK, ALL THIS SOUNDS GREAT, BUT HOW DO I KNOW I GET MY MONEY'S WORTH IF I SUBMIT TO CRITICAL MASS?
Let’s establish the premise that you are a photographer falling somewhere in the wide scope of emerging photography – and you want people to see your work. Realistically, there needs to be some kind of “marketing” line item for you as a photographer where you do have to spend time and money to promote your work.You need to decide how best to get your work out there in the most efficient way possible to people who may be able to offer opportunities. You can spend your “marketing dollar" on a multitude of things: a new website, business cards, leave-behind materials, Portfolio Reviews…you need to decide what makes sense for you at this point in your career and what your finances can accommodate. Critical Mass is just one of your options.
So, after reading all of this, if you feel like you have a solid portfolio of ten images, a sincere artist statement, and feel excited to get the work out in the world, now might be the time to submit to Critical Mass.
We don’t promise instant success – you should be wise enough to know the art world does not work like that. But we do know that exposure through submission to Critical Mass produces results…because we hearsuccess stories from people all the time.
Usually, the most dramatic feedback from our book award winners:
'Winning the Critical Mass book award has really changed my life. It has exposed my work to so many people, and over the past couple years I've been lucky enough to work with some of them.
David Bram of Fraction Magazine first saw my work as a juror, which then led to a feature on Fraction and that led to gallery representation with Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Since then I have had my work featured in PDN, Flak Photo, and One One Thousand. I’ve shot assignments for The New York Times and Oxford American Magazine. Not only has my work been exposed to over 200 jurors in the photo world, but it is still being seen in a new and more final way through the publication of the monograph.
— Jeff Rich
And stories that are more subtle, but meaningful just the same:
'I believe the exposure helped to keep my work on the minds of some influential folks who were on the selection committee at the Griffin Museum of Photography. This helped lead to my first solo show there.'
— Corey Hendrickson
Even if you don’t make it into the finalist group, you still have some substantial benefits: you receive the DVD with all submissions included (so your work goes out to all the photographers who submitted as well) and you receive a copy of the book award winner’s monograph once published. And, you have had the experience of submitting if this process is new to you, and 26 pre-screening jurors will have seen your work.
'I have to say that the entry fee is worth it for me. It might seem a little bit steep as compared to other opportunities (which typically "average" about $35 for 3 entries) but Critical Mass is a bit different. For starters, we can enter 10 images, not just 3. Also, we get the CD containing all of the work that was entered. Most juried shows do not offer this and I've found it to be great insight into what others are doing in the field. Finally, we get the great books at the end of the process. Have you priced any photo books lately? Hint: you can't get them (even a Blurb book) for under the price.
When you combine all of these factors, Critical Mass is a bargain and that's before you release the Top 50 list.'
— Carol SchiraldiOne more note… (and thanks for reading though this essay of a blog post!) The biggest vote of confidence we could ever ask for comes from our truly outstanding group of jurors that have chosen to give their time to us. Some have asked us if they could jury, and some have been jurying for us going on nine years. Many of these industry greats have said, “I would love to jury! I believe in what you do.”
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THE CLOCK IS TICKING! 24 HOUR EXTENSION!
There is now a 24 hour submission extension for Critical Mass! Registration closes tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12 noon (Pacific Daylight Time!)
Have you completed your submission? Good job!
Have you registered but have yet to submit your images? Get to it!
Are you still thinking about submitting but teeter on the edge of indecision? You have until the deadline Tuesday! But not a second later. There are no extensions to the extension.
Are you curious as to what is next?
We proof all the Critical Mass entries, make sure everything is looking as it should, and format them for our panel of 26 pre-screeners. This year we have these great folks looking at all the submissions and jurying for the finalist group:
Alexa Becker, Kehrer Verlag
Darren Ching, Klompching Gallery & Photo District News
Jennifer DeCarlo, jdc Fine Art
Julia Dolan, Portland Art Museum
Roy Flukinger, Harry Ransom Center
Hamidah Glasgow, The Center for Fine Art Photography
Fabian Goncalves Borrega, Art Museum of the Americas
Cherie Hiser, Educator/Curator
Laura Valenti Jelen, Newspace Center for Photography
Rupert Jenkins, Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Joni Kabana, Photolucida board
Dennis Kiel, The Light Factory
Stu Levy, Photolucida board & Portland Art Museum Photo Council
Yan Li, Beijing High Noon Culture
Mary McClean, Random House
Blue Mitchell, Diffusion Magazine
Laura Moya, Photolucida
Claire Annette Mussard, Independent Curator
Sharon Lavier O'Keefe, Northwest Center for Photography
Madeline Yale Preston, Independent Curator
Shawn Records, Photolucida board
Mary Anne Redding, Santa Fe University of Art & Design
George Slade, re: photographica
Christina Spielvogel, Blue Sky Exhibition Committee
Barbara Tannenbaum, Cleveland Museum of Art
Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum for PhotographyAnd the Critical Mass Finalist list will be announced around August 27th!
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Critical Mass pre-screening thoughts from Joni Kabana:
And they are off! The Critical Mass pre-screeners are out of the gate and we have one juror already formulating some thoughts on the process...
Joni Kabana, photographer, educator, consultant, and Photolucida board member extraordinaire posted some thoughts on her blog today, which we will share here:
In the last several years, I have been asked to perform portfolios reviews, consult one-on-one with individual photographers, and judge various photography competitions. In each case, I feel honored to provide this service.
And while I try to make some adjustments for each situation, I can’t help but uphold a standard of criteria when I look at photographic work. Sometimes this upsets people greatly, and they defend their work ferociously, even within an entry level photography classroom. This is fine. Others express gratitude for an honest assessment and helping them move into another phase of the development of their work.
I don’t pretend to know everything about photography. I am only one person, with one opinion. However, there are several themes that do seem apparent to me: Photography has no rules, never tells the entire truth, is bastardized frequently, and love is in the eye of the beholder. I have seen weak work garner stellar awards, and strong work pushed aside.
The truth seems to be that there is more to the picture than the picture.
This month, I am in the process of pre-screening 755 of this year’s Critical Mass entries. Each entry includes ten images and an artist’s statement. I am halfway finished, and after viewing 387 entries, I am starting to see a pattern regarding how I “judged” the entries. And often, very often, I wish that the artist is sitting right here next to me so I could ask them some questions.
Here are some of those questions. I hope this helps when editing your entries for any competition. As I reflect upon these questions, I realize many things about my own work and how I can alter my approach.
What were you thinking when you came up with this concept? Did you clearly state this in your artist statement?
If you’ve seen it before, are these images similar?
Does your work look strikingly like (blatantly derivative of) someone else’s work that you admire?
What are you really trying to tell your audience?
Do all photos form a song?
Do any of the images feel insincere?
Who is more prominently in focus: your content or your self?
How are these photos surprising?
Is your artist statement descriptive, and not overbearing or self-righteous?
How is your point of view different from others we have seen?
Did you take risks with the subject matter, execution of imagery, post processing?
Does one weak image take the others down?
Even though you captured important subject matter (cancer, crime, death), are the images interesting and different?
Have you gone too far just to be considered “different”?
Is the group of images cohesive?
Is the group of images repetitive?
Have you told anyone to blankly stare into the lens?
Are you trying too hard to solicit emotions from the viewer?
Were you engaged with your subject matter? How so?
Are you trying to please someone?
Have you taken a photo of a photo (or painting, or design) and if so, how have you made this your own image?
Do the images tell us something without having to read the artist statement?
Again, there are no right and wrong answers when creating a body of photographic work. It is yours, and should reflect your voice. But if we present the portfolio to others, especially within a competition, there seems to be another layer of pondering that might be useful in presenting something that is unique and therefore more aptly noticed.
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Just Some Fun Stuff!
Portland People! Tonight - Opening of "B-SIDES" exhibit at the fun-destination Ampersand. Sure to be the hip happenin' place to be this evening and hello, what an amazing roster of work! If you live within a hundred mile radius of Portland, make the trip to see it. You have a month to do so!
Down the West Coast from us, in San Francisco, just opened: the conceptually cool "NOT KANSAS: Photographers Explore Their Own Worlds" exhibit at Rayko Photo. Gallery director Ann Jastrab let us know that a good percentage of the exhibiting photographers were Photolucida finds: Tami Bone, Alison Carey, Chris Colville, Jeremy Dyer, and Curtis Wehrfritz.
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| Photo: Jeremy Dyer |
And, Yan Li of High Noon Culture in China, has let us know that the following eight photographers - most found through our programming - were selected to exhibit their portfolios at the 2012 Shanghai International Art Show: Traer Schott, Norihisa Hosaka, Gabriela Herman, Bryan David Griffith, Joseph Holmes, Tami Bone, Andrew Buurman, Jacqueline Walters, and Michael Kirchoff. And, Camille Seaman and Hollis Bennett will be traveling to Beijing on August 2nd, where they will travel to the Panjin region to work their photography assignment!
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| Photo: Traer Scott |
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Guatemala! Critical Mass scholarships and GuatePhoto Call for Entries
Guatemala...what do we know about photography that is happening in Guatemala? Seemingly a long distance away both geographically and culturally, perhaps not so much... The remarkable work of Luis Gonzales Palma has been on the radar of the international photography world for a long time, and most absolutely deservedly so. But in addition to this, what else?
As you may know, as part of Critical Mass, we extend a large handful of scholarships to photographers based in countries that may be flying under the radar, and whose work we think our Critical Mass jurors should see. In past years, scholarships have been given to photographers from Poland, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, and Georgia. This year, we are pleased to offer this opportunity to these select photographers from Guatemala - JJ Estrada & Clara de Tezanos, Daniel Chauche,Jorge Luis Chavarria Aleman,Alejandro Medina, and Bryon Marmol.
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| JJ Estrada & Clara de Tezanos |
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| Jorge Luis Chavarria Aleman |
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| Alejandro Medina |
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| Byron Marmol |
AND...Guatemala's International Photography Festival GuatePhoto 2012, is promoting the exchange between photographers from all over the world and has an OPEN CALL for submissions - the winner will receive $3,000.00 in cash, a solo exhibition in the new gallery of La Fototeca, an all expenses paid trip to Guatemala to attend the inauguration of the festival and a seven page spread published in RARA magazine. For more information click here!
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A Brief Anthology of Critical Mass 2012 Submission Topics
The Critical Mass pre-screening crew is finishing up pre-screening this week, and traditionally I take this opportunity to loosely attempt to categorize the wide reach of content that emerging photographers are putting out into the world. What matters to people? How are people portraying ideas, traditional and conceptual?
These are some of the trends (in the most positive sense of the word) that I jotted down during my pre-screening experience. Please note than no topic listed has any more weight than any other in Critical Mass - these are just across-the-board notations that I think give a window peek into topics photographers find relevant enough to create work around:
Specific international geographic places explored: Africa (Ethiopia Rwanda, Nigeria, Nairobi…), Korea, Iceland, Kabul, Romania, Greenland, Palestine, China, India, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Colombia, Morocco, Myanmar, Brazil, Yemen, Egypt, Cuba, Norway, Slovakia, Antarctica
Specific places in America explored: Pie Town (New Mexico), Salton Sea, Hawaii, Alaska, New York City, and quite a few on New Jersey!
General Geographic places explored: “The West”, “The South”, “The Suburbs”, “The City”, “The Ocean”
Specific places explored:newspaper presses, old-age homes, movie theaters in Kabul, theater booths, hotels on brink of demolition, forest shrines, trailer park communities, Libyan torture sites, extreme hoarding environment site, Mexican border town, Alaska’s North Slope
References to other artists in statements, usually in an inspirational sense: Robert Adams, Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhardt, Todd Hido, Alfred Steiglitz, Stephen Shore, Eugene Atget, Lee Friedlander, Minor White, Tina Barney, Martin Parr, Julia Margaret Cameron, Rembrandt
Projects with traditional photographic focus:self-portraiture, portraits of others, nudes, trees and forests, flowers, nighttime, clouds, county fairs, landscapes, oceanscapes
Projects that explore larger/abstract ideas:drying laundry, post-divorce life, the supernatural, reality, intimacy, suicide, heroin addiction, the urge to lose oneself, societal alienation, identity, totality of existence, life & death, memory, psychology of space, mental health, repressed emotions, guilt, Women and Pretending, five stages of grief to acceptance, color fields & spacial relationships, nostalgia, loneliness, fear of forgetting one’s personal history, life’s “in-between” moments, psychology of road trips, effects of economic recession, pattern alchemy, aggression
Projects that explore specific topics:chronic migraines, wrench typology, Tom Waits lyrics, colorblind-ness, polar bear swim, indie wrestling, election campaigns, meta data, teenagers at night, items from compost, struggling fashion models in their home environments, scans of diaper stains, waybills in 1970’s Castro district, the Last Supper, red-headed children, dogs in cars, photos of frozen cancerous tissue
Projects that show different societal trends or cultures: those who loveartificial life-like babies, motor home culture, facial tattoos, ‘American Girl’ doll culture, Junior ROTC, newspaper, world of politics, brides of Central Park, yoga, plastic surgery to conform to societal standards, ‘Occupy Wall Street’ activism, man’s relationship to the wolf, military service, wrestling communities, mono cultures, cultural genocide of the First Nations People, hunting culture, homeschooling communities, prison communities, people driving in cars on Rodeo Drive
Projects that look at aspects of sexuality/relationships: online strippers, gay & lesbian youth at prom, transgender portraits and communities, intercultural marriages, masculine identity, wearing dresses, sexual identity day vs. night, S & M world
Projects that look at environmental issues:several projects on polluted bodies of water, effects of the Japanese tsunami, clashes of man made environments and nature, deer as roadkill, global warming using Google Earth to show, development of rural areas
Projects that look at Family issues:unhappy childhoods, returning home, examining one’s affluent family, parents starting over, parents divorcing, parents growing old, parents dying, family dynamic with grandfather being on Death Row, motherhood, miscarriage, marriage, interior lives of children
Projects that look at loved ones or selves with disabilities – physical or mental: borderline personality disorder, autism spectrum disorder, Asperger’s syndrome, dealing with internal growths, cancer, breast cancer, images that help cancer patients visualize light
Projects of various formats and mediums:diptychs, triptychs, hand sewn cross-stitches on ink jet prints, gunpowder explosions, wet-plate collodion, paint-based imagery, print-based imagery, vintage photography with light leaks through pinpricks, Polaroids, iPhone imagery, Google Earth, platinum/palladium, multi-medium collage
All of the work submitted to Critical Mass 2012 is recorded on DVD and copies sent to all who entered. It is our hope that people will utilize this record of Critical Mass to look at the work of their peers and think about how their own work fits into the larger survey of work being done at this point in time.
Next week: Finalist list will be announced!
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CRITICAL MASS 2012 FINALIST LIST
Our pre-screeners have completed their jurying and our programming has tallied the finalist list for Critical Mass 2012! List is below (including our international scholarship recipients), alphabetical by first name.
THANK YOU to ALL who entered, there was such a great range of work this year. We appreciate you being part of the Critical Mass event, and the important thing is to keep doing the work and get it out there!
Curious as to what goes on behind the scenes in the pre-screening stage? Here is some perspective written last year on the process.
2012 Finalists
Aaron Vincent Elkaim
Adam Wiseman
Alejandro Medina
Alexei Krasnikov
Alinka Echeverria
Amiran White
Amy Friend
Andrew Emond
Andrew Fillmore
Ann Mansolino
Anne Berry
Annette Elizabeth Fournet
Arthur Drooker
Ashley Kauschinger
Aspen Hochhalter
Barbara Cuirej & Lindsay Lochman
Ben Huff
Benjamin Rasmussen
Benjamin Rusnak
Bob Avakian
Bob Miller
Bonnie Lammar
Boris Eldagsen
Brad Temkin
Brandon Thibodeaux
Brian Kaplan
Byron Marmol
Calli McCaw
Carlos Gonzalez
Carlos Loret de Mola
Carrie Will
Catharine Carter
Celestino Marco Cavalli
Christopher Capozziello
Christopher Colville
Christopher Dawson
Christopher Rauschenberg
Clarissa Bonet
Clay Lipsky
Daniel Chauche
David Pace
David Saxe
Deborah Bay
Denis Roussel
Deon Reynolds
Diana Matar
Dima Gavrysh
Dominic Turner
Donna J. Wan
Eben Ostby
Edie Fogel
Eleonora Ronconi
Elizabeth M. Claffey
Ellen Kok
Ellie Davies
Emma Powell
Enrico Fabian
Enrico Fabian
Eric Lusito
Ernie Button
Eros Hoagland
Eseralda Ruiz
Forest McMullin
Francis Schanberger
Frank Lavalle
Freya Najade
Fritz Liedtke
Fyodor Savintsev
George McClintock
Glenna Gordon
Gloriann Liu
Greg Kahn
Hakan Strand
Haley Jane Samuelson
Haley Morris-Cafiero
Hannah Kozak
Heather Wetzel
Heidi Kirkpatrick
Heidi Lender
Ian van Coller
Ian Willms
Ikuru Kuwajima
Ilona Szwarc
JJ Estrada & Clara de Tezanos
Jacqueline Walters
Jade Doskow
Jamey Stillings
Jamie Tuttle
Jan Caga
Jana Romanova
Jason Brown
Jennifer Kaczmarek
Jenny Ellerbe
Jesse Rieser
Jimmy Lam
Jo Ann Walters
John Delaney
Jonathan Saruk
Jorge Luis Chavarria Aleman
Jose Diniz
Joseph O. Holmes
Judith Black
Julia Kozerski
June Yong Lee
K.K. DePaul
Kai Loffelbein
Kate Wilhelm
Kathleen Robbins
Katie Koti
Kendall Messick
Kent Krugh
Kitra Cahana
Kris Sanford
Kurt Simonson
Kyoko Hamada
Lara Shipley
Laura El- Tantawy
Laura Noel
Lauren Henkin
Lauren Semivan
Lee Saloutos
Lewis Francis
Lisette de Boisblanc
Lorenzo Triburgo
Lucia Herrero
Lydia Panas
Manuel Cosentino
Manuel Cosentino
Marilynne Morshead
Marina Font
Marjorie Salvaterra
Mark Parascandola
Martha Fleming-Ives
Mary Beth Meehan
Mary Ellen Bartley
Matt Eich
Maxine Helfman
Meike Nixdorf
Melanie Cleary
Michael Massaia
Michelle Sank
Mila Teshaieva
Misha Domozhilov
Monica Denevan
Monika Merva
Nadia Sablin
Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman
Nigel Gordon Dickinson
Noah David Bau
Ohm Phanphiroj
Patricia Lay-Dorsey
Paula Mc Cartney
Pelle Cass
Peter Blakely
Peter Liepke
Polly Chandler
Polly Gaillard
Priscilla Briggs
Rachel Papo
Rachelle Anayansi Mozman
Rafal Maleszyk
Reathel Geary
Rebecca Greenfield
Rich Frishman
Richard Tuschman
Robert Moran
Rodrigo Albert dos Santos
Roger Generazzo
Roopa Gogineni
Rubi Lebovitch
S. Gayle Stevens & Judy Sherrod
Samantha VanDeman
Santiago Vanegas
Sarah Cusimano Miles
Sarah Malakoff
Sarah Moore
Sol Neelman
Stan Raucher
Stephan Hillerbrand + Mary Magsamen
Steven Smith
Susan A. Barnett
Susan Bank
Sven Nieder
Svjetlana Tepavcevic
Tamara Reynolds
Tamas Dezso
Tami Bone
Tara Bogart
Tatyana Bessmertnaya
Terri Garland
Terri Warpinski
Thomas Alleman
Thomas Jackson
Tom Griggs
Tom Wik
Tony Fouhse
Toshiya Watanabe
Urszula Tarasiewicz
Vangelis Georgas
Victoria Crayhon
Vivian Keulards
William Scharf
Zhenjie Dong
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Portland (and slightly beyond) Happenings!
Some great programming happenings in our neck of the woods here in Oregon!
First, we are happy that Priya Kambli will be having a solo exhibition at Newspace Center for Photography this month. Priya's series "Color Falls Down" is has a strong genealogical aspect, as Kambli gathers and recontextualizes the records of her family history, but her own photographs introduce staged, fictional elements as well, examining issues of identity, displacement and cultural history. Kambli was a Critical Mass 2008 Book Award Winner.
Opening reception is Friday, September 7th, 6-9pm.
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| Priya Kambli - from Color Falls Down series |
Mr. WM Hunt will be taking Portland by storm this month! Blue Sky will host WM Hunt's installation The Unseen Eye, including approximately one hundred of his personal images from his collection, featuring photographs in which eyes are closed, covered, or hidden. The exhibition opens at Blue Sky on Thursday evening, Sept. 6.
The Portland Art Museum's Photography Council is pleased to host Mr. Hunt for his lecture about this collection on Saturday, September 8 at 2pm in the Miller Room of the Mark Building. It is free and open to the public.
WM Hunt is also the curator for this year's Critical MassTop 50 traveling exhibition.
Oregon boasts some beautiful coast communities, and Cannon Beach is at the top of the list! It is the home to the inaugural debut of the Cannon Beach Photo Review, hosting some great regional and national reviewers. Dates for this weekend of photographic reviewing, mingling, networking and excursion-ing are October 12 - 14th, 2012.
Lastly, we are excited here at Photolucida to be submitting files for print this week for CM11 Book Award winner Jennifer B Hudson's monograph, MEDIC. It will be a gorgeous book, with some interesting and surprising design details, printed and bound at Oddi Printing in Iceland. It is due off the presses in December!
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| Jennifer B Hudson's forthcoming MEDIC |
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Notes On Portfolio Reviews – General and Specific!
As Photolucida gears up for registration (October 2) for our seventh biennial Portfolio Reviews event in April, I would like to offer these thoughts to those interested in registering for Photolucida or any Portfolio Reviews event:
Everyone brings up the cost to attend a Portfolio Reviews event. It is expensive to attend, and it is expensive to produce. The organizer, the participating photographers, and the reviewers all put a lot of time and energy into creating a successful event and a worthwhile experience, both professionally and personally - it is a huge commitment for all those involved. The “value” of attending a Reviews event is highly subjective and only you can decide whether participating in one makes sense for you. In essence, it is a fee-for-service situation and like any good consumer, you should do research before committing!
How to calculate the true cost of a Reviews event? Take the registration fee and divide it by the number of Reviews appointments one receives to come up with a cost-per-appointment. This formula is a good key to tabulating the true expense of a Reviews event. You can do some comparative shopping this way.
But, keep in mind that there are many factors that contribute to a productive and enjoyable Reviews event that have nothing to do with money, but makes for a great investment. Other considerations:
How strong is the Reviewer list – what industry professionals are choosing to give their time and expertise to the event? What is the location of the Reviews – both city and venue? Is there a Portfolio Walk produced for the general public? Is there a space outside the actual Reviewing room for photographers to spend time informally with each other? Does the organization have effective programming developed to provide an accurate selection process for choosing Reviewers? Is there additional programming produced for participants – lectures, panel discussions? Does the Reviews event take place during a Photography Festival with exhibits, talks, social events, etc.?
Many Reviews events exist and they continue to proliferate yearly on a national and international basis. Some are juried, some run lotteries, some are first-come-first-serve. Some offer scholarships, most don’t. Reviews events are are run by non-profits, for-profits, and professional membership organizations. Some focus on fine-art imagery, some on the editorial realm, some have a documentary or photojournalistic bent.
Photolucida is pleased to be in the ranks of many renowned Reviews events nationally such as FotoFest, Center’s Review Santa Fe, and PhotoNOLA. Other reputable suggestions include Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s version, and those of the Society for Photographic Education.
There are many discussions and thoughts on attending Portfolio Reviews from industry professionals online, including Mary Virginia Swanson and Jörg Colberg(type in key word “portfolio reviews” in the search field), and numerous discussions pop up in forums such as the Flak Photo Network. The ‘Curator Ship’blog shows a comprehensive listing of international Reviews events.
For Photolucida, a hugely important factor to the success of our Portfolio Reviews event has always been our Reviewers. We historically have had such a wonderful, strong roster of people willing to give their professional time and knowledge base to our event. On that note, I would like to list the group of reviewers for Photolucida 2013 – names will be listed over the next few months (for a total of 60) as our event continues to evolve:
Anna Alexander, Dwell Magazine
Elizabeth Avedon, Le Journal de la Photographie
Jacqueline Bates, W Magazine
Lisa Berry & Mia Dalgish, Pictura Gallery
Lisa Berry & Mia Dalgish, Pictura Gallery
Elisabeth Biondi, Independent Curator
David Bram, Fraction Magazine
Rodrigo Corral, Rodrigo Corral Design
Crista Dix, wall space gallery
Bevin Bering Dubrowski, Houston Center for Photography
David Bram, Fraction Magazine
Rodrigo Corral, Rodrigo Corral Design
Crista Dix, wall space gallery
Bevin Bering Dubrowski, Houston Center for Photography
JJ Estrada & Clara de Tezanos, La Fototeca/GuatePhoto
Roy Flukinger, Harry Ransom Center
Roy Flukinger, Harry Ransom Center
Harris Fogel, Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401
Taj Forer, Daylight Magazine
Hannah Frieser, Light Work
Christopher Gianunzio, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Gail Gibson, Gail Gibson Gallery
Taj Forer, Daylight Magazine
Hannah Frieser, Light Work
Christopher Gianunzio, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Gail Gibson, Gail Gibson Gallery
Hamidah Glasgow, Center for Fine Art Photography
Michael Granger, LightBox Photographic
Charles Guice, Charles Guice Contemporary
Michael Granger, LightBox Photographic
Charles Guice, Charles Guice Contemporary
Myles Hasselhorst, Ampersand Gallery
Tricia Hoffman & Chris Bennett, Newspace Center for Photography
WM Hunt, Collection Dancing Bear
John Jenkins, Decode Books
Tricia Hoffman & Chris Bennett, Newspace Center for Photography
WM Hunt, Collection Dancing Bear
John Jenkins, Decode Books
Ann Jastrab, Rayko Photo Center
Brooks Jenson, Lenswork Publishing
Patricia Lanza & Lesley Meyer, Annenberg Space for Photography
Carrie Levy, Wired Magazine
Dewi Lewis, Dewi Lewis Publishing
Brian McMullen, McSweeney's
Carrie Levy, Wired Magazine
Dewi Lewis, Dewi Lewis Publishing
Brian McMullen, McSweeney's
Melanie McWhorter, Photoeye Books
Diana Millar, Luz Gallery
Diana Millar, Luz Gallery
Kevin Miller, Southeast Museum of Photography
Blue Mitchell, Diffusion Magazine
Allison Nordstrom, George Eastman House
Claire O'Neill, National Public Radio
Allison Nordstrom, George Eastman House
Claire O'Neill, National Public Radio
Ann Pallesen, Photographic Center Northwest
Chantel Paul, Museum of Photographic Arts
Kira Pollack, Time Magazine
Kira Pollack, Time Magazine
Yan Li and Hou Wei, High Noon Culture & People's Photography
Blue Sky Gallery Exhibition Gallery
Kirsten Rian, Independent Curator
Jennifer Schwartz, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery
Jennifer Schwartz, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery
Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
Gordon Stettinius, Candela Books + Gallery
Mary Virginia Swanson, M.V. Swanson & Associates
Gordon Stettinius, Candela Books + Gallery
Mary Virginia Swanson, M.V. Swanson & Associates
Claire Sykes & Susana Reisman, Circuit Gallery
Barbara Tannenbaum, Cleveland Art Museum
Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum of Photography
Phil Toledano, Photographer
Pieter Wisse, 500 Photographers
Phil Toledano, Photographer
Pieter Wisse, 500 Photographers
Check back periodically for additional reviewer names!
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