The difference between taking photographs and being a photographer is about the same as playing golf versus being a golfer.  I’m no photographer, but it is part and parcel of my media, Xerography.  So…let’s call this Photography Week on Art & Art Deadlines.

Without photography, nothing would ever be cookin’ in my kitchen.  To that end, here’s a great call for the photographer (or wannabe) in us all…Here’s a Call for Submissions:  Photo Abstraction from The Vermont Photography Workplace.

“We often think if the camera as a tool for recording minute details of the visual world, in images that sometimes seem so real they could be mistaken for actual experience. 

“But photographs can also build on abstract elements inherent in the medium, such as blur, and in the visual world, such as pattern and texture.  For “Abstraction in Photography” we seek images that utilize abstract components as their primary mode of expression. 

“Fields of color and exquisite shapes found in nature, linear designs discovered in the built environment, blur created in-camera or with vintage processes—the sky’s the limit.  Astonish us with your eye and mind for the abstract. 

“Juror Stephen Strom will select forty photographs for exhibition on the walls of PhotoPlace Gallery in August and on the gallery website.  An additional thirty-five images will be chosen for PhotoPlace’s “On-Line Gallery Annex.” 

Click Here for a Upcoming Full Exhibition Schedule for the Gallery.

“All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalogue available for purchase.  To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

Click Here for Submission Guidelines. 

The deadline for Photo Abstraction is August 16, 2010.

“Juror: Stephen Strom, photographer, astronomer, writer, and educator. His most recent photography book is Earth Forms, published by Dewi Lewis Publishing.”

Visit Photo Place for an online Application Form.

For further information visit www.vtphotoworkplace.com or e-mail photos@vtphotoworkplace.com.

PhotoPlace Gallery
3 Park Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
802/989-2359
www.vtphotoworkplace.com
Contact: Kirsten Hoving, photos@vtphotoworkplace.com

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