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sardines

Have you ever lost your taste for something?  I used to absolutely love sardines as a kid.  My grandmother would make my uncle Darryl and I sit on the back step outside the back door of the kitchen to eat them.  But, over the years, I fell out of love with them.  I don’t hate them.  I remember the buttery melt-in-your-mouth texture contrasted with the crunchy saltiness of the Saltines, their constant companion.  Maybe it is time to find a can of my old friend sardines again.  This next Call is all about lost & found.  Don’t miss this opportunity…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Lost & Found. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($24), and they will provide free matting & framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you enter, please make sure to let them know that you found the Call on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com. We’ve got a great history with them…including Best of Show!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Lost & Found

To happen upon something
forgotten, forsaken; to find
what was once lost.

Photography eliciting scenes or subjects that meant something to someone long ago or in the recent past.  Foraging in a far away land, or even in your own backyard and uncovering the unexpected. We are looking for photographs that embody this murky realm of faded glory; haunting happenstance, and beauty found in the details dropped by a stranger on the street. Capture those ancient treasures tucked away from plain sight; the handiwork of a craftsman now far away, but re-imagined, and re-discovered by your lens.

In light of recent events, we are all feeling a communal sense of loss.  We see that, like material things, people can be lost, sometimes tragically.  They can be misplaced, or forgotten–lost souls, the invisible humans in our midst.  Bring these subjects into the light, show the Darkroom Gallery what was lost and you have found.

ELIGIBILITY: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, you must have a legal guardian make the submission for you.

MEDIA:
Photography

DEADLINE:
February 6, 2013

NOTIFICATION:
February 13, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  Up to 4 images for $24 US for on-line and $29 for email submission

JUROR:  Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine, a publication dedicated to discarded notes, letters, flyers, photos, lists, and drawings found and sent in by readers. The magazine spawned a best-selling book, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World, published in April 2004. A second collection was published in May 2006, a third in May 2009. The magazine is published annually and has a worldwide following, it’s online blog is updated daily.

Rothbart is a frequent contributor to This American Life, and author of My Heart Is An Idiot, a book of personal essays, and the story collection The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ and Grantland, and his work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Believer. He is also the founder of Washington II Washington, an annual outdoor adventure for inner-city kids. Rothbart lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Los Angeles, California.

AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the Darkroom Gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 30×48″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image. People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES: Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submission Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!