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REMINDER: Monochromatic

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If you’re looking for a food goal for the year–swear off most things beige or brown.  Let’s face it, we can all live with deep-fried-everything from potato chips to chicken, and all those tater, rice and white bread aren’t helping us either.  I am not suggesting it will help you lose any extra pounds, but you might feel a little better. This next show is interested in the monochromatic issues as well. Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Monochromatic. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and I love that they will provide free matting and framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

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Learn more about the Monochromatic show at the Darkroom Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Monochromatic

 

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value…“Ansel Adams, The Camera

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.” Edward Steichen

These two masters enriched the history of photography by being some of the first to experiment with new technologies in a relatively new art medium. They were also traditionalists and truly embraced manual and old photography processes. The hundred and fifty photographers from Steichen’s world is millions today, and finding “as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made” is no longer as simple.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery online!Digital cameras and editing software have transformed the medium and opened up whole new worlds for the 21st century photographer. We have dozens of “apps” that help us tweak a digital image to “perfection” in minutes. A vast repertoire of image resources we look to for inspiration and meaning still brings us to the same point of reflection as photographers of the early 20th century: what is the art of photography?

Black and white photography, a genre that many would claim made them fall in love with image-making in the first place, has remained completely relevant and contemporary despite it’s ancient roots. It is timeless, sometimes soft, sometimes dramatic and brings new perspective to images and image making. Whether you are a darkroom purist or a Photoshop craftperson, show us your love for hue-less images. The Darkroom Galllery wants to see YOUR best black and white or alternative process images for an exhibit that will pay tribute to the origins of photography and praise it’s development.

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

Learn more about the Monochromatic show at the Darkroom Gallery!MEDIA: Photography. Monochrome images from traditional silver black and whites to cyanotypes, sepia toned photographs and anything else in the color-less spectrum.

DEADLINE: Jan. 25, 2012

NOTIFICATION: Feb. 1, 2012

JUROR: Growing up in southern Poland, Rafal Maleszyk spent his childhood and early years in post-communist Poland. He first started exploring photography using a 35mm Kiev on his fourteenth birthday. Maleszyk’s photography is rooted in his interest in natural landscapes. For him, photography is the ultimate artistic form that captures one’s encounter or oneness with nature. His style focuses on simplifying and expressing with intimacy the perspectives in nature.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!In 2009, he moved to the Oahu island of Hawaii, where he now works as a professional fine art black and white landscape photographer, specializing in large format prints series using a digital medium format Hasselblad camera. Maleszyk has received numerous awards for his work.

AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ 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 Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: Arte Natura 2012

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B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Despite all my talk about butter, chocolate and all things yummy, we really do eat fairly healthy at my house. We limit excessive intake of fats, processed white sugar and foods with unnecessary chemical additives. I usually insist to avoid the premature expansion of my rear end and to offset a few other bad habits, ha. Organic bananas are a must. No they aren’t alway the prettiest, and yes, they spoil faster, but nothing tastes more like a banana. Here’s your chance to get back to something natural …

Check out this Call for Entries from SlowArt Productions with Arte Natura. The entry fee is reasonable, and here are no media restrictions.  The awards include both an exhibit (in Hudson, NY) and an opportunity to have your work in the nationally-distributed art magazine. Don’t miss this one!

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Learn more about Arte Natura 2012!CALL for ENTRIES:
Arte Natura 2012

 

SlowArt Productions presents the group thematic exhibition, Arte Natura. This exhibition will focus on art inspired by the natural world and will be held at the Limner Gallery.

Eligible are all art forms relating to, or gaining inspiration from the world of nature.  Landscapes, skyscapes, flowers, vegetables, fruits and animals are all eligible. Human images are permitted only as an elemental part of the natural environment. All artist interpretations of the natural world from the realist to the abstract and conceptual will be reviewed and considered.

Learn More about the Limner Gallery online!ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA:
All media

DEADLINE:
February 24, 2012.

NOTIFICATION:  By March 31, 2012. Results will be posted on or before this date at: http://www.slowart.com/results. Notification will be made via email and/or by mail with the return of materials in the SASE provided by the artist.

Learn more about Direct Art Magazine online!All artists who provide a working email address will be notified via email, if no email or return envelope is provided, artists will only be notified if accepted to exhibit.  Type or print your email address clearly, if a mistake is made reading it you will not be notified.  Read the notification page for details of the notification policy.

ENTRY FEES:  $35.00 entry fee for one to four artworks entered, presentation is by digital files, prints or 35mm slides. There is a $5.00 fee for each additional artwork above four.

SALES: All works in the show must be for sale. The gallery will take a 30 % commission on all sales. Sale price is determined by the artist.

AWARDS: Winning artists will be featured in a group exhibition at the Limner Gallery, June 2 – 30, 2012. The exhibition will also be displayed on the Limner Gallery web site. One artist will be awarded a two page display in Direct Art Volume #19, Fall 2012 issue. Two artists will be awarded a single page display.

For the full guidelines, Download the Prospectus!

Learn more from the Limner Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: True Colors

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not
ACCOMPLISHED

A little girl recently asked me how I could tell which food was good for me just by looking at it. (Yes, I really do talk about food all day.)  I spent a few minutes explaining that you could tell that some foods are good for you because they are deeply or brightly colored, like broccoli, swiss chard and carrots.  Without missing a beat she said, “I’m glad to know I don’t have to give up jelly beans,” and she promptly turned and left.  Perfect.  This next show is proves color can be good for you.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for True Colors, a digital and photography competition brought to you by Digital Arts: California that will feature both an online showcase AND a physical gallery exhibit.  Pay attention to the details…

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Learn more from Digital Arts California!CALL for ENTRIES:
True Colors

 

“Color—in all its glory—is the theme of this exhibit. Bring on those bright, dazzling hues, or those soft, muted pastels. Explore deep, mysterious shades, or subtle, sophisticated tones.  Does your palette include earth tones…or psychedelic blinders?  Have you created a fuchsia-and-saffron fractal or a digital painting in chartreuse and cherry-blossom pink?  Or, have you photographed the subtle range of blues and greens in an ocean vista?  If color is an integral aspect of your art or photography, we want to see your images!” —from digitalartscalifornia.com

Learn more from Digital Arts California!Digital Arts: California presents exhibits online and in a physical, brick-and-mortar gallery in Los Angeles, San Diego, or another California art center.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA:  Every discipline, genre, style, and school of thought within digital art and photography is welcome.

DEADLINE:  January 15, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  Entry fees are $25 for the first 5 & $4 for each add’l image.

Learn more from Digital Arts California!JURORS:  Selection of the finalists that will appear online in solo artist/photographer galleries will be made by Virginia and Glen Christensen. Virginia has enjoyed a long career as an editor and a publisher of photography and art books, and is, herself, an accomplished photographer.  Glen has had a distinguished career as Art Director at major record companies in both New York City and Hollywood. Among his professional accolades have been two Grammy nominations for Best Album Package.

AWARDS:  Works that have been awarded a Gold Stellar Art Award will be eligible for exhibition in a physical gallery setting. Such exhibits will be held periodically and will combine these award winners from various Digital Arts: California online exhibits.  How often such physical exhibits are held will depend on the volume of entries to their online exhibits as well as other factors.

For complete details, Visit California Digital Arts online!

Learn more from Digital Arts: California!

CALL for ENTRIES: Centering the Margin

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Culinary experimentation is one of my favorite endeavors.  I like to think of results in the terms a “margin for interpretation” as opposed to a “margin for error.”  No Canadian bacon or english muffin for your eggs benedict?  How about brie and roasted garlic loaf.  Granted, that interpretation may be on the very periphery of acceptable to some.  But maybe, just maybe, that’s the sweet spot.  These folks behind this next Call for Entries agree with me.  “Varied platforms of concept.”  Fun…

Check out this Call for Entries for Centering the Margin, an artist curated show brought to you by Root Division (Sacramento, CA).  The entry fee is incredibly low, and the thematic content is fascinating.  Don’t miss this one…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Centering the Margin

Learn more from Roots Division! Centering the Margin is an artist-curated project focusing on artwork that concerns itself with spaces, events, and artifacts that exist just outside of our field of vision and attention. If our contemporary existence is marked by a focus on spectacle and constant stimulation, then Centering the Margin is a show that documents those things that fall outside this focus. These are things that require a change of speed or shift in focus to perceive them.

This show hopes to draw connections between artists concerned with margins, edges and interstitial spaces through diverse approaches and varied platforms of concept, representation and materials.

Works considered for the show could be: 1) pictorial works that represent spaces and moments that are glimpsed fleetingly if at all; 2) process-based works that employ materials that exist solely as vessels for goods or products, or are artifacts of technologies of display and production; or 3) time based works that document forces or phenomena that are barely perceptible or so common as to escape notice.  *These are only a few examples.

Learn more about Roots Division!Editor’s Note:  This call is meant to complete a show that currently includes the work of 7 artists including the curator, Anthony Ryan.  A total of 15 to 18 artists will be represented in the exhibition. Final selection of works will occur AFTER the Call for Entries process is complete.

ELIGIBILITY:  All artists

MEDIA:  All media

DEADLINE:  January 17, 2012

ENTRY FEE: $10 for 4 images

CURATOR:  Artist Anthony Ryan

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

Learn more from Roots Division!

CALL for PROPOSALS: Kettering Solo Show

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I love it when two of things I like most collide… like those old 1970s commercials about “your peanut butter on my chocolate” versus “your chocolate in my peanut butter” for Reese’s peanut butter cups. Well, it happened again this week on our little-blog-that-could. Featured Artist Amy Kollar Anderson sent a Call for Proposals for a gallery for whom she’s the coordinator.  We are proud to have her as an alum and thrilled to post her Call. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Proposals for Solo Shows at the Rosewood Arts Centre from the Kettering Arts Council.  There is no entry fee, but don’t procrastinate and miss the deadline! Don’t miss this opportunity…

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CALL for PROPOSALS:
Rosewood Arts Centre Solo Show

Learn more about the Call for Proposals from the Kettering Arts Council for the Rosewood Gallery!The Rosewood Gallery is dedicated to the encouragement and creation of new works and to the promotion of the visual arts in the Dayton, Ohio, area. Eight exhibitions are presented each year in the Rosewood Gallery, sponsored by the City of Kettering Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts, with support from the Kettering Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. View current exhibitions.

ELIGIBILITY: The Rosewood Gallery specializes in the exhibition of contemporary art by emerging local, regional and national artists.

Learn more about the Call for Proposals from the Kettering Arts Council for the Rosewood Gallery!MEDIA: All media will be considered for exhibition, including video and installation pieces.

DEADLINE: Proposals must be postmarked byFebruary 3, 2012.

NOTIFICATION: By the end of May, 2012.

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: A selection committee composed of regional art professionals will make recommendations from submissions of work for exhibition.

For complete details, Read the Call online!

 

Read the Call from the Rosewood Arts Centre!

CALL for SUBMISSIONS: Pop Up Billboard Exhibit

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I get lots of requests for restaurant recommendations.  And, I think sometimes people are disappointed when I give them the stereotypical answers, but famous places are famous for a reason.  For example, I would never visit New Orleans without a trip to the Cafe du Monde for beignets and cafe au lait or to Central Grocery for a muffuletta.  If you “pop-in” to this next show opening, make sure to check out my favorites.  Is it lunch yet?

Check out this Call for Submissions from Art Below for the Pop-Up Billboard Exhibit and Gallery Orange co-exhibit in New Orleans.  The fees are huge, but you can’t ask for better exposure.  Take a look…

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Learn more from Art Below!CALL for ENTRIES:
Pop-Up
Billboard Exhibit

 

Art Below ‘Pop Up’ is taking place in New Orleans for the month of February 2012, specially planned to co-inside with the legendary Mardi Gras which every year bring thousands of fun loving visitors to the city to join the celebrations.

As an exhibitor you will be allocated with your own billboard to display your selected artwork for 4 weeks starting January 31, 2012. 

Running alongside the billboard display you will also be invited to exhibit your selected artwork as part of the Art Below ‘Pop Up’ Group Show for the month of February at Gallery Orange located in the world famous French Quarter.

Learn more from Art Below!There will be 2 private view events at Gallery Orange on February 4th and 18th, 2012.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA:
All media that can be adequately
represented as a static
two-dimensional 10’x20′ billboard.

DEADLINE:
January 9, 2012

NOTIFICATION:  Ongoing after January 9th until spots are filled.

ENTRY FEE:   The fee is £750 (approximately $1175 USD)

Learn more about Gallery Orange!Editor’s note:  I know this is a HUGE expense for many of you; however, if you look into the price of a billboard along any interstate (never mind this one is in the French Quarter during Mardi Gras) and you will quickly realize that this is A DEAL…IF AND ONLY IF this is the appropriate step in your career at this particular time.

JUROR:  The jury process is unclear.  However, my knowledge of Art Below indicates you probably can’t simply buy your way into this one.

SALES:  This is a 50/50 split with Gallery Orange/Art Below for prints of your billboard image as well as original work included at the gallery portion of the exhibit.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

Learn more from Art Below!

CALL for ENTRIES: Right Here Over There

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Don’t you want to have a Club sandwich in the Club Car of a long-distance train?  It it just me?  Admittedly, I just watched White Christmas again.  I just watched them all sing “Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow.”  Now that I think about it, we never do SEE those sandwiches…just the aftermath.  Hmmm… While I ponder the snowy landscape of napkins in that train car, you ponder the “metaphoric landscape of place” in this next Call.  Go ponder…

Check out this Call for Entries for Right Here Over There brought to you by the Lexington Art League (Lexington, KY).  This is an all media show with NO ENTRY FEE!  Don’t miss this rare opportunity…

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Learn more about the Right Here Over There exhibit!CALL for ENTRIES:
Right Here Over There

 

Right Here Over There is an exhibition exploring the physical, mental, and metaphoric landscapes of place and their indelible link to memory. Throughout our lives we are surrounded by a world punctuated by varying spaces, climates, geographies, buildings, and cultures.  Accumulating in layers over time, pieces of our physical world provide visual reference points for how we understand one another and ourselves.

THEME:  Including (but not limited to) the following may be integrated into the final exhibition: mapping, topography, architecture, nature, distance, home, exile, travel, and personal/social/political geographies.

ELIGIBILITY:  All artists, age 18 and older.

MEDIA:  All media and styles will be considered.

DEADLINE:  January 31, 2012

NOTIFICATION:  February 17, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  No entry fee.

 

Learn more by visiting the Lexington Art League online!JUROR: Becky Alley, LAL’s Exhibitions & Programs Director, will select all artwork for exhibition.  Alley earned a BFA in studio art from Washington University, and an MFA in studio art from the University of Kansas.  Before joining the LAL staff in January 2010, Alley was the Director of University Galleries at Murray State University.  She has organized over 100 shows and has curated several major projects including Think Tank, an international show of political art, Creatures Great and Small, a touring exhibition of contemporary art featuring animals, and Love and Things Like Love, an LAL project.

SALES:  Not all works need to be for sale, but LAL retains a 30% commission on the retail price of all works sold in the gallery. The artist must determine retail price, which is sent with the application materials.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

Learn more by visiting the Lexington Art League online!

CALL for ENTRIES: Absence of Color

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not KRAUT

People tell me the wackiest food facts.  I love hearing them, and I usually assume I am being told the truth.  But, just to be certain, I always verify the facts if I can.  Recently someone told me that the black and white cookie, that I alway think of as German in orgin, IS actually German, but it is called an Amerikaner.  There has to be some cyclical humor in the fact that an American who thought she was a fan of German cookies is really only a fan of cookies that Germans refer to as American cookies.  Funny.  This next call is all about Black and White, too.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for Black & White: Absence of Color from MPLS Photo Center (Minneapolis, MN).  This is a great venue and a great juror.  Don’t miss this opportunity!

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Learn more about the Black and White show from MPLS Photo Center!CALL for ENTRIES:
Black & White: Absence of Color

The world’s first photographic images were made in shade of gray, black, and white, and the black and white photograph continues to be an important palette for photographers today. The beauty of a well-printed black and white photograph is undeniable—it is striking, unearthly, and can be life changing.

Some of the world’s most memorable photographs are black and white—the rich blacks, glowing whites, and silvery grays of a strong, black and white photograph leave a lasting impression on the mind. For photographers, those deep blacks hold a special significance, as it is the black tones that reveal themselves first in photographic chemistry and communicate the magic, mystery, and possibility of the photographic process.

Black and white photographs can have painterly, etching-like qualities, which were celebrated by photography’s inventors and early adopters. Photography as art was first championed with The Photo-Secessionists who celebrated the pictorial aspect of the black and white image. Today photography is widely accepted as an art form and as a key medium within contemporary and conceptual art.

The choice of using black and white versus color is the photographer’s choice, and the reasons for that choice can be personal, theoretical, or aesthetic. This call for entry—Black and White—The Absence of Color—looks to grays and blacks and whites to tell the story and make the picture that color would often muddy.

Learn more about the MPLS Photo Center!ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists.

MEDIA:  Photography

DEADLINE:  Jan. 21st, 2012

NOTIFICATION:  Jan. 29th, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  $35 for five, $10 ea. add’l

JUROR:  Bevin Bering Dubrowski is Executive Director of Houston Center for Photography, a nonprofit organization founded in 1981 offering year-round exhibitions, workshops, publications, outreach programs, lectures, and classes.  HCP’s mission is to increase society’s understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture, and produces 15 – 20 exhibitions annually on and off-site, balancing work by regional and internationally acclaimed emerging, mid-career, and established artists.  Bevin curates exhibition for HCP and is also editor of spot magazine, a bi-annual journal of photography that includes artist portfolios, interviews, exhibition and book excerpts, and highlights on HCP members’ work.

Learn more about the MPLS Photo Center!Prior to joining HCP as Executive Director, Bevin founded the photography division of Bering & James and served as gallery director.  Bevin is also a practicing photographer and received her BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Emory University. Bevin has reviewed portfolios for FotoFest, Lens Culture/ FotoFest Paris, Photo Nola, and Photo Lucida.  She has also recently served as a juror for Critical Mass and the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards and serves on the FotoFest Art Board.

AWARDS:  First Place – $400, Second Place – $300, Third Place – $200 and Three Honorable Mentions. Prizes and Awards include a free Black & White Exhibition Book.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

Learn more about the MPLS Photo Center!

CALL for ENTRIES: You’ll Find this Offensive

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I learned table manners in “finishing” class.  No, I am not kidding.  I went to a southern, Protestant private school through sixth grade.  All 5th grade girls took “finishing class” in which we learned posture by walking with books on our heads.  We learned that our waist should be 10″ smaller than our bust and hips.  And we learned both how to set a table and how to behave while sitting at the table.  No really, I’m not kidding.  And while I have clearly let go of the 10″-smaller-than-my-bust-and-hips lesson, I still find bad table manners offensive.  This next show is looking for something a little more extreme, I suspect.  Whatcha got, folks?

Check out this Call for Entries for You’ll Find this Offensive from Outlaw Artisans (Pittsburgh, PA) which will be shown at the Red Door Space.  Low entry fee, quick decision time and no commission make for a great opportunity.  Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
You’ll Find this Offensive

 

Learn more about the You'll Find this Offensive exhibit!“Art has a purpose. It challenges, it offends, it makes people think.  In this age of ‘political correctness,’ it’s more important than ever that artists gets out there and wake up the people.This show is for your offending work.  We will be doing a one day purchasing event at Red Door Space in Pittsburgh, PA, and we are collecting all of the work into a book for sale.  Keep your prices at an attractive level for purchase, but let your submission be as offensive as you would like.  The book is available as a show piece for advertising your art style and accomplishments, as well as demonstrating your vision.” –from the OutlawArtisans.com website

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Two dimensional media plus literary work of 300 words or less.

DEADLINE:  January 13, 2012

NOTIFICATION:  January 15, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  $20 charge for 3 images

SALES:  All work must be available for sale. No NFS work will be eligible for this show.  The gallery will not be collecting commission on works sold for this show.  Work will be sold in at auction the evening of the show.  Artist will be able to designate the minimum bid for their work.

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!

Learn more about the Outlaw Artisans!

CALL for ENTRIES: Monochromatic

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I prefer my foods on the edge of extreme–from color to taste. My newest favorite are little purple, fingerling potatoes.  Yum.  In addition to being beautiful, those brightly colored foods tend to be higher in iron and anti-oxidants that your body needs to be healthy.  I have sworn of the beige potato chip or two, but I’ll take beets instead on most days.  This next show is interested in the black and white extremes. Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Monochromatic. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and I love that they will provide free matting and 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!

Learn more about the Monochromatic show at the Darkroom Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Monochromatic

 

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value…“Ansel Adams, The Camera

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.” Edward Steichen

These two masters enriched the history of photography by being some of the first to experiment with new technologies in a relatively new art medium. They were also traditionalists and truly embraced manual and old photography processes. The hundred and fifty photographers from Steichen’s world is millions today, and finding “as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made” is no longer as simple.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery online!Digital cameras and editing software have transformed the medium and opened up whole new worlds for the 21st century photographer. We have dozens of “aps” that help us tweak a digital image to “perfection” in minutes. A vast repertoire of image resources we look to for inspiration and meaning still brings us to the same point of reflection as photographers of the early 20th century: what is the art of photography?

Black and white photography, a genre that many would claim made them fall in love with image-making in the first place, has remained completely relevant and contemporary despite it’s ancient roots. It is timeless, sometimes soft, sometimes dramatic and brings new perspective to images and image making. Whether you are a darkroom purist or a Photoshop craftperson, show us your love for hue-less images. The Darkroom Galllery wants to see YOUR best black and white or alternative process images for an exhibit that will pay tribute to the origins of photography and praise it’s development.

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

Learn more about the Monochromatic show at the Darkroom Gallery!MEDIA:  Photography.  Monochrome images from traditional silver black and whites to cyanotypes, sepia toned photographs and anything else in the color-less spectrum.

 DEADLINE: Jan. 25, 2012

NOTIFICATION: Feb. 1, 2012

JUROR:  Growing up in southern Poland, Rafal Maleszyk spent his childhood and early years in post-communist Poland. He first started exploring photography using a 35mm Kiev on his fourteenth birthday. Maleszyk’s photography is rooted in his interest in natural landscapes. For him, photography is the ultimate artistic form that captures one’s encounter or oneness with nature. His style focuses on simplifying and expressing with intimacy the perspectives in nature.

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!In 2009, he moved to the Oahu island of Hawaii, where he now works as a professional fine art black and white landscape photographer, specializing in large format prints series using a digital medium format Hasselblad camera.  Maleszyk has received numerous awards for his work.

AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ 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 Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Darkroom Gallery!