CALL for ART ENTRIES: Toyed With

NO EXTRA
STARCH,
please!

Newer isn’t always better. Once upon a time, all fast-food french fries were similar to the yumminess that is McDonald’s fries. But about a decade ago, someone (to protect the guilty, I won’t mention their names) decided that all fast food fries needed to be crispier and started add weird stuff to mashed potatoes and extruding a fry-like stick that my family calls “starch sticks.” Luckily, the golden fries from the golden arches remain the same as always. This next Call gives you an opportunity to prove that newer isn’t always better.

Check out this Call for Art Entries for Toyed With a low-fidelity / alternative process photo show at Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, Colorado. Enter your photographs for $25, but be sure to make the July 8th deadline!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Toyed With

A juried exhibition for photographers working in low-fidelity or alternative process photography. Images must be shot with a toy or vintage camera and/or printed in an experimental or antique / alternative process.

ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to all artists. Works must be original, created within the last two years and may not have been shown previously at Open Shutter Gallery. All works must be framed, ready to hang, and for sale.

MEDIA: Photographic images must be shot with a toy or vintage camera and/or printed in an experimental or antique/alternative process.

DEADLINE:
July 8, 2011

NOTIFICATION:
July 23, 2011

ENTRY FEE: First three entries: $25, each additional entry is $5 each.

JUROR: Michelle Bates has been a passionate photographer since she was young, and learned her way around a camera in 1991 at the Maine Photographic Workshops, where she first discovered the Holga. Since then, Michelle has shown work in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Israel; and in group shows internationally. She has photographed for weekly newspapers, album covers, performers, artists, and many others.

Michelle loves teaching, and has given lectures on plastic and toy cameras to groups all over the US, including the Society for Photographic Education, SF Camerawork, Powell’s Books, and the Creative Center for Photography. She teaches at the Photographic Center Northwest, Newspace (PDX), and photo schools and centers nationwide. Her book, Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity was published in 2006 by Focal Press and the second edition in October 2010, and was called the “complete and essential reference for plastic-camera shooters” by American Photo. Michelle is a member of Freestyle Photographic Supply’s Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals.

Michelle lives in Seattle, and also frequents Vashon Island, Portland (Oregon), San Francisco, and New York. She loves to road trip and fly away with her Holgas whenever possible.

SALES: A 50% commission will be retained on all artwork sold during the exhibition. Works should be priced accordingly and may not be changed after submission. Selected artists are encouraged to mat works in white and frame with black.