CALL for ENTRIES: The Narrative Image

CANNED FOOD

There are very few truly black foods. Black truffles, black and white cookies, squid ink pasta… none of those are truly black in color. When I think of black foods, one shining, delicious example comes through immediately. Wild sturgeon roe from the Caspian Sea… Caviar. Yes, fish eggs. If you can’t get over what it is long enough to try it, you are missing out one of the culinary wonders of the world. It doesn’t have to cost thousands. Like wine out of a box, there is an audience for every grade of caviar. This next Call takes the black caviar out of the tin and into the box, the Black Box. Keep reading…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Black Box Gallery for Narrative: The Photographic Image. This Gallery covers all the expense of printing, matting & framing your images, and they don’t even have to be for sale. This is as hassle free as a photography exhibit gets. Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES:
Narrative

One Picture is worth a thousand words is a common belief that information can be conveyed more accurately and efficiently by images than words. And the power of narrative, or story telling is at the foundation of much of photography. Photograhers are creating complex and descriptive moments in time. Contemporary photographers are crafting and documenting new forms of a visual short story.

ELIGIBILITY: The exhibition is open to all photographers world wide, both amateur and professional.

MEDIA: Photography. Black Box will provide all framing, matting and printing for our exhibitions. The photographers who are selected into the exhibition by the juror will provide a high resolution Tiff file for our gallery to print for the exhibition. Black Box covers all printing and framing costs. Other arrangements can be accomodated, if artist wants to send in a print.

DEADLINE: September 4, 2011

ENTRY FEE: $35 per entry (an entry includes up to 5 photos). Use Pay Pal or send check to: Black Box Gallery, 811 E. Burnside St., Ste. 212, Portland OR 97214.

JUROR: Holly Andres calls on the rich visual history of film and narrative photography in her works, often citing personal and fictitious memories of childhood.

Andres coordination of rich, stylized color palettes, elaborate sets, vintage wardrobes and dramatic lighting recall Hitchcock thrillers, fashion photography and tableau photographers like Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall, Annie Liebowitz, Larry Sultan and Cindy Sherman. Her work explores elliptical narratives, visually descriptive storytelling and constructed fantasy.

AWARDS: This exhibition will have 20 photographers included by the juror.

SALES: Black Box Gallery takes a 50% commission on all sales, 50% goes to the photographer. If artist prefers the print does not have to be for sale.