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I have a lot of kitchen toys, but most of them are small, manually-operated hand gadgets.  Honestly, I’m not sure I could cook without a manual juice reamer or my mandolin.  I usually forego the big, shiny electric appliances, but I recently gave in to a beautiful tangerine colored Cuisinart ice cream maker.  It looks like a toy, but it produces masterpieces.  A little kefir milk, a few raspberries and a scrape of vanilla bean is all it takes.  This next Call wants to see the masterpiece you can create with a toy.  Be sure to read the media description completely…

Check out this Call for Entries from The Nave Gallery and Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, MA) for The Somerville Toy Camera Fest.  Don’t pass this up because of the “toy camera” label until you’ve read the definition below carefully.  Did I mention the entry fee is cheap?  Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Toy Camera Fest

 

Expect the unexpected.  The Nave Gallery and Washington Street Art Center have in the past separately held toy camera photography shows. They are now joining together to create  an international festival in Somerville, MA celebrating the quirky and creative results that happen when the photographer is forced to loosen his/her controls.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Photography.  For the Somerville Toy Camera Fest (STCF), “toy camera” is identified as any low-end, low-tech, limited-control camera, including Holga, Diana and other Lomo products, as well as Brownies and Anscos and any pinhole cameras. Images made from Polaroid film backs attached to Holga are welcome; straight Polaroid camera pictures are not. Cell phone images are welcome.

DEADLINE:  July 24, 2013

ENTRY FEE:  $20 for up to 5 images

JUROR:  Isa Leshko is a fine art photographer living in Philadelphia, PA. She has had solo exhibitions at the Corden|Potts Gallery, the Galveston Arts Center, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Houston Center for Photography, the Silver Eye Center for Photography, and the Richard Levy Gallery. Her prints are in numerous private and public collections including the Boston Public Library, the Harry Ransom Center, Haverford College, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Isa’s work is represented by the Corden|Potts Gallery in San Francisco, CA and the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, NM.

“Above all, I want to see images that evoke a strong emotion — joy, fear, sadness, anger, revulsion — or challenge the way I think. Toy camera imagery is about defying photographic conventions. In fact, I think of it as the visual equivalent of punk music. So, let’s make some noise.”–Isa Leshko, Juror

AWARDS:  People’s Choice Award (for each location): 1 Holga 144-120 Medium Format 120N Camera with Built-in Lens, 3 Honorable mention juror awards (for each location).  There will be three separate exhibitions as part of the Somerville Toy Camera Fest. The juror will decide final placement of work that is accepted:  The Washington Street Arts Center (August 10-31, 2013), The Nave Gallery (September 7-28, 2013), and The Nave Annex (September 11-29, 2013).

For complete details, Read the Full Call!