For this juried group photo show Black Box Gallery will look at what is the possible diversity, complexity/simplicity and visual impact of contemporary color photography. How do photographers use color to captivate, compose and stylize their subjects? There is a strong tradition of color photographers from William Eggleston, Steven Shore, Nan Golden, Andres Gursky, Jeff Wall, William Cristenberry, Cindy Sherman, Annie Liebovitz and Gregory Crewdson.
Juror: Todd Johnson
Todd Johnson is a conceptual and experimental photographer living and working in Portland, Oregon. His photographic work uses abstract metaphor, social critique, dark humor and personal narrative. Johnson received his MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Todd is the founder and director of Black Box Gallery. He has had the following selected solo exhibitions: The Misadventures of Ansel Adams: Garage Sales, Geotracking and General Tomfoolery, at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Dangerous Territory at Pacific Northwest College of Art and Malt Liquor and Cold Cuts at False Front Gallery. Johnson has worked as an independent curator for the following selected exhibitions: Fashion and Fiction at Linfield College, Wild Wild West at Gallery Homeland and Domesticity: Deconstructing an American Pluralism at The Waiting Room. Todd has worked as a portfolio reviewer for Photolucida and has juried The Drawers Program at Blue Sky Gallery.
Eligibility
The exhibition is open to all photographers world wide, both amateur and professional.
Rules/Guidelines
Black Box will provide Free printing, Free matting and Free framing for all of our exhibitions. The photographers who are selected into the exhibition by the juror will provide a high resolution Tiff or JPEG file for our gallery to print.
We have 18” x 24” black frames. Our white mats are pre cut for 12” x 18”, 12” x 12” and 12” x 16” prints (we also have a few other odd sized matts). We print on an Epson Stylus Pro archival ink jet printer, on Epson Premium Luster Photo paper, in a color-calibrated environment. This is a very accurate custom print, just like a custom lab would print, we have over 20 years of custom printing experience.
Exhibition
All exhibition prints will be kept in a flat file after the show for future sale and promotion for the photographer. This will allow the gallery to further promote our photographers and exhibitions to collectors, curators, critics and to the general public. Black Box will shread all gallery prints after 5 years of exhibition in the flat files.
Entry Fee
Entry Fee: $35 per entry (an entry includes up to 5 photos). Use Pay Pal or send check to: If sending a check: please indicate sending a check in the email submission.
Black Box Gallery, 811 East Burnside St. # 212, Portland Oregon 97214.
How to apply
Send in the entry fee and then send an email to: info.blackboxgallery@gmail.com.
- Title the email: Color Burst: Contemporary Photography
- In the body of the email please include the following info:
- Your Name
- Exhibition Name
- Titles of Included Photos with corresponding file name
- Attach up to 5 photos, as instructed below
File Set Up: Jpeg files, 1024 pixels on the longest side at 72 DPI, 3MB or less each (saved).
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