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7th Annual Holga & Friends Out of the Box (on creativity that is) International Photography Competition

Tammy Cromer Photography   /   Deadline: 09/07/17

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The 7th Annual Holga & Friends Out of the Box (on creativity that is) International Photography Competition is now under way with juror, O. Rufus Lovett, a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator based in Longview, Texas.

It is open to amateur and professional photographers around the globe that use a toy camera or an element of it. Photographs of your choice of subject matter made with any low-end, low-tech, limited-control camera "toy" camera – such as pinhole, Holga, Diana, Konstruktor F, Brownies, Anscos, and other Lomo products— will be accepted. Photographs made from Polaroid-type film backs attached to Holgas are also welcome. Photographs made from a DSLR or SLR with a pinhole, Holga, Diana, or plastic lens will be accepted.

The Holga & Friends Out of the Box International Photography Exhibition opens at Tammy Cromer Photography Gallery, 2543 Farrington St., Dallas, TX 75207 - in the Dallas Design District ! Lomography and Freestyle are sponsoring the exhibit. Both will help us publicize it. Lomography will give the 1st place winner a camera package. Freestyle will give 3 cameras to the award winners. We are on the web at http://tammycromer.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=44895&Akey=6FJX86WC&ajx=1#!asset70249

Freestyle and Lomography will showcase the winners on their web-site.

HOLGA LIVES !
As many may know, the Holga camera ceased production last year. Luckily, the molds were found and now Freestyle is manufacturing the Holga N Camera ! Let's hope they can find the other molds too ! Thank you Freestyle. Send them your gratitude by purchasing a brand new Holga Camera. They will be available in September 2017.

About TAMMY CROMER PHOTOGRAPHY | GALLERY
Tammy Cromer Gallery is a contemporary photo gallery committed to exhibiting work by emerging and established photographers in a wide range of styles. The gallery's artistic program proudly supports artists who are interested in issues of ecology and society. In addition, the gallery holds regular exhibitions dedicated to Lomography™, and has kept continual sponsorship by Holga cameras since 2009. Tammy Cromer has worked with various public institutions, private collectors, and curators, maintaining an active voice in supporting local and internationally recognized photographers.

The gallery was established in 2006 in Longview, and moved to its current home in the Dallas Design District in 2016. During this time Tammy Cromer Gallery has shown work by Dan Burkholder, Susan Burnstine, Sonia Katchian, Robert Langham, O. Rufus Lovett, and The Texas Photographic Society, among others.

Location

2543 Farrington St., Dallas, TX 75207

Fees

35

Eligibility

It is open to amateur and professional photographers around the globe that use a toy camera or an element of it. Photographs of your choice of subject matter made with any low-end, low-tech, limited-control camera "toy" camera – such as pinhole, Holga, Diana, Konstruktor F, Brownies, Anscos, and other Lomo products— will be accepted. Photographs made from Polaroid-type film backs attached to Holgas are also welcome. Photographs made from a DSLR or SLR with a pinhole, Holga, Diana, or plastic lens will be accepted.

Requirements

Deadline
Deadline for The Toy Camera International call for entry is September 7, 2016, Midnight CST !

Entry Fees
The entry fee of $35 for up to 5 images. Photographers may enter up to 10 images only at $5 each additional.

Go here to enter http://tammycromer.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=44895&Akey=6FJX86WC&ajx=1#!asset70249

Prizes
Holga Out of the Box exhibit will consist of 50 images in the gallery and online exhibition.
Best of Show - $500 Lomography is donating a Diana F and a Holga N Camera
2nd Place -" $250 and a Holga N Camera
3rd Place -" $150 and a Holga N Camera

When emailing digital files
1. Files should be 1280 pixels in the longest dimension saved in the JPEG format on high quality setting (not maximum). Images should be sampled at 72ppi and saved in the sRGB color space. Email entries to tammy@tammycromer.com

2. Label each file with consecutive numbers followed by your Last name, and first name initial .ie CromerT_01 - no spaces and only alpha-numeric characters.

3. Be sure and copyright your images in the "file info" of Photoshop or meta data.

Sales
All accepted photographs are for sale. The commission charged will be 50% of the sales price. Print your name, address, telephone numbers (work and home), and sales amount on the back of each print accepted.

Liability
TCC will exercise all due care in handling prints, but will not be responsible for loss or damage or replacement.

Reproduction
TCC retains the right to display, project and reproduce work accepted for this
exhibition for publicity and promotional purposes only. Individual photographers retain Copyrights to their individual works.

Eligibility
The exhibition is open to all internationally Holga photographers. The photograph needs to exposed with a Holga camera or an element of it.

If Your Work is Accepted
Send one exhibition print for each accepted photograph.

2. Prints must be mounted and over-matted using white matte board with at least a 2" border around print. Ideally, the photographs should be framed and ready to hang - no sawtooth hangers please. If you are shipping your framed prints, please use plexiglass instead of glass. To save on shipping costs it is ok to send mounted and matted as described above in standard sizes ie: mounted to 16x20, 18x24, 20x24. Check with me on the size of your finished print if you are sending it only mounted and matted to make sure I have glass to cover it.

3. Include return postage for prints to be shipped back to you after the exhibition or include a check for $18 (more for international entries and if you have more images selected for the exhibit. Please include enough for all prints to be shipped back) which would include shipping and $300 insurance. Prints WITHOUT postage will not be returned. Prints will be returned in the container in which they were received. Do NOT use peanuts when shipping.

Our Address
Tammy Cromer PHOTO | GALLERY
2543 Farrington Street
Dallas, TX 75207
214.430.7148

Important Dates
Call for entry begins: July 23, 2017
Deadline: September 7, 2017
Announce Winners: October 20, 2017
Exhibit opens: November 9, 2017
Exhibit closes: December 30, 2017

Contact Information (copy and paste information below in email with your entries to tammy@tammycromer.com or send as an attachment).

Name __________________________________________________________

address _________________________________________________________

City _____________________________________________________________

state/Zip ________________________________________________________

Home phone ____________________________________________________

Work phone _____________________________________________________

email address ____________________________________________________

Please tell us the following
Title - As you want it to appear in the exhibit and online.
Process - tell us your process whether it is Silver gelatin, Platinum, Type C print,
Lightjet, Digital pigment print and what type of camera did you use.

Retail Sale Price
of your image

Entry Fees
You may pay safely and securely with credit card or debit here:
http://tammycromer.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=44895&Akey=6FJX86WC&ajx=1#!asset70249

or mail check to
TAMMY CROMER PHOTO | GALLERY
2543 Farrington St.
Dallas, TX 75207

$35 for up to 5 images
Additional at $5 per image up to 10
Total Enclosed:" $

Payment method (please do not send in email - call with information)

Visa _____ Mastercard _____ Discover________

Number: ______________________________________________

Expiration Date:___________ 3 digit code _____
Titles

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3. ______________________________________________________________

4. ______________________________________________________________

5. ______________________________________________________________

6. ______________________________________________________________

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Email entries to tammy@tammycromer.com

Awards

Prizes
Holga Out of the Box exhibit will consist of 50 images in the gallery and online exhibition.
Best of Show - $500 Lomography is donating a Diana F and a Holga N Camera
2nd Place -" $250 and a Holga N Camera
3rd Place -" $150 and a Holga N Camera

Considerations

JUROR
O. Rufus Lovett, 2017
O. Rufus Lovett has been living in Longview, Texas for the past 40 years teaching photography at Kilgore College and working as a fine art and editorial photographer.
In 2005 he was awarded Piper Professor from the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation in
San Antonio for superior teaching at the college level. The Texas Intercollegiate Press Association honored O. Rufus Lovett as Advisor Of The Year in April, 2016, in Dallas, Texas.

Lovett's editorial work has appeared in Texas Monthly, People, Money, Gourmet, Saveur, Texas Highways, Houstonia, LensWork, Southern Living, Time and LIFE magazine, Reader's Digest, among others.

The University of Texas Press at Austin published two of his photographic books, Weeping Mary in 2006 and Kilgore Rangerettes in 2008. More recently he has completed a book with food writer Robb Walsh, Barbecue Crossroads that was released by The University of Texas Press in April 2013.

Lovett's fine art photographs are included in the following permanent collections:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University Of Texas, Austin
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, San Marcus, Texas
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Selected exhibitions include:
Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Afterimage Photograph Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, Texas
Houston Center For Photography, Houston, Texas
Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, Texas
Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, Texas
Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, San Marcus, Texas
International Center of Photography, Only Skin Deep, New York, New York

Lovett has also been guest speaker and panelist at various universities/venues:
NPR, All Things Considered
The University Of Texas, Austin
Stephen F. Austin State University
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Foodways Texas, Austin
Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont
University of North Texas, Denton
Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Texas A&M University, Commerce
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
Baylor University, Waco
Southern Autobiographical Association, Conway, Arkansas

Juror Statement
The Holga camera has been a wonderful tool and medium that enables and engages the imagination of the serious photographic artist and commercial photographer.
It is great news that the production of the Holga has returned. This camera is known for allowing photographers with a discriminating eye to work freely and with a hint of surprise. Chance often plays a vital role in making art, a delightful distinction with the Holga.

Looking at photographs is an exciting privilege. I hope to be enlightened from artists who raise concerns of life experiences. I am captivated by realism or abstract interpretations. Curiosity, mystery, humor, beauty, surprise and point of view are all clues that play a role in the appreciation of the photograph.

It is critical not to look at photographs hastily, but to search the content and seek nuance that may portray meaning beyond the obvious.

"We are not merely observers, we are interpreters." Mary Ellen Mark
O. Rufus Lovett, 2017

Evaluation Criteria

Looking at photographs is an exciting privilege. I hope to be enlightened from artists who raise concerns of life experiences. I am captivated by realism or abstract interpretations. Curiosity, mystery, humor, beauty, surprise and point of view are all clues that play a role in the appreciation of the photograph.

It is critical not to look at photographs hastily, but to search the content and seek nuance that may portray meaning beyond the obvious.

"We are not merely observers, we are interpreters." Mary Ellen Mark
O. Rufus Lovett, 2017

Contact Information

Tammy Cromer
2543 Farrington St.
Dallas, TX 75207

P: 214.430.7148
W: tammycromer.com
E: tammy@tammycromer.com