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Art Through the Lens

Yeiser Art Center   /   Deadline: 04/30/15

The Yeiser Art Center is now accepting submissions for its annual international juried photo exhibition entitled Art Through the Lens (formerly known as Paducah Photo).

This year's juror is Sarah Sudhoff, executive director at the Houston Center for Photography. Artists may submit up to 4 photographic images, $10 per submission. $2,000 in cash awards will be given. All photo-based imagery created through photographic processes is eligible including non-lens made images. Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2015. Exhibition dates are June 20 - August 1, 2015.

Entries are now submitted solely online through CaFE: https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=2551&sortby=fair_name&apply=yes.

Eligibility

Open to all photographers. Employees, staff, and board and committee members of the Yeiser Art Center, and employees of Paducah Printing and Horizon Media Group are ineligible.

Requirements

Artists may submit up to 4 photographic images. All photo-based imagery created through photographic processes is eligible including non-lens made images. All work submitted must be original, completed in the last three years and not previously exhibited in a Paducah Photo exhibition. There are no size restrictions. All works must be created in the past three years.

Awards

$2,000 in cash awards will be given in the following amounts:

- First Place, $1,000
- Second Place, $500
- Third Place, $300
- 2 Honorable Mentions, $100 each

Evaluation Criteria

Juror:
Sarah Sudhoff is a photographer, educator and former photo editor for Texas Monthly and Time magazines and was most recently hired as the new Executive Director at the Houston Center for Photography. She established and served on the board of the Austin Center for Photography and Photohive-non profits dedicated to enriching the lives of photographers within their community. In 2013, she received an artist grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and her series Wired appeared in the December issue of Cabinet magazine. In 2012, Sudhoff was an artist-in-residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas and Anne Strainchamps interviewed Sudhoff on her series At the Hour of Our Death for a segment titled Minding Mortality for the program To the Best of Our Knowledge. In 2011, Sudhoff became the first artist-in-residence at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Sudhoff's work interweaves themes of gender, science and personal experience through photographs both staged and found. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons the New School for Design, NY and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

W: http://www.theyeiser.org/art-through-lens