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EXPOSURE

Open Photography Competition

Open Shutter Gallery   /   Deadline: 10/16/15

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Submitting Entries for Jurying:
(If you would like to submit electronically, email the gallery at entries@openshuttergallery.com or call 970.382.8355).

Fees

$25 USD per image. Limit 6 entires

Eligibility

The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers, working with digital or traditional photography or a combination of both.

Requirements

Frame Size Limits and Matting Requirements for Accepted Exhibition Photos:

The maximum framed dimension is 22 x 28 and the minimum is 16 x 20. Only white and off-white mats, please. If the nature of your work requires the piece not be framed and/or matted, please email us explaining why at entries@openshuttergallery.com before submitting the work for jurying.

Entry Fee (non-refundable):

The non-refundable entry fee is $25 USD for each image. There is a limit of 6 images for submission. Make money orders or checks payable to Open Shutter Gallery. Mail payment with your entry application and CD images to The Open Shutter Gallery, ATTN: Entries, 735 Main Avenue, Durango Colorado, 81301. All images and personal information will be secured and properly discarded at the end of this exhibition. If you would like your CD returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped CD-mailer. If you wish to hand pick up your entry CD, we will hold entry CD’s for up to 3 months after the exhibition.


All entries must be available for sale. Entries are to be submitted as digital images on CDR, DVDR, or via electronic download link in an email. The largest image dimension (width or height) should be NO LARGER than 1920 pixels with the other dimension proportional. Save your images as 72 ppi/dpi resolution with all layers fattened, 8-bit JPEG fles. No fles larger than 1 MB will be accepted. The image title cannot be greater than 40 characters. Label each CD and CD envelope with artist name, number of images on CD, artist address, and phone number. Label each image with image title only. Do not label images with the artist’s name.

Awards

Best of Show: $600
Best Black-and-White: $300
Best Color: $300
Seven Excellence Awards: $100
A Certificate of Merit will be awarded to the top ten juried selections.

Considerations

18 & Under Category:
One of the missions of the Open Shutter Gallery is to support and develop the talents of young and emerging photographers. We’re offering an 18 and Under Category at a reduced fee of $10 per submitted image. If needed, the Gallery has frames available for use during the exhibit to defer productions costs. We’d like to encourage all young artists to enter the competition.
5 & Under: No entry-free!

Evaluation Criteria

The exhibition will be juried by Open Shutter Gallery and Fran Forman.

Fran Forman: Painting stories with light, Forman constructs alternative realities with found images as well as her own photography. Fran studied art and sociology as an undergraduate at Brandeis University and then received an MSW, working for several years with heroin addicts. Discovering that she could indeed earn a living in the arts, she entered Boston University’s School of Fine Arts where, specializing in photography and graphic design, she received her MFA. Fran is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and teaches part time at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is also a recipient of grants from the Sassower, Tyre, Tavris, and Puffin Foundations and a resident artist in 2010 at the Vermont Studio Center and the Studios at KeyWest in 2015.

Contact Information

Arista Slater
735 Main Ave
Durango, CO 80301

P: 970.382.8355
W: http://www.openshuttergallery.com/submissions.html
E: arista@openshuttergallery.com