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Illuminance Photographic Contest

The Buddy Holly Center   /   Deadline: 04/01/15

Illuminance is a national competitive exhibition featuring photographic work from across the nation, and beyond. The Fine Arts Program of the Buddy Holly Center is committed to the promotion of contemporary visual arts and educational programs. For 2015 the theme is The Feeling of the Rural Night.

From Brassa's Paris de Nuit (Paris by Night) to Todd Hido's recent body of work of homes and streets after dark, photographers have captured the distinctly different feeling that pervades nighttime. The curtain of darkness can enhance mystery and intrigue, elicit fear or wonder, and create a wide variety of responses that are different from a person's daytime experience.

Location

Lubbock, Texas

Fees

$30 for 1-3 works / $5 for each additional work. Artists are not limited in the number of entries they may submit. Credit card payments will be processed by phone. Call 806-775-3560 from 10am to 5pm CST, Mon-Fri. Checks may be submitted via regular mail. Receipts will be scanned and emailed to entrants.

Eligibility

Illuminance is open to all artists using photographic processes as their media. Please do not submit work that has been shown in a previous Illuminance exhibition.

Requirements

Email digital images to: LTremblay@mylubbock.us with an inventory list that includes your name, mailing address, and phone number as well as title, media, and printed dimensions of each entry. Please save in JPG format, 300dpi, no larger than 750 pixels/5 inches in any direction.

Awards

Best of show - $750
First Place - $550
Second Place - $350
Third Place - $250

Considerations

CALENDAR
April 1 - Submissions and entry fee due
May 1 - Notification of accepted works
June 12 - Accepted works must be received at the Buddy Holly Center
August 15 - Closing reception, presentation of award checks and gallery talk with juror Rixon Reed

REPRODUCTION: The Buddy Holly Center retains the right to reproduce artwork for publicity purposes, including print and online (website, Facebook, etc). Submission of an entry to this exhibition shall indicate an agreement on the part of the artist to these conditions. A catalog will be published for the exhibition.

SHIPPING: Accepted work should be sent ready to hang, packed in sturdy, reusable containers (no styrofoam peanuts, please). Work will be insured by the Buddy Holly Center during the exhibition, but artists are responsible for shipping insurance. Arrangements for shipping to and from the Buddy Holly Center are the responsibility of the artist.

Evaluation Criteria

Individual images are evaluated in a blind jury process.

For The Feeling of the Rural Night, the juror is looking for photographs that evoke the sensory experience of being in rural areas of the country during the nighttime. Not bound to just being pictures of the landscape or exteriors of buildings at night, this show may also include nighttime images that hint at rural culture, astronomical pictures, and metaphorical, poetic works that refer to the night in the countryside.

JUROR: Rixon Reed is the founder and director of photo-eye, a contemporary photography gallery and photo bookstore located in Santa Fe, New Mexico and online at photoeye.com. In 1979, Reed started photo-eye as a mail-order photobook source in Austin, Texas and moved the business to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1991, opening as a combined photo bookstore and gallery. Today photo-eye has grown to become one of the world's largest online resources for the photobook. The photo-eye Gallery shows contemporary photography in the Railyard Arts District in Santa Fe and emerging artists online at photoeye.com.

In 2013, Reed developed Art Photo Index, a curated website and search engine for contemporary photographers worldwide. Today, Art Photo Index includes over 3,600 artists from 88 countries and nearly 25,000 images.

Reed graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arkansas with a BA in Natural Science and moved to New York City in 1973 to attend NYU Graduate Film School. He worked as book department manager at Witkin Gallery in New York, from 1976 to 1979.

Contact Information

Louise Tremblay
Buddy Holly Center
1801 Crickets Avenue
Lubbock, TX 79401

P: 806.775.3565
W: http://www.mylubbock.us/departmental-websites/departments/buddy-holly-center/home
E: LTremblay@mylubbock.us