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The 2022 Somerville Toy Camera Festival

The Somerville Toy Camera Festival seeks entries for its ninth annual celebration of toy camera and lo-fi photography.

Somerville Toy Camera Festival   /   Deadline: 07/10/22

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Since 2013, the Somerville Toy Camera Festival has celebrated the quirky and creative results that can happen when photographers are forced to loosen their controls, submit to the light and embrace the accidental. Each year since, the Festival has brought a wide range of toy camera photography by US and international artists together in simultaneous shows at galleries throughout the city, and featured related programming including artist talks/panel discussions, workshops, social events, and a darkroom day.

Location

Somerville, Massachusetts

Fees

Free

Eligibility

Images of any subject matter, made with a "toy" camera — any low-tech camera with no or very limited exposure control, such as pinhole, Holga, Diana/Diana clones, Brownie, Ansco, disposable cameras — are eligible. Key criteria are plastic lenses and a lack of reliable exposure control. Straight Polaroid-type images, or images made with cell phones, digital cameras, or film cameras with full exposure control (such as the Lomo LC series), will not be considered.

Requirements

How To Submit:
— A maximum of five pieces may be entered for consideration.
— Instead of submission fees, please consider a donation toward the costs of this festival.
— Accepted pieces must be delivered to the respective gallery framed and wired for hanging (or ready and equipped for display, in the case of viewing devices, constructions, etc.).
— Artists are responsible for the cost of shipping to and from the gallery.

Contact Information

Bruce Myren
23 Hammond Street, Apt 2
CAMBRIDGE,

P: 6177195674
W: http://www.somervilletoycamera.org/
E: bruce.myren@gmail.com