Call for Submissions
Submit Your Entry by June 9, 2016
Portfolio Showcase 2016
Exhibition dates August 9 to September 4, 2016
Once you have determined you would like
to enter,
Click Here
for full details
Click
Here for the entry options and entry form.
Image City Photography
Gallery in partnership with our three sponsors Lumiere
Photo,
Rowe Photo,
Kodak Digital Print Services invite photographers to submit
portfolios of exactly eight images to this
Portfolio
Showcase 2016.
This is one of the premier photography events in
the area with prizes valued at over $2500 provided by the Gallery and
our generous sponsors!
You may enter more than
once with additional portfolios.
The judges for the exhibition
are Howard LeVant and Alan Singer, professors at Rochester Institute of
Technology. They will
select eight portfolios for gallery exhibition and publication in the Portfolio
Showcase 2016 exhibition catalog. See
the biographies below to learn more about our Portfolio Showcase 2016
judges.
The Gallery Partners
will select the Grand Prize Winner from this group of portfolios, upon
viewing the framed prints on the Gallery walls.
The eight winners will each
receive:
-
Exhibition of
their matted and framed portfolio at Image City
-
A
limited-edition copy of the exhibition catalog
-
An award
certificate for $50 in services or products at Lumiere
Photo -- including wide-format printing, framing and supplies
-
An award
certificate for $50 in services or products at Rowe Photo
The Grand Prize
winner, announced at the August 12 Opening Reception,
will also receive
Those not fortunate to be selected are offered a
free, optional review of their work via several different methods. The
competition judge will not be a part of these review sessions.
Click here for
an informative video and suggestions on what criteria makes for a good
portfolio:
If you have
questions please email
Steve.Levinson@ImageCityPhotographyGallery.com.
Once you have determined you would like
to enter,
Click Here
for full details
Click Here
for the entry options and entry form.
Judge's Biographies:
Howard LeVant -- Howard is
graduate of the
Institute
of Design, Chicago. A school created
out of the Bau Haus in
Germany. He studied there under
photographers Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan and Frederick Sommer. He
was a studio photographer in
Cleveland
Ohio
from 1959-62, Photographer at
Shigeta Wright Associates, Chicago 1962-64.
Owner/photographer LeVant Photography in
Chicago
1964-78.
Clients included: United Air Lines, Sara Lee, Gerber Baby Products,
Kimberley-Clark Medical Products, Beltone, Visa/Bankamerica.. And many
more.
Howard came to
Rochester
in 1978 to teach advertising photography at RIT. Became a full professor
teaching Color, Digital Imaging, 2nd year studio core course,
Advertising and business courses. He is now Professor Emeritus.
He was also
the food photographer for Wegmans for 9 years.
IIT/ID has honored Howard by asking to archive his life's work.
Aside from continuing his personal work Howard donates his photographic
services to not-for-profit organizations.
Alan Singer --
My interest in photography goes back to my childhood,-my father Arthur Singer was a
photographer and wildlife artist, and when I was in college at The
Cooper Union in NYC - I met and had critiques with Paul Strand, Walker
Evans and Roy DeCarava. Later I met Henri Cartier Bresson, and Paul
Caponigro and I had a tough decision to make to continue with my art
forms, which included painting and printmaking, and photography. I
worked as a freelance artist in New York City for various publishers and
gradually began teaching. As a professor, I have been in the School of
Art at R.I.T. now for over 27 years. I have exhibited my artwork in
galleries and museums mostly in the east and I write a regular blog
called The Visual Artworker, which contains reviews of artshows in our
region.
