Call for Submissions
Submit Your Entry by June 4, 2017
Portfolio Showcase 2017
Exhibition dates August 8 to September 3, 2017
Once you have determined you would like
to enter,
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Image City Photography
Gallery in partnership with our three sponsors,
Rowe Photo,
Kodak Digital Print Services and
Kodak Alaris invite photographers to submit
portfolios of exactly eight images to the
Portfolio
Showcase 2017.
This is one of the premier photography events in
the area with prizes valued at over $3000 provided by the Gallery and
our generous sponsors!
You may enter more than
once with additional portfolios.
The distiguished judges for the exhibition
are Gunther Cartright,
Professor Emeritus of Photographic Arts
and Photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology, School of
Photographic Arts and Sciences and Jessica Johnston,
Curator of Collections and Assistant Director at Visual Studies Workshop
in Rochester, New York . See the biographies below to learn more
about our Portfolio Showcase 2017
judges.
They will
select eight portfolios for gallery exhibition and publication in the Portfolio
Showcase 2017 exhibition catalog.
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:
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Exhibition of
their portfolio at Image City
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A
limited-edition copy of the exhibition catalog
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An award
certificate for $50 in services or products at Rowe Photo
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An award certificate for $50
from Kodak Alaris for silver halide print production at
iPrintfromHome.com
The Grand Prize
winner, announced at the August 11 Opening Reception,
will also receive
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A $300 certificate from
Rowe Photo
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A $500
certificate from Kodak Digital
Print toward
Nexpress
production of a calendar or other printed materials
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A $100
certificate
from
Kodak Alaris for silver halide print production at iPrintfromHome.com
All entrants will be offered a
free, optional review of their work at Image City on Saturday, August
19, 9am - Noon. The
competition judges 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.
Judges Biographies:
Gunther
Cartwright
Gunther Cartwright's powerful images of the
structural elements of bridges, buildings, highways, fences and storage
containers examine the formal relationships of line, form and color in
the industrial landscape. For Cartwright, the highly engineered
equipment of our modern environment has become the subject of a bold and
graphic aesthetic. Approaching his subjects as richly detailed
arrangements, he emphasizes their forms through the skillful
manipulation of scale and intense color. In the resulting juxtapositions
of element against element and color against color, he suggests the
sophisticated and often beautiful patterns of a manufactured world and
rewrites them as a timely and incisive commentary on our culture. As he
celebrates the signs and vistas of industrial creation and invention, he
alludes to a modern alliance of man, machine and art. Like the American
Precisionists of the 1920's Cartwright clarifies for us the geometrical
structures of the machine age and provides us with a crisp new
perspective of our Industrial Culture.
Cartwright holds a Master of Fine Arts degree
from the renowned Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. He is
currently Professor Emeritus of Photographic Arts and Photojournalism at
the Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Photographic Arts and
Sciences. An active lecturer and exhibitor, Cartwright has made many
presentations throughout Europe and the United States. He is a recipient
of a Polaroid Corporation Photographer's Grant and a New York State
Council on the Arts Public service Grant. He has exhibited
internationally in many one-man and group shows, including exhibitions
at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., the George Eastman
House, Rochester, NY, the National Museum of Photography, Bradford,
England, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England, and at Photokina,
Köln, Germany." --- Georgette Lee, Exhibition Curator,
Joseph & Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University
Jessica Johnston
Jessica Johnston is Curator of Collections and
Assistant Director at Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) in Rochester, New
York. Founded in 1969 by Nathan Lyons (1930–2016), VSW’s mission is to
support makers and interpreters of images through education,
publications, exhibitions, and research collections. VSW offers a Master
of Fine Arts degree in Visual Studies through the State University of
New York, College at Brockport, publishes artist’s books through the VSW
Press and publishes the bimonthly media arts journal Afterimage. VSW
also offers a variety of summer workshops that focus on book arts,
photography, and media arts. VSW awards at least a dozen artist
residencies throughout the year to local, national and international
artists.
Johnston manages the Research Center at the Visual
Studies Workshop that preserves archival and research collections with a
focus on the media arts of photography, independent film and video,
electronic imaging, visual books and publication arts. VSW’s collections
address the art and cultural history of photography and film, and the
social uses of images. In addition to large photography and moving image
holdings, the research library contains over 35,000 books and is open to
the public. Please visit vsw.org/researchcenter/ for more information.
Along with her curatorial duties, Johnston is a
visiting instructor at the College at Brockport, SUNY. She teaches
graduate courses on collections management and the history of
photography, and directs collections related internships. Prior to
joining VSW, Johnston was the Assistant Curator of Photographs at George
Eastman House for eight years. She holds a Master of Arts degree in
Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from Ryerson
University, (2006).
