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Landscape
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Juror's Statement
The landscape, wild or cultivated, quiet or storm laden, covered in snow, muffled in darkness, fire on the horizon, shimmering reflection, mirror lake, stand of trees, rocks strewn by glaciers, vines reaching, birds diving, roads winding, one sunset cloud, a miracle on the horizon.
It was difficult, almost impossible, to whittle down more than 2000 entries into a small set of 35 images to say this is what a landscape can be. So I selected another 38 for the online gallery, but really, that still wasn’t enough to say, “Look at the light and remember all that has happened and all that there is.”
Hold your breath and dive under the wave beneath a golden sky reminiscent of a Thomas Cole painting. Wake up early to see the fog nestled in the canyons. Wonder at the silence when you look at the virgin snow. Brace yourself for the moment the sun disappears and you are left with the glow on the horizon and the bracing cold of night.
It’s been a delight and a challenge to jury this year’s landscape show for the PhotoPlace Gallery. I had to leave out many photographs that I responded to and that were worthy of inclusion, and hence, the challenge. Natural landscapes, urban landscapes, botanicals, and always the trees, defiant, surviving against the odds. I’ve got The Overstory on my side table now and read it daily. Like Leaves of Grass, it has become a fixture in my nights.
And now another challenge, to select the awards, there is an image of a couple lazing by a river, the water level low, a dog watching the photographer, the hills in the distance on fire, smoke filling the sky, the sky turning orange, and yet they laze. It is amazing and it is human and it is my juror’s pick. There is another image of a truck at night in the most barren of industrial landscapes, not a living thing in sight, and this too for me is beautiful in its cascading shades of grey and its sense of emptiness and the end. This is my director’s pick. And for honorable mentions, for me there is a cloud tearing above the other clouds over the grass laid flat from the wind. I could be there on this hilltop. And another quiet photograph by Sarah Christianson of the North Dakota winter blowing over her family church in the coldest month.
There were so many incredible photographs submitted to this show, that it is hard to boil it down to just a fraction. But thank you to the artists for taking me on journeys near and far, foreign and familiar. It has been a pleasure and an honor. Congratulations to all!
— Ann Jastrab
Call for Entries
This is a call for all genres of landscape: traditional or contemporary, natural, urban, industrial, abstract. Show us how you see the world.
All capture and processing methods are welcome.
We are very pleased to have Ann Jastrab jury this exhibition. She will select up to 35 images for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery, and 40 more for display in our Online Gallery. All 75 images will be featured on social media and displayed in the exhibit catalog.
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Banner image: Richard Cavagnolo
Thumbnail: Michael Barath
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About the Juror
Ann M. Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. These regional traditions—including mastery of craft, the concept of mentorship, and dedication to the photographic arts—evolved out of CPA's predecessor, the renowned Friends of Photography established in 1967. While respecting these West Coast traditions, CPA is also at the vanguard of the future of photographic imagery.
Before coming onboard at CPA, Ann worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco for 10 years until their closure in 2017. While being a champion of artists, she created a thriving artist-in-residence program at RayKo where multiple residents received Guggenheim Fellowships. Ann was also the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco where she incorporated contemporary artists with the legends of photography.