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Light and Shadow
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Juror's Statement
Light waves across the electromagnetic spectrum behave in similar ways. When a light wave encounters an object, they are either transmitted, reflected, absorbed, refracted, polarized, defracted, or scattered depending on the composition of the object and the wavelength of light.
NASA
Every photograph that is made is a visual record of at least one of these wave behaviors. Photographers thoughtful with their craft develop a familiarity with circumstantial light and use it as a tool to add layers and depth to their composition. But how do they combine the scientific with the poetic? How do they use light (or the absence of light) to tell a story? These are questions I brought to my jurying process.
The Juror’s Award image was one of several submitted by the same artist that shows sweeping celestial galaxies in the night sky (stars emitting their own light + planets reflecting the light from the sun). The visual enormity of this wonderful image is balanced by the inherent reminder of our fleeting human smallness. The Director’s Award image is a layered mountain landscape with craggy peaks and strata layers – whatever split-second light angle the artist caught gives us a flattened and unusual perspective that is almost painterly. Honorable mentions are more intimate in scale – a father holding a baby perhaps captured through a bus window, a tiled tunnel with blurred figures moving out of a shadow, a breakfast table scenario with morning light that offers a specific quietness.
Thank you to all who submitted work and it was such a pleasure to work through knitting together what I know will be a beautiful exhibition!
— Laura Moya
Call for Entries
Light and the absence of light – shadow – are fundamental ingredients of photography. The relationship of the two allows artists of any kind to create the illusion of 3 dimensions on a 2-dimensional surface. When light and shadow work effectively together, magic can happen.
For this exhibit, we seek images that effectively use light and shadow to draw attention to the subject, emphasize dimension, strengthen composition, or simply create beauty by the interplay of the two.
All lens-based captures and methods are accepted.
We are very pleased to have Laura Moya 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: Michael DiMeola
Thumbnail: Allison Plass
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About the Juror