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Poetry of the Ordinary

Deadline for submissions: Oct 14, 2024
Juror: Blue Mitchell
Prints due: Nov 22, 2024
Exhibition: December 6 - December 27, 2024

Call for Entries

As photographers, we have developed skill in seeing beneath the surface of our subjects, and often find in them the beauty, poignancy, and poetry that exist in ordinary moments. For this exhibition, we seek the simple poetic elegance of the ordinary. 

All captures and processes are welcome.

We are very pleased that Blue Mitchell will be jurying and curating this exhibition. He will select approximately 35 images for the Exhibition Gallery, and 40 more for our Online Gallery. All 75 images will be featured on social media, displayed in the exhibit catalog, and remain permanently on our website with photographer's URL.

Submit up to five photographs for $39, $6 for each additional
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Banner image and thumbnail:  Jeff Schlegel

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Georg Krausch
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J. Barker
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Jeff Seltzer

About the Juror

Blue Mitchell is an independent publisher, curator, educator, and photographer based in Portland, Oregon. He has been involved with many facets of photography in corporate and fine art environments. In 2005, after Mitchell received his BFA from Oregon College of Art & Craft, he founded One Twelve Publishing.

One Twelve Publishing is most notably known for its fine art photographic print annual Diffusion (est. 2009), which focuses on artfully crafted photo practices. One Twelve provides an extensive blog with articles, galleries, and special features. Mitchell also hosts and produces a podcast called the Diffusion Tapes where he chats with artists, curators, and writers in fine art photography.

http://bluemitchell.com/

Founder and Publisher, Diffusion Annual & One Twelve
Host and Producer, The Diffusion Tapes

 

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