The Photo House 144 is now officially looking for interested artists with interesting work. With the opening show for 144 being held in early June (hopefully), we are looking for entries to review ASAP. You may submit any photographic work done in any format with any theme or focus. As the gallery develops more specific requirements will probably be addressed, but for now, entries can be sent as digital files (of reasonable size for viewing on screen) or through the mail as slides or even small work prints. The only necessary accompaniment to the images is specific details about the final prints (dimensions, technique, etc.) and some sort of art statement regarding the project and your process for creating the images. The more writing the better.
Also calling for entries for The Photo House 144 Gallery Book. This will be the quarterly-published handmade book accompanying each gallery opening. The Gallery Book will have reproductions of the images on display as well as essays and statements about photography and the arts, and will be available for purchase at the gallery. ***There is not a pressing need for writers interested in submitting to the Gallery Book to be photographers. Anyone with a strong interest in the photographic arts is encouraged to submit essays of varying length to be included alongside the images.
Further details about specific requirements and 144's opening night will be announced later. Feel free to contact me with any questions regarding the submission process or with volunteer help for the space and/or book. Additionally, any ideas and thoughts on small scale book production would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...
Derek William McGregor
The Photo House 144
144 Sigel Street
Philadelphia, PA 19148
144@dwillm.com
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Congrats, it's exciting that you are doing a gallery. First question on my mind, and the one that I'm probably most surprised you left out is concerning digital work. I'm not by any means looking to get *that* discussion started here and now, but I think that considering your values if you want to open it up to all photographic work and not just traditional that you should say so upfront as to not put people off from the start. If you are looking to include people of that sort that is.
Nobody should be put off from the start. If there are some out there who are interested in my opinions on digital they can read what I have posted here on the blog, or ask me directly (because I find the discussing of digital matters quite interesting). In terms of the gallery, I want to be inclusive of everything at the start (partly just to see the level of interest) and then narrow it down from there. The importance of the thought process and hands-on craftsmanship in creation cannot be ignored however, and if one decides that they have gotten a great picture without utilizing these specific qualities of an artist (i.e. a digital shooter who clicks, plugs in, prints and takes nothing of a lasting value with him) then their pictures are not of value to the gallery. This does not mean that they have no value, but rather, how am I, as an artist, going to gain any insight into their work or them individually without them desiring an artistic process....simply put, yes, submit your digital work, but the writings submitted with it should then clue me in to an individual's artistic process.
derick,
good idea, and i can say from past expierience, you will have fun doing this project.
i am down to be a part of it in any way possible.
jake h.
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