Photography at High Speed:
A Historical and Contemporary Exhibit
Showing at the 2008 L.A. County Fair, September 5 – 28, 2008
The deadline for entries has passed.
View Competition Results
Call for Entries
Professional photographers, amateurs, hobbyists, and students are all invited to submit original entries!
Winners will be announced June 6, 2008
From pinholes to pixels, this year’s photography exhibit will feature not only the annual competition winners, but will also present a highlighted history of photographic processes, including camera technology and social stimuli that guided the uses of photography and its influence on science and fine art.
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Photographer:
Khanh Vo |
The competition’s theme centers on capturing movement through photography. A panel of photography professionals will select the best original photos to exhibit from five categories relating to the central theme of movement. Additional competition entries will be exhibited to interpret a photographic process or social/cultural/political movement or historical event affecting the development of photography. Cash prizes will also be awarded.
A catalog recognizing the winners and finalists, with essays by the coordinator and possible guest writer, will record this exhibit. Following the exhibit at the 2008 L.A. County Fair, the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex will host an online exhibit of winners and finalists.
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Photographer:
Katarzyna Balug |
Theme
Early photography struggled with the capability to capture events in action, or movement. This year’s competition chronicles the capturing of movement, both physically and figuratively, through various photographic processes. While digital submission for judging is required of all photographs, the processes of creating a print for exhibition are encouraged to be as varied as possible. Photos in black and white or color are both acceptable and will be judged against each other.
Categories
A. Physical Movement – Humans, machines, nature (dance, sports, clouds, rain, airplanes, etc.) This category can include portraits of a person or people in motion.
B. Photojournalism – Whether a local news item, family event, or universally experienced force of man or nature, these photographs depict a pivotal moment that could or has been developed into a news story. Please provide a description and date of the event in caption. This category may also include a staged happening or famous historical event that has been dramatized for the camera.
C. Active Illusion – The idea of movement in this category is to move the viewer’s eye around the entire picture through creating a puzzling, humorous, or curious visual illusion. The photograph may give the illusion of movement, but this is not necessary. While image manipulation software is allowed in this category, the excessive use of Photoshop filters and the like are discouraged. Consider the use of props and compositional elements.
D. Abstracted Movement – Nonobjective photographs or experimental processes (such as photocollage/montage/3-D work) are encouraged in this category.
E. Movement Through Time – Photographs that hearken back to an earlier time or allude to specific movements in art history. Costuming, lighting, or early photographic techniques are all welcome and recommended for this category. Please provide time frame and/or movement in caption.
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Photographer:
Vanessa Guerrero |
Divisions
Professional – If more than half of your income is earned through photography, you must enter in this division.
Amateur – If you are a student, hobbyist, or earn less than half of your income through photography, you may enter in this division. You may choose to enter in the professional division at your own discretion.
Awards
- 1st Place (10 Winners- One in each category of each division)
- $150 each (Checks awarded at reception OR mailed to photographer if not present)
- $100 shipping credit to/from MSCAF per Winner x 10 = $1,000 Total (only if you agree to be in exhibit; if delivered/picked up by hand, you will still receive $100 check; shipping credit to be given to photographer after end of exhibit, by Oct. 31, 2008)
- “Featured Artist” title in exhibit; up to 4 additional photos in exhibit (or a total maximum of 5 photos in exhibit); artist statement and/or bio panel written by coordinator included in exhibit
- Winning photo(s) in catalog; mention in essay; possible inclusion of other photos
- Free exhibit catalog
- 2 Admissions to the L.A. County Fair (parking not included; RSVP required)
- 2nd Place (10 Winners- One in each category of each division)
- $75 each (Checks awarded at reception OR mailed to photographer if not present)
- Winning photo(s) will be in exhibit
- Winning photo(s) will be in exhibit catalog
- Free exhibit catalog
- 1 Admission to the L.A. County Fair (parking not included; RSVP required)
- Finalists (Each judge may choose 10 professional and 10 amateur finalists from any category or categories, for a total of 60 Finalists possible)
- Named in exhibition catalog
- Winning photo(s) will be shown in a web exhibit hosted by MSCAF
- Winning photo(s) MAY be shown in exhibit at discretion of coordinator, space permitting
- Legacy Awards (Coordinator’s discretion)
- Legacy award winners may be chosen from any division or category. The number of winners will be limited by exhibition space and relevance to the historical aspect of the exhibit. Legacy award-winning photos will be exhibited to illustrate the history of photography and possibly also included in the catalog.
Entry Fees
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Photographer: Katarzyna Balug |
- 1 Photo = $6 USD
- 2 Photos = $10 (5.00 ea.) USD
- 3 Photos = $12 (4.00) USD
- 4 Photos = $14 (3.50) USD
- 5 Photos = $16 (3.20)
- Each additional photograph after 5 photos = $3 per entry.
* Payment is due at time of entry. Only credit and debit cards will be accepted. Go to Entry Form for details.
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DO NOT PROCEED TO PAYMENT until you’ve submitted all the photos you want to enter: you must pay for all of your entries at one time to receive the stated multiple photo entry fee discounts.
*Students may enter as a group for a discounted price of $3 per photo. Minimum of 10 photographs per group to qualify for discount. See Rules for more details and eligibility.
Calendar
- Web entry form available – NOW
- Deadline for entries – May 16, 2008
- Winners announced – Friday, June 6, 2008
- Arrival deadline for winners – Friday, August 1, 2008
- Exhibition Dates – September 5 – 28, 2008
(concurrent with L.A. County Fair)
- Reception – TBD
- Deadline for return of work – October 31st, 2008
- Awards and Sales Payments – All payments will be mailed to photographers by Oct. 31st, 2008
- Online Exhibit – Winners and finalists will be exhibited online beginning in late November, 2008. Online exhibit will remain on the MSCAF website indefinitely, and may be terminated at any time by MSCAF staff without prior noticeto participants.
The Judges
Juror 1
R. Mac Holbert is the co-founder of Nash Editions (Manhattan Beach, CA), an internationally reputed digital printmaking studio focusing on fine art photography. Since its opening in 1991, Mr. Holbert has printed widely shown exhibits for the Aperture Foundation, the George Eastman House, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. He has also printed the work of David Hockney, Douglas Kirkland, Olivia Parker, and Pedro Meyer, among others. Mr. Holbert has lectured extensively and conducted digital imaging workshops on the IRIS and Epson large format printers. In 2007, Mr. Holbert received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Digital Imaging Marketing Association.
Juror 2
Shannon Thomas Perich is an associate curator of photography for the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.). Her scholarly research has encompassed the photographs, photographers, equipment, and apparatus from the 19th- 21st centuries, with special emphasis on William Henry Fox Talbot, snapshots, tintypes, and collecting for the history of digital photography. Ms. Perich is the author of The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family Photographs by Richard Avedon (Oct. 2007, HarperCollins) concurrent with the exhibition which she curated. Ms. Perich has given numerous lectures and interviews on photography, including several appearances on the Smithsonian Networks, “Stories from the Vault” series.
Juror 3
Leigh Gleason is the Collections Manager and Registrar at UCR/California Museum of Photography. She studied Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and studied the history of photography at University of California, Riverside, where she wrote her Master’s thesis on photographer Duane Michals. Prior to coming to UCR/CMP, Ms. Gleason worked in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago and in the photograph archive of the Special Collections Research Center at Morris Library in Carbondale, Illinois.
Alice Liu is the 2008 Photography Coordinator. She has been with the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex since 2006. Inquiries may be made through the Questions/Feedback form.
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