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Showing posts with label Critical Mass 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Critical Mass 2010. Show all posts
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
2010 PhotoLucida Critical Mass-Judging
I just finished judging the last phase of 2010 Photolucida Critical Mass. From 181 Finalists, I voted for my favorite 50. There a lot of diverse work in this last batch.Hoping that the last 50 selected ones truly reflect the whole range, techniques and themes of the current times we are living and what photography is today. Best of luck to all and soon enough we will know who are the winners.
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| Carl Bower-Plaza Boivar, Miss Coffee, Manizales |
The photograph above is from Carl Bower one of my very favorite series''Chasing Cinderella'' and 2009 Photolucida Critical Mass winner. A year later and the series are still very clear in my mind. That is when you know... that you made the right decision.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Photolucida's Critical Mass 2010 Finalists
Congratulations to the following Critical Mass 2010 Finalists...
Thomas Alleman
Jane Fulton Alt
Mariam Amurvelashvili
Amy Anderson
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Alexandra Arzt
Justyna Badach
Chan-Hyo Bae
Rachel Barrett
Mary Ellen Bartley
Jeff Becker
Claire Beckett
Matthew Besinger
Aglaè Bory
Steven Brahms
Kendrick Brinson/LUCEO
Jesse Burke
Christopher Capozziello
Tom Chambers
Cori Chandler-Pepelnjak
Rona Chang
Christopher Churchill
Sam Comen
Kirk Crippens
Julia Cybularz
Katrina d'Autremont
Mitch Dobrowner
Jess Dugan
Natan Dvir
Daniela Edburg
Matt Eich/LUCEO
Ethan Eisenberg
Lisa Elmaleh
Doug Ethridge
Susan E. Evans
John Faier
Bill Finger
Sarina Finkelstein
Francine Fleischer
Elizabeth Fleming
Martha Fleming-Ives
Dana Fritz
Matthew Gamber
Helen K Garber
Terri Garland
Candace Gaudiani
Dima Gavrysh
Ayala Gazit
Kevin German / LUCEO
Amy Theiss Giese
Noelle Swan Gilbert
Sarah Girner
Rebecca Greenfield
Torrie Groening
Aaron Guy
Laura Heyman
Craig Hickman
Jessica Hines
Aaron Hobson
Joseph Holmes
Norihisa Hosaka
Elin HØyland
Ben Huff
Debora Hunter
Carol Isaak
Tom M Johnson
Heather Johnston
Mary Shannon Johnstone
Thomas Jorion
Loli Kantor
Rhea Karam
Kim Kauffman
Eileen Kennedy
Justin Kimball
Justin James King
Brendan Kingsley
Chad Kleitsch
Robert Knight
Marcus Koppen
Dianne Kornberg
Katie Koti
Collin LaFleche
Christine Laptuta
Richard Laugharn
Jean Laughton
Alejandra Laviada
Surendra Lawoti
Christine Lebeck
Rubi Lebovitch
Sunae Lee
Isa Leshko
Brent Lewin
Robert Lewis
Jennifer Loeber
Sara Macel
Stephen Mallon
Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman
Rebecca Martinez
Rania Matar
Nate Mathews
Mary Beth Meehan
Marcia Michael
Jody Miller
Martin Miller
Yvonne Muller
Annie Marie Musselman
Yoichi Nagata
Sol Neelman
Loren Nelson
Nancy Newberry
Jehad Nga
Ben Nixon
Ann Pallesen
Louie Palu
Azita Panahpour
Hally Pancer
Mary Parisi
Toni Pepe
Rachel Phillips
Kate Pollard
Benjamin Rasmussen
Christopher Rauschenberg
Justin James Reed
Frank Relle
Justine Reyes
Jeff Rich
Kathleen Robbins
Rebekah Rocha
Charles Rozier
Felipe Russo
Selena Salfen
Lee Saloutos
Jeffrey Sauger
Lynn Saville
Traer Scott
Michael Sebastian
Lauren Semivan
Mahesh Shantaram
Manjari Sharma
Jeff Sheng
Brian Shumway
Emily Shur
Tim Simmons
Charlie Simokaitis
J. Aiden Simon
Matt Slaby/LUCEO
Hrvoje Slovenc
Pavel Maria Smejkal
Yisook Sohn
Amber Sowards
S. Gayle Stevens
Jamey Stillings
Sarah Sudhoff
Monika Sziladi
Jordan Tate
Sameer Tawde
Svjetlana Tepavcevic
Devin Tepleski
Lacey Terrell
Brandon Thibodeaux
Amy Thompson Avishai
David Evan Todd
Daniel Traub
Michael Tummings
Kevin Van Aelst
Danielle van Ark
Louviere+ Vanessa
Michel Varisco
Jim Vecchi
Alvaro Villela
Corinne Vionnet
Jo Ann Walters
Lori Waselchuk
Shoshannah White
Ian Whitmore
Kimberly Witham
David Wolf
Carl Wooley
Thursday, August 5, 2010
PhotoLucida's Critical Mass 2010 Pre Screening Picks
Well it is that time of the Year to do the Pre- Screening of Photolucida's Critical Mass. I just started and my job is to vote YES or No and trim it from 549 applicants to the 175 finalists of the second tier.
I will try to post as many of my picks here so you can start getting an idea of the range, theme and quality that I am after.
Christopher Raushenberg-
My very first pick is the work of Christopher Raushenberg. This photo series is based on The Marché aux Puces at Saint-Ouen, an inch or two outside the city limits of Paris, is said to be the greatest flea market in the world. I really liked the series and the compositions of the subjects in it make them so surreal. The photographs also reminded me the collages and photography of his late father, the great Robert Raushenberg.This is a YES for me.
I will try to post as many of my picks here so you can start getting an idea of the range, theme and quality that I am after.
Christopher Raushenberg-
Marché aux puces
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Critical Mass Photolucida 2010
Backstage, Miss Light, Mesitas del Colegio- Carl Bower- one of my favorites from Critical Mass 2009
I will be juror during the Pre-Screening and final juror of the final 50 Critical Mass winners. I encourage you to participate. There has been a lot of great success stories from a lot of previous entries.
Photolucida announces the opening of registration for Critical Mass 2010! http://www.photolucida.org/current.php
Registration will be open through July 25th and is open to photographers working in any medium. Work will be juried by more than 200 international top curators, gallerists, publishers, editors, etc. From Critical Mass, a number of Awards will be made, including a monograph, solo show, and other exciting honors. See Photolucida website for more details
Critical Mass 2010 is now open for registration!
Deadline to enter work is July 25. Please read page in full for information, and click on the link below to register.
What Is Critical Mass?
The aim of Critical Mass, and all Photolucida programming, is to provide participants with career-building opportunities and to promote the best emerging and mid-career artists working today.
Critical Mass is a program about exposure and community. The idea is simple—photographers (from anywhere) submit a 10 image portfolio for $75. This work then gets pre-screened by a committee of approximately 20 great jurors and from there, 175 top Finalists are determined. These top Finalists then pay an additional submission fee ($200) and their work goes on to a jury of approximately 200 of the world’s best curators, editors, and other professionals who have agreed to view and vote on these Finalists. From these votes, at least one photographer is chosen to receive a book award and once the monograph is published, everyone who enters and reviews will receive a copy of the book(s).
We are pleased to continue to give scholarships to pre-selected photographers by geographical region. In previous years, Photolucida gave scholarships to photographers from Poland, Mexico, and Italy. This year, the lucky country is The Netherlands!
What to expect?
As an entrant to Critical Mass, you shouldn’t necessarily expect feedback from the jurors unless they want to contact you about doing something with your work. Jurors are given the opportunity and encouraged to provide written feedback, but we can’t guarantee anything other than:
Everyone who enters will receive a copy of the Book Award Winner’s monograph(s).
Everyone who enters will receive a CD containing all of the submitted work.
Everyone who enters will have their work seen, and voted on, by the Pre-Screening committee.
Those who continue on in the top 175 Finalists will have their work seen, and voted on, by over 200 jurors.
Click here for Critical Mass Success Stories.
Book Awards!
Photolucida will publish a monograph for at least one photographer from among the top-scoring finalists. The book award is reserved for artists without a previously published monograph. Photographers with self-published books are still eligible for the book award. If you already have a monograph, you still have over 200 great reasons to participate in Critical Mass!
CM 2009 Winners - Alejandro Cartagena, Birthe Pointek (in production)
CM 2008 Winners - Andy Freeberg, Céline Clanet, Priya Kambli
CM 2007 Winners - Joni Sternbach, Peter van Agtmael
CM 2006 Winners - Camille Seaman, Donald Weber, Amy Stein
CM 2005 Winners - Hiroshi Watanabe, Louie Palu, Sage Sohier
Click here to see!
Other Awards!
This year, in addition to the book award, Photolucida is pleased to partner with Blue Sky in offering a solo show to one of the Critical Mass Finalists. Founded in 1975 as the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Blue Sky is one of the leading venues exhibiting contemporary photography in the United States.
Also this year, Photolucida is partnering with Newspace Center for Photography to produce a Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibit. Newspace is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting photographic education, with a wonderful exhibition space.
Both exhibits will take place in April 2011, coinciding with Photolucida’s Reviews.
Also, in conjunction with photo-eye, three of the Top 50 photographers will receive complimentary VisualServer websites and portfolios on photo-eye’s Photographer’s Showcase for one year.
Photolucida will also award five free spots in our April 2011 Portfolio Reviews! These awards will go to five randomly selected photographers in the Finalist group. For more information on our quick-to-sell-out biennial event, click here!
Procedure
Critical Mass has a two-part submission process.
First you pay a $75 registration fee to upload your images and text. We will then format your work and distribute the pages to the pre-screeners for scoring. The 2010 Pre-Screening committee comprises the following people (as of June 30):
Leslie K. Brown, Independent Curator
Crista Dix, Director, wall space Gallery
Melanie Flood, Melanie Flood Projects/Portland Art Museum Photo Council
Cherie Hiser, Photoludica Board
Stu Levy, Photoludica Board/Portland Art Museum Photo Council
Kate Menconeri, Independent Curator
Laura Moya, Director, Photolucida
Claire Annette Mussard, Curator/Consultant
Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Collector
Shawn Records, Photolucida Board
P. Elaine Sharpe, Independent Curator
George Slade, Curator/Program Manager, Photographic Resource Center
Anna Sortun, Photolucida Board
Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director, Griffin Museum for Photography
Laura Valenti, Program Director, Newspace Center for Photography
Bryan Wolf, Photolucida Board
The final list will be available in mid-July.
If you are one of the top 175 photographers chosen by the pre-screeners, then you will pay an additional $200 fee and your work will be sent out to the full panel of over 200 jurors.
200 Jurors!
Like last year, this is a truly international group of jurors representing a wide variety of photographic interests. The full list of jurors will be available shortly – we have made a great effort to represent the range of professional affiliation (gallery owners, curators, publishers, editors, etc.). In addition to seeing the work during the online process, jurors will also be sent a CD of the Finalists’ work, which serves as a good reference tool in a multitude of ways.
Note: Critical Mass jurors are not allowed to submit their own work to Critical Mass.
Online Submissions
Enter Critical Mass via our registration page.
Download and print this pdf with clear instructions on how to enter.
Photolucida reserves the right to reproduce all work submitted for Critical Mass in the materials distributed to Critical Mass jurors and participating photographers. One may not pull work from Critical Mass once it has been submitted. Photolucida reserves the right to reproduce submitted work in announcements, catalogs, web sites and publications that report on or promote our programming. Any necessary permissions required to use images of people and/or property are the responsibility of the photographer. Submission of an entry to this program signifies acceptance of all conditions stated.
I will be juror during the Pre-Screening and final juror of the final 50 Critical Mass winners. I encourage you to participate. There has been a lot of great success stories from a lot of previous entries. Photolucida announces the opening of registration for Critical Mass 2010! http://www.photolucida.org/current.php
Registration will be open through July 25th and is open to photographers working in any medium. Work will be juried by more than 200 international top curators, gallerists, publishers, editors, etc. From Critical Mass, a number of Awards will be made, including a monograph, solo show, and other exciting honors. See Photolucida website for more details
Critical Mass 2010 is now open for registration!
Deadline to enter work is July 25. Please read page in full for information, and click on the link below to register.
What Is Critical Mass?
The aim of Critical Mass, and all Photolucida programming, is to provide participants with career-building opportunities and to promote the best emerging and mid-career artists working today.
Critical Mass is a program about exposure and community. The idea is simple—photographers (from anywhere) submit a 10 image portfolio for $75. This work then gets pre-screened by a committee of approximately 20 great jurors and from there, 175 top Finalists are determined. These top Finalists then pay an additional submission fee ($200) and their work goes on to a jury of approximately 200 of the world’s best curators, editors, and other professionals who have agreed to view and vote on these Finalists. From these votes, at least one photographer is chosen to receive a book award and once the monograph is published, everyone who enters and reviews will receive a copy of the book(s).
We are pleased to continue to give scholarships to pre-selected photographers by geographical region. In previous years, Photolucida gave scholarships to photographers from Poland, Mexico, and Italy. This year, the lucky country is The Netherlands!
What to expect?
As an entrant to Critical Mass, you shouldn’t necessarily expect feedback from the jurors unless they want to contact you about doing something with your work. Jurors are given the opportunity and encouraged to provide written feedback, but we can’t guarantee anything other than:
Everyone who enters will receive a copy of the Book Award Winner’s monograph(s).
Everyone who enters will receive a CD containing all of the submitted work.
Everyone who enters will have their work seen, and voted on, by the Pre-Screening committee.
Those who continue on in the top 175 Finalists will have their work seen, and voted on, by over 200 jurors.
Click here for Critical Mass Success Stories.
Book Awards!
Photolucida will publish a monograph for at least one photographer from among the top-scoring finalists. The book award is reserved for artists without a previously published monograph. Photographers with self-published books are still eligible for the book award. If you already have a monograph, you still have over 200 great reasons to participate in Critical Mass!
CM 2009 Winners - Alejandro Cartagena, Birthe Pointek (in production)
CM 2008 Winners - Andy Freeberg, Céline Clanet, Priya Kambli
CM 2007 Winners - Joni Sternbach, Peter van Agtmael
CM 2006 Winners - Camille Seaman, Donald Weber, Amy Stein
CM 2005 Winners - Hiroshi Watanabe, Louie Palu, Sage Sohier
Click here to see!
Other Awards!
This year, in addition to the book award, Photolucida is pleased to partner with Blue Sky in offering a solo show to one of the Critical Mass Finalists. Founded in 1975 as the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Blue Sky is one of the leading venues exhibiting contemporary photography in the United States.
Also this year, Photolucida is partnering with Newspace Center for Photography to produce a Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibit. Newspace is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting photographic education, with a wonderful exhibition space.
Both exhibits will take place in April 2011, coinciding with Photolucida’s Reviews.
Also, in conjunction with photo-eye, three of the Top 50 photographers will receive complimentary VisualServer websites and portfolios on photo-eye’s Photographer’s Showcase for one year.
Photolucida will also award five free spots in our April 2011 Portfolio Reviews! These awards will go to five randomly selected photographers in the Finalist group. For more information on our quick-to-sell-out biennial event, click here!
Procedure
Critical Mass has a two-part submission process.
First you pay a $75 registration fee to upload your images and text. We will then format your work and distribute the pages to the pre-screeners for scoring. The 2010 Pre-Screening committee comprises the following people (as of June 30):
Leslie K. Brown, Independent Curator
Crista Dix, Director, wall space Gallery
Melanie Flood, Melanie Flood Projects/Portland Art Museum Photo Council
Cherie Hiser, Photoludica Board
Stu Levy, Photoludica Board/Portland Art Museum Photo Council
Kate Menconeri, Independent Curator
Laura Moya, Director, Photolucida
Claire Annette Mussard, Curator/Consultant
Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Collector
Shawn Records, Photolucida Board
P. Elaine Sharpe, Independent Curator
George Slade, Curator/Program Manager, Photographic Resource Center
Anna Sortun, Photolucida Board
Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director, Griffin Museum for Photography
Laura Valenti, Program Director, Newspace Center for Photography
Bryan Wolf, Photolucida Board
The final list will be available in mid-July.
If you are one of the top 175 photographers chosen by the pre-screeners, then you will pay an additional $200 fee and your work will be sent out to the full panel of over 200 jurors.
200 Jurors!
Like last year, this is a truly international group of jurors representing a wide variety of photographic interests. The full list of jurors will be available shortly – we have made a great effort to represent the range of professional affiliation (gallery owners, curators, publishers, editors, etc.). In addition to seeing the work during the online process, jurors will also be sent a CD of the Finalists’ work, which serves as a good reference tool in a multitude of ways.
Note: Critical Mass jurors are not allowed to submit their own work to Critical Mass.
Online Submissions
Enter Critical Mass via our registration page.
Download and print this pdf with clear instructions on how to enter.
Photolucida reserves the right to reproduce all work submitted for Critical Mass in the materials distributed to Critical Mass jurors and participating photographers. One may not pull work from Critical Mass once it has been submitted. Photolucida reserves the right to reproduce submitted work in announcements, catalogs, web sites and publications that report on or promote our programming. Any necessary permissions required to use images of people and/or property are the responsibility of the photographer. Submission of an entry to this program signifies acceptance of all conditions stated.
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