The Art of Handmade Photography: A Juried Exhibition
Announcing Juror Selections:
Sarah Bachinger – Round Lake, NY
Emma Backer – Astoria, NY
Emily Belz – Lincoln, MA
Lesley Nowlin Blessing – Austin, TX
Sarah Bliss – Montague, MA
Timothy Briner – Brooklyn, NY
Cole Caswell – Peaks Island, ME
Sally Chapman – Lowell, MA
Cathy Cone – East Topsham, VT
Bridget Conn – Savannah, GA
Beverly Conway – Dover, NH
Brendan Devlin – Easthampton, MA
Chris Esten – South Ryegate, VT
Madge Evers – Haydenville, MA
Rachel Guardiola – Colorado Springs, CO
Marian Howard – Philadelphia, PA
Tomiko Jones – Madison, WI
Barbara Justice – Madison, WI
Tom Laurence – Urbana, IL
John Layton – South Ryegate, VT
Sara Lyons – Greenfield, MA
Fruma Markowitz – Bridgeport, CT
Brent Mathison – Maynard, MA
Phyllis Meredith – Florence, MA
Denny Moers – Riverside, RI
Jackie Neale – Collingswood, NJ
Tom Nelson – Minneapolis, MN
Lauren Oliver – Forest Hills, NY
Heather Palecek – Doylestown, PA
Jen Smith – Ashfield, MA
Steven Sternbach – Charlemont, MA
Vaune Trachtman – Brattleboro, VT
Judy Unger-Clark – Rindge, NH
Shaina Nasrin – Yardley, PA
Important Dates
Accepted Work Due at VCP: April 29, 2023
Exhibition Dates: May 5 – July 2, 2023
How It Works
If you would like to be a part of this group exhibition, simply complete the electronic submission form which allows for submission of up to five photographs prior to 5pm on March 11, 2023. Our guest juror, Dale Rio (see bio below) will electronically review the submissions and select the pieces to be on display for the 2-month long exhibition in the Vermont Center for Photography’s main gallery space. If your work is selected from those submitted for the show, artists must either drop off or mail the selected piece(s) to VCP before the April 29, 2023 deadline. A limited edition exhibition catalog including all work in the exhibit will be printed in conjunction with the show and available for purchase beginning May 5, 2023. Included artists will receive one complimentary copy.
Eligibility
All submitted works must be created using traditional, non-digital photographic printing techniques, including but not limited to: silver gelatin, platinum/palladium, cyanotype, albumen, gum bichromate, wet plate collodion, instant film, ziatype, vandyke, and other alternative and historic printing processes. Pieces created from one of the aforementioned processes made from digital negatives are eligible. Inkjet (digital) prints are not eligible, even if made from analog film negatives.
Artists of any age from any part of the United States may submit work for consideration. Individuals may only submit once (five images). Work submitted to this show must be work not previously exhibited at VCP.
Entry Fee
There is a one-time (non-refundable) entry fee for each artist submitting work. The fee is $10 for VCP members, and $15 for non-members. Please check out our membership page for more information on becoming a VCP member!
Juror: Dale Rio
Dale Rio is a photographic artist whose work explores issues such as mortality, human constructs, and man’s relationship with the natural world. Utilizing film and historic photographic processes, Dale employs “straight” photography to document the world around her and also creates conceptual work in response to that world. Her work has been shown extensively in the U.S., as well as in England, Germany, and New Zealand. Her images reside in private collections and have been reproduced in countless publications. She has authored one book and co-authored a second. Dale received a BA in Studio Art from Smith College in 1993 and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant and the Miguel Vinciguerra Grant to document life in rural Sicily. Upon her return to the States, Dale embarked upon a varied photographic career that has included freelancing, serving as a master darkroom printer, teaching, curating, and editing. In 2018, Dale was the recipient of a Windgate Scholarship, which allowed her to study the Daguerreotype process at Penland School of Craft. She has attended residencies at Penland, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and the Farmington Valley Arts Center and will be in residence at Ars BioArctica in 2023. Dale has been involved with numerous photo and art centers across the country, and in 2015, she co-founded The Halide Project, a Philadelphia-based non-profit whose mission is the support of film and historic process photography. In 2021, she launched Point A to Point B: analog explorations, a print publication that features travel- and place-based film and historic process photography, and in 2022 she founded Lux et Libera: women at the intersection of light and chemistry, an initiative that seeks to recognize the leading role women play in alternative process photography.
Submissions are now closed!