PICKER PRINT GALLERY @ VCP
August Featured Artist: Eddy Pula
Eddy Pula
Opening Reception: Friday Nov 1st, 2024, 2024, 5-8PM
People are hesitant when you ask them anything these days. My medium format camera offers some reassurance when I ask for their photograph, looking mechanical and novel, a relic from another time. Then after the snap of the shutter, as I pull the polaroid out of the adapted back of the camera and say “This one’s for you” I see their eyes light up.
I’ve been photographing strangers on the street for almost two decades now, and after so many years of taking pictures, being able to give them something back immediately has been a revelation. They too get a souvenir from our shared experience. I line up the second shot and say “One more, now this time no smiling, there’s no smiling in art” I snap a quick photo, tuck it in my front pocket and say “This one’s for me”.
Hopefully, I’m making them feel seen, lifting their day, and including them in a part of the process with a tangible photograph they can hold on their way home. At the end of each encounter we are both thanking one another and walking away with our own polaroid portrait – one for them, one for me.
See more of Eddy’s work online at www.eddypula.com
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How To Have Your Work Featured:
To have a featured 1-month exhibition in VCP’s Print Gallery, participants must be a current VCP member and fill out the online exhibition proposal form (please choose the “VCP’s Print Gallery” option within the form) here: https://vcphoto.org/exhibits/propose-an-exhibit/ If you would like us to consider your work for a show and are not currently a member, we invite you to join today! You can sign up to be a VCP member online HERE.
There is no cost or fee to show your work in the Print Gallery. If you need your work printed for your exhibition, VCP would be happy to offer you our fine-art printing services at a discounted rate.
Work is encouraged to be available for purchase. VCP retains 40% of any artwork sales during the exhibition.