“Girl at Sunset, Hands Symbolize the Bird” © AdobeStock
Humble Arts Foundation curators want to see your photographic clichés – reimagined!
EDITORS NOTE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN 27. WOOHOO!
Photographers, photo editors and curators LOVE talking, complaining and laughing about photographic clichés.
Ask any Facebook photo group (we know you’re thinking “ok boomer, Facebook’s for old people”… we get it, bear with us) or random gathering of photographers and you’ll get a fire of responses like:
Kids playing in front of fire hydrants
Deadpan portraits or dead animals
Mannequins
Pigeons
Sunsets or eclipses
Covered cars
Road trips
Any “shot” that compels long lens’d dudes to proclaim “nice capture, Broseph”
Reflections
Ansel Adams
The American Flag
Contemplative man staring off into an existential landscape
Kenneth Josephson ripoffs by people who have never heard of Kenneth Josephson
Abandoned buildings
Prisms ‘n rainbows
Anything and everything THIS INSTAGRAM HANDLE so eloquently compares….
Pretty much photography’s entire history ….
We’ve come to a point where getting mad about photographic clichés is often just as trite as the photographic clichés themselves. SO….
For Humble’s next online group show, we want to see your tropes reborn.
Make the most hackneyed photographs with a new set of eyes.
Make us care about a sunset, puppy or any other done-to-death image and see it differently.
Do it with snappy irony (also a cliché) or sapped out earnestness.
We have absolutely no idea and every idea of what to expect here. Surprise us.
Deadline: Jan 20th, 2020 —-> OH HEY - WE JUST EXTENDED IT TO Jan 27th!
GUIDELINES: (please read carefully. No, really. Please read carefully and re-read what we wrote above. We love you too.)
1. Please submit your 50-75 word bio, statement, and other information via THIS FORM.
2. Email up to five (5) JPGs (sRGB color profile works best) at 1,500 pixels on the longest side to submit@hafny.org with "HAF TROPES Submission" in the subject line and each image titled with your name and the title of the image (i.e. FirstName_LastName_Banana_01)
IMPORTANT: Please do NOT submit zipped folders of images and do NOT send us download / WeTransfer links.
ALSO IMPORTANT: Please do NOT watermark your images (unless that’s part of the concept).
We promise you, if we use them, we will give you proper attribution, but we cannot take your submissions seriously if you don't trust us.
OPTIONAL:
Want quicker visibility on your submissions? AFTER submitting via email, Hashtag #HAFTROPES @humbleartsfoundation on Instagram.
FEE: None. (also, please don't call it a "contest" or "competition." It's an OPPORTUNITY, folks :)
We <3 you. )
Humble’s co-founder Jon Feinstein and senior editor Roula Seikaly will select images to feature in HAFNY's online Group Show #64: Tropes Gone Wild, which will go live on Humble's website around March 2020 and potentially be shared on Humble’s Instagram.
We will announce selected photographers via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram feed and through our mailing list.