Total eclipse of the sun: Observed July 29, 1878, at Creston, Wyoming Territory by by French-born astronomer-illustrator Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.

Humble Arts Foundation presents an open call for photography about the sun and the moon

As the world seems to increasingly divide, it often feels as if hope and optimism are in vain. The sun and the moon can be symbols of universality despite division, illuminating the skies above us all. For our final open call of 2021, (with a slight homage to one of our heroes, Penelope Umbrico), we want to see your photos of and about the sun and/or the moon. These can be straightforward, manipulated, alt-process – anything and everything photography-based.

Guidelines:
Submit up to 5 images plus a brief artist statement and bio HERE

(please note, you’ll need a Gmail address or a Google account login and will need to sign in to it to submit this way. If you do not have one, email us at submit@hafny.org and we’ll help you out.)

Deadline: November 1, 2021.

PostedSeptember 24, 2021

AuthorEditors

CategoriesExhibitions, Open Call

Tagssun photos, moon photos, Humble Arts Foundation, Jon Feinstein, Roula Seikaly, Photography opportunities, no-fee open calls

Ice #41 © Meghann Riepenhoff from the series Ice — Ice #41 © Meghann Riepenhoff from the series *Ice*

Humble Arts Foundation and Strange Fire Collective are collaboratively curating two online group shows of photography that responds to the complex psychological impacts of environmental change.

FOUR DEGREES refers to the predicted 4°C raise in our average global temperature by the end of the century. While climate change may have a universal impact, these effects are felt unequally across different communities and cultures. Those who do not experience it immediately in their daily lives may only understand such environmental transformations in the abstract. Those living directly in the shadow of impending man-made and naturally occurring disasters, meanwhile, may experience chronic anxiety. And many, still, may altogether disavow the human consequences of climate change.

Fear, indifference, anxiety, fatigue, and denial: these represent only partially the full range of reactions and responses to impending environmental futures. Yet taken as a whole, they speak to the predictive strangeness of responding to an uncertain future.

In this open call, we invite submissions of photo-based work that engages with the affective, emotional, and subjective aspects of environmental change. We encourage submissions from a wide range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, communities, and political perspectives.

This two-part online exhibition will be collaboratively curated by Strange Fire Collective’s InHae Yap and Keavy Handley-Byrne, and Humble Arts Foundation’s Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein.

Guidelines:

PostedApril 22, 2021

AuthorEditors

CategoriesExhibitions, Open Call

Tagsopen call, photography and climate change, eco-anxiety, Strange Fire Collective, Humble Open Call, Humble Arts Foundation, photography open call, socially concerned photography, Meghann Riepenhoff, InHae Yap, Roula Seikaly, Keavy Handley-Byrne, Jon Feinstein

Alex Christopher Williams’ new photobook Black Like Paul explores the complexities of race, masculinity, and what it means to pass as white.

A child of interracial marriage, Alex Christopher Williams stands astride two worlds - one white, one Black - each framed by race as a social, economic, and cultural construct.

Williams passes for white. Though the definition has expanded to include ethnicity, caste, social class, sexual orientation, and gender, from a genealogical perspective, passing describes biracial people who identify with or are perceived as belonging to a different racial group based on their appearance. Across the vast and violent span of American history, passing was a survival technique that granted some Black people access to education, employment, and relative safety before the law.

Black, Like Paul, Williams soon-to-be released book produced by Kris Graves Projects’ new imprint Monolith Editions, focuses on the photographer’s experience of navigating racial hybridity. Williams strives to understand his father Paul’s experiences as a Black man, and by extension, that of many men in his immediate and ancestral family and community. Looking at the book, readers may momentarily stand in Williams’ shoes, looking into a world that is familiar in some ways, and unknowable in others.

We recently spoke about going unnoticed in a world that regularly degrades the bodies of Black men and boys, and using photography to access heritage that is challenging to inhabit.

Roula Seikaly in conversation with Alex Christopher Williams.

PostedFebruary 25, 2021

AuthorRoula Seikaly

CategoriesArtists, Art News, Photobooks, Portfolio, Publications

TagsAlex Christopher Williams, Kris Graves Projects, Monolith Editions, Roula Seikaly, Humble Arts Foundation, photography about race, Black Like Paul, contemporary photography, Atlanta photographers, Race in America

Encouraging US photographers to promote and celebrate the power of voting.

The 2020 election is critical to the United States’ future, to improving BIPOC and LGBTQ lives, responding to the climate crisis, improving global relations, and countless other issues. Voting isn’t a magic pill but it is a step toward progress.

The photo community is working together to support and encourage Americans to vote this fall and we’d love to see what voting means to you.

How it works: Use your Instagram feed to share images that tell a visual story about why you're voting in 2020, and include the hashtag #PhotographersVote #Vote2020 on your Instagram post.

Between now and the election, we, and many of the growing list of partners listed below will share images that catch our eyes on our respective IG feeds - always with credit.

PostedOctober 8, 2020

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call

Tags#photographersvote, rock the vote, vote2020, photography and voting, FlakPhoto, Humble Arts Foundation, PhotographersVote

A lot has changed at Humble Arts Foundation since 2005 when Amani Olu and I stared an online curatorial project called Group Show Dot Com, which later became Humble Arts Foundation. We partnered with galleries and organizations we admired to (try to!) bring some fire to the careers of "emerging" (does anyone still use that word?) art photographers we believed in – online and IRL. When I moved to Seattle in 2013 and shortly after Amani moved to Detroit, more of our focus moved online. What felt like a pet project or high school literary magazine became increasingly overwhelming.

Then, out of the blue in October 2015, a glowing email hit my inbox from Stef Halmos, an old colleague from my New York days, introducing me to Roula Seikaly, a writer looking to contribute exhibition reviews. That moment was a magical shift in Humble's history. Roula quickly became a regular contributor and has since become a true partner, holding equal weight in Humble’s projects and decisions. We collaborate on nearly every online exhibition and had the great honor of winning Blue Sky Gallery's 2019 curatorial prize for our show "An Inward Gaze.” Humble couldn't run as it does today without Roula.

After months of conversations and a couple of years of Roula as Humble's Senior Editor, we're delighted to officially update her role to Co-Curatorial Director. Moving forward, Roula and I will officially co-curate every single online show, alongside a roving guest curator (this quarter, it's Bryan Formhals. Kris Graves will follow in the fall).

Outside of Humble, Roula is a massively accomplished writer. She contributes regularly to Hyperallergic, KQEDArts, Photograph, and BOMB, and her writing has also appeared in Aperture, Saint Lucy, and Strange Fire Collective. She also curates countless exhibitions around the United States.

We're delighted and honored that Michael Chovan Dalton hosted her on his podcast Real Photoshow in April, on the occasion of Portraits Without People, the exhibition she recently curated at Axis Gallery (before the quarantine).

Thanks for reading (and listening!)

Jon Feinstein

Co-Founder and Co-Curatorial Director

PostedMay 15, 2020

AuthorJon Feinstein

CategoriesArt News

TagsRoula Seikaly, photography podcasts, Humble Arts Foundation

Open Call: Group Show #70: Under The Sun and the Moon

Open Call – Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change

Navigating The Nuances of Passing As White

#PhotographersVote: A Photo Community Movement to Get Out The Vote

Meet Roula Seikaly, Humble's Co-Curatorial Director (and listen to this podcast!)