Humble Arts Foundation launches an open call for self-taught photographers

Every spring, surveys of recent photography grads highlight the ones to watch in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving art market.

While these lists continue to impress us and are a wonderful and expansive curatorial resource, we're dedicating this opportunity to photographers who have pursued their work and craft independent of higher education.

This call is for the self-taught photographers. Those who learn from online tutorials and other venues outside the traditional framework and the benefits and connections it provides. Those photographers who don’t have a BFA or MFA, and have taken it upon themselves to learn outside the system. Send us your work.

Guidelines:
Submit 5 images from a single series plus a brief artist statement and bio HERE.

(please note, you’ll need a Gmail address to submit this way. If you do not have one, email us at submit@hafny.org and we’ll help you out – but we really encourage you to use Gmail.)

Deadline: August 8th, 2021.

In celebration of Black History Month, HAF editors put together a growing list of Black-founded photography organizations, online magazines, initiatives, resource lists, nonprofits, and exhibition spaces dedicated to amplifying emerging and established voices in photography.

Many of these platforms launched to counter a chronic representational gap throughout the photographic world. Led by skilled directors, DiversifyPhoto, Authority Collective, and Black Women Photographers, for example, emphasize narrowing – and eliminating – the margins in commercial and editorial photography. Photographer's Greenbook, which launched last June via Instagram, aggregates BIPOC-positive photo platforms that serve as a haven for underrepresented voices in documentary and art photography and includes a range of developing programming to support marginalized photographers.

This list is just a start - we’ll update it periodically. If you’d like to suggest, or you're a founder of a photo-based platform we should include, please send an email to SUBMIT [AT] HAFNY [DOT] ORG. Editor’s clarification note - the criteria for this list is that at least one member of the founding team or collective identifies as Black.

Happy Black History Month. Support Black history, present, and futures every day, all year round, now and forever.

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