Humble’s latest open call looks to the landscape as a source of conflict, beauty and contradiction

As an extension of our exhibition at Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest, Humble's next online exhibition, will include photography that engages landscapes framed by conflict, trauma, and beauty. From the legacy of systemic racism in the United States to the Holocaust in Europe and the entrenched conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, to the worldwide reckoning on climate change and many others, Pained Vistas looks to the potential for picturesque views to be fraught with catastrophe and contradiction.

We're interested in seeing your landscape photography that addresses these concerns.

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PostedDecember 10, 2021

AuthorEditors

CategoriesExhibitions, Open Call

Tagsopen call, landscape photography, photo opportunities, humble arts foundation, Jon Feinstein, ROula Seikaly

Photos © Granville Carroll (left) and Ohemaa Dixon (right)

Humble Arts Foundation presents a conversation between Granville Carroll and Ohemaa Dixon, our first video interview. Carroll and Dixon’s rich discussion begins with Afrofuturism as a shared personal touchpoint and reveals much about how it influences and connects their creative practices.

I first saw Granville's work as I curated the juried exhibition Who Are You? for the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Drawn from the Black Serenity series, Granville Carroll’s enigmatic self-portrait interrogates representations of Black bodies. As Dixon describes it, her recent project 3436 "addresses the graphic and visual trauma of lynching photograph," concentrating and recontextualizing generational trauma as a place of growth and redefinition. Dixon's work will be on view virtually through Candela Gallery in the exhibition Unbound, which opens on July 3rd. Also, be sure to check out Carroll’s work in the Lenscratch: Storytellers June 2020 installment.

As so much arts programming takes place online in this pandemic time, video conversations are a new format for us, and we hope to do more. We’ve included a volley of Dixon and Carroll’s work below to help contextualize the conversation.

Please let us know what you think by dropping a note to hello@hafny.org.

Roula Seikaly in conversation with Granville Carroll and Ohemaa Dixon

PostedJune 30, 2020

AuthorRoula Seikaly

CategoriesArtists, Portfolio

TagsOhemaa Dixon, Granville Carroll, Roula Seikaly, Afro-futurism, new photography, humble arts foundation, Afrofuturism, emerging artists

Busola, 2016. From the series Testament © Kris Graves — Busola, 2016. From the series *Testament* © Kris Graves

A new online exhibition will look to portraiture’s empathetic potential, to be curated by Kris Graves, Roula Seikaly, and Jon Feinstein. This will be the first in a series of exhibitions benefitting social justice causes.

What can a portrait tell us about the subject? What does it mean to fall under someone's gaze? Can the dynamics of power be equal for both the artist and subject? What is the audience's role in establishing this sense of power? Does the word “subject” imply a power imbalance?

Photographic portraiture has a long history of reinforcing problematic or false narratives. This discussion and the previous questions are centuries old. They’ve been dissected by scholars from Susan Sontag to Teju Cole. They frame a panoptic eye in academic critiques and beyond, yet portraiture goes on - sometimes continuing in harmful directions, other times with critical awareness.

For Humble’s next open call, we want to see your photographic portraits as tools of empathy: images that offer an equal exchange between the photographer and the photographed. Portraits that may not reveal “truth,” but demonstrate a new and open engagement. A way of looking “with,” rather than “at.”

Interpret this however you like.

Deadline: August 10th, 2020

PostedJune 9, 2020

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Artists, Exhibitions

Tagsphotography open call, humble arts foundation, contemporary portraiture, new portraiture, photographic portraiture, Kris Graves, Roula Seikaly, Jon Feinstein

Mountain Lakes, NJ, 1977. © Arno Rafael Minkkinen. Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. — Mountain Lakes, NJ, 1977. **© Arno Rafael Minkkinen. Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.**

Edwynn Houk Gallery’s Arno Rafael Minkkinen: Fifty Years ambitiously uses fifteen individual black-and-white photographs to encompass the entirety of the photographer’s five-decade-long career. Minkkinen’s photographs have been carefully chosen to display how he pushes the limits of the form and subject matter--not only in the use of setting and figure but also in the variation of tone and emotional response, all without including a human face. Landscape photography skeptics and agnostics may well be convinced and converted.

PostedFebruary 13, 2020

AuthorDeborah Krieger

TagsArno Rafael Minkkinen, Deborah Krieger, black and white photography, Edwynn Houk Gallery, surreal photography, body and landscape, humble arts foundation

Hank, 76, and Samm, 67, North Little Rock, AR, 2015. From the series “To Survive on This Shore". © Jess T. Dugan

Humble’s next open call, our final online exhibition of 2019, is as simple as the title suggests. It’s about love, actually.

Around the world, political and social division threatens irreparable damage. Let’s finish out the year with some warmth. Show us love in all forms. Show us empathy. Show us why, right now, despite what pulls us apart, we can come together and have faith in a positive future.

(Bonus if you can find some way to huggingly reference Hugh Grant. Just kidding. Sort of.)

Deadline: September 25th, 2019

PostedAugust 22, 2019

AuthorEditors

Tagsphotography opportunities, open call, photography about love, call for work, photography submissions, humble arts foundation

Open Call: Group Show #71 - Pained Vistas (redux)

Two Photographers Connect on Afrofuturism: A Conversation with Ohemaa Dixon and Granville Carroll

Open Call: Two Way Lens

Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s 50 Year Career Photographing the Body Surreal

Open Call: Group Show 63 – Love, Actually