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.

Guidelines:

PostedDecember 10, 2021

AuthorEditors

CategoriesExhibitions, Open Call

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

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.

PostedJuly 9, 2021

AuthorEditors

CategoriesExhibitions, Artists, Open Call

Tagsphotography open call, photo opportunities, self-taught photographers, new photography, 2021 photography, Photographers Greenbook

Enclave, 2020. © Hannah Altman from the series Indoor Voices

Humble’s next online photography exhibition, curated by Sara Urbaez and Jon Feinstein, contemplates the quiet moments that add texture to our lives.

The world often feels like it’s spinning out of control. Amidst the thunder of the pictures illustrating that world, photography can also lend us some calm, some peace, some time to meditate on nuance. When we’re inundated with immediate, pulsing imagery every day on our social media timelines and tv screens; how do we honor the moments between the chaos?

This is an invitation to embrace stillness. Embrace the way the light filters through your window in the morning. The meditative relief a deep breath brings after a long day. The imperfect smile of someone you love.

We’re looking for images across photographic genres that highlight the unexpected moments of wonder, encapsulate comfort and calm, and bring balance to the human experience.

Show us something we might not expect.

Deadline: March 1, 2021

GUIDELINES: (please read calmly and carefully)

PostedJanuary 22, 2021

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions

Tagsphotography open calls, Sara Urbaez, Listo, Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation Open Calls, quiet pictures, Hannah Altman, contemporary photography, photo opportunities

This Ain't Your Frank's Red, Amor © Erick Guzman

A new online exhibition, to be curated by Erick Guzman asks: what does it mean to be Latinx today? What is Latinidad?

Using Gloría Anzaldúa's seminal text, Borderlands as inspiration, we seek artists who identify as Latino/a/x and embrace intersectionality in their community.

To be Latinx is more than a monolith; it is a vibrant and robust community filled with diverse and unique voices. Latinx encompasses many intersectional identities. It should be celebrated to allow for visibility of these artists' talents and hopefully inspire future artists, art educators, and possibly bridge the severe lack of representation we see in academia and Photography specifically. Latinx People are queer, Black, white, Asian, Womxn, Indigenous, and Trans. It is now more important than ever to showcase the diversity of these populations and uplift their voices.

With the current political climate and the rising population of Latinx individuals in the US (reaching 30% by 2050), compounded with abysmal representation in higher ed (less than 5% of tenured professors are Latinx), what does it mean to be Latinx+ to you?

Deadline: December 1, 2020

PostedNovember 2, 2020

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions

Tagsphotography open call, open call, photo opportunities, new latinx photography, Erick Guzman, Vibrance Art Exchange, emerging photography

A Harvest of Death. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 1863 © Timothy O’ Sullivan (public domain) — *A Harvest of Death. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 1863* © Timothy O’ Sullivan (public domain)

Humble announces two (radically unrelated) summer open calls: one book and our next online group show.

1) On Death: the book. In partnership with Kris Graves Projects

Following last year's online group show On Death and our latest online group show Loss, Kris Graves invited Humble to team up for a sequel: On Death, the book – set to publish later this year.

What’s it about?
Death has a rich place in the photo history. For critics and philosophers including the late Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, the medium itself was “a kind of death," or as Sontag put it in On Photography, a "memento-mori that enables participation in another's mortality, vulnerability, mutability." Sure, Sontag and Barthes' wisdom is decades old, but we continue to see it transcending time and shifting attitudes towards the medium.

The book will present contemporary photographic takes on the end of life, not only as it passes, but in the sometimes abstract metaphors entangled in the practice – how time and life arrest within a frame. Submissions are open to anyone, including those who were featured in either prior exhibition.

PostedMay 16, 2019

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Publications, Exhibitions

Tagsopen call, photobook opportunity, don't call it a contest, Kris Graves Projects, Roula Seikaly, Jon Feinstein, photo opportunities

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

Open Call: Group Show #69 – Photo for Non-Majors

Open Call: Group Show #67 - Embracing Stillness

Open Call: Group Show #66 – La Frontera: A New Latinx Lexicon

Two Open Calls: On Death (the book!) and Group Show #62: 100% Fun

1) On Death: the book. In partnership with Kris Graves Projects