By now you may have seen wizard artist Neil Harbisson's super-viral 2012 TED Talk, demonstrating technology that allows him to "hear" color. Or maybe you're a fan of Design Observer and attended their pivotal "What Design Sounds Like" symposium in New York City in 2015. Or perhaps you marveled at Aperture's Fall 2016 Issue "Sounds," which explored the impact of music on photography. The interest in the intersection of the senses has drawn fascinating work across a range of creative media for years.

But more abstractly, is it possible to make a photograph of what we hear?
What are some photographic representations of riffs, repetition and tone?
How might an image have a verse and refrain?

For Humble's next open call, we're interested in seeing how photographers represent sound, music, any kind of audio frequencies in their work, with three major caveats:
No band photos. No live music photos. No photos of musical instruments. Let us see sound as we'd least expect it.

Submission Details:

DEADLINE:
August 15th, 2017

PostedJune 29, 2017

AuthorEditors

CategoriesExhibitions, Open Call

TagsOpen Call, Sound, Photo opportunities, no-fee open calls

For the past few years, Seattle's Photographic Center Northwest has been organizing an annual 24-hour global photo shoot and exhibition to help raise money for their exhibitions and educational programming. Kicking off June 10, photographers from around the world can shoot and submit photographs from wherever they are. Submit up to 5 photos by June 12, and a panel of jurors including Humble's Jon Feinstein will select one image from each photographer to be included in a slideshow and pop-up exhibition on June 17th. See the full details HERE.

Below are some of our favorite images submitted to Long Shot 2016.

PostedMay 25, 2017

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions

Tagsphotothon, photocenter northwest, photography hackathon, Seattle photography

Photo Courtesy of Shutterstock / Everett Collection

"Beauty" is a loaded, complicated, and occasionally so-overused-it's-neutralized term in photography and beyond. A quick Google search turns up everything from On Beauty, Zadie Smith's 2005 novel, to Robert Adams' classic photography book of the same title. A likely first thought for fellow visual literacy junkies might be the ever-present "male gaze" -- the idea, described by John Berger and officially coined by Laura Mulvey decades ago-- that every aspect of visual media and history has been filtered through a heterosexual male lens. While our thoughts bounce from slick, and often damaging fashion campaigns to countless cinematic tropes, they also toggle between hackneyed photographs of sunsets and flowers, and early ennobled American landscape photographs that fueled Manifest Destiny. Idealization at its imagined finest.

Where are we going with this?

For Group Show # 53: On Beauty we'd like to see photographs, gifs, photo-based collage and a range of other light-sensitive media that address and dissect how beauty is represented and understood. How has rapidly shifting image-culture influenced our perceptions of the visual ideal? Like most of our open calls, the conceptual guidelines are open to interpretation. We invite you to get crazy, think outside expectation, and subvert our minds.

We're excited to welcome one of our favorite writers and curators Roula Seikaly to co-curate the exhibition with Humble's co-founder Jon Feinstein.

Submission Details:

PostedMarch 28, 2017

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions

Tagsopen call, male gaze, beauty in photography, Jon Feinstein, Roula Seikaly

Photography has a history of debate over its flawed potential to represent the truth. From disputes around Robert Capa's iconic 1936 photograph The Falling Soldier, to '80s and '90s consciously staged tableaus, the 2015 revoking of the World Photo Competition prize due to digital manipulation, and countless other controversies, questioning the medium as an accurate communicator has now become commonplace, and almost boring. This past year, the proliferation of click-bait #fakenews sites, and even inconsistencies in the mainstream media have been at the center of this conversation, with photographs and memes playing a central role towards enhancing those narratives. And in late January, 2017, Kellyanne Conway caused a stir with her Orwellian reference to "Alternative Facts." Which brings us to our latest open call.

For Group Show #52: Alternative Facts, we're interested in seeing how photographers play with truth in a so-called "post-fact" world. We're intentionally leaving this vague and open ended - please interpret as you see fit. (And while you're at it, check out our current exhibition: Future Isms)

Submission Details:

PostedJanuary 27, 2017

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call

Tagsphotography open call, alternative facts, alternative facts group show, digital manipulation, truth in photography

Found photo courtesy of the collection of  Ben Alper/ The Archival Impulse — Found photo courtesy of the collection of Ben Alper/ The Archival Impulse

Regardless of your political leanings, the world, in all its beauty, can be a complex and terrifying place. Especially in light of the 2016 US Presidential election, we approach an uncertain future. For Humble Arts Foundation's final open call of 2016, we'd like to see photo-based work that represents the world to come. Is it a dystopia overrun by robots and holograms? An egalitarian paradise? The death of photography as we know it? A self-conscious riff on Fritz Lang's Metropolis? Something more abstract?

Show us your vision or interpretation of the future. And while you're at it, listen to this Milemarker record from which we borrowed the name.

Submission Details:

DEADLINE:
December 1, 2016

PostedNovember 9, 2016

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call

TagsOpen Call, Photography Submissions, no-fee open calls, photography open call, photography about the future

Open Call - Group Show #54: Seeing Sound

"Longshot," Photographic Center Northwest's 24-hour Global Photothon is coming June 10!

Open Call - Group Show # 53: On Beauty

Open Call - Group Show #52: Alternative Facts

Open Call Group Show #51: Future Isms