La Familia de Felipe V. Jean Ranc (1674–1735)
Folks, it was bound to happen: a Humble Arts Foundation group show devoted exclusively to Kanye West. With the release of The Life of Pablo and YEEZY Season 3, we believe the timing apropos (and too ironic to avoid). How the F do you curate a photography exhibition about one of today's most notorious pop culture icons without any images of the rapper himself?
Photo © Manolo Espaliú
Last year, the American Northeast experienced record snowfalls, and climate change seems to be on most of our minds. Winter can brutal, it can be beautiful, it can be a mysterious mix. For Humble Arts Foundation's first open call of 2016, we want to see your photographs representing winter - literally, abstractly, or somewhere in between. Show us your vision of a cold, cold world, and don't be afraid to get crazy. Inspired by Andy Adams' annual "Winter Pictures" calls in previous years, we're partnering with FlakPhoto, and invited Andy to co-curate this exhibition with Humble's co-founder Jon Feinstein. The group show will be featured on Humble's website and we'll feature select images on Instagram @HumbleArtsFoundation and @FlakPhoto in late February, 2016.
Also, if you didn't catch it already, the photo above is by Spanish photographer Manolo Espaliú. Visit his website, and follow him on Instagram.
Deadline:
Jan 25th, 2016
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NASA recently released new high-resolution photographs of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, unveiling images its spacecraft New Horizons had uncovered at the solar system's far out regions. As we get closer to understanding worlds beyond, outer space continues to be an abstract mystery, ripe with metaphor and science fiction...and naturally, photographic interpretation. With this move into new frontiers, for Humble Arts Foundation's next online exhibition, we want to see your vision of outer space. Abstraction, appropriation, strange narratives, and if you somehow broke through the atmosphere and "documented" your travels, we'd love to see those too.
Deadline: November 15th, 2015
"The Future of Photography" is a vaguely loaded gun. Curators, ourselves included, love buzzy prompts like "Let's push boundaries," "Show us something new..." and other leading terms that hope for the next big thing. While we'd grandiosely expect every open call to expose us to uncharted ideas, we're keeping this one simple: show us something "F*cked Up."
We'll leave this open to your interpretation. Whether it's a purely mind bending visual experience that leaves us seizing in our studios, or documentary work that pushes into the unknown, we want to see it. Show us photography-based work that will make us blink and twitch like never before. And maybe even lose our lunch.
UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MONDAY DEC 22!
We're pleased to announce that Humble Arts Foundation's co-founder Jon Feinstein will be jurying New Space Center for Photography's annual themed exhibition: Radical Color opening in Portland, Oregon this February.
Nearly 50 years ago photographers such as William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, William Christenberry, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld helped encourage a conservative art world to accept color photography within the greater dialogue of fine art. Since then, a tremendous number of photographers have produced inspiring, thoughtful bodies of color work. Jeff Wall, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Ruff and many others working in the late 1980’s onward, introduced a new level of excitement for color images, encouraged a “bigger is better” mentality, and helped further transform the dialogue with the fine art world.
With the recent history of color photography as a reference point, this open call seeks to exhibit work from a current generation of color photographers. While color pioneers like Shore may have used it as a means of achieving a purely descriptive truth, how does today’s digital and internet-raised generation push its boundaries and use color with new intents? How are photographers using color-specific, digital tools to innovate, go beyond and reassess the idea of description? With this open call, we’re looking for work that grips, excites, and makes us want to understand color with new eyes.
DEADLINE: Submissions are due by 6pm PDT on Friday, December 19, 2014.
ENTRY DETAILS
Each entry costs $40 (free for Newspace Members at the Spy Camera Level and above) and may contain up to five images. You may submit as many entries as you like. All entries must be submitted using the online entry system at this link. CD entries will not be accepted.
Please size your images as 72 dpi jpg files that are 10 inches in their longest dimension. Each jpg file must be titled with your last name, first initial, ‘underscore’ and the entry number. For instance the first image uploaded by Mike Smith would be SmithM_1.jpg
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Selected artists will be notified by early January and posted on our website. Selected images will be on display in the Newspace gallery February 6, 2015 through March 1, 2015, with an opening reception Friday, February 6, 2015 from 6-9pm. The exhibition will also be featured on the Humble Arts Foundation Website.
