“Capturing Light: The World as We See It”

CALL TO PHOTOGRAPHERS - PALO ALTO CAMERA CLUB
 
A juried photography exhibit at Los Altos Hills Town Hall by Palo Alto Camera Club members composed of two separate exhibits: images from Cuba and from the rest of the world

EXHIBIT DATES: March 9, 2014 – August 28, 2014
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 28, 2013
JURORS: Robert Kato and Charles Anselmo
LOCATION:  26379 Fremont Rd, Los Altos Hills CA 94022 (MAP)
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IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES
•    Submission period: October 1, 2013 through November 15, 2013
•    Notification of Juror Decisions: on or soon after December 14, 2013
•    Hand Delivery of Accepted Framed Images and a one-page artist statement :  February 23, 2014 (place and time TBA)
•    Install the exhibit: Mar 8, 2014

Exhibit Reception: Sun Mar 30, 2014, 2-5pm

•    Docent tour/talk: May 9, 2014, 10 am - noon. Charles Anselmo’s “talk and walk” presentation on Cuba and the Cuba images
•    Pick up unsold work: Aug 29 (9-11:30 am) and Aug 30 (10-11 am)

JURYING FORMAT and PROCESS
•    Images will be juried from JPEGS submitted electronically thru the Palo Alto Camera Club’s website via one of 2 links:    General Images OR Cuba images (not both)
•    Details: Each image 6.5 Mb max., between 2500 and 4500 pixels on longest side, sRGB color space, and saved at Maximum quality (12 in Photoshop)

EXHIBIT GUIDELINES
•    Open only to members of the Palo Alto Camera Club
•    Club members can enter their four images in either the Non-Cuba or Cuba exhibits and cannot split their image entries between the two exhibits.  For example, a member cannot enter three images in the Non-Cuba exhibit and enter the forth in the Cuba exhibit.
•    Maximum of four images submitted per person
•    There is no fee for submitting entries 
•    All exhibited prints need to be displayed with standard black frames and white or off-white window mats. For framed images with an external frame size of 21” x 31”or larger, window mats are encouraged but not mandatory as long as there is a white border showing around the print and the frame is black.
•    It is encouraged that exhibited prints be offered for sale
•    All exhibited prints offered for sale need to be made with archival materials (paper, ink, window mat and back board)
•    Cultural Kaleidoscope (a Palo Alto Art Center program supporting art in the schools) will receive 20% of all sales
•    It is encouraged that framed images (outside dimensions of the frame) be larger than 16”X20”, up to a maximum size of 36” either length or width.  However, all sized framed images are acceptable
•    All work must be ready to hang (wire only).
•    Mentoring will be offered for preparing prints, mats and frames, and for setting a selling price. Date/time: SIG meeting at Cubberley School on Wed Oct 2 at 7:30 pm.

JUDGING
Judging will be for image entry into the exhibit (approximately 35 for the non-Cuba images and 12 for the Cuba images).  A generous donation of $1,000. will be divided among the top-ranked entrants.
 
ABOUT THE JURORS 
Robert Kato will judge the non-Cuba entries. Charles Anselmo will judge the Cuba entries

ROBERT KATO
Robert Kato’s unique and inspiring photography is about finding beauty in the most unlikely places. He formally trained at Art Center College of Design, has images acquired by Santa Barbara Museum of Art and received the first award in the 2011 Juried Exhibition at Carmel Center for Photographic Art. Robert is working with alternative digital printmaking (digital film transfers), as well as making his own gampi and kozo papers to print on.  He is teaching at RAYKO San Francisco and has taught at Stanford Continuing Studies, Cabrillo Arts and the Carmel Center for Photography. His work is represented by Modernbook Gallery San Francisco, CA.

CHARLES ANSELMO
While focusing on portfolios concerned with the many dissonances of the forgotten urban landscape, Charles Anselmo exhibits internationally, curates United States exhibits of work by famous Cuban photographers, operates a large format digital printing studio and an arts consultation service for exhibiting photographers, and will soon collaborate in the opening of a digital printing studio in Cuba. He conducts frequent photography workshops to Cuba and is Visiting Lecturer at the Havana School of Creative Photography. He was honored in 2012 to be invited for a solo exhibit of his photographs at Havana's Fototeca Nacional de Cuba. His work is represented by PHOTO Fine Art Photography in Oakland, CA.
 
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Contact Exhibit Committee Chair: bjackson.arts@gmail.com or 650.339.3029