#photographic process

CALL FOR ENTRY

ONE

NEW YORK CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART

JUROR: Aline Smithson

DEADLINE: January 14, 2018

https://www.nyc4pa.com/trees-2016 

The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process (print, image transfer, emulsion transfer, encaustic, black and white, etc.). Prizes include  $3,000 in cash awards, a New York Gallery Exhibition and images in both the  NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the ONE 2017 catalog.

Cash Prize Winners and Juror’s Selections will have the opportunity to participate in a gallery show, April 3 - 14, 2018 at the JADITE GALLERY in the exciting Hell’s Kitchen area in Manhattan. The Grand Prize winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page.

Mariah Robertson, 11, 2012, Chromogenic colour photograph/photogram Mariah Robertson uses light sensitive paper and photographic chemicals to produce a range of abstract works that are the products of a highly experimental process. Much like the Abstract Expressionist artists focused on in the 1940/1950s, Robertson’s works embody the same gestural language. The hybridity of her works calls into question the materiality of photography. Is this a painting? Is it a photograph? Is it both? Is it something completely different altogether? Unlike a photograph, Roberson’s works are one shot; there are no negatives and no way to directly replete them. 11 stretches the length of it’s role and is displayed dropped over bars at the MoMA. Viewers can walk and observe the piece underneath it, very different to the way that photography is usually viewed. Because of it’s size and process, the artist is a part of a physically demanding work. Through their colourful nature, and sometimes large scale, works like 11,  both enchant and excite the viewers who stand amongst them.

Check out the video below to see more about Mariah Robertson’s process. 

Box of Secrets...... Darkroom photogram with blue toner........ 1999.