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[chrissorensen]

Excited to start the week with the news that our Wife During Quarantine project is a Critical Mass 2023 Finalist. Huge thanks to @photolucida and the jurors for the honor. You can see the images we submitted below. Big thanks also to the lovely redhead for being an amazing muse and partner on the series.

[documentary-surrealist]

Interior / Exterior by Marja Pirila marjapirila.com via Photolucida

[laurengrabelle]

So pleased to see my series, Deer Diary, selected as a Photolucida CriticalMass TOP 200.

[sonyaromina]

New Photography Artist Submissions in 2024: Apply In July

Find our new photography artist submissions for July 2024 – we’re bringing you the platforms to apply with your photographic work. These art submissions provide you opportunities to showcase your series with other inspiring artists. Below you can find

Find our new photography artist submissions for July 2024 – we’re bringing you the platforms to apply with your photographic work. These art submissions provide you opportunities to showcase your series with other inspiring artists. Below you can find the newest list of open calls and awards to apply to. Photography Awards Photolucida Critical Mass — Until the 1st of JulyInternational…

[konmarkimageswords]

Linda Plaisted is an award-winning American multi-disciplinary artist whose exploratory practices include photography, collage, painting and encaustic. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States. She has also illustrated book and magazine covers for major publishers and contributed to art and literary journals. She is a 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Award Winner and 2023 Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist.

As a pioneer in contemporary photomontage, each piece of artwork she creates tells a story by pushing beyond the boundaries of medium into myth, using traditions of collection, synthesis and cultural interpretation. Approaching her work as both artist and historian, she employs her unique visionary practices to reveal the untold stories of women and Mother Earth; an effort to heal ancestral wounds and seek equilibrium in a chaotic world.

Layering her original photography and paintings with found images, ancestral documents and gathered ephemera, she creates photographic mixed media pieces with translucent veils of narrative; layers of time and memory bleeding through one another, seeking a deeper truth. Like mis-remembered dreams, these pieces can be simultaneously clear and ambiguous yet offer a map to a liminal world where fresh myths are born; informed by the past, while envisioning a transcendent future.

[vianey2618]

4. Mila Teshaieva “Promising Waters”

Mila Teshaieva’s photobook “Promising Waters” was published by Kehrer Verlag, an art book publisher. It won the Photolucida's Critical Mass Book Award in 2012. The book focuses on the transformation of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, three former Soviet republics on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each battle for control of the region's vast oil and gas reserves and the task of finding national identity. This has left the population and environment struggling as they attempt to keep up with the huge changes. The photos show this with pictures of the people questioning what comes next as their towns appear to be in shambles, the water seemingly rising, it looks almost like a wasteland, a dystopian future. The photos just seem to have this feeling of bittersweet as something feels off even though the photos are aesthetically pleasing. There's also a great use of color in many. Mila Teshaiva is a Ukrainian photographer. She is specifically fascinated by the territories of the former USSR, specifically dedicating various years working in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea region. She has won many awards including the NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2010. Her projects have been shown in the Museum Art of West Coast, the Haggerty Museum of Art, Blue Sky Gallery, and Photoquai Biennial. Overall I enjoyed the book. I thought it was interesting and it taught me something new. The photos were intriguing and I really felt like I was looking at a dystopian world. It left me with many questions as it can be difficult to identify what is happening.

[alexmoua]

Artist Research

"Promising Waters", by Mila Teshaieva.

Many of her photos in her book was about the documentation about the change in Soviet republics, mainly in the Caspian Sea. This book was more special, since this book was the result of her winning the Photolucida's Critical Mass 2012. Being awarded first place and being able to have a book of her photos as an addition. Which I thought was very interesting to know that this book was made by this reason.

The book shows the more depressing state of what it happen in the republics in her documentation. The environment mainly results with gray and dull colors, representing the state of the environment she was in. Although there where some bright colors that stood out within some of her photos, which I thought was moving in a way.

Mila Teshaieva is a photographer born in Ukraine. Her works focused on forms of storytelling and an understanding of many subjects that she was passionate to delve into; in this case, her work was about the former territories of the USSR.

These are the few photos from the book that I took that appealed to me.

[oneyearofbooks]

Amy Stein, Domesticated

Photolucida, 2008

[shesaidred]

“we live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ...but it is also in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges” -RBG a true revolutionary hero of mine❤️the day this nation found out she was no longer raising her gavel of dissent was they day i received that i made critical mass top 50 from photolucida; it was a hard day to stomach still is.... what an emotional year that this quote clearly speaks of... i am grateful, & honored, & mark my word, i will never forget friday sept 18, 2020 i thank #rbg for being the rocking role model for many generations to come & thank you @photolucida for the opportunity to show my work & @ann_jastrab for the constant words of encouragement #shelovesyou #shesaidred #istillshootfilm #filmisnotdead #photooftheday #filmcommunity #filmphotography #bwphoto #bwphotooftheday #photo #c41 #darkroomprint #darkroomphotography #love #criticalmass #photolucida2020 #photolucida #film (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFgAPYuHIjP/?igshid=1b5qi6bf752u3

[zatarapress]

At ZP, we always love reviewing work for Critical Mass by Photolucida each year.  Please consider submitting your work to the juried contest as it is a wonderful way for emerging photographers to connect with industry professionals that consist of 200 museum curators, gallerists, writers, and publishers. Photolucida offers a selection of amazing awards: a solo show at Blue Sky Gallery during Portland Photo Month, the Rauschenberg Residency Award, a Top 50 exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA curated by Elizabeth Avedon, and Publication in issue #63 of GUP Magazine for a selection of finalists. The deadline to submit has been extended to July 19th at noon PST. Submit now! www.photolucida.org/critical-mass @photolucida #criticalmass #photolucida #pdx #photofestival #fineartphotography #documentaryphotography #photocontest https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_ArfTnb1j/?igshid=7071vaulr638

[pabender]

My heartfelt thanks to @dana_stirling & @yoavfriedlander for featuring a portfolio of my recent work on @float_magazine . Thanks as well to @photolucida for sponsoring this year's #criticalmass2018 which brought my work to the attention of Float. ••• ••• ••• #floatmagazine #photolucida #cameralessphotography #geometricabstraction #circles #line #geometry #cameraless #gelatinsilver #darkroomprint #smallworks #worksonpaper #patriciabender https://www.instagram.com/p/BqxBw9tgcFM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s31yris5mwz3

[saintlucyrepresents]

Cody Bratt Lenscratch

Cody Bratt’s fine art photographic series The Other Stories is featured in a Lenscratch article by William Boling. In the article, Boling discusses the future of the photo festival and shares the work of select photographers from  the Photolucida festival in Portland, Oregon. Cody’s body of work is a mixed-media photography project that utilizes painting, collage, and found photos from his great-grandfather’s archives. The Other Stories questions whether family secrets are discernible and immortalized through film photographs.

Read the full article here and explore Cody Bratt’s The Other Stories here.

[laurengrabelle]

Yesterday was the last day of Photolucida’s Critical Mass TOP 50 exhibition, Imminent Existence. If you missed seeing the show you can read all the interviews with the exhibition artists on Photographic Center Northwest’s blog including mine about my image, Rebirth, from the series, The Last Man.

[driftlessworld]

Tractor pull at The Pig #fridaynightlights #covid19wisconsin #whatmeworry #nightimages #countrynight #foammagazine #photolucida #arebureboke https://www.instagram.com/p/CB7Gq1lphTy/?igshid=12dbo9emp9bex