Happy Halloween

Boo! How Artists Have Envisioned Ghosts Throughout the Centuries

From spirit photography to spectral sculptures, an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel explores 250 years of spooky imagery in art.

From Artnet: Link

The Haunted Lane, London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company (c.1875). Photo: 

© Denis Pellerin.

Alumni News

 

Review Santa Fe is a prestigious opportunity to meet with professionals in the field. It is one of the few juried portfolio reviews and it is competitive to have the opportunity to participate. 

SCAD Students and alumni attending

Lucas Vanderbourght (current BFA student) 

Nisha Pradeep (Former MFA graduated 2025) 

Lulu Hamilton (former BFA graduated 2025) 

Sam Anderson (former BFA graduated 2025)  

Taylor Edgerton (MFA lAtlanta 2025)

Lissette Schaeffler (MFA alumna 2004)

EDITORS, CURATORS & PUBLISHERS (OH MY!)

This week 45 editors, curators, gallery directors, and publishers will convene for one of the nation's most prestigious photography events, Review Santa Fe. These esteemed industry leaders will gather to discover new photographic talent, share the latest industry insights with the photo community, and enjoy a beautiful weekend in Santa Fe. This year our reviewers include:

11 CURATORS from the Smithsonian, Harvard Art Museums, Griffin Museum ++
19 EDITORS from The New York Times, NPR, Oxford American, Bloomberg ++
9 GALLERY DIRECTORS from CLAMP, Blue Sky Gallery, and Webster Collection
5 BOOK EXPERTS & PUBLISHERS from Minor Matters and Saint Lucy ++

PORTFOLIO WALK

Thesis Show Friday, Oct 31, 2025

 Jingjing Lyu's Thesis Exhibition Friday, Oct 31, 2025 

Artstryngs Gallery

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Alumni News

 Meg Griffiths has had lots of news recently. 

A significant book has been produced "The Yellow Rose Project" and is now available. There is a beautiful exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography. 

SCAD Alumni included in the book: Ashley Kauschinger, Greer Muldowney, Kyra Schmidt.

A three-day workshop is happening at LACP March 13-15, 2026

"This immersive three-day, in-person workshop invites photographers to explore identity, legacy, and social dialogue through still life photography, inspired by A Yellow Rose Project. Guided by project founders Frances Jakubek and Meg Griffiths, participants will engage in hands-on image-making, group discussion, and critical reflection—culminating in a collaborative visual response rooted in personal and collective narratives." LACP

Meg worked recently at "Anna Atkins Herbarium" at the Natural History Museum of London. 

Project

From Meg's Instagram

"The project, Bluest flos*, is my way of breathing new light back into Anna’s life work – an obsession with flowers made visible through the cyanotype process. All 150 + specimens showcased are those from Anna’s herbarium housed at the Natural History Museum of London. These specimens were plucked, pressed, preserved, and given to the museum by Anna to mark science, history and one woman’s possession and collection. In collaboration with John Hunnex, Curator, of the British and Irish Herbarium, each flower was reimaged, then later arranged and reimagined into bouquets, forms and fields.

Each impression honors the everlasting agency of these flowers and the woman behind them by journeying to her hometown of Halstead, England to make prints under the same sun, water, light and air.

*Latin for flower; bloom."

Laurie Victor Kay, Visiting Artist / SCAD Atlanta & SCADnow

Laurie Victor Kay, visiting artist lecture / Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 5:30 - 7:30 pm @ SCAD Atlanta 1600 5C, Photography Studios.

Event open to all SCAD students and streamed via Zoom for students joining from SCADnow and Savannah. 

Zoom Link

Bio

Laurie Victor Kay (b. 1971) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work blurs the lines between photography, painting, installation and digital mediums to address constructed imagination, idealization and a sense of the surreal. Her various bodies of work range from photographic series that reimagine and abstract the everyday to autobiographical mixed-media series that examine the psyche, vulnerability and contemporary culture. 

She is the recipient of numerous awards, has collaborated with companies across the globe, like Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company and Solé Bicycles, and has worked with an impressive roster of clientele, including the likes of Nike, Alanis Morissette, Warren Buffett, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Alexander Payne, Gigi Gorgeous, The Red Cross, The New York Times, and Condé Nast Traveler.

https://laurievictorkay.com/

https://www.instagram.com/laurievictorkay

October 23, 11:15 am

River House 17th Floor,  Fine Art Showcase Panel Discussion with artists and curators.

 

Photo Department Mentor Talk This Week

Event Details:

 

·         Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025

·         Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM EST

·         Location: Arnold Hall Auditorium, 1810 Bull St.

 

About Susanna Brown

Susanna Brown is an internationally recognized curator with a rich history of curatorial roles at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and a particular research interest in portraiture, fashion, and exhibition-making.

 

Throughout her career, Susanna has worked on exhibitions that have traveled to over twenty venues worldwide, including ‘Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography’, ‘Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton’, and ‘Horst: Photographer of Style’.

 

The author of eight books, and a contributor to thirteen others, Susanna has held advisory roles with the Royal Photographic Society and the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art within the British Government. She regularly judges international competitions including the Hasselblad Award, Aesthetica Art Prize, and Google Photography Prize.

 

She collaborates with photographers, collectors, galleries, and publishers and is currently researching the intertwined histories of photography and magazines for two books to be published by Thames & Hudson in 2024/25. She is Curatorial Advisor to the George Hoyningen-Huene Estate Archives and is working with Chanel Nexus Hall on an exhibition of Hoyningen-Huene’s photographs, opening in 2024 in Tokyo.

 

Join the Conversation

Following Susanna’s talk will be a Q&A session where attendees will have the chance to ask questions and engage directly with her insights. Whether you’re interested in photography, fashion, design, curation, or the history of visual culture, we hope you can join us for what will undoubtedly be an inspiring and insightful presentation.

 

Thank you for helping us announce this event and we look forward to seeing you there!

 

Call for Entry

 

Photographers are invited to submit up to five (5) photographic images in JPEG format which have been created within the past five years. We are not accepting AI images for this call. Work previously shown at Perspective Gallery cannot be submitted.
 
Applicants should complete their entry and upload their images at: CaFÉ. By submitting work, applicants agree to permit Perspective Gallery to use their images in publicity with attribution; photographers retain copyright to their work. File names should be the title of the work, but not include the artist’s name.
 
You will find the prospectus with complete details on how to enter the exhibit either on our website or by download.
 

Deadline for Entries: January 7, 2026 (11:59 P.M. CST)

To create an entry on CaFÉ, Click Here.

Perspective Gallery is proud that our Juror for LENS 2026 is Ann M. Jastrab. Ann is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. Before CPA, Ann worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center and the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery, both in San Francisco, California. Besides being a curator and an educator, Ann is a writer and editor, and a fine art photographer who still carries around a wooden view camera…and a metal one too.

 

ENTRY FEE: There is a $40 (U.S) non-refundable fee for submitting up to five (5) images. Early Bird Submission ends on Oct. 31, $35 - code EARLYBIRD
 
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS: To help exhibiting international artists, Perspective Gallery will print their work with the cost paid for by the artist. For details, email us at lensexhibition@gmail.com.
 
AWARDS: Juror’s Award: $300 | 1st Runner-up: $200 | 2nd Runner-up: $150

 

MPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES Entries due: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 (11:59 p.m. CST) Notification of acceptance: January 24, 2026 Delivery of work to the gallery due: February 27, 2026 Show opens: March 5, 2026 Opening reception and awards: March 7, 2026, 5 - 7 p.m.

If you have any questions, email us at - lensexhibition@gmail.com. Perspective Gallery 1310 - 1/2B Chicago Avenue Evanston, IL 60201