surroundings : environment, ambience, location,
setting, milieu, neighborhood, environs, home, place, scene, vicinity,
site, locale, habitat, dwelling….
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“Gentry, self-consciously at first, then boldly retrieved the purple
stuffed Barney effigy from its hiding place in the non-functioning
1950’s Frigidaire that served, chicly and uniquely, as extra storage; a
mid-century armoire of sorts. He placed the grinning, polyester, pudgy
tyrannosaurus rex on the chrome and rayon Eames inspired, with a nod to
Le Corbusier, Ikea sofa — theatrically coughing; grinning—what his
Publisher father would call, “that infuriating, insouciant millennial
grin.”
Gentry’s Father, The Publisher, “the poor boy from Jersey” that
indeed did work for everything he had, the welder through college, the
high school sports reporter and pharmacy delivery driver through young
parenthood and graduate school, the three time married, the real estate
investor, the player of the stock market, the young hell-raiser, the
experimenter with recreational drugs, the actually pretty ordinary
fellow with above average intelligence couldn’t understand his son’s
insouciance. It frightened him.
Gentry’s Dad didn’t want sea level rise to take his seaside condo, he
didn’t want to have to divest of his investment in cattle ranching in
Texas because of recurring drought – he really enjoyed playing cowboy a
week out of every year. Gentry’s Dad hated selling his small piece of
the New Orleans Saints – he didn’t trust their corporal future. Gentry’s
Dad still mourned the loss of his favorite golf course in Puerto Rico.
Gentry’s Dad just hadn’t learned the efficacy of the insouciant
millennial grin yet, he would…” From “The Insouciant Millennial Smile”
BY Franklin Cincinnatus
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JUROR | Kat Kiernan will be the juror for
“surroundings”. Kiernan was raised on the coast of Maine. Now a
city-dweller, the influence of her rural upbringing can be seen in her
autobiographical photographs rooted in the natural world. Often using
herself as her subject, her work explores feelings of uncertainty. She
has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States and
been featured in publications including
China Life,
Lenscratch, and
The Woven Tale Press. In 2012, she was named one of Artpil’s “30 under 30” women photographers to watch.
Kiernan lives in Brooklyn where she is the Editor-in-Chief of the photography magazine
Don’t Take Pictures.
She curated numerous exhibitions as the Director of Panopticon Gallery
in Boston and owner of The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia. In
2015, she received the Griffin Museum’s Rising Star Award for her
contributions to the photographic community. Kiernan’s writings on
photography have been published in journals and blogs including
Art New England Online,
Feature Shoot, and
Big, Red, and Shiny, as well as in books, including
Agnieszka Sosnowska: Myth of a Woman (The National Museum of Iceland, 2019), and
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life (Intellect, 2017). She holds a BFA in photography from Lesley University College of Art and Design.
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Creativity is encouraged.
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SUBMISSION | Guidelines: Digital
images should 1000 pixels on the longest side saved in JPEG format at 72
ppi. Each image should be labeled with consecutive numbers followed by
your name, i.e. 1FirstName_LastName.jpg. The number should correspond
with the number on the application form. Please do not watermark your images. If you need help sizing your images, please follow this link https://convert.town/image-dpi
SUBMISSION | Online: Fill out our online application
to apply, send images, and make payment with Paypal. You will
receive an email confirmation upon receiving the submission and payment.
You can also fill and submit the online application, print out your
confirmation email, and mail it with a check for your fees to the
address below.
SUBMISSION | Email: Email image files and submission form to
amanda@asmithgallery.com. The gallery will send an email confirmation upon receiving the submission and payment.
The gallery will send an email confirmation upon receiving the submission and payment.
SUBMISSION | Entry Fee: $38 for the first 5 images,
$7 per each additional image. Submissions of 11 or more images are
eligible for a review of the submitted images by the gallery directors.
Submission fees are not refundable.
ELIGIBILITY | Submissions are open to all
photographers both professional and amateur working in all photographic
mediums and styles. International entries are welcomed. Work that has
been previously exhibited at A Smith Gallery is not eligible.
PRINTING/MATTING/FRAMING | Information: The gallery offers
printing, matting and framing services.
If sending framed work, please use mats and frames that compliment your
work and are appropriate in a gallery setting. Colored mats are
discouraged. All images should be ready to hang with wires. Gallery
wraps are not acceptable. If you have any questions regarding
appropriate presentation please contact amanda@asmithgallery.com.
AWARDS| The awards are as follows:
Jurors Award – $325.00
Directors Award – $250.00
Three Juror Honorable Mentions – an exhibition catalogue
Director Honorable Mentions chosen at the discretion of the Gallery Directors – an exhibition catalogue
Visitors Award – $100.00
SALES | The gallery will retain 40% of the sales price.
USE RIGHTS | Photographers retain full rights to
their own images. The gallery will use the photographer’s images for
publicity purposes as well as in the Blurb exhibition catalogue.
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