Image ©: 'Assurance' by Ellen Jantzen
CURATOR: Susan Spiritus
Susan Spiritus has been running her gallery (www.susanspiritusgallery.com)
for the past 44 years. She's one of the most sought after curators
participating in local art fairs including PhotoLA, the Los Angeles Art
show, Photo San Francisco, Los Angeles Festival of Books, and Classic
Photographs Los Angeles. She serves on the Board of Advisors for
International Photography Awards (IPA) and the Center for Fine Art
Photography (C4FAP). She has reviewed portfolios for Photolucida, Review
Santa Fe, PhotoNola, Palm Springs Photo Festival, CriticalMass and
MOPLA’s Fresh Look.
Her gallery handles works by such photographic luminaries as Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Eikoh Hosoe, André Kertész, Paul Caponigro and George Tice.
Also represented in the gallery’s collection are many of today’s most popular and award-winning contemporary artists including Camille Seaman, Hiroshi Watanabe, Cara Barer, Fran Forman, David Burdeny, Roman Loranc and in addition several emerging artists, Tami Bone, Ellen Jantzen, Deborah Parkin, Tim Hyde, Jane Szabo, Ellen Cantor, Xan Padrón Niv Rozenberg, David Zimmerman, and Chris Kovacs from Vancouver, BC.
Susan says, "As we cautiously emerge from a year and a half of ‘almost’ hibernation, we do so with great care, some serious worries and many unknowns.
20% of artist entry fees go to charity.
10% of artist entry fees goes to the curator's choice of charity. Spiritus has chosen The Race To Erase MS
www.erasems.org
Another 10% will go to the first place winner's choice of charity.
(To celebrate L.A Photo Curator's 6 year anniversary please enter either 3 OR 6 images.)
First Place winner receives Q&A with curator. Curator reviews first place winner. One or more past curators may contribute reviews as well. 10% of artist fees goes to the first place winner's charity. The first place image shows on our splash page for a month.
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CALL FOR ENTRY:
ALL entrants work is exhibited in a group online exhibition. Each entrant is asked to submit 3 OR 6 images so they can have their own page with their images, bio, artist statement and contact info. In keeping with our mission of creating exposure opportunities and PR, we are proud to offer this feature. We hope this creates a vehicle that can take your work further and be seen by more people. No fewer than three images will be accepted to keep with the format of our website. Submitting less than three images will disqualify your entry.
The curator chooses one first place winner, one second place winner and three-five honorable mentions. The first place winner will receive a review by one or more curators including a Q&A about the photographer's work. In addition, their image will be on our home page for a month. Second place and honorable mentions will have their image shown along with their bio, artist statement, C.V. and a link back to their website.
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Submit work deadline: September 25, 2021 (Midnight EST)
