2020 International Alternative Processes

This juried photography competition is open to all photographers age 18 or older, excluding members of Soho Photo Gallery. The 2020 juror is Aline Smithson, a visual artist, educator, and founder and editor-in-chief of Lenscratch. Smithson has exhibited widely including 40 international solo shows, with work featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PND. She is known for conceptual portraiture and using humor and pathos to explore the performance potential of photography. Her monograph, Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography, was published by The Magenta Foundation in 2015. Her work was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of the 2018 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. She was a 2019 Critical Mass Top 50 and was commissioned by Kris Graves Projects to create a book on Los Angeles. She has been teaching at the Los Angeles Center of Photography since 2001.

Alternative processes include, but are not limited to: Albumen, Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Platinum/Palladium, Gum Bichromate, Bromoil, Salt Print, Tintype, Ziatype, Daguerreotype, Image Transfers, Liquid Emulsion, Photogravure, and Chemigram, as well as handmade prints created from digital negatives. Traditional Silver Gelatin Prints, C-Prints, and Digital Prints are not eligible. There is no limitation as to subject matter.

Entry fee is $45.00. Applicants must submit a minimum of 5 images and a maximum of 15 images. An additional media fee of $5.00 applies for images beyond the initial submission.