Grayscale: A Picture Show

Black Box Gallery is hosting a black and white juried group photography exhibition. The show explores the classic, nostalgic, and dynamic qualities of black and white photography, examining its important tradition of luminous, well-crafted, and thoughtfully composed imagery alongside contemporary photographers' modern voices and aesthetics.

Juror Todd Johnson is the founder and director of Black Box Gallery, with an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has served as a portfolio reviewer for Photolucida, juried The Drawers Program for Blue Sky Gallery, and worked as an independent photography curator and college instructor in Portland for 15 years.

Submissions must include 1-5 images in high resolution Tiff or JPEG format. Entry fee is $35.00. Up to 5 applications are allowed per artist. The juror will select 24 photographs for exhibition at the gallery and an additional 30 for the online gallery annex. All 54 photographs will be included in a catalog available for purchase on Blurb Books. Exhibition dates are August 1-20, 2018, with an opening reception on Friday, August 3, 6-8:00 pm.

Black Box Gallery provides free printing, matting, and framing for all exhibitions using archival ink jet printing on premium luster photo paper. Selected photographers provide high resolution files for printing. Exhibition prints are kept in flat files after the show for future promotion and sale. Black Box Gallery takes a 50% commission on sales, with 50% going to the photographer. Artists may request that prints not be for sale and be used for exhibition and promotion only. All rights remain with the photographer.