Portrait: Photography

Black Box Gallery is hosting a juried group photography exhibition on contemporary portraiture. The exhibition explores diverse approaches to portrait photography including pose and gesture, image and identity, documentary and street, constructed narrative, self-portrait, environmental, vernacular and snapshot, family narrative, fashion and nude photography.

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

Submissions must include 1-5 images. Entry fee is $35.00. Up to 5 applications are allowed per artist. The exhibition runs November 1-20, 2018, with an opening reception on Friday, November 2, 6-8:00 pm. The juror will select 24 photographs for exhibition at the gallery and an additional 30 photographs for the online gallery annex. All 54 photographs will be included in a catalog available for purchase on Blurb Books.

Black Box Gallery provides free printing, matting, and framing for all exhibitions. Selected photographers provide high-resolution TIFF or JPEG files for printing on an Epson Stylus Pro archival inkjet printer on Epson Premium Luster Photo paper. Prints are available in 18" x 24" black frames with white mats pre-cut for 12" x 18", 12" x 12", and 12" x 16" prints. Exhibition prints are retained in flat files after the show for future promotion and sale. Black Box Gallery takes a 50% commission on all sales, with 50% going to the photographer. All rights remain with the photographer, and no sale or printing occurs without prior consent. Artists may elect for prints to be for exhibition and promotion only, not for sale.