The Click! Photography Festival: Revēlō

Revēlō (to show, uncover, reveal or disclose) is a photography exhibition exploring portraits and self-portraits as tools for revealing, constructing, and questioning identity. Portraits can reveal both hidden and visible characteristics, create fantasies and myths, describe performative roles, and question identity. Disguising or revealing identity can take many forms—of the other, the self, or the familiar; figurative or expressed as an intimate or inanimate object. When portraying personal reality, a portrait can be of a place, a thing, a concept, a feeling, a belief, an event, a moment, or a memory. Artists such as Cindy Sherman, Zanele Muholi, Vivian Maier, Hugh Mangum, and Samuel Fosso have explored these concepts of identity, reality, and message by putting versions of themselves in their work.

Selected works will be exhibited in an outdoor exhibition in the NCMA sculpture park throughout October during the Click! Photography Festival and at various projection events. The exhibition runs from October 1 through October 31, with an opening event at NCMA on October 9th to coincide with their Monster Drawing event. Artists are encouraged to submit up to 5 images saved as JPEGs at 300 dpi with the longest dimension being 1600px. The submission portal will request artist name, titles, and a short statement. Entry fee is $45. The call is open to any artist creating lens-based work. Jurors include Tracey Norman-Morgan, Director of Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina, and Michael Pannier, Director of SE Center for Photography in Greenville, SC.