Twelve: Objects As Subjects

OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES
Objects As Subjects is the theme of Viewpoint's 14th annual Open Juried show, TWELVE. Objects As Subjects focuses specifically on the genre of still life photography. Like portraiture and landscape, still life is one of the great historical and current art forms in photography. Within the genre of still life two different approaches have traditionally been recognized. In the CONSTRUCTED approach, the photographer arranges the scene by placing a chosen object or objects against a background with attention to the relationship of the objects to each other and to the frame. In addition to the object and placement, the photographer chooses colors, angle of the camera, depth of focus, and natural or artificial lighting for the constructed arrangement. Objects chosen to be subjects range from apples and baseballs to yardsticks and ziplock bags. The FOUND approach involves minimal arrangement by the photographer of the inanimate objects. The object or objects are captured as they were already placed prior to the photographer's arrival or interest. Typically the found still life is photographed with available light. The photographer chooses the angle of the camera, the distance from the object and the depth of focus. Examples of found still life images would be a display of tools on a workshop wall, vegetables at the local farmers' market, or the stacked boxes of last year's holiday ornaments. These two approaches have traditionally defined the method of still life photography. Today, with the power of digital imaging, a third BLENDED approach goes beyond basic image editing to create new possibilities with still life photography. Objects from different images can be combined into the initial constructed or found still life. Or still life objects can be assembled entirely on the computer rather than as originally captured in reality. Digital imaging expands the still life genre into impossible or unlikely combinations of objects, changes in scale, color, sharpness and more. The intent of constructed, found, or blended still life images may be illustration, documentation, enticement, surprise, fantasy, appreciation or remembrance.

Objects As Subjects is a national Open Call for both members and non-members of Viewpoint Photographic Art Center to participate. Viewpoint welcomes your concepts, creativity and craftsmanship in exploring still life photography for TWELVE: Objects As Subjects. We hope you accept the challenge.

AWARDS
1st Place – $312
2nd Place – $212
3rd Place – $112
Three Honorable Mentions – Viewpoint Workshop valued at $95

ABOUT THE JUROR
Kirkman Amyx is both a photo educator and photographer. He is professor of photography at Sierra College in Rocklin, California where he teaches a range of courses in film, digital imaging and manipulation, color photography, studio lighting, and business practices. Amyx was a commercial photographer and studio owner in San Francisco concentrating on clients from technology and the food industry for twenty years. His commercial photography is distinguished by awareness of details, refined lighting, flawless digital imaging and strong compositions. His fine art and commercial photography have been featured in over forty exhibits throughout the country and countless publications. Amyx's conceptual projects explore the relationship of change and the passage of time. Amyx studied commercial photography at the Art Center College of Design, where he received a BFA with distinction. He earned an MFA in Fine Art from California State University, San Jose.

ENTRY FEE
1 image: $12
2-4 images: $36
5-6 images: $48
Submit up to six (6) images. A multiple images set, such as triptychs and diptychs, will be treated as one image and should be submitted as one file.

Upload your image submission(s) to www.viewpointgallery.org under Exhibits>Call for Entries using EntryThingy (www.viewpointgallery.org/exhibit/calls). Deadline for entering is Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 11:59 pm PT.