We are excited to announce that our April 2022 online group exhibition, “Myths and Fables,” is being curated by Film Shooters Collective Curator, Amy Jasek! The deadline for submissions is March 31st, 2022! To enter, all you need to do is read and respond to the following prompt with your analog photography. The best of these images will be showcased in an online show, beginning April 18th, 2022. Good luck!

Amy Jasek writes: Mine is a family of readers. We are book people. My father's profession, inherited from his father, was bookbinding, and film photography was his passion. He taught me that a photograph "has to have something to say," whether it is of a person, a street, a landscape, a dog, an arrangement of fruit, a single, luminous shell. Every picture tells a story, and every life tells one too. All of us are books, still being written, constantly unfolding, creating our own adventures within the framework of our environment; every family has its own myths and fables, every animal is an allegory, every tree has a face.  

So, go on then:  tell me a story. Delve into fables and myths, make up your own, be literal or abstract. I would like to see what you can do with this call within the confines of a camera, but I am open to other analog processes as well. When imagination meets reality, it definitely has something to say.  

tell me a story
let it rise out of 
the ashes of your history
a photon-breathing phoenix 
shooting darts of meaning
through your lens

mix fact and fancy
with a cocktail stick
plucked from the night sky

throw in heaping measures of hidden lore  

put your eye to the keyhole
of the darkened room 
and reverse the image

talk to the animals
write what they say
in a frame full of light

show me a story
make it up along the way
let a fraction of time
reveal what it has to say

Deadline for Submissions is March 31st, 2022

About the Curator

Native Texan and photographer’s daughter, Amy Jasek graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Dance in 1999. She took up photography seriously in 2003, and began exhibiting her darkroom prints in 2009. The main focus of her work is narrative / candid and documentary in nature; people are what she enjoys photographing most, but she can find joy in photographing just about anything. She also writes, plays the piano, and makes an obsessive amount of cyanotypes when the mood strikes.  

For the past bunch of years, Amy has been a website manager and Instagram curator for the Film Shooters Collective. She enjoys getting the members and their online community involved in projects and encouraging people to use traditional analog methods for making photographs.  She has also curated the World Cyanotype Day Instagram, for the love of the process and her friend Judy Sherrod.  

Connect with Amy Jasek on her Website and Instagram!

Submission Guidelines: 

Image Specifications:
1) Only .jpg files will be accepted.
2) Images must be 1500px on the shortest side at 72dpi.
3) No photo-shopped borders or watermarks. 
4) Only one image may be submitted.
5) Image must be named in the following format: “FirstNameLastName1.jpg”, etc.

Email Specifications:
1) The subject line of your email should state: "Submission: Myths and Fables”
2) Please ATTACH your images to the email NOT INSIDE the email. Do not embed them. Do not attach a google drive or dropbox link. 
3) Include your information in the format requested (see below).
4) Format Request: “Title” by Your Name | Camera + Film, Process - Your URL

Send your submission to submissions@analogforevermagazine.com by March 31st, 2022.

Note: Due to the large number of submissions we receive you may not receive a response. Though we try our best to respond to everyone, we do not guarantee a response. Thank you for understanding.

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