CLOSED | Call for Entry: Online Group Exhibition - "Palimpsest" February 2023
We are excited to announce that our February 2023 online group exhibition, “Palimpsest,” is being curated by experimental alt-process photographer and poet, Angel O’Brien!
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 February 13th, 2022. Good luck!
Prompt:
pal·imp·sest
/ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/
noun
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.
When I was in architecture school, I learned a new word that has stuck with me. I did not know it at the time, but palimpsest was to be an idea that would have great meaning to me again and again. We are each of us a piece of parchment whose writing has been scraped off and been rewritten, built up from the many layers of life’s experiences (perhaps even the ones that affected those who came before us), the triumphs and heartbreaks, the hapless mistakes and intentional cruelties, the mispronunciations and blistered heels that become the memories in our heads and our hearts. Just as choosing which fork in the road to take can irrevocably change your fate, each layer can skew/alter/rearrange/filter all the things that come next. How can change, evolution, regression be made visible in a photograph? How does absence exist within a photograph? Show me the work that has a past and a present, maybe even a future, all at the same time. Whether it’s literal/figurative collage or something more ethereal, I want to see the remnants, the subtle traces, mishmash, and erasures of life that’s in your work.
Deadline for Submissions is January 31st, 2023
About the Curator
Angel O’Brien is an experimental alt-process photographer and poet who lives in Portland, Oregon. Her hands have not been far from a camera since 1994 when she made her first photographs with a 5x7 Cambo view camera in her makeshift bathroom turned darkroom. In the last five or six years, Angel has taken a sharp turn and found herself in a photographic sandbox where she can let her creativity run wild. Now she plays with imagery and mediums to create surrealist, collaged, embroidered {self}portraits that explore themes of melancholy, censorship, sight/insight/blindness, and existing in the world as a woman and mother. Her work was most recently on the cover of the current issue of Analog Forever (Edition 7), and has been published in The Hand Magazine, SHOTS Magazine, and Mountain Bluebird literary arts magazine. Angel has exhibited her work in solo and group shows internationally as well as all over the US and has two books forthcoming in 2023.
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: Palimpsest”
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 January 31st, 2023.
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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