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CLOSED | Call for Entry: Online Group Exhibition - "Sculptural Photography” February 2020

“Is There a Key to Life” by Lynn Bierbaum | Ambrotype on Blown Glass, 2019

We are excited to announce that our February 2020 online group exhibition, “Sculptural Photography”, is being curated by artist and Analog Forever Magazine Social Media and Community Manager, Lynn Bierbaum! To enter, all you need to do is read and respond to the following prompt with your analog photography:

For this exhibition, we are looking to explore the ways in which artists blend the two and three-dimensional worlds into a sculptural piece of art. These pieces should be able to not only be looked at but also be able to be picked up, touched, or add some form of tactile experience to the work. Submissions accepted may use any three-dimensional element added to a photograph such as collage, assemblage, stitching, or painting, and may also include printing on different types of material such as wood, metal, glass or even a book format. We are looking for someone who seamlessly combines layers of imagery and material into a thought-provoking and inventive piece of art. These images should bring the viewers back to see more from the unexpected results of their photographic process. There is no specific image theme, just so long as it has a tactile quality to it.

We invite you to submit up to two photographs for this exhibition that capture the concept of this theme. We offer no limits to the photographs submitted, other than the fact that they are created with analog film or process. The best of these images will be showcased in an online show curated by Analog Forever Magazine's Social Media Manager, Lynn Bierbaum. This online exhibition will go live on our website on February 10th 2020! Please follow the directions below to complete your submission. Good luck!

The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2020!


About the Curator


Lynn Bierbaum is a Minneapolis based Alternative Photographer and Glass artist. She is an avid traveler who is always looking for her next place to photograph. She started working in film back in 2010 and alternative photography in 2015 starting with Platinum palladium and then moving into other processes such as albumen, salt, van dyke brown, and wet plate collodion. 

Lynn is also a glassblower who has traveled across Europe and the United States assisting, and working with well-known glass artists. Most recently working for the Corning Museum of Glass, in upstate NY.

Her current fine art work is printing wet plate collodion on her blown glass forms. Lynn’s work strives to find a balance between two and three-dimensional planes. She blows the glass vessels to create an extension beyond the photograph that is just as important as the image itself. 

She has been recognized in Analog Forever Magazine as an interviewed artist in the 1st issue, Runner-up in Modern Collodion’s 2019 Wet Plate Competition, and featured in multiple issues of The Hand magazine.

Connect with Lynn on her Website and on 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 two images may be submitted.
5) Images must be named in the following format: “FirstNameLastName1.jpg”, etc.

Email Specifications:
1) The subject line of your email should state: "Submission: Sculptural Photography”
2) Please ATTACH your images to the email. Do not embed them. Do not attach a google drive or dropbox link. 
3) Please do not send PDF or Text Files. Please put all information into the body of the email.

Specific information needed for each Submission:
1) Your name as you would like it to appear.
2) The Camera and Process used to create your images.
3) Titles for each of your photograph(s). Write out each title exactly as you would like it to appear.
4) Email Address in the text of the email.
5) The Website Address you would like your images linked to.

Send your submission to info@analogforevermagazine.com by December 31st, 2019.

Note: Do to the large amount 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.

Copyright Information:

By submitting photos for publication in Analog Forever Magazine you are stipulating to us that you own copyright to these photographs or have permission from the copyright holder to submit these photographs. You are granting Analog Forever Magazine a non-exclusive license to use the photograph in its submitted form, subject to re-sizing to fit the magazine format, for publication on the Analog Forever Magazine website for as long as the website exists. You also grant Analog Forever Magazine permission to use these photographs on social media accounts connected to Analog Forever Magazine including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Should you, for any reason, wish your photographs to be removed from the website, we will make every effort to do so. However, please note also that third parties such as educational institutions, search engines or individuals may download, save, store or archive this (or any other) website with or without our knowledge. Analog Forever Magazine will have no control over such downloading and subsequent use and therefore cannot accept responsibility for any such use.