We are excited to announce that our July 2021 online group exhibition, “Fleeting Moments: Temporality and the Still Life” is being curated by fine art photographer and Analog Forever Magazine writer and curator, Niniane Kelley! 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 July 12th, 2021. Good luck!

Niniane Kelley writes: The still life as a genre of art stretches all the way to antiquity, with depictions of food and inanimate objects decorating Egyptian tombs as nourishing necessities to carry into the afterlife and Roman villas as symbols of abundance and hospitality. A post-Rennaisance revival of the genre in Netherlandish painting, with their sumptuous displays of flowers and fruit, gives us the very term “still life,” from the Dutch stilleven. It is from this golden age a Dutch and Flemish painting that the straightforward depiction of inanimate objects becomes imbued with a more existential layer of meaning. By the use of allegory and symbolism in what is known as Vantias paintings, the artist seeks to remind the viewer of the transience of life and the impermanence of worldly sensations. Though the image is a moment of perfect beauty we know that the flowers will fade, the fruit will rot, the hourglass will run out of sand; what is depicted is not the objects themselves, but the passage of time and our knowledge of its ephemeral nature.

Time is a malleable concept, particularly when captured through the shutter of a camera. Photography itself is the act of capturing time - sometimes short, sometimes long - but its very creation is the freezing of a specific expanse of time that will never exist again. With an arsenal of artistic tools, the still life can be a canvas for symbolism or a depiction of physics while depicting the very same objects. Compare Paul Cezanne’s post-impressionistic oil studies of apples with 20th-century stop-motion photography pioneer Dr. Harold Edgerton’s nano-second long studies of apples being pierced with bullets. Yes, I’m literally comparing apples to apples, but somewhere in those apples exists an intersection of art and philosophy and science and time. For you, is time existential or absolute? From the philosophers to the scientists, I want to see how you can capture the very idea of time.

Deadline for Submissions is June 30th, 2021

About the Curator

Niniane Kelley is a fine art photographer living and working in San Francisco and Lake County, California. A native of the Bay Area, she is a San Jose State University graduate, earning a BFA in Photography in 2008.

Drawn to photography for both the immediacy of the image making process and the intrinsic alchemy of the darkroom ritual, she crafts the majority of her imagery using traditional 19th century processes which give each piece its own unique character.

She teaches workshops in the Bay Area and surrounding environs. She most recently worked as a photographer and manager at San Francisco’s tintype portrait studio, Photobooth.

Connect with Niniane Kelley 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 one image 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: Temporality and the Still Life”
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 submissions@analogforevermagazine.com by June 30th, 2021.

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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