Marie-Noëlle Leroy says:
The Andre Malraux Cultural Center of Le Bourget (France) organizes his second International lensless Photographic Exhibition ! Uniquely pinhole, zone-plate, sieve…
The topic of the exhibition is: Urban Nature
Urban nature! From the flowers on the balcony to the dogged bit of grass growing between the paving stones of the streets, from the arranged parks to the falow lands, from the free flying pigeons to the bears in a cage at the zoo… The pinhole photography must give your answer to the question: which place does still occupy the nature in our large cities?Each photographer will have a surface of 1 m2 that he will fill with its own way with the number of images which he wants! 1 image of 100 X 100 cm, 4 images of 50 × 50 cm or 100 images of 10 × 10 cm… which they are presented in square, rectangle, L or… it doesn’t matters the number of pictures and the arrangement, the surface must be 1 m square!
The exhibition will take place from 2008 March 4th to April 27th,
at the Andre Malraux Cultural Center of Le Bourget (France)To take part, send before 2007, December 31th, by Internet only a file including the following parts:
- Reproductions of images such as they will appear in the Exhibition – Each reproductions must be numbered. Each reproduction will measure 15 cm (5.9 in) in its greatest dimension in 300 dpi, then to have passed into jpeg format, maximum quality. Each one must be cleaned up, in RGB format for colours, in gray levels for Black and White.
- A sketch presenting the arrangement with the number of each picture. You aren’t obliged to use frames, your pictures can be simply pasted on a rigid support or presented in the form of a roller…
- a note (format RTF or PDF) presenting (in French, English or Spanish) :
- Your Name, First name, Address,Country , and e-mail address.
- A short biography (5 lines)
- Characteristics of the pinhole-camera(s) used to create these photography (focal length, diaphragm, …)
- A short text (in French, English or Spanish) presenting your work on this subject (5 lines).
- A photography of each pinhole-cameras used, numbered in correspondence with the reproductions. This (these) image(s) will measure 7 cm (2.75 in) in its greatest dimension in 300 dpi, passed into JPEG maximum quality.
The files not corresponding to this request will be systematically rejected.
The selected authors will be informed by e-mail only during the last two weeks of January 2008. The selected authors will have to send in January (dead line for reception: February 10th) by the post office their photographies ready to be hung on the walls.
Authors have to take all the customary precautions for a safe travel of their works so that they won’t be damaged.
During the exhibition, the authors will receive by e-mail pictures showing the opening and the exhibition. At the end of the exhibition, the pictures will be returned to their authors at the Town hall of Le Bourget expense.
Memorandum
2007, December 31th: Deadline to send the files to centre.culturel@ville-le-bourget.fr
2008, January 15 – 20: The selected authors are informed by e-mail.
2008, January 15 – February 10th : Reception of the works ready to be hung.
2008, March 4th – April 27th: Exhibition.
2008, May: The works come back to their authors.
Note that there is no entry fee! It’s submission season, but this is the only one I’ve found that I’ve been able to post so far, because all the rest have entry fees. Which is BULLSHIT. Way to go on not trying to screw artists, Andre Malraux Cultural Center of Le Bourget!