So thrilled to end the year on a high by receiving an honourable mention in the Fine Art-Collage student category at this year’s Budapest International Foto Awards. This will sustain me until the assessment results come out in January!
The competition is absolutely amazing. The winners’ gallery can be seen here: https://budapestfotoawards.com/winners/bifa/2023/ and the link to the Amateur/Student winners and honourable mentions is at the top of the page.
Exposure to Suboart Magazine’s 11.5 thousand viewers (Instagram) promoting work, my Instagram handle and website URL, as well as through the printed magazine.
I’m thrilled to have a double page spread in this international art magazine (see page 84-85). Suboart Magazine is an international art magazine for emerging artists and they accept most forms of visual art, (painting, drawing, illustration, photography, sculpture, installation, printmaking, performance/video). The magazine was founded in 2020 by an emerging artist, Nina Seidl who is based in Portugal. She is assisted by Carolina Castilho, curator and writer based in Barcelona, and Fola Harold, curator and art enthusiast in Dubai, UAE.
See the digital version on issuu where you can flip through the magazine below. See page 84 for my feature.
Suboart Magazine, #8, August 2023
Printed copies can be purchased through Peecho, a print on demand platform that prints and ships internationally.
More than 70 artists were chosen to feature in the two August editions #8 and #9. This kind of exposure is so beneficial as apart from the artist bio and statement, my Instagram handle and website URL are also featured. I have definitely picked up a few more followers.
Suboart periodically shares excerpts from the magazine showcasing the artists. My feature is on page 8 below.
I was very pleased to receive an email stating that my work will be shown in Shutter Hub’s Yearbook 2023 Online exhibition. We all received the notification at the beginning of the week but had to wait for the exhibition to go live to see which image was selected.
My image selected was:
CASSIA -Celista 1979-BW-7322-WaterIce
The online exhibition can be seen at: https://shutterhub.org.uk/exhibition-yearbook-2023/ . The exhibition will run from 03 August – 31 October 2023, but the online directory will be accessible permanently.
Open Call Output
Work shared on Shutter Hub’s Twitter (5, 565 followers) and Instagram (7,865 followers) using use the hashtag #SHYEARBOOK, as well as on Shutter Hub’s website and blog. Great opportunity to increase my following by connecting with fellow exhibitors.
Shutter Hub’s Yearbook is an annual directory of photographers, open to all photographers, whatever stage they are at in their career. It showcases work from almost 200 photographers from across the world, and seven photographers will be awarded YEARBOOK Awards with prizes from Shutter Hu’s partners Alamy, GOST Books, Metro Imaging, Newspaper Club, Parallax Photographic Coop, PhotoShelter, and Vintage Camera Hut.
YEARBOOK is a group show, promoting the skill and talent of photographers from across the world working now. Editors, directors, curators or those who commission or promote photographers are urged to contact the photographers directly for further opportunities. This is a wonderful opportunity to gain industry exposure.
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I was over the moon to open an email from LightReadings Magazine announcing that I’ve been selected for the Family Online Exhibition and Digital publication. Two platforms!
Open Call Output
Work featured in online exhibition and digital magazine which can be downloaded for free, also as via Lightreadsmag Instagram (522 followers) and Facebook (844 followers). My Instagram handle also promoted. Also promoted on Facebook in an individual post showcasing my work. Good opportunity to implement reciprocal followings on Instagram with fellow exhibitors.
Lesson learned: carefully consider the wording of themes for open calls as certain elements of my project might fit, creating more opportunities to showcase my work.
LIGHTREADINGS is a bilingual (English-Greek) online photography magazine which aims to promote creative photography in all its forms and appearances, providing a meeting place for established and emerging photographers, professionals and amateurs.
There were over 250 entries and 23 photographers were chosen, curated by Panos Kasimis and Chiarra Brambila. The final selection was made by the curators based mainly on the quality of submitted work, theme relevance and the final format of the exhibition and publication.
The magazine is free to download and it has been interesting to see how the curators have sequenced all the participants’ images – almost on a thematic basis within the overall theme of Family. The magazine is well laid out and features a brief description of the work as well as the participants’ Instagram handles. There are also brief essays written by both curators, Chiarra Brambila and Panos Kasimis.
September 11, 2023: Received a certificate of participation for this exhibition.
July 28, 2023: So thrilled to have another of my images selected for an exhibition at The Glasgow Gallery of Photography.
As before, I’ve been asked not to reveal which image it is until the start of the exhibition. A £48 participation fee was requested which covers: the cost of the image being printed, sometimes the framing of the image, the stuff that holds the image on the wall, the use of the gallery, rent, electricity, rates, advertising, the website the hosts the image, the fees to cover the transaction, hanging costs, security, postage, VAT and so on.
GGOP will post pictures of everyone’s work on their social networking channels (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook) and/or videos throughout the duration on the exhibition. The gallery will also also post the images on their website, in an online gallery of each exhibition.
Similar to the previous exhibition I have to decide what happens to the print after the exhibition. There are basically three choices: it can be put up for sale, collected by the photographer (not an option for me), or donate to the gallery and they will then sell it at a price set by the gallery. I decided to up it up for sale and if not sold within the 3 months I’ll donate it to the gallery.
The exhibition runs from 1st – 29th November, 2023.
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Getxopho Festival is a themed festival and makes use of non-conventional formats for their exhibition spaces ranging from façades to shop windows, waste containers, bars, patios or buildings. The festival is conceived as a walking tour, the recommended starting point is the Info Centre, where one can get a map of the exhibitions, information on each work and author as well as different suggested routes.
Open Call Output
Getxophoto Instagram following: 10.4K, Facebook 6K, Twitter 3K, Mimarte.shop.getxo 4.5K following on Instagram. Also foot traffic throughout June 2023, and featured walk-about tours – unable to find numbers. Featured in Participacion Popular catalogue and Mimarte Shop window.
The problem with being so far from the exhibition space where one’s image(s) are being exhibited is that one isn’t there to document it. I decided to email friends and family in Europe to see if anyone would be able to take some photos for me. Unfortunately my one family member who does live in Spain is situated about 1,300 km from Getxo, which apparently is in the north near the Andorran border. I emailed fellow student Blas Gonzalez to see if he could help out and he kindly contacted some fellow photographer friends in that region who were able to take some photos of the installation for me. My image was installed in a tea/coffee gift store so I also contacted the shop owner through Instagram to see if she would be willing to take a few images for me. She kindly sent me an Instagram reel and photograph.
She apologized for the reflections, but I rather like the added reflections. There is an extra heteroglossic point of view added to the image with the slanted fence overlaying the twig, water and ice debris, the tree acting as a backdrop to the figures on the steps and the houses to either side, which reminds me a little of a World War II bombed out scene. .
My sincere thanks to the shop owner at Mimarte.Shop and to Blas and his friend, Olatz. OCA student network in action!
Fig. 1 Image by Olatz
Fig. 2 Installation photo by Olatz
Fig. 3 Image by Olatz – Exhibition brochure for Participacion Popular
Fig. 4 Image by Olatz – Exhibition brochure for Participacion Popular (index)
Fig. 5 Image by Olatz – Exhibition brochure for Participacion Popular (featured page)
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I was very excited to receive an email from Suboart Magazine advising me that my work has been accepted for one of their summer editions.
I’m to be featured in the August issue and will be given two pages in the magazine. The feature will include at least two images, my biography, artist statement and social media handle and website.
I will receive a PDF version of the magazine by the end of July as a proof copy to check for possible mistakes before the magazine goes to print. There is a non-refundable publication fee of 20€ that includes a free digital (PDF) copy of the magazine. Print copies are available for purchase via a print on demand link through their website.
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Back in March I had applied to the Tied to Light Collective’s open submission to be featured on their Instagram page. Although my photomontages were not successful as they tend to concentrate more on showcasing the materiality of the photograph, they did express an interest in seeing more of my snow experiment images which they had seen on my website. They urged me to submit a selection of these images.
I had taken a few images from my Body of Work and put them outdoors during the winter in such a place where they were covered by snow and ice for about 5-6 months. I then photographed them after the thaw when I was able to retrieve them from the ground. Tied to Light featured the images below on their feature list towards the end of May 2023.
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Name featured on exhibition poster and work featured in exhibition catalogue – Instagram 19.7 thousand followers, Facebook 7.4 thousand followers, Twitter 930 followers.
UPDATE — 2023/09/07: Gabriella Haylie Casola who lives in Rome very kindly make a short in-situ video of the installation of my work.
I was over the moon to open an email this afternoon informing me that I’ve been selected to take part in the next Loosenart exhibition.
I had entered three images, and two were selected. All the selected images can be seen here. There are some really awesome images that were selected and I’m thrilled to be part of it.
Loosenart takes care of all the exhibition costs except the artwork/s printing costs.
At the end of the entire exhibition each artist can receive (picking up at the exhibition venue or via shipping service) his own Artwork Print including the paper ExhibitionCatalogue (format 29 x 21,7 cm / 11,4 x 8,5 inch) and the Exhibition Poster (format 42 x 30 cm / 16,5 x 11,8 inch). Shipping cost is borne by the artist.
To take part in the group exhibition a payment of €34.80 per artwork was requested to cover printing a print useful at the format of 70 x 50 cm ( 27,55 x 19,7 inch).
I also had to set a price for each image. Not knowing what to price the images at I reached out to another fellow student/recent graduate who had exhibited with Loosenart previously to check the price she had put down. I then did a bit of online research on Loosenart’s site and found that there seems to be a standard fee for the 70 x 50 images (smallest size) and a standard fee for 3 larger versions as well. So I just put down that fee which was €280.00. A 50 word description of the artwork was also requested, as well as the usual website details, and social media handles.
We were requested to upload our images again at a higher resolution: 300 dpi, Adobe sRGB, 8 or 16 RGB bit, jpeg or tiff. The photos will be printed on Fujifilm DPII Profesional Matt 260g – C-type prints.
Loosenart has dedicated a web page for the exhibition where all communication with the artists will take place, exhibition poster and all news about the event will be posted. Each artist will be kept updated during the exhibition via this web page. Photos from the exhibition will be posted. Dates of the exhibition may be subject to variations, confirmation will be posted on the page as well.
The Millepiani Exhibition Space looks amazing. Below are a couple of images that were shared showing images hanging in the space.
Millepiani Exhibition Space
The exhibition will run from 23 August to 4 September 2023 (dates still to be finalised). My selected images are the two photomontages below. Great grandma Mary Hopkins seems to be a lucky charm for me!
My selected images
Now all I need to do is try and find someone who can take photos for me … Anyone going to Rome in the summer?
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Chosen for top 35 for the Popular Participation, featured in compilation video (see below). Work on display at: Mimarte Shop (Basagoiti etorbidea, 75A) in Algorta, Getxo, Spain. Online exposure via Getxophoto’s Instagram (10.2 K followers), Facebook (6 K followers), Twitter (3,054 followers). Extremely active social media. Exposure via weekly guided tours through whole exhibition.
So chuffed to be included as a finalist in this physical exhibition! I can’t stop pinching myself!! Getxophoto received received more than 150 photographs from all over the world: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, USA, Egypt, France, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Perú, Portugal, United Kingdom or Venezuela for the Pause! exhibition.
35 images have been selected by the jury – made up of the organisation and 2 invited guests (Eukene Olague and Gorka Garate) – to be exhibited in the shop windows of 35 shops in Algortako Dendak. A guide will be published with information about the winning photographs and the shops where they will be exhibited throughout the month of June.
My image Great Grandmother Mary Hopkins with Grandchildren, Salmon Arm, circa 1938 will be on display at: Mimarte Shop (Basagoiti etorbidea, 75A) in Algorta, Getxo. I checked the location on Google Maps and it looks like Mimarte is a tea/coffee and gift shop, so there will probably be a lot of foot traffic which is great!
The compilation video can be seen on the link below. My entry appears at 03:46 minutes and is followed by fellow student Sue Greenfield’s entry. https://vimeo.com/820774018 .
My sincere thanks to the Algortako Dendak association and Getxophoto for including me in the exhibition.
Lynda Kuit Photography Level 3 