EXHIBITION OPEN MARCH 7- 31, 2013
Juror: Davy Rothbart
To happen upon something forgotten, forsaken; to find what was once lost.
Photography eliciting scenes or subjects that meant something to someone long ago or in the recent past.
| Exhibit Calendar (subject to change) | |
 Submissions Close |
6-Feb-13 Midnight EST |
| Juror' Choices Announced |
by 13-Feb-2013 |
| On-Line Check-in Due | 22-Feb-2013 |
| Work Receipt Deadline | 4-Mar-2013 |
| Exhibit Opens | 7-Mar-2013 |
| Artists Reception |
10-Mar-2013 |
| Exhibit Closes | 31-Mar-2013 |
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Foraging in a far away land, or even in your own backyard and uncovering the unexpected. We are looking for photographs that embody this murky realm of faded glory; haunting happenstance, and beauty found in the details dropped by a stranger on the street. Capture those ancient treasures tucked away from plain sight; the handiwork of a craftsman now far away, but re-imagined, and re-discovered by your lens.
In light of recent events, we are all feeling a communal sense of loss. We see that, like material things, people can be lost, sometimes tragically. They can be misplaced, or forgotten--lost souls, the invisible humans in our midst. Bring these subjects into the light, show us what was lost and you have found.
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Juror's Statement: 10 years ago, I started Found Magazine, a collection of notes, letters, and photos that folks had plucked up off the ground or the street. At Found, we receive dozens of finds a week, mesmerizing in their humor and heartbreak. Each find is a fragment of a story, and it's up to you to piece things together and fill in the blanks.
The same is true of the subjects of the beautiful, haunting, and lyrical photographs collected here—discarded items found in the weeds; abandoned buildings; broken-down trucks in a field; scraps of metal left to rust and decay. Looking through these images, I'm reminded of a koan that my mom, a Buddhist teacher, often shares. She'll hand someone a fresh scrap of paper, ask them to crumple it into a tight ball, and then un-crumple it. "Do you see," she'll ask, "within the crumpled paper, its original perfection?"
All of the decayed, lost, abandoned places and things in these photographs possess their original glory and perfection -- and their wizened present hints at a rich, textured journey which is up to us to imagine. --Davy Rothbart
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| Great Falls, MT Juror's Choice William Rugen Seattle, WA USA | Four Minutes in Eighth Grade Honorable Mention  Jeff McCrum Belleville, NJ USA | Diving Board Grafitti Honorable Mention  Jim Kohatsu Long Beach, CA USA |
| Cycle Memories Honorable Mention  Roshan Ghimire Arlington, VA USA | The Perfect Perch Honorable Mention  William Horton Boulder, CO USA | Setting Sunflower People's Choice  Chuck Kimmerle Casper, WY USA |
Pursuing the light ALICIA RIUS San Francisco, California United States | Red wagon ALICIA RIUS San Francisco, California United States | Portsmouth Terrace #1 Amanda E. Dailey Rochester, NY USA |
Abandoned Childhood Amanda Umberger Seattle, WA USA | "1611 Memorial" from the Dead Payphones series Ashton Thyles Cloud Decatur, GA USA | At a Glance Betsy Chapek Underhill Center, VT USA |
Lost Texas 3 Bronson Dorsey Austin, TX USA | Unusable Tub Chelsea Plattsburgh, NY USA | Snow Car Chuck Kimmerle Casper, WY USA |
Days Past Dale Niles Fayetteville, GA USA | Atlanta Damaris Drummond Essex Junction, VT USA | INDUSTRY ABANDONED daniel bowman ashe plano, texas USA |
MANNEQUIN CRIME SCENE daniel bowman ashe plano, texas USA | Abandoned V David Quinn Setauket, NY USA | Abandoned IV David Quinn Setauket, NY USA |
Implosion David Sanders Tulsa, OK USA | Got Milk Dennis Staffne Marquette, MI USA | Home Edward L. Rubin Los Angeles, CA USA |
MY ROOM Edward L. Rubin Los Angeles, CA USA | Museum Pieces Eric Johnson Westford, VT USA | If Doors Could Talk Fritzi Newton Fredericksburg, Virginia USA |
Family Does Laundry Gary Mitchell Dayton, Ohio USA | Oz Geoffrey Agrons Kensington, CA USA | Bombe Geoffrey Agrons Kensington, CA USA |
They Wrangle Through the Night Geoffrey Agrons Kensington, CA USA | Untitled #6 (Near Heubrücke, Nürnberg, Bavaria) Hans Gindlesberger Blacksburg, VA USA | Barber Chair Harry Sandler Mount Vernon, NY USA |
Frida found Hugh Jones Arlington, VA USA | bal masque Hugh Jones Arlington, VA USA | All The Stage Is A Stage Jeff McCrum Belleville, NJ USA |
Day in September Jennifer Hall Ligonier, IN USA | Salton Sea Shower Tank Jim Kohatsu Long Beach, CA USA | All Natural Jordan Douglas Jericho, VT USA |
Reflections Joyce Harman Flint Hill, VA USA | Mantelpiece Justin Barton LONDON, UK | Cupboard Justin Barton LONDON, UK |
Between the Lines (no. 10) Kris Sanford Mt. Pleasant, MI USA | Still Kristin Reeves Muncie, IN USA | "Mouse Attack"  Leblanc Pierre MONTREUIL, FRANCE |
Found Ms. Red Len Speier New York, NY USA | Horse Linda Wilson South Bend, IN USA | Andrew's Boys Liza Hennessey Botkin Studio City, CA USA |
The Other Hospital Lora Mancini Shaftsbury, VT USA | Echo Lora Mancini Shaftsbury, VT USA | Lost And For Sale Michael Gora Boca Raton, Florida USA |
Abandoned Michael ONeil New Bedford, MA USA | Caught Norma McGehee Woodward Fredericksburg, Virginia USA | Forgotten Norma McGehee Woodward Fredericksburg, Virginia USA |
Arched Olivier Du Tré Cochrane, Alberta Canada | Desert Garden. Abandoned Bedouin Graveyard, Sahara Desert. ROSS ANDERSSON Minneapolis, MN USA | Annie Julia, or Life After Death Roz Leibowitz New York, NY USA |
Alcatraz Ruins with Gull Sherry Stephens Wellington, FL USA | There Was a Time Steven Shepard Williston, VT USA | Holbrook, AZ William Rugen Seattle, WA USA |
Commercial Casino, Elko, NV William Rugen Seattle, WA USA | Washington Park, Burns, OR William Rugen Seattle, WA USA | Afterimage wilson hurst warrensburg, missouri USA |
Piece Yosuke Terada Rego Park, NY USA |
All selected entries are exhibited in our gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog.
Juror's Choice receives a 30x48" vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image, a free exhibition catalog, free entry into a future exhibition, and a $300 USD scholarship to be used in admittance to The New England Institute of Professional Photography Annual Session in Hyannis, MA USA.
People's Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.
We offer free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of our exhibition, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs.
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Juror: Davy Rothbart Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine, a publication dedicated to discarded notes, letters, flyers, photos, lists, and drawings found and sent in by readers. The magazine spawned a best-selling book, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World, published in April 2004. A second collection was published in May 2006, a third in May 2009. The magazine is published annually and has a worldwide following, it's online blog is updated daily.
Rothbart is a frequent contributor to This American Life, and author of My Heart Is An Idiot, a book of personal essays, and the story collection The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ and Grantland, and his work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Believer. He is also the founder of Washington II Washington, an annual outdoor adventure for inner-city kids. Rothbart lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Los Angeles, California.
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