Letters, Numbers & Symbols ends 31 August 2023

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Deadline: 31 August 2023. THEME: LETTERS, NUMBERS & SYMBOLS • JUROR: Dallas Crow
What’s written, scrawled, printed, posted, erased, illegible. Letters, words, glyphs, equations, signatures, graffiti, advertising, envelopes, love letters, cursive, ampersands, abbreviations, charts, graphs, lines in the sand, hieroglyphs, runes, legends, typos, billboards, mistakes, regrets, palimpsests, fragments, fractions, chicken scratch, alphabets, phrases, nouns, verbs, neon, slogans, documents.

Praxis seeks submissions of photographic art that includes letters, numbers, words, and/or symbols as a fundamental aspect of the composition. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.

JUROR | DALLAS CROW
A high school English teacher for over twenty years, Dallas Crow co-taught a course at Breck School with an art teacher in which students combined language and images. His own poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have been published in numerous periodicals, anthologies, and on the sidewalks of St. Paul. His chapbook, Small, Imperfect Paradise, was published by Parallel Press at the University of Wisconsin. His photographs have appeared in galleries around the United States and internationally, and on the covers of multiple books and magazines. His solo exhibition, The Other Border, was mounted at Praxis in the fall of 2018. Dallas recently moved to Georgia to pursue new adventures in fine art photography and education.

Prizes:

Up to seventy-four images will be selected by the juror for exhibition at Praxis Gallery. A Juror’s Choice, eight Honorable Mentions, and a Directors Choice will be awarded and featured in the exhibition, the printed show catalog, and the online exhibit gallery. Juror’s Choice will receive free entry into three juried calls for entry of their choice and a complimentary exhibit book. Directors’ Choice will receive free entry into two juried calls for entry of their choice.

Photo Contest Website: https://www.praxisphotocenter.org/submission-page-1