TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | #NewVisions2022

#NewVisions2022: A Student Exhibition

Lisa Kereszi has selected 50 intriguing and thought-provoking images for the #NewVisions2022 collegiate exhibition. Lisa's juror statement is posted below along with the complete list of exhbiting artists including prize winners and honorable mentions. Congratulations to all!
View the online gallery here.

Thank you to FUJIFILM USA for providing the Grand Prize of a Fujifilm X-T4 Camera with XF18-55MM kit lens. The #NewVisions2022 exhibition program is made possible through a partnership with Fujifilm, a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts, and the generous support of TPS members. We are endlessly grateful.

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Juror's Remarks

It was an honor to get to delve into the minds of so many young and soon-to-emerge photographers through examining over 400 of their images. I challenged applicants to send in " the work that only you could have made, informed by your history, your influences, your unique worldview, and identity. I am looking for work that I could not have even thought to have made, something fresh, something I feel as if I have never seen before. Surprise me, make me excited about the medium and what it can do. Show me a point-of-view that is not from the angle everyone else is using to make sense of the world. What does it mean to be you at this political, economic, and pandemic moment in time..."

And this group absolutely brought it, with an incredible array of surprising, thought-provoking, and fresh work, which made my job that much more difficult. There was great work that did not make it to the final round, and I want these artists to know that I was moved by all of their work and their ideas made visual. The work chosen rose to the surface because it used the restrictions of the medium to a beautiful and transformative result, while it also challenged what a photograph can do - document, record, collect, preserve, lyricize, poeticize, recognize, express, share, hold close.

The portrait, whether of self or other, was a major force in the group, as was storytelling and exposing the passage, and raveges, of time. Looking at this work gave me hope again in a year that was to be hopeful and bright (and it still is, or can be), but one that has been darkened by the shock of war, and the waves of a pandemic that continues to drag on. Where there is light (and thus photography) there is hope, and that is clear from all of this deeply-felt work.

- Lisa Kereszi
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Texas Photographic Society is proud to present #NewVisions2022, our annual online, open-themed collegiate student photo competition. The exhibition will be juried by Lisa Kereszi, Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University School of Art and a photographer with work in the collections of the Met, the Whitney, and others. For more details, see the Juror's Statement and Bio below.

Submissions from college undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students of all skill levels are encouraged. Students may submit up to 12 images and each image will be judged independently. CASH PRIZES and a FUJIFILM Camera (X-T4 with XF18-55mm Lens Kit in Silver) will be awarded. See details below. 

JUROR'S STATEMENT

Who are you and what do you bring to the table at this moment in time? How do you see the world differently than me, than others? How is your world different than the world others are living in, whether they are across the globe or down the block?

Photography appears to be a simple process - a flick of the finger and click of the shutter - the easiest art medium there is. But it’s not that simple. I believe each exposure we make, then choose to edit and print and share outside of ourselves, may be instinctive and made in the literal blink of an eye, but it is more complex than that. Each frame we shoot and picture we craft is influenced by everything that makes each of us unique: the sum of everything we have ever seen, heard, or felt; every piece of art or music we’ve been exposed to; each film, book or painting as well as each photograph - be it fine art, documentary, advertising, or the beloved, vernacular family snapshot. It is also the sum of all those things we have experienced - the loves, the highs, the lows, the joys, a loss, dreams and nightmares, the heartbreak and heartache that makes us instinctively press the button in a particular situation - in a certain light, of this subject or that, with the frame poised here - or there.

Send your best work, but also the work that only you could have made, informed by your history, your influences, your unique worldview and identity. I am looking for work that I could not have even thought to have made, something fresh, something I feel as if I have never seen before. Surprise me, make me excited about the medium and what it can do. Show me a point-of-view that is not from the angle everyone else is using to make sense of the world. What does it mean to be you at this political, economic, and pandemic moment in time, existing in the contemporary world in its new form, your life entangled with the lives and wellbeing of your neighbors, community, and global humankind?

- Lisa Kereszi

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

January 11, 2022 Call for entry opens
March 22, 2022 Deadline for entry (11:59 pm Mountain Time Zone)
April 12, 2022 Exhibiting artists announced and online gallery opens

AWARDS
Grand Prize - Fujifilm X-T4 with XF18-55mm Lens Kit in Silver
First Prize = $300 
Second Prize = $200
Third Prize = $100
Up to 5 Honorable Mentions may be awarded

The juror will select 50 images for the online exhibition. The selected images will be showcased on our website gallery and promoted to our extended TPS community including members and photo/social media contacts.

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee for current TPS Student Members is $25 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. The non-member entry fee is $30 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. You may enter up to 12 images. You do not have to be a member of TPS to enter. However, you may enter the competition, join TPS or renew as a member at the same time and pay the Current TPS Student Member entry fee of $25.

TPS Student Member Benefits - Annual $20 Student Memberships include Member feature opportunities via our Members' Gallery, Member Spotlight, Members' News, Members' Instagram Takeover, social media accounts and E-Zine, entry fee discounts to all competitions and discounts to programs and services offered through our partnerships. 

All entry and membership fees are nonrefundable. Note: as this is an online show, you will not incur any additional expenses for printing, framing or shipping.

ELIGIBILITY
#NewVisions2022 is open to college students at least 18 years old who are enrolled in a college credit course (both undergraduate and graduate) or continuing education/noncredit course. All skill levels are encouraged to apply. Any photographic-based work is welcome including digital, silver, alternative processes, mixed media incorporating photography, collage, and book arts. Works exhibited previously in a TPS exhibition are not eligible.

IMAGE REQUIREMENTS

All entries must be submitted via CaFÉ. Need help resizing images? Go here.

Please submit JPG files only, minimum of 1200 pixels on the longest side and 5 MB maximum. For each image you will need to provide the image title and the process used (Archival Digital Print, Silver Gelatin Print, Platinum/Palladium Print, Wet Plate Collodian, etc.) 

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#NewVisions2022 is made possible through a partnership with Fujifilm, a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts, and the support of TPS members.

Read about the #NewVisions2021 Grand Prize Winner Jackelyn Bracamontes HERE.

ABOUT THE JUROR

Lisa Kereszi was born in 1973 in Pennsylvania and grew up in Suburban Philadelphia to a father who ran the family auto junkyard and to a mother who owned an antique shop. In 1995 she graduated from Bard College with a Bachelor of Arts. After college she moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to Nan Goldin. In 2000 she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. She has been on the faculty there as a Lecturer since 2004, appointed Critic in 2012, a Senior Critic in 2019, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art in 2013. She was a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts MacDowell Colony Fellow.

Her work is in many private collections and in that of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Study Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Norton Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Her work has been shown in group shows at the Whitney Museum, MoMA, the Bronx Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Urban Center Gallery at the Municipal Art Society in New York, among others.

She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, where she had Winter 2005, Spring 2007 and Spring 2009, 2012, and 2019 solo shows. Solo museum shows include the exhibition, Joe’s Junk Yard, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, installed in the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead, and previously at the Matrix Gallery at University of California Berkeley as part of the 2005 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers.

Her editorial work has appeared in many books and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest, New York, Harper’s, TIME, W, The London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Details, GQ, Black Book, Jane, Newsweek, House & Garden, Nylon, Bon Appetit, zingmagazine, wallpaper* and others. Her pictures regularly appeared in the New Yorker’s “Goings on About Town” section for several years. She was included in the 2003 list of the 30 top emerging photographers by Photo District News, and was granted a commission to photograph Governors Island by the Public Art Fund the same year, which culminated in shows at the Urban Center Gallery and the Mayor’s Office at City Hall and a 2004 exhibition catalog, Governors Island, as well as a semi-permanent installation on the island. Curatorial projects include 2014’s exhibition and catalog, Side Show, at the Edgewood Gallery at Yale, which investigated the intersection of carnival sideshow culture and visual art.

Four monographs are in print – Fun and Games with Nazraeli Press in 2009, and two with Damiani Editore: Fantasies in 2008 and in 2012, Joe’s Junk Yard. J&L Books released an artist book in 2014 as an offshoot of the junkyard book, entitled The More I Learn About Women. Kereszi lives and works near New Haven, Connecticut, and is working on a new series about family and loss – past, present, and beyond.

TPS TERMS AND AGREEMENT

You retain all rights to your images. If your image is selected for the exhibition, you grant Texas Photographic Society (TPS) the right, in perpetuity, to use and display your image, image title and process, your name, city, state and country of residence, and school name for TPS publicity and promotion. Permissible use includes the display, reproduction and distribution of said information on the TPS website, in TPS exhibitions, presentations, program promotions, artist features, fundraising initiatives and publications, and on social media networks, without further contact from TPS. Please note that we may have to crop images to meet space/proportion requirements for promotional platforms. You understand that TPS will not be held responsible for loss, theft, or other damage, whether caused by the negligence of its officers, members or others. All entry and membership fees are non-refundable. Submission entry and payment signifies understanding and agreement to all of the above terms and conditions.

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QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions, please contact TPS Executive Director Ann Shaw at ann@texasphoto.org.