#NewVisions2024: A Student Exhibition
Online Gallery Coming Soon!
We are delighted to announce that Keliy Anderston-Staley has selected 50 images for the #NewVisions2024 collegiate exhibition. Keliy's juror's remarks are posted below along with the complete list of exhibiting artists (with prize winners and honorable mentions noted in bold). Many thanks to Keliy for her good hard work, and especially to everyone who entered.
GRAND PRIZE: Patrick Davis, Tulane University | FIRST PRIZE: Alberto Sanchez, Indiana University Bloomington | SECOND PRIZE: Emily WIlliams, Louisiana State University | THIRD PRIZE: Madison Casagranda, University of Houston | Lauren Allen, University of North Texas | Norman Aragones, De Anza College | Alisha Arden, Vassar College | Hannah Bender, University of Houston | HM - Chris Carter, Tarleton State University | Kaitlyn Cioc, Rutgers University | Carlos Cruz, Rice University | HM - Callie Cummings, Odessa College | Drew Dzurko, Northern Illinois University School of Art and Design | Carlos Figueroa, University of Houston-Clear Lake | HM - Mia Fleischer, Tulane University | Kyle Francus, Colorado Mesa University | HM - Sara Hughes, Savannah College of Art and Design | Kaye Elyssa Beth Kypuros, Texas Woman's University | Grace Landry, Nicholls State University | Nina Marceny, Savannah College of Art and Design | Melanie Martinez, Texas A&M University-Commerce | Clay Mills, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | HM - Giuliana Nakashima, University of Houston | Kelsey Nolin, Miami University | Ben Ollen, Indiana University South Bend | Shannon Orr, Savannah College of Art & Design | Johel Pereira, Barry University | Ashish Rana, Texas Christian University | Chloe Simma-Martin, Indiana State University | Emma Vitallo, Northern Illinois University | Dana Weiss, Kennesaw State University | Carolina Yanez, Southern Methodist University
Juror's Remarks
Thank you, Texas Photographic Society, for inviting me to serve as the juror for #NewVisions! It was an honor and a pleasure to see some excellent examples of student photography. It was a difficult task to winnow the entries down to just 50, and some genuinely strong images ultimately could not be recognized. Among the winners and finalists are portraits, landscapes, abstract compositions, architectural photography, collage, staged images, and documentary work. The photographs were made using alternative processes, color and black and white film and digital processes. It is important to note that both the submissions and the final selections were equally diverse in subject and approach, and I believe this diversity reflects the true state of contemporary photography. Students today have the benefit of the full, long history of photography, with its many techniques available to them, and it is exciting to see that experimentation is alive and well, even as students work to achieve technical proficiency and precision. I was especially drawn to images that said something about photography itself–that raise questions about how we see things and how the camera and the photographic print alter, frame and shape our perception of the world. Congratulations to all!
-Keliy Anderson-Staley
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Texas Photographic Society is proud to present #NewVisions2024, our annual online, open-themed collegiate student photo competition. The exhibition will be juried by Keliy Anderson-Staley, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Associate Professor of Photography at the School of Art, University of Houston, and a photographer with work in the collections of Library of Congress, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Portland Museum of Art, 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 will be awarded PLUS a Grand Prize of FUJIFILM X-Series Camera and inclusion in FUJIFILM'S Create Forever Program (see #NewVisions2022 Grand Prize winner here!
See details below.
JUROR'S STATEMENT
I define photography in the widest possible sense—including B&W images captured on film and painstakingly perfected in the darkroom, digital portraits made quickly on the street, constructed studio-made images, work engaging with archives, and handmade and alternative processes that use photographic chemicals but no camera. What photography is and how it functions in our society is constantly shifting, and I am interested in seeing work that challenges our easy definitions.
A photograph is most successful when it conveys a point of view—when it could only have been taken by you, because it reveals the world as you see it. It should be situated in a particular place, time and set of experiences. It might present a critique, a challenge, something wholly new or radically disruptive or it might be deeply revealing in its familiarity. I would love to see the work you are excited about.
- Keliy Anderson-Staley
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
February 7, 2024 Call for entry opens
DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 2, 2024 Deadline for entry (11:59 pm Mountain Time Zone)
April 19, 2024 Exhibiting artists announced and online gallery opens
AWARDS
Grand Prize = FUJIFILM X-Series camera and inclusion in FUJIFILM'S Create Forever Program (see #NewVisions2022 Grand Prize winner here)
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
#NewVisions2024 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.)
ABOUT THE JUROR
Keliy Anderson-Staley is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and a 2013 George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow. She has received additional project support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Puffin Foundation, and Houston Arts Alliance. She was also the recipient of the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography and the Clarence John Laughlin award from the New Orleans Photo Alliance. She has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester and Aurora Photo Center in Indianapolis.
Collections holding her work include the Library of Congress, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Houston Airport System, Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Portland Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Akron Art Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Southeast Museum of Photography, Shelburne Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Morris Museum of Art. On a Wet Bough, a monograph of her tintype portraits, was published by Waltz Books. Anderson-Staley’s work has been written about and reviewed in the New York Times, New Yorker, Boston Globe, Photo District News, Photograph, ARTnews, B&W Magazine, Camerawork, and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Anderson-Staley holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Hunter College. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of Art, University of Houston.
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NewVisions2024 is made possible through a partnership with Fujifilm, and the support of TPS members and supporters. We are endlessly grateful.
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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.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions, please contact TPS Executive Director Ann Shaw at ann@texasphoto.org.