TPS 31: The International Competition

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August 28 - October 6
Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Art Gallery
Charles A Sorber Art Studios Building
3991 UTPB Circle
Odessa, TX 79762
Visiting Hours: Monday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Opening Reception Thursday, August 31st - 5 to 7 p.m.

We are proud to announce that Juror Charlotte Cotton has selected 49 images for TPS 31: The International Exhibition. First Place was awarded to Phanuphan Kitsawaeng, Second Place to John Morris, and Third Place to Francis Crisafio, with Honorable Mentions given to Dillon Bryant, Jeff Evans, Richard Greene, Mayu Nagaoka, Prince Thomas, and Huahan Zhang. Heartfelt congratulations to the selected artists and warmest thanks to all of the artists who generously shared their work for consideration. Juror's remarks and a complete list of the exhibiting artists are below.

TPS 31: The International Competition opens on August 28, 2023 at the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, The University of Texas Permian Basin, in Odessa, Texas, with an opening reception on Thursday, August 31st.
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CONGRATULATONS TO OUR TPS31 ARTISTS! 1st Place: Phanuphan Kitsawaeng |2nd Place: John Morris |3rd Place: Francis Crisafio | Paul Adams & Jon Layton | Geoffrey Agrons | Mahsa Alafar | Andrea Azofeifa Saenz | Diana Borden | HM: Dillon Bryant | Susan Marie Carlo | Carole Cavanaugh | Gina Dabrowski | Donna Dangott | Norm Diamond | Kathleen Donovan | Jesse Egner | HM: Jeff Evans | Dan Farnum | Emily Fisher | Morgan Ford Willingham | Thomas Foster | HM: Richard Greene | Dmitriy Gushchin | Michael Hart | Rowin Hernandez | Samantha Kasprowicz | Epiphany Knedler | Cindy Konits | Prescott Moore Lassman | Ed Malcik | Aimee McCrory | Christina McFaul | Ania Moussawel | Lupita Murillo Tinnen | HM: Mayu Nagaoka| Charlotte Niel | Allison Plass | Daniel Sackheim | Becca Screnock | Forrest Simmons | Caty Smith | Sandra Stark | Tom Stoffregen | Sue Palmer Stone | Eric Sweeney | HM: Prince Thomas | Leni Wiegand | Emily Williams | HM: Huahan Zhang | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

JUROR'S REMARKS

Thank you to Ann Shaw, the Texas Photographic Society and to everyone who entered into this year’s annual photography open call for giving me a really special opportunity to think about the ideas, processes and practices that are creating the ecosystem of photography in Texas and around the world, and I loved every second of viewing your work. Many congratulations to the awardees and honorary mentions, whose work I am so glad to begin to get to know. It is always a sign of the health of a photographic group or community that it was strikingly multivalent, and dynamically speaking to the many ways in which photography communicates human perception and the questions we ask of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. My eventual selection of the mandated maximum of 50 works for the exhibition took multiple rounds of editing because there was quality and genuine creative and imaginative threads that wove between practically all of the entries to this year’s open call. I ended up with a final selection where each work was resolved on its own terms but also seemed to resonate with a deep appreciation, observation and inventiveness in describing human experience and the power of our senses. Collectively and thanks to all of you, I would describe my selection as a whole as an emotional and hopeful celebration of what we are, what we see and our power to be seen.

- Charlotte Cotton

©Phanuphan Kitsawaeng | John Morris | Francis Crisafio
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Texas Photographic Society is proud to announce the call for entry for our flagship exhibition, TPS 31: The International Competition, juried by Charlotte Cotton, distinguished curator (Victoria and Albert Museum, LACMA, California Museum of Photography), writer (The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Photography is Magic), and currently Artistic Director of Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar. (See full bio and juror's statement below.)

This call is open-themed and submissions from artists of all levels internationally are welcomed. TPS 31: The International Competition will open at the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, The University of Texas Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas, on August 28, 2023.

Thank you to everyone who entered. Results coming soon!

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

May 25, 2023 - Call for entry opens
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - Deadline for entry (11:59 p.m. Mountain Time Zone)
July 22, 2023 - Exhibiting artists announced and emails sent to all entrants
August 14 to 18, 2023 - Work due in Odessa, Texas
August 28, 2023 - Exhibition opens at the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, The University of Texas Permian Basin, with an opening reception on Thursday, August 31st.
October 6, 2023 - Exhibition closes

AWARDS

First Place = $500

Second Place = $300

Third Place = $200

Up to 5 Honorable Mentions may be awarded

ENTRY FEE

The entry fee for current TPS Members is $30 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. The Non-Member entry fee is $38 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. You do not have to be a member of TPS to enter. However, if you enter the competition and join TPS or renew as a member at the same time, you can pay the reduced current TPS Member entry fee of $30.

You may enter up to 12 images.

TPS Member Benefits include member feature opportunities via our Members' Gallery, Member Spotlight, Blog, Members' News, Members' Instagram Takeover, social media accounts and E-Zine, discounted entry fees to most TPS competitions, and discounts to programs and services offered through our partnerships.

If you are not sure of your TPS member status, please contact TPS at ann@texasphoto.org. All entry and membership fees are non-refundable.

ELIGIBILITY

TPS 31: The International Competition is open to artists internationally, of all levels, who are at least 18 years old at time of entry. All photography-based work is encouraged including digital, silver, and alternative processes. Works exhibited previously in a TPS show are not eligible. Current members of the TPS Board of Directors are permitted to enter but are not eligible for awards.

IMAGE REQUIREMENTS

Please submit digital JPG files only, minimum of 1200 pixels on the longest side and 5 MB maximum. Please remove watermarks from images. For each image you will need to provide the image title and the process (medium) used to make the image/print (Archival Digital Print, Silver Gelatin Print, Platinum/Palladium Print, Wet Plate Collodian, etc.) To clarify, you will submit a digital file of your image for the contest application; if your work is selected for the show you will print your image, frame it, and ship it to the exhibition venue.

Need help resizing images? You can resize via a Mac or PC computer, or use a number of third-party applications, many of which offer free trials or solutions. Please go here for suggestions.

JUROR'S STATEMENT

I’m really looking forward to spending time with your photographs – I’m always drawn to practices that I’m encountering for the first time and make me think differently. That’s probably not that useful to you submitting to this year’s Texas Photographic Society’s 2023 open call but all to say that I am excited to see photographs that are new to me. In recent years, I’ve been especially interested in photographers who I see counterarguing against prevailing ideas of the role of a photographer in our contemporary context and proposing what photography can still do to help us understand and appreciate human existence. I’m interested in seeing how you use our beloved medium and what you believe is important to visually narrate.

- Charlotte Cotton

ABOUT THE JUROR

BIO

Charlotte Cotton is a curator, writer and creative consultant who has explored photographic culture for over twenty-five years. She has held positions including curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, head of programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and curator-in-residence at Katonah Museum of Art, NY; International Center of Photography, NY; and California Museum of Photography. Cotton has curated prescient exhibitions for museums, international art festivals and biennials in the UK, US, mainland Europe, and South Korea. She is currently Artistic Director of Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar. Her book, Photography is Magic (2015) surveys over eighty artists whose photographic practices shape the possibilities of our contemporary image environment. Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self addresses the complex intersections of our rights to be seen and heard while claiming the privilege of privacy. Her book, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, is published in ten languages and has been a key text in charting the rise of photography as an undisputed art form in the 21st century. The fourth edition was published in September 2020

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TPS 31: The International Competition is made possible through funding from the Texas Commission on the Arts, a partnership with Fujifilm, and the support of our TPS Members

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SALES

TPS encourages the sale of exhibited work and will collect a 30% commission from all prints sold during the exhibition. Please indicate the sales price of your print, including frame/finishing. If your finished piece is not for sale, simply note NFS. If your work is accepted and you do not indicate a sales price, the artwork will be listed as NFS.

IF YOUR WORK IS ACCEPTED

1. Artwork must be ready-to-hang using wire stretched between D-rings on the back. The finished piece must not exceed 30" in the longest dimension (including the frame). Sawtooth hangers are NOT permitted. Please use white mats and white or black frames that are gallery quality and complement your work (color mats are NOT acceptable). Plexiglass must be used with the frame, NO GLASS ALLOWED. Photographs printed on metal are allowed, but must be framed, with the photograph safely recessed from the front of the frame, and packed appropriately. Clearly label the back of your work with your full name, address, telephone number, email address, image title, medium, dimensions and sales price or NFS. TPS reserves the right to exclude works from the exhibition that are not gallery-ready and professional in presentation.

2. A prepaid return UPS or FedEX shipping label MUST be provided with your work for prints to be returned to you when the exhibition concludes. Work WITHOUT return shipping will NOT be included in the exhibition and will NOT be returned. Please keep a copy of the prepaid return shipping label and your receipt. Packing peanuts are NOT permitted. Please ship prints in a flat box (do not use moving boxes) as our storage space is limited. Prints will be return-shipped in the container in which they were received. If additional exhibition venues are added, artists will be notified with location, dates, and other pertinent details, and work will be return-shipped from the final venue.

3. Framed prints with prepaid return shipping label must arrive at the UTPB Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery in Odessa, Texas, between August 14 and August 18.

TPS and UTPB Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery will exercise all due care in handling your artwork. However, TPS is not liable for loss, theft, damage, or replacement of artwork, nor is TPS liable for damage during shipping. UTPB Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery does not insure artists' work. Please consider insuring your work.

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 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.

TPS will not be held responsible for loss, theft, damage, or replacement, whether caused by the negligence of its officers, members, or others. TPS is not liable for damage during shipping. Non or expired members of TPS who pay the Current TPS Member entry fee without joining TPS or renewing at the time of entry, will be disqualified. 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 T. Shaw at ann@texasphoto.org.

Our friends at Frame Destination in Dallas, Texas, have prepared a special archival gallery frame kit for TPS artists that meets standard matting, framing and presentation requirements. The frame kit can be customized to meet various print sizes. TPS Members receive an additional 10% discount (contact Frame Destination customer service to join the TPS club customer group). This affordably priced package can be purchased online here.