TCC PHOTO | GALLERY

ARKLATEX REGIONAL

Call For Entry

The TCC PHOTO | GALLERY ARKLATEX REGIONAL call for entries eligibility: photographer must live in the ArkLaTex area: Arkansas, Louisianna, or Texas. Show us your best image with whatever camera you choose to use. It is open to amateur and professional photographers. The entry fee of $35 for up to 5 images. Photographers may enter up to 10 images only.

When emailing digital files:

1. Files should be 1080 pixels in the longest dimension saved in the JPEG format on high quality setting (not maximum). Images should be sa.pled at 72ppi and saved in the sRGB color space. Place the images in a folder along with any support such as titles and then zip the folder. Email to: tccphoto@gmail.com

2. Label each file with consecutive numbers followed by your name .ie 1JaneDoe - no spaces and only alpha-numeric characters.

The show opens December 2, 2011 at TCC PHOTO | GALLERY. We are the only fine art photography gallery in North East Texas, specifically in Longview, TX. TCC was first a commercial studio, then in 2006 we opened the gallery with the inaugural exhibit of Muhammad Ali, photographs by Sonia Katchian. We were the first US gallery to host the Holga Inspire exhibit in 2009. We have also shown, Dennis Fagan, O. Rufus Lovett, Scott C. Campbell, Blue Earth Alliance photographers, Polly Chandler, Mary Ann Lynch, Laura Pickett Calfee, Pat Brown, Danea Males, TCC, Texas Photographic Society, John Wrather, Orville Robertson, and Susan Burnstine.

The TCC PHOTO | GALLERY ARKATEX REGIONAL exhibit will consist of 25 prints in the physical gallery with an additional 25 images included in the online gallery, totaling 50 images selected.

Best of Show - $300

2nd Place - $200

3rd Place - $100

All accepted photographs are for sale. The commission charged will be 50% of the sales price. Print your name, address, telephone numbers (work and home), and sales amount on the back of each print accepted.

Liability

TCC will exercise all due care in handling prints, but will not be responsible for loss or damage or replacement.

Reproduction

TCC retains the right to display, project and reproduce work accepted for this exhibition for publicity and promotional purposes only. Individual photographers retain Copyrights to their individual works.

Eligibility

The exhibition is open to all internationally Holga photographers.

If Your Work is Accepted:

1. Send one exhibition print for each accepted photograph.

2. Prints must be mounted and overmatted using white matte board with 2" borders.

3. Include return postage for prints to be shipped back to you after the exhibition. Most include a check for $15 which would include shipping and $300 insurance. Prints WITHOUT postage will not be returned. Prints will be returned in the container in which they were received. Do NOT use peanuts when shipping.

Jurors: Tammy Cromer-Campbell

Tammy Cromer-Campbell

Tammy Cromer-Campbell is a photographer, author, and filmmaker. She was innovative in using the Holga toy camera to create her first book, Fruit of the Orchard / Environmental Justice in East Texas, The book was published in 2006 by The University of North Texas Press. Cromer-Campbell has received many honors and awards, including Blue Earth Alliances first ever cash grant for Fruit of the Orchard. Her work is included in public and private collections internationally such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museet for Fotocunst, Belgium, and others. Most recently, Fruit of the Orchard is one of the Holga Inspire Master photographers of the Holga that is featured on the Holga Inspire website and in the exhibition that has traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, Longview, Texas, and New York, New York. It also received a first place award under the category of Entertainment and Culture for the first ever Green Dot Awards. Cromer-Campbell is listed as an honoree for National Women's History Month for the 2009 theme: 100 Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet.

Cromer-Campbell received her degree in Commercial Photography from Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas under the direction of O. Rufus Lovett. She lives in Longview with husband, Scott and Dalmatian, Maggie May, and photographs from her downtown studio/fine art gallery.

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Important Dates

November 4, Deadline for entry submissions

November 7, Announcement of winners

November 25, framed prints due

December 2, ARKLATEX REGIONAL EXHIBIT Opens

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