New Call: AAP Magazine #30 Shadows

Mysterious, magical, intense, timeless, sometimes nostalgic... mastering the shadows in photography is an art in itself. It is a story in its own right, a unique form of expression.

Send us a cohesive body of work or portfolio - capturing the poetry and the power of shadows! The subject is totally up to you. Your photos can be in color or black and white, and be landscape, portraiture, street photography or any other genre. Any capture method or process, whether digital or analog, including monochromatic toning, is welcome.

Winners will receive $1,000 in cash awards, their winning image(s) or full portfolio published in AAP Magazine #30, extensive press coverage and global recognition.

All winners will have their work published in the 30th printed issue of AAP Magazine, a free copy of the magazine and their portfolio showcased in the Winners Gallery of www.all-about-photo.com.

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All it takes is one industry insider to change the course of your career. Share your work with our audience of editors, book publishers, gallery owners, festival directors, creative directors, curators, and online media publishers!

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International Press Exposure
Share your work with the world and catch the attention of diverse media outlets. We will promote each selected photographer on our website and on our social profiles.

Applications will be assessed on three criteria: creativity, originality, and the visual/emotional impact of the image.
The winners will be announced on All About Photo and social media.
Images that were previously published in AAP Magazine cannot be submitted again

 

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Melbourne: Ryley Clarke, Off the Well-Worn Path

Ryley Clarke presents Off the Well-Worn Path, a solo exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs as part of the gallery’s 2023 program.

Melbourne’s fortyfivedownstairs presents Off the Well-Worn Path, a new exhibition by Ryley Clarke opening on 21 February 2023. A photographic exhibition observing the relationship of the human condition, time, family and place, Off the Well-Worn Path seeks to connect the past and present through inheritance and regeneration. The body of work narrates an open dialogue that seeks to exchange the ever-increasing tension internally and externally of a childhood home, losing its relationship with its kin. Yet through time and experience, finding solitude and healing.

When Ryley’s mother sold their childhood home, it was an overwhelming and exhausting journey to clear the place. Originally built by Ryley’s Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother, over time it quietly decayed away. Once loved, the dust took over. Books, unopened boxes, and hoarded objects filled the rooms and hallways.

Restoring a place that is filled with so many memories, bright and dark, melancholic and vibrant, tested the artist’s mother’s perseverance. Despite that, and in the midst of a pandemic, the devotion Ryley witnessed during this process brought to light profound feelings of admiration for the strength and love that shone in the most trying of times. His pride is evident in the intimacy and introspectiveness of his photography.

Throughout the years they spent working on clearing the rooms bit by bit, the artist occasionally pulled out his camera to make photographs of the ever-precarious moments that symbolised the end of its journey for his mother and for their family. Focusing on the process, transformation and experience of clearing and restoring the childhood home, we encounter familial possessions once thought lost and reminisce about moments from here and there.

Ryley Clarke’s analogue techniques combined with his deep sensitivity to the subject matter imbue his work with a truly distinctive and human feel, evoking fond memory, nostalgia that create for the viewer pure moments for contemplation.

 

More information: fortyfivedownstairs

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