Call for Photography: How to Remember for the Future

 

Humber Galleries is excited to announce its participation in this year’s CONTACT Photography Festival. Open to all Humber College and University of Guelph-Humber students, faculty, staff, and alumni, applicants are welcome to submit photography as part of a themed exhibition called How to Remember for the Future. 

How to Remember for the Future invites photographers to explore the documentation of unexpected experiences that affect their memories of a certain time and place. As an artist, what does it mean to create with intention in a world whose priorities and environments may no longer be predictable nor sustainable? After observing local and global events, and balancing issues such as gender politics, IBPoC representation, climate change, and public protests, how do artists adapt? And to what extent can these present-day experiences shape their future? This action of memory-making is especially applicable in photography, where the physical act of taking a picture simultaneously records and omits subjects and their surroundings. It affects not only the ways in which a photographer may reminisce about the past, but how they remember for the future. 

Photographers are being asked how these captured memories will shape their future. In your artist statement, please be clear and concise about the ways in which these image submissions speak to memory-making.    

How to Remember for the Future launches in person on Monday, May 16th.

 

 

Info Session: Art Calls & CONTACT Photography Festival

 

 

Requirements: 

Submissions must be photographic or lens-based but can incorporate other art forms within a photographic medium (ex: collage, archival, painting, literature etc). They can be singular images, as well as triptychs or diptychs. Colour and/or black & white images are welcome. Successful applicants will be chosen by a jury whose members include staff from Humber Galleries, Centre for Creative Business Innovation (CCBI), and invited faculty. 

All selected artworks will be professionally printed and installed by Humber Galleries. However, if the College’s COVID-19 health guidelines prevent in-person exhibitions from taking place, artworks will be presented online in a virtual gallery. 

To be considered, applicants must submit the following:  

  • Artist statement (250 words max)  

  • Artist biography (100 words max)  

  • Artist CV (optional) 

  • Website and/or portfolio links (optional) 

  • Maximum 5 images (Up to 3 images total may be selected to be part of the exhibition)  

  • Image list with the title, medium, and ideal printing dimensions 

 

Benefits for Artists:  

 

How to Apply: 

Applications are due Sunday, April 10, 2022, at 11:59 pm EST via our Application Form

 

About CONTACT Photography Festival: 

CONTACT is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to celebrating and fostering the art and profession of photography with an annual Festival in May throughout Toronto and year-round programming in the CONTACT Gallery. CONTACT embraces an inclusive and accessible approach to the medium, and cultivates collaborations with and among artists, curators, institutions, and organizations. Learn more at: scotiabankcontactphoto.com