An ongoing series of virtual themed exhibitions for AZPA members only!
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS
New for 2024, AZPA has introduced a Juried Theme Gallery project to highlight the work of our members. Any current AZPA member at any level of photography experience is eligible to participate.
A number of times this year, a call for entry will be announced with a rotating theme. Members can submit up to three digital images that speak to the theme, which will be juried by a different professional photographer each cycle. The juror will select ONE image from each entrant that best represents the theme. Each of those images will be displayed in an online gallery like this one from our first theme Show Us Your Muse.
In addition, the juror will choose one first-place winner to receive a cash award of $100, plus two more honorable mention recipients that will be featured on our website and social media platforms.
BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS WHO ENTER
- Free entry
- Juried by professional photographer
- Rotating themes with several opportunities per year
- One First Place Award receives $100, exposure via our website and social media platforms.
- Two Honorable Mention Awards will have exposure on our website and social media platforms.
- All entrants will be represented in the virtual gallery (the juror will select one image from each submission).
- Entries must be submitted in digital format as specified on the entry form below, but the originals may be in any medium — analog, digital, or alternative processes are welcome.
- All entrants will have an opportunity to offer their chosen image for sale by making price and contact information available. Any sales must be handled directly by the member, NOT through Arizona Photography Alliance.
Images above from our 2023 Members’ Exhibition © the artists.
Theme: Still Life
Call for Entries opens Thursday, May 30, 2024 • Closes Friday, June 14, 2024
Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects.
Show us how you turn ordinary (even dull) objects or subject matter into something interesting using lighting, composition and arrangement.
About Our Juror: Art Holeman
As a well-established advertising and editorial photographer, Art Holeman has a passion for capturing the essence of three-dimensional life and objects in two-dimensional images.
Having settled in Phoenix, Arizona in 1986 after living in Michigan, Iowa and Nevada, Art has become well known for black-and-white photography that highlights the majestic beauty of the natural world, particularly the landscapes of the desert Southwest.
Art’s love of traveling led him to take an active role in Through Each Other’s Eyes (TEOE), a nonprofit photography collaborative that fosters cultural appreciation. As part of TEOE, Art has hosted photographers from Mexico and Japan, and, in turn, shot black-and-white portfolios in Himeji, Japan and Sonora, Mexico. Independently, Art has also shot extensively in Perugia, Italy and Banjul, The Gambia.
Art’s photography has garnered numerous awards and publicity worldwide. He has exhibited at galleries and museums across the United States, Japan and Mexico and was most recently recognized by Phoenix Home & Garden as a 2021 Master of the Southwest.
Follow Art on Instagram at @azartswork. View his photography: Commercial Work and Fine Art Work.