Exploration #14: “Suburban Life: Past and Present”
October 13th – 7pm to 9pm &...
Exploration #14: “Suburban Life: Past and Present”
October 13th – 7pm to 9pm
DEADLINE - Images due by midnight October 11th
Most often, we emphasize taking photographs that are dynamic, unique and have high impact and creative expression. Less often, we use our cameras to record the day-to-day events and the people in our neighborhoods. An important alternative to more traditional street photography, the genre of suburban imagery is seldom a specific subject for exploration except, perhaps, in online social media. It is seldom the subject of dedicated and focussed photographic investigation.
Suburbia, planned communities and the subject of urban sprawl around the world are often portrayed in popular media as boring, bland, depressing and sometimes even soul crushing. And yet, underneath there is a hidden treasure of age, gender, and cultural diversity in both rich and poor suburban environments where stories of interesting people, their lives, their values, and their daily events are overlooked and unrecorded.
This Exploration is about finding opportunities for elaboration, sharing and discussion. It will not involve the technical aspects of the images, rather it will be about sharing experiences and our observations of suburban life through each participant’s portfolio of images over the years.
A limit of three different images per submission (either colour or black and white) in .jpg format.
Exploration #14: “Suburban Life: Past and Present”
October 13th – 7pm to 9pm
DEADLINE - Images due by midnight October 11th
Most often, we emphasize taking photographs that are dynamic, unique and have high impact and creati...
Exploration #14: “Suburban Life: Past and Present”
October 13th – 7pm to 9pm
DEADLINE - Images due by midnight October 11th
Most often, we emphasize taking photographs that are dynamic, unique and have high impact and creative expression. Less often, we use our cameras to record the day-to-day events and the people in our neighborhoods. An important alternative to more traditional street photography, the genre of suburban imagery is seldom a specific subject for exploration except, perhaps, in online social media. It is seldom the subject of dedicated and focussed photographic investigation.
Suburbia, planned communities and the subject of urban sprawl around the world are often portrayed in popular media as boring, bland, depressing and sometimes even soul crushing. And yet, underneath there is a hidden treasure of age, gender, and cultural diversity in both rich and poor suburban environments where stories of interesting people, their lives, their values, and their daily events are overlooked and unrecorded.
This Exploration is about finding opportunities for elaboration, sharing and discussion. It will not involve the technical aspects of the images, rather it will be about sharing experiences and our observations of suburban life through each participant’s portfolio of images over the years.
A limit of three different images per submission (either colour or black and white) in .jpg format.
