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Although photography initially emerged as a technological invention, it quickly evolved into an expressive artistic practice. Pictorialist photographs from the nineteenth century were crafted to resemble paintings, while proponents of straight photography in the early twentieth century aimed for a purely photographic approach to conveying meaning. Street photographers dedicated the medium to capturing fleeting moments, and in the latter part of the twentieth century, many photographers embraced staging and directing to employ photography as a means of artistic visual communication. Straight photography derives expressive meaning from the observed scene, while directorial, or staged photography involves creating a scene based on a preconceived notion. Art photography today encompasses various genres and creative practices, ranging from portraiture, landscape, and still life to staged, abstract, and conceptual photography. More recently, AI-generated photo-based images have also asserted their presence in the art photography scene.  In this call, we invite contemporary photographers to demonstrate their understanding of photography as an expressive fine art practice in the twenty-first century.

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Curator's choice

Marc-Aurele Stark: Echo I, from the series 'Echoes Within'

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Honourable mentions

Igor Brekhov: Nocturne VII

Jordan Potae: Chair and Shadow

StreetMax21: Cannon130726

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Exhibiting photographers

 Darryl Baird (South Beach, OR, USA), Igor Brekhov (Sochi, Russia), Brigitte B Burckhardt (Vevey, Switzerland), Hsien-Chih Chuang (Taiwan), Łukasz Fidosz (Poznań, Poland), Rheana Gardner (Cedar City, UT, USA), Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith (Grand Forks, ND, USA), Meg Greene Malvasi (Charlotte, NC, USA), Susanna Hagström (Stockholm, Sweden), Kylo-Patrick Hart (Aledo, TX, USA), Leena Holmström (Oulu, Finland), John Kosmer (Fly Creek, NY, USA), Claudia La (Vienna, Austria), Lou Liska (Guntramsdorf, Austria), Jose Ney Mila Espinosa (Kissimmee, FL, USA), leva Mizgeraite (Vilnius, Lithuania), Cynthia A. Morgan (Cumming, GA, USA), Robert Morrissey (Portland, OR, USA), Rachel Nixon (Vancouver, Canada), Nancy Oliveri (Estero Island, FL, USA), Nancy Oliveri & Henry Banger Benvenuti (Estero Island, FL, USA), Gary Perlow (Vienna, VA, USA), Jordan Potae (Auckland, New Zealand), Rob Ritzenhein (Barcelona, Spain), Lizette “Lizi” Rivera (Albuquerque, NM, USA), Sara Rocio (Setúbal, Portugal), Sigita Rusina (Riga, Latvia), Dina Sirat (Netanya, Israel), Marc-Aurele Stark (San Francisco, CA, USA), StreetMax21 (London, UK), Ildikó Szabó (Kisberény, Hungary), Jack Toolin (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Fedor Ushakov (Moscow, Russia), Alpha Zhang (Shanghai, China)

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