2nd Annual - Curious Camera Competition Winners!
 |
 |
 |
1st Place Rebecca Pendel "Bound by Love" Farrell, Pennsylvania | 2nd Place Jennifer Henriksen London, Ontario, Canada | 3rd Place Meg Madison Los Angeles, California |
Winner Most Curious Camera
Julia Diconcini "The Eye" Tucson, Arizona |
Honorable Mentions
Name |
Title |
Place |
From |
Nicholas Syracuse |
|
1st Runner Up |
Brooklyn, New York |
Kristy Hom |
Pumpkin Cam |
H/M Most Curious Camera |
Sierra Vista, Arizona |
Lisa Earle |
Ceramic Pinhole |
H/M Most Curious Camera |
Tucson, Arizona |
Ann Texter |
|
Honorable Mention |
Austin, Texas |
Ffion Roberts |
|
Honorable Mention |
Aberystwyth, Wales |
Ffion Roberts |
|
Honorable Mention |
Aberystwyth, Wales |
S. Gayle Steves |
|
Honorable Mention |
Downer's Grove, Illinois |
Ami Noss |
|
Honorable Mention |
Seattle, Washington |
Ernie Button |
|
Honorable Mention |
Phoenix, Arizona |
Michael Bajko |
|
Honorable Mention |
Waitakere, New Zealand |
Theo Bochanis |
|
Honorable Mention |
Tucson, Arizona |
Steven Murphy |
|
Honorable Mention |
Evanston, Illinois |
Becky Ramotowski |
|
Honorable Mention |
Tijeras, New Mexico |
Carol Mikkelson |
|
Honorable Mention |
Hood River, Oregon |
Ellen Stone |
|
Honorable Mention |
Los Angeles, California |
Stacy Halper |
|
Honorable Mention |
Austin, Texas |
Gary Moyer |
|
Honorable Mention |
Maywood, New Jersey |
Kurt Jordan |
|
Honorable Mention |
Aboura Hills, California |
Henrick Hagstrom |
|
Honorable Mention |
Inisjon, Sweden |
Ellen Evangelides |
|
Honorable Mention |
Kenliworth, Illinois |
I am happy to announce the second annual Curious Camera Competition. Once again
we will be honoring pinhole and plastic camera photographers with awards and prizes.
We handed out trophies last year and the response was really fun, so we are doing it again
this year. We will also be honoring the honorable mentions with a suitable for framing certificate.
Our rules are pretty simple - there are only two. The first rule is the lens needs to be a pinhole
or plastic and the second rule is to see the first rule. Pretty clever Huh? You can send in your entry by good old fashion snail mail or you can upload it via our “upload images” secure server. You can enter as many images as you want and the cost per entry is a mere $5 dollars. You can pay via Paypal, send us a check or if you come by the gallery with your submission you can pay with cash or credit card.
There is also a competition for “Most Curious Camera”. Just send in a photograph of you camera along with a story about why it’s sooooo special and you may win a prize and a trophy and of course bragging rights for a whole year.
We will be displaying all entries in ArtsEye Gallery and will host a reception on May 1st from
6-9 pm. We invite you to attend and bring your friends and family to show them how cool you
are. Everyone is still talking about last years event and this years should be even better.
Get creative and start photographing for fun.
All the best,
Mary Findysz
President/Photographer
ArtsEye
Photographic Works
Curious Camera
2nd Annual Competition 2010
Get your creative juices flowing. It's all about your visual brain. The photographer with the fastest glass and best optics isn't allowed in this competition. This is about using the most basic tools and creating. we want you to have that feeling-the one that made you feel all warm and fuzzy about photography in the first place.
The Rules
1. The camera must have a plastic lens or a pinhole.
2. See Rule #1.
The Price of Submission and Submission Dates
1. $5 per image. You can submit any number of images.
2. All submissions must be received at ArtsEye/Photographic Works by Friday April 23, 2010
How to Submit
Submissions sent via our website (use link at top of page).
Drop it off, mail it or ship it
Send us a print. Prints should be no larger than 11x14. The quality of the print really matters to the judges. A good print doesn't mean really expensive.
We do not return the prints. They become part of the Curious Camera permanent collection. If you really really want your print back please contact us.
Judging, Winners and Prizes
The winners will be announced April 27, 2010 on this website. The winners will be notified via email. There will be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner. There will also be a prize for "Most Curious Camera." We will also award honorable mentions.
Curious Camera Gallery Show and Artist Reception
All submissions will be displayed at ArtsEye fromApril 30th through the summer. The prints will be displayed in the gallery and the work sent via our website will be displayed using a digital projector. The artist reception will be Saturday May 1st from 6-9pm at ArtsEye.
Prizes
1st Place
- a very fine 1st place trophy
- a brand new Lensbaby Muse with plastic optics
- your award winning image displayed at ArtsEye Gallery during
the Curious Camera show and reception
2nd Place
- a cool 2nd place trophy
- a brand new Twins Lens Reflex Holga
- your award winning image displayed at ArtsEye Gallery during
the Curious Camera show and reception
3rd Place
- a grand 3rd place trophy
- a brand new Holga BC camera
- your award winning image displayed at ArtsEye Gallery during
the Curious Camera show and reception
“Most Curious Camera” Award
- a terrific “Most Curious Camera” trophy
- a brand new Diana + Camera
- bragging rights for an entire year
Honorable Mention Awards
Last year we discovered the amount of talent out there was very deserving of a show of appreciation. So on the spot our judges determined that we should include honorable mentions-we did.. This year we will be presenting our honorable mention’s with certificates. It will be something you’ll want to display.
A trophy as a prize? Why?
We decided to give a trophy to our winners because we thought it was
kind of funny. When the idea came up there was some complaining that
in high school trophies were given out to jocks. As photographers there
was no memento of our talent and skill. So we at Curious Camera decided to
fill that emotional void, and will be presenting trophies to all our winners.
Insider Information
The people at the trophy shop, yes there are places that sell just trophies, searched
their catalogs to find a camera trophy. No such luck. We even searched the internet
and still nothing. We even had an idea that we might modify a trophy in some way. Okay-
we were going to glue a camera on top. We thought it was a waste of a perfectly good
camera . In the end we found what we think is a very “smart” trophy. Which we will have engraved with the Curious Camera logo and other appropriate information.
Curious Camera 2010 Judges
Ken Rosenthal
Ken Rosenthal received his MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago in 1993. He received his BA in still photography from the University of
Southern California School of Cinema-Television. His artwork is represented by a
number of galleries including Etherton Gallery in Tucson; ClampArt in New York,
Michael Dawson Gallery in LA, Gerald Peters Gallery in Sante Fe, and Dolby Chadwick
Gallery in San Francisco. Rosenthal’s photographs are in many public and private
collections including The George Eastman House, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston,
Art Institute of Chicago, National Portrait Gallery in London, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, and the Wittliff
Gallery of Southwest and Mexican Photography. Since 2002 his work has been featured
in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions internationally.
Frances Murray
Frances Murray was born in Dublin, Ireland to a large Catholic family. She was taught by nuns
dressed in traditional black and white habits. This experience has had a profound affect on her life. She immigrated to Canada at the age of five and two years later her family moved to New York. She met Harold Jones in 1969 when she was 22 years old. Jones was associate curator at the George Eastman House in Rochester New York. They married a year later, and a year after that had twin baby girls. Murray was surrounded by the very finest of photography. “I had the rare opportunity to see amazing photographs that filled me with inspiration and an unsettling urge to create.” She was almost 30 years old before she took her first photograph,which was of her twin daughters, Rebecca and Star. Her house and backyard became her studio. Frances photographic journey led her to a one woman show at Etherton Gallery. ”Psychologue” celebrated her thirty year journey in photography.
Print Most Curious Camera Form