First Club Competition This Wednesday, September 17
Our first competition of the season is this Wednesday, September 17, 2014.
Digital submissions for this competition are due by the end of the day Monday, September 15, 2014. You can submit your entries to DHFore@hotmail.com.
You can expect a confirmation of receipt of images from David by the end of the day Tuesday, September 16. If you do not see any confirmation email, please reach out to me so we can fix the issue.
For digital image submission guidelines please reference our website’s Rules and Guidelines page, under sections V – DIGITAL IMAGES and VI – DIGITAL FILE SPECIFICATIONS.
The assigned subject for September is Geometrics.
Print submissions are accepted until 7:15 pm the evening of the competition. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30pm.
Our judges for this competition are:
CARMINE PICARELLO
For 25 years, Carmine Picarello has worked with creative directors and photo editors to craft images for commercial advertising, editorial publications, corporate image libraries and web site content for clients in Fairfield County Connecticut and the world. His fine art photography can be found in private and corporate collections and the United Nations UNICEF art collection.
Picarello has been an Adjunct Professor at Housatonic Community College, teaching Photography and Photoshop for twelve years, an instructor at The Silvermine Art Guild and a member of the Arts Curriculum Development Team for the City of Norwalk public schools.
His company, Carmine Picarello Photography is an award-winning studio in Westport, CT, specializes in commercial photography tailored for use in a wide range of applications such as websites, catalogs, brochures and advertising. www.picarellophoto.com.
Picarello holds a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and was a MFA candidate at Yale’s School of Drama.
Carmnine is a returning judge for the Club
TINA LINK
After graduating from Ohio University with a BFA in photography, Tina continued to keep photography prominent in her life, working various jobs pertaining to the camera, such as medical photography. She then decided to pursue a landscape architectural degree, leading her to the Rhode Island School of Design and is enjoying her second career as a landscape designer. Tina returned to photography as the recent recession found her unemployed. She continues to make photographs for pleasure and views photography as an important art form in her daily life. She has shown in various art galleries in New York and Connecticut and experienced her first solo show in February 2014. Tina lives in Harrison, NY.
SPC is pleased to welcome our new judge:
ARNOLD KASTENBAUM
Arnie is the president of the Ground Glass photography group that meets in Westchester. He captures on film and makes his own silver gelatin prints.
The following is an edited version of his website statement:
“As a teenager I developed a love for photography and had my first exhibits. After a long hiatus, I rekindled my passion for the art and have participated in more than twenty juried exhibits, galleries and museums in Westchester and New York City.
In my work, no attempt is made to depict an object as it naturally appears. The goal is to create a new object that did not exist before. The photograph itself becomes the object without regard to the subject matter.
With this in mind, I utilize the unique characteristics of the medium to portray commonplace objects and show the viewer an alternative representation of the object. Often an attempt is made to show an overlooked or underlying esthetic that exists in the mundane, be it a light bulb or a doorknob or some other simple thing. At times this results in a momentary surprise, leaving the viewer to question what the object is or how its image was produced.”
Arnold’s work can be seen at his website www.akastenbaum.com
