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Oct

The Power of Exceptional Photographs

by Meredith Mullins on October 3, 2013

Competition is fierce in the world of international photo contests.
© krystalkenney.com

Capturing the Moment

Winning a photo competition is a challenge.

Why do we enter? Because we want to have our work seen and appreciated by a well-respected jury . . . and by a wider audience.

Prizes, opportunity for exhibition, and getting representation from the right gallery or museum are all important for success as an artist.

As with the lottery, we always enter with hope, but the reality is that the winners’ circle is a very exclusive club. Read more...

Meredith Mullins 13 Comments

The World's Photography

Sep

Past Meets Present in Creative Photography Series

by Meredith Mullins on September 19, 2013

Old photo blended with modern scene of the Washington D.C. Capitol building, from a creative photography series about past meets present (Image © Jason Powell)

Capitol Cornucopia, Washington D.C.
© Jason Powell

Looking into the Past: There’s a Little Time Travel in All of Us

Which comes first—the past or the present? The answer to this question may seem obvious. But when you’re involved in time travel (and creativity), the sequence is not always clear.

Jason Powell’s photographs challenge us to think about time. How things change. How they stay the same. How the past and the present fit together. What we remember and what we forget. Read more...

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Clever Ideas/The World's Photography/USA

Jul

Arles Photo Festival: Inspired by Black and White

by Meredith Mullins on July 11, 2013

Black and White installation by Daido Moriyama, including a fishnet frame and enlarged contact sheets, offering creative inspiration for black and white photographers

Labyrinth + Monochrome
Installation at Rencontres d’Arles by Daido Moriyama

Creative Inspiration—It’s Back in Black (and White)

Black-and-white photography is alive and well . . . and living in Arles this summer.*

The annual photo festival, Rencontres d’Arles (Conference in Arles), proclaims loudly and clearly in this year’s program that black-and-white photography is not dead.

But, how does B&W live in this world of creative inspiration? As nostalgia, poetry, humanism, a graceful simplification of form and light, abstraction, raw power, sentimentality, or timeless truth. Read more...

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France/The World's Photography

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