Luminous Eye launches an international thematic call for entries aimed at organizing a group exhibition entitled Inwards – Life on pause as a starting point for transformation.
The pause we are experiencing today, due to the effects of the pandemic, has been the reason for the present open call. What is the antidote to insecurity and fear? This situation gives us the opportunity to reflect on the values we stand for in our lives, our relationship with the world and ourselves, as well as to see our motivations, goals and aspirations under a different light.
Instead of focusing on a constant search for confirmation, this period of confinement may be the starting point for orienting our everyday life, eventually our whole lives, in another direction. This redefinition begins with an introspection and an observation that today are considered not only legitimate but also necessary. This process of transformation, which is always reflected in the gaze, is the offering of the circumstances.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Photographs must be sent by wetransfer to info@luminouseye.net, no later than October 1st, 2020 at midnight.
SPACE AND DURATION OF THE EXHIBITION
Due to the special situation we are experiencing, the exhibition will be held first in digital format on the Luminous Eye website. An exhibition will be held at the Luminous Eye space, Mitsaion 1a, Athens, after the lifting of the restrictive measures. The duration of the exhibition will be two months.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION
Participants are invited to submit photographs related to the internal process of transformation, emotional awakening, resilience, change of perception, sharpening of sensitivity. There is no restriction on the handling and depiction of the exhibition’s subject. An essential condition is that the photographs reflect an experienced inner reality.
The photos must have been created after March 1st, 2020.
Eligible participants
All photographers-artists (professionals or amateurs) from all over the world who use the photographic medium, regardless of their citizenship or nationality, have the right to participate.
The minimum age is 18 years.
Submission
Participants are invited to submit:
- name and surname
- a set of 12 to 15 photos in digital form jpg, size 1500 pixels the largest side and resolution 72 dpi.
- the file name should be: NAME_SURNAME-01.jpg
- a text mentioning the project’s subject and the photographic approach (up to 300 words).
- a CV (up to 250 words)
- their website’s and social networks’ profile address (if any)
- all of the above must be sent by wetransfer to info@luminouseye.net.
Jury – Selection
The projects will be evaluated by a jury composed by five members. The members of the jury are:
- Kostis Antoniadis, photographer
- Vassilis Gerontakos, Luminous Eye – photographer
- Haris Kakarouchas, Luminous Eye – photographer
- Efi Mitropoulou, Psychotherapist
The jury will consider whether the photographs correspond to the subject as well as their originality and artistic value.
Τhe jury will select for the exhibition ten of the submitted projects which meet the above-mentioned conditions.
The results will be announced on November 1st, 2020 through Luminous Eye’s website and social media accounts. All participants will be notified separately via email.
Following the announcement of the results, the ten selected photographers must send their photographs to Luminous Eye in high resolution, 4000 pixels the largest side. Selected photographers who have not sent their photographs in high resolution by November 31st, at the latest, will be excluded.
The ten selected photographers will have the opportunity to present their work to the public
- online, through the website of Luminous Eye in the form of a digital exhibition (opening of the digital exhibition: January 11th 2021)
- after the lifting of the restrictive measures, in an exhibition at the Luminous Eye space. This exhibition will be transferred to other exhibition spaces-cultural institutions in Greece
- after the lifting of the restrictive measures, in the form of a printed photographic catalog, which will be available for sale in the Luminous Eye gallery and e-shop.
Communication
For any further information or clarification regarding the call, please contact Luminous Eye via e-mail at info@luminouseye.net.
Timetable
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2020
MEETING OF THE JURY: October 2020
ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS: November 1, 2020
EDITORIAL PREPARATION OF THE EXHIBITION: November – December 2020
DIGITAL EXHIBITION’S OPENING: January 11, 2021
Final Terms
Candidates must not promote the photographs submitted to the call before the announcement of the results (November 1st, 2020).
Selected photographers transfer the right to publish their photographs in the digital and physical exhibition of Luminous Eye, and in any promotion of their work (including printed catalogs and limited editions postcards).
Luminous Eye will keep the prints of the selected photographers for a period of two years and have the right to exhibit their work in retrospective exhibitions over the course of two years. After this period, in consultation with the photographers, it will be determined whether the collaboration with Luminous Eye will continue. The exploitation rights will be agreed individually with the respective photographer, explicitly and with a private agreement.
Copyright
The copyright of the images remains the property of the creator / photographer of the image. By participating in the invitation, the photographer guarantees that he is the creator and holder of the work, that he has the permission of the subject, that the works do not infringe the rights of third parties (including the rights of secrecy, abuse, harassment, misleading copyright, disclosure or publication ).
By submitting their projects to the present call the participating photographers / artists accept the above terms.
The Jury
Kostis Antoniadis was born in Athens in 1949. He studied Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Photography at the “Institut Francais de la Photographie” in Paris. He is a founding member of the Athens Photographic Center (1979-2004). Since 1985 he has been a professor at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts at the Technοlogical Education Institute (TEI) of Athens. His theoretical and critical texts on Photography have been published in Art and photographic magazines since 1979. He has organized and edited numerous photography exhibitions of Greek and foreign photographers for the Photographic Center, the International Photography Month, the French Institute and the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum in Athens.
In 2003 he became Director of the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki and since 2006 he has been working as an independent exhibition curator. He has also exhibited his work in several exhibitions in Greece and abroad and his works are in private and national collections.
Vassilis Gerontakos was born in Athens where he lives and works. He studied flute at the Athenaeum Conservatory, mathematics and astronomy at the Kapodistrian University of Athens and photography at the “Photocircle”. He worked on the radio as a producer and composed music for plays. He has taken part in group and individual exhibitions in Greece and abroad and has published a book entitled “Photographs“.
He teaches photography in Athens where he lives permanently. Co-founder of Luminous Eye Gallery.
Haris Kakarouchas was born in Athens. He studied Cartography at the University of Thessaloniki (Degree), Theory of Color and Visual Perception (M.Sc) at the University of Glasgow and Photography (Ph.D) at the University of Derby (title of his dissertation “Portrait”, Mapping Oneself). He has also studied various types of therapy through art and other practices of modern psychotherapy. His photographs have been published and exhibited largely in Greece and abroad. He has published three photographic albums, In the Paths of Time (Photochoros Publishing House), Physical Presence (Luminous Eye Publishing House), and Suspended Time: A Cuban Portrait. The latter has been published in six European countries. He won the European Publishers Award and was the 3rd runner-up for the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize. He has also been honored with the Milos Award for the best-selling art book of the year in Greece. He was the artistic director of the Ecological – Art Festival organized by the Ministry of Environment together with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013. For the last fifteen years he has been giving photography seminars entitled: In sight photo: photography as a conscious act. His works are in Museums and private collections. Co-founder of Luminous Eye Gallery.
Efi Mitropoulou was born in Athens. He studied Political Science with a master’s degree in Criminology from Panteion University of Athens.
She then studied Cranio sacral therapy and completed a master’s degree in Core Process Psychotherapy at the Karuna Institute in England. In the following years she worked as a psychotherapist and at the same time attended a series of courses and seminars in ceramics for her own creative expression.
