Application Closed
Entry Fee (Photowork 2021: 34th Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition): $35.00
Media Fee(Photowork 2021: 34th Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition): $5.00
Images | Minimum:Min. 3, Maximum:Max. 10
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 3, Maximum:Max. 10
Eligibility: National
State: New York
Photowork 2021, 34th Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
$500 Juror’s Prize, $200 Second Prize, $125 Honorable Mention
Juror: Audrey Sands, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Phoenix Museum of Art and the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Entry Deadline: October 24, 2020
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, January 16 - Sunday, Feb 21, 2021
Photowork is an annual photography exhibition showcasing artworks from across the United States and jurored by leading curators, critics, and processionals in the field of photography. Photowork celebrates its 34th year in 2021, and BAC is proud to welcome this year’s juror, Audrey Sands, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Phoenix Museum of Art and the Center for Creative Photography.
The show embraces reinvention and artists are invited to submit any combination of traditional styles and cutting-edge practices in their dynamic imagery. The show celebrates photography's role as fine art and prescient social commentary. Winners in the past have spanned the full range of photographic output from small to large format cameras, pinhole cameras, silver gelatin prints, pigment prints, chromogenic prints, an array of digital formats, and everything in between.
Submitting Entries:
- Non-members: $35 for the first three images plus $5 for each additional image.
- BAC Members: $30 for the first three images plus $5 for each additional image.
Members, please email info@barrettartcenter.org or call us at 845-471-2550 for coupon code. To become a member, visit, www.barrettartcenter.org/membership
About the Juror
Audrey Sands is the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Phoenix Museum of Art and the Center for Creative Photography (CCP).
Sands joined the Phoenix Art Museum and CCP after recently completing a Chester Dale Fellowship in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University, specializing in the history of photography, with a dissertation on the photographer Lisette Model (1901-1983). She received an M.A. in the History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in Art History from Barnard College.
Along with her impressive academic record, she has worked in curatorial departments at several art museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Sands has published, given talks, and contributed to exhibitions on artists such as Lisette Model, Bill Brandt, Gordon Matta Clark, Thomas Struth, and Garry Winogrand.
She was also the Project Research Assistant on the groundbreaking Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project Object: Photo at The Museum of Modern Art, and in 2013 she co-curated the exhibition Many Things Placed Here and There: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery, part of Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art.