Portfolio Review

Only 13 spaces left!

The Portfolio Review will be held on September 21st, from 9 am until 3 pm, at the Stricklands Store, in Concord, Georgia. The fee is only $299, which includes a 20-minute review by five outstanding reviewers, lunch, and Soiree on Friday night (Sept. 20th). 

1938 Plymouth under Pecan Trees by Malgorzata Florkowska

Our reviewers this year are:  Brie Castell (owner of the Fine Art Photography Gallery in Asheville, NC), Alexa Dilworth (Director of Publishing and Awards at the center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC), Dennis Kiel (Curator at the Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and film, Charlotte, NC), Rob McDonald (Associate Dean of faculty and a Professor of English and Fine Arts at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA), Forest McMullin (a freelance photographer and photographic educator, Atlanta, GA), and Kevin Miller (the Director and Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL)

Participating in a Portfolio Review can be an eye opening experience.  When fresh eyes look at your work, threads that tie the work together, that you may not have seen, can become apparent.  It is a great experience to meet with a reviewer in a one on one conversation over your body of work.  During the down time and after the review it is a great time to network and meet other photographers.

To register click this link -- Portfolio Review



         

Entry Deadline This Weekend!

Do you have a photograph that you keep coming back to?

 

Doubts as to whether it's "show-worthy"? if it would get in?

 

Now is the time to place a bet on yourself and play that wildcard!

 

Trust your instincts and let that shot complete your set of six photos entered into SlowExposures 2013.

 

The deadline is upon us; you have until midnight this Sunday, June 16th, to enter.

 

For details click HERE.

 

When you click that link you go to our "Call For Entries" page. The photo featured on this page by Donna Rosser received second place last year. Donna tells us that she had 5 entries ready to submit, but was looking for number 6 -- and entered "Family Tree."

 

You never know where your 'wildcard' can take you.

As a participant in SlowExposures, you will have an opportunity to get feedback on your work by taking part in the Portfolio Review. Emerging photographers will be able to spend time with seasoned reviewers to gain insight and guidance. Think of this as a master class in photography, focused entirely on your work! For details, click on "2013 Portfolio Review" on our home page.

Good Luck to All Applicants! It is going to be an awesome September!

Alexa Dilworth

 

Alexa Dilworth is the publishing director and senior editor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, where she also runs the Awards Program, which includes the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, the CDS Documentary Essay Prize for Writing and Photography, and the Lange-Taylor Prize.

 

In 1995, Dilworth was hired by CDS to work for DoubleTake magazine, where she held the position of proofreader, managing editor, and then executive director. She was also hired as editor of the CDS books program at that time and has coordinated the editorial, design, and production work for every CDS book since 1996 -- most recently (since 2010), One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia, In The Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America, Literacy & Justice Through Photography, Iraq / Perspectives: Photographs by Benjamin Lowry, American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow, Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary, and Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sounds, which she co-edited.

 

CDS Books at the Center for Documentary Studies are works of creative exploration by writers and photographers who convey new ways of seeing and understanding human experience in all its diversity -- books that tell stories, challenge our assumptions, awaken our social conscience, and connect life, learning, and art.

 

Alexa Dilworth has a B.A. and M.A., both in English, from the University of Florida and an M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry) from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She was born in Japan; raised in Springfield, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida; and has now lived in Durham, North Carolina for twenty-two years.

 

Dilworth is new to SlowExposures this year and a portfolio reviewer. She is interested in seeing new and innovative approaches to documentary projects.

 

 

Portfolio Review registration is active now at SlowExposures.org