The Cultural Center of
Barcelona Can Basté will
host from April 26th
to June 2nd 2012,
the Sixth International Lensless (pinhole, zone-plate, sieve…) Photography Exhibition
on the subject of the end of the world.
Since the dawn of humanity, the
human being realizes that his life has
an end, that all life ends one
day and thus the world we know may also turn
off. Many prophecies from the
Mayan, the Sybil and other Pythia have announced the date: the
winter solstice of
2012 of the Gregorian calendar:
21/12/2012 12/21/2012 2012/12/21
End of the world, end of humanity, end
of your world or simple idiomatic expression... Causes and consequences have little importance (almost) for our practice of
pinhole photography. Whether a natural disaster, nuclear, economic,
a breakup, the loss of a love, a
job or a pet, the
theft of a car or a
situation where you
feel losing ground, the end of the world can
take place every day in some innocuous actions and everyone will
say "it's the end of the world" in a circumstance of
its own.
Hyeronimus Bosch's paintings,
films like “On the beach” (Stanley Kramer), "The
Deer Hunter” (Michael Cimino), "Soylent Green" (Richard Fleischer)
"Melancholia" by Lars von Trier… show scenes of the end of the world
that are not always happy ...
And you? What
images of the end of the world can
you create with your pinhole?
The exhibition will be held in Barcelona
(Spain) at the Cultural Center Can Basté, from April 26th to June 2nd 2012, and probably in Orense (Galicia) (dates to be defined later).
You have to present a
coherent series of 5 to 10 photographs.
The size, the
support and the arrangement of the images are open.
The images that
will be exhibited in two distant locations must be prepared
to be
« ready to hang ».
If you choose
to show them framed, don’t use glass !
To participate, send before February 15th, 2012, by Internet only at the electronic
address frenchpinholecenter@orange.fr,
a file including the following details:
1- A coherent series of 5 to 10 photographs.
Reproductions
of the images such as they will appear to the exhibition without passe-partout
or frame, but if it is an alternative print the reproduction will be the one of
the print). The reproductions will be numbered. Every reproduction will have
1800 pixels in its largest dimension in 300 dpi, .jpeg format maximal
quality. The digitized images must be dusted off, in RGB format for the color,
in grey levels for the Black and White.
2- A sketch presenting the arrangement with the number
of each picture. You aren’t obliged to use frames, your pictures can be simply pasted on a rigid support
or presented in the form of a roller or be a part of an installation…
3- a note
(format RTF) presenting (in French, English or Spanish) :
- Your Name,
First name, Address, Country
- e-mail
address.
- The URL of
your website, Blog or Flickr gallery, and so on
- A short
biography (5 lines max.)
- Characteristics of the
pinhole-camera(s) used to create these photography (focal length, diaphragm, …)
4- A short text (in French, English or Spanish)
presenting your work on this subject (5 lines max.).
5- A photography of each pinhole-cameras used,
numbered in correspondence with the reproductions. This (these) image(s) will
measure 1000 pixels in its greatest dimension in 300 dpi, in JPEG maximum
quality.
The pictures will be used in the catalog, so they need
to be technically perfect !
The files not corresponding
to this request will be systematically rejected.
The selected authors will be informed by e-mail only between 25th and 29th of
february 2012. The selected authors will have to send in March (dead line for
reception : March 30th) by the
post office their photographs ready to
be hung on the walls.
Authors have to take all the
customary precautions for a safe travel of their works so that they won’t be
damaged.
The
curator of the exhibition and Can Basté reserve the right to not hang on the
prints which quality is not in compliance with selected files.
During the exhibition, the authors will follow on http://frenchpinholecenter.blogspot.com and the de Can Basté site http://www.canbaste.com/ the
events of the exhibition.
At the end of the exhibition in Barcelona the pictures
will certainly go to Orense (Galicia) to be exhibited during El Otuño Fotografico. At the end of this
second part of exibition they will be returned to their authors at the Can
Basté of Barcelona expense.
Memorandum
2012, February 15th :
Dead line to send the files to the following address :
frenchpinholecenter@orange.fr
20012, February 25-29: The selected authors are
informed by e-mail.
20012, March 1st – March 30th : Reception
of the works ready to be hung.
Centro
cultural Can Basté
Pg.
Fabra i Puig, 274
08031
Barcelona
España
2012, April 26th to June 2nd:
Exhibition (Opening on April 26th at 8 pm)
2012, November :
Otoño
fotografico à Orense (Galicie)
