Open Call – In Isolation

IN ISOLATION: YOU, ME, WE

 

The Lucie Foundation is proud to present its second Open Call in partnership with Musée Magazine and Sony. This Open Call features 40 photographers from around the world in four categories: Portrait, Documentary, Fine Art and Landscape.

 

The 10 photographers featured in the Fall 2020 issue of Musée Magazine are:

Snezhana von Büdingen (portrait), Jim Eyre & Natalie Christensen (landscape), Jim Krantz (portrait), Anna Malgina (portrait), Monia Marchionni (portrait), Aly Song (documentary), Marvin Systermans & Raisa Galofre (portrait), F.Dilek Uyar (documentary), Eddy Verloes (fine art), and Devin Yalkin (documentary).

Congratulations to Snezhana von Büdingen (Cologne, Germany), winner of the Sony camera and lens for her portrait titled Sofie with her mother Barbara.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to our partner Sony for their contribution and generosity.

ONLINE EXHIBITION OF THE 40 FINALISTS

TOP 10 IMAGES IN EACH CATEGORY

Documentary

F.Dilek Uyar / Ankara, Turkey

Aly Song / Shanghai, China

Devin Yalkin / Brooklyn, NY, USA

Yulia Grigoryants / Yerevan, Armenia

Alexandra Dinca / Saint-Etienne, France

Louise Amelie & Aljaz Fuis / Berlin, Germany

Md. Iqbal Hossain / Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bruno Alencastro / Três Coroas, Brazil

Sarah Pabst / Buenos Aires, Argentina

Florence Goupil / Lima, Peru

Portrait

Snezhana von Büdingen / Cologne, Germany

Anna Malgina / Pordenone, Italy

Jim Krantz / Los Angeles, CA USA

Monia Marchionni / San Giorgio, Italy

Marvin Systermans & Raisa Galofre / Barranquilla, Colombia

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan / Dhaka, Bangladesh

Nikola Tamindzic / New York, NY USA

Sara Camporesi  Forlì, Italy

Aline Smithson / Los Angeles, CA USA

Dellfina Dellert & Luka Lukasiak / Warsaw, Poland

Yulia Grigoryants / Yerevan, Armenia
Yulia Grigoryants / Yerevan, Armenia
Cosmic Solitude - The same room serves as a bedroom and an office for the laboratory assistant at the Aragats Cosmic Ray Research Station on the slopes of Armenia’s Mount Aragats.

The Station was the largest center of physics devoted to the study of cosmic rays during the soviet time.
Today there are only three employees at the station, studying high-energy particles thrown from exploding stars, black holes and other astrophysical calamities.
Isolation and solitude is what these two scientists and their cook experience in a place that once, employed over 100 scientists.
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Monia Marchionni / San Giorgio, Italy
Monia Marchionni / San Giorgio, Italy
The necessary days - 19 March, Father's Day. When I asked my father to do a portrait together for the lockdown, he didn't ask me anything, he hugged me gently as when I was a child, and we said many things in silence.
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Fine Art

Eddy Verloes / Boutersem, Belgium

Mieke Douglas / London, UK

Gavin Smart / Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Carlo Pettinelli / Rome, Italy

John Wright / Billericay, UK

Angelika Kollin / Cape Town, South Africa

Bradly Dever Treadaway / Brooklyn, NY USA

Ruben Tomas / Los Angeles, CA USA

Alp Peker / İzmir, Turkey

Ioanna Natsikou / Berlin, Germany

Carlo Pettinelli / Rome, Italy
Carlo Pettinelli / Rome, Italy
37.4 - 37.4 degrees is the limit temperature with which you are officially declared ""healthy"". At 37.5 ° you enter the anti-Covid-19 control field (you cannot enter the workplace and in all those places where the temperature control at the entrance is in force).
This is our life in these strange days and looking at the world with new eyes seems to be an obligatory path, to be taken with decision, not so much as a defense from the invisible (for that there are norms and common sense), but for understand our time.
Staging a new kind of view is one of the possible paths: no longer (or not only) a world of light but a world of body temperatures, phosphorescent yellows, deep reds, intense violet.
Giving a new contour to things by replacing light with temperature. Giving color to fear from a new point of view, to be able to look at it. The spectrum of human sight aligns with other frequencies, those of the virus. Suddenly we can see our souls.

Note: the photographs were taken with a thermal camera, which combines the thermal spectrum with the visible image with a dual camera.
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Landscape

Natalie Christensen and Jim Eyre / Jim Eyre, UK and Natalie Christensen, USA

Laura Hedien / Grayslake, IL USA

Matthew Portch / Melbourne, Australia

Ina Otzko / Sandnessjøen, Norway

Meg Roussos / Bainbridge Island, WA USA

Sossi Madzounian / Tarzana, California USA

Ryan Bakerink / Chicago, IL USA

Mark Benham / Bath, UK

Sharon Harkness / Santa Barbara, CA USA

Christopher Burns / Baton Rouge, LA USA

Landscape Gallery
Landscape Gallery
Scroll through to see the finalists.
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JURORS 

Maggie Steber

Documentary Photographer, member of VII Photo Agency

Gerd Ludwig

Documentary Photographer, National Geographic

Andrea Blanch

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Musée Magazine

“One of the great things about judging a competition during this shut down period is that it’s like taking a walk and getting to see a large number of things you wouldn’t get to see on any regular walk. That is the case with the Lucie  Foundation photo competition entitled In Isolation: You, Me, We…. because you suddenly feel so very liberated and that, indeed, we are in this together.” – Maggie Steber, Juror

 

 

“I was impressed with the high quality of entries—it was hard to judge with so many wonderful images. I enjoyed the diversity of styles and perspectives represented, and was personally drawn to images that had a strong emotional quality, in which photographers shared their passion and communicated their very personal point of view.” – Gerd Ludwig, Juror

This Open Call is in partnership with Musée Magazine and Sony.