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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Nikola Tamindzic / New York, NY USA
Nikola Tamindzic / New York, NY USA
I am here, and you are where you are - Seyi River, filmmaker, photographed remotely during the COVID-19 quarantine, April 26 2020
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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

Mieke Douglas / London, UK
Mieke Douglas / London, UK
White Horses: Covid Dreams and the Rhythm of Lockdown - Breaking waves are sometimes referred to as white horses, as the crest of the wave can be seen as the mane of the horse. If you listen closely, the faint booming of the waves crashing sounds like hundreds of hooves thundering along the ground.

The emotions of lockdown come and go, ebb and flow. Sometimes extreme, often softly cocooned in a safe quarantine bubble. I am having vivid dreams. I am not the only one. It can be hard to separate the dreams from reality.

I find comfort in slowing down: surrendering to the unstoppable power and progression of nature. This ongoing project is about the forms, shapes and patterns of nature. There is something soothing in her structures. Yielding to her rhythms and accepting the natural world and our place within it.
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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.