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

Louise Amelie and Aljaz Fuis / Berlin, Germany
Louise Amelie and Aljaz Fuis / Berlin, Germany
OFF WORLDS - Whether in the California mountains or above the rooftops of New York – in all parts of the US one can be overwhelmed by a peripheral feeling of isolation which is partially rooted in the vastness of the country, manifesting itself in the absence of society. Periphery here does not necessarily describe a spatial separation from society, but also a systemic or experiential dissociation from the world. This kind of life, free from directives, is also expressed in the form of independence, pride and freedom. In the context of isolation, they are transformed into self-determination.
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Sara Camporesi / Forlì, Italy
Sara Camporesi / Forlì, Italy
HABITO ERGO SUM - The ""national lock down"" emphasizes distances and interiorizes them.
In this situation of isolation imposed to stem the Covid19, I am obliged to discover (or rediscover) the relationship with the closed and circumscribed space that my home represents: an acute sense of bewilderment and an everyday life that is not mine.
An emptiness of space and time that slows down the flow of hours, actions and thoughts, which transfigures me into an environment that I have never felt mine before.
The photographs are traces of me in this space, my ""habito ergo sum"" presence.
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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

Bradly Dever Treadaway / Brooklyn, NY USA
Bradly Dever Treadaway / Brooklyn, NY USA
Go Back, Go Back - "Go Back, Go Back” is a lens-based project exploring spatial, historical and technological ambiguity that concerns the recollection, reconstruction and failure of memory, manifesting as memento mori and a closing chapter of 50 years of family history. Building upon a 15-year archive-driven body of work investigating intergenerational communication and the passage of cultural currency, “Go Back, Go Back” employs the artist’s ancestral home as the site for the projection of photographs from early childhood onto the same surfaces and spaces from which they were taken nearly 4 decades ago. These photographic works blur the lines between past and present, memory and vision, surface and screen, analog and digital, real and implied texture.

Engaging pictorial strategies that draw upon collage and deconstructed narratives of portraiture and permanence, the resulting images confuse physicality and illusion in ways rendered evermore complex through the two-dimensional printing of the images. The photographs explore the margins of recollection and test representational limitations of lens-based media through a poetic interpretation of the interplay of the archive and observation. Fleeting and fading memories, broken links between generational connections and the final pages in a vernacular familial history linger at the fringes of the mundane, wherein surfaces serve as screens for the projection, physical possession and embodiment of decades old memories.

“Go Back, Go Back” is dedicated to the memory of the artist’s mother, Jane Rita Wiemann Treadaway.
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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
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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.