- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
- Start Date
- Dec 3, 2021
- End Date
- Jan 3, 2022
Start Date December 3, 2021
End Date January 3 2022
I was just lucky enough to attend a large retrospective exhibition of the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who was known for her compelling, revealing, disturbing, and often emotional 'Documentary' photographs. Lange once wrote:
“My own approach is based upon three considerations. First – hands off ! Whenever I photograph I do not molest or tamper with or arrange. Second – a sense of place. I try to picture as part of its surroundings, as having roots. Third – a sense of time. Whatever I photograph, I try to show as having its position in the past or in the present.” (NOTE: the underlining and boldface added are mine)
Looking at Lange's photographs, and thinking about my own, has made me wonder a lot about these second two elements of her photography - a sense of PLACE - and a sense of TIME. Incorporating these in any photograph, sounds both simple and also complicated. It also seems to me to be a worthy subject for this last Challenge of this year - a year which has been challenging for so many of us. So I am making it the 'theme' of this new Challenge - a photograph which conveys both place and time.
As always, any and all interpretations of the above are and will be welcomed, whether they are new photos taken specifically for this Challenge, or older ones which you feel are good interpretations or illustrations. The Challenge will run throughout the entire month of December, 2021 - and end at the end of the 3rd day of the new year, 2022. Obviously with holidays, vacations, family gatherings, travel, and a million and one other things which both enrich and disrupt our lives, it is a complicated period - but one which I hope many of you can find the time - and possibly the place as well - for creating or finding entries to this Challenge.
As usual, this Challenge will consider originality, technical merit and artistic vision.
No change to the tried and trusted rules, which are as follows:
1. Either take pictures that match the nominated theme or select some from your portfolio. You must be the photographer that created the images in order to enter it.
2. Only one entry per challenge, please. If you want to withdraw an entry and replace it with another, that is OK, but you must make it clear in the post containing your replacement pictures that this is what you've done. You can add or change the title and add to the edit line to let everyone know.
3. The decision of the curator at the end of the challenge is final - don't give him/her a hard time about it: this is just a friendly photo challenge, after all!
4. The winner will assume the responsibility of curator for the next Challenge, and as soon as possible post a message in a new thread in the Cameraderie Photo Challenges forum, with details of the new theme. Don't forget - the opening message must include a copy of these instructions, which also double as the rules.
5. The curator cannot enter in his or her or their own challenge.
Hope you enjoy the challenge and I am looking forward to seeing the contributions.
End Date January 3 2022
I was just lucky enough to attend a large retrospective exhibition of the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who was known for her compelling, revealing, disturbing, and often emotional 'Documentary' photographs. Lange once wrote:
“My own approach is based upon three considerations. First – hands off ! Whenever I photograph I do not molest or tamper with or arrange. Second – a sense of place. I try to picture as part of its surroundings, as having roots. Third – a sense of time. Whatever I photograph, I try to show as having its position in the past or in the present.” (NOTE: the underlining and boldface added are mine)
Looking at Lange's photographs, and thinking about my own, has made me wonder a lot about these second two elements of her photography - a sense of PLACE - and a sense of TIME. Incorporating these in any photograph, sounds both simple and also complicated. It also seems to me to be a worthy subject for this last Challenge of this year - a year which has been challenging for so many of us. So I am making it the 'theme' of this new Challenge - a photograph which conveys both place and time.
As always, any and all interpretations of the above are and will be welcomed, whether they are new photos taken specifically for this Challenge, or older ones which you feel are good interpretations or illustrations. The Challenge will run throughout the entire month of December, 2021 - and end at the end of the 3rd day of the new year, 2022. Obviously with holidays, vacations, family gatherings, travel, and a million and one other things which both enrich and disrupt our lives, it is a complicated period - but one which I hope many of you can find the time - and possibly the place as well - for creating or finding entries to this Challenge.
As usual, this Challenge will consider originality, technical merit and artistic vision.
No change to the tried and trusted rules, which are as follows:
1. Either take pictures that match the nominated theme or select some from your portfolio. You must be the photographer that created the images in order to enter it.
2. Only one entry per challenge, please. If you want to withdraw an entry and replace it with another, that is OK, but you must make it clear in the post containing your replacement pictures that this is what you've done. You can add or change the title and add to the edit line to let everyone know.
3. The decision of the curator at the end of the challenge is final - don't give him/her a hard time about it: this is just a friendly photo challenge, after all!
4. The winner will assume the responsibility of curator for the next Challenge, and as soon as possible post a message in a new thread in the Cameraderie Photo Challenges forum, with details of the new theme. Don't forget - the opening message must include a copy of these instructions, which also double as the rules.
5. The curator cannot enter in his or her or their own challenge.
Hope you enjoy the challenge and I am looking forward to seeing the contributions.
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