Significant Colour
A curated international photography exhibition
November 19 – December 12, 2020 newsletter
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There are two kinds of photographs with respect to the significance of their use of colours. On the one hand, ever since colour film technology became widely available, colour has become the default in most photographic practices. That is, some photographs are in colour not because their colours bear some special significance (compared, for instance, to their possible black and white counterparts) but simply because the available film or digital technology has long turned colour to be the common method of capturing photographic images. We may think of these photographs as colour by default. On the other hand, colours are often central to the meaning of photographs for their emphatic, symbolic, psychological, social, compositional, etc. significance. These photographs would not work in black and white the same way or they would not work at all; that they are in colour is not merely a technological given, rather, it is an integral, formative and significant aspect of their photographic meaning. We may think of these photographs as colour by significance.
Juror's choice
Juta Jazz: Turning Point
Honourable mentions
Paul Delpani: Terasse
Vasilios Papaioannu: Brazil
Ryuten Paul Rosenblum: Ancient Chinese Walls: Forbidden City 1, Beijing
Exhibiting photographers
Mildred Alpern (New York, NY, USA), Christopher Behrend (Buffalo, NY, USA), Lindsay Brice (New York, NY, USA), Harriet Brocket (London, UK), Derek Brown (Phayathai Bangkok, Thailand), Eva Brunner (Berlin, Germany), Preston Buchtel (Cleveland, OH, USA), Brian Cann (Waldenbuch, Germany), Jenny Chernansky (New Orleans, LA, USA), Eric Conrad (Lawrence, KS, USA), Dorie Dahlberg (Long Branch, NJ, USA), Paul Delpani (Vienna, Austria), Peter Devenyi (Ottawa , Canada), Todd Dieringer (Akron, OH, USA), Jacqueline Ennis-Cole (London, UK), Christopher N. Ferreria (San Diego, CA, USA), Christopher Fluder (New York, NY, USA), Lara Genovese (London, UK), John Greiner-Ferris (Quincy, MA, USA), Elena Haliczer (DeKalb, IL, USA), Kip Harris (Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada), Juta Jazz (Nicosia, Cyprus), Gary Justis (Bloomington, IL, USA), Elizabeth Kayl (Loveland, CO, USA), Inbal Kristin (Ashkelon, Isreal), Stefanie Lebowski (Paris, France), Gene Lee (San Francisco, CA, USA), Joyce P. Lopez (Venice, FL, USA), Kit Martin (Chicago, IL, USA), Yoshitaka Masuda (Tokyo, Japan), Brandon Movall (Eden Prairie, MN, USA), Namkor Studio (Moscow, Russia), Satoko Nishioka (Tokyo , Japan), Vasilios Papaioannu (Washington, DC, USA), Léna Piani (Ajaccio, France), Marco Prado (Philadelphia, PA, USA), Ryuten Paul Rosenblum (San Anselmo, CA, USA), Tina Sejbjerg (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Ilya Trofimenko (Dresden, Germany), Henriette Tronrud (Oslo, Norway), Kevin Umbel (Fayetteville, WV, USA), Eszter Varga (Kecel, Hungary), Eiji Yamamoto (Saarbruecken, Germany)
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