The Valley Photo Center will celebrate Black History Month in February, 2023 with a tribute to Gordon Parks. As part of the celebration, we will be displaying photographs inspired by Gordon Parks in a juried photo contest and exhibit.
The theme for the contest is Photographs That Your Heart Told You To Make. Enter photographs you make that you felt passionate about when you made them.
I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the intent of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own, What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.
Gordon Parks
| August 1942 – Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, with three grandchildren and her adopted daughter. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8b14872 |
Contest Rules:
- You can only submit digitally. Once judged, a limited number of 20×30 print will be made for the gallery show.
- Fill out the entry form here.
- You’ll be sent an invoice to pay the entry fee (first entry free for members). Instructions how to upload files will be emailed after you pay the invoice. To enter additional images use another form.
- There will be a $10.00 entry fee per entry for non members.
- The first entry by members is FREE, each additional entry will be $10.00.
- Prizes will be a $75.00 Hunt Photo and Video gift certificate for the best image, $50.00 for 2nd place, and $25.00 for 3rd place as well as honorable mention ribbons.
- The judges will select 19 images that we will make into 20×30 prints for display in the exhibit.
- Images not selected for printing will be displayed digitally in the gallery and on the VPC website.
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