The SPE member show,”Intimacy and Voyeurism: The Public/Private Divide in Photography,” juried by Todd Hido will showcase images about photography’s ongoing tensions between public and private domain, and will explore how the lines between those domains are often blurred. The following artists were selected for the exhibition:

Malena Barnhart | Sean Black | Tara Bogart | Kristy Lynn Carpenter | Daniel Coburn | Rachel Cox | Jess Dugan | Marico Fayre | Polly Gaillard | Tracie Heller | Rachel Hubbard | Julie Jones | Chris Jordan | Ashley Kaucshinger | John Kobeck | Julia Kozerski | Joseph Labate | Andrea Land | Sarah-Marie Land | Mark Lee | Alex Leme | Nora Lewis | Kimberly Llerena | Amelia Morris | Jay Mulin | Teresa Munisteri | Peggy Nolan | Emma Powell | Julia Schlosser | | Besty Schneider | Marta Shumylo | Ernesto Somoza | Leona Strassburg | Claire Warden | Laine Wyatt

JUROR

Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Metropolis, The Face, I-D, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as in many other public and private collections. He has over a dozen published books, the latest monograph being A Road Divided, released in 2010.

Join us for the opening reception on March 24th when Todd Hido announces the best of show winner from this competition.

To learn more about Society for Photographic Education or the SPE national conference, go to www.spenational.org

Deadline submission, February 7th for Round 1!!

Photo by Audrey Jones

About

A Juried Show that is only open to students and instructors from the RayKo Workshop program. We take pride in the excellent and diverse workshops offered here, and have watched so many students thrive in our program that we want to highlight the works you’ve created! It’s a great opportunity to get your work out into the world, and be seen by thousands of people. There will be a main gallery exhibition, an online exhibition of the selected images that “win” for each semester, and there will be two entry rounds for images to be published in our Workshop Catalog. In each of the two catalog selection rounds, the prizes are class credits towards a workshop of your choice.

Click here to begin entry process

ELIGIBILITY

People who have taken a class or received tutoring in a specific process is eligible to enter. Whether you took one of our very first classes or are currently enrolled, you’re eligible.

When work is submitted, each entry has the potential of being accepted for up to four exhibition/print opportunities listed below:

1. Winners will be published in our workshop catalog
2. All selected images will be exhibited in the Main Gallery show
3. All selected images will be published in the Juried Show catalog
4. Winners will be published in our online gallery

For the December 2012 exhibition at RayKo, we will be creating a print catalog of all the accepted works. This will be an exciting presentation encapsulating the diverse range of work that students and instructors create.

CATEGORIES FOR SUBMISSION

You may submit images to multiple categories.

• Traditional & Darkroom
• Digital
• Technique & Lighting
• Historic & Alternative process

DATES FOR SUBMISSIONS and NOTIFICATIONS

Summer 2012 catalog

• Deadline for student image submission (Tue, February 7, 2012)
• Notified of results (Saturday, February 11, 2012)
• High res images due (Saturday, February 17, 2012)

Fall 2012 catalog

• Deadline for student image submission (Friday, May 11, 2012)
• Notified of results (Thursday, May 17, 2012)
• High res images due (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)

December 2012 RayKo Gallery exhibition

• Deadline for student & instructor submissions: October 12, 2012
• Notification sent: October 25, 2012
• Deadline for receipt of work: November 30, 2012
• Opening reception & catalog launch: December 6, 2012, 6-8pm
• Exhibition on view: December 6, 2012 – January 11, 2013

FEES

$10/up to 3-images
$5/each additional image (maximum of 10 total images)

Submit your best work!

JURORS

Ann Jastrab, MFA, is a fine art photographer, master printer, and teacher. She is currently the Gallery Director at RayKo Photo Center. The RayKo Gallery offers over 1600 square feet of exhibition space and presents eight to ten shows annually featuring nationally recognized artists. Ann regularly participates as a juror and reviewer for a multitude of organizations: the SF Arts Commission, Academy of Art in SF, Artspan, SF Art Institute, Fotofest, Photolucida, Review Santa Fe, Review LA, PhotoAlliance, SPE, Fotovision, Click646, and Critical Mass. She has also taught at the Maine Media Workshops since 1994.

Audrey Jones received her B.F.A. in Photography at the University of Georgia in Athens. She has had multiple shows throughout Georgia and California. After graduating, she worked in New York City in various photography studios and businesses. Since moving to the Bay Area she has been teaching photography classes at a studio in the East Bay, as well running its facilities. Audrey is the RayKo Workshop Coordinator and a member of the Darkroom staff. She is currently working on a project documenting residents living on the Oakland waterfront.

Mia Nakano is a working photographer and teacher who is invested in working with people, organizations, and movements that create social justice. She is the former Photo-Editor of Hyphen Magazine, an award winning photojournalist, and has most recently been assisting in the Free The Hikers movement. She has been the Photo-Editor and production manager of several publications, is a frequent lecturer at Universities speaking about race, gender, and sex politics, and is currently the Co-Director & Digital Manager of RayKo.

Copyright aka “The Fine Print”

You will retain copyright of your entries at all times and will always be credited alongside your picture as well as grant a non-exclusive license to display your photograph in connection with this contest in print, email, web, and all forms of publication, along with photo credit for every use. Upon submission of images, you also acknowledge that the image is yours and yours alone, and if/when a model is used, the proper release has been acquired.

For the first three Saturdays in February, we’re opening up our Tintype studio all day for Valentine portraits. Immortalize your love with one of our favorite historic photographic process and receive a silvery image that lasts a lifetime. Bring your sweetie, best friend (two legged or four), or have your portrait taken to give as a gift. In the sea of chocolates and roses, this portrait will be around for generations. We have a limited number of slots, so register now! Your plates will be varnished to protect them, but they won’t come with rose filled background paper, just a simple glassine sleeve.

Click here to reserve your spot now.

RayKo loves the spirit of this camera: Hollywood & cheesecake photographer Peter Gowland wasn’t able to get what he wanted out of any existing camera. So he designed & built his own: a twin lens reflex 4×5, to be followed by 5×7 and 8×10 versions (!). With parallax correction in the viewing frame, you can hand hold it, move in and out to compose, and focus spontaneously. Shoot in real time, don’t interrupt the moment to insert a film holder. The back can be rotated to shoot vertical or horizontal. The camera body does not accommodate wider lenses, nor does it lend itself to interchanging lenses. On this particular example, the taking lens is a Schneider Symar 210mm; some pretty fine glass. A fluid 4×5, not stiff: isn’t that every true photographer’s dream?

Check out our large format camera selection here… and learn how to use one.

We also have a large selection of large format cameras and lenses. For more information or general sales inquiries, please contact us. For those of you curious about getting into large format photography, we have upcoming Large Format Photography, Level 1 and a DIY Building Large Format Box Camera workshops. Can’t find what you’re looking? Check out our Used Camera Finder.

Crown Graphic 4x5 Press Camera $395

Stop the PRESSES! Looking for an affordable and portable way of breaking into the world of large format photography? Luscious 4×5 negatives give you expansive prints with a 3D, “liquid” sense. And you don’t have to be chained to a tripod and spend an hour on each shot. Hand-held spontaneity and 4×5 at the same time: it’s the best of both worlds. So look no further because we have the perfect camera for you. The Crown Graphic is part of the elite family of Graflex press cameras used extensively in the 1940’s and 1950’s by the top press photogs of the time. The most notable one of the era, Arthur “Weegee” Fellig, used his Speed Graphic to break the boundaries between the underworld,blood, mayhem, news, and art. His work and his Graphic will be on display at the International Center of Photography January 20th – September 2nd, 2012.

Check out our large format camera selection here… or perhaps you would prefer to build your own?

RayKo’s Fifth Annual Plastic Camera Show includes stunning and sometimes surprising images made by the crappy camera-toting winners of this competition (often the cameras themselves are more tape than plastic. Not just being held together with bits of electrical tape and black gaffers tape, but the tape also makes these cheap cameras light tight…not that the light leaks don’t often make the resulting pictures even more interesting). Photographers from all over the Bay Area as well as national and international artists are featured in this dynamic exhibit. Each year we receive thousands of entries and this year was another challenge to select only 100 compelling pieces. Why does the plastic camera continue to be so popular? Is it because the toy camera is a backlash to this digital age of photography? It could be nostalgia for the soft, square pictures with vignetted edges. It could just be nostalgia for film and the latent image- you actually have to wait to see what you shot! Or it could be love of the creak of the cheap plastic dial as you wind it, wondering if it will break off. (Forget the Hipstamatic app, this is the real deal). It could be too that we all missed the simple freedom of making pictures that aren’t perfect, that don’t have to be sharp or real or saturated or taken with a camera that costs thousands of dollars. All you need is $35 (or less) and a roll of film, and you’re in business. After seeing the exhibit, you may be inspired to start shooting one of these beauties yourself. Luckily RayKo is offering a class where you can reconnect with the simple joys of photography and have the ultimate plastic experience. Jeanne Hauser will be teaching a 3-week class on Plastic Cameras starting March 8th, just after the exhibition ends.

Also highlighted in this year’s plastic camera exhibit is the work of Bay Area artist, Robert Holmgren, who’s been our best of show winner in the past for his unique way of seeing this land of ours. He transforms familiar and foreign scenes with his singular vision, his beat-up camera and his special (and secret) printing technique. Come see the magic and experience nostalgia on more than one level. You can fall in love with Holga and Diana* and a world of other lo-tech cameras, like my new favorite, the Sprocket Rocket.

*The Holga and the Diana are plastic medium format cameras that have limited controls, a fixed focal length lens, and, luckily for artists everywhere, each one is unique…”

JUROR

Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Metropolis, The Face, I-D, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as in many other public and private collections. He has over a dozen published books, the latest monograph being A Road Divided, released in 2010.

DESCRIPTION

This competition is open to artists holding current membership in Society for Photographic Education (SPE) and is organized in conjunction with SPE’s 49th national conference, Intimacy and Voyeurism: The Public/Private Divide in Photography, March 22-25, 2012 in San Francisco, California. The exhibition will be on view at RayKo Photo Center during the SPE national conference and feature an opening reception open to all attendees of the event. The RayKo Gallery offers over 1600 square feet of exhibition space and presents eight to ten shows annually featuring nationally recognized artists.

ELIGIBILITY

All artists must hold a current membership in the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). Click here to join SPE or renew your membership.

ENTRY & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Entry Fee (non-refundable): $25/up to 3 images. $5/add’l image up to 10 images in total.
All entries must be jpegs, sizing guidelines will be on entry page
Save files with artist’s last name, first name and title of image
Example: Smith_Jane_Pigeons01.jpg
Any work deemed misrepresented by its jpeg will be declined
Click here to begin entry process

EXHIBITION & ARTWORK DELIVERY/RETURN SCHEDULE

Monday, January 22, 2012 (11:59pm | PST)
Deadline for submissions. Late submissions will not be reviewed.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Notification sent

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Hand delivery day

Friday, March 2, 2012
Deadline for shipped works (late submissions/substitute images will not be hung)

Saturday, March 24, 2012
Opening reception, 6-8p

March 15-April 6
Exhibition on view

Our new Spring schedule have just been posted online, so register now! Classes are broken down into the following categories: Darkroom & Traditional, Digital, Lighting & Technique, and Historical & Alternative Processes. The range of material offered is suitable for beginners to advanced photographers and printers. Click on any of the links to begin the registration process or peruse all of our course offerings. Be sure to check out some new courses that are a little out of the box and one where you can make a box!

* Make a box with Jo Babcock’s Building a Large Format Box Camera
* Create Digital Photo Transfers with artist Rachel Phillips
* Go on a San Francisco Photography Gallery Tour with photography expert Erika Gentry