The alternative would be slides of the images
The easy solution, then, is don't enter. That will free up the spot you may have had for someone who isn't going to bitch about the way the work is viewed by the juror.
The easy solution, then, is don't enter. That will free up the spot you may have had for someone who isn't going to bitch about the way the work is viewed by the juror.
Its obvious who in this thread has ZERO exhibition experience.
Like another poster said, this is how its done, don't like it, then get out of the way of the professionals. Your narrow-minded bigotry is only hurting YOUR career, no one else cares.
Its obvious who in this thread has ZERO exhibition experience.
Its obvious who in this thread has ZERO exhibition experience. Those of us who do know that juried shows almost never (and never have) used the original prints for judging entries. Before digital, they demanded slides. That meant taking pictures of your prints using slide film and the results never looked as good as the original. Its done digital now because slide jurying is a logistical nightmare. You have to keep track of who the slides belong to so you can mail them back and before the jury can see them they have to be loaded in slide projector trays. Its much more efficient for them to ask for a CD or email of JPEGS and frankly, having done both slides and digital submissions, the digital ones are MUCH truer in appearance to the originals than slides ever were.
Like another poster said, this is how its done, don't like it, then get out of the way of the professionals. Your narrow-minded bigotry is only hurting YOUR career, no one else cares.
I expect that the experienced judges are reasonably good at interpreting the digital facsimiles of analogue prints. By that, I mean that a good judge will be able to tell whether the original photograph is likely to reveal more/have more positive qualities than the digital image of it that they see.
If these juried shows require that accepted work be printed to be displayed, I would expect that the real challenge would be lousy digital prints made subsequently from digital images reviewed and accepted by judges.
Chris-
If you are going to be insulting and attempt to speak with such authority, please know what you are talking about.
There are plenty of shows that accept, even require, physical prints.
I will now provide my proof.
Last I saw, all with a year or so, these shows required physical prints:
Philadelphia Sketch Club annual photo competition
Perkins Center of Art annual photo competition
Center for the Creative Arts annual competition
Yes, they are local or regional shows. You've likely never heard of them, fine.
But they do, to use an examples just off the top of my head, show why you should not be so damn sure of yourself.
If there is anyone here showing "narrow-minded bigotry" it is, well, you.
Look, I don't need another career, I already have prosperous 30 year career making expensive, highly decorated pool cues. I'm not a bigot and am curious about this process, seems like a poor way to do it despite it being the way it's done. I have had favorable portfolio revues by people with good credentials and have been in juried shows which required print submission. Honestly, I would love to see your prints and could care less about seeing the web pics. Why be so nasty? I didn't claim to have experience..EC
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