Found Photos Archives

©Andy Mattern

Lenscratch recently held its annual(-ish) call-for-projects, and the response was impressive. In total, there were over 500 submissions.

©David Ellingsen, An Audience 2024 Digital collage. Pigment ink on cotton rag paper, mounted and hand-cut to shape, with gold edging, 20×16 inches.

©Yukimi Akiba, Dignity, N°43, 2022

Sometimes you come across an Instagram post seen in endless scrolling and it stops you in your tracks.

©Jean Sousa

For the next few days, we will be looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-submissions.

©Joe Rudko, Orange, from Untitled Colors, Found photographs on paper, 50.5 x 38.

FIRST PLACE WINNER ©Annette LeMay Burke, My Playhouse, San Mateo, CA, IG @atelierlemay

A huge thank you to our juror, Greg Sand, and to all who have shared your work with us.

©Daisy Patton, Untitled (Dear half 5-4-1927)*, 2021, 80×60”

When personal snapshots are lost or abandoned by their owners, the memories they represent are lost with them.

We recently talked with Lee Shulman, Film director, Founder and Curator of The Anonymous Project.

Most collections of vernacular photographs are archives of memory, visual reminders of the people, places, or events they depict.

What does it mean to be an archaeologist of imagery? Through utilizing found images to construct photographic collages, Hava

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