The 2021 Vernacular Photography Exhibition

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. It was exciting to see all the creative submissions and we appreciate you efforts in sending us work. Juror Greg Sand shares his thoughts:
I am so excited about this exhibition, and it was a joy to experience the many approaches to the theme. All of the artists in this show have created pieces that explore vernacular imagery in unique and beautiful ways, whether manipulating a found photograph through collage or assemblage, incorporating vernacular images into a photograph, or working in a snapshot aesthetic.
It has been an honor to curate this incredible exhibition and view the many wonderful submissions. Please know that if your work is not included, it is not a reflection on its quality or value. I tried to shape a show that I felt fully and accurately represented the theme as well as reflected the diversity of techniques and interpretations that were submitted. Thank you to everyone who entered, and congratulations to the winners and featured artists.

HONORABLE MENTION ©Diane Meyer, Group I, Los Angeles, CA IG @dianemeyerstudio

©Adriene Hughes, Italian Wedding, Brooklyn, 1960, 8×10″ felted/embroidered wedding photograph, San Diego, CA, IG: @adriene_hughes

HONORABLE MENTION ©Alayna N Pernell, No Longer Peter J Cohen’s Property #16, Chicago, IL IG:@alaynapernell

HONORABLE MENTION ©Bruce Morton, Forgottonia #57, Bowen, IL

© Kambua Chema, Lockdown, Nairobi – Kenya. IG: @kambuaphoto

©Alexander Wheeler, 666, Massachusetts, IG: @alex_wheelr

©Austin Miller, Untitled, Galveston, Texas type c print, IG: @am.foto

©Barbara Levine, What happened?, Archival pigment print IG: @projectbphotos

©Megan Bent, Skips A Generation (For Anne), 2019, chlorophyll print on hosta leaf, West Hartford, CT @m_e_g_g_i_e_b

©Daniela Guzmán, Soy Todas (I am every woman), Collage and embroidery on found photographs from the 60´s in Mexico IG @lacrisalidahumana

©Eve Lumai Bridges, In Faded Days, Found Photograph From Japan, IG: @eveillustration

©Jerry Takigawa, EO 9066, Monterey, CA , process: pigment print IG: @jerrytakigawa

© Laura Glabman, Sunny at Sixteen, Brooklyn, NY, Cyanotype (using Old B&W Negative and Lace w/masked layers) IG: @my2bobs

©Maureen Bond, Wagon, San Fernando Valley, CA IG @maureenbond

©Barrie Lynn Bryant, Momma’s Bedside Story, Memphis, TN, IG @barrielynnbryant

©Samin Ahmadzadeh, Ahvaz Garden, Ahvaz, Iran, IG: @samin_ahmadzadeh

©Steve Butcher, POV (mountain drive), NY IG @stevebutcher.photo IG @Steve.ny

©Zoé Forget, Vénus, Paris, France @zoeforgetphotography
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