OFF THE CLOCK: APA Los Angeles

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Photograph © Simon Johansson

 Curious Cooper
Photograph © Jamie Pflughoeft (Jamie Piper)

 I Can't Breathe
Photograph © Amy Gaskin

 A Day in The Life
Photograph © Frank Hom

 Havana Taxi Co.1
Photograph © Markku Lahdesmaki

Geisha 
Photograph © Sandra Chen Weinstein

Music + Dance = Love I

Photograph © Cassandra Plavoukos

"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." - Ansel Adams  

I was honored to be invited to curate APA-LA’s sixth annual 2017 OFF THE CLOCK photography exhibition. This was an exciting opportunity for me to view the original, creative and truly inspired personal photography of respected professional photographers.

The task of jurying work is never easy. I was to select 100 images through a blind jury process from almost 1000 entries – a daunting task. I spent hours each day over several weeks getting familiar with all the entries before making final selections. There were a wide range of genre’s, including classical fine art, fictional narratives, documentary, travel, satire, still life, and nudes; all in black and white, duotone, color, wet-plate collodion and other photographic processes.

So much care obviously went into creating each image entered, I decided this was not going to be an exhibition focused around one general theme. Instead, I chose to go for an eclectic range - individual images that captured my attention over and over each time I went through the collection. Outdoors, indoors, studio shots, professional models, demonstrators, whatever caught my eye each time I witnessed it. In the end, I feel there is a diverse movement running through the exhibit, beginning quietly and then shifting into drama, a little humor, some very fine portraiture, dizzying landscapes, and finally driving us into the face of current real-life protests.

Above are just a few of the 100 images in the exhibition that will rotate through some of the most creative advertising agencies in Los Angeles, including Saatchi + Saatchi Los Angeles and Ignited. I thank everyone who entered!

Off The Clock: APA LA 2017 

Gala + Exhibition 

Curated by Elizabeth Avedon

April 29, 7-10pm

Santa Monica Art Studios

Free and Open to the public

RSVP 

OFF THE CLOCK GALA

OFF THE CLOCK 2017 – CALL FOR ENTRIES : APA LA Curated Photo Exhibition

 (c) Erika Plummer

 

(c) Hannah Benet

APA LA

OFF THE CLOCK 2017 - Call for Entries
This Year's Guest Curator - Elizabeth Avedon

OFF THE CLOCK is APA-LA’s sixth annual curated exhibit of inspired personal photography. Images will be chosen by one curator who will carefully select the top 100 images from the submissions. Give it your best shot! This year we are honored to welcome ELIZABETH AVEDON as our curator for Off The Clock. Deadline for entries - Friday Feb 9, 2017

ONE RECEPTION, MULTIPLE ADVERTISING AGENCIES

EXCEPTIONAL EXPOSURE

All of the top Creatives in our region will receive special invitations, so this is a superb opportunity to show them your finest personal work. After the opening reception the 100 selected framed images will rotate throughout multiple agencies summer 2017. This gives your personal work exposure to creatives at the top advertising agencies in the US. We will also display the complete exhibition on our website for a full year, so your finest personal work will be available to thousands more clients. We’ve chosen a very large and wonderfully popular venue that will accommodate 100 framed prints, so your chances of participating in OFF THE CLOCK are truly excellent! You can online-enter as many JPEG images as you like. We’ve limited the number of accepted pieces from any one photographer to their top six, as decided by the curator.

YOUR FINEST PERSONAL WORK

Creatives love to see pro photographers’ personal work, because it reveals their true photographic style, without anyone else’s influence or input. OFF THE CLOCK is easy to enter. No confusing categories. No series of images. No creation date restrictions. No vastly different size prints or frames. Only strong, original, creative, truly personal work gets accepted. Entries may be black and white, duotone, or color, and should be self-commissioned and must represent what you consider to be your finest personal work. There is no limitation on when your images were created. Alternative print processes (copper plate, tin type, etc) are acceptable; there will be an extra framing fee.

CONTEST RULES + DETAILS

Deadline for entries - Friday Feb 9, 2017

 Winners announced on/or about March 11, 2017

Exhibition Opening: April 29, 2017

*American Photographic Artists