BLACK+WHITE Call For Entry : Curated by Elizabeth Avedon

First Light © Sean Perry

Mahavodi Temple, Bodhgaya, India © Nicholas Vreeland

Black and white photography still holds a place in my heart; it holds an incomparable mystique and mood. Actually film star Ginger Rogers said something like that, but I am of the same opinion. Canadian photojournalist Ted Grant said, “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!” I’m not sure that is an actual fact, but I like his point of view. – Elizabeth Avedon

I’m looking for entries on all subject matter, real or illusive, unpredictable or expected, complicated or plain, in black + white.

"Black + White” Photographs Call for Entry

Curated by Elizabeth Avedon

Entry Deadline: January 6, 2020

Notifications: January 20, 2020

Framed images due at Gallery: March 1, 2020

Exhibition hangs March 1 - May 15, 2020

South x Southeast Photography Gallery

Molena, Georgia

Detailed Information and Submissions here

questions: nancy@sxsemagazine.com

NICHOLAS VREELAND: Street Photography

Navigating Monsoons, Hubli, India
Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

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Lodi Gardens, Delhi, India

Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Lodi Gardens, Delhi, India

Photograph © Nicholas Vreeland

Nicholas Vreeland is a Buddhist monk who loves photography. He's had a long history on that front acquiring skills assisting Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, and from his friends Henri Cartier-Bresson and wife Martine Franck - before and after becoming a Buddhist monk. He is now a rather famous monk, having several titles. He is also known as Ven. Geshe Thupten Lhundup, a fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk, who is now the abbot of Rato Dratsang.

In May of 2012, the Dalai Lama gave Nicholas, then Director of The Tibet Center in New York, a daunting new assignment. He was enthroned as the new Abbot of Rato Monastery in southern India, one of the most important monasteries in Tibetan Buddhism. He is the first Westerner to hold the position as Khen Rinpoche.

 Nicholas Vreeland, Bodhgaya, India 1986

Photograph © Elizabeth Paul Avedon

Nicholas Vreeland (above as a novice monk) leaving to receive his full ordination bestowed by H.H. 14th Dalai Lama, early morning, December 1986, The Ashoka Hotel, Bodhgaya, India. Accompanied by Jamyang Chojor of Tibet, nephew of Khyongla Rato Rinpoche. Photograph © Elizabeth Paul Avedon.

 Nicholas Vreeland, Broadway, NY 2012

 Photograph © Elizabeth Paul Avedon

Nicholas Vreeland on his way to his solo photography exhibition at the Leica Gallery, Broadway, New York, 2012.

Nicholas Vreeland 

Photos For Rato (purchase prints)

Rato Dratsang Monastery, India

The Tibet Center, NY

@nvreeland on Instagram