Photo Contest: Solo Exhibition July 2024

Announcing the Monthly Solo Exhibition Photo Contest: Showcase Your Talent Globally!

Each month, an exceptional photographer will be awarded a Solo Exhibition on our newly dedicated showroom pages. The upcoming exhibition dates are from July 1 to July 31, 2024. Our goal is to spotlight incredible work that awakens imagination, transforms perspectives, and resonates deeply with viewers.

The Solo Exhibition offers an unparalleled opportunity to reach a wider audience through our independent online magazine, recognized as one of the most vibrant portals of photography on the web. This competition is open to photographers of all categories and subject matters, including photojournalism, street photography, artistic photography, portraits, nudes, landscapes, nature, wildlife, urban scenes, architecture, fashion, fine art, and documentary photography. We encourage you to unleash your creativity!

Whether you are a seasoned professional or a passionate photography enthusiast, we invite you to submit a cohesive body of work or portfolio. Only a unified group of photos will be considered for a solo exhibition. To make your online photo gallery stand out, submit one project or a body of work that showcases unity. You can submit between 6 and 14 images for a flat fee of $45.

The Solo Exhibition is a powerful promotional tool designed to showcase your work to a global audience. The winning solo exhibition will be featured from July 1 to July 31, 2024, in our Competition Gallery, New Showroom pages, Home Page, 'Top Stories', 'Featured Photographer', 'Photo Exhibitions', and 'Article' pages.

In addition to being featured, you can sell your work online with no commission fees. In today’s economy, almost 50% of art sales happen online. This is your chance to skip the middleman, as All About Photo won’t charge any commissions on your sales. We will connect you directly with potential buyers.

Your solo exhibition will also have a permanent presence on the All About Photo Online Gallery. It will be accessible in our past exhibitions and Article directory, and you will have a permanent page showcasing 20 images of your work in our Photographers Directory.

Gain international visibility and press coverage by having your work published across all our online channels. The winning photographer will be profiled on our Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts, and the Solo Exhibition will be featured in our Newsletter. Additionally, the winning photographer will receive international press exposure, with past winners having been featured in major publications like The Times UK, National Geographic Espana, The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Eye of Photography, Digital Camera, and Competences Photo. The Solo Exhibition will also be promoted on Art Week, Bored Panda, Photophiles, Private Photo Review, and Visura.

All About Photo connects you directly with industry experts from around the world. Don’t miss this new opportunity to showcase your work and reach a broader audience on a global scale. Enter our Solo Exhibition Photo Contest and let your talent shine!

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

An incredible book that we highly recommend! All About Photo

All About Michael Joseph

Nick Brandt: Sink / Rise, The Day May Break: Chapter Three

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2024 | 120 pages

Through his widely acclaimed work, English photographer Nick Brandt (1964) addresses pressing environmental issues, consistently highlighting mankind’s impact upon the natural world. His work is truly a fusion of artistry and activism, and he is best known for capturing the majestic landscapes of Africa as well as intimate portraits of its wildlife. Sink / Rise is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying ecological degradation and destruction. This chapter adopts a slightly different approach than its predecessors: taking humans, rather than animals or landscapes, as his subjects. Sink / Rise focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are local representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises. In Brandt’s images, the Islanders sit down at tables, stand on chairs and embrace―all the while, their pinched expressions reveal the desperation of their asphyxiating condition.

All About Nick Brandt

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord:

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

Christer Strömholm

By Christer Strömholm

Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing

2024 | 296 pages

Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black‐and‐white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him “as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher.”

Photo Contest: Solo Exhibition July 2024

Announcing the Monthly Solo Exhibition Photo Contest: Showcase Your Talent Globally!

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