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Moholy Ground Magazine is a carefully curated journal of photography. Unlike most contemporary art magazines, Moholy Ground invites the reader to encounter the artwork as they would in a gallery.

 

Each photographer’s work is presented in spreads that are eight to fithteen pages long and features a short essay or interview about the body of work presented. The issue also includes a full interview with the featured and portfolio artists.

If you would like to submit your work for consideration please send an email to submissions[at]moholyground.org .

 

Each issue of Moholy Ground Magazine presents 3 photo essays, two portfolios, and one feature photographer.

 

The Sections

PORTFOLIO

PHOTO PORTFOLIO: 12 to 15 pages, interview -1500 words max.

The artiest portfolio examine a range of artistic work that is tied together by an overall theme or idea. Each photograph has a title, date, and place

 

PROJECTED

PHOTO ESSAY: 8 to 12 pages , introduction to the work by artiest, 500 words max.

A thematic photo essays and exploration of a particular theme or focus that tells a clear and concise story
The series of work has a title and Includes an introduction to the work from the artist.

 

If you would like to submit your work for consideration please send an email to submissions[at]moholyground.org You can also share a dropbox file, or a download link with us.

 

Provide the following:

1.) A short bio about yourself.

 

2.) A short description of the work in 500 words or less. Save as a text document (.doc, .rft, .wpd or .pdf)

 

3.) 20 to 30 images representing a series of work.

 

We looked forward to reviewing your work. Please check out our license agreement before submitting work to Moholy Ground. By submitting your work, you accept this license.

 

Specs:

Jpeg's are great as well as Tiff's and PDF's. Please don't send RAW, or PSD files

 

Dont: Up sample

Up sampling is when a lower resolution image is changed to a higher resolution image with editing software with no changes in dimensions. Upsampling adds more pixels/dots per inch (dpi), but creates blurry images, blocks of color, or unintended high contrast in an images.

 

What we are looking for when we look at your work.

Below is a  list of the categories we are looking for ,the photography submitted should have elements from a few of these subcategories, but one category should define the work

 

Conceptual/Abstract: The photograph or series of photographs represent a concept or idea, such as love, loneliness, addiction, consumption, etc. The image will incorporate abstract symbolism to be interpreted by the viewer. Examples:

-- Jeff Walls, "1369 light" is a reference to Ralph Ellison's Invisible man. Many of his images are staged and refer to the history of art and philosophical problems of representation.

 

-- Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, our name sake, experimented with the interactions and physical properties of light/color reflection as metaphor for reason.

 

-- Man Ray confronted distortive effect of light and perception.

 

Documentary / Journalistic: Some say that all photography is a form of documentary. We're looking for documentation of events or issues we find of merit, such as:

-- A series that shows a process from beginning to end. Perhaps the extinguishing of a house fire. -- Concerts, events, shows. Oakland after the riot. "This Is Farm Punk" -- Brothels, sweat shops. Places where there is a story. Street

 

Landscapes and Still Lifes: Not only trees, flowers, and lakes, but construction sites, tunnels, steps, trash…

--Edward Weston could make anything look sexy. Check out his cabbage leaf series from like 1931

 

Travel could be a lot of things, so be specific about your subject. We're more interested in a series on the Indian circus that a series on India.

 

Portraiture: Includes animals, insects, fish, etc. Nudes- but only if there is purpose.

 

Portrait are hard to pull off and they should have parts of all three of the following elements 

 

Subject - why is the subject interesting- who are they. it

 

How - the process/craft of taking the picture 

 

Perceptivity - The image revels something about or gives insight or penatrate into the subject it revels gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing.

--Timothy Greenfield-Sanders book XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits - Strong in alll three

 

-- Performance by Richard Avedon. Strong in alll three

 

-- Will McBride's photo series "Overpopulation" from 1968- Portraiture that has a strong insight tied together with a Conceptual Idea

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