About Der Greif »Guest Room: Susan Bright«
Susan Bright has worked within the arts for twenty years and has a track record of innovative exhibitions, publications and programming specialising in how photography is made, disseminated and interpreted. She has curated exhibitions internationally at institutions including: Tate Britain, The National Portrait Gallery in London and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago amongst others. Current projects include curating a large exhibition of Elina Brotherus’s new work at Serlachius Museum, Finland and co-authoring a book on visual literacy for Tate.
Susan Bright is, among other things, currently interested in work that involved other mediums (especially thread) and work that references or takes as a point of inspiration 19th Century photography and culture.
The exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007) was the first major exhibition of British photography at Tate. The exhibition of Home Truths (Photographers’ Gallery and the Foundling Museum and traveling to MoCP, Chicago and Belfast Exposed) was named one of the top exhibitions of 2013/2014 by The Guardian and The Chicago Tribune. Her published books include: Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography (2017), Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (2013), Auto Focus: The Self Portrait in Contemporary Photography (2010), How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007: co ‐authored with Val Williams), Face of Fashion (2007), and Art Photography Now (2005). She regularly writes for museums and monographic books, and contributes to numerous magazines and journals. Bright holds a Ph.D in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Why submit to »Guest Room«?
»Guest Room« is a free opportunity to show your work to curators and gallerists. Your work will be seen and possibly published as part of the online-exhibition at the Der Greif website, a highly-frequented international source of photographic art.
About Der Greif: Guest Room
DER GREIF is an award-winning organization for contemporary photography. It is print-publication, online-publication, curatorial team and joint project all at once.
The website is exhibition-, communication-, and information-platform for participants and anyone interested in contemporary photography. Participating artists are presented in special Artist Features where they are given the opportunity to blog. In »Guest Room«, outstanding personalities in the field of international photography curate and select their favorite submissions online.
»Guest Room« has been conceived in January 2015 in order to expand and explore the possibilities of thoughtfully combining single photographic images and presenting them online. Each Guest Room-selection is published in real-time. Around 30 images per Guest are shown – single images or image-combinations.
Over the years DER GREIF has developed a very distinctive handling when working with photography-submissions from artists from all over the world. »Guest Room« questions this approach and the role the artistic directors of Der Greif play in it by integrating curators and gallerists in the field of international photography.
How to submit your work
Submitting to Der Greif »Guest Room: Susan Bright« is easy:
- Fill in your personal details in the Profile section
- In the »Work«-section, add or upload a project consisting of up to four images. Images can either be part of a series or be conceived as single images.
- Submit your work
For more information, please read the Terms and Condition at the summary of the submission process.
Timeline
Requirements
Submission Requirements
- One project with a maximum of 4 images
- Susan Bright is, among other things, currently interested in work that involved other mediums (especially thread) and work that references or takes as a point of inspiration 19th Century photography and culture.
- The submitted photographs must fulfill the following technical terms: min. 1500px, max. 7000px
Entrance Fees
- no entrance fees
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