A Juried look at Contemporary Photography
Our 11th International Open Call exhibition will open on May 15th, 2025 as a showcase for contemporary photography as complied by Zora J Murff & Rana Young, Providence based artists teaching at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. The work in this exhibition was selected from an international call for entries to provide an updated look at current photographic practice. The 55 photographs selected were drawn from a pool of almost 700 images to create this exhibition and we would like to thank everyone who submitted work for consideration. In the end, the exhibition brings together the work of 55 photographers from 19 States, Canada and Italy to be a part of our 11th Open Call Exhibition. We are excited to be able to continue this annual exhibition, providing the opportunity to bring the work of so many new photographers to Providence. We will be reviewing all entries at a later date as we look for photographers to feature in 2026 and beyond.
The exhibition presents 55 images and includes work from: Olajide Adeleke, Eddy Aldana, Duygu Aytac, Emma Backer, Marina Bezrukova, Christa Blackwood, Ronald Butler, William Camargo, Marisa Chafetz, Maria Coletsis, Daniel Cosentino, Nicholas Dantzer, Maia Demar, Chris Diani, Sharon Draghi, Cindy Elizabeth, Jon Feinstein, Dean Forbes, Kendall Gilliam, Kris Graves, Dimitriy Gushchiin, Eric Guzman, David Hebb, Jamie Holland, Jerrie Hurd, Miles Jordan, Jessica Just, Alec Kaus, Ken Konchel, Alison Lake, Catherine LeComte Lecce, Victoria Manning, Andy Mattern, Daniel McInnes, Sarah Meftah, Hector Membreno-Canales, Yong Min Park, Dustin Nguyen, Brooks Plummer, Alkaid Ramirez, Steve Rappaport, David Rowell, Jonah Saffran-Johnson, Anastasia Shik, Katie Singleton, Colin Smith, Emma Sobel, Quincey Spagnoletti, Michael Stenta, JW Toftness, Thomas Whitworth, Shea Wilt, Sonnie Wooden & Shuyuan Zhou
The exhibition catalog is available for direct delivery to your home, office or studio… Order one for your collection
Opening Reception: May 15th 5:00 – 8:00pm
On View: Thursday, May 15th, thru Friday, June 13th, 2025
Free and Open to the Public
The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 118 N. Main St. Providence, RI
A quick gallery tour, best experienced in person…
About the Jurors: Zora J Murff & Rana Young are artists and educators based in Providence, RI; both earned their MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and currently teach photography courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts University, previously, having taught in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas (2018–23).
Prints from their collaborative series, Fade Like a Sigh, were acquired for the permanent collection at San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and displayed as part of the Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection exhibition (August 6, 2022 — May 7, 2023). Solo exhibitions of their work have been hosted nationally. Their work has been written about for Hyperallergic and the British Journal of Photography, featured in the Huffington Post, and published in-print with LensCultureand Gnomic Book.
From 2019–21, Murff and Young conceptualized and funded a curatorial project, Take It From Here, featuring artworks by ten emerging lens-based photographers who use the camera as a multifaceted site of imagination, play, and self-exploration. The project traveled to Abakus Projects (Boston, MA), Missouri State University (Springfield, MO), Filter Space (Chicago, IL), and Washington University (St. Louis, MO). They partnered with Travis Shaffer, Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, to create a limited edition Risograph exhibition catalog; the publication received a ‘Jurors’ Special Mention’ at the 2021 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
The Awards…
The Jurors selected the three works for special recognition
Awards will be presented at the closing reception on June 13th.
We invite Everyone who entered work for our 11th Annual International Call, with their guests, along with our Members & their guests to a closing reception and after party on June 13th from 5:00 – 7:00pm. Exhibitors are welcome to take their work home with them at the end of the evening.
For those not able to attend in person, prizes will be mailed out on June 14th.
Third Place: Duygu Aytac
Second Place: Shuyuan Zhou
First Place: Eddy Aldana
Congratulations to all Photographers with work included…
Olajide Adeleke, Eddy Aldana, Duygu Aytac, Emma Backer, Marina Bezrukova, Christa Blackwood, Ronald Butler, William Camargo, Marisa Chafetz, Maria Colesis, Daniel Cosentino, Nicholas Dantzer, Maia Demar, Chris Diani, Sharon Draghi, Cindy Elizabeth, Jon Feinstein, Dean Forbes, Kendall Gilliam, Kris Graves, Dimitriy Gushchiin, Eric Guzman, David Hebb, Jamie Holland, Jerrie Hurd, Miles Jordan, Jessica Just, Alec Kaus, Ken Konchel, Alison Lake, Catherine LeComte Lecce, Victoria Manning, Andy Mattern, Daniel McInnes, Sarah Meftah, Hector Membreno-Canales, Yong Min Park, Dustin Nguyen, Brooks Plummer, Alkaid Ramirez, Steve Rappaport, David Rowell, Jonah Saffran-Johnson, Anastasia Shik, Katie Singleton, Colin Smith, Emma Sobel, Quincey Spagnoletti, Michael Stenta, James Toftness, Thomas Whitworth, Shea Wilt, Sonnie Wooden & Shuyuan Zhou
Opening Reception: May 15th 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition: Thursday, May 15th, thru Friday, June 13th, 2025
The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 118 N. Main St. Providence, RI
Located in the heart of Providence, RICPA was founded to inspire creative development and provide opportunities to engage with the community through exhibitions, education, publication, and mutual support.
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