EMPTY PLACES : ABANDONED SPACES

Through the visual representation of abandoned spaces, artifacts of history are at once fresh and new, ancient and decayed. The past continues to live in these forsaken, ruined, or empty spaces and we ask—Who were the people who lived and worked here? What were their lives like? What were their stories? What happened to them in these spaces?

Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographic art that explores the visual and social significance of abandoned space-where derelict factories, churches, private houses or other empty places serve as the basis for creative investigation. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.

JUROR | ORIN RUTCHICK
Orin Rutchick has been a photographer since age 14. He is a graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a recipient of the McKnight Fellowship Grant for Photography. Since moving to Berkeley, California seven years ago, he has received two Berkeley Civic Arts Awards for his portraiture.
After graduating from MCAD in 1974, Orin began his career as a magazine art director, and then formed a boutique design firm with four fellow creatives. Orin went on to become creative director for an international retail marketing firm, and in 2008 founded and directed a photo center and gallery in Minneapolis. In 2015 he retired to Berkeley, California where he now works in photography and alternative processes.