Theme: Frames Within Frames

Theme: Frames Within Frames

"Speaking of the power of photography, Garry Winogrand once said, 'Putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it.' Let’s take that a step further: what happens when you put a frame—in the form of a doorway, window, mirror, casket, another picture, or some other structure—in the photograph itself? It may intensify the focus on the thing framed, but what about what’s happening in the margins between the interior frame and the edge of the picture? How does the composition work as a whole? How do the elements inside and outside the framing device interact? What has the photographer gained by including a frame within the picture rather than making it the border of the entire image?
Praxis seeks photographic art that explores a frame or multiple frames within an image as the conceptual basis for the aesthetic expression. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission."

Juror: Dallas Crow
Dallas Crow is a teacher, photographer, and writer who lives in Atlanta. He has had work in juried shows in Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, Halifax (Canada), Athens (Greece), and Tokyo (Japan). In addition, his solo exhibition of photographs from the 49th parallel, The Other Border, was mounted at Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis in the fall of 2018, and in the spring of 2021 he had another solo exhibition, Thankful for the Blues, at Space Place Gallery in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. He has also juried multiple shows at Praxis. His writing has appeared in numerous periodicals. His first poetry chapbook, Small, Imperfect Paradise, was published by Parallel Press, and another, Troutwatching, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.