Call for Work – Light Sensitive

Light Sensitive celebrates, promotes, and reaffirms the art of handcrafted prints that uniquely belong to the tradition of light sensitive creative processes. Each year we are in search for work that represents creativity, passion, and displays the beauty of these light sensitive processes. As we have seen technology trends continue to drive digital photography and presentation, Light Sensitive highlights art from artists working in traditional and historical printing processes.

Light Sensitive will be exhibited in Gallery 4 at HD South.

This year we are honored to have photographer and alternative photography process educator Kerik Kouklis jury the submitted work in the thirteenth Art Intersection Light Sensitive exhibition. 

Banner images from Light Sensitive 2022 by Randall Tosh, Lynn Bierbaum, Mary Nation

About the Juror

Kerik Kouklis is a fine art photographer, filmmaker, and educator who specializes in creating handmade photographs and documentary films. Born and raised in California with a background in music and a 30-year career as an environmental geologist under his belt, Kerik combines a contemporary eye with 19th-century processes to produce work that is uniquely his own. Influenced by the pictorialists of the early 20th century, he makes images that can be at once calm and unsettling. Working in a variety of formats from small digital cameras up to large view cameras, Kerik uses both film and digital negatives to create his prints.

Acceptable Processes

Processes include, and are not limited to, the following: silver gelatin prints, albumen, anthotype, argyrotype, athenatype, Bayard direct positive, calotype, carbon, casein, chrysotype, cyanotype, dusting-on process, gum bichromate, gumoil, Herschel’s breath printing, photopolymer gravure, Ivorytype, kallitype, mordançage, platinum/palladium, printing-out-paper, solarplate intaglio, van dyke brown, wet plate collodion, whey process, Ziatype, combinations of any of these processes, and all photographically based image-making techniques that incorporate traditional studio-based mediums such as printmaking, ceramics, or painting. 

Both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional work may be submitted. Conventional, unmodified digital inkjet prints are not acceptable for entry; however, the use of digital negatives, created for printing any of the above processes is acceptable.

Awards for Light Sensitive

First place $350
Second place $250
Third place $150
Honorable mentions

Important 2024 Dates

August 29 – Submissions close at midnight Arizona, MST (UTC – 7)
September 7 – Email notification of work selected for exhibition
October 12 – Selected work due at Art Intersection ready to hang/install
November 16, 2024 to January 11, 2025 – Exhibition open in Gallery 4 at HD South
November 16 – Artist Reception, 6 – 8pm
January  18, 2025 – Pick up work
January 25, 2025 – Work begins shipping back using prepaid shipping labels

You can view images from last year’s Light Sensitive by clicking here.