CLOSED | Call for Entry: Online Group Exhibition - "Connecting to the Divine” February 2022

Dec 29

We are excited to announce that our February 2022 online group exhibition, “Connecting to the Divine,” is being curated by the founder of Vision Quest Photo Workshops and publisher of Shots Magazine, Douglas Beasley! The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2022! To enter, all you need to do is read and respond to the following prompt with your analog photography. The best of these images will be showcased in an online show, beginning February 14th, 2022. Good luck!

Douglas Beasley writes: Our photographs can be spiritual metaphors expressing our connection to the divine or to the eternal. This is different than documenting the religious or spiritual practices of others, this is so much more personal. Show us what it is that you personally hold sacred, how you interact with your spiritual instincts or inclinations, and how that shows up in your photography. It is often more about feeling than knowing. How do you express your connection to the divine? What is ‘divine’ to you and is it possible to translate that visually? Maybe you are not sure and, like me, are using your photography to help figure that out. Wherever you are in the process, I want to see the results of your attempts, even the unpolished and unresolved.

“To see what’s in me, that’s why I make the photographs. To glorify God. To see we’re not alone, that we’re infinite and finite at the same time.” – Joel-Peter Witkin
“Art is a holy pursuit.” –T Bone Burnett, Music Producer

- Douglas Beasley

Deadline for Submissions is January 31st, 2022

About the Curator

Douglas Beasley’s personal vision explores the spiritual aspects of people and place. His photography is concerned with how spirit is recognized and expressed in everyday life. Doug is a very dedicated teacher who believes that creativity and vision are more important than equipment choices.

Exhibited and published extensively internationally, with several published books, he is also the founder of Vision Quest Photo Workshops and publisher of Shots Magazine, an international B&W fine-art photography quarterly from reader submissions on a theme.

Personal heroes include the Dalai Lama, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and whoever invented the espresso machine.

His website is douglasbeasley.com

Submission Guidelines:

Image Specifications:
1) Only .jpg files will be accepted.
2) Images must be 1500px on the shortest side at 72dpi.
3) No photo-shopped borders or watermarks.
4) Only one image may be submitted.
5) Image must be named in the following format: “FirstNameLastName1.jpg”, etc.

Email Specifications:
1) The subject line of your email should state: "Submission: Connecting to the Devine”
2) Please ATTACH your images to the email. Do not embed them. Do not attach a google drive or dropbox link.
3) Include your information in the format requested (see below).
4) Format Request: “Title” by Your Name | Camera + Film, Process - Your URL

Send your submission to submissions@analogforevermagazine.com by January 31st, 2022.

Note: Due to the large number of submissions we receive you may not receive a response. Though we try our best to respond to everyone, we do not guarantee a response. Thank you for understanding.

Copyright Information:

By submitting photos for publication in Analog Forever Magazine you are stipulating to us that you own copyright to these photographs or have permission from the copyright holder to submit these photographs. You are granting Analog Forever Magazine a non-exclusive license to use the photograph in its submitted form, subject to re-sizing to fit the magazine format, for publication on the Analog Forever Magazine website for as long as the website exists. You also grant Analog Forever Magazine permission to use these photographs on social media accounts connected to Analog Forever Magazine including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Should you, for any reason, wish your photographs to be removed from the website, we will make every effort to do so. However, please note also that third parties such as educational institutions, search engines or individuals may download, save, store or archive this (or any other) website with or without our knowledge. Analog Forever Magazine will have no control over such downloading and subsequent use and therefore cannot accept responsibility for any such use.

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Michael Behlen

Michael Behlen is a photography enthusiast from Fresno, CA. He works in finance and spends his free time shooting instant film and seeing live music, usually a combination of the two. He has self- published two Polaroid photobooks--“Searching for Stillness, Vol. 1” and “I Was a Pioneer,” literally a boxed set of his instant film work. He exhibited a variety of his photos at Raizana Teas, a Fresno tea room and health food store; his work there, “Polaroid Prints of Landscapes and Strangers,” was up for viewing during the months of June and July, 2014. He has been published, been interviewed, and been reviewed in a quantity of magazines, from” F-Stop” and “ToneLit” to “The Film Shooter’s Collective.” He loves the magic sensuality of instant film: its saturated, surreal colors; the unpredictability of the medium; it’s addictive qualities as you watch it develop. Behlen is the founder and Publisher of “Pryme Magazine.” You can see his work here: www.dontshakeitlikeapolaroid.com