About ONWARD
Project Basho is pleased to announce ONWARD '09, an annual juried photography competition exclusively featuring the work of new and emerging photographers with unique vision and talent. Last year, ONWARD attracted closed to 300 applicants with over 1200 photographs nationally and internationally. Andrea Modica, last year's juror, selected 59 photographs, which were exhibited at Project Basho Gallery during the months of January and February.
The theme for ONWARD is open, and any photographic medium from historical processes, traditional silver prints, chromogenic prints to digital prints can be submitted for consideration. Selected photographers’ work will be featured in a group exhibition at Project Basho Gallery. Further recognition will be awarded in the form of cash awards and/or opportunities for a two-person show at Project Basho Gallery.
This year’s group exhibition will culminate with an opening reception in January ’09. An online version of ONWARD will be also presented on Project Basho’s website showcasing selected photographers’ work for wider audiences.
About the Juror
Peter Barberie is Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His publications include Looking at Atget (Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2005), and the essay “Found Objects, or a History of the Medium, to No Particular End,” in Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery (Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale, 2006).
About Project Basho Gallery
Project Basho Gallery is located in Kensington South, the vibrant and creative section of Philadelphia along with Northern Liberties. Unique architectural details and a 14 ft foot ceiling create a gallery that is both spacious and intimate.
Since its opening last year, Project Basho Gallery has been exhibiting and promoting fine art and documentary photography from both emerging and established photographers working nationally and internationally.
Project Basho Gallery is a place where visually arresting photographs and educated viewers meet to celebrate the appreciation of the beauty, craft and vision of the medium.
