Masks

We all wear masks. At Halloween, Mardi Gras. At work we are one person, at home, another, and with friends we have yet more masks to choose from. We're looking for images with masks, literal and figurative, color or BW, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Entering Your Images  

You can enter your images online at www.SmarterEntry.com For best results, make sure your image is 1200 pixels @72 dpi on the longest side, Images should be in JPEG format, sRGB color space. Please name your files: Aband.Last Name.First Initial.Image#.jpg (Examples: Aband.Smith.J.Image1.jpg, Aband.Jones.R.Image3.jpg) If you need help entering your images or are unable to, please contact info@sec4p.com or call 864.605.7400

Eligibility: All photographers regardless of location, age or skill level. Images previously selected for exhibition at the SE Center for Photography within two years of the current exhibition are not eligible.

Fees: 

$35 for up to 5 Images, $6 for each additional image up to 15. 

Members, $28 for up to 5 Images, $5 for each additional image up to 15.

No refunds for images not selected for inclusion.

Juror:

 Our juror for Masks is Bootsy Holler. Bootsy Holler is an intuitive American artist who has worked in photography for 30 years. She is best known for her work as a portraitist, beginning with intimate depictions of herself and her friends at the center of Seattle's pivotal music scene during the early 1990s and 2000s. These formative years working both ends of the lens cemented her style and methodology. Her empathic journalistic approach informed her work as she segued into a thriving commercial and editorial practice while at the same time always creating art. Her art revolves around family, memory, emotions, eco-feminism, and giving feelings to the inanimate. 

Holler currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She has been recognized by the Society of Photographic Journalism and selected for Critical Mass Top 50 twice. Her art images have appeared in numerous publications like VOGUE, House & Garden, Aesthetica, Dodho, FOA, AAP Magazine, and Chinese Photographer Magazine. Her seminal work is in the permanent collection of the Grammy Museum. She has shown work at The Foley Gallery, in NYC, and in 2020 she was invited to exhibit at the Shanghai International Photo Festival. She has hung art at London Photo, Fotofever, Paris, The Griffin Museum of Photography, the California Museum of Photography, and The Center for Fine Art Photography. She was recently awarded Best-of-Show at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California. In 2019 she published her second monograph, TREASURES: objects I've known all my life. Bootsy is working on a new book about the Seattle Music Scene 1992-2008.

Exhibition Details

35-40 selected images will hang in the SE Center’s Virtual gallery space for approximately one month. In addition, selected images are featured in the SE Center social media accounts (FB, IG, Twitter) and an archived, online slide show. A video walkthrough of each exhibition is also featured and archived.

Sales & Copyright

The SE Center encourages sales during exhibitions and receives 0% commission on work sold. The artist receives 100% of the sale price. If a print is sold it will be ordered from the photographer at the time of sale. 

Artist retains all copyrights to their own images. Artists whose work is chosen for exhibition inclusion grant the SE Center for Photography permission to use images for promoting the exhibition, artist, or SE Center and its programs, and current and past exhibitions. Images may be placed on social media for promotion and features. Artists grant usage as stated without further compensation.

Calendar          

Submissions Open 6/15/25

Submissions Close 8/15/25

Selections Announced 8/25/25

Exhibition Opens 10/1/25

Exhibition Closes 10/30/25

Thank you for entering the competition and good luck!