Time(s) - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Atlanta Photography Group
Photo: Shuyuan Zhou, Have You Eaten Yet
Photo as Object
What is a photograph beyond the image itself? How does it transform when merged with other materials, altered, or reimagined in new dimensions? This call invites artists who challenge the boundaries of photography—who see it not just as a print or an image, but as a dynamic element in multi-media artworks.
For this exhibition we sought photographic objects that break conventions—works that integrate photography with sculpture, installation, collage, digital manipulation, or any other medium that expands its meaning. How does photography function when it becomes physical, sculptural, interactive, or ephemeral? How does it hold or disrupt memory when its materiality is altered?
We invited submissions that provoke dialogue between photography and its form, between the image and the object, between tradition and transformation.
APG is honored to have as our esteemed juror, Mary Anne Redding, Senior Curator of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Mary Anne Redding
Senior Curator
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Mary Anne Redding is visual arts curator and writer. Currently she is the senior curator of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Ohio University, an M.A. in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an M.L.S. from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, as well as an advanced certificate in Museum Studies from Arizona State University. Most recently Redding completed a Master’s in Creative Leadership from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (August 2024). She has written and published numerous essays on photography and contemporary art. Before taking her post as Curator at the Turchin Center, Redding was the Curator of the Marion Center for Photographic Arts and the Chair of the Photography Department at Santa Fe University of Art & Design. Previously, she was the Curator of Photography for the Palace of the Governors New Mexico History Museum. Redding has more than 40 years’ experience working as a curator, archivist, librarian, educator and arts administrator.
Featured Artists
Amy Rockett-Todd
Annabel McGannon
Bryan Galgano
Caroline Perkins
Carolyn Norton
Charlotte Woolf
Chip Standifer
Chris May
Corinne Adams
Dale Niles
Debra Barnhart
Emily Baker
Emily Greenslade
Gene Dominique
Guyla Johnson
Harper Nichols
John Long
Katie Shapiro
Linda Barsotti
Linda Plaisted
Lynne Buchanan
Marcos Oscar Lopez
Marky Kauffmann
Mitchell Squire
Myrtie Cope
Nikki Burke
Reis Birdwhistell
Ryan Rudolph
Shuyuan Zhou
Sloane Frederick
Exhibition Dates: May 20 – June 21, 2025
Opening Reception – May 22, 2025 – 7:00-9:00pm ET
Zoom Juror/artist talk: June 12, 2025 – 7:30-9:00pm ET.
