{"id":930,"date":"2010-02-24T21:43:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=930"},"modified":"2010-02-24T21:43:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:43:18","slug":"critical-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Critical Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Critical Mass<\/em> is not just for cyclists.<\/p>\n

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\nTen Years of Critical Mass<\/small><\/a> – Cyclists show their strength in London. April 2004<\/small><\/p>\n

“Critical Mass is a program about exposure and community<\/em>” says Photolucida<\/em>, an arts non-profit based in Portland, Oregon, USA which runs this competitive programme. It’s a fairly simple and not too expensive way to try to get your work seen by a lot of people in the world of photography.<\/p>\n

The initial stage costs $75 and gets your 10 submitted images seen by a group of around 20-25 jurors, many connected with Photolucida and Portland which makes a selection of the top 175 from each year’s crop.<\/p>\n

These finalists then pay another $200 and their work gets sent to a fairly impressive list of 200 jurors, mainly from the USA, but with a sprinkling from around the world. These jurors get a CD-ROM containing the pictures and “a hard-copy thumbnail image index of all the artists with contact information<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

These jurors then select their top 50 photographers, who get the opportunity to have their work in a Critical Mass Top 50<\/em> show at Photographic Center Northwest<\/em> in Seattle, USA, and Photolucida will publish monographs for 2 or more photographers from among the top-scoring finalists. Their work is also shown on the Critical Mass pages on the Photolucida web site – and you can now see the 2009 Top 50<\/a> there, as well as those from the previous five years.<\/p>\n

All entrants get copies of that year’s monographs – though they may take a couple of years to come out – as well as a CD containing all of the submitted work.<\/p>\n

If you are thinking of entering you have a few months to get your entry ready, as registration for Critical Mass takes place in late summer. $75 isn’t a great deal of money and you are going to get two or three decent photo books in return. The publicity for the top 50 must be worth the extra $200, and the chance of publication. So if you think the world is ready for your work it is certainly worth thinking about.<\/p>\n

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\nMay 2006<\/a>: Brian Haw lectures Critical Mass cyclists, asking where they were on Tuesday morning.<\/small><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back in London, Critical Mass<\/em> continues to happen on the last Friday evening of every month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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