Museum Exhibit Calling for Entries from Underwater Photographers
It isn’t just in your sweetest dreams that you can have your underwater photos shown in a museum gallery. The Oceanside Museum of Art is looking for entries from underwater photographers to include in its upcoming exhibit—“Liquid Capture- Masters of Underwater Photography.”
The exhibit will be accepting photos in five categories – Ocean Environment Underwater, Macro, Diver, Ocean Environment Above Water, and Marine Mammals – and will feature 25 of the top entries along with those selected by an elite judging panel including Andy Sallmon, Stuart Westmorland and Yoshi Hirata.
There is a flat fee for admission of $25 for the first three images and $20 for each additional image. Images will be on display at the Oceanside Museum of Art beginning April 28 and more information, including entry info, can be found on the exhibition’s official website.
PRESS RELEASE
Liquid Capture: Masters of Underwater Photography
Call to Underwater Photography Artists
Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) invites underwater photography artists to submit their work for review for the upcoming exhibition Liquid Capture: Masters of Underwater Photography on view at OMA April 28 through June 17, 2012 with an Exhibition Reception and Panel Discussion on May 5 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Organized by renowned photographer Lee Peterson, this exhibition will present the best underwater photographic art from around the world. There will be five categories for the photography contest: Ocean Environment Underwater, Macro, Diver, Ocean Environment Above Water and Marine Mammals. An optional category is Submersion, a creative look at diving. Prizes include a Nikon and a Cannon underwater digital camera sponsored by Oceanside Photo and Telescope, an Aqua Lung Titan LX Regulator and image enhancement software from Topaz Labs. Best of Show will receive complementary face mounted printing. All selected photographs will be published in the exhibition catalogue being created by Digital One and artists will receive an exhibition certificate from Oceanside Museum of Art.
To submit your work visit: www.MASTERSOFUNDERWATERPHOTOGRAPHICART.COM
Admission fee is a flat $25 for up to three submissions, additional images are $20. There will be 3 winners per category; these 25 pieces will be in the exhibition as well as 25 additional pieces selected by the jurors. Each piece will be printed by Digital One in San Diego size 16x24 and the Best of Show will be printed 20x30. Artists will be responsible for the cost of printing, boxing and shipping their work if it is selected. All artwork must be submitted on the website by March 4, 2012. Artists will be informed by March 19, 2012 if their work is selected. If selected they will need to submit a high resolution image to the ftp site ftpliquidcapture.com by March 23, 2012.
Respected jurors include Andrew Sallmon of Sallmon Marine Photography, Stuart Westmorland, Yoshi Hirata from Japan, and Eric Hanauer. The exhibition is organized by Lee Peterson, one of the founders of the San Diego Underwater Photographic Society in 1961. He now runs the San Diego Photodistrict community and his own Photographic commercial business.
Andrew “Andy” Sallmon is a freelance underwater photographer specializing in images of marine life and the marine environment. His love of the sea has taken him all over the world looking for ways to capture dynamic portraits of its creatures large and small. He hopes that through the viewing of these images people will someday learn to appreciate and understand the awesome beauty and fragile nature of the oceans and to ultimately change some of the detrimental practices of humankind toward the sea. His work has been featured in hundreds of books, magazines, calendars, posters, catalogs and advertisements. In addition, some of his images are on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Smithsonian Institute.
Stuart Westmorland is recognized as one of the leading marine photographers in the United States. His marine mammal and natural history images appear in a variety of books, magazines, posters, calendars, brochures and aquarium displays. His work has been featured on the cover of over 200 magazines including Time, Islands, Caribbean Travel & Life, National Geographic Kids, and The Environmental Magazine, among others. Stuart resides near Seattle, Washington.
Yoshi Hirata is Japan’s photographic guru that specializes in small critters: discoverer of more than 10 new species of marine life. Yoshi is the author of My Ocean and My expression of love for the sea with... He is also the managing owner of Club Paraiso resort and P-com Diving of Cebu, Philippines.
Eric Hanauer founded the scuba program at Cal State Fullerton, and when he moved from coaching into teaching began shooting pictures underwater instead of shooting fish. In 1977, he broke into a new field with his first article in Skin Diver magazine. Over the past 30 years, his photos and articles have been published in magazines, books, posters, and CDs worldwide. He has written guidebooks to the Red Sea and Micronesia, as well as an oral history of diving in America. Recently Hanauer began shooting underwater video, and his work has been selected for showing in festivals, on the internet, on iTunes, and in TV commercials. He is the president of the San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition (UFEX).
Opened in 1995, Oceanside Museum of Art educates and inspires through a unique range of diverse engaging exhibitions and programs that connect people with regional, national and global artists and art forms. The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday 1 to 4 pm. Admission is $8, $5 for seniors and free for students and military. For more information call 760.435.3720 or visit www.oma-online.org. The museum is located at 704 Pier View Way in downtown Oceanside, California within walking distance from the Oceanside transit center with Amtrak, Coaster, Sprinter and Metrolink stops.
