Photography Contest

The old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words," seems to suggest that a photograph transcends language, but words have been a key part of many important photographers' work-from the billboards and signs in many Walker Evans' photos to Lee Friedlander's 2019 book, Signs, for example. The interplay of language and image can create a vivid sense of tension, irony, or poignance. The size and shapes of a font are visual aspects that can carry as much weight as any other aspect in the frame.

​ ​Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that includes written language as a fundamental aspect of the composition, including text in the form of signs or fragments of signs, handwriting scrawled over the photo, graffiti and palimpsests, just to name a few iterations of the theme. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.