N.Y. PHOTO CURATOR RESULTS

Theme: EMERGING ARCHIVES curated by shauna Caldwell

First Place: Marissa Nicole Stewart 'The Stitching Holds Us Together'
Second Place: TRACI MARIE LEE, Home=come in and see
Honorable Mentions: BRIANNA DOWD, Mother Pearl (Untitled IV) & BETH GALTON, Follow the path 
Best Series: MARISSA STEWART, images from Gregory Archives series

Note from Curator shauna Caldwell:

Dear Artists,
Thank you so much for your submissions to the Emerging Archives call. It has been so wonderful to spend time with your work, musing over the stories imbued into each series and reflecting on which images impacted me the most. The quiet poetry embedded in the work, as well as the presence of intentional decision-making is deeply touching and is what guided my process. The selected images interact with the idea of an archive of memories in such tender ways that easily reach me through their thoughtful composition.

I feel grateful for this opportunity to learn about myself and about you through your artistry and move forward inspired by what you have shared.

With gratitude,
shauna

shauna Caldwell says, "The radical act of archiving, with the intent to preserve and restore histories against domination, is often a beautiful and intimate point of connection between artists, their own lineages, and the interconnected communities both within and beyond the archive. Inspired by the vitality of communal collections of photographs, letters, and material culture thriving outside of traditional institutions, I wonder...

How might we animate and tend to our shared legacies? Which stories do we choose to tell and why, and how do they connect to others? In what ways are we mindful of the impact our current archiving practices have on our ways of knowing and being? Entwined with a sense of care and critique, the emergent archive activates relationships, bearing witness to stories both told and intentionally untold.

I welcome submissions from artists who are illuminating dynamic relationships to archives, defined broadly as collections of memories utilizing “found photographs”, [re]presentations of records, etc."