© Marisol Mendez
For the past three years Shutter Hub has exhibited at Festival Pil’Ours, in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France, ‘Because We Can!’, ‘Time to Think‘ and in 2020 we were unable to travel to deliver a new exhibition, but amazingly ‘Time to Think’ had an encore and was revisited by thousands of people in the area.
Now we’re planning to return with a new exhibition, ‘Your Body Belongs to You’ which will be co-curated by Karen Harvey (Shutter Hub Creative Director) and Marisol Mendez (Shutter Hub member and photographer of MADRE).
Find out more about the story behind the theme here, and get inspired by some of our early entrants’ images here, but this call is very much open to creative interpretation! Take the notion of ‘Your Body Belongs to You’ and run with it, as broadly and as freely as you want to. No boundaries, just your best work, show us your vision of the world, share your view with the audience, put your projects out there to be seen and discussed (the only constraint is it must be suitable for family viewing). If you are a woman or non-binary photographer this exhibition is for you!
The outdoor exhibition site is in the centre of St Gilles Croix de Vie, an area that attracts thousands of visitors day and night throughout the seasons, making the exhibition accessible to all. We’ll be following the same format that we’ve used previously (see here) and will be able to exhibit several hundred images.
The exhibition will run for three months in Spring 2022 (exact dates to be confirmed)
Each entrant can submit up to 12 images. These can be from a series or individual images. There is no upper limit to the amount of images we can exhibit at Festival Pil’Ours.
The deadline for entries has been extended and is now Thursday 23 September 2021 5pm BST
Click Rules above to find out more about entering and submit your entry by clicking Apply above.
Want to know more about what we’ve done with Festival Pil’Ours in previous years?
You can read about our Because We Can exhibition launch in 2018, and feedback from Shutter Hub, the exhibitors and the festival co-director, Josephine Leroux, here.
You can read about Time to Think in 2019 here and the 2020 encore here.
Your Body Belongs to You is for all women and non-binary photographers. Why is this opportunity for women and non-binary photographers? While we pride ourselves on inclusion, Festival Pil’Ours is about women photographers, and we know from past feedback that our male readership and membership fully understand and support projects that highlight this work. If you do have any questions about this please get in touch.
Got any questions? Email us at info@shutterhub.org.uk
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