fantom Loc: Colorado

fantom Loc: Colorado

They are looking for political campaign promises.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

Whomever wrote used the word excursus. It is from excursive, meaning prone to digression, rambling. Unmethodical and desultory.
That seems to fit.
Enter single shots from a colostomy procedure.
First prize, bet ya.
Bill

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

Sounds like they are based in Marin County, CA - More specifically Mill Valley. Could also come from The People's Republic of Berkeley.

DoyleY Loc: Worland, Wyoming

Sounds like the old saying "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with bullshit" to me.

Eric2018 Loc: Los Angeles, CA, USA

I googled some of the words and eventually found that the call was from loosenart.com, and looking at that website I did get some clues to what they might be looking for. One of the nice things about language, and photography, is that encountering something that seems incomprehensible can be an invitation to learn something new. I agree that the "call" was difficult to understand. I'm not sure I understand it even after looking at loosenart.com, but some of the images on that website are provocative, and there was a "clue" image posted with the call. Perhaps part of the call was to encourage creative approaches to a deliberately vague and obscure request for submissions. This call may be not for something that's in your portfolio, but a call to reflect on how to represent a "transition" or a "displacement", and perhaps how to combine those concepts into a single image (which doesn't yet exist). There are tons of transitions and displacements going on in our world right now -- physical, mental, cultural, political -- some of those may be susceptible to a photograph or three.

And yes, I am ready for those who say what I just wrote is more gibberish! Maybe that's why we create images instead of writing thousands of words?

hookedupin2005 Loc: Northwestern New Mexico

"Wat da hell dem peoples sayin dere, Billy Bob?" "I don't have no idee, Clyde!"

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

Thank you for posting the website of the call for entry. I was a bit confused because photo contests don't usually use this language, however, calls for entry for exhibitions often do.

Loosenart is an organisation that exhibits art in Berlin and Rome. I've been planning on entering their Abstract exhibition call. The language used makes a bit more sense because of the level of the exhibition. However, the call for entry that the OP mentioned is still very broad and that is not a bad thing all.

The good news is that this call for entry is free. Most calls like this cost $30-50 to enter.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

srt101fan

Glad to see a constructive contribution to this thread. I also searched the web and, as I said in earlier post, I contacted the originators of the call (LoosenArt) and asked for clarification. They said "there is no restriction about the interpretation".

kentling Loc: Central New York

[quote=martin smith images]Like many fellow uhh'ers I enter a few photo contests in line with my favoured photography subjects, however I recently came across a photo contest which totally baffled me as to the subject matter, this is it below, does anyone have a clue what I should look in my portfolio for??

Maybe a photo of a melting ice cube in a puddle of water would qualify.

smussler Loc: Land O Lakes, FL - Formerly Miller Place, NY

Sounds like it came straight out of a Dilbert comic strip . . .

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

[quote=Bill P]I have a friend that's Meredith. He was a fire man, and he has [participated in many triathlons. H had registered for one and went to get his stuff that morning and the persons handing out the paperwork, and announced he was Meredith, and they all melted down. They had him entered in the women's triathlon. Took him a bit to get things straight.

My favorite is Sydney. I was for several centuries a woman's name, and then for several more centuries a man's name, and now it's again a woman's name.[/quote]

Meredith Willson, author of the Music Man, Joyce Kilmer, author of trees are two more examples.

brrywill

Not sure either, but it sounds like the key words are objects of reflection, and object is immersed. Maybe a reflection of something on water since water is always in a state of transition. The social, political angle could mean tie it to climate change somehow. It sounds vague enough that you probably have a free hand.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Sitting here on the throne I believe they want a photo of a falling down house barn ect. Maybe a fallen tree. A melting ice cube. A dying something natural. Of course it is 4am and I just woke up.