CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Memory Orchards
Candela Books is looking for photography by artists whose work features their own family for inclusion in a hardcover book to be released in November 2023
Candela Gallery is excited to announce the open call for our upcoming book project, Memory Orchards.
Personal photographs are universal. Even those photographers who travel the world chasing commercial careers, or editorial greatness, will inevitably photograph their own lives to a significant extent. And often these personal documents are the most important images a photographer will make in a lifetime.
What types of work are accepted?
With Memory Orchards, we hope to showcase work from both established and emerging photographers.
We will be able to feature concise edits for powerful projects about family. However, if you have a single outlying ‘great image,’ we will find a place for that as well. A mix of snapshots, fine art, mixed media, formal portraiture, and candid work will be included. As long as you submit your photography depicting your family, we will consider it.
Find the full prospectus and submission guidelines here.
Family Dynamics
We will still be interested in the ‘nuclear’ family – we are open to diverse interpretations of family which recognize the beautiful reality that sometimes our real families are those whom we have chosen, more so than those to whom we are related by blood or by ritual. Work about LGBTQ+ families is strongly encouraged. Documentation of any and all diverse family relationships are strongly encouraged… i.e. twins, triplets, grandparents, lovers, sensuality, non-traditional, soulmates, etc..
Placeholder images provided by Candela staff
(Whitney Cole, Shane McFadden, Gordon Stettinius)
PROJECT TIMELINE
NOVEMBER 1, 2022 – JANUARY 31, 2023
Rolling submissions received
FEBRUARY 2023
Initial agreements will begin rolling out. Prompt return of agreements,
when offered, will ensure your place in the project.
MID-LATE SPRING 2023
Final files, suitable for reproduction, must be submitted
SUMMER 2023
Electronic proofs will be provided for pertinent portions
of the project prior to going to press.
NOVEMBER 2023
Artists’ copies of the book will be sent out on or around this tentative release date
**Memory Orchards is a working title. Title is subject to change.