Juror: Jason Robinson
This exhibit will open on November 3 with a reception on November 5th 5:30 - 7:30 PM
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| As part of our community outreach, Vermont Photo Space is hosting a Vermont High School Student only juried photography exhibit. We organized this effort with the help of Essex High School Photography teacher Wendy James. As photographers we select a slice of our world through our camera’s viewfinder. Where we place the borders of this rectangle has power. We can entice our viewers with a fleeting moment or draw the viewer into a dynamic composition of lines, shapes, repetition, and tones. Our photographs might evoke a strong mood or make a persuasive social statement. We can open eyes to seeing our everyday world in a new way. What power do your photographs hold? |
Jason Robinson is a photographer, graphic designer, and digital workshop instructor. He has been immersed in the photo industry for over eleven years. He regularly exhibits photography throughout Vermont and New York. Trained initially as a darkroom printer, Jason’s work presently embraces both traditional and digital technology. His work includes documentary and portrait photography. Although the majority of his images are still captured on film, the editing and printing is now done in a digital lab. Jason is the owner and manager of DESIGNHAUS art space and gallery as well as LeZot Camera in Burlington, Vermont. He is also an adviser to New England and upstate New York photographic educators. | |
Juror's Statement: Images are what I do. I see them, I create them and I help countless others realize their own. Imaging pays my bills and feeds my children. I take imaging and artistic photography very seriously. So when I was asked to be a juror for this exhibition I was honored and stressed about judging not only images, but images of people just beginning the process of not only photography, but life. There were two ways for me to approach judging these images, the way I know how, blunt and disconnected from the artist or empathetic and nurturing of young people’s perspective. I initially used the methods that I had learned through many years of having my own work critiqued. That is to be brutal and nitpick every out of place pixel and de-focused subject within the frame. I did judge the entries three different times before allowing my blinders to widen a bit. Eventually, along with my ridged critique guidelines I did allow my selections to be tinted with a new value, the quality of youth - this young artistic vocabulary is a blend of excitement, novelty and optimism. My selections were not taken lightly. I expected every image that was entered to respect the rules of photography and art. I wanted each image to have substance and to be enjoyable to look at. I not only looked for overall composition, but use of the entire working space. I wanted blank space to have a purpose within the image. I looked for and put high merit in multiple compositions within the singular showing. If the space around a subject is vacant because of poor cropping and not to strengthen the image, I discarded the image. I also put high value on basic photographic skills. I checked the focus of the image and had to make the distinction between selective focus and just being out of focus. If there was use of shadows, I looked for details within those shadows or the intentional lack of detail creating a silhouette. Lastly, I looked for the emotional connection. How does this image make me feel? Is the photographer allowing me a sincere look into the artist’s life or are the photographs just an exercise in sentimentality? Obviously the main goal of selection is to reward the strongest images according to me. I feel I have done this and I wish all of the students the best of luck and continued success in photography.
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| Demure Juror's Choice SOLD  Rhye Tempest Montpelier, Vermont USA | Walk a Mile in my Shoes... People's Choice SOLD  Rhye Tempest Montpelier, Vermont USA | Silhouette Girl Addy Stricker Jericho, Vermont USA |
Blue Alissa Yandow Essex Junction, Vermont USA | Inquisitive. Alyssa Marko Shelburne, Vermont USA | Self Portrait Anna Compere Waitsfield, VT USA |
Silent  Annavitte Rand Richmond, VT USA | Karin Annavitte Rand Richmond, VT USA | Night Bloom  Annavitte Rand Richmond, VT USA |
night collage Carly T Moretown, VT USA | Untitled  Caroline Edholm Charlotte, Vermont USA | Rolling Dice Caroline Edholm Charlotte, Vermont USA |
Three Mikes Christian Goulette Williston, Vermont USA | Burlington Waterfront Christian Goulette Williston, Vermont USA | Seth Frey - Work & Play Colin Cardinal Essex Junction, Vermont USA |
Captured Shadow Dakota Deady Underhill, VT USA | Trampoline Jump Daniel Schechner Shelburne, VT USA | Grain of Salt Devon Preston Jericho, VT USA |
Plow Dylan South Burlington, Vermont USA | Spoked Elainey Fitzpatrick Essex Jct., Vermont USA | Kitchen 2010 Emma Hartswick Jericho, VT USA |
Tower Haley Kessler Jericho, VT USA | Blue and Green Helen Cox Huntington, VT USA | Looking Back Helen Cox Huntington, VT USA |
scissor land James Bayne St.albans, Vermont USA | Waiting. Katie Gardner South Hero, Vermont USA | Lamp Post Katie Mckenny south burlington, vermont USA |
Xylophone Kira Sevy Jericho, VT USA | Sock 'em Kira Sevy Jericho, VT USA | Waiting Lindsey Flanders Westford, VT USA |
Strangers  Lindsey Flanders Westford, VT USA | Wyatt SOLD  Linnae O'Neil Essex Junction, Vermont USA | old friends Madison Carrig essex junction, vermont USA |
| Burlington, Vermont SOLD  Maura Willey Essex Junction, VT USA | A Gathering of Chickens Meaghan Hughes Jericho, VT USA | Chained Meaghan Hughes Jericho, VT USA |
Missing: Key to the World Meghan Cleary South Burlington, Vermont USA | Contented Outlook Paige Dunbar Essex Jct., Vermont USA | Tender Toes of Point Rhye Tempest Montpelier, Vermont USA |
Sister and Cousin  Shyla Walters Essex Jct., VT. USA | Observing a Person Observe People Stephanie Chang South Burlington, Vermont USA | Loner Stephanie Chang South Burlington, Vermont USA |
steps to Sterling Pond  Sylvia E Jericho, VT USA | My Brother Taylor Reynolds Essex Jct, VT USA | Old Bridge In Bath Maine  Taylor Ward Essex Jct., Vermont USA |
Skatepark Tim Averill Williston, VT USA | Candid Kiss Tyler Santor Colchester, Vermont USA | Lonely Bike Tyler Santor Colchester, Vermont USA |
Landscape Reflection Victoria Mousley Jericho, Vermont USA | Lake Side View Viktoriya Keshchyan Burlington, Vermont USA |
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