Whew... I tell you, it's rough work, but our incredible team of Pre-Screeners dug in and made it through the work of all 606 entrants to winnow the list of Finalists down. Our goal number of Finalists was 175, but due to a tie, that number grew a little, to 180.
OUR 2008 CRITICAL MASS FINALISTS ARE:
Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman, Witness Diptych #2, 2008
Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman
Jeffrey Aaronson
John Abbott
Thomas Alleman
Angela Bacon-Kidwell
Cara Barer
Matthew Baum
David Paul Bayles
Chris Bennett
Damion Berger
Rita Bernstein
Meg Birnbaum
John Blalock
Romain Blanquart
Joan L. Brown
gareth brown
Nan Brown
Allen Bryan
Jörg Brüggemann
Susan Burnstine
Benita Carr
Pelle Cass
Arantxa Cedillo
Tom Chambers
Tom Chambers, Feeding Time
Alejandro Chaskielberg
Céline Clanet
LIVIA CORONA
Katrina d'Autremont
Ellie Davies
Steve Davis
ANA DE ORBEGOSO
Maureen Delaney
Ron Diorio
Karen Divine
Mitch Dobrowner
Matt Eich
Davin Ellicson
Jeffris Elliott
Jeffris Elliot, Islamic Woman Ascending Stairs
NICHOLAS FEDAK II
Virgilio Ferreira
Angela Buenning Filo
Kyle Ford
Tony Fouhse
Andy Freeberg
Amanda Friedman
Joachim Froese
Teri Fullerton
Ricardo Funari
Andrea Galluzzo
thomas gardiner
Karen Glaser
Joy Goldkind
Leah Gose
rebecca greenfield
Carolyn Guild
Ben Handzo
Cig Harvey
maxine helfman
Robert Heller
Lori Hepner
Laura Heyman
Jessica Hines
Jessica Hines, Untitled #15, The Imaginings
Max Hirshfeld
Oyvind Hjelmen
aaron hobson
Brian Hodges
Thomas Holton
Rachael Jablo
Mark Jaremko
Angela Jimenez
Jesus Jimenez
Dave Jordano
Dave Jordano, Sarah and Her Daughter Shelby, Foosland, IL 2008
Priya Kambli
Lola Kantor
Cyrus Karimipour
Martin Karplus
Jessica M. Kaufman
Jim Kazanjian
Amanda Keller Konya
Doug Keyes
Ayoung Kim
Karen Klein
Jaime Kowal
Nijole Kudirka
Galina Kurlat
Ferit Kuyas
Adam Lampton
Lauren Lancaster
christine laptuta
Richard Laugharn
David Leventi
Nancy LeVine
Walter Lockwood
Pablo lopez luz
Michelle Lord
Jean-Claude Louis
Caroline Lovell
Jonathan Luckhurst
Matt Lutton
Tom Mallonee
alison malone
Erin Malone
Rebecca Martinez
Rania Matar
Paula McCartney
Patricia McClung
Graham Miller
Brian Calhoun Minnich
Kevin Miyazaki
Shayok Mukhopadhyay
mike narciso
Finn O'Hara
Lucas Oleniuk
Louie Palu
Lydia Panas
Mary Parisi
Eric Percher
Cara Phillips
Alexis Pike
Peter Prusinowski
Harri Pälviranta
Lou Raizin
Ellen Rennard
Michelle Repici
Suzanne Revy
Reiner Riedler
Johan Rosenmunthe
Charles Rozier
Maureen Ruddy Burkhart
Daniel Ernesto Schmeichler
Nathan Schroder
Traer Scott
Christina Seely
Patrick Shanahan
Caroline Shepard
Kelly Shimoda
Dustin Shum
Brian Shumway
Ken Shung
Michael Sibilia
Susan Silas
Nicolas Silberfaden
Charlie Simokaitis
Rebecca Sittler
Sarah Small
Jonathan Smith
Aline Smithson
Jared Soares
Magdalena Sole
Andrew Sovjani
Peter Sramek
Tema Stauffer
Will Steacy
Barry Stone
Hakan Strand
Karen Strom
Hideki Takemoto
Lex Thompson
sonja thomsen
Michael Salvatore Tierney
Brent Townshend
Daniel Traub
Thodoris Tzalavras
Peter Urban
Bill Vaccaro
Ian van Coller
Carlo Van de Roer
Gary W. Vann
Manuel Vazquez
Robert Vizzini
Jeffu Warmouth
Lori Waselchuk
Luke White
Shoshannah White
Scott Whittle
Thomas Wik
Lisa Wiltse
Kimberly Witham
Natalie Young
Mi Zhou
Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman, Witness Diptych #2, 2008Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman
Jeffrey Aaronson
John Abbott
Thomas Alleman
Angela Bacon-Kidwell
Cara Barer
Matthew Baum
David Paul Bayles
Chris Bennett
Damion Berger
Rita Bernstein
Meg Birnbaum
John Blalock
Romain Blanquart
Joan L. Brown
gareth brown
Nan Brown
Allen Bryan
Jörg Brüggemann
Susan Burnstine
Benita Carr
Pelle Cass
Arantxa Cedillo
Tom Chambers
Tom Chambers, Feeding TimeAlejandro Chaskielberg
Céline Clanet
LIVIA CORONA
Katrina d'Autremont
Ellie Davies
Steve Davis
ANA DE ORBEGOSO
Maureen Delaney
Ron Diorio
Karen Divine
Mitch Dobrowner
Matt Eich
Davin Ellicson
Jeffris Elliott
Jeffris Elliot, Islamic Woman Ascending StairsNICHOLAS FEDAK II
Virgilio Ferreira
Angela Buenning Filo
Kyle Ford
Tony Fouhse
Andy Freeberg
Amanda Friedman
Joachim Froese
Teri Fullerton
Ricardo Funari
Andrea Galluzzo
thomas gardiner
Karen Glaser
Joy Goldkind
Leah Gose
rebecca greenfield
Carolyn Guild
Ben Handzo
Cig Harvey
maxine helfman
Robert Heller
Lori Hepner
Laura Heyman
Jessica Hines
Jessica Hines, Untitled #15, The ImaginingsMax Hirshfeld
Oyvind Hjelmen
aaron hobson
Brian Hodges
Thomas Holton
Rachael Jablo
Mark Jaremko
Angela Jimenez
Jesus Jimenez
Dave Jordano
Dave Jordano, Sarah and Her Daughter Shelby, Foosland, IL 2008 Priya Kambli
Lola Kantor
Cyrus Karimipour
Martin Karplus
Jessica M. Kaufman
Jim Kazanjian
Amanda Keller Konya
Doug Keyes
Ayoung Kim
Karen Klein
Jaime Kowal
Nijole Kudirka
Galina Kurlat
Ferit Kuyas
Adam Lampton
Lauren Lancaster
christine laptuta
Richard Laugharn
David Leventi
Nancy LeVine
Walter Lockwood
Pablo lopez luz
Michelle Lord
Jean-Claude Louis
Caroline Lovell
Jonathan Luckhurst
Matt Lutton
Tom Mallonee
alison malone
Erin Malone
Rebecca Martinez
Rania Matar
Paula McCartney
Patricia McClung
Graham Miller
Brian Calhoun Minnich
Kevin Miyazaki
Shayok Mukhopadhyay
mike narciso
Finn O'Hara
Lucas Oleniuk
Louie Palu
Lydia Panas
Mary Parisi
Eric Percher
Cara Phillips
Alexis Pike
Peter Prusinowski
Harri Pälviranta
Lou Raizin
Ellen Rennard
Michelle Repici
Suzanne Revy
Reiner Riedler
Johan Rosenmunthe
Charles Rozier
Maureen Ruddy Burkhart
Daniel Ernesto Schmeichler
Nathan Schroder
Traer Scott
Christina Seely
Patrick Shanahan
Caroline Shepard
Kelly Shimoda
Dustin Shum
Brian Shumway
Ken Shung
Michael Sibilia
Susan Silas
Nicolas Silberfaden
Charlie Simokaitis
Rebecca Sittler
Sarah Small
Jonathan Smith
Aline Smithson
Jared Soares
Magdalena Sole
Andrew Sovjani
Peter Sramek
Tema Stauffer
Will Steacy
Barry Stone
Hakan Strand
Karen Strom
Hideki Takemoto
Lex Thompson
sonja thomsen
Michael Salvatore Tierney
Brent Townshend
Daniel Traub
Thodoris Tzalavras
Peter Urban
Bill Vaccaro
Ian van Coller
Carlo Van de Roer
Gary W. Vann
Manuel Vazquez
Robert Vizzini
Jeffu Warmouth
Lori Waselchuk
Luke White
Shoshannah White
Scott Whittle
Thomas Wik
Lisa Wiltse
Kimberly Witham
Natalie Young
Mi Zhou
CRITICAL MASS Q & A:
• How many entrants were there total? 606.
• Where did I fall in the rankings? Sorry Charlie, I can't give out that info.
• Hey, I didn't receive a Finalist notification and my name's not on the list above? Have you screwed up and accidentally left me off the list? Nope, I don't think so. Sorry.
• Hey, I didn't receive a Finalist notification and my name's not on the list above? What's up with these pre-screeners, are they on drugs or something?
I'm not sure... maybe, but that's not really the issue. Art is subjective. Critical Mass is designed to be a system that gets your work seen by a wide range of professionals with a wide range of interests. If your work didn't make it into the Finalist category, it's simply because there was a lot of great work to choose from and once the voting was all done, this is how the numbers fell. I can guarantee that there are many photographers whose work did not make the Finalist stage who will go on to successfully exhibit and publish that very same work.
• Hey, who selected these photos that run here in this listing of Finalists? Why does it seem to peter out about midway through?
Well, I started to pick images by randomly selecting names every so often and then choosing pictures that I like, but this always takes more time than I anticipate and I don't have time to select more from the latter half of the alphabet. Perhaps I can make amends tomorrow.
• So, what happens next?
As of this moment, the Finalists have all been notified and have the next six days to determine whether or not they wish to pay the additional fee to have their work go on to the full panel of over 200 jurors. Next week, we'll produce and ship out the cds. One, the "All Entrants" cd which everyone who entered will receive and another, containing just the work of the Finalists and our International Award Recipients, that will go on to the full panel of over 200 jurors. These jurors will also receive a hard copy booklet (that's right, real good old-fashioned paper, folks) with a thumbnail image and contact information for each of the Finalists.
These jurors will then have at least four weeks to view and vote on the work of the Finalists and from those results, we'll announce the Top 50 as well as the Finalists for our Book Awards. Once we've determined the two or three Book Award recipients, every entrant and every juror, will receive the books once they're produced.
• How many entrants were there total? 606.
• Where did I fall in the rankings? Sorry Charlie, I can't give out that info.
• Hey, I didn't receive a Finalist notification and my name's not on the list above? Have you screwed up and accidentally left me off the list? Nope, I don't think so. Sorry.
• Hey, I didn't receive a Finalist notification and my name's not on the list above? What's up with these pre-screeners, are they on drugs or something?
I'm not sure... maybe, but that's not really the issue. Art is subjective. Critical Mass is designed to be a system that gets your work seen by a wide range of professionals with a wide range of interests. If your work didn't make it into the Finalist category, it's simply because there was a lot of great work to choose from and once the voting was all done, this is how the numbers fell. I can guarantee that there are many photographers whose work did not make the Finalist stage who will go on to successfully exhibit and publish that very same work.
• Hey, who selected these photos that run here in this listing of Finalists? Why does it seem to peter out about midway through?
Well, I started to pick images by randomly selecting names every so often and then choosing pictures that I like, but this always takes more time than I anticipate and I don't have time to select more from the latter half of the alphabet. Perhaps I can make amends tomorrow.
• So, what happens next?
As of this moment, the Finalists have all been notified and have the next six days to determine whether or not they wish to pay the additional fee to have their work go on to the full panel of over 200 jurors. Next week, we'll produce and ship out the cds. One, the "All Entrants" cd which everyone who entered will receive and another, containing just the work of the Finalists and our International Award Recipients, that will go on to the full panel of over 200 jurors. These jurors will also receive a hard copy booklet (that's right, real good old-fashioned paper, folks) with a thumbnail image and contact information for each of the Finalists.
These jurors will then have at least four weeks to view and vote on the work of the Finalists and from those results, we'll announce the Top 50 as well as the Finalists for our Book Awards. Once we've determined the two or three Book Award recipients, every entrant and every juror, will receive the books once they're produced.
CONGRATULATIONS!
2 comments:
Charlie, how much money did we make?
606 entrants at $ 75 each -
that's $ 45,450. Thanks very much.
Hi Anonymous,
I'm glad you brought this up. Actually, Laura Moya, our wonderful director, responded to a similar comment earlier today over on A Photo Editor. Here, I'll paste her response:
Hello,
I am director of photolucida, and I can shed some light on how the entry fees for Critical Mass are used!
Foremost, we publish 3 books a year (last year 2) and send a copy of each out to all who entered and all who juried. So, for instance, we are preparing to send out our three CM06 books, and these books will go out to over 700 people, domestically and internationally. So we will mailing out over 2100 books. The production of the books and the postage to send them to this many people is our main expense. We also give a generous amount of books to the award winners. We also send Critical Mass books to 30 Oregon art schools, colleges & libraries so the public can enjoy them.
Other expenses are: the development of our software to run Critical Mass - we just re-designed it to make it more quick and efficient, both for people entering and the jurors. We have a programmer that we pay real money to - the amount of time/skill it takes to work with this amount of information is enormous - there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work happening with the programming that people are not aware of.
Other expenses: we produce a CD of the work of all who enter, duplicate it, and send it to all photographers. We produce a CD of the finalist’s work and send it to all 200 jurors along with a booklet of thumbnail images and contact info for the finalists for the jurors to use as a reference tool - tangible material they can refer to down the road or pass around to colleagues. We send these packets to all 200+ jurors, in the US and overseas. We also send this CD to many photography teachers who use it in their curriculum.
We give “awards” to photographers from other countries who would probably not be able to afford to pay the submission fee. Last year it was to 9 photographers from Poland, this year it is for 5 photographers from Mexico. We are glad to be able to do this and it adds a different perspective to the mix of work for the jurors.
Critical Mass is pretty far removed from a money-grabbing scheme/pyramid scheme (words I have seen in blog-land)- I encourage people to look at our website for details about what we do (please read the CM success stories as well) and look at the list of great people in the photography world who align themselves with our Reviews and Critical Mass - if we were shady in any way, would these people be helping us?
To spend $75 to have a pre-screening board look at your work, receive a CD of the work of hundreds of one’s contemporaries, and to eventually receive the books of the book award winners is not a bad deal. To spend $200 (if one is a finalist) to get your work to 200+ people in the photography world is a marketing dollar pretty well spent. If you can do this on your own for less, that is great!
photolucida is a very small non-profit, with probably the lowest overhead ever. I am the only paid staff member (part-time at that) and so much of the work here is done by board members who donate their time and skills. In short, our board is comprised primarily of photographers who have decided to try to do nice things for other photographers.
Hope this information is helpful!
Laura Moya
Director
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