“As vaccines are moving throughout the world to battle the pandemic, life as we knew it is opening up. This call wants to see how life is opening up for you. What are you able to do that you haven’t been able to do? What are you seeing around you in your community, relationships (with yourself and others)? What do you notice? All processes and styles accepted.

10% of artist entry fees goes to the curator’s choice of charity. Freitag has chosen My Stuff Bags Foundation. My Stuff Bags Foundation provides duffels of new belongings to children rescued from abuse, neglect, abandonment, homelessness, or natural disasters, who are entering foster care and crisis shelters with nothing of their own.

(An excerpt from a letter expressing the importance of a My Stuff Bag:

“Once again paged to respond to the police station, I was told there was a 10 year old boy awaiting foster placement whose mother had been murdered. Of course it was awful; deep grown-up pain for a child always is…When he and I had some quiet time, I gave him the My Stuff Bag. He began going through it very timidly. “Is it okay if I look at the baseball cards?” he asked. I told him all of it was for him. He looked up at me, face still wet from tears and said “but you don’t even know me!” As I choked on my words, I told him that everything in the bag was for him, made especially for him, from people who cared about him. He dropped the bag, covered his face, and wept openly and said “But they don’t even know me either!”…I told him that each time he looked at the My Stuff Bag or anything inside, to remember he wasn’t alone, that people loved and cared for him.” —T.P., West Valley Crisis Response Team)

Another 10% will go to the first place winner’s choice of charity.
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$20 for 3 images. ALL entrants work is shown on their own page with their artist statement, website info, bio and parts of their CV. Early entries may be featured on L.A. Photo Curator’s Facebook and Instagram pages.