PhotoPlace Gallery is pleased to welcome Kyohei Abe as the juror for the 3rd annual PhotoPlace Open. Kyohei Abe is Chief Curator and Director of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography. Abe holds an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his photos are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the Detroit Institute of Art, and numerous private and corporate collections around the world. He is a faculty member at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit.
For PhotoPlace Open, 2012, Abe will select forty photos for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery from June 12 – July through July 9, 2012. He will also choose an additional thirty-five photos for the gallery’s “On-Line Annex.” All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalog available for purchase. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.