You can find our 25TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK here!
A special Supporting Members Only event for our 25th anniversary! We know this took way too long and many of you have been waiting. Now we are very excited to announce that our next inspirational artists’ book is here.
What is the Art and Artist book?
Take a look at Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition 1 from 2006 (it still holds up as a book full of beautiful, inspirational work). And Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition 2 from 2025
The purpose of the book
The objective of this coffee table book is to give artists exposure, be a source of inspiration to artists and a reference guide for galleries.
Creating the book is a fair amount of work, so inclusion in the book was exclusive to our Supporting Members. The membership contributions go towards running AlternativePhotography.com, to keep supplying learning resources, promoting artists (your) work and connecting people through events and our community. To support us and be eligible for special members-only event in the future sign up for membership here.
Entries for Art and Artists, volume 2 book
Now closed for entries!
Your entry consists of:
- Reading through the Terms & Conditions
- Filling out the form with text and bio
- Sending representative images
Entries in the wrong format may not be entered. Do make our lives a little easier by following all of these steps, please. š We expect many entries.
Read through the Terms and Conditions – mandatory!
- Read ALL of the Terms and Conditions here
- By submitting your work you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions on the link above.
- By entering your work into the “Art and Artists, edition 2 call for entries”, your work may be included in our book, but we reserve the right not to include it. Submission is no guarantee of publication. There is no guarantee there will be a printed or digital version of a book, this is dependent on the response (we expect it to be good though). By entering you grant permission for your image to be used in our book and to promote the book. There will be no monetary compensation if your work is published you will receive full credit (and a lot of exposure for many years).
Prepare Bio and Text information – add this to the form (link below)
If your first language is not English, please get someone to help you write your text.
- The title of your images, the year they were made and the process they were made with. You can choose images made with different processes if you like, or the same process.
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Each artist is presented on a spread where they talk about their art and why they choose the specific process they work in. On this spread: Christina Z. Anderson. The layout will be different for the new book. The work will be displayed over a spread see an example of the 2006 book (the layout of the new book will be different).
- Your bio – 90-120 words. The bio should include the city and country you’re active in. It should be written in the third person i.e. “Anna currently works as a photographer…”.
- Your choice of process and/or image. In 90-120 words, describe how you made the images and why you chose to work with that particular process, what does the process add for you personally or for the images? The description should be written in a personal style, i.e. “I work with cyanotypes because…” or “When creating this series I visualized….”
- Please get one or two people to read through the text before sending it to us. We may edit it if we find it necessary.
- Instagram: (optional) @alternativephotography_com for example
- Facebook: (optional) https://www.facebook.com/alternativephotography for example
- Website: (optional)
Representative images
- Carefully select 2-4 images (5 may fit if they are square). They will be in the book for many years and will represent your work. It’s nice if the images have a theme rather than as many different ones as possible. They can be of the same process or different, but try selecting images that “belong together” visually or the spread will be cluttered.
- Scan the images (if they are not already in digital format) and resize them to 8,5 inches OR 215 mm OR 2500 pixels wide or tall (maximum size). If you know how to set the resolution, set it to 300 dpi. If you are unsure, send it large, since it’s easy for us to reduce the size, but not increase it.
- Name the images with your name and the title, and process. I.e. “Joanne Smith-Blue Flower-Cyanotype.jpg”. This will save us a lot of detective work trying to figure out who sent what.
Now you are ready to send the images and the text to us:
- Fill out the form with the text you prepared.
- Send images by file transfer such as:
– WeTransfer
– Dropbox (click here to get a free account with extra storage space)
– Google Drive – set permissions to “Anyone with the link can view” - You can email us the link or allow the file to be shared with talk@
alternativephotography.com . If you attach the images to an email it may end up in our spam folder and we won’t see it, so if you do this, make sure you get a confirmation email. - We start work on this at the end of November and you should hear from us then. If you have not heard from us by then, check with us at talk@alternativephotography.com.
- We may or may not publish the work on our social media channels such as Instagram and Facebook. If you have included your Instagram in the details above we will include it.
Deadline!
Please send all the information and the release form to us by the 30th of November. Or, even better, do it sooner. š
What will it look like?
The size of the book will be approx 21,5 x 28 cm or 8,5 x 11 inches. One spread will be dedicated to each artist. (Some changes will be made to the type and layout for this edition).
When and where can I get the book?
The book will be published by AlternativePhotography.com and will hopefully be published in time for our 25th birthday on 8th April 2025. It will be for sale here on AlternativePhotography.com, on Lulu, on Amazon and in a couple of other places.
No NUDES, AI or “normal” photography…
The same rules apply for the book as for the website, please note that
- we don’t accept nude photography, even if they are done in a very tasteful manner. We don’t like too many rules, but the reason is that this book may be used in education that includes educational institutions and cultures where nudity is offensive.
- we don’t accept AI-generated images. The image should be made by YOU and not a prompt and some algorithms.
- we only accept alternative process photography. If you are unsure, take a look at our definition of alternative photographic processes.
Apart from that… any other subject is good. And if you’re not sure if your images would be accepted or not, please ask.
World Anthotype Day
World Cyanotype Day
Wonderful! Thanks so much, will get right on it
Dear Elizabeth, Looking foreward to seeing your entry! š
Ohhhhh yayaya Iām excited for this! Thanks to Alternative Photography for inspiring us yet again, my blue love continues to enthrall and energise me. I’ll be carefully creating especially for this. Fingers crossed I make the cut