2026 Monthly Critiques
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Feb - Street Portrait
Person or persons in a public setting; they can be posed or candid.
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March - Negative Space / Minimalism
Negative space in a photograph is the empty or uncluttered area surrounding the main subject (positive space), often used in minimalist compositions to create focus, balance, and emotional impact.
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April - Magic Moment / Anticipation
To me, photography is story telling. A photograph can convey a mood, record a scene, present a narrative, and evoke a reaction. Henri Cartier-Bresson discussed "the decisive moment". Put simply, all the elements line up to create an effective image.
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May - Unusual Crop
An "Unusual Crop" photo challenges the photographer to move beyond conventional framing and present a subject in a fresh, unexpected way.
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June - Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass - show us images that are looking through... This can be a literal looking through from outside to inside, from inside to outside. Make sure your viewer can see the "looking through" nature of your image.
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July - Colorless Color Photography
Capture a COLOR image with NO COLOR (Only black, White & Grey). Take a COLOR photograph that only has WHITE, BLACK or GRAY in it.” The challenge here is to find a mono-tone subject, take photograph in color, and have it look like a Black and White.
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August - Wabi Sabi
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese philosophical and aesthetic concept that finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness.
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September - Abstract Body Photographs
She recomends looking at photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen's work for ideas
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