Artillery Magazine CODE ORANGE Photo Submissions

Code Orange is a new Artillery Magazine column, web-based, issue-oriented photography contest/project curated by Los Angeles based artist, Laura London. London works in the medium of photography and video.

CODE ORANGE is a documentary photography project which aims to encourage uncensored expression in affiliation with Artillery Magazine. Winning entries will be published in upcoming issues of the magazine, finalists will appear online.

We see this as a venue for artists to express how they feel about the current state of the world. Tumultuous times like ours have historically produced some of the most interesting, captivating and timeless art; we hope to find and share similar works today.

Images which include any subject and convey how our country and the world are affected by social, political, environmental change as well as a day in the life type imagery which includes: personal, universal, identity issues, etc. The photographic artwork can be produced with a film or digital camera, using a professional camera and or smartphone. Images made in black and white and or color are accepted.

The main criteria for the images submitted to the Code Orange Photography Contest/project is that they are “documentary.” Carrying on the traditions of documentary photography, for example: in the works of; Louis Hines, Social Realism Documentary Photography, Doretha Lange’s, images for the Farm Security Administration, Robert Frank’s images and book, The Americans, New Documentary Photographs, which also includes photographers: Garry Winograd, Diana Arbus, Lee Friedlander. Roy DeCarova, images of Harlem and others, concurrently Stephen Shore and Robert Adams documented the American landscape, and William Eggleston broke ground with his color photography. Street Photography Reportage photographs of Manual Alvarez Bravo, Daido Moriyama, Henri Cartier Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Mark Ellen Mark, and many more artists/photographers.

We are looking for any and all types of documentary photography submissions.

Please feel free to spread the word. Thank you!