{"id":50822,"date":"2022-12-02T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=50822"},"modified":"2022-12-18T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T19:37:31","slug":"calling-all-photographers-for-the-soho-small-file-photography-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/calling-all-photographers-for-the-soho-small-file-photography-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all photographers for the Soho Small File Photography Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Photographer\u2019s Gallery (TPG) in Soho has announced an open call for its <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/whats-on\/small-file-photo-festival\"><strong>Small File Photography Festival<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u2014and everyone is free to enter.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival promotes alternatives to high tech photorealistic aesthetics, aiming to encourage experimentation on different digital image formats and their unique visual qualities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme is connected to the<a href=\"https:\/\/thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/image-end-world\"> research of Marloes de Valk<\/a>, PhD researcher of a programme by TPG and the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, on the ecological impact of the networked image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small and low resolution files can reduce the global CO2 emissions from digital media, while also contributing to the diversity of visual culture, according to TPG.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival questions the endless aspiration for higher resolutions, and will continue to support the joy of tiny images and large pixels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TPG stated: \u201cWe are demanding\u2014unleash creative r\/evolution! We are demanding\u2014destroy the large-file clich\u00e9s of thinking that prevent us from imaging a world otherwise!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Small File Photography Festival is taking place between 27th -28th January 2023, with the open call closing on 4th January.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There are three categories to enter:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dress to Compress: photograph of up to 100 Kb, along with the tools used and the steps taken to compress it.<\/li><li>Small is Beautiful: photograph taken with a camera that automatically creates small-sized files.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Show Me The Pixels: an image of up to 100 Kb using any visually fascinating compression process, such as dither-punk, pixel art, or any other image processing effects like glitching, ASCII or halftone.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The prizes for the winning entries include a trophy, an online exhibition, and a one year membership to TPG, worth \u00a350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TPG is one of the UK\u2019s greatest centres for presenting and exploring photography in all forms, while also providing a home to an international community of photographers. The Gallery is open seven days a week, presenting a variety of exhibitions, events, talks, workshops and courses. Their specialist bookshop\/cafe offers a space for the discovery and sale of photographic prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/whats-on\/open-call-small-file-photo-festival#&amp;gid=1&amp;pid=1\">Open Call <\/a>for the Small File Photography Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words: Anna Kamocsai | Subbing: Rui Liang<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Photographer\u2019s Gallery (TPG) in Soho has announced an open call for its Small File Photography Festival\u2014and everyone is free to enter.&nbsp; The festival promotes alternatives to high tech photorealistic aesthetics, aiming to encourage experimentation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":50867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[7366,4867,7417],"class_list":["post-50822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-culture","category-uncategorised","tag-open-call","tag-photography","tag-the-photographers-gallery-tpg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52205,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50822\/revisions\/52205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}