Jury Images and Large or Multi-Piece Prints

Good day, all ...

I'm a photographer and a good deal of my body of work is presented for sale as larger multi-panel pieces of work. The complete images are available in 3, 4 and 5 panel pieces ranging up to 14' in length. My question is how to present these to the jury to be judged. My options seem to be:

Provide a slide that depicts the photograph as a single image
Provide a slide that depicts the photograph as a multi-panel piece of work

I'm concerned that with the 1920x1920 or 2000x2000 pixel limits, the actual size of the image portion of the 'slide' is small enough to put me at a disadvantage. My booth slide shows two of my larger pieces as they are, divided in to panels.

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and opinions.

Jeffrey

www.jvdkphoto.com

The further your jury image is from square, or the more elongated or panoramic, the smaller it is in height. But that may be obvious to some artists and not so obvious to others. Your question isn't a yes or no question as some artists handle it differently. If you were shooting panoramics, I might suggest trimming some of the image at both ends to make your jury images slightly larger. And I would also suggest going for the really narrow panoramic look so your work stands out and is different than the other photographers, forcing the jurors to pay more attention. It's your choice.

There is a painter on the circuit that does mostly really long narrow paintings and has a good acceptance rate at the better shows. When I observed the Columbus jury three years ago, I asked Katie Lucas (former director) about how she felt the painters images looked for jurying. She told me that, knowing the painters work, she asked the jurors to zoom in to see detail, forcing them to better understand what they were looking at.

What I suggest you do is poll the photographers who jury with panoramic images and ask them how they handle it. Personally I'm currently jurying with images shot with a Hasselblad 120 film which take up the full square area.

And, just so there's no misunderstanding, your images on JAS are not seen by the jurors at 2000x2000. The largest size the jurors see are the same 700x700 pixel images you see when you enlarge them in your profile. That's also the same size the ZAPP jurors see for monitor jurying which accounts for about 95% of the shows.

Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100

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Larry Berman February 25, 2011 at 9:04pm

The further your jury image is from square, or the more elongated or panoramic, the smaller it is in height. But that may be obvious to some artists and not so obvious to others. Your question isn't a yes or no question as some artists handle it differently. If you were shooting panoramics, I might suggest trimming some of the image at both ends to make your jury images slightly larger. And I would also suggest going for the really narrow panoramic look so your work stands out and is different than the other photographers, forcing the jurors to pay more attention. It's your choice.

There is a painter on the circuit that does mostly really long narrow paintings and has a good acceptance rate at the better shows. When I observed the Columbus jury three years ago, I asked Katie Lucas (former director) about how she felt the painters images looked for jurying. She told me that, knowing the painters work, she asked the jurors to zoom in to see detail, forcing them to better understand what they were looking at.

What I suggest you do is poll the photographers who jury with panoramic images and ask them how they handle it. Personally I'm currently jurying with images shot with a Hasselblad 120 film which take up the full square area.

And, just so there's no misunderstanding, your images on JAS are not seen by the jurors at 2000x2000. The largest size the jurors see are the same 700x700 pixel images you see when you enlarge them in your profile. That's also the same size the ZAPP jurors see for monitor jurying which accounts for about 95% of the shows.

Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
- Jeffrey Van der Koon > Larry Berman February 25, 2011 at 9:35pm
  
  Hi Larry ....
  
  First, thank you for the very quick reply. I was not aware of the 700x700 limitations of what the jury sees. It makes some sense, but still it startled me. My images are generaly panoramic, in some cases very much so.
  
  Thank you again,
  
  Jeffrey

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