Shutter Hub is inviting submissions for a new exhibition.
‘Postcards from Europe is a call for response and collaboration, triggered by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and reflecting on Postcards from Great Britain, our most ambitious project to date, which started because we wanted to reach out and connect, and has since become much more. Postcards from Europe will be exhibited from November – December 2021 in the UK at Cambridge University. We are looking forward to including many hundreds of images from this open call. We want to see things the way you see them, and to share those views with other people.’
‘This call for entries is open to everyone. In a significant time in history this exhibition sets out to share aspects of European culture, spanning all genres of photography, and collating images which include social, political, historical, traditional and observational responses. … we are looking for images made in, and of, those countries that make up the European Union, and the continent of Europe (but not of Great Britain).’
‘We’re very grateful to have the support of FujiFilm Original Photo Paper and Cambridge University’s Art at the ARB, without whom none of this would be possible. Currently there are no entry fees for Postcards from Europe, we’re asking you to ‘pay what you can’. ‘… Enter as many images as you like, whenever, and as often as you like. There are no added printing or delivery fees, … we’ll print, promote, deliver and install everything for you. Final entries close: 5pm GMT 25 June 2021.
I’ve submitted these four pictures with this supporting statement. ‘Greece probably might seem like an obvious place to start exploring European culture, but that doesn’t make it any less relevant or timely. If anything, the way that it can stand for the depth of the shared European experience provides multiple lessons for us at the present challenging time. The photographs reference the collective culture and history of conflict, art, architecture, religion and philosophy.’