Call For Entry: 6th Annual Alternative Process Photography Exhibition

Adam Finkelston is an artist, educator, and publisher based in Prairie Village, Kansas. Mr. Finkelston’s work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions and is included in popular publications on alternative process photography. Mr. Finkelston has taught art at various levels for 18 years. Currently, he is a guest lecturer in printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute as well as a teacher and visual arts department coordinator at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, KS.

In addition to teaching, Mr. Finkelston is the owner and publisher of The Hand Magazine: A Magazine for Reproduction-based Arts, through which he has curated and juried numerous exhibitions.

J. Jason Lazarus is an Alaska-based photographer and educator that creates handmade and narrative-driven photographic work utilizing a wide range of alternative and historical photographic processes. Lazarus has served as a photographic educator at the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 2005, teaching and developing a wide range of courses in digital, alternative, and traditional darkroom photography. His alternative process work ranges from abstract Chemigram prints that discuss the complex historical legacy left behind by World War II to darkroom-printed Mordançage images that show a fragile Western American landscape decaying under the pressures of resource development, economic failures, and climate change. Lazarus also spends the lengthy, dimly-lit winter months in Alaska creating unique portraits of its fragile tundra, as seen in his series entitled “Resilient”.

Chris McCaw has been getting his hands wet in the darkroom from the age of 13, and since then he has been unable to separate his personal life from his photographic life.

The early years involved self-taught explorations in skateboarding/ zine /punk scenes with a fisheye lens and Tri-X through the mid-late ’80s. After high school, he learned everything he could about photography. He fell in love with the simplicity of large format cameras, and in 1992 got his first 4”x5”. The following year he fell for platinum/palladium printing and larger cameras. After reworking the boundaries of analog photographic mediums with his Sunburn project, Chris continues to rethink traditional use of photographic materials. He is currently building his own cameras, manipulating the mechanics of how cameras record time.