TPS 32: The International Competition

Texas Photographic Society is proud to announce the call for entry for our flagship exhibition, TPS 32: The International Competition, juried by María Beatriz H. Carrión, historian of the art of the Americas and currently Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. (See full bio and juror's statement below.)

. TPS 32: The International Competition will open at the Cain Art Gallery, Del Mar College, in Corpus Christi, Texas on September 20, 2024.

.JUROR'S STATEMENT

Photography is a complicated medium. Since its inception in the nineteenth century, it has been linked to stories of surveillance, the exploration and definition of the “other,” and the creation of national and individual fictions. However, the camera has also simultaneously allowed for the democratization of representation, the depiction of realities that our eyes cannot capture, and the documentation of events that we may want or refuse to see. As such, I am particularly drawn to pictures that embody and/or demonstrate awareness of the tensions between the possibilities and limitations of the medium and between its ability to tell or conceal the so-called truth. I am honored to study your work in my capacity as a juror for TPS 32: The International Competition. Thank you for entrusting me with your submission.
— María Beatriz H. Carrión

ABOUT THE JUROR

BIO
María Beatriz H. Carrión is a historian of the art of the Americas and a specialist in photography. She has worked at several cultural institutions in the U.S., South America, and Europe including Quito’s Center of Contemporary Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Rijksmuseum. Currently, she serves as Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. Her research examines issues of racial representation, ecocriticism, and colonialism in photography and has been supported by the Terra, Mellon, and Cisneros foundations. She has also received research funding from the Huntington Library, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, CUNY’s Early Research Initiative, and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. Carrión obtained her M.A. in Art History at Tulane University and her B.A. in Liberal Arts at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). She is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TPS 31: The International Competition is made possible through funding from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the support of our TPS Members

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won the first prize award for this image taken on the island of Antigua