Artist Toolkit Series: Preparing for Portfolio Reviews
Presented by: Laura Moya, Executive Director, Photolucida
and Audra Osborne, Critical Mass Program Manager, Photolucida
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
6:00 - 7:30 PM PDT
On May 4th, SF Camerawork hosted our third Artist Toolkit Series event. In this conversation, Laura Moya and Audra Osborne of Photolucida discussed portfolio review events and how to prepare for them. Participants learned about strategies for making the most of online or in-person portfolio reviews and received an introduction to Critical Mass - Photolucida’s online programming that promotes connections to industry professionals and a series of awards, grants, and residencies.
Photolucida is an arts non-profit based in Portland, Oregon. Their mission is to provide platforms that connect the regional, national, and international photography community. Photolucida does two primary things to support and promote the work of emerging and mid-career photographers: the biennial Portfolio Reviews Festival and the annual online Critical Mass.
RESOURCES
Filter Photo Festival
FotoFest
Medium Photo Festival
One World Portfolio Reviews
Photolucida Portfolio Reviews
Review Santa Fe
See Full list of Portfolio Reviews
ABOUT LAURA MOYA
Laura Moya (she/her) is the Director of Photolucida, in Portland, Oregon. She organizes Photolucida’s biennial Portfolio Reviews event, Portland Photo Month, and supports Photolucida’s Critical Mass programming. She has juried for Critical Mass, Blue Sky Gallery’s Northwest Drawers, Newspace Center for Photography, Photo District News, United Photo Industries and PhotoPlace Gallery. She enjoys writing blurbs and introductions for photobooks.
Laura co-curated an independent project, The Early Works Project, which was shown at Newspace Center for Photography, Rayko Photo Center, the Center for Fine Art Photography, and the Photographic Resource Center, as well as The Elevated Selfie: Beyond the Bathroom Mirror, which exhibited at LightBox Photographic Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography. She has participated in Reviews events including SPE and LensCulture in Paris, and participated in talks and panels at international festivals such as Pingyao International Photo Festival and GuatePhoto Festival. Most recently she curated Photography + Science for the Yixian International Photography Festival, and Hypermedia in Critical Mass for the Lishui International Photography Festival in China. She is currently jurying Analog Forever Magazine’s online exhibition I Used to Travel! – (deadline to submit is April 30th!).
ABOUT AUDRA OSBORNE
Audra Osborne (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and arts administrator based in Portland, Oregon. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and since 2017 has been the Program Manager of Photolucida. She organizes Photolucida’s Critical Mass programming - managing the on-boarding of 200+ jurors, handling outreach and communication for the scholarship and grant programs, along with collaborating with other photo organizations on new and existing awards. She also assists with the planning and administration of Photolucida’s Biennial Portfolio Reviews Event. She has juried for Critical Mass and Photoville’s The Fence, has reviewed portfolios for SPE and ASMP NY and has assisted with the curation of various exhibitions, publications, and projections.
Audra is also a founding member of Small Talk, a collective of four female photographers founded in Portland, Oregon in 2015. Small Talk creates photography-based projects collectively, while also supporting each other’s individual art practices. In 2021, they opened their first gallery and project space, Strange Paradise, where they intend to host community events, exhibitions of their own work, as well as the work of other female, non-binary, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ photographic artists.
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