Alberta-Wide Open Juried Photography Exhibition

Dear Gerry
On behalf the Visual Arts Alberta Association I would like to thank you for submitting your work for consideration in the VAAA Gallery's 2008 Alberta-wide Open Photography Call for Submissions. I am pleased to advise you that you have been selected by the jury for the Juried Photography Exhibition scheduled to run from May 29 to June 14, 2008 in the VAAA Gallery located at Hardcourt House Arts Centre, 3rd Floor, 10215-112 Street Edmonton Alberta.

Visual Arts Alberta received an overwhelmingly positive response to this call to Alberta photographers, with over 260 photographs submitted to the jury for consideration. Due in large part to space constraints, only 60 pieces were able to be shown in the VAAA Gallery for this photography exhibition, and the jury selected the following image(s) from your submission:

1. Cambodian Baby Tool Kok Slum, Phnom Penh
2. Dying Street Woman Bangkok, Thailand

Once all the work juried to be exhibited at the VAAA Gallery is hung for the show, our special guest juror will come into the Gallery and select the overall winner from the work presented. The winning photographer will be announced the night of the Opening Reception, Thursday May 29, 2008.

The quality of the work submitted and the extremely positive response, combined with the fact that Alberta photographers are often overlooked and under appreciated group of artists means that this will probably become an annual event for Visual Arts Alberta.

Sinceraly Allison Argy-Burgess
Executive Director
Visual Arts Alberta Association