We are excited to announce our publication fourth issue theme!

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We invite you to submit your written pieces and/or film images for our fourth issue of She Shoots Film, HOME.

Gaëlle Encrenaz is a photographer based in Bordeaux, France. Her photographic series are inspired by moments of daily life, moments that we often forget to assign importance to, or moments that we no longer know how to see. Gaëlle only photographs with film, firstly for the rendering, but also for the relationship to time that this imposes.

Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck (b.1990, Strasbourg, France) is a painter and interdisciplinary artist working across London (UK and rural Alsace (France). Her practice composed of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, film, photography and writing often conceals ecological messages, rendered in soft and delicate methods.

Catarina Milhais Reis was born in the lovely town of Cascais, Portugal. She has lived all her life between the Atlantic Ocean and the Sintra Mountains. From a young age she developed an interest in photography as it provided her with a means to register the beauty of the places she is surrounded by.

We invite you to submit your film images for our group online feature.

The theme is…

HOPE

Submissions open until 1 May, 2020, 9pm (EST)

Swiss photographer Evelyn Kutschera has been a part of the skinhead subculture for the last decade. Despite originating in the UK, this subculture has become a way of life for many young people across the globe. In her ongoing photographic series, Evelyn portrays the diversity of today’s young skinhead scene across Britain, mainland Europe and beyond.

The Fox Darkroom & Gallery hosted the Group Exhibition ‘What She Sees’ in collaboration with She Shoots Film from Saturday, 17th of November, 2018 – Sunday, 2nd of December, 2018.

Sarah Seené is a French photographer living in Montreal, Canada, who works mainly on film (35mm and Polaroid). Her universe consists of a strange atmosphere between dream and poetry. Her images, inspired by her story or that of others, are tinged with childhood and loneliness where time is suspended and reality sublimated.

“This is not how the picture looked,” my mom says as she gestures over the small, worn print held between her fingers. “We were in this horrible creek that was outside of our hooch: the creek was a couple drops of water… But I wanted to do a candle float because that’s what I did on the 4th of July in Michigan.”

Nina Röder was born in 1983 in Germany and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Bauhaus University Weimar with the focus on staged photography. Next to her artistic activities she is a PhD candidate with the research topic about performative strategies in contemporary photography.

Jennifer Timmer Trail received her MFA in Photography from Hartford Art School and her BA in Art History and Studio Art from Michigan State University. A northern-Michigander at heart, Jennifer spent a decade in New York, and some time in Copenhagen and Victoria, British Columbia, before recently settling in Portland, Oregon where she is a working artist and a freelance book designer.

Emily Najera is a professional artist and educator currently living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her research as a photographer examines forms of architecture as vernacular artifacts. Partnering with historic preservationists and urban planners, Emily documents and archives the changing landscape of working class neighborhoods. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Photography at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, USA.

We are excited to announce our biannual publication third issue theme!

METAMORPHOSIS

We invite you to submit your written pieces and/or film images for our third issue of She Shoots Film: Metamorphosis.

It simply feels right. The whole process is like meditation for me. From the selection of the film, the time I give myself to find the right subject and decide on the settings before I press the shutter, to the manual development in my little darkroom and the excitement when I see the negatives for the first time, even the spot removal after scanning. I love how perfectly imperfect and unpredictable film can be and how it teaches me to embrace those imperfections and “accidents” as part of its unique beauty.

Sometimes there is that quiet moment just before you fully wake where sounds are hushed and muted, a warm light begins to bleed through the darkness behind your eyelids and your limbs twitch on their own. In that split second of a moment you exist in a different space, a place in between here and there, a place that you just are.

S.R. Robinson is a film photographer based in Joliet, IL, whose meticulous darkroom explorations breathe life into abandoned spaces. Their atmospheric black and white photographs show a deep connection to the unseen history of the places that they portray, while simultaneously allowing this history to blend with the present and possible futures. Our interpretations of the spaces in their work oscillate between a sense of foreboding and hopeful eternal sunshine without forcing one or the other into the foreground.

We are excited to announce our biannual publication second issue theme!

MOTHER

Submissions open until 18 March 9pm (EST)

Sophie Barbasch is a photographer based in New York City. She earned her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BA in Art and Art History from Brown University. Selected grants and residencies include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Blue Mountain Center, and a 2016 Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil.

In 2013, National Geographic released its 125th Anniversary Collector’s Edition. Quite an incredible issue. Themed 'The Power of Photography', the cover is adorned with Steve McCurry’s close up of Sharbat Gula, the “Afghan Girl”. At first excited, I quickly realised that 'The Power of Photography' was dominated by the 'power' of the male photographer - plural. 

Recently I followed a discussion on Facebook about a picture someone had uploaded to an open group of film photographers. The picture itself was a staged upskirt shot of a 20 year old model in a setting inspired by American high schools. It was banned from the group not because of its content but its caption, since it implied that the model might be underage. Immediately a heated discussion about censorship and morals ensued that, as a woman, was quite surreal to read.