Prefix Photo: Call for Submissions from Photographers and Writers

Call for Submissions from Photographers
Prefix Photo encourages submissions of new or previously unpublished photography for editorial consideration. Submissions should include visual support material in the form of digital files, 35mm slides, transparencies, work prints, laser prints, etc.; a written description of the work, if available; and a curriculum vitae of the artist. The number of images submitted remains at the discretion of the artist, with a recommended maximum of 20. Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis and are reviewed twice annually: January 15 and July 15. Please send submissions to:

Tamara Toledo
Prefix Photo

124 - 401 Richmond Street West

Toronto, Ontario

M5V 3A8

Mailed support materials will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed envelope with return postage or equivalent. Prefix Photo also accepts submissions by email to tamara@prefix.ca. Please follow the digital submission requirements below.

Proposals from young and emerging artists and from artists from all cultural and regional communities of Canada are particularly encouraged.

Digital Submission Requirements

72 dpi resolution I Maximum size of 1024 x 768 pixels I Files should be no larger than 500K I RGB format I Name each image file with your name, surname, the number and the title I Please send only up to 20 images

Call for Submissions from Writers
Prefix Photo encourages submissions of writer's outlines for new critical essays of 3000-4000 words in length, but does not consider completed manuscripts for publication. Outlines should be no more than 250 words in length, and may be supported by one or two previously published texts. Outlines are accepted at any time, but should be submitted at least six months in advance of a projected publication date. If accepted for publication, the deadline for the submission of the completed essay is approximately three months in advance of an issue's release. Prior to publication, writers will be consulted regarding editorial revisions and writer's fee. Please note that, in addition to critical essays, Prefix Photo also reviews proposals for literary features of 600-800 words. Submission materials will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed envelope with return postage or equivalent.

For more information on the submissions process, please contact Tamara Toledo, Production Manager, T: 416-591-0357, E: tamara@prefix.ca.

Available Now - Prefix Photo 20: Archival Legacies

Prefix Photo 20: Archival Legacies

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the release of the twentieth issue of Prefix Photo magazine. As the magazine embarks on its tenth-anniversary year, editor Scott McLeod addresses the theme of “archival legacies,” as follows: “This issue directs our gaze toward the vast array of physical materials that are archived in order to preserve our multiple histories. The archive – and the uses to which the archive can be put – facilitate the envisioning and elaboration of these sometimes competing, sometimes complementary histories. In this way, history is not left to languish in the past, but becomes available to be recuperated and animated not only in, but as the present.”

These thoughts resonate strongly with the works of the artists and writers represented within the magazine, as follows:

Monika Kin Gagnon expands on the notion of “posthumous collaboration,” considering books and archives as material traces and triggers of memory, in an essay that is part homage, part letter to Gagnon’s late friend, poet and curator Nancy Shaw.

Jacob Korczynski presents a reading of the Pride Records series by Houston–based artist Jamal Cyrus. Korczynski interprets the series through the lens of the “cut,” as Cyrus slices through historical images via collage and through official histories via the rupture of fiction.

Jordan Troeller writes on the object-based photography of New York–based artist Zoe Leonard, responding to current discussions on digitalization and photography. She argues that far too much weight has been given to describing technology and far too little to examining its social and political effects.

Sudhatri Murthy, in her literary feature “Simple Time,” reflects upon a snapshot that mediates her unique experience – intimately connected and yet outside – of mothering twin boys.

Other contributors include Barbara Balfour, Rose Bouthillier, Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska, Kyla Mallett, Stephen G. Rhodes, Gabor Szilasi, and more.

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Prefix Photo is published by Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, a registered charitable organization that fosters the appreciation and understanding of contemporary photography, media and digital arts. Prefix Photo is available by subscription and in fine bookstores and newsstands in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Singapore and China.

For their assistance with the release party held for issue 20 in Toronto, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art gratefully acknowledges its Supporting Sponsor Steam Whistle Brewing and its Official Catering Sponsor à la Carte Kitchen.

Prefix Photo is published with the assistance of its staff, volunteers and patrons, as well as the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Prefix Photo also acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Magazine Fund toward its editorial and production costs. The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

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