REVIEW SANTA FE

REVIEW SANTA FE

Image detail © Tyler Green, 2022 Review Santa Fe Alum

2023 Invitations Have Been Sent

CENTER’s premier juried portfolio review event, the Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium, is a conference for photographers and lens-based artists seeking audience expansion, critical discussion, and community connection. One of the oldest portfolio review events in the U.S., Review Santa Fe, enters its 22nd year, in 2023. The conference programs include portfolio reviews with juried photographers, lens-based artists and esteemed Reviewers, Project Presentations, Scholar Lectures, and more.

View the 2023 event schedule.

2023 PROGRAM | Review Santa Fe is scheduled to take place on November 16-19, 2023, in historic downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. We are planning on hosting in-person events and offering some online components. Please note: CENTER reserves the right to make the necessary changes to the programs and participant registration status to ensure the safety of its staff, participants, and the public. Thank you for understanding.

PROGRAM ACCESSIBILITY | Sign-language interpretation, program guides, assistive listening devices, and other guest facilitation are all available upon request. Please contact us to inform us of your needs.

SELECTION PROCESS

This program stands out amongst other portfolio reviews because it is carefully vetted by a selection committee, ensuring the quality of the work. Each year a new independent committee ranks all of the submissions, with the highest-ranking submissions receiving an invitation. Along with the vetted photographers, the annual awards and grants recipients join to participate in Review Santa Fe. It is a blind judging process, and many different types of lens-based projects are invited to attend, including documentary, fine art, black and white, reportage, and interdisciplinary projects. Learn More

CENTER has launched many now-famous photographers’ careers, including Alec Soth (2003), Julie Blackmon (2006), Tamas Dezso (2011), Cristina de Middel (2012), and many others. This event helps photo-based storytellers bring their work to completion and have it seen by industry leaders, editors, curators, and publishers who are portals to broad international audiences.

Read the Selection Committee Statements:

View the Review Santa Fe Listings:

REVIEWERS

The Reviewers are carefully selected curators, editors, book publishers, gallery and festival directors. At Review Santa Fe we work hard to research and include reviewers that are offering more than feedback, but also opportunities for career advancement and placement of your work in a supportive and friendly environment.

2023 Reviewers | 2022 Reviewers

PROJECT LAB SEMINARS

© Matt Suhre

The 2023 Project Lab Seminars offer guidance on best practices and community impact through platforms tailored to each participant — providing access to career advancement workshops and seminars discussing grant writing, editing, and portfolio review preparation.

Hosted online over the course of 2 days, the 1st day is open to any and all interested lens-based artists and will focus on the presenter’s course discussion. The 2nd day provides an added experience for a portfolio critique that offers participants the opportunity to discuss their projects and receive feedback from each other and the course instructors. Pre-registration is required as there are a limited number of spaces available for the 2nd day. Learn More

• Preparing for Portfolio Reviews – registration details tba
• Editing for Impact – registration details tba

PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

© Luis Corzo, 2022 Social Award recipient

WHERE: Hosted Online with Zoom – details tba
HOW: Free & Public

Highlighting excellence and innovative contributions to the field each year with the annual Awards and Project Grants, the selected lens-based artists, chosen by a blind jury comprised of new image professionals each year, receive financial support, publishing, presentation, and exhibiting opportunities made possible by CENTER and our Partners.

The 2023 Award, Grant, and Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship winning artists will discuss their projects and share an intimate view of their process. Further details on the event and registration are TBA.

PORTFOLIO WALK & BOOK FAIR

WHEN: Friday, November 17, 2023
WHERE: Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Pavilion
HOW: Free & Public

The Review Santa Fe Portfolio Walk & Photographic Book Fair brings together a global network of 100 selected lens-based artists and 50+ representatives from museums, publications, book publishers, and media outlets each year. This lively event offers a chance to view a broad range of photographic projects encompassing today’s social, environmental, and political issues as well as stellar contemporary art projects. Notable photographic book publishers, indie publications, and art-book enthusiasts are invited to join us and showcase newly released publications for sale.

THE DEMOCRATIC LENS: SCHOLAR LECTURES

© Warren K. Leffler

WHEN: Sunday, November 19, 2023, from 10:30am – 1:30pm MT
WHERE: Livestream & In Person
HOW: Free & Public

The Democratic Lens is a six-part discussion series examining how images have shaped America’s collective memory and inspired individuals to participate in civic life. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the lectures include Dr. Makeda Best, Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, and Dr. Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, followed by a Q&A with the audience moderated by Holly Stuart Hughes, Independent Editor & Grant Writer. Learn More

APPLICATION GUIDELINES

PROGRAM GUIDE ARCHIVE

2022 Program Guide // Cover image from the series Blue © Heather Evans Smith

2021 Program Guide // Cover image from the series As we play God © Leah Dyjak

2020 Program Guide // Cover image from the series The Dadabyte Theater © Brandy Trigueros

2019 Program Guide // Cover image from the series Strange Land © Cody Cobb

2018 Program Guide // Cover © Joel-Peter Witkin

2017 Program Guide // Cover image from the series Promising Waters © Mila Teshaieva

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