Stuffed Animals Galore - Jens Haas - commentary on juries

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Having been on many juries and definitely not always in agreement with the final results...I thought I'd direct you to Notes from Nowhere by Jens Haas,

"It’s that time of the year again - photo panels are making their decisions. Some insightful judges I talked to describe a strange phenomenon - more often than not, about one week or so after the vote, they scratch their heads and wonder what they were thinking. Dynamics within photo panels often seem to take very unexpected turns even for those who have a lot of experience in this game, and the end result even from a gifted panel often is boringly “trendy”. This year the trend obviously is about animals, living, dead, or stuffed; next year the current indulgence in hi tech fatigue may be taken a step further, and artists will dismantle their iPhones, eat them, and display the results “elaborately” and “quite humorously” [sic] with “references to surrealism”. Or something like that. One way or the other, there always seems to be a lot of group think involved, both amongst artists and judges. And, naturally, as if being on a panel is like being an actor in a Hollywood movie, afterwards everybody congratulates each other and expresses, at least in public, how “happy everybody is” with the decision."

Continue reading :
http://www.jenshaas.com/blog/

Later,

Diane