Holloway

A new photography magazine for the promotion of excellent work derived from public education under the shadow of private organizations!

<p><em>Holloway</em> is a new magazine dedicated to the promotion of photographic art created by students of public higher education. Based out of San Francisco, featuring artists from San Francisco State University, <em>Holloway</em> is a high quality, biannual, full-color, rigorously juried, printed publication. This way we will be able to showcase talented young artists twice a year &mdash; undergoing the same processes employed by galleries and museums. Currently there is no form, printed or otherwise, of connecting the artists who have received education from SFSU to the wider Bay Area community. Our intention is to develop a dialogue between an overshadowed yet highly successful department and its urban surroundings in an extremely polished format rivaling other high profile publications with a political undertone regarding the overvaluation of private universities and art schools above public education.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We are currently in the process of jurying over thirty-five artists from our first round of submissions. Some of these artists have just finished obtaining their degrees from SFSU, others have been working for years in varying photographic fields post-graduation. All remain passionate about the education they received under the tutelage of engaging, demanding professors.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Submissions ranged from the Bay Area, to New York, to Montreal. The focus of each artist was refined and clear, working complex ideas deconstructed within abstraction, studio portraiture, landscape, darkroom alterations, diptychs, murals, contact prints, and everything in between. As the story goes, most of this work ends up stored away under beds or rolled up into tubes to be thought of fleetingly by the creator. We have already been in communication with local (and national) independent bookstores and have methods of distribution in place post-publication.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Our aim is exposure. Exposure of a very alternative education, as seen through the dominant ethos of contemporary society. We want to showcase talent regardless of prestige, to work from the ground up within our community, presenting critical artwork and suggesting pathways. The narrative in the United States of assuming tens of thousands of dollars of debt in order to attend a school hopeful students believe will place them into a job or sphere they love is tired and unsustainable. For this reason, <em>Holloway</em> serves as a model, a microcosm of a larger problem stemming from a massively creative section of California.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Independent of funding from the university, our intention is to remain an autonomous organization responding to creation biannually. As we extend our branches to reach others who have passed through SFSU, our coverage will grow, and the extent to which these artists have flourished will be understood. Due to our model and philosophy, creation may continue ad infinitum. The half-year spent developing <em>Holloway</em> until now has proven there is great interest in the Bay Area and otherwise to see our artists&rsquo; work. What is needed next is you.</p>

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