The Best Medicine Show

A Juried Exhibition of Funny Photographs


Opening Reception:
April 1 (April Fool’s Day), 6-8pm

  Photograph by Jock McDonald

CALL FOR ENTRIES

We need to laugh now, more than ever, so Dickerman Prints is announcing a call for humorous entries that will lift our spirits and tickle our funny bones.

All genres and styles of photography are welcome, but remember: photographs will be judged primarily on how funny they are!

  Photograph by Jock McDonald

Prizes

  • Best of Show will receive a $500 gift certificate to Dickerman Prints.
  • 4 honorable mention prizes of $150 gift certificates to Dickerman prints will also be awarded.
  • Winning pictures will be exhibited at Dickerman Prints in the SOMA Arts District of San Francisco.
  • Selections from the show will be featured in a special article in All-About-Photo.com

Jurors

  • Ann Jastrab, executive director of the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel
  • Stuart Kogod, owner and founder of Rayko Photo Center
  • Seth Dickerman, owner and founder of Dickerman Prints

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

~ Lord Byron

  Photograph by Jock McDonald

Entry Guidelines

The Best Medicine Show is open to all living photographers, worldwide, over the age of 18, working in all still photographic media. Works must be original.

  • Deadline for submissions: March 8, 2020
  • Entry Fee (non-refundable): $30/up to 3 images. $5/additional image up to 10 images.
  • Limit 10 images per person:
  • All entries must be jpegs or tiffs, not bigger than 2MB, longest side 1280 pixels
  • Save files with artist’s last name, first name and title of image (Example: Marx-Groucho-Animal Crackers-1930.jpeg)
  • For those submitting by mail or hand-delivering to Dickerman Prints, please download our submission form.

  Photograph by Jock McDonald

Submission of Accepted Work

Accepted artists will be invited to send or deliver actual work.  Artists may also choose to have Dickerman Prints, San Francisco’s premier photo lab, print your images.

For $20 per print, Dickerman Prints will make beautiful prints of your photographs that you will get to keep after the exhibition. 8×10″ or 8.5×11″ paper.

All works will be hung unframed.

“Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.”

~ Moe Howard

  Photograph by Jock McDonald

Delivery & Return Schedule

  • March 8, 2020 – Deadline for submissions. Late submissions will not be reviewed.
  • March 10, 2020 – Notification sent by
  • March 14, 2020 – Deadline for receipt of digital files if Dickerman Prints is printing your image(s) for the show
  • March 25, 2020 – Deadline for receipt of works (late submissions or substitute images will not be hung)
  • April 1 – June 1 – Exhibition on view
  • April 1, 2020 – Opening reception at Dickerman Prints, 5:30-7:30pm (yes, April Fool’s Day!)
  • June 10, 2020 – Pick-up hand-delivered work
  • July 1, 2020 – Works shipped by

Enter Now

Artists will be notified by email on March 8, 2020

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