Through 8/13

Recently, one of Cleveland Photo Fest’s founder Jim Szudy and Cara Gaetano founded a new nonprofit to help fill in the hole left by the cancellation of this year’s CPF and promote photography in Northeast Ohio.

It’s launching with a show that will take place at the Brownhoist from Saturday September 6 through Saturday September 27. It’s called Ghost Cities, and it focuses on a genre of photography that’s been dubbed “ruin porn”—photos of crumbing, decaying buildings ranging from schools to hospital to old theaters to Atlantic City casinos bankrupted by Donald Trump (no, really, I have the book!) Photographers have built entire careers on this.

Photographers are invited to submit any work in which photography is the most prominent medium. Images, they say, “must be directly related to the theme of abandoned cities/towns/urban decay.” They add that “we will not accept any political, religious or social agenda within the work. No street photography will be accepted unless it depicts the ruin of a city or location somewhere in the image. Portraits/people are not the theme of the show.”

The deadline for submission is Wednesday August 13. You can find specific requirements for submission here. The show opens with a reception on Saturday September 6 @ 6-9PM