Descry Magazine Issue No. 2, Call for Submissions

Submissions Open, Issue 2,

with guest editor Donald Graham Hershey

CATALOGUE OF THE NIGHT

Nighttime changes things; alters the landscape; night is bare, stripped down to nothing. Where solitude frightens us, and shadows dance on walls. Fingertips scrape skin, residue sneaks from beneath the nails; the night is a warm body by your side and the stain of a stranger’s scent. Disturbed and uncertain, night is a lonesome rampage. Mysteries unfold in the night; where we take a ride on a midnight train; where direction exists inside objects and pulses, and details, like the cold wind cutting through your hair and a distant rabbit’s howl, are all we have.

In darkness, you are fooled, and the world turns askew, slight at first. Creatures slink in, brutish and savage; sleep is stolen away. Night is the peephole to crawl into other worlds, tangible and alive. Fantastical places where order is unknown, where tall hats crawl from circus tents, elephants tiptoe across treetops, and girls with fins walk on water and where love, despite it all, manages to find you.

In the night there lurks a masquerade, waits a solace, finds a fantasy, haunts a nightmare.

Issue 2 will connect the nighttime narratives from across town and from oceans away. An inspired catalogue of what keeps us from our dreams, what lingers in our darkest shadows, and what fastens us to our pillow each night. Issue 2 is meant to collectively expose the most intimate vulnerabilities, illusions, hallucinations, dreams, fantasies, and memories that are stored in our midnight hours.

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In the meantime, check out the following submissions:

JESSE BURKE

CHRIS RAIN

RANDI BEREZ

DONALD GRAHAM HERSHEY

Donald Graham Hershey loves "the mystery, the unknown, the supernatural, the ghosts."

His collection of works, "surreal moving pictures and flat images," determines a narrative that is " a kind of 'choose your own adventure' story." Donald Graham Hershey has "no explanation to guide those who witness [his] work."

See more of Donald Graham Hershey's work here.

AUBREY RHODES

"The Enemy Within"

Years ago, Aubrey Rhodes "walked away from academia and the literary arts and began painting full-time."

She declares:

"On canvas I could employ symbolism and innuendo much more immediately and with more freedom than I could on a page restricted to 26 letters, black and white, and the rules of grammar."

See more of Aubrey Rhodes' work here.

RYTIS GERVICKAS

Rytis Gervickas believes that a scene or subject might only become meaningful the moment it is captured as a photograph.

Gervickas states that the "things we create, whether consciously or not, are results of our personality and destiny."

See more of Rytis Gervickas' work here.

MARY ANN REILLY

Photography allows Mary Ann Reilly

"the occasion to recast the familiar in new cloth, resituate understanding, and unsettle certainties."

See more of Mary Ann Reilly's work here.

KENNEY MENCHER

Kenney Mencher's "likes to watch."

His work "explores the thread of human connection that is woven into our experiences. Collaged from posed photographs and pop-culture, [his] paintings are frozen moments in a play."

See more of Kenney Mencher's work here.

AMOS MAC

Amos Mac's creative portraiture seeks to

document the "transitional second that proves we are all human."

See more of Amos Mac's work here.

KRISTOFFER AXEN

From the series "At Sea At Night"

Kristoffer Axen was born in Stockholm, Sweden but currently lives and works in New York City.

See more of Kristoffer Axen's work here.

MORGAN KENDALL

"Lasso Me the Moon"

Morgan Kendall creates images of a world she "long[s] to go to" with inspiration found "in simplicity, such as the collar of a dress or the light bulb of a lamp."

See more of Morgan Kendall's work here.

SUSANNAH KAY

"Tens of thousands of wildebeests pushing and shoving to cross the river..."

Susannah Kay, on the wildebeest migration process:

"Once most make it to a side, the lone calves cross back and forth again and again, trying to reconnect with their mothers from whom they have been separated in this brutal process. Those who cannot successfully reach the top succumb to nature's way and end up dying from injury or being eaten..."

See more of Susannah Kay's work here.

LAURA MAKINEN

"Mom and Bill"

Laura Makinen, on her work:

"Although most of the people in these old images are gone from this world, they reach out from the past and affect me."

" I see my work as similar to that of a dj. I am a visual sampler; I search through piles of [photographic] images to find those that resonate the most, then alter and present them to the world in a new form."

See more of Laura Makinen's work here.

SUSANNE WILLUHN

Susanne Willuhn's work is motivated by her "inner world."

Her images "seek to conceive those moments when the borders between reality and unconsciousness become blurred." She communicates her daydreams through these "emotional landscapes."

See more of Susanne Willuhn's work here.

SARA SEINBERG

Sara Seinberg, on her submission:

"I remember in 2001 how I realized that for Americans, the sky would never be the same"...

"in New York and in Washington DC, our buildings fell. For days there were no planes overhead, just traveling birds, and we watched in loops on our televisions or out our windows as fax machines and bodies clamored to the ground. We watched as people jumped, windows exploded, glass heaved itself in daggers at pedestrians. We finally became members of civilization while the newsmen of the world hurled expletives at the people on those flying planes. We took our place in the post traumatic stress of the sky. We would never again look up in the same way. That was a beginning. That was a new way to be. And the birds have never looked more majestic."

See more of Sara Seinberg's work here.

GREGORY BARTLETT

About his work, Gregory Bartlett states:

"Being one that is small and compact in size, I find myself often gravitating towards the tiny and delicately detailed in life. My current investigations and studies are of urban landscapes that are intimate in gesture, obsessively detailed, and mostly mundane in nature."

See more of Gregory Bartlett's work here.

JULIO BADEL

"Plate 3: Dissection of the Neck" is from a collaborative collage series by

Julio Badel and Chelsea Rae Klein.

"Our personal knowledge of our internal organs, nerves and tissue is wanting/lacking/insufficient. We use our bodies continuously and yet throughout our lifetime, for the most part, we have no understanding of how it functions. This series combines both our naivete and our want to understand: the beauty of anatomy, mathematics in nature and the irony of our vanity."

To contact Julio Badel juliobadel@hotmail.com.

YANIV WAISSA

Grand Canyon-Carmel Tunnels, Haifa

from the series “Disintegration of a Revived Nation”

Yaniv Waissa works and lives in Jerusalem, but his “photographic journeys lead [him] across [Isreal].”

“Wherever I go I examine the relationship between man and nature and the, sometimes absurd, connection and constant tension between past, present and future”… “Everywhere I go I recognize a personal memory that can ignite a collective memory of the viewer. “

See more of Yaniv Waissa’s work here.

KERI-ANNE PINK

Keri-Anne Pink has an

"obsession with fairytales and anything nostalgic."

She states that her photographic intent is to capture childhood memories and innocence.

See more of Keri-Anne Pink's work here.

VILLE KANSANEN

"The Personal Injuries Archive"

"The Personal Injuries Archive is a collection of self-sabotaging emotionally deformed states, such as self-pity, self-hatred, and disbelief in oneself. Its purpose is to portray the uncertainties of our mechanics as humans and to centralize our disconcerting need to sabotage what we really want to do and how little we believe in ourselves subconsciously - and indeed consciously. "

See more of Ville Kansanen's work here.