Competition

Thursday, September 10, 2026 - 6:45pm to 8:00pm
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Judge: 
Jurgen Lobert
Theme: 
Night Photography

Any photo of any subject taken outdoors after sunset to before sunrise. Thus, no sunsets or sunrises. Try to capture something interesting about the nighttime in some way: a lonely person standing under a streetlight, a busy intersection with streaks of headlights and taillights, people around a table at an outdoor café, an old building under a dark sky with light shining from the windows. “Blue hour” and Milky Way photos will qualify, but why not try for something less common?

Our judge this month is Jurgen Lobert, who you may remember from his excellent presentation on painting with light, at night. Jürgen specializes in night photography but also creates photos of daytime long exposures, urban exploration, and infrared. His work has appeared in numerous solo exhibits and group shows and is in the permanent collection of the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts, and is held by private collectors. He organizes some 40 photo excursions and workshops each year and is an international lecturer, instructor, and competition judge. He taught photography at the New England School of Photography (NESOP) and currently teaches at the Griffin Museum of Photography.