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Artist Brief - Capricious #10 - The Feminist Issue  Capricious is an international fine art photography publication for emerging artists. The presented work is neither commercial, nor fashion photography; it creates visual narrative without intermediary contextualization. Capricious is a potential makeshift, personal gallery of autonomous works, as well as journal. Readers become critics, curators, and artists rather than mere consumers.   Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards: The Feminist Issue Guest Editor, Tammy Rae Carland:   “As a culture, we have been poised in a national political climate that has hinged itself on hope as the vehicle for change. Hope, one of the most vague of conceptual feelings, has created real, tactile change historically within the leadership of big government. Work and ideas created with senses and sensibility at the core hold potential for transformative ideas and experience. If hope is something that can be politically argued for, then perhaps empathy is something that can change minds, and grief and love are things that can inspire social change. Perhaps anger, bitterness, tears and heartbreak cannot and should not be publicly avoided.   The possibilities that exist in a dialogue on feelings inflame the specter of feminism; feminist feelings are the final frontier. If we were to prioritize the world of feelings, what would it look like? Would it be humiliating or empowering, and would we be accused of acting like a girl? Perhaps making visual the world of feelings is the least we could do and the most honest we can be. Empathetic vision, relentless loss, identity melancholia, gender dysphoria, femme euphoria, sissy pride, compulsive hope, political depression, retooling trauma, shameless shame and feelings that have no names how do we photograph that?”   We want you to submit 8-12 photographs (more will not be viewed). We accept all formats and all colors. We also want you to tell us your story. Write an informal text about your thoughts, visions, dreams, or about the photographs you submitted, max 400 words; work submitted without text will not be considered. Email us your submission; 8x10 inches at 72 dpi to submit@capriciousmagazine.com   Not all submissions will be guaranteed a spot in the coming issue yet capricious will consider your submission for future issues. Please make sure you have model (or any other legally necessary) releases for all submitted work. Capricious has the right to use published material in promotional matters. Deadline: September 20th Capricious mailing: 302 Bedford Ave #114, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Capricious visiting: 103 Broadway 1st Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11211 For further questions, please email submit@capriciousmagazine.com