DUSK TO DUSK 2023 - “PICKING UP THE PIECES”

What started as a friendly photo challenge among the Boyd's Station Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling recipients Arden Barnes and Michael Swensen and invited friends in 2018 has now grown into the Boyd's Station Dawn to Dusk Student 24-Hour Photojournalism Challenge photographing Harrison County and bringing student photographers together to photograph Harrison County during on a specific 24-hours in July 2023.

The original concept by Michael and Arden was to invite friends to come to Harrison County for a friendly photo shoot-out. That concept morphed into the Boyd's Station competition with a theme announced just hours before the event for the student photographers to interpret - in their visual essay and words.

The poem “Where I’m From” by Kentucky poet laureate George Ella Lyon was the announced theme in 2018 and the 2019 Boyd’s Station Dawn to Dusk Challenge theme “Today” was announced to the invited student photographers and Boyd’s Station Reinke Grant recipients inviting them to document and interpret the theme during the 24 hours with public judging of the submissions by a group of visiting professionals at Rohs Opera House in Cynthiana, Kentucky on Sunday, July 14, 2019.

The competition name change to Dusk to Dusk 24-Hour Student Photojournalism Challenge in 2023 is a true reflection of the 24-hour photo challenge window bringing a clear and defined timeline and scope to this competition. Along with clarifying the name and duration, Boyd's Station wanted to create a full and exciting weekend event most convenient for student photojournalists to come together as a group, and celebrate photojournalism by both creating work and talking about photographs in a place that brings emerging photojournalists together with professionals.

Today, the spirited competition brings student photographers and a host of professional photographers together for a weekend of mentoring and talks while documenting the lives of people in the Harrison County community.

**BEST SINGLE IMAGE OF 2023 DUSK TO DUSK - PHOTOGRAPHER ANNIE BARKER** - Shepherd Moss, 3, scoots down the sidewalk with gentle pushes from his mother Breanna to get him started. Breanna does her best to help the boys remember their “Gammy” and raise them how her mom raised her by being an active figure in their lives.

DUSK TO DUSK 2023 - 1st PLACE ESSAY - LUKAS FLIPPO

“I Won’t Give Up, Tommy Fryman Hunts the Roadside”

7/8/23—Cynthiana, Kentucky — Fryman walks with his shopping cart back to the gas station as storms begin to hit Cynthiana. When the weather turns bad, he often hangs out inside the store, where he jokes with customers and catches his breath until the sun returns.

7/8/23—Cynthiana, Kentucky — “I think it’s going to be too hot to hunt today,” Fryman said, sitting outside his cousin’s home. But within 20 minutes, he was out on the sidewalks with his cart. Fryman sees it as good for him to keep moving, even when he doesn’t feel up to it.

7/8/23—Cynthiana, Kentucky — Fryman tosses a can from a residential garbage can into his shopping cart. Fryman seeks permission from homeowners to look through their garbage cans for trash he can recycle, as there is no recycling infrastructure through the city of Cynthiana.

7/8/23—Cynthiana, Kentucky — “Somebody else got those cans,” Fryman said. “They’re always stealing everything.” Fryman was told cans were left in bags for him outside his storage unit next to a dumpster, but they were nowhere to be found.

7/8/23—Cynthiana, Kentucky — “They just throw the money away,” Fryman said, staring angrily past the counter after watching a gas station customer check out with $75 in lottery tickets. Fryman buys $1 tickets occasionally, but cashier Lisa Philpot only lets him buy a couple. “I’d like him to have his money,” she said. Instead, they bet cokes on aspects of Fryman’s collecting, like how much his cart can carry or how he can maneuver items to fit.

7/8/23—Cynthiana, Kentucky — Fryman spent minutes looking at the die-cast cars in the gas station market, counting them up individually to get an overall price. They are $8 a piece, a price he can’t justify. His favorite, which he picked up immediately, is a yellow taxi. “I love it because its doors open and close,” he said.

7/8/23—Cynthiana, Kentucky — Fryman has many people’s names tattooed on his arms, from his mom and his dad to his cousins to the wife he had for one day. “I married her, took her to bed, and then annulled it,” Fryman said. “Her brother watched us, and after it was over I asked if he learned anything.” The tattoos help him remember and cherish these family members, as his parents and several of his siblings have passed away.

7/8/23—Cynthiana, Kentucky — Fryman puts his belt back on after determining he has no more room in his storage locker. He wraps his keys around his belt loop to ensure he doesn’t lose them while bending over to pick up items along the road or in the trash.

We start with a partial inventory of what's in Tommy Fryman’s shopping cart, drenched in rain on this stormy Saturday in downtown Cynthiana: over a hundred crushed soda cans, a new pack of diapers, a new window blind, a pool noodle, and 4 pizza pans. Oh, and the chief offenders, two metal pipes. Even with the rope tied around them, they are too big for the cart, extending over a foot over the railing of each side of the cart.

Fryman’s life is a numbers game. 24 cans a pound, 50 cents for a pound of aluminum at Randy’s Odd Jobs Recycling Center. Seven days a week, Fryman walks around town, averaging 10 miles a day, to pick up cans and other goods to sell at Randy’s Odd Jobs Recycling Center to supplement his disability check, which he receives for epilepsy. Cynthiana has no recycling system, and Randy’s business helps Tommy make ends meet.

Fryman is well-known in the community. People stop their cars on the road to give him cans and businesses leave them by their dumpsters. No one bats an eye when Fryman bends over a trash can. The task gets harder every day. Fryman gets short of breath, and legs frequently buckle and give out. But that won’t deter him from his mission: to clean the streets of Cynthiana and make some honest cash.

“Not many people have a heart like I do,” Fryman said. “And I won’t give up, not until God calls me home.”

DUSK TO DUSK 2023 - 2nd PLACE ESSAY - ANNIE BARKER

“East Wall Middle Gate”

Left to right, a family portrait of Joshua Moss, Joseph Moss, Kay Moss, David Moss, and Breanna Moss, sits cracked on a mantel in the Moss family home. The house features many photos of the family, but are centered around Kay.

Breanna Moss, 27, displays one of her tattoos inked in her mother’s handwriting. Her mother always wanted a tattoo, but was unable to get one due to risk of infection in her later years. Breanna has several other tattoos including an anchor design from Kay’s potential tattoo Pinterest board.

David Moss, 62, pauses working on a garden in his backyard. He and Kay would collaborate and spend time together cultivating the space. Losing the love of his life, David wishes for one more day with Kay describing her as “special” and “always giving’. “I’ll never get over it,” David said. “When I die, she’ll be on my mind.”

Shepherd Moss, 3, scoots down the sidewalk with gentle pushes from his mother Breanna to get him started. Breanna does her best to help the boys remember their “Gammy” and raise them how her mom raised her by being an active figure in their lives.

Breanna poses for a photo holding the ashes of her mother. The group in charge of cremation were supposed to save a lock of Kay’s hair, but failed to. Breanna would often brush and style Kay’s hair to help prepare her for the day.

Layton Moss, 7, left, and Sheperd Moss, 3, right, play in the living room of their family home. Layton has more memories of his grandmother than Shepherd, but both grieve in their own ways.

Breanna holds a quilt of shirts her mother would often wear. Her favorite is the Dunder Mifflin shirt as they would often watch The Office together at home and in the hospital.

Breanna looks up a shadow portrait of her mother and other family members. The house is full of reminders and photos of Kay’s legacy.

Breanna Moss, 27, lost her mother, Kay B. Moss, 58, to stage four renal cell carcinoma and other complications on June 5, 2022. The two shared a relationship that went beyond mother and daughter, telling each other everything and signing off notes “love you more.”

Diagnosed in 2019, Kay fought a lengthy battle encountering allergic reactions, surgery complications and difficulty breathing due to her lungs filling with fluids. Breanna stepped in to pick up all household tasks her mother could no longer do as well as caring for her mother utilizing her experience in healthcare, raising her two sons, returning to school and navigating a two year relationship during the coronavirus pandemic.

A year after Kay’s passing, Breanna wrote a letter to her mother, fighting to articulate the levels of grief she felt at Kay’s passing and in the present day.

“Days & weeks after losing you, I was angry,” wrote Breanna. “Angry at how the world continued to turn. How people were shopping & eating like something awful hadn’t just happened. Like the most amazing person to me hadn’t just vanished from this Earth. Eventually I realized no one would know the depths of my pain with losing you, just as I’d never know theirs.”

Kay was a devout woman. Kay told her family members that they would reunite in Heaven one day at the East Wall Middle Gate.

DUSK TO DUSK 2023 - 3rd PLACE ESSAY - ABIGAIL PITTMAN

“The Pieces of a Life”

7/7/23 -- Cynthiana, Kentucky — Emberly Sumpter, left, 1, holds her grandmother Nicole McNees's hand for support as Sumpter jumps on the trampoline at McNees' home in Cynthiana, KY on July 7, 2023.

7/7/23 -- Cynthiana, Kentucky — Emberly Sumpter, left, 1, holds her grandmother Nicole McNees' hand as they walk together at McNees' home in Cynthiana, KY on July 7, 2023.

7/7/23 -- Cynthiana, Kentucky — Nicole McNees, right, looks at her daughter Ashlynn McNees, 18, on their back porch in Cynthiana, KY on July 7, 2023.

7/7/23 -- Cynthiana, Kentucky — Ashlynn McNees, 18, holds a stack of heart-shaped rocks in her hand by the South Fork Licking River in Cynthiana, KY on July 7, 2023.

7/7/23 -- Cynthiana, Kentucky — Ashlynn McNees, 18, looks for rocks to skip with while walking in the South Fork Licking River in Cynthiana, KY on July 7, 2023.

7/8/23 -- Cordova, Kentucky — Amanda Aguilar, left, smiles after learning the sex of her baby at her gender reveal party near Cordova, KY on July 8, 2023.

7/8/23 -- Cordova, Kentucky — Anna Warfield, right, passes Violet Claypool, 1, through the window of her van to her mother Stephanie Strobel near Cordova, KY on July 8, 2023.

7/7/23 -- Cynthiana, Kentucky — Timothy Partin, right, measures the size of his hands against Mercadees Chambers' hands as Melanie Landrum, left, looks on in the Walmart parking lot in Cynthiana, KY on July 8, 2023.

7/7/23 -- Cynthiana, Kentucky — Ashlynn McNees, 18, rides a four wheeler on her family's land with her boyfriend, Chase Edwards, in Cynthiana, KY on July 7, 2023.

Reading the prompt pushed me to ask: what are the proverbial pieces that make up a life? I identified several: family and/or loved ones, physical things, and (either literally or metaphorically) picking others up. A life, in short, is the connection we make with others, whether that’s through hands held, laughs shared, or rides around the farm.

I spent time with the McNees family near Cynthiana, young adults at Walmart, and at a gender reveal party near the county line to exemplify that human connection.

DUSK TO DUSK 24 - HOUR STUDENT PHOTOJOURNALISM CHALLENGE & SPEAKER SERIES

DUSK TO DUSK 2023 THEME IS: “Picking Up The Pieces”

July 7-9, 2023 | HARRISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY

Boyd's Station is, again, excited to be hosting a student photojournalism challenge in Harrison County.

Come to Harrison County to be part of this good old-fashioned shoot-off and enjoy the weekend with friends and some pretty amazing photographers who will be speaking Saturday and Sunday.

And there will be some serious prize money and Think Tank Photo swag for the top three essays and overall best image from the weekend judged Saturday night by former Louisville Courier-Journal photojournalist Pat McDonogh and former New York Times photojournalist Stephen Crowley at Boyd’s Station Gallery.

Students competing in the Dusk to Dusk 24-Hour Student Photojournalism Challenge must be high school or college students. Recent graduates from a university who have graduated in the past three years are eligible to compete in the D2D24 Challenge and any photographers who participated in the Boyd’s Station America Reimagined Project are invited to take part in interpreting and documenting the competition theme in Harrison County from dusk on Friday evening, July 7 starting at 6 PM through dusk on Saturday evening, July 8, 2023.

Judging of the entries will begin immediately following the 6:30 pm photo talk by former Louisville Courier-Journal award-winning photojournalist Pat McDonogh on Saturday, July 8 at the Boyd's Station Gallery in Cynthiana, KY with winners announced that evening.

DUSK TO DUSK JUDGES

Stephen Crowley, former photojournalist, New York Times

Tom Eblen, former managing editor and columnist, Lexington Herald-Leader

Pat McDonogh, former photojournalist, Louisville Courier-Journal

Jeff Swensen, photographer, Argo Collective

AWARDS & PRIZES

Thanks to Boyds Station and THINK TANK PHOTO for their very generous support!

Best of Show Photo Essay - $400 and a Think Tank Streetwalker Pro backpack
Runner-Up Photo Essay - $200 and a Think Tank Retrospective 5 shoulder bag
Third Place Photo Essay - $50 and a Think Tank Turnstyle 10 sling bag
Best Single Image - $100 and a Think Tank SpeedTop 30 backpack

SPEAKER SERIES AT BOYD’S STATION GALLERY

All of the speaking events are open and free to the public. You do not have to participate in the Dusk to Dusk Photo Challenge to attend. ALL ARE WELCOME!

Saturday, July 8 - 6:30 pm

Pat McDonogh, former award-winning Louisville Courier-Journal photojournalist

Sunday, July 9 - noon

Roberts Camera's Nick Henry Lighting Workshop at Boyd's Station Gallery

Sunday, July 9- 2 pm

Stephen Crowley, former New York Times award-winning photojournalist

DUSK TO DUSK 24-HOUR CHALLENGE FAQ's

The 2023 Dusk to Dusk 24-Hour Student Photojournalism Challenge theme that will be the basis for the competition will be announced publicly at 3 PM on Friday, July 7 via the Boyd's Station official website and Boyd's Station social media.

The time period for student photographers to begin to photograph and interpret the theme challenge begins at 6:00 PM, Friday, July 7, lasting for a 24-hour time period ending at 6:00 PM on Saturday, July 8, 2023.

Photographers can take advantage of the entire 24-hour period or only shoot during a selected few hours on either day. It is the photographer’s choice when to shoot and how to interpret the theme and determine how much time that will take. However, the images submitted for judging must be photographed sometime during that 24-hour time period.

All challenge image and theme text entries must be submitted to the judging jury via email by 6:30 PM on July 8.

All cameras must be set to the correct local time.

All photos must be taken in Harrison County, Kentucky.

DUSK TO DUSK CHALLENGE REGISTRATION

For students who pre-register by midnight EST Friday, June 30 - the registration fee is $15.

For students who register after June 30 and before the Friday, July 7 - 2:45 PM EST deadline - the registration fee is $20.

Registration fee is paid to Boyd’s Station via Venmo @boydsstation or scan Venmo VR Code below and pay the registration amount.

WORDS AND PHOTOS - Students competing in the theme competition must provide a written interpretation of the theme including an ESSAY TITLE highlighting the participant’s photo essay (250 words or less) which must be saved as a .doc file. (text style Helvetica - font size 14) and attached to the submission email and delivered before the competition deadline to align with the images submitted for the competition.

Photographs must be true representations of the scene and cannot be fabricated, set up, or staged by the photographer.

The content of a photographic scene must not be digitally manipulated or altered through post-production processing.

Routine post-production processing of images for exposure correction, white balance, and color toning is acceptable.

All photos MUST be in color and NO CONVERSIONS of images to black and white will be accepted.

FULL FRAME ONLY - No cropping of final images.

Absolutely NO borders can be added in post on final edits.

One image per final edited frame.

Photos must be saved and submitted as jpegs at a resolution of 300 dpi or larger and the longest dimension must be at least 15 inches saved as medium-sized jpegs.

CAPTIONS

All photos submitted must be fully captioned in the IPTC Caption/Description field. Images without captions will not be judged.
Do not include your name in the Caption/Description field.
No other IPTC information needs to be added to the IPTC fields. Your image file name using your unique contest code and order number as described below will identify you as the photographer.

Caption Example:

Marilyn Huffman, a forklift operator at Ken’s Value Center in Berry, Kentucky, puts in 50-55 hours per week at the only grocery and local farm store in the northern Harrison County area. Huffman had a dairy farm for 16 years but had to sell it due to a drop in profits. Another forklift operator was recently hired to fill in hours to help Huffman but “the other boy is a bit of a city boy,” Huffman said.

FILE NAMES

Each image file name should be named using your unique contest code followed by order numbers indicating the order to view the image.

Example for submission of 10 images total from photographer Jack Gruber with his personally selected four digits of jmg1270. (Code selected during registration)

You can submit any number of images up to 10 max.

jmg1270_01

jmg1270_02

jmg1270_03

jmg1270_04

FINAL IMAGE AND ESSAY SUBMISSIONS

Final image submissions - (10 photos max per theme essay and words) - must be sent to boydsstation@boydsstation.org before the 6:30 PM deadline on Saturday, July 8, 2023.

Attach up to 10 images with correct filenames to the email.

You must Include in your submission email the 250-word or less theme essay attached to the email as a .doc file as well as the theme essay as pasted as text in the email message field of the submission email.

The subject field of each student's Dusk to Dusk submission E=email when submitting images must be filled out in this manner:

"First Name" "Last Name" - "School" - Dusk to Dusk- “unique contest code”

Example: Jack Gruber-Ohio University-Dusk to Dusk-jmg1270

DUSK TO DUSK EVENT TIMELINE

Friday, July 7, 2023

2:45 PM - Friday, July 7 - Final Registration deadline to take part in Dusk to Dusk.
3 PM - Friday, July 7 - Dusk to Dusk 2023 theme is announced on www.boydsstation.org and Boyd’s Station social media accounts.
6 PM - Friday, July 7 - Dusk to Dusk 2023 competition opens to document this year's theme in Harrison County, Kentucky.

Saturday, July 8, 2023

6 pm - Saturday, July 8 - The Dusk to Dusk Photojournalism Challenge window closes.
6:30 PM - Saturday, July 8 - Final Deadline for submission of photos and words to Dusk to Dusk by students.
6:30 PM - Saturday, July 8 - Former Louisville Courier-Journal Photographer Pat McDonogh Photo Talk (Boyd’s Station Gallery)
8 - 9:30 PM - Saturday, July 8 - Dusk to Dusk Judging - Pat McDonogh & Stephen Crowley (Boyd's Station Gallery)
9:30 PM - Saturday, July 8 - Dusk to Dusk Winners Announced
9:45 PM - Saturday, July 8 - Midnight - Mixer and Food (Boyd's Station Gallery)

Sunday, July 9, 2023

Noon - Sunday, July 9 - Nick Henry, Roberts Camera -Lighting Workshop (Boyd’s Station Gallery)
2 PM - Sunday, July 9 - Former New York Times Photographer Stephen Crowley Photo Talk (Boyd’s Station Gallery)

BASE OF OPERATIONS

The base of Dusk to Dusk operations will be the Boyd’s Station Gallery located at 203 E. Pike Street, Cynthiana, Kentucky. Jack Gruber and Michael Swensen along with a number of other volunteers and photographers will be on location during the weekend to help and facilitate needs of all participants. There will be snacks and drinks at the gallery as well as space to work and access to the internet from downtown Cynthiana at Boyd’s Station Gallery.

If you would like more information on finding overnight stay options, contact us at jack@boydsstation.org or contact Jack directly at 703-901-1810 via voice or text.

HISTORY

What started out as a friendly photo challenge among the Boyd's Station Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling recipients Arden Barnes and Michael Swensen and invited friends has now grown into the Boyd's Station Dawn to Dusk Student 24-Hour Photojournalism Challenge photographing Harrison County and bringing community photographers together to photograph Harrison County during on a specific day in July 2023.

The original concept by Michael and Arden was to invite friends to come to Harrison County for a friendly photo shoot-out. That idea morphed into the Boyd's Station competition with a theme announced just hours before the event for the student photographers to interpret - in their own visual essay and words. The poem “Where I’m From” by Kentucky poet laureate George Ella Lyon was the announced theme in 2018 and the 2019 Boyd’s Station Dawn to Dusk Challenge theme “Today” was announced to the invited student photographers and Boyd’s Station Reinke Grant recipients inviting them to document and interpret the theme during the 24-hour period with public judging of the submissions by a group of visiting professionals at Rohs Opera House in Cynthiana, Kentucky on Sunday, July 14, 2019.

WHY THE NAME CHANGE?

Why the name change? The competition name change to Dusk to Dusk 24-Hour Student Photojournalism Challenge is a true reflection of the 24-hour photo challenge window bringing a clear and defined timeline and scope to this competition. Along with clarifying the name and duration, Boyd's Station wanted to create a full and exciting weekend event easiest and most convenient for student photojournalists to come together as a group, and celebrate photojournalism by both creating work and talking about photographs in a place that brings emerging photojournalists together with professionals. Simply, scheduling the majority of the competition day and judging into a single day, allows the competition and judging to be enjoyed and available to more students.

QUESTIONS?

For questions about logistics, lodging or contest info, please contact: jack@boydsstation.org

2019 24-Hour Photojournalism Challenge Winner Stephanie Amador

https://www.boydsstation.org/spaceship-amador-2019-dawn-to-dusk

2019 24-Hour Photojournalism Challenge Runner-Up Nathaniel Bailey

www.boydsstation.org/sun-2019-dawn-to-dusk

2019 24-Hour Photojournalism Best of Show WORDS Michael Swensen

www.boydsstation.org/fate-michael-swensen-2019-dawn-to-dusk

DUSK TO DUSK PHOTO CHALLENGE REGISTRATION

Name

First Name

Last Name

Individual Contest Code

Use your three initials (first-middle-last name) plus add any additional four numbers you choose to create a unique contest code for yourself. Example for Timmy Lucas Johnson: TLJ3490

Phone

(###)

###

####

Name of School

Must be attending a high school or college or recent college graduate

What Year in School?

Home Town

Venmo Registration Payment

Click if you have paid your registration payment via Venmo to @boydsstation

YES

Release & Waiver

https://www.boydsstation.org/agreement-waiver-sign Did you fill out and sign the Boyd's Station Release & Waiver in order to participate?

YES

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