PACIFIC

Our annual location-based STRATUS publication hopes to showcase different artists, narratives, hidden gems, and timeless staples from “everyday places,” around the world. The location for STRATUS ISSUE 03: PACIFIC will be Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• Is your Vancouver a moving subject or a still one?

• Is your Vancouver driven by natural experience or by cultural handprint?

• Is your Vancouver vast and complex or personal and intimate?

• Is your Vancouver a warm memory or a gritty reality?

• Is your Vancouver anonymous or identifiable?

STRATUS is looking for submissions to be published in a journal and to be displayed at a journal launch event that interpret the theme: PACIFIC which explores dichotomies in Vancouver: nature vs. culture, individualism vs. aggregation, memory vs. modernity, anonymity vs. identification, or others.

A neighbourhood might present itself through thin walls that implicate you in unwilling eavesdropping. A narrative might emerge from colourful storefronts and habits of people who frequent them. Time might be experienced in the cycles of the ocean, sand, and rain.

An exploration of these categories may show how they clash with each other or how they seamlessly intersect.

For photography: anyone globally can submit. Select Vancouver-based artists will be contacted further for commissioned work and given priority.

For creative writing: anyone globally can apply, Vancouver-based artists will be given priority.

For editorial writing: anyone globally can apply, Vancouver-based artists will be given priority.

For installations: Vancouver-based only.

STRATUS is BIPOC-led and committed to showcasing a diversity of artists. We will prioritize submissions from traditionally under-represented groups.

Publication:

Select photography to be used in the main body of the issue.

Select creative writing to be used alongside submitted images.

Editorial writing will be used alongside images of the featured interviews.

Launch event:

Select photography to be displayed .

Installation to be created and displayed .

All submissions due: October 10th, 2023 at 11:59 PM.

Successful candidates will be contacted around End of October, 2023.

Tentative issue launch date: March 2024

Tentative one-night launch event in Vancouver, BC: March 30, 2024

Tentative one-night launch event in Edmonton, AB: April 27, 2024

*all of the above dates are subject to grant funding, and may shift. Thanks for your patience and understanding :)*

Please read the following:

1. The photograph, image, written work or material that I am submitting ("Submission" or "photograph" or "image" or “writing”) is my original work and I currently hold all rights to it.

2. The work has not been created with the use or assistance of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).

3. To the best of my knowledge, my Submission does not infringe or violate any trademark, copyright or privacy rights of any third party. I acknowledge that I have secured all required releases, consents and permission from any individuals appearing in the Submission.

4. I grant STRATUS a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to reproduce, publish, distribute, transmit, display, license, annotate, archive, backup or otherwise use the Submission in whole or in part in any media for the specified publication (i.e. "STRATUS ISSUE 03: PACIFIC"), launch events, and for marketing purposes only.

5. I understand and acknowledge that STRATUS will use this Submission for commercial purposes related to the publication "STRATUS ISSUE 03: PACIFIC", and that its use for any other commercial purposes (i.e., future publications) will require my further consent, sought by STRATUS separately from this agreement.

5. I grant STRATUS the right to overlay text to the Submission as STRATUS sees fit, including my name (to provide a photo credit) and/or my initials or first name and last initial; the city, state/province, and/or country where I live; the geographic location of the photograph; and general information about the photograph.

6. I understand and acknowledge that submitting a photograph, written work, or installation proposal to STRATUS does not guarantee acceptance, use or publication of the photograph, written work, or installation and that STRATUS in its sole discretion will devise which photographs or images it uses and the manner in which those photographs or images will be used. Further, I agree that my Submission(s) will be made available on the STRATUS website and to the general public under the license I am granting with its submission and that its use can be discontinued at the sole discretion of STRATUS at any time without notice to me.

7. I represent that any persons (adults or minor) whose images are in my Submissions (collectively, the "Subjects") are aware and agree to this Submission(s) and to these terms of this Agreement. I further represent that the Subjects have given me their express consent to include their image in my Submission free of any claim or expectation of compensation. If any animals have been included in any of my Submissions(s), I affirm that the owners of these animals have given me their express consent to include the image of their animal in my Submission free of any claim or expectation of compensation.

8. I understand and agree that STRATUS has no liability for any unauthorized use of the Submission by third parties. STRATUS, for its part, will not authorize any third-party use of the Submission.

9. To the extent permitted under applicable governing laws, I agree to hold harmless and indemnify STRATUS in the event that any third party makes a claim against STRATUS for its use of my Submission

10. I also agree that if a provision of this Agreements is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, that fact or finding shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of the provisions of this Agreement.

11. I have read this Media Release Form, understand its content, and agree to its terms.