Miriam Romais The "Other" Art: Submission & Marketing Tips for Photographers

If your New Year's Resolution includes having more exhibitions or having your work published, you have to learn a whole new "art" to get yourself noticed and taken seriously.

Miriam Romais will discuss the often overlooked art of preparing submissions and self promotion, sharing resources and practical tips to help you get noticed. Romais has a unique perspective, having placed hundreds of artists in exhibitions as a curator, as former editor of Nueva Luz photographic journal, and from the other side as a highly exhibited photographer herself.

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Miriam Romais is a New York based Brazilian-American photographer, curator and marketing aficionado. As an awarded photographer, her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Smithsonian Institution, El Museo del Barrio, and the Museum of the City of NY. 

As a panelist, reviewer and workshop leader, she has served with the Center for Photography at Woodstock, FotoWeek DC, PhotoNOLA, FotoFest; NYS Council on the Arts, NYFA, PhotoLucida, United Photo Indstries/Photoville, the Lucie Awards, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and many others. Her personal work has been published in Taproot Magazine, Motorcycling Excellence, the Americade Times, and Americanos: Latino Life in the U.S., a book, HBO special and traveling exhibit organized by Edward James Olmos.

Romais has curated exhibitions for Aperture (Mexico + Afuera), Light Work (Tracing Memory), SPE (Interstice), Silverstein Gallery, and dozens for En Foco, Inc. She is a former Executive Director for En Foco, a non-profit that supports U.S. based photographers of Latino, African, Asian and Native American heritage. During her tenure as editor of Nueva Luz photographic journal, the publication rose to a four-time finalist for a Lucie Award in the support category of “Best Photography Magazine”, and won four IPPIE Awards.