There was a segment on CBS’ “Sunday Morning” show on the centuries old art of bookbinding that you all might enjoy; here’s the link to the six minute segment:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4217772n
I urge all of you to take a look at work of the finalists for the NYPF Awards. There was fantastic work in the running, and at the event last night this list was cut to a very small group whose works were projected before the names of the winners were announced (5/18: they are now posted at this link).
The overall group of Nominees is worth of looking up the work, international in scope:
| Multimedia Photo / Audio Ed Kashi Jessica Dimmock Vincent Baillais Multimedia Video / Audio Advertising - Series Advertising - Single Editorial - Series Editorial - Single |
Personal work/ fine art - Series Aaron Hobson Adam Bell Andres Gonzalez Anthony Blasko Bill Armstrong Borkur Sigthorsson Christian Patterson Edgar Martins Erica Mcdonald Greg Merhar Gregg LeFevre Harold Glit Kyoko Hamada Lamia Maria Abillama Leslie Sokolow Loreffrey Mark W. Mann Martine Fougeron Michael Corridore Santiago Mostyn Will Steacy Personal work/ Photography Book |
Student Categories
Student Editorial - Series Student Editorial - Single Student Student Student Photography Book |
Winners were announced last night, and at the ceremony the list posted on the festival website does not yet list those name.
American Illustration and American Photography are important annual competitions that have are juried by key industry professionals, and the titles produced to feature selected works are designed by the best in the business. Read industry testimonials here; I love how Lloyd Ziff sums it up from his perspective: “First as an art director and now as a photographer, I find American Photography invaluable. The quality of the judging, the design — and most importantly, of the work — sets and meets the highest of standards. When my work is selected, I’m elated; when it’s not, I work harder.”
The Jury for last year’s American Photography 23 consisted of:
Kathy Ryan, Photo Editor, The New York Times Magazine, JURY CHAIR
Stephen Frailey, Chair, Photography Department, Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program, School of Visual Arts
David Harris, Design Director, Vanity Fair Magazine
Lesley A. Martin, Executive Editor, Aperture Foundation
Stephen Mayes, COO Image Source (Americas), Secretary, World Press Photo
Greg Pond, Photo Editor, Fortune Magazine
Visit the website for these competitions to learn more: www.ai-ap.com.
To view the 576 photographs selected for AP 23, click here.
To view the 1076 illustrations selected for AI 26, click here.
AND, one of my favorite aspects of this competition: the works selected are archived here.
From Brenda Ann via email today:
The Raw File (www.therawfile.org) is a digital theater inspired by the need for a space to host the serial web publication “BACK ON THE BLOCK”.
The Raw File exists to provide an arena for stories not seen incommercially sponsored media. The Raw File is the language of the heart and the sounds of the streets – the quiet of the fields or the rumbling of trains overhead – the flickering pink lights on a synthetic white tree– the echo of footsteps over an empty factory floor. It is Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg meet Biggie Smalls and Remmy Ma. The Raw File is a place where the intimate testimony of a baby’s first snapshot and a lover’s last breath, bear witness to the political and spiritual condition of our time.
The Raw File will set the tone for submissions from independent storytellers and citizen documentarians with the publication of TATA’s ANGEL, the first in the series BACK ON THE BLOCK, produced by Raw File.
BACK ON THE BLOCK continues to tell the stories of the families in Brenda Ann Kenneally’s book MONEY, POWER, RESPECT: Pictures of My Neighborhood (published by Channel Photographics 2005).
Kenneally contacted independent producer Laura Lo Forti when she realized that the obligation to subjects of long term documentary projects needs to be ongoing. Both women had been employing digital media as a means of storytelling and they agreed that often the finite nature of print journalism serves only as the introduction to a larger story. Though the material for Kenneally’s book had been at the designer for months, she continued to document major events in the lives of her neighbors, more often as family member than a journalist. When it became clear that the publication of a book merely provided the context to understand the events of the years to come, Kenneally Lo Forti created therawfile.org.
Using The Creative Commons License and a viral distribution strategy the raw file aims to set the content free so that through discussion the social and emotional intelligence of users across disciplines may be elevated.
Please subscribe to The Raw File newsletter from our homepage www.therawfile.org to be notified of the latest installments.
thanks,
Brenda Ann Kenneally and Laura Lo Forti”
ABOUT The Raw File, From the website
“The Raw File was created to produce and distribute socially reflective media that will provoke discussion. It is our hope that these conversations will intersect the lines of race and class, private and professional.
Our content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License so that anyone may download, copy, exhibit, and distribute it for non-profit, educational purposes. We simply ask you to attribute this work to www.therawfile.org.
The Raw File has no agenda other than to provide a neutral and approachable environment for the documentation and dissemination of information by and about individuals and their communities, an outlet for stories that would otherwise go unheard into history.
The Raw File is self-funded and in the process of being registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit .
The Raw File…
Founded by Brenda Ann Kenneally”
Brenda Ann has since told me “we will be accepting submissions after feburary” and additionally that “we will be working with some social organizations to help produce multi media pieces from some of the folks they work with either in criminal justice of women’s rights.”
Brenda Ann is to be applauded for her efforts in getting the work of others out, promoting dialogue, and contributing to building the market for multimedia. If you are not familiar with her own work, I encourage you to visit her website, and to view one of my favorite pieces from the NYT Multimedia site, “CHILDREN OF THE STORM,” which first appeared as an entire issue of the NYT Magazine on the first anniversary of hurricane Katrina. She has continued to tell the story in multimedia format, “Finding The Way Home: Two Years After Katrina” which is featured on www.mediastorm.org
As always, I encourage all of you to share your work, give voice to your subjects and all effect change, and appreciate the efforts of those who provide platforms for dialogue.
And, I suggest all artists register their images with the copyright office before posting or reproducing ANYWHERE. This is to protect you should your copyright be violated beyond any permissions you granted, or in the unfortunate instince that they were reproduced in any format without prior permissions (and appropriate licensing fees paid).
Visit these industry organization sites for information and registration forms:
www.editorialphoto.com (information and forms)
www.asmp.org (copyright application tutorial)
www.pacaoffice.org (copyright education PowerPoint for free downloading)
From the BBC News website:
RWANDAN PORTRAIT WINS PHOTO PRIZE
A portrait of a Rwandan woman who was raped during the 1994 genocide has won the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Portrait Prize.
The subject of the photo, Joseline Ingabire, is shown embracing the child she bore after the attack.
Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik, who was awarded the £12,000 prize money, took the picture after interviewing Ingabire about her experiences.
He said that at fight sight, the photo depicts “how beautiful they are”.
Massacre
He added: “And then you look at the mother’s eyes. On the surface, this is a portrait of a beautiful mother and her children.
“Her beauty is there, yes, but there is something quiet and terrible behind that.”
Torgovnik photographed 20 women and children in all for a series called Intended Consequences: Mothers of Genocide, Children of Rape.
Ingabire was two months pregnant when the massacre started.
She was repeatedly raped during and after her pregnancy and, after giving birth, became pregnant again as a result of one of the attacks.
About 2,700 photographers from around the world entered a record 6,900 submissions for the prize.
The £3,000 second prize went to Argentine-born Julieta Sans for a portrait of her friend, and third prize went to Cape Town-born Michelle Sank for a portrait of a teenager from a children’s home.
Fourth prize, which was a cheque for £1000, went to David Stewart, who lives in London and was born in Lancaster, for a portrait of his teenage daughter.
The inaugural Godfrey Argent award for photographers aged 25 and under, went to 24-year-old Ivor Prickett from Ireland.
He won the prize for a picture from a series on Serbian families returning to Croatia after being displaced during the Bosnian conflict.
Congratulations to all!
Today I received the sad news that Alexandra Boulet had died. She suffered a brain aneurysm in June and fell into a coma, from which she never emerged. She was an amazing photographer, working to bring the stories of the underserved to light. At the most recent VII seminar in Pasadena, it was such an amazing experience listening to Alexandra speak about the experience of traveling for two months under the the veil of a burka among the women of Afghanistan as they were preparing to vote for the first time. You can see this work under the “Features” section of the VII site; it is part of a series she was working on called “Women of the Axis.” She told us she had put the burka on at the airport, and taken it off two months later, and how she came to understood their comfort some of the women felt with choosing to continue to wear it; she told us how felt ‘exposed’ when removing it to return to the western world. The work she did on that project was amazing; no one could have lived among the women and captured their spirit as Alex did.
Check out this link to her National Geographic image/audio piece “Diary of a War” that she shot from January to May 2003. Another amazing piece: click here to view a Time magazine multimedia piece on “Capturing Gaza’s Hell.”
Add to these links the recent VII seminar in London within which Alexandra is reported to have share this: “Alexandra Boulet revealed that her father, himself a photographer, had spent 10 years trying to dissuade her from taking up the profession. He had called it “a rotten piece of wood”. That was twenty years ago, and she has since gone on to cover the wars in Yugoslavia and Iraq, the fall of the Taliban and the condition of women in the Islamic world − winning numerous awards in the process.”
I encourage you to visit the VII site and see the warm tribute her colleagues have posted, as well as read the NYT obituary, from with you will learn that her parents gave her the gift of photography which she in turn gave to all of us.
Her work will live on but oh how we will miss her.
Photographer Nina Berman’s important project PURPLE HEARTS is on view at the Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC through August 30th.
Today’s NYT Online features this article on the show.
Nina will be giving a gallery talk and signing copies of her book on Wednesday, August 29th from 6-8 p.m.
From the gallery’s website:
“Join us at the gallery on Wednesday August 29th, from 6pm-8pm, at a reception and artist talk with Nina Berman. Nina will also be signing copies of her monograph Purple Hearts, which can be purchased for $25.
Space is extremely limited so an RSVP is required: send an email to rsvp@jenbekman.com if you’d like to attend and/or reserve a copy of the book.
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, NY 10012
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday: Noon to 6pm”
Click here to read the press release and learn more about the exhibition.
Newspace Center for Photography in Portland Oregon has opened the 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition “AMONG US AND CURIOUS” and will remain on view through July 29th.
Juror DARIUS HIMES offered this statement:
“Photography in the early years of the 21st century is a panoply of diversity. The availability of picture-making devices is rampant. Different types of cameras–from the cell phone and the scanner to the view camera, the pinhole device and the hand held 35mm–are within the reach of anyone with an inkling of artistic interest. Independence of individual thought and action–that child of the moral revolutions and technological innovations of the 2oth century–permeate the Western world and have made in-roads to more closed societies. The sheer variety of images that we witness today is due more to a belief that ALL voices have a rightful place in the world than anything else. Filters and “the critical lens” are a necessity, now more than ever, when it comes to imbibing and coercing meaning from the sea of work out there.
Thirty-five images from thirty-two photographers are included in this show, culled from over 2,000 images. My approach to jurying this show was neither to survey the field and present a cross-section of “what’s happening” nor was it to award artists for the “Best Images in Show.” Rather, I looked at the work in front of me and allowed a loose narrative, an unspoken and enigmatic script to emerge. Each of the photographs included have their own merit and play a contributing role in the unity of the show. I chose the work of John Mann, Alex Emmons and Takako Kido to be the award recipients based on the strength and coherence of the 5 images they submitted, rather than just on the strength of the image(s) I decided to include. By excluding some photographs and including others, I sought to strengthen this overall group of images into a cohesive unity. Playfulness, mystery, fauna, fancy and the presence of others among us–these are all words that I hope will resonate in your minds as you view these wonderful, diverse pictures.”
The Newspace website lists all aphotographers included in the show, with links to their websites if available. Don’t miss the chance to see this interesting selection of images:
Kai Aitchison
Portland, OR
Aly Su Borst
Oakland, CA
Jessica Burko
Jamaica Plain, MA
John Caserta
Providence, RI
Andrew Cross
San Diego, CA
Grant Ernhart
San Francisco, CA
Martine Fougeron
New York, NY
Margo Geddes
Durango, CO
Jim Golden
Portland, OR
Jon Gottshall
Portland, OR
Patti Hallock
Brooklyn, NY
Sarah Henderson
Portland, OR
Amy Herman
Beverly Hills, MI
Nicole Jean Hill
Eureka, CA
Bridget Lacey
Crescent City, CA
Laurie Lambrecht
New York, NY
Dan Larkin
Rochester, NY
Monika Merva
Brooklyn, NY
Daniel Milnor
Costa Mesa, CA
Brad Moore
Laguna Beach, CA
Elaine Sakiris
Boston, MA
Betsy Schneider
Tempe, AZ
Julia Sherman
Los Angeles, CA
David Spagnolo
Sacramento, CA
Maura Sullivan
Brooklyn, NY
Ka-Man Tse
New York, NY
Daniel Traub
New York, NY
Alyssa Taylor Wendt
Brooklyn, NY
Bil Zelman
San Diego, CA
Tucson-based photographer CHIP HEDGCOCK has helped to organized a series of photography workshops in conjunction with BioComm’s Annual Meeting being held in Tucson July 22-27.
From the website: “Biocommunicators are often called upon to photograph a wide variety of small static objects in the hospital or laboratory where they work. This four hour workshop will help them use the skills and techniques that they already have to photograph small (and often highly mobile!) animals in the studio.”
Faculty include Chip, Adobe staffers Lynn Grillo and Ashley Manning Still, Daniel Dejan of Sappi Fine Paper, medical photographer Adam Cooper, nature photographer Bill Fortney and Sam Chesnutt who has pioneered Total Body Photography and the MoleMapCD as a “Standard of Care” for patients at high risk for Melanoma.
Most of the workshops will be held on or near the UA campus in central Tucson, and some will be held at the Sonoran Anthropod Studies Institute (SASI) and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Check the info for each individual class to be certain.
This group brings a diverse and interesting mix of art, technology and science to their teachings. Check out the offerings, and Chip’s stunning photographs, a portfolio of which was featured in Lenswork Magazine #28. Brooks Jensen, editor of Lenswork, has stated “Chip is to bugs what Weston was to peppers!”
To launch the event, on MONDAY, JULY 23rd, 8:45 - 9:45 a.m., Tucson-based photographer JACK DYKINGA will give the Keynote address for the conference: “Feeling the Light on the Land” which is open to the public and sponsored by Fuji. Jack will be showing images from projects that made a difference in conservation and how a camera catalogs beauty while protecting the environment.
This lecture (only) will be held at the Tucson Marriott University Park, 880 E. Second Avenue (just west of the U of A Campus). It is free and open to the public.
From the event website:
“Pulitzer Prize (1971 Feature Photography) winning photographer Jack Dykinga blends large format landscape art photography with documentary photojournalism. He is a regular contributor to Arizona Highways and National Geographic Magazines. His eight wilderness advocacy, large format books include: Frog Mountain Blues, The Secret Forest, The Sierra Pinacate, The Sonoran Desert, Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, and Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley. He authored and photographed Large Format Nature Photography, a “how to” guide to color landscape photography. Jack Dykinga’s ARIZONA, released fall 2004 from Westcliffe Publishers, is a compellation of Jack’s best Arizona images along with his personal wilderness experiences.
Additionally, he has also collaborated with Mexico’s Agrupacion Sierra Madre to help produce their latest book on the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, printed in both Spanish and English.
Currently, he serves on the board of The Sonoran National Park Project in an effort to create a new Bi-National Park on the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico border.
He has also focused on Texas/Mexican border highlighting the biological richness and diversity of the protected areas along the Rio Grande River corridor which appeared in the February 2007, National Geographic Magazine.
In April, 2007, Jack and four other photographers: Thomas Mangelsen, U.S.A.; Patricio Robles Gil, Mexico; Fulvio Eccardi, Italy & Mexico; and Florien Schultz from Germany, became the first ever R.A.V.E. (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) for the International League of Conservation Photographers, to document the El Triunfo Cloud forest in Chiapas, Mexico, drawing attention to the threatened habitat there.”
The Center for Fine Art Photography sponsored its first International Photography Exhibition earlier this year, and the winning submissions are now posted.
Take a look at this link and join me in applauding the great work being done by these talented students. Juror: Hannah Frieser, Director of Lightwork in Syracuse, New York.
