Archive for September 27, 2009

October 3rd: Andrea Modica lecture at the Center for Photography at Woodstock

September 27, 2009 at 4:52 pm · Filed under APPROACHING EVENT, MUST ATTEND, MUST JOIN, MVS PHOTO FAVORITES

On October 3rd at 8pm Andrea Modica will be presenting work at the Center for Photography at Woodstock

From the CPW website:

Andrea Modica works with an 8×10 camera to slow down the process of picture making and to create intimate dramas. One of her images taught her that, until that moment, she had been photographing like a tourist. Learning to contemplate the fictitious town of Treadwell in upstate NY, she made pictures that were mysterious and portrayed the anguish of adolescence and the idea of growing up. The photographer balances sadness with empathy and brings a spiritual dimension to her work. Modica’s images include photographs of a halfway house, a Catholic girls school, and a minor league baseball team. Andrea’s photographs have been compared to those of Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, and her friend, Sally Mann. A graduate of Yale University, her work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and International Center of Photography, among many prestigious venues. New York Times, Elle, New Yorker, American Photo, and Vanity Fair have featured her work .  Sh has five monographs: Treadwell, Minor League, Real Indians, Barbara, and Human Being. The Edwynn Houk Gallery in NYC represents her work.

For more information on CPW’s lecture series click here.

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October 16th- Deadline for 14th Annual PCNW MEMBERS’ JURIED EXHIBITION

September 27, 2009 at 3:59 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, APPROACHING EVENT, MUST JOIN

Call for Entries: 14th Annual Photographic Center Northwest  MEMBERS’ JURIED EXHIBITION

Deadline:Friday, October 16th, 8 pm.

From the website:

The Photographic Center Northwest invites you to participate in our 14th Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition December 1- January 15, 2009. You must be a current member or become a member of PCNW to participate (memberships are annual). First, second, and third prize winners will take home $175, $135 & $100 respectively. The awards will be presented at the artists’ reception on Friday, December 4, 6-8 p.m. The competition is open to all photographic processes, all themes and photographers. The entry fee is $5 per jpeg. You may submit up to ten images total. You may not submit work that has been shown in past PCNW Members’ Exhibitions. Entry fees are non-refundable. All entries must be received in an envelope by Friday, October 16th, 8 p.m. Selected artists will be notified by phone. A list of the selected artists will be posted at www.pcnw.org.

THE JUROR
Eric Fredericksen is the Director of Western Bridge. He is a former editor and writer at The Stranger and Architecture. Collections and exhibitions are managed by Matthew Cox, a former preparator at the Henry Art Gallery and Bellevue Art Museum.

HOW TO ENTER

Click on the pdf entry form and print it out. Send the completed entry form with your labeled CD to PCNW, 900 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 and follow the instructions below. Deadline: Must be received by Friday, October 16th, 8 pm.

CD Submission: Images submitted on CD must be jpgs formatted for a PC. Maximum jpeg size is 10 inches or 1024 pixels in the longest dimension and scanned at 72 ppi. Each jpeg must be titled with the photographer’s name, correlating letter to match the entry form, the title of the image and the year it was taken. Example: JohnSmith_A_Untitled_2006.jpg, JohnSmith_B_Untitled_2005.jpg. You are strongly encouraged to have a file on your CD with an artist’s statement (word document or pdf). The CD must be labeled with the photographer’s name as well as the case it’s in. Materials will not be returned.

SUBMISSION OF ACCEPTED WORK

Selected artists will have approximately 3 weeks to prepare their work for delivery for the exhibition due: November 21st. The work must be framed or mounted with a wire or sufficient hanging method on the backside. Although your work will be handled delicately by PCNW staff, we will not be responsible for the damage of any work. All works selected for exhibition must be offered for sale at a price determined by the artist. Artists will receive fifty percent of the sale price. Please note that images selected for the show may be used for promotion of the exhibition and PCNW.

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FOTOWEEKDC.ORG now live; portfolio reviews and more, November 7-14 in Washington, DC

September 27, 2009 at 2:59 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, APPROACHING EVENT, Market Musings, MVS MUSTS, MVS On The Road, MVS PHOTO FAVORITES

The upcoming, second annual “FotoWeek DC” has now launched its website, filled with wonderful events and opportunities for photographers.

This includes reservations for the one-day portfolio review event happening on SUNDAY, November 8th.   You register, go on line, and pick the reviewer, select your preferred time and you are booked. Fantastic system, similar to Rhubarb-Rhubarb in Birmingham, England.

They are offering discounts for students, too, which I applaud.

In addition to the portfolio reviews, there are lectures and workshops, amazing exhibitions throughout the region, and more.  It is a great time for learning.

I am proud to share that I will be presenting a lecture on Saturday morning November 7th at Photo Works in Glen Echo, Maryland as an official part of the FotoWeek DC programming.   I am also participating as a Portfolio Reviewer the following day (November 8th).

I look forward to seeing many of you there!

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October 1st, Tempe, Arizona: Suzanne Szucs speaks at “Hall of Mirrors” exhibition at ASU

September 27, 2009 at 12:20 am · Filed under APPROACHING EVENT, MVS PHOTO FAVORITES

Northlight Gallery on the campus of Arizona State University is hosting the group exhibition “Hall of Mirrors” through October 10th.    Participating artist Suzanne Szucs will be speaking on Thursday, October 1st at 7:00 p.m. on “Journal, In Progress” for which she has photographed herself every day for 15 years.

From the webpage:

“Hall of Mirrors features the photographs of contemporary feminist artists working in self-portraiture to explore issues of personal and cultural identity including race, class, body image and representation, sexual orientation, and gender issues through a variety of photographic processes and performance techniques. The slogan “The Personal is Political,” believed to be coined by Carol Hanisch in Notes from the Second Year (1969), lives on as the guiding light in the work of these artists.

The self-reflective images of Jen Davis and Suzanne Szucs skillfully reveal a raw vulnerability that irresistibly draws the viewer into their intimate spaces. Liz Cohen, Wilka Roig, and Min Kim Park investigate cultural stereotypes with an uncompromising eye that challenges us not to look away. And Mary Coble’s unflinching images of her dramatic tour de force performances of empathy and compassion challenge the viewer to examine what we might be willing to endure for the sake of another. In her series Blood Script, “The Political is Personal.”

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