9.28.2016

JULIE WILLIAMS-KRISHNAN: Kalacharam at The Griffin Museum of Photography

The Third Eye 
Photograph © Julie Williams-Krishnan


The Bindi Collection  
Photograph © Julie Williams-Krishnan

Morning Poetry 
Photograph © Julie Williams-Krishnan

Kalacharam means “culture” in the south Indian language Tamil. Julie Williams-Krishnan has been traveling regularly to Chennai in south India since 2007. These nearly annual trips are made to visit her husband’s family, who is based in Chennai. Williams-Krishnan, a caucasian originally from a small town in Pennsylvania, uses her photography as a way to observe, process, and celebrate her growing familiarity with her south Indian family and the region. The three bodies of work on display here are all shot in the family home, where Tamil is spoken, Brahmin traditions are strictly observed, cooking is elaborate, and prayer is plentiful.  Photography is her way of translating her understanding of a place that is her home, but even after all these years, remains fascinating.  

The Griffin Museum of Photography
October 6 - November 27, 2016
Reception Oct 6, 7 - 8:30
 
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Zindagi
The Griffin Museum of Photography
 October 6th – November 27th, 2016
Reception: Oct 6, 7:00 – 8:30

Zindagi will feature solo exhibits and 3 videos by five photographers; Manjari Sharma, Priya Kambli, Dan Eckstein, Quintavius Oliver and Raj Mayukh Dam.

Manjari Sharma will be exhibiting 9 large pieces from her “Darshan” series. “Darshan is a series consisting of photographically recreated, classical images of Hindu Gods and Goddesses that are pivotal to mythological stories in Hinduism.”

Priya Kampli will be exhibiting from her “Color Falls Down” series. Missouri artist, Kambli said, “My photographs, which are rooted in my fascination with my parents, visually express the notion of transience and split cultural identity caused by the act of migration.

Dan Eckstein’s “Horn Please” exhibit features the brightly decorated trucks that ply India’s country’s roads and the men who drive them.  

Quintavius Oliver is exhibiting pieces from his “Love Made Me Do It” series; what it meant for him to throw himself head first from home and into the unknown of India.

Raj Mayukh Dam will be exhibiting 3 videos on daily life in India. The three videos feature the people of Sundarban, the last ritual of “Antyesti “and the Festival of Color of Life called “Holi.”
 

9.17.2016

KAMOINGE: "Breaking Point" at Photoville

'R.I.P. Mike Brown'
Photo by Radcliffe Roye

'American Seen'
Photo by Ming Murray Smith

'Negroes Unite'
Photo by Albert Fennar

Kamoinge at Photoville
Join the photographers of KAMOINGE Wednesday, September 21st from 4-10pm for the opening of their exhibit "Breaking Point" at Photoville in Brooklyn. The work showcasing will be forty-four photographs bringing into focus our pride, love and the state of emergency America has been in for almost sixty years.  
 
Presented by Kamoinge / United Photo Industries
Curated by Russell Frederick

Featuring KAMOINGE Photographers: Eli Reed, Russell K. Frederick, Adger Cowans, Shawn Walker, Ming Murray Smith, Albert Fennar, Daniel Dawson, Radcilffe Roye, Salimah Ali, John Pinderhughes, A.D. Minter, Frank Stewart, Gerald Cyrus, Ray Francis, Lou Draper, Herb Randall, and June DeLairre Truesdale

"On November 4, 2008, a nation divided for centuries came together to make history by electing America’s first black president. This achievement has proven to be more symbolic than substantive. The United States is at a breaking point as people of good conscience and clearer consciousness demand real change, while others mobilize to maintain a power structure that continues to produce inequality, injustice, separation and xenophobia. The African diaspora has often not been represented fairly in media, with diversity on the rise in our infrastructures, mobile technology and social media platforms expanding, opportunities to author our stories are slowly starting to increase. As the world sees more unfiltered imagery change is being demanded. While committed to the image, Kamoinge has been inspired visually by jazz, soul, rhythm & blues, reggae and rap musicians to document or create fine art that reflects the African diaspora in a dignified manner. The work exhibited in ‘Breaking Point’ brings into focus our love and the state of emergency we are living in America for almost sixty years." KAMOINGE, Inc. was founded as a collective of African-American photographers seeking artistic equality and empowerment. It works as a forum in which members view, nurture, critique and challenge each other’s work in an honest and understanding atmosphere. 

www.photoville.com/breakingpoint


9.11.2016

NICK BRANDT: "Inherit The Dust" Short Films



TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT “INHERIT THE DUST”
A few months ago, I made, wrote and narrated two new short films about the concept and production of INHERIT THE DUST. The films were produced by the wonderful Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm, who through May-September 2016, held a major exhibition of Inherit The Dust, now sadly ended. The next major museum exhibition of Inherit the Dust will be at the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, May-July 2017. Buy the large format book of the series, "Inherit The Dust". – Nick Brandt


RUDDY ROYE: When Living Is A Protest

  Colours (Marlon Jones) (Immigrant Series)
New York, NY, July 4, 2014

Black Today (When Living is a Protest Series)
Union Square, New York, NY, May 1, 2015

Facing the Darkness, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn, NY, January 18, 2016

Ruddy Roye: When Living Is A Protest
Exhibition: September 16th – October 29th, 2016
Steven Kasher Gallery 515 W. 26 St., New York, NY

The world’s first solo exhibition of photographer Radcliffe “Ruddy” Roye opens at Steven Kasher Gallery September 16th. The exhibition features 20 large scale photographs, many taken in Roye’s neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Roye’s images give visibility to the usually invisible members of his community. His portraits are infused with dignity and integrity. Each photograph is accompanied by a text written by the artist, often quoting the subjects. Roye spends significant time with each person he approaches, listening to their stories. For Roye, narrating the stories of his “collaborators” is as important as the images they produce together.  Roye’s is a unique voice in street photography, one full of anger, resistance and compassion.

Roye spends his days walking the streets and photographing the people he encounters. He is no stranger to walking. In 2000, Roye walked 121 miles in his native Jamaica, from Montego Bay to Kingston, photographing squatters alongside an abandoned train line. He pays close attention to the way people move through the environment, acutely aware of those that we usually ignore. He is closer to his subjects than is typical in street photography, both emotionally and physically. This intimacy is augmented by his complex compositions of colors, lights, lines, signage and symbols.

Ruddy Roye has amassed over 250,000 Instagram followers, and uploaded over 4,000 posts. He is a leading figure on Instagram among documentary photographer showcasing an interest in their communities. He began his social media work with a series of haunting posts of the devastation that followed Hurricane Sandy. For Roye, social media is a powerful outlet to get his message to a mass audience. “The media has a way of deleting the stories of people who society does not want to deal with. This is my humble way of putting these stories back in people’s faces — forming a real and active dialogue about these issues.” Online, Roye adds to each posted image an incisive retelling of the stories he has heard from his subjects. These captions will be reproduced in full for the exhibition.
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Radcliffe Roye (b. 1969) is a Jamaican photographer living and working Brooklyn. He has photographed dancehall musicians and fans, sapeurs of the Congo, the Caribbean Carnival J’ouvert and recent political protests in Ferguson, New York and Dallas. After moving to New York in 2001, Roye worked as a freelance photographer for the Associated Press. His photography has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Ebony, Fast Company, BET and ESPN. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts; Silver Eye Center for Photography; Chastain Arts Center; the Vermont Feick Fine Arts Center; Alice Austen House and Photoville. He has held teaching positions at New York University and the School of Visual Arts and is an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University. Roye is one of the youngest members of the Kamoinge Workshop, the seminal and enduring black photography collective founded in 1963. Text above Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery



Ruddy Roye: When Living Is A Protest
Exhibition: September 16th – October 29th, 2016
Steven Kasher Gallery 515 W. 26 St., New York, NY

9.10.2016

OAXACA MEXICO: Photography Workshop With Magdalena Solé and Elizabeth Avedon

Day of The Dead, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photograph © Magdalena Solé

Charro from Tlalixtac, Oaxaca 2014
Photograph © Andy Richter

"Day of the Dead"
Photography Workshop
With Magdalena Solé and Elizabeth Avedon
October  26th – November 3rd, 2016

A few spots left! Sign-up today!

Join us for a unique photographic experience. Discover the art of social documentary and editing at the iconic Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photography Center in Oaxaca, Mexico. Oct. 26–Nov 3, 2016.

•  Work on an individual Project with daily one-on-one sessions with Magdalena and Elizabeth
•  Learn the art of editing and sequencing through lectures and demonstrations
•  Learn how to create a photobook and prepare for an exhibit
•  Photographing the mystical Day of the Dead rituals with access to the most significant events

Our workshop is surrounded by the excitement of Mexico´s most revered festival, the Day of the Dead. The Day of the Dead is an indigenous tradition, celebrated every year from October 31st to November 2nd. The "Día de los Muertos" is an original and photogenic cult known in the world for its grandiosity and mystery but at the same time, for its warmth and intimacy.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: "Southern Landscapes"

"Southern Stories" © Jessica Hines

PHOTOGRAPHERS CALL FOR ENTRIES: 
"Southern Landscapes" 
Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
Exhibition: March 1-31, 2017
at Brickworks Gallery, Atlanta

"Southern Landscapes" Images can depict the physical elements of the American South (hills, water, architecture, light …) as well as the cultural aspects (D.C. to Key West, West Texas to the Ohio border)...read more here

Entry Deadline: November 1, 2016.  
Notification of Acceptance: December 15th, 2016. 
Exhibition March 1-31, 2017. 

More details and entry here: 

LEN SPEIER: Nearly Everybody at Daniel Cooney

Paisley Couple, Riverside Drive

Belushi Band, 1985

The first solo exhibition of 89 year old photographer Len Speier opens at Daniel Cooney Fine Art September 15th – October 29th, 2016. Check out Len Speier in conversation with Miss Sara Rosen from Crave Online on October 1st 3PM.

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
508 ­ – 526 West 26 Street, #9C
NYC