FILTER PHOTO FESTIVAL 2015: Portfolio Review Round-Up / Toni Pepe

The Second Moment

   Photograph © Toni Pepe    

The Second Moment

   Photograph © Toni Pepe 

The Second Moment

   Photograph © Toni Pepe  

 

I met Toni Pepe while I was a Portfolio Reviewer for the 7th Annual Filter Photo Festival in Chicago. While at Filter, I reviewed over 60 photographers portfolio’s and/or book projects. I'll try to post as many as possible over the next month or so….Check out Pepe’s unique images on her website.

The Second Moment

 

Toni Pepe is a Boston-based artist currently teaching photography at Boston University. Her photographs and installation work address the construction of identity and the performativity of narrative, gender, and memory. She is most interested in utilizing photography as a forum for interdisciplinary exploration -- she often employs literature, neuroscience, and cinema as source materials for her work. She has exhibited her images throughout the United States and abroad. Toni’s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions at the University of Notre Dame and the Center for Photography Woodstock. In addition, Toni was named a 2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Program finalist and is currently in the Danforth Museum's collection as well as many private collections.

TONI PEPE WEBSITE

DANDY LION: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity at the Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh // MoCP Chicago

Photograph (c) Russell K. Frederick

Photograph (c) Radcliffe Roye

"Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity is an exhibition....seeking to shake up, deconstruct and affirm loosely the social conventions of style and fashion among black folk. Met this gentleman who said he saw the ad in the "Reader" and knew he had to come see the work. Here he is standing in front of two of my images that are in the show. " – Radcliffe 'Ruddy' Roye on Instagram

"Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity" is guest curated by independent curator Shantrelle P. Lewis. Work featured (at MoCP exhibition) is from emerging and renowned photographers and filmmakers from the US, Europe and Africa, include Hanif Abur-Rahim, Jody Ake, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Rose Callahan, Kia Chenelle, Bouba Dola, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Russell K. Frederick, Cassi Amanda Gibson, Allison Janae Hamilton, Akintola Hanif, Harness Hamese/Loux the Vintage Guru, L. Kasimu Harris, Jamala Johns, Caroline Kaminju, Charl Landvreugd, Jati Lindsay, Devin Mays, Terence Nance, Arteh Odjidja, Numa Perrier, Alexis Peskine, Radcliffe Roye, Sara Shamsavari, Nyugen Smith, Daniele Tamagni, Richard Terborg and Rog Walker.

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The work presented in Dandy Lion at Silver Eye Center for Photography is part of a larger curatorial project that consists of approximately 130 pieces from almost 30 emerging and world-renowned photographers and filmmakers from various regions of the African Diaspora, including the United States, South Africa, the Congo, and Western Europe. Photographs from additional Dandy Lion artists will be available for viewing on Silver Eye’s website for the duration of the exhibition.

The exhibiting artists at Silver Eye include: Hanif Abdur-Rahim, Jody Ake, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Harness Hamese, Allison Janae Hamilton, Jamala Johns, Caroline Kaminju, Terrance Nance, Arteh Odidja, Numa Perrier, Radcliffe Roye, Daniele Tamagni, and Rog Walker.

Exhibition: Dandy Lion

(Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity

Silver Eye Center For Photography

September 18 – November 14, 2015

1015 East Carson Street

Pittsburgh, Pa

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Exhibition: Dandy Lion

(Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity  

April 6 – July 12, 2015

MoCP

Museum of Contemporary Photography 

at Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605

HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY: Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier: Self Portrait Exhibition

 Photograph (c) Dina Regine

Vivian Maier: Self Portraits

 

Glass case with Vivian Maier's Rollei and small color prints

Curator Frances Vignola and Filmmaker Collector John Maloof

Also showing, Vivian Maier's unpublished work

An exhibition of self-portraits by recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier made from 1950 – 1976 are on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery to January 4, 2014. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the book Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits (powerHouse Books, November 2013) that surveys Maier’s self-portraits, many of which are being shown and published for the first time.

The story of Vivian Maier has practically become a photography legend:  Born in New York City in 1926, she spent much of her youth in France. Returning to the U.S. in 1951, she worked as a nanny in Chicago and New York for 40 years. Reclusive and eccentric, she took pictures all the time, yet never showed them to anyone. From the 1950s to the 1990s, with a Rolleiflex dangling from her neck, she made over 100,000 images, primarily of people and cityscapes.

Maier’s massive body of work, which could have been destined for obscurity, was housed in a storage locker in Chicago for many years. Unbeknownst to her caretakers (three of the grown children she had looked after), the contents of her storage locker had been dispersed due to non-payment. Her negatives were discovered by Chicago-based realtor and historian John Maloof at an auction house in Chicago in 2007. Maloof pieced together the identity of the mysterious photographer, but Vivian Maier died in 2009, before Maloof was able to speak with her. In the years that followed, Maloof has brought her work to the attention of the art world and the general public; and since 2010, nearly 20 exhibitions of photographs by Vivian Maier have been mounted in the U.S. and Europe. Numerous critics have written that her work will be remembered as some of the best 20th-century street photography.

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait at Howard Greenberg Gallery is the first exhibition to explore the photographer’s numerous self-portraits and the first U.S. gallery exhibition of her color work.  

Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait
Exhibition: Nov 7 – January 4, 2014

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY

Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits
Photographs by Vivian Maier, Edited by John Maloof
Essay by Elizabeth Avedon. Published by powerHouse Books

(Text courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery)

JESSICA TAMPAS: Color, Summer, Screen

 JP and Katie 

Photograph (c) Jessica Tampas

Brooke with Doll

Photograph (c) Jessica Tampas 

 Trevor

Photograph (c) Jessica Tampas

"I'm interested in the idea of the barrier. Who or what is in front or behind; who is in the dark and who is far away -- buried, even, behind this decaying screen." –Jessica Tampas

Jessica Tampas' latest series, Color, Summer, Screen, was recently shown at FilterPhoto's 2013 Festival. Building on her prior b&w series, Lucid, Tampas continues to photograph the children vacationing in the lake cottage community in South West Michigan where she and her own family have spent the last five summers. By now, the area's children have grown, and are taking on stronger identities, and we want to know their names. CC, Brooke, Conner, Orly, JP:  no longer small, they confront the viewer languorously, honestly, inquisitively. The additional use of color adds a heightened sense of their presence.

 Unbroken (80 x 60″) Photographer Jessica Tampas 

The Chicago Project V Exhibition, Catherine Edelman Gallery, 2013

Unbroken: "People often want to know the history behind these dolls. Who were their previous owners? How did they come to look the way they do? Do I collect them, alter them? My approach to creating this series is far more subjective. I never set out to become a collector, per se (though by now I've amassed more than 100 early- and mid-century dolls), and I don't alter them in any way. Frankly, I'm not so concerned with these dolls' history, even if I play an important role in it, giving them a longevity they probably never expected to have. For me these little beings are simply heartbreaking creatures, typologies of survival and loss, and, I suppose, ultimately, psychological portraits of something inside myself that I might not otherwise be able to express as an adult. We have all weathered emotional traumas in the transition from childhood to now. By not altering the dolls, I let their faces tell their own story -- one that I feel is ultimately about what it means to be both fragile and a survivor, and…human."

JESSICA TAMPAS

FILTER PHOTO FESTIVAL 2013: Follow-up!

Kyohei Abe, Director and Curator, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography • "Mapping" Exhibition Curated by Paula Tognarelli of The Griffin Museum • Panelist Jennifer Schwartz, Owner and Director, Jennifer Schwarts Gallery • Photographer Paul D'Amato "We Shall" Book-Signing • Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator Cleveland Museum of Art • Photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery "The Spirit and The Flesh" Book-Signing • Erin Hoyt, Director of Programming, #FilterFest2013 with Sarah Hadley, Executive Director, Filter Photo Festival • Aline Smithson, Founder and Editor, Lenscratch • Reviewee Photographer Sheri Lynn Behr

Richard Cahan, Publisher, CityFiles Press with Carrie McCarthy, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops • Reviewers Table • Panelist Fred Bidwell, President, Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation • Yan Li, Lishu Photo Festival, Founder and Owner of High Noon Culture and Art • Portfolio Walk, Fine Arts Building, Chicago • Reviewers Jennifer Schwartz and Wally Mason, Director and Chief Curator, Haggerty Museum • David Bram, Founder and Editor, Fraction Magazine • Portfolio Walk • Sarah Hadley, Executive Director, Filter Photo Festival

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The 2013 Filter Photo Festival was a great success! I really enjoyed all of my Book Design Workshop. Thanks so much to the entire Filter Photo Team who worked tirelessly to organize a wonderful atmosphere behind the scenes. It was an outstanding event with excellent panel's, reviewers, photographers and workshops. A lot of fun was had by all. Don't miss it next year!

FILTER PHOTO FESTIVAL

*Above, a small selection from all the many events over the 5 day festival

FILTER PHOTO FESTIVAL: Self-Publish + Design Your Own [Photo] Book Workshop 9.26.2013

 Portfolio Reviews • Workshops • Evening Programs • Exhibitions  

 In The American West • Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon

FilterPhotoFestival

Self Publish+Design Your Own [Photo] Book 

Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon

My Brother's War • Photographs by Jessica Hines

Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon

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FilterPhotoFestival 

Self Publish+Design Your Own [Photo] Book 

Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon

With the emergence of high quality commercial digital presses and the availability of design software, artists are now able to produce their own hardcover and softcover books online at a relatively low cost and with the creative freedom of going it alone.

Self-Publishing Your Own [Photo] Book will cover the basic principles of designing your own photography book. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Elizabeth will demonstrate the bones of putting together a successful photography book; demonstrate how to easily design a great book dummy, including interior design decisions, editing, sequencing, typography and cover design. We will explore what comprises good design from bad, creating a framework for the participant to build upon with their own book project; and the importance of branding, including using your self-published book as a valuable leave behind. Details here

FilterPhotoFestival 

September 25 – September 29th

Chicago 2013

The 2013 Filter Festival Portfolio Review

Check out all of the great Programs, Workshops, Exhibitions

ART CHICAGO 2010: Opening Night photo-eye Booth 263 May 1-3

The Merchandise Mart, Art Chicago 2010 12th floor

In 1930 the Merch Mart was built on the site of a former Native American trading post, Wolf Point, the main point of supplies for traders and trappers heading west. Designed to be a "city within a city", the Merch Mart was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 sq feet. It was owned for over 50 years by the Kennedy family until 1998. Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/All rights reserved

Art Chicago 2010 Opening Night photo-eye Gallery Space
Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

Art Chicago 2010 Opening Night
Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

photo-eye Associate Gallery Director Anne Kelly with Photographer Mitch Dobrowner. Jo Whaley photograph far left. Photograph©Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

Photographers Colleen Plumb and Kate Joyce
Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

photo-eye Director Rixon Reed (left) showing Nick Brandt's photograph Portrait of Lion, Serengeti. Photograph © Vicki Bohannon/ All rights reserved

Photograph Saccharine Perch, 2009 by Tom Chambers

Complimentary Tickets from photo-eye Gallery

Art Chicago 2010: photo-eye Gallery is exhibiting the work of the following artists; Jo Whaley, David Trautrimas, Carla Van de Puttelaar, Chris McCaw, Tom Chambers, Richard Barnes, Nick Brandt, Colleen Plumb, Ryan Zoghlin, Pentti Sammallahti and Ted Kuykendall in Booth 263. To download complimentary tickets for you and a guest Click Here and enter promo code GalleryGuest to receive your ticket. Art Chicago: May 1: 11am – 7pm, May 2: 11am - 6pm, May 3: 11am - 4pm. Installation Photos

photo-eye: Art Chicago Booth 263

Vicki Bohannon installing Carla Van de Puttelaar photographs
Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

Nick Brandt photographs at photo-eye's Booth 263
Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

Booth 263: Jo Whaley, David Trautrimas, Carla Van de Puttelaar, Chris McCaw, Tom Chambers, Richard Barnes, Nick Brandt and Ted Kuykendall

Pentti Sammallahti photographs outside (click to enlarge)
Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

Vicki installing Ryan Zoghlin photographs
Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

photo-eye Associate Gallery Director, Anne Kelly, and Installation Goddess, Vicki Bohannon. Photograph © Rixon Reed/ All rights reserved

Complimentary Tickets from photo-eye Gallery

Art Chicago 2010: photo-eye Gallery is exhibiting the work of the following artists; Jo Whaley, David Trautrimas, Carla Van de Puttelaar, Chris McCaw, Tom Chambers, Richard Barnes, Nick Brandt, Ryan Zoghlin, Pentti Sammallahti and Ted Kuykendall in Booth 263. To download complimentary tickets for you and a guest Click Here and enter promo code GalleryGuest to receive your ticket. Art Chicago: April 30: 11am - 7pm, May 1: 11am – 7pm, May 2: 11am - 6pm, May 3: 11am - 4pm. Opening Night Photos

HIROSHI WATANABE: Kabuki Players

  Marina Ema & Kazusa Ito, Matsuo KabukiPhotograph (c) 2003 Hiroshi Watanabe

Chikako Suga, Matsuo KabukiPhotograph (c) 2003 Hiroshi Watanabe

 Maiko Takaku, Matsuo Kabuki
Photograph (c) 2003 Hiroshi Watanabe

Rikuto Tada, Matsuo Kabuki
Photograph (c) 2003 Hiroshi Watanabe

Update: 2015

HIROSHI WATANABE  

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photo-eye Gallery
Santa Fe

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HIROSHI WATANABE
September 11 - October 31, 2009
CATHERINE EDELMAN GALLERY, CHICAGO
Hiroshi Watanabe Books + Hiroshi Watanabe Website