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

LYDIA PANAS: Exhibitions Here + There

Fish
Falling From Grace...
Photograph (c) Lydia Panas

Pig
Falling From Grace...
Photograph (c) Lydia Panas

A Group Exhibition with Lydia Panas

MORE PHOTOS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD
Gallery 339, Philadelphia
September 12 - December 22

Lydia Panas

A Suspended Moment
Photograph (c) Lydia Panas

It's a Matter of Perspective, Mr.President
Photograph (c) Lydia Panas

Our earliest relationships factor considerably in determining whom we turn out to be. For three years, in hot weather and cold, I invited families of various forms to stand before my lens. I asked them not because I knew what to expect, but because I was curious to see what would happen. These groups and occasional individuals stood graciously before me. I watched how they arranged themselves and then began to photograph them with my view camera.

In these pictures of family relationships, the details matter most. Although they portray engaging people, verdant landscapes and beautiful light, the photographs also provide more subtle clues for understanding the nature of my work.

These images depict specific people, but they go beyond portraits to explore the universal questions of how we feel. The pictures ask that we look deeper than the surface for what lies underneath: that complex part of our own personalities we often don’t see. – Lydia Panas

LYDIA PANAS

THE MARK OF ABEL
Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
September 5 - October 7

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Monograph: The Mark of Abel
Essays by Maile Meloy and George Slade
96 Pages, 52 Color Photographs
Kehrer Verlag

FALL 2012: Exhibitions + Events

Sightlines, 2011 | Photograph (c) Helen Sear

HELEN SEAR: Sightlines
Sept 13 – Oct 26
KLOMPCHING GALLERY

Artist Talk and Book Signing
Sept 15, 2-4PM, Aperture Gallery

Pete Brook | Photograph (c) Lara Shipley

Men & Women
Photographic Portraits by Daniel W. Coburn and Lara Shipley
John Sommers Gallery, UNM

FRACTION MAGAZINE: Review

from On Hollywood | Photograph (c) Lise Sarfati
LISE SARFATI: On Hollywood
Sept 6–Oct 13
YOSSI MILO GALLERY

from The Mark of Abel | Photograph (c) Lydia Panas

LYDIA PANAS: The Mark of Abel
Sept 5–Oct 7
RAYKO PHOTO CENTER, SF

Artist Talk and Book Signing
Sept 13, 5:30PM

from A Girl and Her Room | Photograph (c) Rania Matar

RANIA MATAR: A Girl and Her Room
Sept 14–Dec 14
SOUTHEAST MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHY

Artist Talk and Book Signing
Sept 14, 6-8PM

Photograph (c) Ruben Natal-San Miguel

RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL
Nocturnal/Activo de Noche

Sept 8–Oct 31
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Curated by Elizabeth Barragan
Artist's Talk - Sept 15 @ 3:30 pm

Girl Dancing in Pink, Baptist-Town, Greenwood, MS Delta
Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

MAGDALENA SOLÉ: Mississippi Delta
Sept 27–Nov 10
SOUS LES ETOILES, Soho, New York

Seeker
Photograph (c) Vicki Hunt1st Place Award | SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

2011 SlowExposures Gang
Many returning to this years event

Click to Enlarge. Top row, l to r: John A Bennette; Jerry Atnip, John Bennette, Sylvia Plachy, Elisabeth Biondi, Nancy McCrary, Gabrielle Larew; Sylvia Plachy, David Simonton, and Magdalena Sole; Bennette Exhibition crowd, on the right, Alex Novak. Bottom row, l to r: Slow Exposure Co-Directors, Chris Curry and Nancy McCrary; Peter Essick; Sylvia Plachy and Jessica Hines; Elisabeth Biondi , Nancy McCrary, and Steve Harper. Last year's event here

2012 SLOW EXPOSURES PHOTO FESTIVALCelebrating Photography of the Rural South
Sept 21–23, 2012
About last year's event here
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SVA Lecture Series
a few of the great line-up of Speakers this Fall

Sept 25: Stephen Mallon
Oct 9: Darren Ching
Nov 27: Miriam Romais

School of Visual Arts
136 West 21 St, Rm 418F, 7pm

AIPAD 2012: The Armory, New York City

AVEDON | LEITER

(l) William Burroughs, writer, New York City 7.9.75, in original plexi frame. Photograph by Richard Avedon. Rick Wester Fine Art (206). (r) Wall of Saul Leiter black+white photographs. Howard Greenberg Gallery (204)

Margit Erb with Saul Leiter Photographs
Howard Greenberg Gallery (204)

Untitled, Liberia, 2005

Photograph by Tim Hetherington (American and British, 1970 - 2011)
Yossi Milo Gallery (203)

(Troops at) Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2008
Photograph by Tim Hetherington (American and British, 1970 - 2011)
Yossi Milo Gallery (203)

"Hetherington took these photographs over one year in 2007-2008. His year in Afghanistan also became the basis for the documentary Restrepo, which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger. The film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2011 for Best Documentary Feature."

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Alex Soth: Dog Days Bogota

Susan Forristal | Martin Luther King
Photographs by Steve Schapiro and Paul Schutzer, Monroe Gallery (419)

Eric Miles, photo-eye Auctions

Photographer Bill Eppridge

Meet one of Life Magazines greatest photographers!
Monroe Gallery (419)

Susan May Tell | André Kertész

Collector John A. Bennette

John A. Bennette and Susan Forristal

David Scheinbaum | Scheinbaum & Russek (207)

(background) Janet Russek and their daughter, Andra (right)

AIPAD
Park Avenue Armory through April 1

Photographs/Snapshots above © Elizabeth Avedon
Please ask permission before reposting

LISE SARFATI: She

Christine #21 San Francisco, CA 2005. Photograph © Lise Sarfati
Courtesy Rose Gallery, L.A. and Brancolini Grimaldi, London

Sloane #15 San Francisco, CA 2007. Photograph © Lise Sarfati
Courtesy Rose Gallery, L.A. and Brancolini Grimaldi, London

Christine #10 Hollywood, CA 2006. Photograph © Lise Sarfati
Courtesy Rose Gallery, L.A. and Brancolini Grimaldi, London

Sloane #66 Oakland, CA 2009. Photograph © Lise Sarfati
Courtesy Rose Gallery, L.A. and Brancolini Grimaldi, London

La Lettre de la Photographie

Excerpts from my Interview with Lise Sarfati:

French-born Lise Sarfati has lived and worked in the United States since 2003. She produced six important series of photographs in America, each followed by major exhibitions. Two upcoming shows of her third series, She, will open shortly in London and in L.A., with a Twin Palms monograph to follow in the Spring, 2012.

Publisher Jack Woody (Twin Palms) confided about Sarfati’s work, "When I look at the women in her photographs I suspect in some way they are all self-portraits. Lise sees in these women an incredible endurance, confronting their circumstances across the surfaces of the indifferent western landscape they have come to occupy."

Q: What was your intention behind your series, She?

The ordinary and the singular. Universality. Anti-heroines. Projections and situations....My intention was to show a bit of the futility of our daily life, the simplicity of situations and our movements in our environment and to oppose this simplicity to another field: that of interiority, emotion, psychological relationships. It is to receive the emotion (of the 4 women) and to mix them with mine. I also had autobiographical elements that allowed me to situate myself emotionally: I have 3 sisters.

My point of view was not generic but I wanted to be immersed in a particular story between four women from the same family. This story had to have a generational dimension...In She and Gina are older, about 40 years of age, while Sloane and Sasha are younger, around 20. They are all sisters...The classic image of the mother is that of a woman drowned by the love for her little one. In She however, the mother, the daughter, the sister and the other sister can be rivals or enemies, competitors or indifferent.

Christine, the mother is the axis of this construction, the only woman who tries to satisfy her dreams. At first married to a Jehovah’s Witness in Arizona, she leaves her husband and her two daughters to live a fully liberated sexual life and becomes a dominatrix on the west coast. Then, she projects herself into a new dream: to become a rock star.

Gina cultivates a masculine/feminine sexual ambiguity and wears a black wig to look like her sister Christine. Sloane, Christine’s daughter, changes her appearance constantly going from a blond wig to discolored hair. She has been a nanny for two years. Sasha, Sloane’s sister, is perpetually depressed, enclosed in her cocoon and inclined to melancholia.

The environment is an important element. Christine is photographed in Oakland in the ghetto in a house she shares with a roommate. We meet Sloane in the ghetto in Oakland in the house of a friend of her mother’s. All these houses look alike with their wooden windows and their chimneys. They are the interiors of Hopper paintings. We see Gina coming out of a grocery store, these are environments linked to the 1970s. The only images of projection that are out of the ordinary are those of Christine in the desert...read the entire Interview with Lise Sarfati, La Lettre de la Photographie

She: Photographs by Lise Sarfati
Brancolini Grimaldi, London February 3 - March 17
Rose Gallery, L.A. March 31 - May 2012

She: Lise Sarfati, Text Quentin Bajac
Twin Palms Publisher, Spring 2012

NYC: Weekend Gallery Walk 5.7.11

Climax, 2010. Photograph (c) Lisa M. Robinson
KLOMPCHING Gallery, 111 Front Street, Brooklyn
Lisa M. Robinson: Oceana to June 10

Mouse, Hungary, 2004. Photograph (c) Monika Merva
CLAMPART Gallery, 531 West 25th
Monika Merva: City of Children to June 11

LEICA Gallery, 670 Broadway (at Bond St)

Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland t0 June 4

Khyongla Rato Rinpoche seeing his photograph in the current exhibition.
A must-see. Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland