WATER 2019 : PhotoPlace Gallery

Jurors Award 

Point 660, 2, 08, 2008

© Olaf Otto Becker

Directors Award 

Rage 

© Lynn Savarese

Honorable Mention

Untitled #3. Into the Deep

© Sandra Chen Weinstein 

Honorable Mention

Running  

© Leslie Jean-Bart

Honorable Mention

Raising Goosebumps #2
© Cate Wnek

 Andrew, Rio Celeste No. 2

© db Waltrip

 

Water #6

© David Reinfeld

Nature of Water 3

© Benjamin Bobkoff

 Alien Twins

© Aimée Hoving

 Celadon

© Sarah Schorr

~ WATER ~ 

Juror: Elizabeth Avedon 

PhotoPlace Gallery

Seventy percent of the world's surface is covered by water. It shimmers, it soothes, it heals, it brings joy. It can be devastating in its destructive force, and equally devastating by its absence. How fortunate we are to be able to travel to places where clean water is still abundant that we can swim and play, document and create art, in and around it. It is easy to take for granted, considering it may soon be our most expensive commodity. The magic of the submitted images ranged from the very realistic, documenting the fragility of our disappearing glaciers, to the mysterious, focusing on the beauty and perfection of even the smallest precious drop.

The Juror's Award "Point 660, 2, 08,2008” goes to Olaf Otto Becker, who photographed the measuring station Swiss Camp, Greenland, where glaciologists and climate researchers work on predicting the planet's future. "Point 660, 2, 08,2008” is a formidable landscape and popular tourist spot where taking photographs of one another may soon be over. In one hundred years Becker’s photographs may be all that's left to view of this extraordinary world.

The Director's Award goes to Lynn Savarese and her black and white image "Rage" at Fossar: Icelandic Falls. Lynn has photographed some of the world’s more colossal waterfalls, this one being one of Iceland’s tallest.

Honorable Mentions goes to Leslie Jean-Bart, Sandra Chen Weinstein, and Cate Wnek.

View the entire Gallery + Online Gallery exhibition here. Thank you to all who entered.  — Elizabeth Avedon

~ WATER ~ 

Juror: Elizabeth Avedon

 thru August 10, 2019

PhotoPlace Gallery

3 Park Street

Middlebury, Vermont

View the entire Gallery + Online Gallery exhibition here

Many images are available for purchase!
Inquire: photos@photoplacegallery.com 

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The Water Project: TheWaterProject.org
FreshWater Watch: freshwaterwatch.thewaterhub.org
4ocean Clean-up:  https://4ocean.com

 Northwestern Glacier

© Frank Zurey

 Nymph, 2019

 © Paola Telesca

 

Sea Lion

© Caren Winnall

View the entire Gallery + Online Gallery exhibition here

 

Many images are available for purchase!
 

Inquire: photos@photoplacegallery.com 

PHOTOS DAY OR NIGHT: THE ARCHIVE OF HUGH MANGUM: By Sarah Stacke

The grid of nine photos on one glass plate negative and the sequence shows the actual order Hugh Mangum’s clients entered his studio on a particular day. Images courtesy of Sarah Stacke and Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University

 "This has long been one of my favorite Hugh Mangum portraits."– Sarah Stacke

Images courtesy of Sarah Stacke and Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Images courtesy of Sarah Stacke and Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Image courtesy of Sarah Stacke and Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Image courtesy of Sarah Stacke and Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Images courtesy of Sarah Stacke and Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

 Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum
by Sarah Stacke, with texts by Maurice Wallace and Martha Sumler

Red Hook Editions, 2018 / Book Design: Bonnie Briant

 

I was recently introduced to Sarah Stacke's extraordinary book, "Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum," brilliantly designed by Bonnie Briant. The book is a close-up look at the life and work of early 20th century Southern American photographer Hugh Mangum. Photo archive curator Stacke collaborated with Mangum’s granddaughter, Martha Sumler, and the result is a stunning look at never-before-seen photographs and ephemera from their family archive. This is now one of my favorite photography books!

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"Inside his photo studio, Hugh Mangum created an atmosphere–respectful and often playful–in which hundreds of men, women, and children felt comfortable being whoever they wished in that moment of photographic description. As a result, Mangum's images of early twentieth-century Southern society show personalities as immediate as if they were taken yesterday. . ." – Sarah Stacke

"Born in 1877, the year the Civil War’s Reconstruction period ended, Mangum died in 1922, only three years after the First World War and two years after women gained the right to vote. During his lifetime the final battles of the Indian Wars were waged and the first law limiting the number of immigrants allowed in the U.S. was passed. The personalities in Mangum’s images collectively, and often majestically, symbolize the triumphs and struggles of this pivotal era. An itinerant photographer primarily working in his home state of North Carolina and the Virginias, Mangum cultivated clientele from across racial and economic divides. Though the American South of his era was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation, and inequality, Mangum portrayed all his sitters with candor and heart. Above all, he showed them as individuals. A century after their making, Mangum’s photographs allow us a penetrating gaze into faces of the past, and in a larger sense, they offer an unusually insightful glimpse of the South at the turn of the twentieth century. His “portraiture hints at a counter-history…few white Southerners besides Mangum dared to reflect,” writes Prof. Maurice Wallace of the University of Virginia, in the book.
 

Notably, the camera Mangum used was designed to create multiple and distinct exposures on a single glass plate negative. The sequence of the images on a single negative represents the order Mangum’s diverse clientele rotated through the studio, thus representing a day’s work for  this gregarious photographer.
 

In the years Stacke has spent with the Mangum Collection––imagining the distinct personalities and lives, their relationships to each other and to Mangum––the collection has evolved to represent a family album to her. Not only as its own entity, unfurled by the welcoming and harmonious spirit of Hugh Mangum, but also in the way she’s formed relationships with the images and individuals in them." 

– Red Hook Editions

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Sarah Stacke is a photographer, photo archive curator and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2012 she received a master’s degree from Duke University tailored to analyze photographic representations of African and African-American communities. For her capstone project Sarah extensively researched Hugh Mangum’s archive and curated the first-ever solo exhibition of his work, which was shown at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) in 2012. Shortly thereafter she wrote pieces for The New York Times and Aperture about Mangum and curated a major installation of his work at the Asheville Art Museum. Sarah has been an instructor at CDS since 2013 and is an adjunct professor at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the International Center of Photography, where she teaches a course about the role archives play in society.

In her photography work, Sarah looks at daily life in communities whose geographic borders were formed during periods of colonization. Often spending time with a community over the course of months or years, she looks at the intersection of culture and memory and questions how land, and the loss of it, shapes identities. Select clients include National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, BuzzFeed and Photo District News.

Sarah Stacke

@sarah_stacke

Red Hook Editions

@redhookeditions