PORTRAITS: A. Smith Gallery Exhibition

 Photograph © Ryotaro Horiuchi

Descendant of Samurai #10

Juror's Award

 Photograph © Sandra Chen Weinstein

Rajot 

Juror's Honorable Mention

 Photograph © Paul Kessel

Untitled 8

Juror's Honorable Mention

 Photograph © Cyndy B Waters

Little Shepherd With New Born Lamb

Juror's Honorable Mention

 Photograph © Ron Cooper

Graywolf Diptych

Photograph © Juno Gemes 

James Baldwin, Athenaeum Hotel, London 1975 

 

Photograph © Michael Johnson

Hector

 Photograph © Susan Bryant

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A. Smith Gallery. Juror | Elizabeth Avedon. My task: Select 55 images from over 964+ from 154 photographers. From those, select a "juror's award" and 3 "honorable mentions”. Supremely difficult.

The Portraits exhibition at A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, TX will be online due to the current Coronavirus situation. Please take a look at the exhibition. And thank you to everyone who entered. 

VIEW : PORTRAITS EXHIBITION

The exhibition includes photographers: Geoffrey Agrons, Kelley Ahr, Carlos Alejandro, Vicky Azcoitia, Craig Becker, Ken Beckels, Felice Boucher, Susan Bryant,, Warren Capps, Susan Kaufer Carey,, William Chambers, Cheryl Clegg, Ron Cooper, Francis Crisafio, Karen Crouse, Linsey Davis, Andy Dennis, Felice Douglas, Nicholas Fedak, Juno Gemes, Nadide Goksun, David Hawkins, Elizabeth Herman, Bootsy Holler, Leslie Jean-Bart, Michael Johnson, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Ladka Kurzrock, J K Lavin, Melissa Lynn, Yanninia Marie, Greg Markstrom, Jim McKinniss, Peter Miller, Kate Miller-Wilson, Janet Millstein, Michael Mudd, Dale Niles, Karen Osdieck, Louise Pedno, Arti Pike, Michael Potts, Marcie Rich, Pat Rose, Karin Rosenthal, Nancy Scherl, Elizabeth Siegfried, Yon Sim, Cathy Spence, DorRae Stevens, Karey Walter, Cyndy B. Waters
 

NICK BRANDT: Inherit The Dust, a monograph

Wasteland With Elephants, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt's latest book, Inherit The Dust, is a tragic desolate look into our fast approaching future without the majestic beauty of wildlife. An elegant, beautifully designed and printed edition with 68 black-and-white tritone images; two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa; and a behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt’s elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs. One of the most important Best Books of 2016.

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Quarry With Lion, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Wasteland With Rhinos, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Quarry With Giraffe, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Underpass With Elephants, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Wasteland With Cheetahs and Children, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Road Junction With Qumquat and Family, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Inherit The Dust Behind The Scenes

Elephant Panel on Dumpsite 

Photographs © Nick Brandt

 "Due to the urgent nature of the subject matter,

I'm on a mission to get this work exposed"-Nick Brandt

The wasted lands in Inherit The Dust were once golden Savannah, sprinkled with acacia trees, where elephants, big cats and rhinos roamed. These now dystopian landscapes - as Nick Brandt's unvarnished, harrowing but stunning work reveals - brings us face to face with a crisis, both social and environmental, demanding the renewal of humanity itself. -Kathryn Bigelow, Film Director, The Hurt Locker

Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across the Ravaged Land, documenting the disappearing animals of eastern Africa, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs―showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras―placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. 

In 2010, Nick Brandt and award-winning conservationist Richard Bonham, co-founded the Big Life Foundation. Relying on a grass roots effort and calling on inclusive community collaboration, Big Life Foundation was the first organization in East Africa with a coordinated, cross-border anti-poaching operation covering the Kenya/Tanzania border. Five years after its creation, the Foundation now employs more than 300 rangers, 41 permanent and mobile outposts, 15 patrol vehicles, 2 planes for aerial monitoring, and protects over two-million acres of the land.

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

through May 7, 2016

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

through May 14, 2016

Inherit The Dust
Photographs by Nick Brandt
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

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Future Exhibition Dates:

May 18 - May 22 2016
ATLAS GALLERY, SOLO EXHIBITION 

PHOTO LONDON, LONDON

May 20 - September 11 2016
FOTOGRAFISKA MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM

May 13 - July 9 2016
CAMERA WORK, BERLIN

May 23-July 30 2016
A GALERIE, PARIS

June 1 - June 26 2016
LOOK3 FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

June 9 - July 23 2016
PHOTO-EYE, SANTA FE

July 26 - August 14 2016
SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHICA, MELBOURNE

July 26 - August 14 2016
SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHICA @ BLACKEYE, SYDNEY

September 15 - November 13 2016
WILLAS CONTEMPORARY, OSLO
 

NICK BRANDT: Across The Ravaged Land

 Across the Ravaged Land (Abrams, 2013)

Nick Brandt's final book in his trilogy documenting 

the disappearing natural world and animals of East Africa. 

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Lion Trophy, Chyulu Hills, 2012

Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt 

 Calcified Fish Eagle, Lake Natron 2012

Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt

 

Lion & Wildebeest, Amboseli 2012

Photograph © 2012 Nick Brandt

Elephant Skull, Amboseli 2010

Photograph © 2011 Nick Brandt 

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Now in his third book, Across the Ravaged Land, Brandt has taken his stately images to the next level, exposing a darker vision. These extraordinary photographs, shot between 2010 and 2012, are haunting. Through the series of dried and calcified animals out on a weathered and ravaged land, elephants watching protectively over an elephant skull, or lion and buffalo heads mounted on posts as trophies overlooking the Chyulu Hills of Kenya, Brandt brings us full circle back to a solemn close to his trilogy of books documenting the disappearing natural world and animals of East Africa." – Elizabeth Avedon (photo-eye)

ACROSS THE RAVAGED LAND 

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Elephants Walking Through Grass, Amboseli 2008

Leading Matriarch Killed By Poachers, 2009 
 Photograph ©2011 Nick Brandt 

Ranger with Tusks of Killed Elephants, Amboseli 2011
Photograph © 2011 Nick Brandt

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BIG LIFE FOUNDATION

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ADAM BARTOS: Travel Work

Teotihuacan, Mexico (agave plants), 1981
Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

Mombasa, Kenya (park), 1980
Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

County Road 80, Southampton, NY, 2010

Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

Martin's Marine, Bay Shore, NY, 2010

Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

"Adam Bartos’ interest in the 19th century travel work of Samuel Bourne, Robert MacPherson, and others, led him to Egypt, Kenya, and Mexico with a large format camera and color film. His images are thoroughly modern, yet their energy is inspired by the lucid depiction of form and light that the earlier photographers achieved. His attention to the picture plane creates a tension that resonates between the photograph as both his expression of a place and an object in and of itself. None of the photographs are constructed wholly from incident or narrative."–Gitterman Gallery

Adam Bartos | March 1–May 5
Gitterman Gallery
New York, NY

NICK BRANDT: Selected New Work 2010-2011

Line of Rangers Holding Tusks of Killed Elephant, Amboseli 2011
Photograph (c) Nick Brandt

Elephant Skull, Amboseli 2010
Photograph (c) Nick Brandt

Ranger with Tusks of Killed Elephant, Amboseli 2011
Photograph (c) Nick Brandt

Calcified Reflected Flamingo, Lake Natron 2010
Photograph (c) Nick Brandt

Calcified Caped Dove, Lake Natron 2010
Photograph (c) Nick Brandt

"The photos, darker in tone than previous work, reflect the further ongoing diminishing of the natural world of Africa."–Nick Brandt

Currently on display at photo-eye Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a group exhibition which includes new work by Nick Brandt. photo-eye's Anne Kelly spoke to Brandt about these striking new images:

"The three photographs of rangers are all holding tusks from elephants killed at the hands of man within the Amboseli/Tsavo ecosystem. The rangers in the photos are part of the team from BIG LIFE FOUNDATION, the non-profit organization I started in Sept 2010 in an effort to help try and halt the alarming and massive escalation of poaching in East Africa. So far, working within the Amboseli ecosystem of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, the Big Life teams have successfully dramatically reduced the level of poaching and other killings of animals in the region. The problem remains rampant elsewhere." Read photo-eye's Anne Kelly Interview here.

Nick Brandt
photo-eye Gallery: A Selection of Animal Photographs
Group Exhibit to December 10

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On This Earth - A Shadow Falls, 2010
A Shadow Falls, 2009

GILLES PERRIN: Africa

Ceremonial Masques, Burkina Faso, 2009
Photograph (c) Gilles Perrin

Ceremonial Masques, Burkina Faso, 2009
Photograph (c) Gilles Perrin

Ceremonial Masques, Burkina Faso, 2009
Photograph (c) Gilles Perrin

Ceremonial Masques, Burkina Faso, 2009
Photograph (c) Gilles Perrin

Portrait, The Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Photograph (c) Gilles Perrin

"I produce social and documentary photography. My work is centered around making photographs and witnessing the condition of the world around me. I try to show a certain reality, which matches my vision and my emotions. My desire is to show the contradictions and paradoxes; the counterbalance of a world in progress which is impossible to deny. I am interested in the reality we don’t see."–Gilles Perrin

Africa has a place of honor this year at Paris Photo 2011 and although Gilles Perrin is not showing his Burkina Faso Ceremonial Mask photographs there, his exhibition "WOMEN" is in Rueil-Malmaison at Espace Renoir.

Femme - Photographies de Gilles PERRIN
à l'espace Renoir
27 rue Guy de Maupassant
92500 Rueil-Malmaison

PIETER HUGO: Permanent Error

Yakubu Al Hasan, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana, 2009
Photograph © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, NY
and Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

Untitled, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana, 2010
Photograph © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, NY
and Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

Abdulai Yahaya, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana, 2010
Photograph © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, NY
and Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

David Akore, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana, 2010
Photograph © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, NY
and Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

Pieter Hugo Photographs | Permanent Error
Yossi Milo Gallery
to October 29, 2011

"Pieter Hugo’s new series, Permanent Error, depicts Agbogbloshie, a massive dump site for technological waste on the outskirts of Ghana’s capital city, and the locals who burn down the components to extract bits of copper, brass, aluminum and zinc for resale. Tons of outdated and broken computers, computer games, mobile phones and other e-waste are shipped to the area as “donations” from the West, under the guise of providing technology to developing countries. Rather than helping to bridge the digital divide, the equipment is transformed into noxious trash threatening the health of the area’s inhabitants and contaminating the water and soil.

Gray plumes of smoke rise from smoldering piles of disassembled monitors, motherboards and wiring, providing an apocalyptic backdrop for Hugo’s portraits of the workers. The subjects, many of whom are young men sent by their families from impoverished outlying villages, are photographed full-figure and directly engaged with Hugo’s medium-format camera. With each portrait, Hugo draws the viewer into the conditions imposed on this slum community and their effects on individuals. Collectively, the photographs expose consequences of the West’s consumption of ever-new technology and its disposal of outmoded products in poor countries ill-equipped to recycle them." –Yossi Milo Gallery

VOTE: Maasai Wildlife Conservation

Ed Norton helps the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust
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Ed Norton helps the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust preserve the people, plants, and animals coexisting on thousands of acres of wild African plains.

As U.S. director of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, Ed Norton’s helping the organization protect more than 280,000 acres of African plains, home to more than 1,000 of the world’s most unique plants and animals including lions, black rhinos and giraffes. The MWCT also helps provide healthcare, employment, and education to the local Maasai community that has shared the land for centuries

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NICK BRANDT: "On This Earth - A Shadow Falls" Published by Big Life Editions

Elephant With Exploding Dust, Amboseli, 2004
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

Elephants Walking Through Grass, Amboseli, 2008
Big Life Foundation update: Lead elephant killed by poachers, 2009
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

On This Earth - A Shadow Falls
Photographs by Nick Brandt
Big Life Editions, 2010

Lion Before Storm II- Sitting Profile, Maasai Mara, 2006
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

Photographer Nick Brandt founded the Big Life Foundation in September 2010, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of Africa’s wildlife and ecosystems. On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, with introductions by Jane Goodall, Alice Sebold, Vicki Goldberg, Peter Singer and Nick Brandt, was recently published by Big Life Editions, 2010.

"On This Earth, A Shadow Falls combines the best photographs from Nick Brandt's previous books. It features 36 images from On This Earth and 54 from A Shadow Falls and is the only publication where images from both books will appear in one volume, on a larger scale than the previous editions.

300-line quadtone reproductions by Meridian Printing in Rhode Island, and printed under Brandt's supervision, the tonal quality of On This Earth, A Shadow Falls is exceptional. This high quality technique and attention to detail has allowed the book to succeed where the previous volumes have not. For the first time in book form, the offset reproductions closely match the rich, velvety tonality and detail of the original prints." – photo-eye Books

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"Over the past seven years, Brandt has photographed most of the elephants that live in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. As a result, he has been fortunate to know these elephants and their habits intimately. Sadly, he reports the following:

July 3 2010, 7am : Amboseli Lake Bed, Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

A herd of 50 elephants are crossing the lake bed from outside the park near the Tanzanian border, making their daily journey into the swamp. Normally, these are the most relaxed of herds, quietly moving right past our vehicle without a care in the world. The terrible drought is over, food is plentiful, and the elephants are healthy.

But this morning, as soon as we get within half a mile of them, they start running in panic. So panicked that a baby gets knocked over in the rush. They're still running from us a full mile away to make it to the safety of the swamp. We've never seen anything like it in the seven years I've been photographing in Amboseli. Later, we discover that the night before, gunshots were heard from the direction the elephants came, near the Tanzanian border. Over the next two weeks, the herd never really relaxes. On subsequent days that week, the appearance of a second car - something that would normally never bother them - sends them into newly-induced panic, suggesting not one but two vehicles were hunting them.

Meanwhile, two weeks earlier, the carcass of a beautiful bull called Buster (as named by Cynthia Moss' Elephant Research Project) has been found outside the park with his tusks sawn off and taken. When I was last in Amboseli two months before that, Buster had been one of three bulls I saw with infected spear wounds in their trunks. Just in the last week of August, yet another three big bull elephants have been killed. One died from what seems to be a poisoned spike trap that poachers are increasingly using. And Winston, photographed below in July, was shot by poachers at the end of August just over the border in Tanzania. Wounded, he made it back over to Kenya, but then died and also had his tusks sawn off with a power saw by the poachers. At the present rate of deaths, there will soon be no mature bulls left in Amboseli"...read more from Nick Brandt's Big Life Foundation

Read more: Nick Brandt: Crusade of the Species, La Lettre de la Photographie, Dec 1, 2010