PHOTOVILLE RETURNS! September 10-20, 2015

PHOTOVILLE! 

Don't miss these events and everything in-between!

Opening Night, Sept 10: Stars of Rock-n-Roll Photography Clay Patrick McBride, Roberta Bayley, Adrian Boot, Dean Chalkey, Danny Clinch, Mick Rock +many more Curated by Janette Beckman, Julie Grahame and Amanda Gorence.

Closing Day, Sunday Sept 20: Panel "Under Fire: Black Photographers Creating Agency in a “Post-Racial” America" Featuring: Moderator Whitney Richardson, Devin Allen, Sheila Pree Bright, and Radcliffe 'Ruddy' Roye

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Over 60 incredible photography exhibitions, installations, indoors and outdoors, in shipping containers and on cubes....here are a few of my favorites:

RADCLIFFE 'RUDDY' ROY

RADCLIFFE ROYE : READ MORE HERE

JENNIFER McCLURE 

JENNIFER McCLURE : READ MORE HERE

NIGEL MORRIS 

NIGEL MORRIS : READ MORE HERE

DEBI CORNWALL : 
Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play

DEBI CORNWALL : READ MORE HERE

KATHRYN MUSSALLEM 

KATHRYN MUSSALLEN : READ MORE HERE

ZUN LEE

ZUN LEE : READ MORE HERE

 JANETTE BECKMANN : 
 Down + Dirty

JANETTE BECKMAN : READ MORE HERE

PHOTOVILLE

 

PHOTOVILLE is so large I can't even begin to describe all of the incredible photography exhibitions, installations, indoors and outdoors, in shipping containers and on cubes – you MUST view PHOTOVILLE's awesome website to begin to understand how you cannot miss this event. New Yorkers, New Jerseyans, Connecticutians and visiting Tourists, if you are near New York, check out Photoville September 10 through the 20th!

PHOTOVILLE

KLOMPCHING GALLERY: Fresh 2015 to August 1

Must See!

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

89 Water Street / DUMBO 

Brooklyn, New york

KLOMPCHING GALLERY | DUMBO: ONE UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS

Photograph © Matthew-Robert Hughes

Photograph © Ken Rosenthal

Photograph © Diane Meyer 

Photograph © Robert Calafiore

Photograph © Carole P. Kunstadt

Photograph © Max Kellenberger

Robert Calafiore • Matthew-Robert Hughes • Max Kellenberger
Carole P. Kunstadt • Diane Meyer • Ken Rosenthal

Opening Reception: January 8, 6pm–8pm

ONE | UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS

January 7-February 14, 2015

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Brooklyn

INDIE PHOTOBOOK LIBRARY EXHIBITION: Traveled to Photoville

 Indie Photobook Library’s Founder, Larissa Leclair

iPhone Photo by Emily Mason

“A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks”
 Exhibition curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes

iPhone Photo by Emily Mason 

Buy the Exhibition Catalog here

The Indie Photobook Library’s seminal traveling exhibition, curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes, opened at Brooklyn's Photoville, after stops in San Francisco and DC. “A Survey of Documentary Styles in early 21st century Photobooks” draws from the iPL collection and features 70 photobooks, along with a selection of photographs from the books. The exhibition looks at the “documentary tradition” through the lens of a 21st century, global photographic community in which the lines between journalism, art and the long-term documentary project have blurred, morphed and continue to feed off of each other.

The books selected for this exhibition present a range of subject matter, each coupled with a particular visual language drawn from a pool of diversity. There are books that speak a more traditional documentary language, while there are those that explicitly critique that very same tradition; there are diaristic books and titles that overlay a typological structure; other books rely primarily on found and vernacular imagery; and there are many books that borrow heavily from an art-photography storehouse. The goal of this exhibition is to survey the field before us and to foreground questions of authorship, voice, style and content.

If you missed the show, buy the Catalog here

PHOTOVILLE: The Indie PhotoBook Library Exhibition by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes

offSET, Lacey Terrell

East Greenland

Qaammaqqivaar, Verena Bruening

Qaammaqqivaar, Verena Bruening

 Ohio, Alec Soth and Brad Zellar

My Brother’s War, Jessica Hines

“A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks”
 Curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes

The Indie Photobook Library’s seminal traveling exhibition, curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes, arrives in New York, after stops in San Francisco and DC. “A Survey of Documentary Styles in early 21st century Photobooks” draws from the iPL collection and features 70 photobooks, along with a selection of photographs from the books. The exhibition looks at the “documentary tradition” through the lens of a 21st century, global photographic community in which the lines between journalism, art and the long-term documentary project have blurred, morphed and continue to feed off of each other.

The books selected for this exhibition present a range of subject matter, each coupled with a particular visual language drawn from a pool of diversity. There are books that speak a more traditional documentary language, while there are those that explicitly critique that very same tradition; there are diaristic books and titles that overlay a typological structure; other books rely primarily on found and vernacular imagery; and there are many books that borrow heavily from an art-photography storehouse. The goal of this exhibition is to survey the field before us and to foreground questions of authorship, voice, style and content.

September 19-29, 2013

The Indie Photobook Library @ PHOTOVILLE
Brooklyn Bridge Park, The Uplands of Pier 5, New York
Look for the IPL exhibition in one of the 'Containers'

Larissa Leclair will be there Saturday, September 21 from 2-5PM

Come by and say hi....

Buy the Exhibition Catalog here

PHOTOVILLE: Pete Brook's Depository of Unwanted Photographs (TDOUP)

The Depository Of Unwanted Photographs 

Conceived by Pete Brook | Produced by United Photo Industries

The question “What is your best photo?” is not an unusual one. When asked to pick out a single image they absolutely treasure, people generally don’t hesitate. A snap of their children, a Polaroid of their parents, a formal pose from precious life event, or perhaps even a photograph with the prescribed artistic balance of composition, contrast and exposure; or dictated by emotional memory or technical concerns.

But what about the question, “What is your worst photo?” To put it another way, what photograph of yours is obsolete, worthless, old news or just plain bad? Which single photograph of yours would you like to officially state on the record as unwanted?

Photoville invites you to submit one of your photos to The Depository of Unwanted Photographs, a crowdsourced archive of images and stories. During Photoville, we will welcome walk-in submissions at The Depository Of Unwanted Photographs container which will be equipped with a scanner and computer to download, copy and catalogue your printed photographs and digital files. During Photoville, submissions will be rotated in and out of display for public viewing. When the festival ends, the Photoville team will compile the images and create a reference book of “Unwanted Photographs”.

DETAILS HERE!

Follow Pete on Instagram here

Pete Brook is a freelance writer and curator, lead-blogger for Wired Magazines Raw File, and author/editor of his own Prison Photography journal.

Officially TDOUP / I Broke Pete's Rule "No Dogs"

Having recently purged my iPhoto Library to gain GB's (except for a few "choice" published images) I didn't have much to submit to Pete's brilliant project except one of way too many photos of my dogs - officially declared TDOUP for breaking Pete's rule "No dog photographs".

FRESH: Curated by Wm Hunt and Darren Ching

FRESH: KLOMPCHING Gallery. Curators: Wm Hunt + Darren Ching

FRESH: KLOMPCHING Gallery

Curated by W.M. Hunt + Darren Ching

New Yorkers braved the 100+ degree heat wave to see this very fine show co-curated by distinguished collector/curator W.m. Hunt and Klompching Gallery owner Darren Ching. The work of five upcoming photographers is presented at KLOMPCHING Gallery, 111 Front Street in Brooklyn's Dumbo Art district to August 10.  Read more here and my W.m. Hunt Interview here

KLOMPCHING GALLERY: Annual Summer Show Curated by W.M. Hunt + Darren Ching

 Mountain IV, 2012 from the Mountain series ©Peter Croteau
Pigment Print, 46" x 36" image on 50" x 40" sheet
Edition of 5, from $4,850 ($4,000 unframed)
www.petercroteau.com

Blue Organza, 2012 from the Fabrication series ©Maxine Helfman

Pigment Print, 17" x 25" image on 24" x 36" sheet
Edition of 12, from $2,400 ($1,800 unframed)
www.maxinehelfman.com

FRESH 2013: ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW

July 18 - August 10

The FRESH exhibition is curated, from an international open call for submissions, by the esteemed collector/curator, W.M. Hunt and Klompching Gallery owner, Darren Ching. Five photographers were then selected from the 300+ submissions.

"This is an opportunity for the gallery to present work by upcoming photographers, who we would not normally have the opportunity to work with. It's also an excellent platform upon which to alert collectors to five new voices in photography and invest in their photographic artworks–through acquisitions–early in their careers. With this in mind the exhibition has been carefully curated, with each of the photographers well represented, through having several photographs from one body of work included in the exhibition."(KLOMPCHING)

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Suite 206  |  Brooklyn  NY 11201

Artists Reception: July 18th, 6pm–8pm

An Interview With W.M. Hunt

KEN ROSENTHAL: Photographs 2001-2009 at KLOMPCHING in DUMBO

Seen and Not Seen #1311-3 (2001)
Photograph ©Ken Rosenthal
Image: Courtesy Klompching Gallery

Seen and Not Seen #001-A-1 (2001)
Photograph ©Ken Rosenthal
Image: Courtesy Klompching Gallery

Ken Rosenthal (b. 1964) is an American artist living and workingin Tucson, Arizona. Since 2001, his subject has been an over-arching study of time, collective memory, fiction and cultural iconography; as seen through a somewhat brooding re-interpretation of historic negatives and photographs—specifically imagery from his own family album. He presents exceptionally crafted photographs—bleached, split-toned and blurred—that bring together a range of associations that seem at once shared yet highly personal, unknowable yet familiar. Like memory, his photographs are ethereal and ambiguous.–Klompching Gallery

March 9 – April 20, 2012
Artist Reception March 8 6–8PM
KLOMPCHING GALLERY
111 Front Street | Brooklyn NY 11201

VOJTECH V. SLAMA: Wolf's Honey

TV Show (2004)
Photograph ©Vojtěch V. Sláma
Image: Courtesy Klompching Gallery

Bodies (2002)

Photograph ©Vojtěch V. Sláma
Image: Courtesy Klompching Gallery

Vojtech V. Sláma (b. 1974) lives and works in the Czech Republic. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous venues across the United States, Europe and Asia. In Wolf’s Honey, Vojtech V. Sláma offers a wonderful glimpse of his world—days spent with friends, observations of his artist peers, visits to places and events, glances of strangers, still life and figurative studies—all personal vignettes inherently connected to the tradition of Czech photography. Together they reveal Sláma’s fascination with the beauty of ordinary life and moments that he snatches without fanfare and yet with such poetic force. Stunningly rendered by the artist into Silver Bromide prints, the photographs are quiet, melancholic and at times—timeless.–Klompching Gallery

March 9 – April 20, 2012
Artist Reception March 8 6–8PM

KLOMPCHING GALLERY
111 Front Street, Suite 206 | Brooklyn, NY 11201

LENS CULTURE: International Exposure Awards Exhibition in Dumbo

Photograph (c) Jessica Hines, from the series My Brother’s War
Grand Prize, Portfolio Category

Photograph(c)Martine Fougeron, from the series Tête-à-Tête: After-Prom 09
Grand Prize, Single Image Category

Photograph (c) Julia Fullerton-Batten, Dressing Gown, 2009
Honorable Mention

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Lens Culture International Exposure Award-winners on display at VII Photo:
31 Contemporary Photographers

"An eclectic and diverse group show of award-winning photographic work by 31 photographers from 12 countries will be on display at VII Photo. An international jury of seven photography experts selected the winning photographs from more than 6,500 photographs submitted by photographers in 47 countries." Jim Casper, founder of the Awards, said: "The winning photos represent a truly multifaceted snapshot of contemporary photography as it is being practiced in various cultures around the world today.”

Portfolio Category Award Winners: Grand Prize: Jessica Hines, 2nd Prize: Carolle Benitah, 3rd Prize: Louisa Marie Summer. Single Image Category Award Winners: Grand Prize: Martine Fougeron, 2nd Prize: Albertina d’Urso, 3rd Prize: Anne Berry. Honorable Mention Awards (in alphabetical order): Susan Bank, David Carol, Ellie Davies, Frank Day, Bruno De Cock, Margaret de Lange, Dan Dubowitz, Joachim Froese, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Kevin Greenblat, Daisuke Ito, Mary Shannon Johnstone, David Lazar, Sebastian Liste, Adam Magyar, Rania Matar, Justin Maxon, Bill McCullough, Marcia Michael, David Rochkind, Julian Roeder, Evzen Sobek, Miki Soejima, Ian Teh, Jan von Holleben

VII Gallery
28 Jay Street, Dumbo-Brooklyn, NY
July 14-September 2

MARTINE FOUGERON: NYPH11 Tête-à-Tête

Photographer Martine Fougeron and Curator Elisabeth Biondi
Photograph © Elizabeth Avedon

NYPH11 : Subjective/Objective Curated by Elisabeth Biondi
Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête series

Tête-à-Tête, Photograph © Martine Fougeron

"Martine Fougeron's Tête-à-Tête project is a series of intimate portraits of the photographers two adolescent sons and their friends in New York and in France...The work explores adolescence as a liminal state, between childhood and adulthood, between feminine and masculine, and between innocence and a burgeoning self-identity."

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Subjective/Objective
Exhibition Curated by Elisabeth Biondi

"Subjective/Objective argues that documentary photography today is remarkably vibrant and creatively thriving, despite the bleak financial picture and vanishing support from a publishing industry challenged by digital media. Biondi has selected photographers who refract reality through their own distinct visions, often venturing into a more personal visual language. Subjective/Objective includes Alejandro Chaskielberg, Stefano De Luigi, Carolyn Drake, Martine Fougeron, Balazs Gardi, Jessica Hines, Ethan Levitas, Irina Werning and A Yin."

A Must See Exhibition!
New York Photo Festival • thru May 15th only
81 Front Street • DUMBO Brooklyn NY

NYPH11: Elisabeth Biondi + Enrico Bossan Curate "Photography Now"

Irina Werning, Mi Pelo Largo Querido
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

A Yin, Mongolia Transformed
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Balazs Gardi, Basetrack: One-Eight
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Balazs Gardi, Basetrack: One-Eight
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Jessica Hines, My Brother's War
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Jessica Hines, My Brother's War
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Curators Elisabeth Biondi + Enrico Bossan

New York Photo Festival 2011
81 Front Street - Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: engaged, personal, and vital
Curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan
"The state of documentary photography today"

Subjective/Objective, May 11 - 15
An Exhibition Curated by Elisabeth Biondi

"Subjective/Objective argues that documentary photography today is remarkably vibrant and creatively thriving, despite the bleak financial picture and vanishing support from a publishing industry challenged by digital media. Biondi has selected photographers who refract reality through their own distinct visions, often venturing into a more personal visual language. Subjective/Objective includes Alejandro Chaskielberg, Stefano De Luigi, Carolyn Drake, Martine Fougeron, Balazs Gardi, Jessica Hines, Ethan Levitas, Irina Werning and A Yin."

Hope: between dream and reality
Curated by Enrico Bossan
(not shown above)

"Hope: between dream and reality, features the work of young photographers who, in his words, “neither provide a faithful representation of reality nor create an illusion, but who have impressed me with their ability to capture the essential aspects of life.” Artists include Olivia Arthur, Clemence de Limburg, Matt Eich, Simona Ghizzoni, Andrea Gjestvang, Sean Lee, Margo Ovcharenko, Andy Spyra, Mikhael Subotzky, Ali Taptik and Peter van Agtmael."

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Multimedia works by artists CIA DE FOTO and Ben Lowy, and six viewing booths featuring work by various industry luminaries. 30 Washington St.

Also at NYPH11:
The FotoVisura Latin American Pavilion
111 Front Street

SlideLuck Pot Show XVI
Curated by Whitney Johnson
May 14, 5:30-10PM, 38 Water Str, Dumbo

Win-Initivative / Live-On Set Photo Shoots
Andrew Eccles, Sebastian Smith, Sarah Small, Brett Beyer, Gemma Fleming...
NYPH11 Festival Headquarters / 12-7 PM
1 Main Street - Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

Leica Booth: Borrow a Leica M9

Photo enthusiasts may borrow a Leica M9 digital rangefinder camera free up to four hours. Each day there's a set theme, challenging participants to capture the best photo that embodies that topic. Winners will receive a special Leica prize. Read more on LeicaRumors.com 1 Main Street - Dumbo

NYPH11 Lecture Series Schedule Website

Martine Fougeron
May 14, 11AM, 38 Water St
Andy Adams
May 14, 1PM, 38 Water St

Jessica Hines Lecture
May 15, 11AM, 38 Water St

May 15, 4PM

An Intimate Screening and Discussion
Love and War Exhibition
Moderated by Adriana Teresa, Curator
The FotoVisura Pavilion 111 Front Street, Suite 212