STREET PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: Win A Copy

FlakPhoto.com & Thames & Hudson Book Give-Away

from Street Photography Now

from Street Photography Now

FlakPhoto.com + Thames & Hudson
are giving away 3 copies of Street Photography Now!

FlakPhoto continues its 2010 program by partnering with Thames & Hudson to feature work from 20 photographers included in Street Photography Now, a new collection of contemporary street photography from around the world. In support, we're giving away three copies of the book to our Facebook fans.

Submission Details:
To Enter, Browse the Flak Photo Gallery and post a link to one of your favorite photographs in the Comments at the bottom of their FlakPhoto Facebook page. Three fans will be randomly selected from the submissions to receive a copy of the book.

Call for entries closes on Sunday, December 12 at 11:59 PM CDT. Winners will be notified with a Facebook message the week of December 13, 2010.

FlakPhoto.com Facebook - facebook.com/​flakphoto

100 PORTRAITS/100 PHOTOGRAPHERS: FlakPhoto at FotoWeek DC

Soldier: Birkholz - 353 Days in Iraq, 205 Days in Afghanistan, 2004
Photograph (c) Suzanne Opton /All Rights Reserved

Marine, Hotel Near Airport, Richmond, 2009
Photograph (c) Susan Worsham /All Rights Reserved

Steven, Route 10, Louisiana, 2006
Photograph (c) Amy Stein /All Rights Reserved

100 Portraits — 100 Photographers
Selections from FlakPhoto.com's Archive

Andy Adams of FlakPhoto.com teamed up with Indie Photobook Library creator Larissa Leclair to produce a Flak Photo screening (featuring work published on FlakPhoto.com over the past four years) to be shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art during the FotoWeek DC festival. NOV 6-13, 2010.

About the Night Gallery
List of 100 Artists

CARL COREY: Wisconsin Taverns

2664-Marty-Chippewa Club, Durand, WI
Photograph (c) Carl Corey /All Rights Reserved

2760-Moccasin Bar-Hayward, WI
Photograph (c) Carl Corey /All Rights Reserved

2774-Tom Theis-Rodeo Bar, Tomahawk, WI

Photograph (c) Carl Corey /All Rights Reserved

Editor: Andy Adams of Flak Photo
Publication: Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine
Essay: Carl Corey's WISCONSIN TAVERNS
Check it out HERE!

ZWELETHU MTHETHWA: Flak Photo Weekend

Zwelethu Mthethwa Monograph from The Aperture Foundation
Flak Photo is giving away 3 copies of this book to their Facebook fans!
Exhibition The Studio Museum in Harlem July 15-Oct 24, 2010

From the series Sugar Cane, 2003
Photograph (c) Zwelethu Mthethwa /All Rights Reserved

From the series Sugar Cane, 2007

Photograph (c) Zwelethu Mthethwa /All Rights Reserved

Untitled
Photograph (c) Zwelethu Mthethwa /All Rights Reserved

From the series Interiors, documenting the domestic lives of migrant workers around Johannesburg, South Africa. Photograph (c) Zwelethu Mthethwa /All Rights Reserved

Flak Photo July Weekend features work of South African photographer, Zwelethu Mthethwa. There's a link to the beautiful Photographer Video's. Worth the time to view or just listen to them. And incredibly Flak Photo is giving away 3 copies of the book to their Facebook fans! Join here

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"Since Apartheid's fall in 1994, South African photography has exploded from the grip of censorship onto the world stage. A key figure in this movement is Zwelethu Mthethwa, whose portraits powerfully frame black South Africans as dignified and defiant individuals, even under the duress of social and economic hardship.

Photographing in urban and rural industrial landscapes, Mthethwa documents a range of aspects in present-day South Africa, from domestic life and the environment to landscape and labor issues. His stunning portraits often portray rural immigrants on the margins of South African cities, revealing the efforts of his subjects to maintain their cultural identities through their choices in clothing, and the decoration of their dwellings. His singular oeuvre challenges both traditional conventions of African commercial studio photography and Western documentary work, marking a transition away from the typical exoticized images that encapsulate what curator Okwui Enwezor describes as "afro pessimism."

Zwelethu Mthethwa: Inner Views
Exhibition July 15-October 24, 2010

The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street, NYC

JONI STERNBACH: SurfLand

 Surfers: 10.02.08 #5 Hannah, unique tintype, Malibu
Copyright © Joni Sternbach / All rights reserved

 Surfers: 09.02.12 #8 Lakey, unique tintype, Rincon
Copyright © Joni Sternbach / All rights reserved

 Surfers: 10.02.17 #5 Chris and Dan, unique tintype, Refugio
Copyright © Joni Sternbach / All rights reserved

Surfers: 16.11.09 # Turtle Cove , unique tintype, Turtle Cove
Copyright © Joni Sternbach / All rights reserved

"I have a special fondness for Joni Sternbach's unique tintype images. Having lived in *Montauk for over 15 years, many of Sternbach's photographs were taken just down the cliff's from us at 'Turtle Cove' and 'Ditch Plains', and I recognize some of the locals in her book SurfLand. But it's the beauty and expertise of her wet-plate technique that really sets Sternbach's work apart from the rest of us."

"Working with a large-format camera, photographer Joni Sternbach concentrates on locations that are close to or directly on the water. In an era of rapid-fire digital snapshots, Sternbach employs the wet-plate collodion process and the distinctive appearance of her finished works echoes nineteenth-century traditions of anthropological photography. The wet-plate technique informs her careful compositions while producing intimate portraits imbued with spontaneity and the raw quality of the process reveals the dignity in her subjects. In SurfLand, photographer and subject overlap on the periphery of two powerful elements: the land and the sea. The singular, primitive act of surfing on the water is eclipsed by the social and negotiated state of human interaction on the shore. Sternbach's surfers are persistent elements in a shifting natural scene, acting as a bridge between the sea as an unbridled force of nature and the shore line, a place of leisure and cultural phenomena." –Flak Photo's March Weekend Series

AIPAD with Rick Wester Fine Art
April 4 through 7, 2013
Park Avenue Armory

ICP Travel Workshop Summer 2013
Into The Ether and on the Road, Wet Plate Workshop
Please contact ICP for further details 

The Book: SurfLand | Photographs by Joni Sternbach

JONI STERNBACH WEBSITE

* Priscilla Rattazzi's Vintage Photograph of Matthew Avedon and me on the 'beach' in *Montauk for Italian Per Lui Magazine