FUTURE / PAST: Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibition - The Center for Photographic Art

FUTURE / PAST

Photolucida' Critical Mass Top 50 Group Exhibition

Curated by Elizabeth Avedon

August 7 – September 12, 2021

The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

"At long last, we get to celebrate the artists and exhibit the images from Photolucida’s 2019 Critical Mass Top 50 with "Future I Past", curated by Elizabeth Avedon (postponed due to Covid). Our distinguished curator selected one image from each portfolio that represents and interweaves divergent styles from all across the world. Thanks for your patience everyone!" – Ann M. Jastrab, CPA Executive Director

Featuring works by: Rhiannon Adam, Sara Bennett, David Bloomer, Carl Bower, Tracy L. Chandler, Troy Colby, Rachel Cox, Monica Denevan, Rory Doyle, Kristen Emack, Amy Friend, Rich Frishman, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Dominika Gesicka, Joshua Dudley Greer, William Harris, Sarah Hobbs, Glenda Jennings,  Jamie Johnson, Priya Suresh Kambli, Tom Keifer, Mark Lyon, Noelle Mason, Kristen Matuszak, Jennifer McClure, Ingvild Melby, Robin Michaels, Rebecca Biddle Moseman, Karen Navarro, Nancy Newberry, Mikael Owunna, Catherine Panebianco, Rachel Papo, Barbara Peacock, Bruce Polin, Kaja Rata, Astrid Reischwitz, Paula Riff, Michelle Rogers Pritzl, Aline Smithson, Caleb Stein, Barbara Strigel, Krista Svalbonas, JP Terlizzi, Bryan Thomas, Annie Tritt, Barry Underwood, Ian Van Coller, Ira Wagner, Becky Wilkes.

 The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Featured Photograph © Jennifer McClure 2021. Many thanks to CPA's Ann Jastrab, and Photolucida's Laura Moya and Audra Osborne Norberg

PHOTOLUCIDA: Critical Mass 2019

Photograph: Chloe Aftel @chloeaftel

Get your best work ready because Photolucida's Critical Mass 2019 is now open for submissions!

Entering it’s 16th year, Critical Mass was created as a way to facilitate connections between emerging photographers and industry professionals with an aim at creating career-changing opportunities! With 200 museum curators, gallerists, publishers and more on the jury there is no better way to get your work seen in this digital day and age.

This year Photolucida is offering some amazing awards: A solo show at Blue Sky Gallery during Portland Photo Month, the Rauschenberg Residency Award, a Top 50 Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA curated by Elizabeth Avedon, and publication in issue #63 of GUP Magazine for a selection of finalists. All finalists will also receive this special issue of GUP after it is published!

Deadline to submit is July 15th at noon PST! 

https://www.photolucida.org/critical-mass/entry-details

P.S. I'm thrilled to be curating the Critical Mass 2019 Top 50 exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA! EA

PHOTOLUCIDA: 2015 Portfolio Reviews

Nomads In Niger

Photograph © Terri Gold

Nomads In Niger

Photograph © Terri Gold

Nomads In Niger

Photograph © Terri Gold

TERRI GOLD

 

When rainfall quenches the bone-dry terrain of Southern Niger, says New York-based travel photographer Terri Gold, a thousand Wodaabe nomads, along with thousands of their treasured animals, coverage across the desert in celebration of the The Guérewol Festival. As part of the weeklong event, the men dress in traditional finery, adorn their faces in paint, and perform for hours in hopes of winning the admiration of a set of young women judges. After braving the 110 degree heat in search of the merrymaking, Gold at last happened upon Guérewol after weeks of anticipation. read more...

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 Ileana and Valerica, Sirbi, Maramures, 2013

Photograph © Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

Batrine, Sarbi, 1999 (color 2013)

 Photograph © Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

 Walking Home, Sarbi, 1999 (color 2013)

 Photograph © Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

 KATHLEEN LARAIA MCLAUGHLIN

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Stubborn Child 1 / Grimm Mysteries

Photograph © 2015 Gerhard Clausing

Stubborn Child 2 / Grimm Mysteries

Photograph © 2015 Gerhard Clausing

The Water Witch / Grimm Mysteries

Photograph © 2015 Gerhard Clausing

GERHARD CLAUSING

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 "Poetics of the Landscape XX"

Photograph © Jacqueline Walters

JACQUELINE WALTERS

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Within The Shadows

Photograph © Aoife Shanahan

AOIFE SHANAHAN

 

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Daisy 1

Photograph © Yelena Zhavoronkova 

YELENA ZHAVORONKOVA

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Landscape #7, 2002 / Everywhere All At Once
photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe
Photograph © Vanessa Marsh

VANESSA MARSH

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Saint Veronica
Photograph ©  Eileen Clynes 

EILEEN CLYNES

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Fence / Star  Japan
Diptych © Andrew Warren
FENCE  Photoville, Boston

ANDREW WARREN

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Let Virtue Be Your Guide
Photograph © Frances F. Denny

 FRANCES F. DENNY

 Home Sweet Home. Gobelin.
Photograph ©  Rubi Lebovitch

Home Sweet Home. Sofa.
Photograph © Rubi Lebovitch

RUBI LEBOVITCH

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 PHOTOLUCIDA

Photolucida is an arts nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to provide platforms that expand, inspire, educate and connect the regional, national, and international photography community.

Every other April, an international set of photographers and reviewers gather in Portland, Oregon for a five-day celebration of photography that includes lectures, workshops, and exhibition collaborations. Intensive portfolio reviews are at the heart of the festival. Reviewers are selected for their experience, involvement, and commitment to advancing the work of emerging and mid-career artists. Over the years, many participants have made contacts that have led directly to exhibitions, publications, and sales, in addition to receiving useful critiques.

By providing a venue for in-depth, informed, and supportive dialogue between photographers, gallery owners, curators, publishers, editors, and consultants, Photolucida promotes the culture of photography locally, nationally, and internationally. The next Portfolio Reviews Festival will take place April, 2017.

NORM DIAMOND: Estate Sales at Photolucida + Houston Center For Photography

 Wedding Dress

from the series What Is Left Behind - Estate Sales

Photograph ©  Norm Diamond

 Wedding Night Negligee

from the series What Is Left Behind - Estate Sales

Photograph ©  Norm Diamond

Norm Diamond with his photograph, Man of the House

 Houston Center For Photography Juried Exhibition

Houston Center For Photography's

33rd Annual Juried Exhibition

Juror: Russell Lord, Curator of Photographs, NOMA

July 17 – October 4, 2015

1441 West Alabama

Houston, Texas

Norm Diamond Photography 

Tennis Court from The Shadows series

Photograph ©  Norm Diamond

I met Norm Diamond at the
 2015 Photolucida Portfolio Reviews
 in Portland, Oregon

PEDRO FARIAS-NARDI: Let Me Introduce You at Photolucida

"Let me introduce you to my deceased Mother"

Photograph © Pedro Farias-Nardi

"Let me introduce you to my daughter and her husband"

Photograph © Pedro Farias-Nardi

"Let me introduce you to my Mother"

Photograph © Pedro Farias-Nardi

"This series of portraits are the result of the lingering power of the image in bringing memories to life.  I was working for an NGO (TU, MUJER) in Los Mina, Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic; devising a program to help the recipients of remittance to understanding their hard work overseas, thus to avoid that it is wasted in banal issues.  While visiting houses for people to talk to them, they always brought a picture of the relative that had left the country."

"For the series I placed the person holding the picture on front of a blue curtain, to resemblance a studio, but included the surroundings as a metaphor, allegory, of what is left behind, sometimes, what had been acquired from the money send: furniture, a store, emptiness –like the image of a woman holding a picture of her deceased mother (Let me introduce you to my mother…).  She was denied a visa for the funeral, and she had not the resources to bring the body back home, thus a lot of sadness, among the thins she mentioned was “who will tend to her grave there?”  Or the young girl, that can hardly hold the picture, and hardly knows her mother...." read more here

"Let me introduce you to my wife"

"A picture of myself, holding a picture of my wife; she is overseas continuing her studies in surgery" Self-Portrait © Pedro Farias-Nardi

Pedro Farias-Nardi was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1957 and started photography at the early age of seven. Focusing on long-term photographic projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, Farias-Nardi has extensively documented the lives of economically and socially marginal people. He holds degrees in anthropology from the City University of New York and the University of Florida, Gainesville, and studied photography and visual anthropology at the International Center for Photography, the University of Southern California, and with photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil. He currently lives in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We met at Photolucida's 2015 Portfolio Review. His work is posted on FotoVisura's Guild.

From the series El Otro
Photograph © Pedro Farias-Nardi

From the series El Otro
Photograph © Pedro Farias-Nardi

Pedro Farias-Nardi’s El Otro is a series of portraits of undocumented Haitian migrant workers in the Dominican Republic. In collaboration with the Immigration Department, the portraits were taken when the Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Service (JRMS) started an ID campaign.

“My reason for these re-presentations is to call attention to the plight of these workers who are ignored by the Dominican population but are an important segment of our economy. I cooperated with the JRMS for almost two years, documenting the life of the migrants in the region.”

Check out Farias-Nardi's Otro series at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland 

SARAH MALAKOFF: Second Nature + Photolucida + The Photoville Fence

Untitled Interior (deer couch), 2010

Photograph @ Sarah Malakoff

Untitled Interior (telescopes), 2011

Photograph @ Sarah Malakoff

Untitled Interior (fur wall), 2012

Photograph @ Sarah Malakoff

“Sarah Malakoff’s large-format photographs of domestic interiors appear at once familiar and strange. In her exquisite and psychologically resonant images, the rooms become both a refuge from and a reinvention of the world outside. As Linda Benedict-Jones writes in her introduction to Malakoff's book "Second Nature" published by Charta, “.....we walk through rooms large and small where brightly patterned curtains and dark wood paneling take over, as canoes become coffee tables and living rooms accommodate tree trunks....Each space is carefully transcribed in the warm vocabulary of contemporary color photographs, creating an ensemble greater than the sum of its parts.” Boundaries between inside and outside, shelter and vulnerability, the real and the imagined all become blurred. Malakoff’s formally precise compositions set the stage for viewers to imagine the characters that reside within.” I was fortunate to meet Sarah Malakoff at the 2015 Photolucida Portfolio Review in Portland, Orego. You can view her work this summer in Brooklyn on Photoville's 2015 FENCE.

"Second Nature" by Sarah Malakoff 

(Publisher: Charta)

SARAH MALAKOFF

Photoville's The FENCE

MARINA FONT: El Peso de las Cosas + Photolucida + The Weight of Things

El Peso de Las Cosas

Photograph @ Marina Font

El Peso de Las Cosas

Photograph @ Marina Font

El Peso de Las Cosas

Photograph @ Marina Font

El Peso de Las Cosas

Photograph @ Marina Font

 

"What happens when the weight of something is determined by other attributes? How much do memory, traditions, a life lived or the importance that we ascribe to certain things weigh? What are the bridges that connect our experiences with our memories?"

– Marina Font

 

In El Peso de Las Cosas, my constant search around objects is centered in discovering their meaning and also to explore what are the stimuli that connects them to our senses in many different ways. They are things that are used, acquired, inherited, preserved and that evoke ones history and define our existence, along with the emotional weight that we attribute to them. While photographing these objects and ideas, through the act of virtually weighing them, I explore the capacity they have to represent beyond their real function or to symbolize what they actually represent. This way I play with the possibility that these visual constructions suggest new encounters and significance to the beholder.

Exhibition: El Contrato, 2009

 

Born in Cordoba, Argentina, now living and working in Miami, Florida, Marina Font studied at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Martin A. Malharro, Argentina. She spent the summer of 1998 studying photography at Speos Ecole de la Photographie in Paris, and earned her MFA in Photography at Barry University, Miami in 2009. Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows; and in the collections of the LOWE Museum at the University of Miami, Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design's Permanent Collection, Miami, and various private international collections. We met at Photolucida's 2015 Portfolio Review.

MARINA FONT

LYDIA PANAS: Longing In Black + Photolucida + The Mark of Abel Monograph

LONGING IN BLACK / Amy

Photograph © 2013 Lydia Panas

LONGING IN BLACK / Elexia

Photograph © 2013 Lydia Panas

LONGING IN BLACK / Mattie

Photograph © 2014 Lydia Panas

"There is almost nothing I would rather do than look at someone through the lens of my camera. It's hard to describe what it feels like, a seduction of sorts or a way of getting close. It's got something to do with desire.  We see one another and we don't have to speak or smile.   The photograph is a record of our connection; intimate, intense and very present." – Lydia Panas

"Lydia Panas is a fine art photographer whose work has been widely exhibited in the US and internationally. Lydia was one of nine artists selected by Houston FotoFest curators for the prestigious International Discoveries Exhibition in 2007 and has since garnered numerous awards and honors, including  an Image Award from CENTER, Santa Fe. She was twice included in both the Critical Mass Top Fifty and the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition. She has received six Pennsylvania Partner's in the Arts Grants and a Puffin Foundation Grant among others. She is currently a Visual Arts Fellow with CFEVA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Her work has been featured in periodicals such as the New York Times Magazine, Photo District News and Popular Photography. Lydia has degrees from Boston College, School of Visual Arts, and New York University / International Center of Photography. She has received a Whitney Museum Independent Study Fellowship." Her book, The Mark of Abel, is available at photo-eye Bookstore.

The Mark of Abel 

 publisher: Kehrer Verlag

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYDIA PANAS

GHOST PORTRAITS / October Gold 2

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYDIA PANAS

LYDIA PANAS WEBSITE

Text: Lydia Panas website

GORDON STETTINIUS: Mangini Studio + Photolucida + Candela Books

Perm

A Collaboration with Terry Brown

Mohawk

A Collaboration with Terry Brown

Cornrows

 A Collaboration with Terry Brown

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"Mangini Studio" Published by Candela Books 

A Collaboration between Terry Brown + Gordon Stettinius

"For a period spanning eight years or so, Gordon Stettinius, a photographer and a man of average appearance, sporadically visited the Mangini Studio in Richmond, Virginia, to have his portrait taken. Terry Brown, a fine art photographer as well as a commercial portraitist, happened, at that time, to be Mangini’s principal studio photographer.  The first of the styled portraits Brown recorded came about as the result of Stettinius’ disquieting need to experiment with the proud but oft-maligned hairstyle known to some as the permanent wave. To date, Brown and Stettinius have produced over fifty of these studio portraits.  Taken individually, the images run from believable to the slightly ridiculous. Taken collectively, one has to wonder if these two might have found something more productive to do with their time." – Candela Books 

I met photographer, curator and gallery owner Gordon Stettinius as a fellow reviewer at the recent Photolucida Portfolio Review in Portland. Up to then I'd known of him only as the publisher of one of my favorite books, "Salt + Truth," powerful photographs by Shelby Lee Adams of the hollow dwellers of eastern Kentucky.

Stettinius has been a photographer for over twenty-five years and his work can be found in numerous private and public collections. His work is represented by Robin Rice Gallery in New York and Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. In 2010, he founded Candela Books, a fine art photography book publishing company; and in 2011, founded Candela Books + Gallery a 3,800 square foot fine art photography gallery in the downtown arts district of Richmond, Virginia.

An important must read for photographers:

"Open Letter To Photographers/Artists" 

by Gordon Stettinius 

 Candela Books + Gallery

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Gordon Stettinius

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Photolucida Portfolio Review 2015