POWERHOUSE PORTFOLIO REVIEW 2016

Nicholas Fedak II   nicholasfedakii.com

Daphne Chan  daphnechanphoto.com

Joana Cardozo jpcardozo.com

Cassandra Zampini  cassandrazampini.com

Jae Hee Schin  schinster.com

Andrew T Foster  atfphotography.com

Greb Brophy  gregbrophy.com

Anna Yeroshenko  annayeroshenko.com
Karen Johnson  karenjohnsonfineartphotography.com

 Sandra Jetton  sandrajettonphotography.com

Vittoria Gerardi  vittoriagerardi.viewbook.com

Maciej Markowicz​  maciejmarkowicz.com

Joel Simpson joelsimpsonart.com

The 12th Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review was held on March 6, 2016Combining both professional guidance and dynamic insight, the powerHouse Portfolio Review has been educating and inspiring up-and-coming photography professionals for over a decade. I reviewed 14 or so photographers work at the Review. Check out their websites above to view a lot more images not shown here.

"Each attendee received five personal one-on-one 20 minute portfolio review sessions; each with a different photography expert. Featuring magazine editors, professional photographers, publishers, artists, agents, gallerists, book packagers, and more, the diverse pool of reviewers is equipped to advise and guide a myriad of different styles, aesthetics, backgrounds, and intents. By giving photographers real-world industry advice, expert analysis, and hands-on insight, the powerHouse Portfolio Review is a rare opportunity to energize an emerging photographer’s career with clear and distinct direction, and unparalleled photo world networking connections and referrals." (powerHouse) 

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ANNA AGOSTON: "Untitled" Living Plant Elements Found In Nature

Photograph © Anna Agoston

 Photograph © Anna Agoston

 Photograph © Anna Agoston

"Untitled" 174 black-and-white macro photographs of living plant elements found in nature... 

A resident of Brooklyn, New York, Anna was born and raised in Paris, France. Always passionate about art, she qualified as an architect DPLG (government-certification) at the Ecole d'Architecture Paris Malaquais, and went on to earn the M.Arch.II degree in architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. There, she studied fine art photography under Professor Jim Dow of the Department of Visual and Environmental studies, and photographed her first series, “Dorm.” In October 2013, Anna made her lifelong passion, fine art photography her main professional occupation. I met Agoston at the 2015 powerHouse Portfolio Review.

Anna Agoston Art

RAPHAEL SHAMMAA: Images For Their Own Sake | powerHouse Portfolio Review

Man in White Tee Shirt

Photograph © Raphael Shammaa

Café Scene

Photograph © Raphael Shammaa

Girl Texting

Photograph © Raphael Shammaa

The Bus Trip Home

Photograph © Raphael Shammaa

Woman With Dark Eyes

Photograph © Raphael Shammaa

"When we travel within, we leave the world behind for a while. The images in this series are of people on that sort of journey and in that sort of personal space. They may look at us but they don’t see us. They travel strictly alone, none but them seeing what they see, or feeling what they feel."
 

Raphael Shammaa Photography

I was born in Cairo, Egypt and grew up under the Farouk monarchy. At the ripe age of almost seventeen, having completed my secondary studies, I boarded a ship for Marseilles. I was on my way to study architecture in Paris, or so I thought. After a stint at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts and knocking around Paris for five years, I was introduced to fashion photography and fell in love with that world. I bid farewell to gloomy weather and my even gloomier prospects, and packed my bags  for photography school in Vevey, Switzerland. I completed the course in a brief six months and got myself hired as an apprentice to a respected photographer for two years; I was then hired by the French magazine Marie-Claire to assist in the famed Collections shoots in Paris. It was a heady experience. It had all gone so fast – and so well when a long forgotten immigration application appeared on my doorstep in the form of a visa to the US. My father had always said: GO TO AMERICA. So I did, leaving everything and everyone behind –  an accumulation of heartaches, hopeful beginnings and a mixed bag of memories. I landed in New York on November 26, 1961 at 5:30 PM, heartbroken and, in my wallet, two hundred borrowed dollars as my stake in a new life. Within a week the money was gone. It was Christmastime; job prospects were grim. I finally found work as a photographer’s assistant. Still dissatisfied with my lot, I decided on a new path forward, on broader avenues for potential income. But this time, by leaving photography behind, I was  in effect leaving myself behind. After further adjustments things opened up and I found myself free from having to think in terms of mere survival. I had finally arrived. All of that is behind me now and here I am free to use a camera again, looking at the world through one eye again, happy to show you my  stuff if only to catch a comment here, an exclamation there, happy to watch your eyes glide over my images slowly and silently. I refer to my work as Images For Their Own Sake; they refer to nothing and no one outside of themselves and simply refer to how grateful I feel to function as myself again.

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Interview With Allen Frame and Rafael Shammaa 

I met Raphael Shammaa at the
2015 11th Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review  

Raphael Shammaa Photography 

   

LESLIE JEAN-BART: Reality + Imagination powerHouse Portfolio Review

Photograph © Leslie Jean-Bart

Leslie Jean-Bart at powerHouse 2015 Portfolio Review

Photograph © Leslie Jean-Bart

 Reality + Imagination

"The tide and sand constantly moving while merging with all the different disparate elements on their path, ever changing to create what’s to be in the instant. These images were created during that fraction of space and time. It is a dance between the reality within these defined boundaries and the constant filtering of these occurrences by the imagination. The aim is to interpret the reality presented on the spot and in doing so challenge the imagination. This aim is extended as an invitation as well to the viewers, to be part of the process and create the opportunity to make the image their own. The hope is to have an ongoing process that’s alive." – Leslie Jean-Bart

Born in 1954 in Haiti, Leslie Jean-Bart received a BA in American History in 1976 as well as a Master degree in Journalism in 1977 from Columbia University. He traveled to various part of the world as a freelance and commercial photographer for over 25 years winning awards for various books and cover arts he has contributed to.  But his formal education in the arts took place at Sotheby’s and Christies where he had full access to all media of arts and took complete advantage of that exposure to learn during the combined eight years he worked at both places as a photographer.

LESLIE JEAN-BART

www.realityimagination.com

I met Leslie Jean-Bart at the
2015 11th Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review

LAWRENCE SCHWARTZWALD: The Art of Reading | powerHouse Portfolio Review

 Bus Driver Reading in Tribeca, January 7, 2013
Photograph © Lawrence Schwartzwald

Reading on Subway Platform, January 10, 2014 

Photograph © Lawrence Schwartzwald

Amy Winehouse, Cafe Florent, July 30, 2007

Photograph © Lawrence Schwartzwald

Reading on Bowery, October 8, 2014

(Photographer Jay Maisel's building)

Photograph © Lawrence Schwartzwald

Reflection of Books on Bus, February 26, 2014

Photograph © Lawrence Schwartzwald

 LAWRENCE SCHWARTZWALD

The Art of Reading 

I met Lawrence Schwartzwald at the

2015 11th Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review

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