RUDDY ROYE: When Living Is a Protest

"The Gun" © Ruddy Roye

@ruddyroye on Instagram, Oct. 20, 2014

"Black Today (When Living is a Protest Series),"

Union Square, New York, NY, May 1, 2015 © Ruddy Roye

"Twenty year-old Robert Scott (When Living is a Protest Series)" 

Photograph © Ruddy Roye

“When Living Is a Protest”

Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye (b. 1969, Jamaica) is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism photography. In his Instagram profile, he calls himself a humanist/activist and a photographer with a conscience. "Roye’s ongoing photo project “When Living Is a Protest” is potent storytelling, capturing glimpses of Black life and addressing issues of police brutality and structural inequality throughout the country in the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.”

Reclamation II : Curtis Talwst Santiago and Ruddy Roye "An exhibition dedicated to issues surrounding environmental and social justice, Reclamation brings together Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based photographer Ruddy Roye and Canadian sculptor and painter Curtis Talwst Santiago around the double meanings of “reclamation”: to salvage or reclaim material and to reassert rights. Four new works debut and present eight works of Ruddy Roye’s ongoing photo project “When Living Is a Protest”.” 

Exhibition

Reclamation: Curtis Talwst Santiago and Ruddy Roye

November 5, 2018 – January 6, 2019

Brooklyn Public Library

10 Grand Army Plaza

Brooklyn, NY 11238

Shown here are several of my many favorite Roye images, although not necessarily in the current Brooklyn Public Library exhibition.  – EA

Photograph © Ruddy Roye

@ruddyroye on Instagram, August 29, 2014

"Richard Avedon is really why I started taking portraits the way I do. His ability to make the one picture speak like a story is the reason he is "The One," well for me anyway...."

"Forming the Circle" © Ruddy Roye

@ruddyroye on Instagram, November 3, 3018

"Dancehall is from the bowels of ghetto people. It is church, theatre, strip club, fashion show, business, seat of government and the polling station all rolled up into a nice tight spliff. ...." read more here

Ruddy Roye discusses photo-journalism with my School of Visual Arts BFA Photography students, sharing his own personal history, his beautiful black and white portraits and introducing his Jamaican "Dancehall" series. He has held teaching positions at New York University and the School of Visual Arts and lectured at Columbia University. Roye is one of the youngest members of the Kamoinge Workshop, the seminal and enduring black photography collective founded in 1963. His photography has appeared in the New York Times, TIME, The New Yorker, Vogue, Ebony, Fast Company, BET and ESPN. His work has been in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts; Silver Eye Center for Photography; the Chastain Arts Center; Alice Austen House and Photoville.

 RuddyRoye.com

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TIME's Pick for Instagram Photographer

JAIME PERMUTH: Yonkeros

 Yonkeros. Photographs © Jaime Permuth

 Yonkeros. Photographs © Jaime Permuth

In his first monograph, Yonkeros, Guatemalan photographer Jaime Permuth documents “The Iron Triangle”: Willets Point, a small and often overlooked enclave of New York City that is home to junkyards and scrap metal businesses. “Permuth’s beautiful black-and-white photographs highlight local workers, and their tools and materials.”

 

 

Jaime Permuth: Yonkeros  | Interview by Elizabeth Avedon

LE JOURNAL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE

Elizabeth Avedon: In the past, you've documented the circus performers of El Circo Rey Gitano in Guatemala. What drew you to photograph in Willets Point?

Jaime Permuth: The Guatemalan poet Alejandro Marre recently described my work as coming from the “B-side of life”. Considering these two projects, I would have to admit that there is some truth to that statement!

Circus life is like a revolving door, with people walking in and out of it constantly. The same is true of the mechanics that work in Willets Point. There is an essential mystery and poetic richness in this kind of human community. People tend to live on the margins of society and play by their own rules. In my experience, photographers are not that different. We go from one project to the next. We arrive, set up camp, and then inevitably pick up and leave so we can move on to our next destination.

For the past 40 years the mechanics in Willets Point have been locked in a battle for survival with the City of New York, which wishes to evict them and redevelop the area as mixed residential and commercial neighborhood. Occasionally there is a flare up in tensions that make it to the newspapers. One fine day in spring of 2010, curiosity got the best of me and I took a ride on the 7 train to take a look for myself. What I saw there was absolutely surreal; I felt like I had stepped back in time and found myself a figure standing in a Walker Evans landscape from the Great Depression of the 1930’s...read Jaime Permuth's Interview here on Le Journal de la Photographie.

LANOLA KATHLEEN STONE: Memories

Memories Abandoned: Computer Room, 2009
Photograph © Lanola Kathleen Stone

Memories Abandoned, 2009

Photograph © Lanola Kathleen Stone

LANOLA KATHLEEN STONE is a New York City-based professional photographer, artist, author, and educator. Her commercial clients seek her out to photograph interiors, portraits, and lifestyle, although she is mostly known for her aptitude with children and childhood imagery.

"Memories Abandoned is a series of images of my now abandoned childhood home in Utah - portraits of my childhood experiences in the self same location with genuine artifacts of the experiences portrayed. Themes explored are the impermanence of time, the deterioration of memory and space, inevitability of change and through it all, resilience and the ability to move and exist beyond our surroundings. The project was partially funded by a cash award from the School of Visual Arts Office of Alumni Affairs, exhibited at Aqua Art/Art Basel Miami and featured in CMYK Magazine's 2010 Top 100 New Creatives Award, Issue 46."

Photographing Childhood: The Image and the Memory
By Lanola Kathleen Stone, Focal Press, 2011

KATRIN EISMANN chose Stone's new book as one of 2011's Best Photography Books: "Photographing Childhood: The Image and the Memory (Focal Press, 2011) by LaNola Kathleen Stone is thoughtful, inspiring, and unexpected. The book features an historical homage; an insightful timeline of childhood; useful information on lighting and image management; and most importantly highlights a wide variety of contemporary photographers and photographic approaches to frame and focus on the fleeting moments of childhood. Smart, beautiful and poignant!"

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Katrin Eismann is Co-Founder and Chair of the Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography at The School of Visual Arts; and author of Photoshop Restoration & Retouching and Photoshop Masking & Compositing, and co-author of The Creative Digital Darkroom and Real World Digital Photography. Visit her website PhotoShopDiva.com

Least Likely to be Adopted

Photograph © Lanola Kathleen Stone

Least Likely to be Adopted
Photograph © Lanola Kathleen Stone

I shot these images at the dog pound. They were, without exception, scared and cowering when they came on the set, but every so often they'd show their courage and care - who they truly were and could be with a little love –Lanola Kathleen Stone

"The concept was to make “fashionesque images” of the oldest in residence at the Dog Pound near my home (East 110th Street Animal Shelter, NYC). I asked for the dogs that were the “least likely to be adopted” and took their portraits to represent them with personality, youth and “edge” in order to aid their adoption. They were featured in PDNedu's Photo Annual & CMYK Aspiring Creatives Issue. 12 out of the 13 dogs I photographed were adopted."

www.LANOLA.com

WHO IS MARVIN ISRAEL | DIANE ARBUS SLIDE-SHOW + TALK

Who Is Marvin Isreal? DVD
Directed by Neil Selkirk and Doon Arbus

WHO IS MARVIN ISRAEL? is a short documentary on the life, work, and world of the enigmatic Marvin Israel (1924-1984), artist, designer, art director, and teacher. Israel's influence on Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, and many others is explored in the words of those who knew him. Directed by Neil Selkirk.

Who Is Marvin Israel?
and
A Slide-Show and Talk by Diane Arbus

SVA Theatre
333 W 23 ST (8th x 9th)
Thursday December 15th 7:30 PM
Free Admission

Self-Portrait
Marvin Israel | Painter, Book Designer...my Mentor

Marvin Israel and Diane Arbus photographed at her
1971 master class by her student Cosmos Sarchiapone

SLIDE SHOW AND TALK BY DIANE ARBUS - DEC 15th

An original audio recording of a 1970 slide presentation by Diane Arbus in which she speaks about photography using her own work and other photographs, snapshots and clippings from her collection. Compiled and edited by Neil Selkirk, Doon Arbus and Adam Shott.

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An encore screening of a rare historic 1970 slide presentation given by the legendary photographer Diane Arbus where she discusses her work and her motivations. The presentation will be accompanied by a screening of the short documentary Who is Marvin Israel? (2005), an examination of the life of designer Marvin Israel, a friend of Arbus and an influence in her work. Presented by SVA and introduced by Chair of the Photography Department, Stephen Frailey, in conjunction with the Aperture Foundation.

A Slide-Show and Talk by Diane Arbus
and
Who Is Marvin Israel?

SVA Theatre
333 W 23 ST (8th x 9th)
Thursday December 15th 7:30 PM
Free Admission

Celebrating the release of Diane Arbus: A Chronology and the newly reissued Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph and Untitled: Diane Arbus, books will be available for purchase at a reception following the screening.

MICHAEL AVEDON: A Portrait of the Artist

Julian Schnabel
Photograph (c) Michael Avedon

Philippe Pasqua
Photograph (c) Michael Avedon

Philippe Pasqua
Photograph (c) Michael Avedon

Richard Phillips

Photograph (c) Michael Avedon

Photographer and School of Visual Arts student, Michael Avedon, works primarily with black & white 35mm film. He's begun to develop his own perspective over the past three years, photographing everything from a series on contemporary artists to surfing video's and fashion shoots, informed by the photographic history of his grandfather Richard Avedon.

Self-Portrait-Bio
Michael Avedon Website

17 DEGREES: SVA Digital Photography Exhibition

17 Degrees Exhibition: Wall Photographs by Michael Morrison

SVA 2011 Thesis Exhibition Announcement

17 Degrees Exhibition Catalog (Blurb, 2011)
Cover Photograph by Juan Achiaga

The School of Visual Arts
Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography
present
17 Degrees Thesis Exhibition
Beautifully Curated by Michael Foley
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If you are in NYC,
drop in!
October 21 - November 12

SVA Gallery• 209 east 23rd • new york city

17 Degrees Website

DIANE ARBUS and MARVIN ISRAEL: Original 1970 Audio Slide Presentation + Screening

Marvin Israel and Diane Arbus photographed at her
1971 master class by her student Cosmos Sarchiapone

An Evening With
DIANE ARBUS AND MARVIN ISRAEL

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A SLIDE SHOW AND TALK BY DIANE ARBUS
and a screening of
WHO IS MARVIN ISRAEL?

The SLIDE SHOW AND TALK BY DIANE ARBUS is an original audio recording of a 1970 slide presentation by Diane Arbus in which she speaks about photography using her own work and other photographs, snapshots and clippings from her collection. Compiled and edited by Neil Selkirk, Doon Arbus and Adam Shott.

WHO IS MARVIN ISRAEL? is a short documentary on the life, work, and world of the enigmatic Marvin Israel (1924-1984), artist, designer, art director, and teacher. Israel's influence on Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, and many others is explored in the words of those who knew him. Directed by Neil Selkirk.

SVA Theatre
333 W 23 ST (8th x 9th)
Thursday October 6th 7:30 PM
Free Admission

Celebrating the release of Diane Arbus: A Chronology and the newly reissued Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph and Untitled: Diane Arbus, books will be available for purchase at a reception following the screening.

MARIA TERESA FISCHER: And the Space Around

Photograph (c) Teresa Fischer

And the Space Around by Teresa Fischer (Blurb, 2011)

"My mother’s mother died in a very unexpected way. This happened a long time ago, and I never got to meet her, but she has always been very present in our family. My mother kept some of her belongings and through them memories were passed on and stories told. And the Space Around is my way of dealing with issues related to death and loss."–Teresa Fischer

"This body of work is a series of domestic landscapes in which Fischer focusing on "objects as containers full of meaning. It takes place inside senior citizen houses where she explores people’s personal space and memories."

Photographer Teresa Fischer is from Puerto Varas, Chile. She graduated with a major in Photography from ARCIS University in Santiago and recently completed her Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Photography at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. She specializes in Architecture and Interior Photography. Fischer's book, And the Space Around, has been selected as a finalist in Photography Book Now competition's People's Choice Award category.

Teresa Fischer Photography

This work will be exhibited in a group exhibition curated by Michael Foley, October 21 - Nov 12, 2011, SVA Gallery, 209 East 23rd St, NYC.

MELISSA HARRISON: Thesis Project "Muse"

Photograph (c) Melissa Harrison

Photographer Melissa Harrison earned her BFA from The Rochester Institute of Technology before recently completing her Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography at The School of Visual Arts. While completing her MPS at SVA, she interned at Hearst Magazines photo studios and worked as a freelance assistant for professional photographers in Manhattan.

The SVA Class of 2011 will be exhibiting their work in an upcoming group exhibition, curated by Michael Foley, October 21 - Nov 12, 2011, SVA Gallery, 209 East 23rd St, NYC.

Muse by Melissa Harrison (Blurb, 2011)

"The style of the photographs, deliberately soft and lacking in sharp detail, is meant to represent the elusive nature of creative inspiration...often ineffable." –Melissa Harrison, Muse

JOSEPHINE DVORKEN: A. Blessing

A. Blessing by Josephine Dvorken
Peoples Choice Nominee | Blurb Books Preview
Photograph (c) Josephine Dvorken

My Last Name is Blessing. I am A. Blessing
Photograph (c) Josephine Dvorken

Alfred and Mariette Sitting Together on the Couch
Photograph (c) Josephine Dvorken

Alfred Looking Out The Same Window
Photograph (c) Josephine Dvorken

Marriette Has Cared for People Her Whole Life
Photograph (c) Josephine Dvorken

"The first time I spotted him he was standing on a corner, wearing a brown suit and matching bowler hat. Folded in his left hand was a copy of The Wall Street Journal. He was positioned between two bank deposit boxes built into the granite wall. On the cornerstone was the building’s date, 1930. The man himself was certainly from another time and I marched straight across the street to ask if I could take his picture.

He agreed and was a natural in front of my lens. I confided to him that I had made a wish that the perfect subject would appear on this corner — someone who belonged right in the middle of the picture I wanted to take. I asked the man for his contact information.

“My last name is Blessing. I am A. Blessing.” He said with a wink and little bow. I had a feeling that Alfred had used this endearing introduction before, and it worked like a charm. I took him for ice cream and he told me about his first big failure in life… buying a gas station.

I kept in touch with Mr. Blessing and called him whenever I was exhibiting the project he was in. I quickly realized that he had difficulty with his memory. I needed to tell him the story of how we met each time we spoke. He loves that story and I love to tell it.

Alfred invited me to his house to take more pictures. This is when I met Mariette. She is from Switzerland and they have lived together in the same house for almost 45 years. She moved in shortly after his wife died to take care of the house and care for his young daughter. Though Mariette is a constant presence, I still haven’t quite figured out her relationship with Alfred. It is something less than romance but something more than that of a servant. And it is almost entirely unspoken." – Josephine Dvorken, from A. Blessing (Blurb Books, 2011)

Preview Book: A. Blessing

"People's Choice Award"

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Josephine Dvorken received her B.F.A. in 1994 from the University of New Mexico and her Master of Professional Studies degree from the School of Visual Arts in 2011. Her most recent project, A. Blessing, focuses on the complicated relationship between a man and his housekeeper. In 2009 she was recognized in the International Photography Book Now competition for Familiar Strangers: A Community Portrait with a solo show of this work at the Umbrella Arts Gallery in New York City. In addition to her Fine Art Projects, she accepts commissions in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region.

Images from A. Blessing will be included in an upcoming group exhibition, curated by Michael Foley, October 21 - Nov 12, 2011, SVA Gallery, 209 East 23rd St, NYC.

Josephine Dvorken Photography

KARLI CADEL: Moving Meditation

View Moving Meditation on Blurb Books
Photographs by Karli Cadel

As a lifelong dancer, I have always wanted to express the aspects of dance that go beyond sheer physical performance, even at its most intense. I realized that for me, the most meaningful way to do this was not with dance itself, but through photography. –Karli Cadel

Karli Cadel is a documentary and editorial photographer specializing in Performing Arts Photography. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she is a graduate of the theater program at San Diego State University and the photography program at Grossmont College in El Cajon. She also holds a Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography from the School of Visual Arts, located in New York City. Cadel’s photographs of dance and opera have been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Dance Magazine. She currently resides in New York City.

Images from Moving Meditation will be included in an upcoming Group Exhibition, Curated by Michael Foley, October 21 - Nov 12, 2011, SVA Gallery, 209 East 23rd St, NYC.

Karli Cadel Photography

BAI HUA: Observable Imagination

from the series Observable Imagination

Photograph (c) 2011 Bai Hua/All Rights Reserved
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from the series Observable Imagination
Photograph (c) 2011 Bai Hua/All Rights Reserved

from the series Observable Imagination
Photograph (c) 2011 Bai Hua/All Rights Reserved

Photographer Bai Hua, was born and raised in Haikou Shi, in the Hainan Province of China. He studied Art and Design at the Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, before recently completing his Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Photography at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Hua describes himself as a naturally curious person. Driven by this curiosity in his series Observable Imagination, he describes the person in each photograph as performing a double role, as both the terminal of observation and the starting point of imagination. I was very impressed viewing Hua's very large prints (40" X 71") from this series, one of which is chosen for an upcoming group exhibition curated by Michael Foley (details below).

Bai Hua Photo Website

Gallery Exhibition | Curated by Michael Foley
October 21-Nov 12, 2011 | 209 East 23rd St, NYC

BOJUNE KWON: Neurosis In The City

Photograph (c) Bojune Kwon/All Rights Reserved
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Photograph (c) Bojune Kwon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Bojune Kwon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Bojune Kwon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Bojune Kwon/All Rights Reserved

In spite of the flood of people that inhabit the city, I am often struck by the difficulty of finding happiness and making real connections with others. However, I find myself getting used to a feeling of indifference to others, and think that it might be natural that people do not make every effort to know each other in this environment. My images of people, without clearly visible facial expressions, explore what I see as the nature of a city and our existence within it. I am interested in the neurosis that the modern city has generated. –Bojune Kwon

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Bojune Kwon is a freelance and fine-art photographer with a professional background in commercial photography. He was born in South Korea and majored in Photography at Kyungil University in Korea. He recently completed his Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Photography at The School of Visual Arts and is now based in New York City.

Bojune explained how he creates his images, "Each photograph is made up of a composite of about a hundred images taken in the same place. To capture the various facial expressions, I usually took six hundred photographs for one image." This work will be on display in an upcoming group exhibition curated by Michael Foley.

Bojune Photography Website

October 21-Nov 12, 2011
Gallery Exhibition | Curated by Michael Foley
209 East 23rd St, NYC