FALL 2012: Exhibitions + Events

Sightlines, 2011 | Photograph (c) Helen Sear

HELEN SEAR: Sightlines
Sept 13 – Oct 26
KLOMPCHING GALLERY

Artist Talk and Book Signing
Sept 15, 2-4PM, Aperture Gallery

Pete Brook | Photograph (c) Lara Shipley

Men & Women
Photographic Portraits by Daniel W. Coburn and Lara Shipley
John Sommers Gallery, UNM

FRACTION MAGAZINE: Review

from On Hollywood | Photograph (c) Lise Sarfati
LISE SARFATI: On Hollywood
Sept 6–Oct 13
YOSSI MILO GALLERY

from The Mark of Abel | Photograph (c) Lydia Panas

LYDIA PANAS: The Mark of Abel
Sept 5–Oct 7
RAYKO PHOTO CENTER, SF

Artist Talk and Book Signing
Sept 13, 5:30PM

from A Girl and Her Room | Photograph (c) Rania Matar

RANIA MATAR: A Girl and Her Room
Sept 14–Dec 14
SOUTHEAST MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHY

Artist Talk and Book Signing
Sept 14, 6-8PM

Photograph (c) Ruben Natal-San Miguel

RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL
Nocturnal/Activo de Noche

Sept 8–Oct 31
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Curated by Elizabeth Barragan
Artist's Talk - Sept 15 @ 3:30 pm

Girl Dancing in Pink, Baptist-Town, Greenwood, MS Delta
Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

MAGDALENA SOLÉ: Mississippi Delta
Sept 27–Nov 10
SOUS LES ETOILES, Soho, New York

Seeker
Photograph (c) Vicki Hunt1st Place Award | SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

2011 SlowExposures Gang
Many returning to this years event

Click to Enlarge. Top row, l to r: John A Bennette; Jerry Atnip, John Bennette, Sylvia Plachy, Elisabeth Biondi, Nancy McCrary, Gabrielle Larew; Sylvia Plachy, David Simonton, and Magdalena Sole; Bennette Exhibition crowd, on the right, Alex Novak. Bottom row, l to r: Slow Exposure Co-Directors, Chris Curry and Nancy McCrary; Peter Essick; Sylvia Plachy and Jessica Hines; Elisabeth Biondi , Nancy McCrary, and Steve Harper. Last year's event here

2012 SLOW EXPOSURES PHOTO FESTIVALCelebrating Photography of the Rural South
Sept 21–23, 2012
About last year's event here
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SVA Lecture Series
a few of the great line-up of Speakers this Fall

Sept 25: Stephen Mallon
Oct 9: Darren Ching
Nov 27: Miriam Romais

School of Visual Arts
136 West 21 St, Rm 418F, 7pm

SLOW EXPOSURES 2012: Call For Entries

First Place Award: Seeker by Vicki Hunt, Roswell, GeorgiaSlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

Untitled #15 by Jessica Hines as seen in The New Yorker Photo Booth
SlowExposures 2010 Exhibition

The 2011 SlowExposures: Jurors, Reviewers and Photographers. Top row, l to r: John A Bennette; Jerry Atnip, John Bennette, Sylvia Plachy, Elisabeth Biondi, Nancy McCrary, Gabrielle Larew; Sylvia Plachy, David Simonton, and Magdalena Sole; Exhibition crowd, on right, Alex Novak. Bottom row, l to r: Slow Exposure Co-Directors, Chris Curry and Nancy McCrary; Peter Essick; Sylvia Plachy and Jessica Hines; Elisabeth Biondi, Nancy McCrary and Steve Harper; and snapshots by Elizabeth Avedon (click to enlarge!)

CALL FOR ENTRIES
SlowExposures 2012 10th Annual Juried Exhibition
Celebrating Photography of the Rural South

You are invited to submit work for the Tenth Anniversary SlowExposures Photography Exhibition in Pike County, Georgia. As always, selected images capture the diversity, contradictions and complexity of the rural American South. We are pleased to welcome Brett Abbott, Photography Curator of the High Museum of Art and Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco as our 2012 jurors.

SlowExposures is held during the last two weekends in September. Located in the rural countryside one hour from Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson airport, the show is renowned for its intimate, relaxed environment where photographers and photography lovers gather to learn, share, and have fun. This year in honor of our tenth anniversary, we are pleased to welcome back many of our past jurors who have graciously agreed to lead seminars and staff our portfolio review. –Christine Curry and Nancy McCrary, Show Chairs

Information: www.SlowExposures.org.

SlowExposures 2011 + La Lettre 1 + LaLettre 2

SlowExposures Photo Festival: La Lettre de la Photographie Round-up

The SlowExposures Gang

Click to Enlarge. Top row, l to r: John A Bennette; Jerry Atnip, John Bennette, Sylvia Plachy, Elisabeth Biondi, Nancy McCrary, Gabrielle Larew; Sylvia Plachy, David Simonton, and Magdalena Sole; Bennette Exhibition crowd, on the right, Alex Novak. Bottom row, l to r: Slow Exposure Co-Directors, Chris Curry and Nancy McCrary; Peter Essick; Sylvia Plachy and Jessica Hines; Elisabeth Biondi , Nancy McCrary, and Steve Harper.

1st Place Award: Seeker by Vicki Hunt, Roswell, Georgia
SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

2nd Place Award: Young Ladies by Magdalena Solé, New York
SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

3rd Place Award: Anthony, North Edisto River by Eliot Dudik, Savannah, GA
SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

Peoples’ Choice Award Winner: Burning Fields by Will Jacks
SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

Serendipitous Snake by Donna Rosser
SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

Fish River by D.B. Waltrip
SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition

Buck, 2007 by Jo Lynn Still
John A. Bennette's Southern Memories Part Two Exhibition

AS SEEN ON
LA LETTRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
HERE

“‘SlowExposures 2011’ welcomed the public, photographers and collectors from across the United States to discover emerging talent, take part in cutting-edge seminars with world-renowned experts and visit with old friends and colleagues.”– Co-Director Chris Curry

The ninth annual SlowExposures Photography Festival, located in Pike County, Georgia, wrapped last week. The SlowExposures 2011 Exhibition was juried by curator Elisabeth Biondi, formerly of The New Yorker, and photographer Peter Essick, National Geographic Magazine. Out of 700 entries, the juror’s selected seventy photographs for the exhibition, with three winners and fifteen honorable mention recipients.

The First Place Award went to Vicki Hunt from Roswell, Georgia, for her photograph “Seeker”; Second Place was awarded to Magdalena Solé from New York City, for “Young Ladies” and Third Place went to Eliot Dudik from Savannah, Georgia, for his photograph “Anthony, North Edisto River.”

Discussing their selection process during a Jurors Talk, Ms. Biondi, who served as Visuals Director at the New Yorker Magazine since 1996, said, “I prefer images that don’t have all the answers; images that pose a question, make me think about it and make me take a closer look.” Ms. Biondi curated the current exhibition, Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker, at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.

Peter Essick, recently named one of the 40 most influential nature photographers in the world, also likes images where “there’s some ambiguity in how it feels.” About Magdalena Sole’s photograph, he said, “These are the type of photographs that photographers look up to. A professor said, ‘Do nothing and something wonderful will happen.’ It’s this idea of being a fly on the wall. It takes time. You have to get to know the people, you have to earn their trust for them to just let you be there. That’s one aspect of what makes this a good picture. It takes skill and experience to learn to capture that.” Mr. Essick’s work can be seen in the upcoming National Geographic, Oct. 2011: A Portfolio by Peter Essick pays tribute to Ansel Adams.

Other SlowExposures Photo Festival Events:

Satellite Exhibition: “Southern Memories Part Two,” is an exceptional show curated by private collector, John A. Bennette. “I wanted it to have the quality of a New York show, but not the attitude of a New York show,” Bennette explained about this second part of his trilogy shown at the historic 1870 Whiskey Bonding Barn. He said the show, a selection of portraits taken in the region by local and national artists, is autobiographical, “Portraits are revealing. The photograph of the little boy sticking his tongue out is actually me. I’m still a kid who hides behind being cool and classical – in reality I’m the devil.” (check out: hanging with mrbennette)

2011 SlowExposures Portfolio Review: Reviewers included Alex Novak, collector and photographer with 35 years of experience, Anna Walker-Skillman, an owner, director and curator of the Jackson Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, Kevin Miller, director of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida, Jerry Atnip, professional photographer and designer, and Brenda Massie, Director of Hagedorn Foundation Gallery in Atlanta.

Photographer Sylvia Plachy, gave a moving slide presentation, “Dancing With Ghosts,” and discussed her work and life starting in Hungary, in a Sunday afternoon salon. Ms. Plachy, often called “a photographer’s photographer,” has been photographing since 1965. From 1974-2004 she was a staff photographer and picture editor for the Village Voice. More recently she was a staff photographer and now a contributing photographer at the New Yorker Magazine, and has published six photography books. This evocative showing was followed by a book signing.

An informative Collector’s Seminar and Discussion by photography dealer, Alex Novak, of Vintage Works in Philadelphia. I gave a “Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop” to help photographers fearlessly create a first photo book. Both events took place in the historic Zebulon Train Depot. Another satellite photography exhibition, “David Simonton: Selections from “The Ellis Island Portfolio,” was held at A Novel Experience in Zebulon, Georgia. Everyone celebrated the complexity, beauty and contradictions of the rural South.

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ROB HANN: The Child Is Gone

Photograph (c) Rob Hann /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Rob Hann /All Rights Reserved

Artwork by Seta Morton

Photograph (c) Rob Hann /All Rights Reserved

Over the past 4 years I've made numerous visits to my girlfriend Nora's (artist Nora Chavooshian) home in the affluent and liberal town of Montclair, New Jersey, about 30 minutes from New York City. I thought about shooting a photographic portrait project with Nora's daughter, Seta, as she passed from childhood to adulthood. I wanted it to be a collaboration and suggested Seta contribute her poetry and artwork to the project.

I spent a year photographing 16 year old Seta and her friends. The result is an extended portrait of Seta, part portrait, part self-portrait. The title of the book, "The Child Gone", is taken from one of Seta's poems. –Rob Hann

view: the child gone