WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY?

 © Claire A. Warden, Ed Friedman Award

 The 23rd Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition

© Suzanne Revy, Director's Award

The 23rd Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition

The 23rd Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition - Ed Friedman Legacy, curated by Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director and Curator at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, is in the Main Gallery of the Griffin Museum through September 1, 2017. View all the artist's work: griffinmuseum.org

Jimmy Mack, On Float, Southampton, NY

© Gary Beeber, 2016

Steve D., God Bless America

© Gary Beeber, 2016

Gary Beeber’s series, “Personalities,” is featured in the Griffin Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photography through September 1, 2017. Beeber began making documentary films of burlesque shows and accompanying side performances. His focus was on people who led unconventional lives.

© Rocio de Alba / Honor Thy Mother

Rocio de Alba’s ongoing series, “Honor Thy Mother,” is featured in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photography from June 6st through September 3rd, 2017. de Alba poses in a series of humorous and processed self-portraits, which shows us different contemporary mothers in current modern families. Read more: griffinmuseum.org/show/honor-thy-mother/

© Janet Holmes, Clarice

Griffin Museum Instagram Exhibition

The 23rd Juried Exhibition: Ed Friedman Legacy Show assembled 84 images as part of the virtual Instagram Exhibition juried by Hamidah Glasgow. More: Griffinmuseum.org/

Donate and Support the Griffin

The Griffin Museum of Photography, a non-profit organization dedicated solely to the art of photography, is celebrating their 25th Anniversary this year! As a public charity The Griffin Museum is dedicated solely to the language of photography. Through the many exhibitions, programs and lectures that they  produce, they strive to encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of the visual, emotional and social impact of the photograph. Through its network of eight galleries and 40-60 exhibitions, the Griffin Museum is at the cusp of cultural and artistic innovation in photography-all tirelessly overseen by the Griffin's brilliant Director, Paula Tognarelli. Ms. Tognarelli not only plans and over see's all 8 galleries exhibitions rotating at all times, but juries exhibitions and reviews portfolio's around the world, as well as mentoring grammar school children and all of the photography community at large all times! Whew! I'm exhausted imaging what a day in the life of Paula Tognarelli is all about.

PLEASE  DONATE  HERE

In October, The Griffin Museum of Photography with collaborators SoWa Boston, Boston University, Lesley University, Art New England and Gallery Kayafas, brings FlashPoint Boston, a photography festival, to Boston. Donate here

Also in October, there will be "The Fence", lectures, workshops, panel discussions, portfolio reviews 

and the Griffin's Focus Awards.

 

The Griffin Focus Awards will be presented to:

Elizabeth Avedon (Lifetime Achievement!)

Paul Messier (Beacon)

American Photography Archives Group (Spotlight) 

and Beuford Smith (A Culture of Legacy)

THE CENTER FOR FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY: "Illuminate" With Juror Elizabeth Avedon

021-New York

1st Place Winning Image by Sheri Lynn Behr

 from her surveillance series, Watching You

Mirror

Honorable Mention by Guanyu Xu

from his series, One Land To Another

and Directors Honorable Mention  

 

In The Cold Light of Night

Honorable Mention by Ellen Jantzen   

from her series, Unity of Time and Place

Cicada II

Honorable Mention by Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer

and Director's Selection

Alex's Chest

Honorable Mention by Rebecca Moseman

from her series, The Summer of Flying Lanterns

Woman and Ball

Director's Honorable Mention by Susan Guice

Slide and Clouds 

Director's Honorable Mention by Brenda Biondo

Illuminate, to supply or brighten with light; to make lucid; throw light on a subject; to decorate with lights; to enlighten; to make resplendent or illustrious; to decorate a manuscript with gold or silver.

The act of illumination, since it’s introduction in the 15th century, has influenced our way of seeing and subsequently the world throughout the ages; and so, keeping the definition of ILLUMINATE posted on my computer screen, I set out on an adventure to journey through the fine work submitted along this theme to The Center for Fine Art Photography back in August. There were many images documenting the real world, others imagining a world far away from this one, inspiring us to imagine places we have never been, or situations we’ve never experienced before this visual moment.

A photograph primarily conveys a static image, although by playing with contrast and depth of field, we may focus more precisely on a certain object. To bring voice to an image is not a precise physical quantity which can be measured - rather it is the sum of many often complex operations that arrive as an expression of a photograph – this is how I juried ILLUMINATE. In this international call for entries, there was no precise quality I was looking for. I was not looking for truth, but something more elusive, ethereal, untouchable. I was looking for personal themes, universal themes, complex or dramatic scenes. I wanted to experience quiet moments just to reflect on the beauty of the subject matter, the technique or simply the tonalities of light and shadow. 

Sheri Lynn Behr received First Place for her photograph “021-New York,” from her series, “Watching You” about her interest in surveillance and privacy. Behr writes, “With a concern about government intrusion into our personal lives, I continue to find ways to photograph aspects of the gray area that is surveillance in our modern age. I came to realize while I was making photographs, I was being photographed as well.”

Honorable Mentions were awarded to photographers Guanyu Xu, Rebecca Moseman, Ellen Jantzen and Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer. 

I chose Guanyu Xu for his photograph “Mirror,” part of his series, “One Land To Another.” He was also chosen as Directors Honorable Mention by C4FAP’s executive director, Hamidah Glasgow. “Born and raised in a conservative family in Beijing, I use self-portraiture of my death to confront the struggle between being both a homosexual and a homophobic person.”  

Rebecca Moseman was selected for her photograph “Alex's Chest ” from her series, “The Summer of Flying Lanterns.” “My boys have always played an important role in my photography. Their innocence, innate boyhood, relationship to nature, slow process of maturing have always fascinated me.”   

Ellen Jantzen was chosen for her photograph “In The Cold Light of Night,” part of her 2015 series, “Unity of Time and Place.” Jantzen writes, “Some say, all time exists at once; the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future are regarded as a whole.”  

Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer was chosen for her evocative photograph “Cicada II,” also chosen as Director's Selection. “In making art, I seek to peer beyond the surface while embracing mystery – to open doors to forgotten memories; to glean that which is ethereal and distant yet magnetic and strangely familiar.”  

Director Hamidah Glasgow’s Honorable Mentions also include Brenda Biondo’s “Slide and  Clouds" and Susan Guice’s “Woman and Ball.”

The Center for Fine Art Photography was founded by photographers in 2004. It is a nonprofit photography organization providing support to photographic artists through exhibition, solo exhibition, promotion, portfolio reviews, publication, education and connection to a large community of other artists, curators, gallery owners and photographic professionals. They are always free and open to the public.

EXHIBITION

“Illuminate” with Juror Elizabeth Avedon

December 4, 2015 - January 16, 2016

The Center For Fine Art Photography

400 North College Avenue 

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

LINKS

http://www.c4fap.org/exhibitions/illuminate-elizabeth-avedon

http://www.sherilynnbehr.com

http://www.ellenjantzen.com

http://nadezdanikolova.com/night

http://www.xuguanyu.com/onelandtoanother

https://www.lensculture.com/rebecca-moseman

 http://www.brendabiondo.com

http://www.susanguice.com

FILTER PHOTO FESTIVAL 2015: Portfolio Review Round-Up / Susan Keiser

Photograph © Susan Keiser        

from the series Flooded in the upcoming exhibition “Illuminate"

at The Center for Fine Art Photography

I’ve followed the very interesting work of Susan Keiser for several years. I had just chosen one of her images (above) for the upcoming exhibition “Illuminate” I juried for The Center For Fine Art Photography, opening December 4th in Fort Collins, CO. And so I was very pleased to meet Susan again and view her latest work at Filter Photo Festival’s recent Portfolio Review in Chicago. Check out her website link below and be sure to drop in for the exhibition in Colorado if you are nearby.

FLOODED

"An eerie calm descends when the rains cease, the hurricane blows over, an angry god is appeased. Fast-moving water can float things never meant to ride the waves, and strange, often strangely beautiful scenes appear before us. Odd craft drift by—dinette sets, quilted settees—and we wonder at the sight of someone too lost or too tired to swim. We usually envision rivers as flat blue ribbons, but they are deep and layered. As the waters recede we become aware of what sank beneath the surface, adding to the river of memories at the bottom. Floods can be an overflow of water or an outpouring of tears. These are images of the river’s fullness and the heart’s despair. We come from water. We are made of water. And in the end, water not earth will take us." – Susan Keiser

SUSAN KEISER WEBSITE

 Photograph © Susan Keiser    

 Photograph © Susan Keiser    

UPCOMING EXHIBITION
“Illuminate” with Juror Elizabeth Avedon
 December 4, 2015 - January 16, 2016
The Center For Fine Art Photography
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

FILTER PHOTO FESTIVAL 2015: Portfolio Review Round-Up / Xu Guanyu

Mirror, from his series, One Land To Another

Photograph © Xu Guanyu

I met Xu Guanyu while I was a Portfolio Reviewer for the 7th Annual Filter Photo Festival in Chicago. However, I had chosen his image, Mirror from his series, One Land To Another, as an Honorable Mention in the upcoming "Illuminate" show I juried for The Center For Fine Art Photography opening December 4th in Fort Collins, CO. “Mirror" was also chosen as Directors Honorable Mention by C4FAP’s executive director, Hamidah Glasgow.

XU GUANYU

"My works are the investigation of my experience of being an Asian gay man in the United States. I use self-portraits, staged photos, and landscapes to explore my struggle of being both a homosexual and a homophobic person. Through my art practice, I question the norm set by the hegemony, including race, sexuality and ideology."

"Born and raised in a conservative family in Beijing, I feared to admit that I’m gay until I came to the United States in 2014. Fortunately, I had chance to experience the global vision through access to the Internet. On the one hand, I learned knowledge of sexual preference. On the other hand, I received the representation of hetero-normative from Hollywood movies. Furthermore, through the Internet, I witnessed the debates between Chinese political and cultural ideology and Western ideology led by the United States. Among these conversations, I found out that I have always been trying to seek and identify a better world, not only as a gay man, but also as a human being."

"The self-portraits of my death not only expresses the inequality of gay men in this world, but also reveals my self-denying and self-hating under the problematic society, which includes both China and U.S. My photographs of people that I find through the online dating apps expose my current situation with other gay men in the States. I examine the racism and discrimination in the white-dominated gay world, the worship of masculinity and the pervasive misogyny in the world. Furthermore, my landscapes of China and America juxtapose hope and apathy as I document  paths to finding a utopian space further complicated by my changing of geographical location as well as psychological movement. The mobility of my practice enables me to interrogate the world."

www.xuguanyu.com

  
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
“Illuminate” with Juror Elizabeth Avedon
December 4, 2015 - January 16, 2016
The Center For Fine Art Photography
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

While at Filter Photo Festival, I reviewed over 60 photographers portfolio’s and/or book projects. I'll try to post as many as possible over the next month or so. 

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Center for Fine Art Photography | ILLUMINATE

 Photograph (c) Sean Perry | from his series fotopolis

  http://seanperry.com

 Photograph (c) Sean Perry | from his series fotopolis

THE CENTER FOR FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
International Call for Entries | Illuminate with Juror Elizabeth Avedon

THEME | Illuminate: All types of subject matter, capture types and photographic processes are eligible to submit. Eligibility: Our calls for entry are open to all photographers world wide, both amateur and professional. The Center invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate. Don't wait until the last minute. Enter Now!

More Entry Details here

Entries Due | August 26, 2015

Notice Of Acceptance | September 12, 2015
Exhibition Dates | December 4, 2015 – January 23, 2016
Public + Artists’ Reception | December 4, 2015 6-9 pm

Threshold from his series Night Vision

Photograph (c) Ray Grasse

raygrassephotography.com

 ABOUT THE CENTER FOR FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

Founded in 2004 by photographers, The Center for Fine Art Photography is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) photography organization. We provide support to photographic artists through exhibition, solo exhibition, promotion, portfolio reviews, publication, education and connection to a large community of other artists, curators, gallery owners and photographic professionals. Open Tues-Sat, Always Free, public welcome.

Questions?
Visit: http://www.c4fap.org
Email: coordinator@c4fap.org 970.224.1010

THE CENTER FOR FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY | INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES THEME: Illuminate

Zhongshan Park, Beijing, China 2008 © William C. Avedon

THEME | Illuminate

THE CENTER FOR FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

International Call for Entries | Illuminate with Juror Elizabeth Avedon

THEME | Illuminate: All types of subject matter, capture types and photographic processes are eligible to submit. Eligibility: Our calls for entry are open to all photographers world wide, both amateur and professional. The Center invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate.

HONORS | AWARDS: All selected artists are invited to join us at the reception with Elizabeth Avedon. An international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and other advocates of fine art photography will view the chosen artist’s work throughout the exhibition. Each participant is included in the Center’s Main Gallery exhibition in Fort Collins, Colorado and Online Gallery exhibition. Juror’s Selection: $500.00. Director’s Selection: $250.00. Two LiveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks. Honorable Mention Awards: 2-year membership and image submission to a Call for Entry at C4FAP.

In addition artists’ selected for the exhibition will also receive: Promotion on The Center’s large social media platforms. Professional installation images for your use. All exhibiting artists’ are invited to complimentary portfolio reviews with the Director, Hamidah Glasgow, lunch and portfolio sharing on the reception weekend. In-gallery and online exhibition with links to artists’ websites Press releases are sent to artists’ choice of media outlets.

More Entry Details here

 
Entries Due | August 26, 2015

Notice Of Acceptance | September 12, 2015
Exhibition Dates | December 4, 2015 – January 23, 2016
Public + Artists’ Reception | December 4, 2015 6-9 pm

Questions?
Visit: http://www.c4fap.org

Email: coordinator@c4fap.org 970.224.1010

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

Founded in 2004 by photographers, The Center for Fine Art Photography is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) photography organization. We provide support to photographic artists through exhibition, solo exhibition, promotion, portfolio reviews, publication, education and connection to a large community of other artists, curators, gallery owners and photographic professionals. Open Tues-Sat, Always Free, public welcome.

ASHOK SINHA: American Bagpipers

American Bagpipe series 

 Photograph © Ashok Sinha

American Bagpipe series 

 Photograph © Ashok Sinha

The series American Bagpipers depicts portraits of an Indian-American bagpipe band based in a Hindu temple in New Jersey.  The inspiration of Scottish bagpipes as the primary devotional music in the temple goes back to 1970 when the then leader of the faith,  Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa was visiting his followers in London.  While he himself was a firm believer in music as a form of devotion, it was not until he heard a local Scottish bagpipe band leading the procession of followers to a concert at Trafalgar Square that inspired Swamibapa to instruct his devotees to bring bagpipes at temple ceremonies.  Since then, similar pipe bands have been established in Nairobi, Kenya, Bolton (UK) and Secaucus, New Jersey (the one pictured here).  As one band member said, "Its a brotherhood and the band is a great way to get the younger generation involved in the temple."

  

ASHOK SINHA

 Shot in Northern Sri Lanka for The Cartwheel Initiative, 2011

Photograph © Ashok Sinha

PORTRAITS EXHIBITION

Feb. 15 - March 23

The Center for Fine Art Photography

Fort Collins, Co