URBAN DANCE: Visual Rhythm of Cities

New Jersey from the series ’New York to Los Angeles’

Photograph © Ashok Sinha

Pride: Gold Masks

Photograph © Margaret McCarthy

No Matter Where | Glasgow-1

Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr

Pretty Girls, Bronx, 2018

Photograph © Paul Kessel

URBAN DANCE: Visual Rhythm of Cities

Co-curated by John A. Bennette with Orestes Gonzalez

Juried by Alexa Dilworth, Aline Smithson, Jonathan Blaustein

 

Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY

 Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 2:00-5:0pm

Thursdays 6:00-10:00pm

Now through July 21, 2019

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THEO CAROL : The Interview

Photograph © Theo Carol

Photograph © Theo Carol

Photograph © Theo Carol

Photograph © Theo Carol

David J. Carol © Theo Carol

Although photographer Theo Carol is only a Junior at Syosset High School in New York, he is already burning up the Gallery scene with his images. He may have been slightly influenced early on by his father, well-known photographer David J. Carol, but his work has taken off on it's own. I spoke with Theo about his photography and two upcoming shows:

EA: You’ve just come off of several group shows; one at the prestigious Los Angeles Center of Photography; another at The PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont; a third at The Stitches and Pics Gallery in Sackets Harbor, New York; a fourth, Shades of Black and White, juried by Susan Burnstein at The SE Center for Photography; and finally The Tree Talk Exhibition online at The Griffin Museum through May 5, 2018.

What’s next for you?

TC: Well my work is up right now at Drexel University's High School Exhibition 2017. I also have two photos in an exhibition at Southeast Center for Photography which is running until February 24th. 

It sounds crazy, but I also have two other shows coming up in the next month or so. The ONE 2017 exhibition at the Jadite Gallery, NYC, April 3-14 2018, juried by Lenscratch Publisher Aline Smithson; and the Lens 2018 show at the Perspective Gallery in Evanston, Illinois, March 1- April 1, 2018, juried by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography.

EA: What was your experience like on seeing your work hanging in the galleries for the first time?

TC: All the shows have been pretty far from home. The only one Ive seen in person was at Drexel University. It was interesting to see my work on a wall in a group show as opposed to on my computer screen at home. Seeing my photograph in public was odd but also exciting.

EA: When did you develop an interest in Photography?

TC: I first began taking pictures at The Usdan Center for Visual and Performing Arts when was I was 9 years old. I did this for few summers until I started playing trumpet. I continued at Usdan but stopped taking pictures and focused solely on my music.

EA: What was your first camera?

TC: My Dad gave me a used Canon 30D when I was 9 years old.

EA: What camera are you currently using?

TC: I got a Fuji X100T for my 16th birthday last April. I started taking pictures again last summer for the first time in quite a few years. My father had an exhibition at the Leica Gallery in Soho, New York, where I got to meet the people from Leica Akademie. I told them about my interest in photography and sent them a link to an article written about me and my photographs in PDN EDU.  To my great surprise towards the end of 2017 they offered to lend me a Leica Q!! Very exciting. Its obviously a great camera. It has made it easier for me to shoot at night because of the amazing quality at higher ISOs. I also think the 28mm lens works better for me than the 35 lens on the Fuji X100T.

EA: How is that working for you compared to your earlier camera/s?

TC: The Leica's auto focus is faster. I like the feel of it, very solid. Everything on the camera seems to be in the right place. It also seems to work better at night. I like to shoot in low light and the results with the Leica Q are better than the other cameras Ive tried.

EA: What are you looking for when you photograph?

TC: I'm looking for unique people and peculiar subjects in general. I like to shoot through openings, windows, doorways, etc.  I love to include reflections and interesting light. I want to show things that people wouldn't see if I didn't take a picture.

Instagram @TheoCarolPhotography

LENSCRATCH: The Elizabeth Avedon Mixtape

Greeting Lucille Ball, Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas

LENSCRATCH is revisiting some of our favorite posts, Mixtapes, and Interviews this week! Today we feature Elizabeth Avedon’s Mixtape and learn more about her remarkable life and celebrate her contributions to our community. Elizabeth carries a lifetime of creative seeing, that combined with her exposure to the greats of design and photography, add up to a remarkable ability to make her mark on all aspects of design that surround the photograph. Her down-to-earth generosity and unflagging enthusiasm for all things photographic make her a very special member of our community. It is with great pleasure that I introduce THE ELIZABETH AVEDON MIXTAPE!

LENSCRATCH is a daily journal that explores contemporary photography and offers opportunities for exposure and community. Created in 2007, Aline Smithson set a goal of writing about a different photographer each day, presenting work in a way that allows for a deeper understanding of a photographer’s intent and vision. Thanks to LENSCRATCH for this Mixtape Rerun!

THE ELIZABETH AVEDON MIXTAPE

SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES: Start Collecting Photographs at Brickworks Gallery, Atlanta

 Russell Hart

"Alligator, Lake Martin"

db Waltrip "Andalusia, Alabama"

Jenna Miller "Backyard by Legion"

 Jo Lynn Still  "Buck - Wanderer"

 Michael Kircher "C+O Canal NHP"

  Lucinda W. Bunnen "Cotton Ball Sky"

Aline Smithson "Cotton Sunset, 2016"

  Tamrin Ingram "Feast"

Amanda Greene  "Crossing"

"SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES" opened at Brickworks Gallery, Atlanta, Saturday, March 11th, 2017. The exhibition was juried by me, Elizabeth Avedon, for South x Southeast Photomagazine Exhibitions. Having grown up in Texas, I'm all about "the South"; huge old moss covered oak tree's, swampy bayou's with coral snakes and water moccasins, guinea hens and alligators.... With this call to enter, I chose just a little bit of everything that felt like a Southern Landscape to me out of the over 700 images entered. Laura Adams and crew from Brickworks Gallery beautifully hung the final 60+ images Gallery-style.

Check out these exceptional images and consider which ones to add to or start your first photography collection. All the pieces are for sale starting as low as $200 up to $2,000.

SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES
Juried by Elizabeth Avedon
SxSE PhotoMagazine Exhibitions

Brickworks Gallery
686 Greenwood Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30306

Email: laurawadams@comcast.ne
Phone: 912-596-3147

Michele Zousmer "Delta Dog" 

 Anne Berry "Donkeys at the Welcome Tree"

 Ashley Gates "Highway 49, Mississippi"

   Mark Caceres  "Ladybugs in March"

  Xilola Gaipova "Lady Bird Lake"

 Judy Lampert

"Kudzu Winter Vines with No Leaves" 2007

  Joanna Knox Yoder "Jesus Saves, Nicholson GA"

Ellen Jantzen "In The Cold Light of Night"

 Bill Yates

"Hawthorne House, Pine Apple, Alabama, 2015"

 Lynne Buchanan

"Serge Kayaking Through the Salvinia"

Jessica Hines "Southern Stories #41, 2016"

 Rebecca Moseman "Watermelon Summer"

Karen Klinedinst "Pastoral, Pharsalia"

Jared Ragland  "Michael in the Pool"

Wendi Schneider "Locust"

 EE McCullum "Blue Ridge Storm"

 

Marilyn Suriani "Drewry Street Warehouse, Nocturnal Series"

 Robert Schaefer "Evergreen Plantation"

Allison Stewart "Fredericksburg #24, 2012"

  Karen Nutini "Happy Foxhounds" 

Lisa McCord

“A Humid Day” Rotan Switch, Arkansas

  

Brad Bunyea 

Cordova at Night, Hurricane Sands 5

Donna Rosser "Peachtree City"

 Nicholas Fedak II "Madison Gothic"

   
George E. Gibson "Meeting Adjourned"

Benjamin Dimmitt

"Oaks + Palms, Disney Wilderness Preserve, FL"

Ben Arnon "Old Car City II"

Henry M Jacobs "St. Marks River" 

Kevin Mellis "Ossabaw Island"

Ashli Brooke Wallace "Oxly Bridge"

Vicki Reed "Ranch Dog"

Lucie Langford Canfield
"Refuge/Okefenokee"

 

Frank Fuerst "Resaca"

Dan Kaufman  "Sibley Mill circa 1880" 

 Henry Jacobs "St. Marks River"

Jeffrey Stoner "Standing The Test of Time"

Who's In the Show! Aline Smithson, Ellen Jantzen, Jo Lynn Still, Michael Kircher, Lynne Buchanan, Bill Yates, Wendi Schneider, Karen Klinedinst, Brad Bunyea, Jenna Miller, Db Dennis Waltrip, Kevin J Mellis, Joanna Knox Yoder, Jessica Hines, Donna King Rosser, Anne Jarrell Berry, Rebecca Biddle Moseman, Lacey Terrell, Eric McCollum, Russell Hart, Margaret McCarthy, Ashli Brooke Wallace, Lucinda Bunnen, Robert Schaefer, Vicki Reed, Amanda Green, Judy Lampert, Karen Nutini, Nicholas Fedek, Jan Arrigo, Xilola Gaipova, Luther Smith, Dan Kaufman, Joey Potter, Tamrin Ingram, George Gibson, Preston Gannaway, Jeffrey Stoner, Charles Haynes, Lisa McCord,Malgorzata Florkowska, Henry Jacobs, Jared Ragland, Mark Caceres, Frank Fuerst, Michele Zousmer, Frank Fuerst, Maude Clay, Marilyn Suriani, Ben Arnon, Melissa Levesque, Benjamin Dimmit, Allison Stewart, Ashley Gates, Lucie Canfield....Congratulations to All! Thanks to Nancy McCrary at @SouthxSoutheast Photo Magazine and Laura Adams of Brickworks Gallery!

Check out these exceptional images and consider which ones to add to or start your first photography collection. All the pieces are for sale starting as low as $200 up to $2,000.

Email: laurawadams@comcast.ne

Phone: 912-596-3147

 

 Margaret McCarthy "The Energy of Cattle"

Joey Potter "The Esthetic of Lonliness"

 

Luther Smith

"Tree Farm South of Folkston, Georgia"

 Melissa Levesque "Untitled"

 Lacey Terrell "Untitled, Louisiana 2013"

Malgorzata Florkowska "Wisteria"

Jan Arrigo "Cannon, Ship Island"

Maude Schuyler Clay

"Cottonfield Dog, Mississippi Delta"

Charles Allen Haynes “Cruciform Pole”

SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES

Juried by Elizabeth Avedon

SxSE PhotoMagazine Exhibitions

Brickworks Gallery

686 Greenwood Ave NE

Atlanta, GA 30306

Email: laurawadams@comcast.ne

Phone: 912-596-3147