LYNN GOLDSMITH: Rock & Roll New Orleans April 21 - July 5

The Beatles
Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith

Bob Dylan
Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith

Lynn Goldsmith surrounded by her Rock Mosaics
Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith

Mick Jagger Rock Mosaic
Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith

Mick Jagger Rock Mosaic close-up (click image to enlarge)
Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith

John Lennon Fans NYC
Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith

Bruce Springsteen
Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith

Music makes me feel like I've connected to people. —Lynn Goldsmith

Legendary rock photographer Lynn Goldmith’s exhibition, Rock and Roll: Lynn Goldsmith, is coming to New Orlean's April 21 through July 5, 2010 at A Gallery For Fine Photography on Chartres Street. This show will include her 'Rock Mosaics', made up of thousands of her photographs using the Chuck Close grid system. Goldsmith's exhibition is accompanied by her book, Rock and Roll, a collection of her best work with an introduction by The Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop. The book also includes quotes by many of the artists and three gate-folds of her 'Rock Mosaics' of the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and Kiss. PDN Master Series Goldsmith Gallery

Rock And Roll: Lynn Goldsmith
A Gallery For Fine Photography • April 21 - July 5, 2010
241 Chartres Street - New Orleans

ALINE SMITHSON: Photographing Family

Copyright (c) Aline Smithson

Copyright (c) Aline Smithson

To create the series Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer's Mother, Aline Smithson took photographs of her 85-year-old mother combining traditional photography techniques with hand painted color. The inspiration for the series began when she found a small print of Whistler's painting Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, at a neighborhood garage sale. The same weekend she found a leopard coat and hat, a 1950s cat painting, and what looked like the exact chair from the Whistler painting. "That started me thinking about the idea of portraiture, the strong compositional relationships going on within Whistler's painting, and the evocative nature of unassuming details," says Smithson. 

ALINE SMITHSON

The Griffin Museum of Photography  
April 7 - May 16, 2010

Arrangement In Green And Black
 PORTRAIT OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S MOTHER
The Atelier Gallery, 395 Main Street, Stoneham, MA

MIKAEL KENNEDY: 500 Polaroids

Austin, Randolph, VT 2006
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Oregon Coast 2007
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Kennedy Blog: Passport To Trespass

Shoot The Moon 500 Polaroids by Mikael Kennedy
April 14 - May 2, 2010 • Suite 524 of The Chelsea Hotel
video

MONA KUHN: Gallery Talk

Mona Kuhn's Gallery Talk about her work "Native"
Photograph: Elizabeth Avedon

Gallery Talk

Matthew Flowers (l) and Gallery Director, Brent Beamon (r)

Mona Kuhn Gallery Talk
April 10, 2010
Flowers Gallery 
529 West 20th Street NYC

Native , Published by Steidl

MONA KUHN

MONA KUHN: Native Exhibition + Interview

Marina
Photograph (c) Mona Kuhn

 Kuhn's work at AIPAD 2010

Virgin Forest
Photograph (c) Mona Kuhn

Emerging Boy
Photograph (c) Mona Kuhn

Jungle Roots
Photograph (c) Mona Kuhn

Doppelgänger
Photograph (c) Mona Kuhn

Silent Waters
Photograph (c) Mona Kuhn

MONA KUHN NATIVE
APRIL 9 - MAY 15 • FLOWERS GALLERY NYC
ARTIST TALK APRIL 10 3 PM

One of my favorite contemporary photographers, acclaimed artist Mona Kuhn, has an exhibition of her latest series of photographs in conjunction with her new book, Native (Steidl) opening this week at the Flowers Gallery in New York City. Kuhn will also conduct a Gallery Talk April 10th.

"Mona Kuhn, best known for her alluring figurative studies in a French naturist colony, returned to her birthplace of Brazil after a 20 year absence to produce this new body of work. While this personal journey home was an attempt to reconnect with her past, Kuhn soon found that only traces of it actually remained. Through the discovery of new people and places, Kuhn was able to create her abstracted dreams and desires of both the past and the present. The result is a sensual and pensive narrative depicting lush jungle landscapes, rustic interiors, and captivating nudes.

In these photographs, Kuhn encapsulates the emotions of living in Brazil through the personal memory of the green, yellow and pink palette of the landscape as well as her intimate connection with its people. By contrasting the vitality of the dense Brazilian countryside with the sparse interior of an abandoned apartment, Kuhn establishes her own fantasy of time and place. As in all of her portraits, Kuhn develops a trusting relationship with her subjects, allowing her to portray the complexities of human nature both tempting and provoking the viewer’s imagination. The intertwining of these aspects forms what one could consider Kuhn’s most mature work to date."–Flowers Gallery

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INTERVIEW
HEATHER SNIDER + MONA KUHN

Curator Heather Snider graciously allowed me to reprint her interview with Mona Kuhn about this new body of work and Kuhn's experience of returning home to Brazil after 20 years.
HS: It has been a long time since you lived in Brazil; you’ve spent your adult life elsewhere. Though you undoubtedly expected things would be unfamiliar, what things surprised you the most as you dug under the surface and tried to operate in this new yet familiar situation?

MK: I wasn’t so surprised because it was very familiar. It was more like the re-occurrence of something you once knew but had forgotten. I was surprised by how connected I still am, emotionally, to everything there: the smells, the taste, and the feel of my own body in such a familiar environment.

HS: What were the biggest challenges you faced?

MK: My biggest challenge was finding the people that I wanted to photograph. I’ve been working in a naturalist community because I want to do nudes and I want it to be an authentic experience, where people are already in the nude. But Brazil is, despite the images of bikini beaches and Carnival, a Catholic, Latin American country, and not as open as you might think. Interacting with the people there, and old friends, took time. Trust had to be established. But once it all started rolling then it grew by word of mouth which is in the end most fulfilling. Through good fortune I was able to find a place where I could bring all the people to photograph, a place that had been empty for 20 years and coincidentally had the palette that I wanted to use. A friend of mine told me about an apartment, and offered to show it to me. When we opened the door I knew immediately that it was the place. In France I have my own closed environment to work in but in Brazil I didn’t have that place. I didn’t want to use my own personal house because it wasn’t about exploring my own attic. I wanted it to be more abstract than that, to be a fantasy and not autobiographical. I didn’t want the sepia reproduction photographs of my grandparents.

HS: The whole process of working in Brazil was quite different from how you have been working for the past few years, yet you achieved a remarkable consistency in your imagery. How much did you have to consciously work on this? What were the parameters you set to make sure you stayed within the rather specific visual language you have delineated in your work up to this point?

MK: I like researching. When I realized I wanted to do something in Brazil, something that would interpret my own feelings about Brazil now, as an adult, I looked at things that had been done. I knew what I did not want to do: Carnival, the beaches, the poor people in the streets, and the images of happiness and Bossanova. I started narrowing my thoughts, becoming more and more personal, and realized my interest was in the internal, the emotions of living there. l wanted to use colors that I always felt were part of my life there, the greens the yellows and the pinks. The way I worked with the people was similar to how I usually work, it was just a bit more moody perhaps. But with photography, inside your parameters, you have to leave it loose and open, to allow for the spontaneous and let life be what it is, so that was an important part of it too.

HS: Would you say you were searching for something in particular, or wondering what you would find? If so, what was “it?”

MK: There is a quote of Eugene Smith’s that has always been important to me: “You must be lost before you can find yourself again”....that thought was often in my mind. When you go back to your childhood place, certain things seem so mundane, but you have to remind yourself (that they might be wonderful to someone else) and try to see things with new eyes. I was working intuitively, not knowing what was going to come out, letting myself react, putting myself into situations. I didn’t really know what I was looking for, which was good, because my antennae were open to everything. When I found the apartment it started coming into focus. The first trip I made was very broad and open, but it was like being a cat: you throw it and it has to land on its own feet.

HS: Would you say that this series is more about yourself than earlier work?

MK: It is about myself because it is my homeland, but I’d say that my other work is equally about myself in other ways. I also still go to France to work and that work is a big part of who I am and have been for the past 15 years. Native is about my first 20 years.

HS: Was this work done mostly in São Paolo? Can we talk about choosing to portray only interiors and nature in the midst of one of the biggest urban environments in the world?

MK: I worked mostly in the state of São Paolo, though some of the forest regions were further out, in different areas. But many of these portraits were taken in the city, in the very heart of the city. I didn’t really want to capture reality. I wasn’t interested in portraying where it was, more in entering the thoughts. In the editing, the way the apartment photographs and jungle photographs work together, my intention was to be inconclusive. It’s not meant to be about São Paolo. It is about a mood, about Brazil, about a bird returning to a nest in the forest. Just like my work in France is not about the Medoc region. It is about a fantasy place.

HS: Jungles are such potent metaphors: thick, dense with life in a dangerous sort of way, a fecund, untamed environment. As a child growing up in Brazil, what was the jungle of your imagination, or real life experience? What is your adult perspective on the jungle, and on the Brazilian jungle in particular?

MK: When you enter a forest, deep into a forest, and walk under very tall trees, you realize how overpowering nature is. It has a spirituality that draws you into it. It is also a place where you can escape and create your own reality. For an adult, it has the power of bringing your instincts out. You have to be aware of what’s happening around you, your instincts are turned on, and human nature comes out. This is a different set of instincts than those of day-to-day street life. It is humid, you can smell your sweat, and feel the moisture in the air, your senses become more acute. The Brazilian forest is also very sultry, and makes your sexual senses more acute. There is also a feeling of adventure, and fear, balanced by a sensual element.

HS: Were there any artists you had in mind when you set about photographing, artists that you had in mind either for the idea of returning home or who portrayed similar environments?

MK: I was definitely looking at Rousseau, whose forests look like paradise, idyllic with beautiful fruits and so full of detail. But one thing I did not want to do was to pose people in the forest setting. I wanted the forest to be separate, a psychological atmosphere more than a real place. In the instances where I did photograph people there, it was because I happened to find them there or I was walking in the forest with a friend and we just decided to try it. I also looked at Gauguin, particularly a painting titled Where Do we Come From: What Are We? Where Are We Going? Gauguin was looking for clues, learning about life. He submerged himself in Tahiti and it became part of his life.

HS: There has always been a certain artifice to your photographs, of subjects being posed or placed, which is tempered by the very natural atmosphere of your work, the relaxed lack of self-consciousness. In most of these new images, your subjects weren’t found in the environment, they were introduced for the purpose of making photographs. How did this change your working process and the photographs that you ended up with?

MK: I wanted to create a narrative, and it was important to put parameters in place as we mentioned earlier. Unlike Avedon traveling across America, or Irving Penn’s use of a backdrop in many settings, I didn’t want to isolate my subjects from their environment, or to photograph them as the “other” or the exotic. I wanted to photograph contemporary people that are part of my generation in Brazil, the people I might have been if I were living in Brazil today. The apartment we worked in was in the very center of downtown São Paolo, one of the oldest areas of the city. At one time it was a prominent neighborhood but now it is a marginal area, decayed and empty at night, not really a residential area. It took some time to get there from other areas of São Paolo and more than once the people I was photographing mentioned that the long drive getting there helped them to detach a bit from their everyday. Visiting this place we wouldn’t normally go helped to enter a different state of mind, to abstract the moment.

HS: The interiors have a distinctive atmosphere, suggesting decay, abandonment, and to me are quite unfamiliar and mysterious. Are they, or are certain elements, particularly Brazilian? Do you think they would resonate differently to a viewer from Brazil than to someone who has never visited or lived there?

MK: I guess they are very Brazilian because there are hints about what the culture has gone through. The green walls reference the geography, the forest, and also the militarism in Brazil’s history. There is also the decayed matte gold curtain, a sign of the early Euro-baroque influence and a light fixture that is very 1950s, an era in which Brazil was letting go and having their own cultural enlightenment. This was when Brasilia was built, and Brazil developed a tropical Modernism. There was this girl named Veronica who is wearing a crucifix. When she came to the apartment she asked if she should take it off but I thought it was perfect, just a hint. All these things made sense to me, touching on the symbols of culture without entering it completely.

HS: I spoke with you the night before you left on one of your first trips for this project and you described to me a dream you’d had filled with anxiety, about the fears you had of the real dangers present in Brazil, and your concern that you might be putting yourself in harm’s way. How did this anxiety work its way out in the process?

MK: I was very afraid, because I had experienced dangerous situations when I lived there and there is always the threat of random criminality. It was an anxiety about destiny. I was wondering what it meant for me to be returning and if I was tempting fate. Part of my creative process, a big part of the project, was to throw myself into unknown situations. Especially working in downtown as I was, and even in the forests there is the possibility that people can be hiding there. I did everything alone. I didn’t have an assistant. I didn’t have security. I was putting myself into situations and had to be aware and alert, but the work is not about that. There certainly were risks, but I was not interested in documenting or portraying any of that in the photographs. This was just part of the territory I was working in. It did manifest itself twice while I was working there, but it wasn’t part of the work.

HS: Will you go back to photograph in Brazil? Do you feel that this project is complete?

MK: It feels complete now. If I went back, I would do something else. My curiosity about coming to terms with the past is resolved. I was searching for the past but it was an oxymoron because you can never find the past. You can’t go back. The people I met there represented the present.

HS: In one of the essays in your new book, Wayne Anderson mentions the quietude and silence of your photography. Do you agree with this observation? How did this change in regard to the above project, when you were literally working with sound?

MK: I do relate to the idea of slow motion, a pensive state, and the moments in between thoughts. Though my photographs show nudity, they are quiet as opposed to sexy. In making the video we weren’t really working with sound, it was placed afterwards. We knew we had a five-minute space we had to create and I knew the music and the lyrics, but it was a visual process.

HS: Are you already working on your next project, what ideas are next on the horizon?

MK: I have been working on a side project for the past couple of summers in the Bordeaux region of France, that one is a collection of portraits over a long period of time, all taken in the same room. It is quite traditional, and it may take as long as wine to reach maturity. Meanwhile, I’ve started researching my next active project. I’d like to do it about my present time and place, which is Los Angeles. I’m still defining it, but it will be about my present, where I am now.

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Mona Kuhn has exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe and South America. Steidl published her past two monographs Photographs (2004), Evidence (2007), as well as her most recent Native (2009).

FLOWERS GALLERY 529 WEST 20TH NYC
View Mona Kuhn's Gallery Talk Video's

HAPPY EASTER! Icon Writing and Other Stuff

Easter brings out the Icons

Clockwise, left: The very first icon I painted, Archangel Michael. All students at the Prosopon School of Iconology begin with this image; Richard Gere's photograph, South Pole, 2003; Jeffris Elliott's miniature print, Islamic Woman Ascending Stairs. Center: Sean Perry's Transitory exhibition announcement; Richard Gere's silver gelatin print, Dawn|Giza, 2005; my second icon painting, Archangel Gabriel. Booklet The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas/Eight Verses on Training The Mind. Center: Native American relic–a gift from In The American West travels; kata from the Dalai Lama. Photographs © copyrighted material/All Rights Reserved

Bodhi Leaf from Bodh Gaya, India

Top clockwise: Traditional Japanese Tanba woodfired ceramic vase by Tanba artist Kiyoharu Ichino (new Ichino Exhibition April 2-May 5, 2010, Touching Stone Gallery); photograph of dancing Tibetan kids by Robyn Brentano; Edward S. Curtis photograph, Tobadzischini-Navajo; Bodhi leaf from The Bodhi Tree (aka "Tree of Awakening," is a direct descendant of the tree under which Siddharta Gautama Buddha attained Enlightenment), Bodh Gaya, India; antique laurel wreath crown gift; photograph, Tonenili-Navajo, by Edward S. Curtis; Traditional Japanese woodfired ceramic box by Tanba artist Kiyoharu Ichino; my practice pottery; center, greenish rock from Tibet, pottery I made with New Mexican Native American artist. Bottom: my drawing of my son for a painting; got the hat in Mongolia. Photograph © copyright/All Rights Reserved

The DADA Painters and Poets, Edited by Robert Motherwell

The DADA book, given to me by friend and mentor Marvin Israel, sits on top of a stack of Diane Arbus: Aperture Monograph's (one of the best-selling art books in history), he and Doon Arbus edited and designed to accompany their posthumous Diane Arbus exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1972; right, FAIRGROUNDS: Photographs by Sean Perry, a signed limited edition catalog, created with Jace Graf of Cloverleaf Press.

Prosopon School of Iconography

Russian Iconographer Dmitri Andrejev

Andrejev demonstrating his masterful painting technique

These days everybody is a Master and nobody an apprentice,

that's why we don't understand our chaotic nature

For a time I studied Icon Writing with Russian-born Master Icon Painters, Vladislav Andrejev, founder of The Prosopon School of Iconography and his son, Dmitri Andrejev. I practiced for the artistic difficulty and disciple of it. Since it's Easter, I thought it appropriate to pay homage to their work.

"The ancient Russian-Byzantine tradition of icon-writing reached its apogee during the XV century. Today, the iconographer within Prosopon attempts to produce icons reflecting the same state of inner, contemplative depth evident in the greatest examples of that tradition, through refinement of artistic nuance and attention to the iconographic canon and principles. As is fitting to the icon’s sacred function, only natural materials are used: wood panels gessoed with natural ground, genuine gold leaf applied by the bole method, egg tempera using ground pigments, and linseed oil finish. The iconographic method of the School is characterized by a multi-step process in which the succession of steps is concrete and definite, as are the liturgical services of the Church. Although striving for a high artistic level, the focus of the icon-writer is nevertheless on a personal spiritual discipline and growth."–Prosopon School, Technique and Method

Master Iconographer Vladislav Andrejev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1938. After receiving formal education in fine art, Vladislav became interested in religious art, which was impossible to practice during the Soviet regime. The search for deeper meaning in art and life led him to solitary travels in parts of the Russian wilderness, and to the independent study of icon and fresco painting with a monk icon-writer. In 1980, Vladislav emigrated to the United States. He has 'written' numerous icons which can be seen in many churches and homes throughout the world. Vladislav’s iconographic technique and teaching method developed into a distinct school of painting. In 2000, he established The Prosopon School of Iconology, to promote this method and to promote the understanding of iconography and iconology.

Film: Vladislav and Dmitri Andrejev painted the dome of St. Michael's Church in St. Michael, Minnesota. Yevgeniy Vaskevich made a film about the project. To view the short Film, choose "Founder" here"

BEFORE: Scaffolding before Icons were drawn on the ceiling dome to scale. Copyright © Prosopon School of Iconology and Iconography /All Rights Reserved

DURING: Russian Master Iconographer Vladislav Andrejev painting. Copyright © Prosopon School of Iconology and Iconography /All Rights Reserved

AFTER: The almost completed Icon painted dome of St. Michael's Church in St. Michael, Minnesota. Copyright © Prosopon School of Iconology and Iconography /All Rights Reserved

2 DVD set
Instruction performed by Master Iconographer Vladislav Andrejev $98
Prosopon School of Iconography + Pandora Iconographer's Supplies

FUNDRAISING RAFFLE (UPDATE) : A Chance To Own A David Maisel Print For $20!

RAFFLE: The Lake Project 38

RAFFLE UPDATE 4.15.10:
Message from David Maisel "We have a Winner" !

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"Zachary Scholz, a Bay area artist, was randomly selected today as the recipient of my photograph from The Lake Project. But, of course, everyone who entered this raffle is considered a winner by me, for helping to raise several thousand dollars for Meg Patterson's health care in her treatment for cancer. Together we raised more than $2,000 for Meg from this raffle. And more than another $1,000 was deposited directly to her fund, which is still accepting contributions. Thank you to everyone who participated! Your words of encouragement and support have meant the world to Meg! THANK YOU"!

If you'd like to help with a DONATION to Meg directly, please visit this site: http://www.giveforward.org/megpatterson

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From an edition of ten 15" x 15" archival pigment prints, has been published in a Monograph by Nazraeli Press, and exhibited internationally. Photograph (c) David Maisel/All Rights Reserved

"I am raffling off an original, signed 15" x 15" photograph (above), The Lake Project 38, to raise funds for my friend Meg Patterson, who is struggling with cancer and lacks health insurance. If you would like a chance at owning one of my prints, please send a $20 check made out to the "Meg Patterson Cancer Treatment Fund" to: David Maisel Studio, 100 Ebbtide Avenue, suite 320, Sausalito, CA 94965. I will draw one of the checks randomly on April 15th. The winner will be announced on my Facebook Page. If you would like to increase your chances of owning this photograph, please send as many $20 checks as you please. (This is, after all, a fundraiser for someone who needs our help). And of course, in the spirit of offering your help to Meg, if you would like to make your check for an amount greater than $20, that would be deeply appreciated. Or Donate Directly without entering the Raffle. Please note that these are not tax deductible donations." –David Maisel

David Maisel: The Lake Project

Lake Project 20
Photograph (c) David Maisel /All Rights Reserved

Lake Project 18
Photograph (c) David Maisel /All Rights Reserved

"The ground is bleeding. A red river cuts a path through a bleached valley, winding toward a lake that is no longer there. Seen from the air, the river and its dry terminus appear otherworldly. In actuality, this terrain is located in Owens Valley, an arid stretch of land in southeastern California, between the Sierra Mountains and the White-Inyo Range."–Aperture, Volume 172 (read more)

The Lake Project has been published in a Monograph by Nazraeli Press, and exhibited internationally. Earlier post More Raffle Info

WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY: Panel Discussion 4.3.10

Photograph (c) Justine Reyes /All Rights Reserved

Tower, 2006
Photograph (c) Robin Schwartz /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Sasha Rudensky /All Rights Reserved

Women in Art Photography: Past, Perspective and Projections
April 3, 2010 2PM Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Street, NYC

Moderator: Marla Goldwasser, Director, Affirmation Arts. Panelists: Charlotte Cotton/Co-curator, 31 Women in Art Photography, Creative Director, National Media Museum; Jon Feinstein/Co-curator, 31 Women in Art Photography, Co-founder and Curatorial Director, Humble Arts Foundation; Vanessa Kramer/Director of Photographs, Phillips de Pury & Company; Justine Reyes/Exhibiting artist, 31 Women in Art Photography; Sasha Rudensky/Exhibiting artist, 31 Women in Art Photography

Presented by Humble Arts Foundation and Affirmation Arts, in conjunction with 31 Women in Art Photography / Gallery

NICHOLAS VREELAND: A Monk's PhotoJournal March 2010

The town of McLeod Ganj, above Dharamsala
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

Circumambulating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's palace...
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

View of the valley from lower Dharamsala
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

Mani Stones along the Road
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

The Ling Lineage: Khyongla Rato Rinpoche teaching Ling Rinpoche (left), Thamtog Rinpoche, Guru Rinpoche, Zopa Rinpoche, Dakpo Rinpoche, Pagri Rinpoche and others. Rinpoche was bestowing the oral transmission of a text written by the previous Ling Rinpoche's predecessor, which Khyongla Rinpoche had received from the previous Ling Rinpoche (b. 1903 d. 1983) and was teaching at the request of the present Ling Rinpoche (b. 1985). Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

A Monk's PhotoJournal: March 2010

Dharamsala, India: Tibetan Buddhist monk and photographer, Venerable Nicholas Vreeland, Director of The Tibet Center (the oldest Tibetan Buddhist Center in New York City founded by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche), sent photos from his recent stop-over in Dharamsala, the home of HH the Dalai Lama. After years of receiving NV's photo-email updates, I'm now posting his updates intermittently as "A Monk's PhotoJournal".

Vreeland's Fine Art Photography was recently exhibited throughout Europe and the U.S., including the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, with proceeds from their sales going towards the Rato Dratsang Foundation.

The Tibet Center and Richard Gere's Healing The Divide organization will co-host His Holiness The Dalai Lama's Teachings at Radio City Music Hall in NYC May 20-23, 2010. Purchase Tickets.

Nicholas Vreeland Bio

Vreeland PhotoJournal
Rato Dratsang Foundation
A Monk's PhotoJournal: Dec 2009
An Open Heart by The Dalai Lama, Edited by Nicholas Vreeland

JAMEY STILLINGS: Bridge At Hoover Dam Series CENTER Awards

project: the bridge at hoover dam
Photograph (c) Jamey Stillings /All Rights Reserved
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project: the bridge at hoover dam
Photograph (c) Jamey Stillings /All Rights Reserved

project: the bridge at hoover dam
Photograph (c) Jamey Stillings /All Rights Reserved

project: the bridge at hoover dam

Photograph (c) Jamey Stillings /All Rights Reserved

CENTER (formerly the Santa Fe Center for Photography) awarded Jamey Stillings The Bridge at Hoover Dam series First Prize in the 2010 Editor’s Choice Award. Kathy Ryan, Picture Editor, The New York Times Magazine and Scott Thode, Editor-in-Chief, VII were the jurors. CENTER also awarded The Bridge at Hoover Dam series Honorable Mention in the 2010 Curator's Choice Award. The juror was Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art. The Bridge At Hoover Dam Gallery

project: vanuatu
Photograph (c) Jamey Stillings /All Rights Reserved

When my wife, Esha Chiocchio, and I first shared our photography with each other (prior to any official courtship!), she looked at the unlabeled image and asked, "Is that Vanuatu?" Turns out she had been on the same river on the island of Santos in Vanuatu a number of years before me. The world is full of mystery and synchronicity! Jamey Stillings Vanuatu Gallery