NESTOR BALTODANO: Colectivo Nómada

Malecón, La Habana, Cuba, 2006
Photograph © Néstor Baltodano/ All rights reserved

Ortega de Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 2009
Photograph © Néstor Baltodano/ All rights reserved

Festejos Populares, Zapote, San José, Costa Rica, 2008
Photograph © Néstor Baltodano/ All rights reserved

Acuario Nacional, La Habana, Cuba, 2007
Photograph © Néstor Baltodano/ All rights reserved

Néstor Baltodano Documentary Portfolio

Colectivo Nómada is the first independent documentary photography collective in Central America, formed by a group of young photographers with many different interests and talents. Take a tour of their website, view their photographic work, send your comments and participate in their blog.

NADAV KANDER: Yangtze, The Long River

Qinghai Province II
Photograph © Nadav Kander/ All rights reserved

Pudong I, Shanghai
Photograph © Nadav Kander/ All rights reserved

Xiling Gorge III, Hubei Province
Photograph © Nadav Kander/ All rights reserved

NADAV KANDER
Yangtze – The Long River
Flowers Gallery, London
October 15 – November 13, 2010

ALINE SMITHSON: collect.give

Imagine
Photograph (c) Aline Smithson /All Rights Reserved

collect.give
a limited edition by photographer Aline Smithson

edition of 25 - print price of $40
100% of the proceeds go to the organization Change The Truth

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CHANGE THE TRUTH (CTT), founded by photographer, Gloria Baker Feinstein, supports St. Mary Kevin Orphange Motherhood in Uganda. CTT provides shelter, food, security, clothing, medicine, love, access to education and training in vocational skills to children from Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, Chad and Niger. For children abandoned, abused, mistreated or who have lost their families to war, CHANGE THE TRUTH provides hope and a future: www.changethetruth.org

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After a career as a fashion editor, Aline Smithson now works in Los Angeles. Her photography has been featured in numerous publications and she is represented by galleries in the U.S. and Europe. Though she was nominated for The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award in 2008 and 2009 and for The Santa Fe Prize in Photography in 2009 by Center, she considers her children her greatest achievement. Smithson's work is coming out in the October issues of Fraction, Visura, and Rangefinder. Read more about Aline here and view her blog Lenscratch.

CRITICAL EXPOSURE: Silent Auction Oct 21!

A Vision So Clear With A Sound So Faint
Photograph by Byron, 12th grade

"I put a photo of my brother on the keys of an open piano, and I took the picture. To me it represents what my brother stood for. My brother graduated, so it says “Graduation Picture 2006,” and it also captures the music side of him that is also in me. I feel like this piano in the background in the photo, along with the photograph, really represented my brother in a way that words can’t. I took this photo while I was at school in the auditorium. He graduated from Spingarn STAY, the same program I’m in. He graduated in 2006 before he got killed.

I’m going back to school because of my brother, actually. He got shot and before he got shot he graduated from high school. I made a promise to him that I was going to graduate from high school so I enrolled in the same program as him in 2006. But, later on that year, while I was in school, he got killed. So I dropped out of school, I lost my focus, I couldn’t really concentrate. And now, the 2008-2009 school year, I’m just getting back in here because I know he wanted me to finish school, and I made him a promise that I would finish school and walk across that same stage that he walked across. And I’m going to make sure that I fulfill my promise--my word is my bond." –Byron, 12th grade, Spingarn STAY Senior High School

Broken Window, Baltimore
Photograph by Ian, 10th grade, Teen Leader for Change

Martin Luther King Elementary School 2009
Photograph Jaime Windon

Critical Exposure: Higher Achievement Program

ABOUT: Critical Exposure teaches youth to use the power of photography and their own voices to become effective advocates for school reform and social change.

DONATE: Give Cameras to Kids; train them in documentary photography and writing; encourage them to capture images that illustrate the realities of their lives; and show them how to use photographs and writing to tell their stories and advocate for improvements in their schools and communities. You can be part of the picture. Donate.

SILENT AUCTION: Picture Equality: An Evening of Empowerment Through Photography The 3rd Annual Silent Auction will benefit low-income youth by providing cameras and training in photography so that students can become effective advocates for school reform and social change. Photographers Damon Winter, Ami Vitale, Joni Sternbach, Jason Florio, John F. Martin, Aline Smithson, Russ Martin, and Ed Kashi, as well as many more from National Geographic, Getty Images, and VII Photo Agency, have donated images for sale. (stay posted as the list of photographers keeps growing)

PICTURE EQUALITY 2010 Silent Auction + Fundraiser
October 21st, 2010, 6:30-8:30 PM
Atrium of the DLA Piper Bldg
500 8th St. NW, at Gallery Place, Washington, DC

( Auction Images post mid-Oct)

JESSICA HINES: The New Yorker Photo Booth

Untitled #15 as seen in The New Yorker's Photo Booth
Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

Southern Stories, Untitled #1
Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

Southern Stories, Untitled #20

Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

Read Elizabeth Biondi's New Yorker Photo Booth piece "PHOTOGRAPHY: THE RURAL SOUTH" on the juried Exhibition SLOW EXPOSURES that takes place annually in Concord, Georgia. Opening image is Jessica Hines's Untitled #15 .

ALAIN DELORME: Paris Exhibition

Totem #13
Photograph © Alain Delorme/ All rights reserved

Totem #1
Photograph © Alain Delorme/ All rights reserved

Totem #12
Photograph © Alain Delorme/ All rights reserved

Totem #7
Photograph © Alain Delorme/ All rights reserved

Manufactured Totems: Alain Delorme
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris to Sept 25, 2010

"The new Totems series by Alain Delorme plunges us into the core of contemporary China and its complexity. Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men carry throughout the city unbelievable piles. These precarious columns made of cardboard or chairs appear as new totems of a society in complete transformation, both a factory for the world and a new El Dorado of the market economy...read more here by Raphaele Bertho, photo historian)." We hope this exhibition comes to NYC!

Alain Delorme Website

LUCIA GANIEVA: Museum Hermitage, Amsterdam

Ermitazhniki, Attendants of the Hermitage, portraits taken at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia of the Museum Docent's with their favorite work of Art, on view at the Museum Hermitage, Amsterdam now thru March, 18th, 2011. Photograph © Lucia Ganieva/ All rights reserved

from the series "Iron Mules"
Photograph © Lucia Ganieva/ All rights reserved

from the series "The Sunset of Fame"
Photograph © Lucia Ganieva/ All rights reserved

Lucia Ganieva

Ermitazhniki/Attendants of the Hermitage
Museum Hermitage, Amsterdam
September 22 - March, 18th, 2011

TOD PAPAGEORGE: Opera Città in Rome

TOD PAPAGEORGE - OPERA CITTA' | PUNCTUM PRESS

Photographs Copyright (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

TOD PAPAGEORGE | OPERA CITTA'
MACRO The City of Rome Museum of Modern Art
September 23 to October 24, 2010

This past summer, Tod Papageorge, the Walker Evans Professor of Photography and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale School of Art, was invited to Rome to work for a month on the Rome Commission. (Josef Koudelka and Martin Parr, among others, were commissioned during its nine-year history). The end result is a solo exhibition of about 30 prints, made with a digital Leica M9, to open on 23rd of September in the City of Rome Museum of Modern Art. A small, beautifully produced accordion-style book, OPERA CITTA, was published by Marco Delogu of Punctum Press in Rome to accompany the exhibition.

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"Tod Papageorge (born 1940) is an American art photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s. Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the University of New Hampshire. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and two NEA Visual Artists Fellowships. His work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1979, Papageorge has directed the graduate photography department at the Yale University School of Art, where his students have included Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Lois Conner, Abelardo Morell, Andrew Bush, Susan Lipper, Gregory Crewdson, An-My Le, Anna Gaskell, and Katy Grannan. In the summer of 2007, Steidl published Passing Through Eden, a collection of images he took over 25 years in Central Park. In the fall of 2007, Aperture published American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam, a volume of photographs Papageorge took during his 1970 Guggenheim Fellowship." Papageorge also spent six weeks in Rome last summer as the American Academy in Rome Photographer in Residence.

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The Rome International Festival of Photography (FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma - IX Edizione.) The theme of the ninth FotoGrafia Festival is Futurspectives, “Can Photography Interpret The Future?” (Read more about the Festival here and here.) Visit the Testaccio branch of MACRO (the City of Rome Museum of Modern Art).

ANNE FRANK: The Leica Photographs of Otto Frank. Leica Gallery, New York

Anne and Margot Frank, The Netherlands. July 1938
Photograph (c)AFS/AFF, Amsterdam/Basel

Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

Anne Frank (2nd from left) with her friends on her 10th birthday.

The Leica Photographs of Otto Frank

"As an amateur photographer, Otto Frank focuses on a single theme: the life and times of his family, wife Edith and daughters Anne and Margot. Nothing we see in the snapshots of daily life captured by Otto Frank – one of the first users of the 35mm Leica camera - reveals the horrors the Frank Family will later endure."

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"Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were deported to Nazi concentration camps. In March of 1945, Anne Frank died at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old.

Her diary, saved during the war, was first published in 1947. Today, The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world."

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"Through a unique partnership with the Leica Gallery, The Anne Frank Center USA presents Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album on view from September 22, 2010 through October 30, 2010.

Featuring 70 black-and-white photographs, many of which have only recently been discovered, this exhibition provides viewers with an intimate glimpse into Anne Frank’s life as a young girl."

Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album
The Leica Photographs of Otto Frank

Leica Gallery 670 Broadway New York

Opening Reception: Sept 21, 2010
Exhibition Dates: Sept 22, 2010 – Oct 30, 2010

JOHN COHEN: Past Present Peru

John Cohen's "Past Present Peru", recently published by Steidl, combines two clothbound hardcover books, one with photographs spanning fifty years, one album with 3 CDs of recordings of Andean Music and another album with 5 film DVDs housed in a slipcase. Photograph (c) John Cohen/All Rights Reserved

Peru, 1956
Photograph (c) John Cohen/All Rights Reserved

"Past Present Peru" published by Steidl
Photograph (c) John Cohen/All Rights Reserved

"Past Present Peru" published by Steidl
Photographs (c) John Cohen/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) John Cohen/All Rights Reserved

"John Cohen is a photographer, musician and filmmaker who has cultivated a fifty-year long fascination with the people, cultures and landscape of Peru. Cohen took his first photographs in Peru in 1956 and has returned many times since to continue documenting. He began recording music in Peru in 1964, using a portable tape recorder to capture performances wherever he could: at festivals, in villagers’ homes, even waiting at a bus stop. Cohen’s photographs, stored for years in boxes in a barn near his home, and the music, today archived at the Smithsonian Institute, have not been published in their entirety until now." Steidlville.com

John Cohen

"Past Present Peru"

CHRIS KILLIP: 4 + 20 PHOTOGRAPHS

Photograph (c) Chris Killip/All Rights Reserved


CHRIS KILLIP: 4 + 20 PHOTOGRAPHS
AMADOR GALLERY
sept 15 - nov 13

SUSAN S. BANK: Cuba: Campo Adentro

Photograph (c) Susan S. Bank/All Rights Reserved

 Photograph (c) Susan S. Bank/All Rights Reserved

 Photograph (c) Susan S. Bank/All Rights Reserved

Cuba: Campo Adentro: "A photographic essay by Susan S. Bank narrating the daily life of Cuban campesinos and their intimate relationship with their animals and the land," thru September 20th, 2010.

The Cuban Cultural Center of NY
Purchase "Cuba: Campo Adentro" Book

STEPHEN MALLON: The Next Stop Atlantic

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Stephen Mallon/All Rights Reserved

The Next Stop Atlantic
Photographs by Stephen Mallon
september 10-october 10th!

The NYC Transit authority joined the artificial reef building program off the East Coast of the US sending stripped and decontaminated subway cars off on barges to be dropped into the Ocean in order to build refuge for many species of fish and crustaceans which would colonize the structures. Stephen Mallon traces the progress of the train cars on their last voyage. Front Room Gallery

RYAN PFLUGER: Q+A With Alison Zavos

Tilda Swinton
Photographs (c) Ryan Pfluger /All Rights Reserved

Photographs (c) Ryan Pfluger /All Rights Reserved

Photographs (c) Ryan Pfluger /All Rights Reserved

Photographs (c) Ryan Pfluger /All Rights Reserved

Ryan Pfluger was born and raised in New York. His images deal with the subtlety of body posture, the gaze, body types, and pushing the role of self-portraiture. Ryan works with a broad range of editorial clients including New York Times Magazine, OUT, Details, Time Out NY, and Angeleno. (glasshouseassignment.com)

Q+A Ryan Pfluger

with Alison Zavos

How would you describe your style?
‘I think my style is a real integration of photographers that inspired me when I was younger, with the present day aesthetics of the people that surround me. I am still inspired by people like Peter Hujar, Mapplethorpe, and Avedon. I think my style is a combination of clean, well lit intimate portraiture with an edge. However, you don’t need to be over the top to be edgy. I’m all about subtleness’.

What are some things you look for in a model?
‘I’m very particular about my models. I don’t like using the typical vision of beauty in any of my work, whether it be editorial or personal. Most of my models to me are various facets of myself. Whether they are friends, or strangers, or real models’.

Where are you currently finding inspiration?
I’m still inspired by artists of the 70’s and 80’s. However, I feel lucky to be around during a time where there are so many talented, young artists. I kind of take in everything around me though. Whether it be video games, comic books, television or music. Everything kind of leaves a little bit of something with me that I try to express in my own work. While it may not necessarily be a direct correlation to my work, it completely affects how I look at my work’.

What other contemporary photographers are you really digging now?
‘Ye Rin Mok, Hellen Van Meene, and Jason Fulford to name a few. Also, I’m completely inspired by friends like Alejandra Laviada, Dina Kantor and Shen Wei’.

What camera are you using?
‘I use a Mamiya RZ for 95% of the stuff I do. I’m very much attached to using film, and probably won’t change that anytime soon’.

If there could be a soundtrack to your images, what songs or artists would be included?
‘To me, there is a soundtrack that goes along with my work. Kate Bush, New Order, The Smiths, The Organ, Bon Iver, Beirut, Frightened Rabbit and Great Lake Swimmers to name a few. They all work … at least for me, in adding something to the work’.

Originally posted on Feature Shoot. Thanks Alison

BRAD BUNYEA: Wildfire Fighters

Photographs (c) Brad Bunyea /All Rights Reserved

BRAD BUNYEA | WILDFIRE FIGHTERS
The Ace Hotel
20 W 29th St NYC

thru Sept 20

The Oregon Fire Lines: Hiking, Burning, And Digging
In The Woods of Medford, Oregon
With the Firefighters of Grayback Forestry

Levi's has partnered with Vice Magazine to present "Americana: The Oregon Fire Lines" a documentary film that tells the story of the firefighters of the Grayback Forestry Company. DOCUMENTARY on VBS.TV

Photographs: Brad Bunyea
Film: Colton Kilgor
Presented By: LEVI'S, FILSON & VBS.TV
Opening Night Photos

EN FOCO + APERTURE GALLERY: Exhibition September 9-October 21

Oscar Gonzalez, Superheroes series, 2004-2007
Photograph (c) Dulce Pinzón /All Rights Reserved

"Oscar Gonzalez is from the State of Oaxaca, works as a cook in NY.
He sends 350 dollars home a week."

Minerva Valencia, Superheroes series, 2004-2007
Photograph (c) Dulce Pinzón /All Rights Reserved

"Minerva Valencia is from the State of Puebla, works as a nanny in NY.
She sends 400 dollars home a week."

Charros at Fiestas Patrias, Downtown Houston, Texas 2005
Photograph (c) Chuy Benitez/All Rights Reserved

Matachines at Dia de Los Muertos Procession,
All Saints Church, Heights District, Houston, Texas 2005
Photograph (c) Chuy Benitez/All Rights Reserved

Exhibition: Mexico + Afuera:
Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Voices
Chuy Benitez, Dulce Pinzón and Monica Ruszansky

Curated by Miriam Romais of En Foco

Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Sept 9-Oct 21

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En Foco Portfolio Review
September 25, 2010

This En Foco Portfolio Review offers one-on-one reviews with several arts professionals on the same day, in a supportive, nurturing and affordable environment. Reviewers can advise about opportunities and/or provide guidance on career development. This is an outstanding opportunity for ALL photographers to have their work critiqued by curators, editors, educators and other arts organizations.

Whether you're ready for Chelsea galleries, or just looking for feedback and advice, we have reviewers to suit all needs - you just have to be serious about your craft (call if you have questions). In between sessions, you'll be able to relax in the photographer's creative lounge and share your work with peers.

This workshop is only available to current En Foco Members (All are welcome to join). Each review session lasts for 20 minutes; photographers are guaranteed a minimum of three reviews and receive a 'gift bag.' Upon registration, participants will receive an article written by photo marketing expert Mary Virginia Swanson, on how to best prepare themselves for the Review. Read MVS's article, Assessing the Value of Attending Portfolio Review Sessions.

Enfoco Portfolio Review

Calumet Photographic, 22 West 22nd Street
September 25, 2010, 10am-5:30pm