Wednesday, March 14, 2018

THEME | MONO - KROMATIK

Entry Deadline: Sunday, April 8, 2018

Praxis Gallery seeks photographic works that demonstrate the elemental qualities that make black and white & monochromatic photography an enduring, contemporary art form.

All genres and all capture types, black & white and monochromatic, non-traditional and traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.

Artist-in-Residence: Italy

In-Between Shores Artist-in-Residency-Due March 15

23-days residency opportunity open to photographers all over the globe, with no age restriction, born through a collaboration between Ardesia Projects, Jest and Witty Kiwi.

Five national and international artists, will be selected and invited to create new bodies of work on the territory surrounding the lake of Varese alongside the editor Tommaso Parrillo (Witty Kiwi) and curator Benedetta Casagrande (Ardesia). The selected artists will be accommodated in Cascina Ronco (Daverio, VA), a farmhouse in the woods surrounding the lake, where they will be provided with the adequate materials to develop their projects. The residency will result in an exhibition atJest and in a small editorial publication.

NYT: What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says

Sam Contis, “Denim Dress”

"A new group show called "Being" moves away from last year's navel-gazing digital obsession to explore reality-based portraiture, politics and gender."

Link to article

National Geographic: "For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It"

PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANK AND HELEN SCHREIDER

Very powerful and pertinent article by Nat Geo's Editor in Chief, Susan Goldberg
Link to article

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Wise Words

I am minorly obsessed with quotes, so here are some by those well-known photographers. This is my inspiration post to get through the rest of finals.

Have you ever been to Britain and taken pictures?

The British Journal of Photography is currently having a Call for Entry! The call Portraits of Britain has one main rule-- had taken the portrait of someone in britain no later than 2012. The deadline is May 1, 2018. This is a great opportunity to get your work internationally seen and published!

Fujifilm's New Medium Format Digital Camera

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/gfx/fujifilm_gfx_50s/

Fujifilm has recently released a compact medium format camera with a 50mp digital sensor. A far cheaper alternative to other digital medium-format systems by Hassleblad, Phase One, and Leica

Canahm 6x17 Roll Film Back

http://www.canhamcameras.com/Roll%20film%20back.html

Interested in shooting panorama? K.B. Canaham Cameras offers a 6x17cm roll film back for their view camera systems. Takes 4 pictures per roll and includes a motorized winder and built in memory so if the battery dies while shooing it won't forget what frame you're on.

New film from Kodak

https://petapixel.com/2017/09/13/return-kodak-ektachrome-film-nigh/

Kodak Alaris is reverse engineering their famous slide film which will be available in limited quantities sometime this yer.

Unblinking Eye

https://unblinkingeye.com/

Unblinking Eye is a photo blog concerned with darkroom and alternative processes.

CPAC- Colorado Photographic Arts Center

A photographic community located in downtown Denver, CPAC offers studio space, digital pining labs, and a black and white darkroom

http://cpacphoto.org/

Processus Art Life- Collaborative Studio Space in Denver

http://www.processusartlife.com/

An atricle about Christina Z. Anderson, professor at MSU and Alt process photographer

http://lenscratch.com/2017/06/christina-z-anderson-the-states-project-montana/

How to Become an Artist According to Georgia O'Keefe

I would think she would have some good advice.

“Great artists don’t just happen, any more than writers, or singers, or other creators,” she continued. “They have to be trained, and in the hard school of experience.”

4 Lessons on how to be an artist, by Georgia O'Keefe.

Monday, March 12, 2018

Moving by yourself

I know I leaned more towards Seattle in my paper/presentation, but I think this article is really helpful as far as trying to keep your mind set in reality when planning out moving to a new state alone. This quarter is wrapping up and for most of us that means we're really close to leaving the college/familiar setting.

New Elinchrom ELB 500 TTL Is A Portable Light For Studio, On Location Shoots

Published in Photography Industry News

Black & White Photography Call for Entry | Open Internationally

The Center for Fine Art Photography Call for Entry

http://www.callforentries.com/black-and-white-photography-call-for-entry-open-internationally.html

Entry Deadline: Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Copyright Policy: All submitting artists retain all copyrights to their own images.

Art call for all Black and White imagery:

All types of photographic processes are eligible for this exhibition. This includes all digital, alternative processes, film, traditional, and all post-production techniques. All subject matter is welcome and all sizes will be considered.

ARTIST HONORS AND AWARDS: All selected artists’ work will be exhibited in our Exhibition Space and in the Online Exhibition which will include artist website links. C4FAP also provides professional installation images, social media promotions with an audience of 180,000+ followers internationally and an event Press Release. All artists and their friends are welcome to celebrate the exhibition with us at the Reception.

AWARDS

JUROR’S AWARD: $400

DIRECTOR’S AWARD: $200

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Documenting Photography in America

Matt Black and The Geography of Poverty

Photojournalist Matt Black has traveled through 46 states to document what it means to be poor in the United States- what needs are met (or not) and in what order.

Time article:

http://time.com/poorest-states-america-photos/?xid=homepage

NPR Interview (Worth a listen!):

http://time.com/poorest-states-america-photos/?xid=homepage