Janos Lanyi in December LensWork

Photographs copyright of Janos Lanyi

Janos Lanyi will be represented along with 14 other photographers in the December issue of LensWork, issue number 85,  in the 2009 Year End Gallery. LensWork magazine is noted for its high technical & printing standards as well as the breadth & aesthetic excellence of the black & white photography that it publishes.

posted by Douglas Stockdale

Exhibition Opportunity at OCCCA

The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art is offering an open call invitation to exhibit your work. OCCCA has a fabulous space, and its openings are very well attended. Up to 1,200 people come through in a single night. The exhibit is called By The Running Foot, a reference to the cost per size of the work to enter the show. You can find details on OCCCA’s website (link below). Scroll down to By The Running Foot.

http://www.occca.org/exhibitions.html

By Gina Genis

Douglas Stockdale photobook reviews now on photo-eye

After a year and 75 published photographic book reviews on The PhotoBook, I am now co-publishing a few of my reviews in conjunction with the online photo-eye Magazine out of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My first co-published review is the self-published stiff cover book by Orange County photographer Deanna Templeton, titled “17 Days” and can be found on photo-eye here, or on The PhotoBook here. The principal difference between the two sites for this particular review is the selection of photographs used to illustrate the review, and of course, photo-eye has a hot  link available to their bookstore for you to buy the book. I think that the photo-eye bookstore has some signed copies available as well.

Best regards, Douglas Stockdale

The End of Film – Exhibit at CMP

California Museum of Photography is exhibiting “The End of Film, a Brief History of Digital Cameras, 1987-2009″ through January 30, 2010.

The exhibit includes digital cameras beginning with Casio’s 1987 VS-101 .28 mp, which digitized video signals rather than capturing a still image. It holds the esteemed label of being the first digital camera used by fine art photographers.

The first truly still image camera on display is Kodak’s DCS-100 from 1991. It boasted 1.3 mp, weighed 20 pounds, and cost a mere $13,000.00.

Fast forward to 2009. Multi media is calling, and the exhibit ends with the Canon 5D Mark II. This camera is capable of capturing stills with 21 mp and can take 1920×1080 HD video for up to 45 minutes.

I am in awe of the newest versions of digital cameras, but walking through this show only makes me wonder how obsolete they will be in another decade. I hope CMP has a second exhibit of the history of digital cameras in 2019 so we can be wistfully nostalgic once again.

http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/

California Museum of Photography

3824 Main Street

Riverside, CA 92501 951 784-FOTO

by Gina Genis

Gina Genis exhibiting at the Women’s Club of Hollywood

© 2009 Gina Genis

Gina Genis will be exhibiting one of her photo collages at the Women’s Club of Hollywood. The exhibit will be for one night only, Sunday, November 22, with a reception from 5-9 p.m. The following is from a press release for the exhibit:

Genis’ work combines the most exceptional elements of nature and technology. Using a camera and software processing systems, a squirrel jaw bone found in the forest becomes an abstracted pattern of delicate beauty. This beauty, however, barely masks a strong presence of danger. The raw elegance of an animal skull reminds us of the tenuous nature of our existence, but through Genis’ photography, celebrates and memorializes life.

The Women’s Club of Hollywood is located at:

1749 N La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046-3009
(323) 876-8383

Eleven Photo Exchange members selected for 2009 Irvine Fine Arts All Media show

Image copyright by Irvine Fine Arts Center

Photo Exchange members Charles Benes, Ellen Butler, Stan Kuran, Janos Lanyi, Manuel Martinez, Jim McKinniss, Hal Myers, Anne Marie Rousseau, Barbara Ruffini, Barbara Runge,  and Larry Vogel are 11 of  the featured artists in the 2009 All Media show at the Irvine Fine Arts Center.

The Irvine Fine Arts Center is located at 14321 Yale Ave. , Irvine, CA 92604

Exhibition dates are November 20, 2009 – January 16, 2010

Exhibition Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony: Friday, November 20                                     

Reception: 5 – 8pm, Awards Presentation: 6:30pm

 

http://www.cityofirvine.org/cityhall/cs/finearts/default.asp

By Jim McKinniss

Tiffany Trenda multi-media exhibition at Frank Pictures Gallery

"Condemned Opera" copyright by Tiffany Trenda

 

Frank Pictures Gallery is proud to present SPECULAR, an exhibition of photographs, light boxes and performance by LONDON INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE COMPETITION Artist of the Year, TIFFANY TRENDA. A young, Malibu based artist, Trenda’s beautiful, surreal performances have been called spellbinding and fascinating as she mesmerized critics and collectors as the highlight of Photo LA, Photo Miami for Art Basel, the Malibu Contemporary Art Fair, LA Center of Digital Art and at her solo performance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has also exhibited at Robert Berman Gallery, Farmani Gallery, Highways, and Track 16. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design and will be finishing her graduate work at UCLA Design and Media Arts. “With my work I am challenging our senses, our mental representations and the relationship we bear to media. I am interested in how we are psychologically affected by the digital world with the constant flux of information. Can our minds handle more and more of imagery representation and digital dialogues?” says Trenda of the recent performance piece that landed her on the cover of The Malibu Times, “with my work I use a lot of bipolar concepts: past and future, death and life, organic and inorganic. More and more we are cross breeding our media and information. The work is about man vs. machine. But can man survive its own creation?”

Click Here to View Work by Tiffany Trenda

 

Frank Pictures Gallery is located in Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 8th 6:30pm – 9:30pm  

Exhibition Dates: November 7, 2009 – January 2, 2010

RSVP to 310.828.0211 / laurie@frankpicturesgallery.com

By Jim McKinniss

Two new exhibitions of nature photography at G2 Gallery

"Aspen Grove" photo copyright by Robert Turner

 

 

 

"Spanish Shawl" photo copyright by Nick Fash

 

G2 Gallery in Venice, CA is currently hosting two exhibitions which highlight the works of nature photographers Robert Turner and Nick Fash.

 

The Turner exhibition is called “Robert Turner: Rare Places in a Rare Light” .  Robert’s body of work to date is a stunning collection of photographs that, in his words, “will inform the soul and convey my deep belief in the fundamental value of wild places.”

From the Pacific Northwest to the Great Smoky Mountains and the canyon lands of the Colorado Plateau to the hardwood forests of Maine, this exhibition captures both the grandeur and intimacy of North America’s precious wild lands. His large, strongly composed prints communicate the moods of rare moments, both intimate and grand, captured across the continent in his pursuit of the light on the land.  Robert’s ever-watchful lens has isolated remarkable instants in time–at the edge of a storm, after a rain, in the afterglow of sunset–when light upon the land intensifies color to almost magical proportions.

The Turner exhibit closes on Sunday, November 8.

Nick Fash is featured in ”Nature LA”, an ongoing series of nature and wildlife photography solo exhibitions by Los Angeles area photographers that will rotate monthly.  The exhibitions will provide an opportunity for up-and-coming nature and wildlife photographers from Los Angeles to showcase their work.  All proceeds from each show will benefit an LA based environmental charity.

Nature LA brings into focus the work of an individual photographer based in the Los Angeles area whose passion is shooting in nature.  Each participant’s unique perspective as urban environmentalist and as artist raises a specific concern brought to the fore by the verity of conservation photography.  With this new venture, the G2 Gallery hopes to tap into a growing segment of the population interested in change at a grassroots level.

 

Nature LA: Nick Fash will be on view October 20–November 20, 2009.  An artist’s reception will take place November 6 at 6pm, coinciding with Abbot Kinney First Friday.

 

The G2 Gallery (www.theg2gallery.com)

1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA 90291-3742

Tel. 310.452.2842, E-mail info@theg2gallery.com

 

By Jim McKinniss

Week of Life

I just became aware of new and interesting project;  documenting a Week of (Your) Life, an open call to photographers to docuement a week of their life and upload it along with many others from around the world. Details are available here: http://www.weekoflife.com/

Here is some general information about the project;

The basic building block of this Czech-American project is the period of one week in the life of an individual, who captures each day of the week with nine photographs taken throughout the day. The author of the project considers one week being the most characteristic time span for a person with regard to human diversity and behavior.

A week that has seven days, each of which has a different meaning, smell, sight, a different sense with varying intensity and energy, is the basic unit in life. Human activity, be it willed or unwilled, is organized around this span of time, which is why such a photo report can tell us so much about ourselves and others. st century.

Every participant who contributes with his or her week thereby becomes an original piece in a neverending mosaic of human originality and uniqueness and a co-author of the whole documentary project, a gigantic photographic library of humankind in the 21st century.

They have a link with some suggestions on how to you can complete this project, found here.

So if this is something that has captured your interests, check it out!

Best regards, Doug Stockdale

Hey, Hot Shot! – Deadline Oct 23, 2009

Hey, Hot Shot! offers photographers at all stages of their careers unrivaled opportunities for exposure and advancement. All entrants have their work reviewed by top-shelf panelists and enjoy the potential to be promoted online, selected for 20×200, and exhibited in our New York gallery. Now in its fifth year, the competition has been acclaimed by curators, critics, educators and journalists alike.

The guidelines are simple: contenders submit three photographs from a single body of work using an online upload tool, with an entry fee of $60.

Incomparable Exposure:

Our panel will select five Hot Shots for inclusion in a two-week group show at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York City. In conjunction with the exhibition, editions of each photographer’s work will be released on 20×200, Jen Bekman Projects’ acclaimed online endeavor, which offers limited edition prints at affordable prices.

Additional Benefits:

Each Hot Shot is awarded a $500 honorarium. (Nice!)

At year’s end, two Ultras will be selected from 2009’s ten Hot Shots. The Ultras are represented by Jen Bekman Gallery and slated for solo exhibitions.

All entrants are reviewed for participation in 20×200; entering the competition is the only opportunity for photographers to have their work considered. In addition, as always, our writers will select contenders to feature daily on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog throughout the entry period.

Apply now:

We only accept submissions online, via this website.

The deadline for entries is Friday, October 23, 2009 @ 8 p.m (EDT).

Hot Shots will be announced on Monday, November 30, 2009.

There is a $60 handling fee for your entry.

Submissions are open to everyone, from anywhere in the world!

Questions?:

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by Douglas Stockale