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.
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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!
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by Douglas Stockale
Nikon has announced a new model in their line up. The D3S is an upgrade to the popular D3. Improvements include better low light capture, 720p HD video, and improved CMOS sensor. This camera was designed for sports, news, and wildlife photographers who need to capture quality images very quickly. See the link for full details.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0910/09101402nikond3s.asp
by Gina Genis
The Redondo Beach Art Group is holding their 4th annual member art show on the weekend of October 16. The show is titled “The Power of Art 2009″ and is the 4th annual show put on by the group.
Copyright by The Redondo Beach Art Group
The Power of Art has grown in attendence every year since its inception with over 5300 people attending the event last year. The show is part of the group’s effort to raise awareness of how art can play a positive role in a community by combining beauty with constructive social interactions of the community’s citizens.
The Power of Art 2009 is an all-media show featuring the art work of the members of The Redondo Beach Group. In conjunction with POA 2009 is the “Seeing California” show featuring work inspired by the famous photographer Edward Weston’s trip around California. Many of the group’s photographic artists will be featured in “Seeing California”.
Each year the group converts a location into a temporary gallery to showcase the work of it’s members. Last year’s venue was the north power generating room of the AES Power Plant in Redondo Beach. This year the group has converted an abandoned restaurant into its art gallery. This year’s show features the work of 90 artists and 130 works of art in all media in two galleries, “Living Art” and “Seeing California”.
There will be a catered opening reception on October 16 from 7 – 10pm. The show continues Saturday, October 17 from 10am – 10pm and Sunday, October 18 from 10am – 8 pm.
This event is free to the public unless otherwise noted on the group’s website.
The venue for this year’s show will be the old Venezia restaurant between the Cheesecake Factory and the Blue Water Grill. It is located at 655 N. Harbor Dr., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
For more information visit http://redondobeachartgroup.org/
By Jim McKinniss
"Quarter Tulips" copyright by Ellen Cantor
Photographer Ellen Canter will be featured at Studio 339 in San Pedro, CA.
The show titled “DICOTOMY” runs October 1, 2009 through November 30, 2009. There will be an artist receptions on October 1 and November 5 from 6 to 9 pm to coincide with the regular First Thrusday art district tours in San Pedro.
“DICOTOMY” showcases Ellen’s recent exploration of the relationships between the man-made and natural environments.
Studio 339 is owned by Lauren Kilgore
339 West Seventh St.
San Pedro, CA
310.514.1238
To see more of Ellen’s Work visit http://www.ellencantorphotography.com/
By Jim McKinniss
"Last Supper" copyright by Jerry Burchfield
"Second Degree Still Life No, 43" copyright by Jerry Burchfield
Jerry Burchfield, a photographer and educator who helped document the evolution of two Orange County landmarks, has died. He was 62.
Burchfield, a professor and photography gallery director at Cypress College since 1987, died Sept. 11 at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. He had colon cancer, said his wife, Barbara.
Burchfield had “an international reputation as an important contemporary artist with a social and political point of view,” said Bolton Colburn, director of the Laguna Art Museum, which exhibited Burchfield’s works in 1973 and 2000.
From 1973 to 1987 Burchfield co-owned BC Space Gallery in Laguna Beach with Mark Chamberlain. Colburn said Burchfield and Chamberlain “certainly weren’t shy about getting in with subject matter that had political implications,” and in Orange County that often meant environmental issues.
The project in Laguna Canyon, which remains one of the few relatively undeveloped areas of Orange County, started in 1974, Chamberlain said.
“We started documenting Laguna Canyon because of a particular fondness for the location,” Burchfield told The Times in 1989. “We felt that some sort of development was inevitable. As photographers, we believed that we might not play a role in stopping the development. So the least we could do was use our craft to document the environment so that there is a record of it.”
Burchfield and Chamberlain began tracing the life in the canyon, including taking photos the length of Laguna Canyon Road. Thousands of photos — many donated by others — were compiled into a huge mural they called “The Tell,” which referred to an archaeological term about a core sampling that tells the earth’s geological history.
In November 1989, an estimated 7,000 people marched through the canyon to the mural as part of a protest over plans to build more than 3,000 homes.
“The Tell was one of the most galvanizing instruments we had for getting people involved and interested in the future of Laguna Beach,” Michael Phillips, executive director of the Laguna Greenbelt and Laguna Canyon Conservancy, told the Orange County Register in 1991. Developers eventually agreed to sell a canyon site to the city of Laguna Beach. The mural was taken down in 1990, but the project continues, Chamberlain said.
In 2002, Burchfield and Chamberlain started photographing the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, which had closed as an active base in 1999. After much debate over turning the facility into a commercial airport, a Great Park and some residential use is now planned for the site.
“We all felt that an important part of Orange County’s history was being overlooked due to the issues surrounding what it should be used for,” Burchfield told the Register last year.
“Regardless of what happened to it, the history of the base needed to be documented as best could be done.”
With five other photographers working on the Legacy Project at the old base, Burchfield created what is believed to be the world’s largest functioning pinhole camera obscura and the world’s largest photograph, one of thousands taken to document the transition from Marine base to park. “I’ve never been a proponent of hit-and-run photography. This allows our knowledge to develop,” he said.
Jerry Lee Burchfield was born July 28, 1947, in Chicago. He received bachelor’s, master’s in art and master of fine arts degrees from Cal State Fullerton.
He wrote several books about photography and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1981. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe and Japan. Along with Cypress College, he taught at Cal State Fullerton as well as at Chaffey, Mt. San Antonio, Saddleback and Orange Coast colleges.
“He was a multifaceted individual, an outstanding educator, a mentor, friend and ally,” Chamberlain said
Besides his wife, Burchfield is survived by his son, Brian, and his father, Darrell. Services are pending. A scholarship fund has been set up in Burchfield’s name. The family asks that donations be sent to the Cypress College Foundation, attention Laura Stephens, 9200 Valley View St.,
Memorial service, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 at Laguna Beach Presbyterian Church
Celebration of Burchfield’s life and work at BC Space, 3 to 6 p.m.
By Jim McKinniss
Photolucida 2009 Portfolio Review photography by Janos Lanyi
The following is from Janos Lanyi, a member of The Photo Exchange who participated in last weeks Photolucida Portfolio Review in Portland, OR.
On April 22 the ball room of the Benson Hotel in Portland, OR became a very lively place. Hundred sixty mid-career photographers (blue name-tags) and sixty gallery and museum directors, photo editors and other leaders of the photography world (red name-tags) got together for a 4-day long highly structured portfolio review event. Each registrant, like myself, was assigned 18 reviewers, selected by draw based on stated preferences, for 20 minute one-on-one sessions. In addition, local gallery owners and professional photographers circulated in another room among the participants, and held impromptu reviews. All in all, we received as many as 25-30 opinions on technical, artistic, and in some cases business, issues. The Portland portfolio review was promised to be a career-changing opportunity to assess one’s photography, and it was.
Being told by several photography consultants to well-known New York galleries and museums that your work is genuine and profound is wonderful and exciting, and you float high until another tells you that he just doesn’t care for your images and maybe you don’t either. However, there were so many opinions that they did add up to a consistent picture. The perspective I gained on what is good and what is not good in my own work is astounding. It will shape my photography for the next year, until the next portfolio review.
On the first night the photographers showed their best work at a public event at the Portland Art Museum. There are many people, of all ages, in Portland interested in photography, and the place was packed. It was also an opportunity for us to see the work of the other participants, some astonishingly good. Wouldn’t you know it, many of the reviewers gave more of their time talking to us there. Add to that the noisy and intense discussions sharing work with other participants in the Benson lobby, noon seminars every day, and a public lecture by Abelardo Morrell on his unorthodox photo images, and we were buzzing with information overload. Photolucida 2009 ended with a roaring party on the rooftop of the Blue Sky Gallery on Sunday evening. Even the usually uncertain Portland weather cooperated.
By Doug Stockdale
In conjunction with MOPLA are the fresh programs, one is the fresh Look, which is basicly an opportunity for a porftolio review and fresh Fair, a chance to sell directly to collectors.
So check it out, there may be an opportunity for you…
by Doug Stockdale
In the rumor mill for the past two or three months has be MOPLA: Month of Photography – Los Angeles. It seems that it might be really happening per the Feb 17, 2009 Press Release:
The Lucie Foundation which holds the world s most esteemed photography awards ceremony honoring the greatest achievements in the field (The Lucie Awards), is pleased to present a new signature event, The Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA), this April 2009. MOPLA is a month-long celebration of Photography, its artists, and the community who adores, inspires and fuels it. MOPLA will organize and galvanize the photograph and art community in Los Angeles to present an extensive observance of the visual medium during the month of April.
Become engaged through a variety of events and programs designed to inspire and invigorate the photography professional, enthusiast, emerging professional and collectors both young and seasoned. As the second largest photography community in the United States, Los Angeles will provide a distinctive backdrop to the celebration of thephotographic image, with an official Opening Nite event on Tuesday, April 7 at the Pacific Design Center.
“MOPLA is our opportunity to unite and present the great happenings of Photography in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, and a city long been perceived as the arts and culture step-sister to New York”, says co-Founder Cat Jimenez, and Executive Director of the Lucie Foundation. “This is an exciting time for Photography in Los Angeles with the birth of MOPLA and the Annenberg Space for Photography opening in late March. Even in these challenging economic times, there s still a plethora of content to celebrate, which makes this month even more meaningful. We want to inspire, encourage and engage those involved in the Photography Community and by presenting programming for everyone, that will help us achieve that goal”.
By Doug Stockdale
Effective immediately (2/25/09), all four Photoshop + Lightroom Seminars at Connect 09, the Palm Springs Photo Festival, are free! Adobe will sponsor two Intermediate Photoshop + Lightroom and two Advanced Photoshop + Lightroom Seminars at the Palm Springs Photo Festival.
Please see www.palmspringsphotofestival.com for further information and registration details.
by Doug Stockdale
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