Submit to Incandescent Issue Two!!!
Incandescent is a color film zine based in Portland Oregon. We have an open call our for our upcoming summer issue with a deadline of June 15th (it will be available sometime in August). Here is a link to our call to art on our blog: incandescentzine.wordpress.com.
Submission Guidelines:
All images must be color film.
Email us up to 12 images or a link to your website. Please include links directly to bodies of work/images that are both film and color. No digital photography will be accepted.
Please write “Issue Two Submission” in the subject line of your email.
Email us at: incandescentzine@gmail.com
Plastic Fantastic Show III with Juror Susan Burnstine
Deadline for entries – Midnight, Sunday, May 6, 2012
LightBox is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the third annual Plastic Fantastic Show. We wish to stay true to pure film photography using plastic, pinhole, box or homemade cameras. No digital photography will be considered. LightBox appreciates photographic images made with plastic “toy” cameras and established this show to celebrate the gallery’s anniversary every year!
LightBox is very honored to have Susan Burnstine as juror once again for the Plastic Fantastic Show. Susan is an award winning professional fine art photographer based in Los Angeles who builds homemade cameras and lenses primarily made out of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects. Susan is represented in galleries across the world, her images are mesmerizing and dreamlike, using film with the purity of the process as a vital element, without relying on digital processing.
Source: lightbox-photographic.com
Last year, Shane Lavalette was commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to create a new body of photographs for their “Picturing the South” series, which will also include contributions from notable names like Martin Parr. Having growing up listening to traditional Southern music like old time, blues, and gospel, Lavalette decide that the region’s vibrant musical past would be the ideal filter through which to explore its contemporary cultural landscape. The result? A series of photographs that are equally as vibrant and individually striking as the sounds that inspired them. The project may be technically complete now, but Lavalette is nowhere near finished. He’ll collect his images into a self-published book — and it’s our Project of the Day.
Source: kickstarter
Les restes… by julien_felix on Flickr.
Joel-Peter Witkin visits Austin as Icon of Photography No. 14
Thursday, May 24th, 7pm
Blanton Museum Auditorium | University of Texas | Austin, Texas
ACP Members FREE
$15 general admission in advance | $20 at the door
$10 student/senior/military in advance | $15 at the door
Continuing the tradition of bringing photography’s most inspirational figures to Austin, Austin Center for Photography (ACP) is pleased to announce Icons of Photography No.14 with Joel-Peter Witkin. Beginning in 2009, the quarterly Icons of Photography Lecture Series features world renowned photographers as they present their work, methods, and stories. These lectures are the cornerstone of ACP’s service to Austin and the local photography community.
Photographer Joel-Peter Witkin pushes boundaries with his powerful and exploratory photographs of the human condition. He has long pursued his interest in spirituality and morality and how it impacts the physical world. Finding beauty within the grotesque, Witkin focuses on subjects cast aside by society — human spectacles and “any living myth…bearing the wounds of Christ.” Heavily influenced by art history and literature, Witkin’s expressive and provocative photographs question established notions of beauty and normality. Following the lecture, Witkin will sign his latest books, which are available for purchase at the Blanton bookstore.
For ticket purchase and more information, visit www.visitacp.org
SCOUT BOOK - The Scout Book is a pocket friendly notebook. It measures 3.5” x 5” and has 32 pages. Use it in the field ― use it in the darkroom. Every photographer should have one. Scoutbooks.com is part of Pinball Publishing located here in Portland Oregon. These folks make fantastic stuff. Scout Books are offset printed with vegetable-based inks on 100% recycled papers. They power all of their presses and production machinery with renewable energy. Books are hand-crafted by a talented team of expert printers at their in-house print shop.
The Celebrity Camera Club is a gallery of celebrities and their cameras.
We wanna see some of Michael Cera’s Horizon photos!
Source: photojojo
Lauren by Peter Plaia on Flickr.
Diffusion Deluxe Editions??
Some words with Russell Joslin (Jan 2011)
“It’s as though I understand things on a subconscious level, and it takes my photographs, or dreams, for these things to be revealed consciously.”
Joshua Meier
Meditations on Boundary Landscapes and Surveillance
A PHOTO PROJECT BY DIFFUSION AND PLATES TO PIXELS ALUM PHIL NESMITH.
The Objective
To create compelling images of boundary area landscapes to be the heart of national and international exhibitions, and possibly to serve as material for a photo book (money pledged to project will only assist funding of image creation).
As with the 2010 Exposure Kickstarter effort that resulted in the critically acclaimed Flow body of work, your support is essential to the success of this project.
The Basics
My work is focused on the blurring of time, and this project will continue the intersection of past and present begun with the My Baghdad (2007), and Flow(2010) bodies of work (see galleries here). The ambrotype views captured with the 19th century wet collodion photographic process* for this project will modify our contemporary understanding of time, bending, folding, tugging it backwards along the sliding-scale of memory, challenging the viewer to question our ideas of progress, history, and America’s obsession with security.
This project is focused on the vast desert landscapes of the more remote border areas of southern Arizona, while grounded in the aesthetics and methods of the photographic images created during the great American West survey expeditions of the 1870s. Long stretches the Arizona border, established in 1853 by the Gadsden Purchase, and the lands surrounding it have changed little since that time, marred only by the jarring appearance of modern surveillance equipment and operations. Imagine a beautiful 20” panoramic plate depicting the rugged desert landscape, an image that could have been produced by Timothy O’Sullivan, Alexander Gardner, or Eadweard Muybridge during the Modoc Indian War of 1873 only to have your sense of time jolted into the present by the realization that in the distance you see a 100’ Department of Homeland Security surveillance tower observing the creation of its own image.
The part of the Sonoran Desert I will be operating in is the same desert that gave birth to the American legends of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone. It is the same desert that Francisco Vasquez de Coronado plunged into searching for El Dorado. This landscape has been the stage upon which so much human theater has been played out. Although the desert boundary area is vast, just about any location you might find yourself someone is watching your every move. From ragged hilltops, spotters working for drug and human traffickers lay in silence for days directing the movement of their shipments north. The government watches day and night by employing the latest military surveillance equipment ranging from fixed and mobile camera towers, UAVs, Areostat balloon systems, ground surveillance radar, seismic sensors, and helicopters, and it is this watchful landscape that I am most interested in.
*Note: This project produces unique direct positive glass images known as ambortypes, not glass negatives as depicted in the video above. The same process is used to create both image types.
Interview with Jake Shivery. March 2011
Then there’s dark slides flying and the shutter clicks and then it’s over. Morning whiskey is always appreciated.
Ms. A. Jones, Sauvie Island, 2009 no2
Roundtable Review - Portland, May 10-12
We are pleased to announce the Roundtable Review, to be held May 10-12, 2012 at the Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon.
The Roundtable Review is an opportunity for fine art photographers to present their portfolio to a panel of three reviewers at one time. This format allows for more dialog and problem solving about the work, as each reviewer brings a different perspective and different ideas.
The Roundtable Review is open to fine art photographers at any level. Sessions are available for twenty-five photographers, and sessions will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Each participant will have a 30-minute session with the three panelists and receive feedback on their work. Participants may choose to do a second session for an additional fee.
Review sessions will be offered on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In addition to the review, there will be several other photography events open to participants over the course of the weekend. Jennifer Schwartz will be giving a presentation on the Crusade for Collecting on Thursday night at Newspace Center for Photography. On Friday night, Michael Itkoff will have a book signing at Ampersand Gallery & Bookshop for Daylight’s collection of essays, Photographs Not Taken. Participants will also have an opportunity to participate in a portfolio walk on Saturday afternoon and attend an opening for “Gravitational Pull”, a photography show at Lightbox Gallery in Astoria, Oregon, curated by Jennifer Schwartz.
The submission period begins March 9 and will close when all sessions are filled.
Guidelines for submission:
An artist bio, a short description of the work, and a link to a website to view the work (preferred) or 5-10 jpegs (100dpi and 6 inches at the longest dimension) sent in a zip folder (preferred) or as email attachments.
Email submissions to submissions@roundtablereview.net.
Accepted participants will be sent a PayPal invoice to pay for the review. The cost of the review is $199.
Receipt of payment confirms your participation, and you will receive an email with your session time and information on how to present your work at the review and what to bring.
Reviewer Schedule:
- Thursday, May 10: Jennifer Schwartz, Michael Itkoff and Christopher Bennett
- Friday, May 11: Jennifer Schwartz, Michael Itkoff and Laura Moya
- Saturday, May 12: Jennifer Schwartz, Michael Itkoff and Blue Mitchell
You may request a specific day for your review, and we will try to accommodate you as best as we can.
About the Reviewers:
Jennifer Schwartz is the owner of Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, located in Atlanta, Georgia, and the creator of the online photography gallery, The Ten
Jennifer Schwartz Gallery is a fine art photography gallery promoting talented, original and emerging photographers as well as established contemporary photographers. Through regular rotating exhibitions, educational artist talks and the representation of gifted and unique up-and-coming photographers, the gallery aims to enhance awareness of the rich variety of photographic talent.
The Ten is a highly curated monthly online exhibit of ten photographic images for sale in a limited edition at an affordable price. The Ten is an opportunity for photographers to explore the creative possibilities of pulling together a selection of work with a strong statement and a tight edit.
Jennifer Schwartz co-founded the Roundtable Review program with David Bram. She regularly reviews portfolios, most recently at PhotoNOLA, SPE National Conference, PhotoLucida, Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Fotofusion. She was a juror for Critical Mass in 2011 and a curator at the Lishui Photography Festival in China last November. She is looking for work to feature in her gallery as well as on The Ten.
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Michael Itkoff, photographer, writer, educator and a Founding Editor of Daylight Magazine, received his BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP/Bard. Michael’s photographs have appeared on the covers of Orion, Katalog, Next American City and Philadelphia Weekly and he has written for the NYTimes Lens blog, Art Asia Pacific, Nueva Luz, Conscientious blog and the Forward. In addition to his work at Daylight, Michael has worked at Aperture, Rizzoli, Polaris Images and the Annie Leibovitz Studio. Michael was the recipient of the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism (2006), a Creative Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council (2007), and a Puffin Foundation Grant (2008). Michael’s monograph Street Portraits was published by Charta Editions in 2009. Michael is looking for cohesive bodies of photo-based work to consider for Daylight’s book, multimedia and magazine publishing programs. Daylight is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing art and photography. By exploring the documentary mode along with the more conceptual concerns of fine-art, Daylight’s uniquely collectible publications work to revitalize the relationship between art, photography, and the world-at-large.
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Blue Mitchell is an independent publisher, curator, and photographer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has been involved with many facets of the photographic arts. Mitchell received his BFA from Oregon College of Art & Craft, where he studied photography. Since then, he has curated and juried several photography exhibitions, created an online photography gallery (platestopixels.com), and launched a new fine art photography magazine called Diffusion. Most recently Mitchell was invited to jury the 2010 Photolucida Critical Mass as well as serve as a reviewer at the 2010 PhotoNola in New Orleans and Photolucida in 2011.
Blue’s online curatorial project, Plates to Pixels (founded in 2007), bridges the gap between antiquated photographic processes and new digital media. Every month the gallery showcases and interviews artists working in these seemingly polarized mediums. Plates to Pixels also hosts a annual guest juried exhibit, other themed invitational group exhibitions, and a new moving images section titled eMotion.
In 2009, Blue successfully published the first volume of Diffusion, an annual photography magazine featuring artists working with “unconventional” processes. Diffusion has doubled in size from volume one to volume two, featuring portfolios with interviews, a variety of photography related articles, a themed group showcase, book and dvd reviews, artists to watch, and other many other special features. Diffusion is unique because it showcases alternative-process photography and other unconventional photography not seen in other magazines or publications.
Blue also curates and organizes physical exhibitions including the annual Diffusion Gala and Exhibition and most recently “Dream Allegory” a six person exhibition at LightBox Photographic Gallery and Fine Printing. He is most interested in seeing photography that utilizes unconventional or historical/alternative processes.
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Christopher Bennett is a photographer, curator and photo educator living in Portland Oregon. His work experience includes the George Eastman House, the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and Photo-eye Books & Gallery. Chris is the founder and Executive Director of Newspace Center for Photography.
Newspace Center for Photography is an educational and cultural nonprofit that is dedicated to promoting photographic education and appreciation to the public as well as providing a space and building a community where photo enthusiasts can learn, create, discuss and show their work. The Center’s gallery mounts 12 exhibits annually. Artists are showcased in solo or two-person shows with the occasional group show or juried exhibition. Curatorial emphasis is placed on modern, fine-art and documentary photography and has included the work of emerging as well as established artists. Newspace also selects six photographers annually for one-month residencies.
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Laura Moya is executive director of Photolucida, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that provides opportunities for emerging photographers. Moya has a professional background in photography and independent film, both in production and promotion, having worked for Photo-eye Gallery, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Northwest Film Center. She was invited to participate in the Lodz Photography Festival (Poland), Noorderlict (Netherlands), the Pingyao Photo Festival (China), the Lishui Photo Festival (China), and Xiang Sha Wan Photo Festival (Mongolia). Moya has curated two alternative process exhibits at 23 Sandy Gallery (Portland) - ‘Resurrection: A New Look at Old Processes’ and ‘Photo Alchemy: An Exhibition of Alternative Process Photography’, and has written pieces for Griffin Museum’s ‘Critic’s Pick’ and Finite Foto. She also recently juried Blue Sky Gallery’s Northwest Drawers with Clint Willour. Moya reviews portfolios in the US and internationally, most recently at LensCulture/FotoFest during Paris Photo. In the past, she has included work she has seen in Reviews in curatorial projects.
