Apply Online for Barnstorm XXII: Oct 9-12, 2009 in Jeffersonville, New York

Current photography students and emerging professionals take note: Online applications for the 2009 Eddie Adams Barnstorm XXII Workshop are now being accepted through May 11.

An intense, tuition-free, four-day gathering of top photojournalism professionals and 100 carefully selected students, the Eddie Adams Workshop exists as a forum in which an exchange of ideas, techniques, and philosophies are shared between established members and newcomers to the profession of picture journalism.

The 100 workshop attendees are selected based on the merit of portfolios submitted by current students, active members of the military or working photographers with less than three years of professional experience. The chosen students are divided into ten teams of ten members each, led by a photographer, an editor and a researcher, all professionals within the field. During four days over the Columbus Day weekend, everyone’s schedule is packed with a mix of shooting, editing, speeches and panel discussions from before dawn to well past midnight. Students also have the opportunity for one-on-one time with editors to discuss their portfolios at what is known as the 11:30 Club.

Barnstorm is 100 percent digital, giving students and faculty access to a variety of the best professional equipment available, including Nikon digital SLR's and the latest Apple computers. During the Workshop, students have constant interaction with the biggest and brightest minds in photography today—nowhere else will you find 150 top-notch faculty members for 100 students!

An application consists of a portfolio of up to 20 images, a personal statement and a $45 application fee. Visit the Workshop Web site today to create an account and to start the application process.

LOOK3 Workshop Scholarships Offer Free Learning for Ten Students

During three days in mid-June, the historic downtown of Charlottesville, Virginia is transformed into Look 3: Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph, a living image with exhibitions, master classes, insightful conversations, outdoor screenings and special events.

For five days before the festivities start, from June 6 to 11, LOOK3 WORKSHOPS offer unique opportunities to further the development of photographers at all skill levels. Taught by some of the brightest names in the photography world, these courses are designed to help expand your vision and will challenge the way you see, feel, think and work.

With generous support from Canon USA and Leica Cameras, LOOK3 will be offering 10 full workshop scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in 2-4 year accredited schools. Students do not have to be a photo or art major to be eligible. Deadline to apply is May 1, 2009 and scholarship recipients will be notified by May 8, 2009.

Application for the workshops consist of a submission of 10-15 images from a single project, preferably a recent body of work, and an email to workshops@look3.org stating your name, school and a short description of the work submitted. Please do not send portfolio images from a multitude of projects. Full details about the offerings can be found here. 

The workshop experience will be intense and fast-paced with the goal of pushing your vision and technique to a new level. In addition, all participating workshop students will receive a Festival Pass for free access to June 11 to 13 events. These combined opportunities guarantee a singular learning experience that will send you home exhausted, renewed, inspired and most importantly—a better photographer. So, apply for a workshop today and start your summer off right!

 

Rockin' Photography

Everyone needs a little Rock and Roll in their life. If you love music and photography, head over to the Jenkins Johnson Gallery, 521 West 26th St., 5th Fl., New York, NY 10001, to view Lynn Goldsmith's rock and roll photography collection currently on display.

Goldsmith has captured photos of the greatest rock legends from Gene Simmons and Simon and Garfunkel to U2 and Sting. Her images give you a sense of energy and an insight into the life of these iconic musicians. The exhibit will showcase 15 mosaics and dozen s of stills and portraits. 

You can view these photos until November 25th on Tuesday through Saturday from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. For more information visit: www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com

Image © Lynn Goldsmith

Portfolio Review

Interested to know what professionals in the industry have to say about your portfolio? Then head over to En Foco's event at Calumet Photographic located at 22 West 22nd St., New York, NY on Saturday, September 13, 2008.

Starting at 10 A.M. and going all day, New York and California curators and editors will offer one-on-one reviews of your portfolio. Each review will last about 20 minutes and photographers are guaranteed at least three reviews from different professionals. Participants will also gain valuable information about opportunities and career development.

Pre-registration is required and the cost for members is only $100 (non-members pay $145).

For more information visit www.enfoco.org or call 718.931.9311.

A Coming-Out Curator Party

An ambitious gallery project opening this week at BOND STREET GALLERY will showcase a cornucopia of emerging photographic work by putting the curators in the spotlight.

Organized by the Humble Arts Foundation’s Amani Olu, Young Curators, New Ideas will allow new and seasoned curators to utilize about 10 feet of space to engage viewers in a discussion about current photography.

We’re particularly excited to see curators from Fjord Photo on the bill. Alana Celii and Grant Willing have organized their show Voluspá around themes of magic, otherworldiness, secrets and nostalgia. They will be showcasing photographers from the Fjord photography collective—an online showcase of new and emerging photographers—that include Mikaylah Bowman, Gerald Edwards III, Bryan Lear, Miranda Lehman, Seth Lower, Mark McKnight, Erin Jane Nelson, and Jesper Ulvelius.

Other curators include:

• Artist Michael Buhler-Rose, presenting the portraiture of Charles Benton
• Art director Jon Feinstein’s exhibition from three photographers examining notions of science, mysticism and astronomy
• Curator Laurel Ptak, displaying a feat of organization showing 26 artists’ embrace of a 1980’s-era technology called Graphics Interchange Format
• Photographer and critic Amy Stein, displaying five photographers examining notions of self
• Writer/curator Lumi Tan’s exhibition of Brian Bress’s chaotic and absurdist photography

The opening reception is Wednesday, August 13, from 6 to 9 p.m and the exhibition will remain until September 6.

BOND STREET GALLERY is located at 297 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231; phone: 718-858-2297; gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm.

"Investigation into the Disruption of Power" by Gerald Edwards III, courtesy of Bond Street Gallery.

Capturing the Campaign

Were you drawn to the TV during those last few days in which we waited to see who would win the Democratic nomination?

Well now that the race is over, you can still be a part of the busy day-to-day life of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama by viewing several photographs from the campaign trail taken by Larry Fink. Currently on view at the Pace/MacGill Gallery is an exhibition displaying over 20 images shot over a two and a half month period. You will see everything from Clinton's first steps off an airplane  to a subtle gesture from Obama that reveals a typically unseen emotional side.

The photographs are on view from July 4th to August 15th on Monday through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Pace/MacGill Gallery is locate at 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022. For more information call 212.759.7999 or email info@pacemacgill.com

A Mid-Career Survey of Catherine Opie at the Guggenheim Museum.

American Photographer Catherine Opie has worked to capture a series of personalities within her complex body of photographic work. The Guggenheim Museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue in New York, NY, will be home to the exhibition come September, encompassing an overview of her richly diverse artistic projects ranging in genres from studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography. Guggenheim Press Release states, “Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity.”

Opie covers distinct subject matters from gay culture and lifestyles in her Portraits and Domestic series, to different views of American communities and establishments through her Houses, Freeways, Mini-Mall, and American Cities series. In and Around Home captures the diverse cultural setting of her own family living in Los Angeles. Character and personality are neither short nor compromised in her Ice Houses and Surfers series as she explores atmospheric communities and lifestyles.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a major publication combining all of Opie’s projects into one volume. The catalogue combines rich text and artistic imagery that convey the meaning behind her work and will prove to be a primary source for understanding the interconnections between the various artistic styles and subjects surveyed.

On View: September 26, 2008 – January 7, 2009
Media Preview: September 25, 10AM - 12PM
For more information regarding Catherine Opie’s work, please visit: http://www.guggenheim.org/press_releases/downloads/OPIE_Release.pdf

Civil rights photography revisted

The 40th anniversary of Martin Luter King's assassination this year has sparked a mountain of civil rights-themed exhibits, especially in the south. And all signs point to Atlanta, where the High Museum of Art's summer exhibition, Road to Freedom, is being hailed as one of the best civil rights exhibits ever presented.

The exhibit comprises some 130 photographs from the Rosa Parks case of '55-'56 up to King's death in '68, as well as newspaper articles and posters from the period. Highlighted are key moments in the civil rights movement such as the Birmingham hosings and the Selma-Montgomery march; many photographs here are seeing the light of day for the first time. (In one instance, photographs of the firebombing of a bus during the 1961 Freedom Ride had been under lock and key at an attorney's office for decades as potential evidence.)

It really appears that this is no ordinary photojournalism exhibit. Writes Atlanta-based photographer Michael David Murphy:

"The images in the show are a perfect storm of content, execution, message, and style. Some are artful, some are pure fact, some edge into carefully constructed propaganda. But in their aggregation (curated with impressive insight and dedication by Head Curator, Julian Cox) the photographs pack wallop that sustains, not just in the eye, but in the head and the heart."

And Shaila Dewan from the New York Times writes that the exhibit "highlights how much history has come close to being lost." Indeed, in times marked by a "post-race" black presidential candidate, it may be too easy to forget the struggles Americans faced, and continue to face, in fighting bigotry and oppression.

Admission to the High Museum of Art is $18 for adults, $15 for students, and free for Fulton county residents on the first Saturday of each month. See here for more information.

It's Birding Season

New York-based photographer Amy Stein points us toward tonight's opening of "Ornithology," a group exhibition of bird-themed photography, paintings as well as mixed media. It will be displayed at the Jen Bekman Gallery.

Along with Stein's work, on display will be birdies of all stripes from Echo Eggebrecht, Todd Forsgren, Laura Levine, Carrie Marill, Christina Muraczewski, Victoria Neel, Lamar Peterson, Jason Polan, Amy Ross, Alec Soth, Keith Taylor, Bert Teunissen and Luke Stephenson.

"Ornithology" runs from June 25 through August 2, 2008. Opening reception is on June 25, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Jen Bekman Gallery is located at 6 Spring Street, NY, NY 10012. The gallery is open on Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. or by appointment. For more information about exhibitions or special hours/events, call (212) 219-0166.

Successful Strategies Seminar

Our new photography intern, Sarah Muehlbauer from Sarah Lawrence College, was excited about this new summer seminar—we hope you are too. Let us know what you think!

As a college student and aspiring photographer, I’m always thrilled at an opportunity to gain insight into the photo industry. “Successful Strategies for Professional Photographers” an upcoming professional development seminar, is certainly no exception.

The seminar (sponsored by En Foco, a non-profit organization devoted to supporting fine art and documentary photographers of diverse cultures) is designed to develop essential skills for careers in the fine art and commercial photography world. It will address frequent questions and concerns of emerging professionals, such as how to get work published and funded and what a successful portfolio should look like.

Be sure to sign up soon, admission to the seminar requires advance registration and seating is limited.

“Successful Strategies” will take place Saturday, June 28, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Calumet Photographic, 22 West 22nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY. Registration costs $25 for En Foco members and $50 for non-members. To register, call (718) 931-9311 or visit www.enfoco.org.