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Camera Hero: Dudes. Tighten your headbands and dust off your spandex, Justin James Reed has launched a project that’s critical to our understanding of Contemporary Photography. It’s Air Camera and Justin wants shots of your very best fauxtographic chops. Whether you’re an Eddie Van Nikon or an Yngwie Hasselblad this is the site for you.; Davin — August 22nd, 2008
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Here’s a peek at Craig Marshall’s latest short, Figment.

Craig is a Toronto based artist and animator and more of his work can be seen at logosforhobos.com.

Davin — July 20th, 2008
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Back in March, Brooklyn Museum put out an open call for photos responding to the theme “The Changing Faces of Brooklyn.” The 389 photos submitted, each with a 100-word artist’s statement, were presented online anonymously and randomly for public evaluation in a unique experiment in the wisdom of crowds. Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition is the result of the 410,089 evaluations made. It’s a clustered exhibit of the top 20% of the evaluated works. The exhibition opens today and runs until August 10th.

What’s also interesting is how thoroughly documented and transparent the process has been. It’s clear that organizer Shelley Bernstein, the museum’s Manager of Information Systems, and her team saw this as a chance to examine this type of public evaluation. The exhibition exposes some of the data collected and provides some interesting comparative tools that track things like “evaluator knowledge level”, the level of discussion on each image, and the location of the evaluator.

brooklynmuseum.org

Davin — June 27th, 2008
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Jonathan Gitelson: Chicago El Stories

Jonathan Gitelson’s public art project in Chicago’s Armitage Brown Line Station opened today and there is an accompanying website, chicagoelstories.com, which approximates the experience for people who can’t make it to the station. Thankfully, there’s no rush as this is a beautifully conceived permanent element within the station. Jonathan has also posted a quick 360 video of the space on his blog.

On the website, each of the 42 still photos are presented with audio stories of varying lengths. The interviews were conducted between February and April 2007 on the platform of the station. Each passenger was asked to tell a story about their Chicago experience. In the station, the images of the related Chicago locations are paired with excerpts from each person’s story on 20“x24“ glass tiles.

Gitelson’s work is wonderfully varied and high concept with a great personal sense of humour. You need return visits to really take in all of the projects on his website, thegit.net.

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Chicago El Stories also reminds me to mention the Toronto location-based oral history project, Murmur. Shawn Micallef, James Roussel, and Gabe Sawhney began Murmur in Toronto’s Kensington Market in 2003 and it has spawned new locations around the city and around the world.

Davin — June 5th, 2008
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Women in Photography Launches: Cara Phillips and Amy Elkins have launched their much anticipated Women in Photography site today and their first feature is Elinor Carucci.

“There are more women working in the contemporary photo world then ever before. Their methods, choice of subject matter, visual language, and processes run the gamut of artistic possibility. What unites them is their passion and the effort they devote to creating extraordinary bodies of work. Women in Photography is a showcase for this work. It is also a resource for photographers, editors, curators, gallery owners, and viewers alike to discover and enjoy the work of female artists. By mixing the work of emerging photographers with artists that have achieved high levels of success within fine art and commercial worlds, the project is designed to open a visual dialogue and create a venue to share work, support, and ideas.” — wipnyc.org; Davin — June 3rd, 2008
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New York Photo Awards 2008

Congratulations to the winners, announced last night, of the inaugural New York Photo Awards.

Student Personal Fine Art Series - Anna Skladman
Student Personal Fine Art Single Image - Alana Celii
Student Book - Tiana Markova-Gold
Student Editorial Series - Tobias Kruse
Student Editorial Single Image - Gratiane de Moustier
Multimedia - Photo/Audio - Two Winners…”The Ninth Floor” by Jessica Dimmock & MediaStorm/”Curse of the Black Gold” by Ed Kashi & MediaStorm
Multimedia - Photo/Video - “Bearing Witness” a Reuters/MediaStorm Collaboration
Personal/Fine Art Series - Edgar Martins
Personal/Fine Art Single Image - Jessica Todd Harper
Editorial Series - Paula Bronstein
Editorial Single Image - Two Winners…Ibraheem Abu Mustafa & Adem Hadei
Photography Book - Amy Stein
Advertising Series - John Offenbach
Advertising Single Image - Jason Bell

Davin — May 17th, 2008
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MUTO by BLU

A staggering and beautiful work of outdoor art. MUTO by BLU.

blublu.org

Davin — May 12th, 2008
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Where We’re From

Photo copyright Daniel Shea Lindley Warren, who curated the successful The Ones we Love project, has released a new thematic project entitled Where We’re From.

“Where We’re From is a project focusing on where it is that the selected photographers have grown up, lived, or are currently living. The project allows viewers an inside look at places that the artists have felt at home; letting people take a closer look at the lives of the photographers through their images and words.” — weprojects.org

Lindley’s We Projects is a space to watch for interesting new work from a variety of photographers.

The photo is from Daniel Shea’s current Baltimore series.

Davin — May 10th, 2008
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Flash Forward 2008 Winners Announced

Image copyright Adam Makarenko Magenta Publishing for the Arts has released the list of the winners for Flash Forward 2008.

This year’s Bright Spark Award winner is Adam Makarenko whose work is aligned with the creations of Lori Nix and fellow Canadian Sarah Anne Johnson who was one of the winners of this year’s Grange Prize.

As in previous years, the Flash Forward winners from Canada, US, and UK will have work exhibited in Toronto and in other venues around the world and also published in the Flash Forward 2008 book. The books are very nice hardcover volumes and highly recommended.

Davin — May 10th, 2008
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ADC Young Guns 6

The Art Directors Club continues with its mandate of recognizing and fostering new work and emerging talents in multiple creative fields. Since 1996, Young Guns has chosen to honour people doing outstanding multidisciplinary work. This year’s competition is now open until June 2nd.

ADC Young Guns exists to identify the vanguard of creative professionals who let loose their imaginations, shattering conventions and breaking boundaries with a dash of brilliance and personal flair. Those of you who’ve set your minds to making a name for yourself, raising new standards from within cubicles, conference rooms, cramped apartments, and studios across the world—this is your chance to put those battle cries in action. If you’re age thirty or under and have two years of the working life under your belt, we’d like you to show us what it’s all about. — ADC

adcyoungguns.org

Davin — May 8th, 2008
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