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Humble
Davin — October 20th, 2007

Humble Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit group based in New York that fosters and presents the work of emerging photographers. Well known for their online “Group Show” series — currently in it’s 19th incarnation — Humble has also curated a number of gallery exhibitions and is now offering a “grant for emerging photographers.”

humbleartsfoundation.org

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ASDF
Davin — October 20th, 2007

ASDF “is a series of collaborative projects by Mylinh Trieu Nguyen and David Horvitz. They are first and foremost works that can be translated through digital mediums, enabling free access and reproduction of the files.”

The first project from ASDF is a “photography publication” presented as a downloadable PDF and featuring the work of photographers: Reggie Guerrero, David Horvitz, Andrea Longacre-White, Ye Rin Mok, and Tony Papin.

Nguyen and Horvitz don’t necessarily see the online presentation of their projects as their final form. They suggest that through donations or sponsorship they would like to see these works evolve into printed publications.

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SOLO — Jim Green
Davin — October 18th, 2007

thumbThis week’s SOLO feature is Jim Green: “Drowning.”

Jim is based in London but travels frequently taking engaging contemporary street, landscape, and still life photos as he goes. He has a keen eye for colour and applies it across a number of formats. For more work, see jimbus.co.uk. You can also follow Jim’s frequently updated blog at jimbus.org.

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SOLO — Scott Jackson
Davin — October 10th, 2007

thumbOur third SOLO feature is an image from Scott Jackson: “I wanna be famous for falling in love.”

Scott’s blog, Oh Dog, you Sleuth! grabbed my attention awhile back with it’s wonderful mixture of photography, witty and inventive writing, and it’s ephemeral nature. Scott has kept the blog since 2003 and through it you can follow him around the US embracing what feels like a quintessential contemporary American experience.

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SOLO — Gayla Trail
Davin — October 3rd, 2007

thumbThis week’s SOLO feature is Gayla Trail’s, “Andy’s Delight.” The image is part of Gayla’s on-going “Not Now, Not Ever” series.

Trail is a designer, writer, photographer, and the creator of the popular gardening project, You Grow Girl. She has run her visual journal Making Happy since 2003.

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SOLO — Alain Astruc
Davin — September 26th, 2007

thumbWe’re starting a new series of single image artist features on MakingRoom called SOLO. These micro-features will be hand-selected images from artists we admire and respect and will be updated on a frequent basis — weekly to start and possibly more frequently as we progress.

The first image in the SOLO series is from Alain Astruc, “Melissa swimming in the lake.” Alain, to me, is a photographer who strikes a distinct emotional chord and whose images have a tenderness that I welcome.

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The Blow Up
Davin — September 19th, 2007

Dear Photographers of the Internet,
Your site does not – I repeat, DOES NOT – need to expand to the full size of my screen for me to appreciate your photos. Kind Regards — Davin

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Kickass Young Photographers
Davin — September 16th, 2007

This week, Fjord, a new organization aiming to promote the work of young emerging photographers launched online. The project’s stated goal is to aid photographers who currently have some presence on the web by curating their work into book form.

Each of Fjord’s current roster of over 60 photographers is featured with brief set of images and contact information. No more details are provided about the book project at this point. The list includes quite a few photographers who’s work I know either from their blogs or from Flickr. Michelle Arcila, Shane Lavalette, Ye Rin Mok, Justin James Reed, Bryan Schutmaat, Shen Wei, and Davin Youngs are just a few of the names that jumped out at me.

At least some of the artists listed are also members of the Young Photographers Unlimited foundation whose similar aim is to promote and foster the work of emerging photographers.

What’s interesting even beyond the variety of great work these two projects promote is that it seems like the majority of these young photographers are entering their careers (commercial, fine art, or both) using the web quite naturally as a promotional and communications tools. While the art world (read as commercial interests) continues to focus on printed works as the defacto art ‘product’ of photography, a generation of artists who are comfortable with their work being functioning across a variety of media may produce an alternate effect.

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20×200 Launch
Davin — September 16th, 2007

I received an announcement email that Jen Bekman’s 20×200 project is officially open today after launching earlier this month in ’sneak-peek’ mode. Jen Bekman is well-known as a New York gallerist and the curatorial force behind the Hey, Hot Shot emerging artist juried profile series.

20×200 is a new concept in providing low-cost, small run art editions from a growing pool of hand-picked artists. Editions of 200 are offered at $20 a piece with other smaller numbered editions offered of larger versions at equally approachable prices.

The pre-launch buzz around the launch of the 20×200 project has prompted some artists like Tim Atherton to market their own affordable editions.

The 20×200 concept will only grow in interest as the project’s team adds new work weekly which promises to build a vast and varied selection of work in no time. Watch the 20×200 blog or mailing list for announcements of new work each week.

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Do You Know What it Means
Davin — August 30th, 2007

“Do You Know What it Means is a collaborative, educational effort designed to help the public better understand what life was like in New Orleans before the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. Our mission is to collect the untold stories of the people of New Orleans by chronicling and preserving them in an accessible and public digital archive comprised of collected photographs, videos, family histories, interviews and other artifacts. The archive will result in a virtual representation of New Orleans that will in turn help bring a divided community back together.”

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