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Remain in Light Vol.1 Photographers Announced
Davin — April 17th, 2008

Shane Lavalette and Karly Wildenhaus have announced the photographers to be featured in Vol. 1 of their contemporary photography project, Remain in Light. The photographers chosen are varied and unique and should make for an incredible portfolio of images.

Andreas Weinand
Anne Lass
Coley Brown
Debora Mittelstaedt
Ed Panar
Estelle Hanania
Gustav Almestål
Hiroyo Kaneko
Kamden Vencill
Mark McKnight
Michel Campeau
Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard
Nicola Kast
Nicholas Haggard
Shawn Records
Raimond Wouda
Richard Barnes
Thobias Fäldt
Whitney Hubbs
Yann Orhan

Vol.1 of Remain in Light will also include a booklet with the texts: One Credo After Another by Tim Davis and A Telephone Conversation with Mike Mandel by Shane Lavalette

remaininlight.org/

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Women in Photography
Davin — April 16th, 2008

This has been posted fairly widely at this point, but just in case… Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips have come together to act as curators of a new site which will present the work of female photographers on a monthly basis.

“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.” — Women in Photography

The site is currently seeking submissions and will launch in earnest with the first chosen photographers in June 2008. To submit, follow the guidelines below and send to womeninphotography at gmail dot com.

- 5 jpegs from a cohesive project or a work in progress.
5×7 @150 dpi named “myname_title.jpg”
- short statement/bio

There has been some discussion around the merits of websites, exhibitions, and projects which focus on women—whether it’s exhibitions organized around gender or support systems aimed at the needs of women only. Some have suggested that there is an isolationism, or worse a form of bigotry, in making the assumption that art created by women or the practices of female artists share a context simply because of gender. Another argument has been that there isn’t really a gender divide in contemporary photography and that talking about the possibility actually does a disservice to women by creating a schism.

I tend to disagree with both arguments and do believe that gender (plus race and class) bias is quite alive and unwell in society at large and certainly so in the photography world be it fine art or commercial. Recent exhibitions such as Humble’s 31Under31 may have featured only the work of younger female photographers but I don’t believe that an argument could be made that the curatorial process in their case simply involved choosing any work as long as it was created by a woman. The suggestion has been that grouping work simply because its creators are women is too thin and too arbitrary a context. But I have yet to see any real example of curators only looking at gender, even when gender is a primary focus of an exhibition.

There are a growing number of examples of women gaining reputations in contemporary photography and there is certainly a huge amount of incredible work being created by women. But because more female photographers are becoming known (often online), it doesn’t mean that they don’t face gender bias leading to warped expectations and different treatment related to male artists.

All that as a long-winded way of saying that I totally support efforts like Elkins and Phillips’ Women in Photography and also the related “Ask Me. I’ve got answers” badge campaign that Liz Kuball initated.

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Pause, to Begin - 15 photographers selected
Davin — April 15th, 2008

Pause, to Begin has selected the 15 photographers that will become the focus of the project’s first year.

Colin Blakely; Ann Arbor, Michigan
Timothy Briner; Boonville, California
Alejandro Cartagena; Monterrey, Mexico
Hin Chua; London, England
Tealia Ellis-Ritter; Barrington, Illinois
Matt Eich; Athens, Ohio
Matthew Gamber; Savannah, Georgia
Shawn Gust; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Shannon Johnstone; Cary, North Carolina
Erika Larsen; Hoboken, New Jersey
John Mann; Tallahassee, Florida
Thomas Prior; Brooklyn, New York
Brea Souders; New York, New York
Sonja Thomsen; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Shawn Records; Portland, Oregon

Starting May 1, 2008, David and Ethan will depart the state of Maine with documentary filmmaker Bruno Toré for 1 month to meet the aforementioned photographers. Upon returning in June, 2008, Pause, to Begin will begin to unveil one photographer’s complete series of work per day at www.pausetobegin.com.

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Click! at Brooklyn Museum
Davin — April 15th, 2008

“Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process.”

“Click! … begins with an open call—artists are asked to electronically submit a work of photography that responds to the exhibition’s theme, Changing Faces of Brooklyn, along with an artist statement.”

Brooklyn Museum has entered the public evaluation phase of Click!. The work of each artist (chosen in the project’s first phase) is presented with a short statement and a sliding rank tool. I’m not sure about the granularity of the evaluation slider — I think that an out-of-five Likert scale may have worked better but that’s not overly important.

“Click! culminates in an exhibition at the Museum, where the artworks are installed according to their relative ranking from the juried process. Visitors will also be able to see how different groups within the crowd evaluated the same works of art. The results will be analyzed and discussed by experts in the fields of art, online communities, and crowd theory.”

brooklynmuseum.org

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Robyn Cumming
Davin — March 18th, 2008

by Robyn CummingToronto photographer Robyn Cumming was interviewed about her latest work, Little Legs by Heather Morton. I interviewed Cumming a couple of years ago about her series In Place and as Morton notes, it’s exciting to see where she has taken things in her current work.

There is also a follow-up post discussing Cumming’s editorial/commercial work which is very timely given the amount of blog talk around the “fine art” photographers doing commercial work.

Morton is an independent art buyer, a misunderstood and to most people invisible profession and her new site already gives a different and interesting perspective — plus she’s also based in Toronto so there’s a further personal interest on the art buying decisions made by Canadian agencies and publications.

heathermorton.ca/blog/

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You were there, too.
Davin — March 18th, 2008

You were there, too.The Present Group is an art subscription service which offers a limited edition project from a new artist each quarter.

Their latest release is You were there, too., an edition of 45 three booklet sets by photographer Davin Youngs.

Davin says about the work, “My photographs are an investigation of how the nature of my relationships with those I photograph is visually represented. Gesture, location, and position of subject raise questions about the ways in which my interactions with the subjects exist and the space we occupy, even as it relates to self-portraiture. Some relational elements are clear, while others are questionable. This is meant to be the case, with the only consistent elements being the presence of me and the subject, as well as an awareness of my medium.” — Davin Youngs

thepresentgroup.com

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Totally, 100% TREND
Davin — March 4th, 2008

via Ana @ pica+pixel

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Magenta television
Davin — February 27th, 2008

Over the past few years, Toronto’s Magenta Foundation has fostered and promoted contemporary photography in Canada and around the world with their Flash Forward and Carte Blanche books and a successful print magazine.

Magenta has now launched a new website that’s a precursor to a broadcast television channel on photography arts. Magenta television launches with video features from: Robyn Cumming, Adrian Fish, Jamie Campbell, and Christopher LaMarca.

Here’s a peek at Robyn Cumming’s feature. MakingRoom featured Robyn’s In Place series in our first issue.

magentatelevision.com

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Things I have learned in my life so far
Davin — February 25th, 2008

Stefan Sagmeister has launched a community site which follows from the title of his recent book:

“The idea for this site originally came out of my own list in my diary, under the very same title: Things I have learned in my life so far. Astonishingly, I have only learned twenty or so things so far. Over the last five years I did manage to publish these maxims all over the world, in spaces normally occupied by advertisements and promotions: as billboards, projections, light-boxes, magazine spreads, annual report covers, fashion brochures, and, recently, as giant inflatable monkeys.

So here I extend this same question to you:
What have you learned in your life so far? What is it that you are fairly sure about? What is it that you believe in by now?” — thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com

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What is Anything?
Davin — February 22nd, 2008

Anything is a

that lets its contributors freely add/edit any image or text to it, as often as they wish. In each of its 64 main pages, there is an area allocated for 1 image (left side) and 1 body of text (right side). Upon registration, each contributor is asked to choose whether they wish to upload image or text, and they are permanently assigned a random page (shared with another contributor).

whatisanything.com

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