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Robin Howie - A Dialogue with Public Space: Davin — December 4th, 2007; Robin Howie, who graduated from Kingston University this year, initiated a series of outdoor interventions in the form of texts placed in public spaces.

“A Dialogue with Public Space is a project to engage the general public with public space. I travelled around London creating a series of typographic interventions within the environment. These featured rhetoric statements which encourage questions about the nature and success of public space.” - Robin Howie; Posted in People, Websites — Comment

2Point8 - Joel Meyerowitz: Davin — December 3rd, 2007; Michael David Murphy has posted the first part of an interview with Joel Meyerowitz on 2Point8. See some of Michael’s other discussions here.; Posted in Interviews, People, Websites — Comment

Michael Schmelling: Davin — December 1st, 2007; Shane Lavalette has a great conversation with Michael Schmelling at his site. Shane talks with Michael about how he came to photography at an early age, what later lead him to El Paso, Texas and James Holloway who became the subject of his 2002 book Shut Up Truth, and his continuing fine art and editorial work.; Posted in Interviews, People, Websites — Comment

Davin — November 30th, 2007

The just launched website Words Without Pictures is essentially a relaunch of the Tip of the Tongue essay and discourse site that had a brief life in the past year. This relaunch is most likely in no small part due to Charlotte Cotton’s new position at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the project’s sponsor.

Words Without Pictures inaugural essay is Christopher Bedford’s provocatively titled, Qualifying Photography as Art, or, Is Photography All It Can Be?. The core of his question is squarely for those entrenched in art criticism and not necessarily for those involved in its creation. But there are some interesting distinctions to be made in terms of those artists who use photography to facilitate a broader conceptual goal and those whose intent is inherently about “capturing.”

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Sour grapes, cronyism, and pep

Davin — November 30th, 2007

Portland, OR photographer Shawn Records (website with fancy dots here) has recently started blogging and had a couple of con-joined posts on dealing with the mixed bag of feelings surrounding juried exhibitions and form letter laden rejection of all sorts: pep talk / sour grapes and cronyism… two from the home team

I’ve bounced similar thoughts around about the validity of juried shows and other pay-for-play opportunities to get work in front of what one hopes will be an influential set of eyeballs. I’ve wondered about the possible closed-loop of relationships that may effect decisions in these cases while never really putting my own work out there because of my own mixture of sour grapes and self deprecation. It’s easy to believe in corrupt systems that serve to line some person or corporation’s pockets but it’s maybe just as easy to take a look at the great work that is included in many juried shows and emerging annuals — great work chosen by people who are dedicating unpaid time for the most part to someone else’s work.

Shawn takes this latter approach in his recent posts. He recognizes his own misgivings and flips them into something more positive.

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The Abominable Charles Christopher

Davin — November 17th, 2007

This post is something a bit different for MakingRoom but we do occasionally feature non-photo visual art and there are really no rules to break. A couple of days ago, a friend pointed me to a fairly new web comic and I was instantly captivated by it. It’s called The Abominable Charles Christopher and it’s created by Toronto’s Karl Kerschl as part of a group of serialized web comics at transmission-x.com.

Transmission-X is also home to comics by friends, Claudia Dávila and Michael Cho, who are both supremely talented.

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Must Not Sleep / Must Warn Others

Davin — November 17th, 2007

Must Not Sleep / Must Warn Others is a collective of photographers striving to promote positive social change through the power of photography.

Formed in Seattle, the group has expanded to include other like-minded US photographers:

Greg Wasserstrom - Brooklyn, NY
Greg Lutze - Seattle, WA
Bryan Schutmaat - Houston, TX
Christina Mei Lutze - Denver, CO
Leif Anderson - Seattle, WA
Ian Whitmore - Chicago, IL
Jerad Knudson - Seattle, WA

The collective seeks to effect change through “shows and books with proceeds going towards selected charities, pro bono work for non-profit organizations and personal projects with a heightened sense of humanity.”

mustwarnothers.com

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Ross Evertson — Disappear Here: Davin — November 16th, 2007; MakingRoom Co-Editor, Ross Evertson, recently wrote about a project he did with Los Angeles’ People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) back in 2005. The project resulted in a series of images entitled Disappear Here which take an alternate look at how we see homelessness — or don’t.; Posted in People, Websites — 1 Comment

Ffffound!

Davin — November 13th, 2007

I was given an invite to the image bookmarking site Ffffound! about a week ago and I can definitely say I’m a little addicted. Ffffound! is currently still in private beta but you can still catch the spillover of new and popular images and subscribe to an “everyone” feed.

There’s already a very eclectic mix of images on the site: the standard web forwarded animated GIFs, countless examples of Modernist design ephemera, cheesecake photos past and present, hot new graphic design, photography, and other visual art. For a website originating from Japan, it is also highly Western and english-language in focus. I hope that aspect will get better when the site is eventually open to the public.

Ffffound! isn’t so much a social networking site but it does have some small hooks like “followers” and “following” between members but these are much more of an automated thing based on how your taste in images tracks versus other member’s taste.

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Timothy Archibald - Multiples, Choices

Davin — November 11th, 2007

Probably best known for his Sex Machines work, Timothy Archibald is also a successful editorial photographer. Archibald is also a father and recently he has been blogging a series of mixed media images and groupings that explore the ephemeral world of youth. More interesting is that Archibald has also been asking for open critiques and suggestions via his comments.

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