Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon
of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
—Minor White (1908-1976)
thanks to http://blog.fotovisura.com/page/4
Archive for November, 2010
lovely thoughts on this week after thanksgiving
November 30, 201014th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction
November 29, 2010
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2nd edition, THE JACOB RIIS AWARD
November 23, 2010
Selected among thousands of photographers from all over the world, Kamil Vojnar from France won the first edition of The Jacob Riis Award. Andrea Land (USA), Heather McClintock (USA), Nermine Hammam (Egypt), Mitch Dobrowner (USA), and Robert Baum (Belgium) were the Runner Ups in this competition.
With this second edition offers again outstanding recognition opportunities for professional and non professional photographers worldwide WPGA is committed to discover and distinguish new talents as well as to acknowledge established artists. Be part of the group of photographers that are shifting the world of photography: enter your images to one of the most challenging and rewarding photographic competitions for pro and non pro photographers.
Until November 30th you have the chance to enter with Early Bird discounted entry fees, and submit your images at any time before the final deadline; therefore you can save today and still have lot of time to prepare your work.
The winner will receive a cash prize of $3,000, and a selected works of his/her winning portfolio will be featured in the convcer of the book 2nd. Edition of The Jacob Riis Awad to be published during 2011. The first Runner Up will be featured in the back cover.
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards organize the second edition of THE JACOB RIIS AWARD (named after the Danish-American photographer, 1849-1914) benefiting Save the Children Foundation. It will focus in portfolios (minimum of 8 and maximum of 12 images) inviting photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome. The Award is open worldwide to all professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. There is no theme for this Award, and the images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work (a theme or images representing the artistic trajectory of the photographer), rather than individual images.
The Award will consist in a cash prize of $ 3,000. A selected image of the winner portfolio will be featured in the cover of the Book The Jacob Riis Award 2011. JURORS:
The Jacob Riis Awards will be juried by Chris Steele-Perkins, UK (Magnum Photos), Tim Anderson, USA (publisher Red Dog Journal), Larry Padgett, USA (founder and former Managing Director of The Center for Fine Art Photography), Sucheta Das, India (Photographer), and Julio Hardy, Argentina/Spain (Managing Director, WPGA).
Awarded portfolios will be exhibited during 2012 in a city and venue to be decided
AWARDS’ DATES:
Early Bird Deadline (with discounted entry fees): November 30th at 11:50 EST
Final Deadline: January 31th, 2011 at 11:50 EST.
Juror’s Announcement: Last week of March, 2011
ENTRY FEES:
Early Bird: $60 for the first portfolio; $30 each additional portfolio
After the Early Bird deadline: $80 for the first portfolio; $40 each additional portfolio
Each portfolio should be composed of a minimum of 8 images and a maximum of 12. Submission of entries can only be done online.
COPYRIGHT:
Submtted photographs may be reproduced for the purpose of marketing and promoting WPGA contests and awards, in catalogs, posters, postcards, publications, and on the INternet. Such use is granted for not more than two years after the announcement of the awards and without payment to the photographer of featured models. Photographers will receive photo credit with each use, and will allow WPGA to sub-license their photographs to the press for reproduction in connection with the contests and WPGA exhibitions.
To see the image specifications requirements and to submit your portfolios click here.
To see the awarded portolios of the first edition of The Jacob Riis Award click here
THE 2011 TRAVEL AND STUDY GRANT PROGRAM
November 23, 2010
Jerome Foundation announces:
THE 2011 TRAVEL AND STUDY GRANT PROGRAM
Deadline: February 28, 2011
ELIGIBLE DISCIPLINES: MUSIC, THEATER, and VISUAL ARTS
The 2011 Travel and Study Grant Program will award grants to emerging creative artists (composers, sound artists, playwrights, creators of performance art and experimental theater, and visual artists). Minnesota-based executive and program administrators working for nonprofit organizations in music, theater, and visual arts are also eligible to apply.
The deadline for applications in Music, Theater, and Visual Arts is February 28, 2011.
Applications must be postmarked on or before the deadline to be eligible for consideration. Fax and e-mail submissions are not permitted.
The 2011 Travel and Study Grant Program is supported by the General Mills Foundation, the Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of HRK Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.
The Travel and Study Grant Program places emphasis on individual exploration and growth. The program supports such activities as research leading to the creation of new work, the development of collaborations, participation in specific training programs, time for reflection and individualized study, investigating artistic work outside of Minnesota or New York City, and dialogue on aesthetic issues.
Application materials are available on the website at www.jeromefdn.org and in paper form upon request to the Jerome Foundation office:
400 Sibley Street, Suite 125
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101-1928
Telephone: 651.224.9431 or 1-800-995-3766.
courtesy of smack Mellon, Brooklyn NY
study shows people ignore generic photos
November 19, 2010Most people can agree that run-of-the-mill stock photos can be boring and not generate any communications nor add interest. a new study by Jakob Nielsen, a web consultant and author finds that not only do they not elicit a responce or add anything but people actually ignore them. with eye-tracking software researchers can see where people are looking or not looking.
see the New York Times for the full article.
wondering what you can do for someone else, giving is receiving
November 19, 2010Help-Portrait:
Get Involved (Dec. 4)
Founded by photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is a movement of photographers, makeup artists and volunteers who come together to give, not take, pictures of those who are less fortunate. On December 4, 2010, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need and taking their picture.
beware of duty free stores
November 18, 2010these past few months i’ve been going through airports and as i pass duty free stores i stop in and and check for bargains ever since we bought a bottle of champagne coming home from paris. i wasn’t too happy with the bottle thinking it was mundane champagne but the sentiment was nice as we shared the contents.
told mary my favorite champagne was a Veure Clicquot Ponsardin brut which we didn’t find in Orly-Charles de Gaulle airport. so every time i have time to kill i wander through the duty free stores checking prices. wine searcher.com says the price range of the different vintages go from 1928 $1299.00 to 2003-06 is around 54.00.
my local stores here in nyc hell kitchen price ranges around 40.00 average but the duty free store in Tocumen airport, Panama city, Panama the price was $50.00 duty free. last week passing through San Francisco International airport i checked their duty free store who wanted $65.00 for the same bottle as Panama and hells kitchen.
so what i learned from this adventure is buyer beware and know your local prices before you get blinded by the phrase ‘duty free.’ they didn’t say profit free.
the reason i like this brand of champagne is i’ve never gotten a head ache during or after drinking this brew. i am not huge champagne expert nor do i know that much about wines as some do. i have learned a couple things i like and can remember, which as i walk from room to room and forget why i walked into the room, so that doesn’t say much for my memory.
knowing how many thngs we have as human beings to celebrate i just thought i’d pass this along to my readers as a public service. duty done it’s now time to snuggle up to your honey enjoying each moment you have together.
My life as a photography subject. who needs photo salon?
November 17, 2010i’ve been asking a member of photo salon held each 3rd wed at soho photo to show my work there to the members who are mostly commercial photog’s and have been ignored by emmanuel on each request.
photo salon is the playground of The Photogroup Salon Committee
Jay Maisel, Howard Schatz, Bill Westheimer, Jack Reznicki, David Hodgson, Rich Pomerantz, Emmanuel Faure all of whom are excellent photog’s in their own right, they started photo salon to show their work to friends and family, but have expanded to show others as well.
shadows
i am the type of person who takes these things personally; rejections, acceptances, awards etc but try and put on a humble public face. yes it does hurt not to be accepted no matter where from the playground as children to the workplace.
it’s true i didn’t voter for myself during voting for my first emmy back in 1985. i thought that it wasn’t right to vote for yourself, of course i was lucky others voted me a winner. where did i get these cockamamie ideas? the next year of my second nomination i did vote for myself and won again. but that’s neither here nor there.
Philip F Clark writes in his The Artpoint blog about the painter Max Rodriguez that he ‘understands that art is an act of freedom.’ well so do i and others have that same right.
reflections-inspired by jay maisel
but looking at my work now, maybe they are right that i don’t fit the groups esthetic nor commercial aspect.
man on the stairs
after all my work is really just a snap shot of my life. i can’t take pictures of someplace i’ve not been to. it’s a real chore keeping up with my life photography and trying to run an informative blog such as this, but what the hell else do i have to do during the daytime? so these images are a part of my life where i’ve been
metal door
but my life isn’t something i do for others pleasure, I DO IT FOR ME. i love to share my occurences and discoveries with others, how i see things
hallway
or what i don’t see but am there anyways. so i’ve come to the same conclusion that groucho marx came to, of not wanting to belong to any club who would have me.
man with cell phone
so i’ll just continue doing what i do, wandering around the city taking pictures as photographers have done since the invention of photography or maybe i’ll go below and see what there is to see.
hallway
radios
textures
hatchway door handle
moving down deeper into the innards of life, as was shared by a teacher of mine’ Self discovery isn’t always good news’
ship walls
engine room
until we get to the proverbial locked door, do we have what it takes to open the door and see what’s behind it?
chained door
oh well so photo salon won’t let me be a part of them. i’ll just have to continue doing what i do and they will be the lesser for it. i know i am loved and a fairly talented guy who’s just doing this because i love to make pictures. this is my life. thank you for sharing in it.
2011 Charlatan Ink Art Prize
November 17, 2010
The Charlatan Ink Art Project
was established in 2009 within the walls of the iconic Carlton Arms Hotel, New York, by two visual artists, Dariusz Solarski from Poland and Austrian born Andre van der Kerkhoff. From the moment of its conception, the Charlatan Ink Art Project has grown from a whimsical idea into an ever expanding universe of ideas, which will touch over time all aspects of the visual arts in whatever form or shape.
Within those expanding ideas the Charlatan Ink Art Project contains the essential nucleus of its creation, the establishment of the CHARLATAN INK ART PRIZE for the VISUAL ARTS. Which is part of the CHARLATAN INK COLLECTIVE.
The CHARLATAN INK ART PRIZE for the VISUAL ARTS will be the gateway for the Charlatan Ink Art Project to connect worldwide with artists, galleries and art organizations, facilitating cross pollination and creation of fertile soils to establish new and exciting means to present art to a wider public.
Once the Charlatan Ink Art Project has established itself within the New York art establishment and with time on a global stage, Charlatan Ink LLC New York will pledge itself to metamorphose into an art-entity, that will not only search for new inventive art and art practitioners, but will commit itself to nurture new talents through its facilities of publishing and art management. Charlatan Ink LLC New York will create an innovative new model in artist representation, allowing artists to be free of commercial conformity and limiting art market policies.
remember to click on the fly. to contact Charlatan Ink LLC
Charlatan Ink LLC
1133 Broadway, Suite 708
New York, NY 10010
212-330-8214
goodby Mendocino Ca. final pictures
November 13, 2010the great american adventure , mary’s and my train travel across and conclusion in caifornia is over. bills are recorded time to move on other projects needing attention so i’ve burned the last disk of images, twelve in all 48 gb of images. there is no way of sharing all. but this is a start
mendocino hotel, calif
wandering around the town taking everything in
inn
church
town of mendocino ca
but as i wander around so does my mind as i discover new things
garden light
tower house
fence with red plastic tack
tree
and of course where there is light then comes darkness
mendocino fire dept
sunset over mendocino
sunset over mendocino
etched window
house for sale
silhouette, mendocino ca
but what would any picture story of mendocino be without the famous carved topping to this downtown icon.
carving
a topping to a wonderful trip. well worth the effort of dragging suitcases on and off trains every few days then resting and celebrating our wedding in a quaint town such as this.
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