you can flood the city, fill the path tunnels with water, ruin almost everyones weekend without power but art walks go on. mary and i will be showing our work at the hoboken nj art walk and studio tour at the Monroe Center, 720 Monroe Street, Hoboken NJ on Sunday November 18, 2012 from noon to 6pm.
if you’re in the neighborhood do stop by and say hello.
be there or be square
jene
well after i posted my computer problems i received this email from Timothy Anderson who runs Red Dog News, a photography e-mail news letter notifying me that i won a prize in his contest ‘Color it Red’ i haven’t been doing much in the way of publicizing my work last year, sort of contest burn out. but when we get back to the frozen chosen NYC we are putting together a show in Lancaster Pa for this summer.
After sorting through 296 images from 62 photographers, it still took a tie-breaker to determine the first through fourth placings in the 2012 Red Dog News, Color It Red photography contest. Thank you to all the entrants.
In order of finish (with prizes listed) here are the winners:
1. Fran Matthews, Red Magnolia, Epson R2880 photo printer
2. Bobbie Goodrich, Tango Argentina, Think Tank Airport Airstream
3. Jim Shirey, Close Friends, Lensbaby Composer Lens
4. Lisa Collard, Untitled #18, Silverfast Ai Scanning Software
5. Jerry Downs, Oriental Poppies, Nik Color Efex Pro 4
6. Cathy Panebianco, Hunter, Photoshelter six-month membership
7. Susan Graham, Dance With the Flowers, Red River Paper $100 Gift Certificate
8. Jene Youtt, Woman in Red, O’Reilly Books, $100 Gift Certificate
9. Stephanie Houston, Study in Red #2, Think Tank Camera Strap
10. Kimber Wallwork-Heineman, Serendipity, Think Tank Camera Strap
Honorable Mention, with inclusion in the Red Dog News, Color It Red Gallery Exhibition:
Marti Belcher, Young Monk Novice
Marguerite Garth (3), The Forsaken #15, The Forsaken #14, The Forsaken #24
Lia Moldovan, Airborne
David Wiley, Butterfly Love
Lon Bixby, Misty Red
Elsa d’Ellis (2), Cactus Moon, Hummingbird’s View
Susan Graham, Baby Boomer Red
Eva Lewarne, Night Reader
Cynthia Walpole, Magenta-Throated Woodstar #5439
Stephanie Houston, Study in Red #3
Jim McDonough, Buoys in Red
Cathy Panebianco, Bird Dog
Thank you to the sponsors for their kind donations for Color It Red 2012!
Introduced in 2010 to support young photographers, the prestigious €25,000 Lacoste Elysée Prize is awarded by the Swiss Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne Switzerland, with sponsorship from Lacoste, the clothing brand.
The Musée de l’Elysée has decided to suspend the organisation of the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011 in response to the decision of the organizers to exclude the work of Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour’s work.
Sansour was among eight finalists shortlisted for the 2011 prize
Eight nominees for the 2011 prize were selected to take part in the contest, and asked to produce three photographs on the theme la joie de vivre.
With the help of a grant of €4,000, each nominee had “carte blanche” to interpret the theme how they saw fit, whether directly or indirectly. The nominees were free to make a submission based upon their existing work or as an entirely new project.
An expert jury was scheduled to meet at the end of January 2012 to select the winner of the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011.
Larissa Sansour was among the eight artists shortlisted for the 2011 prize. In December 2011, sponsor Lacoste demanded that Sansour’s nomination be revoked. Lacoste stated their refusal to support Sansour’s work, describing it as “too pro-Palestinian.”
In November 2011, three photos from Sansour’s ‘Nation Estate’ project were accepted, and she was congratulated by the prize administrators for her work and professionalism. Sansour’s name was subsequently included in all literature relating to the prize and on the website as an official nominee. Her name has since been removed, however, and her project was withdrawn from an upcoming issue of contemporary art magazine ArtReview introducing the nominated artists.
Sansour was asked to approve a statement saying that she voluntarily withdrew her nomination “in order to pursue other opportunities.” Sansour refused to agree to such a statement.
Sansour says, “I am very sad and shocked by this development. This year Palestine was officially admitted to UNESCO, yet we are still being silenced. As a politically involved artist I am no stranger to opposition, but never before have I been censored by the very same people who nominated me in the first place. Lacoste’s prejudice and censorship puts a major dent in the idea of corporate involvement in the arts. It is deeply worrying.”
Sansour’s multimedia project ‘Nation Estate’ was “conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for UN membership. Nation Estate depicts a science fiction-style Palestinian state in the form of a single skyscraper housing the entire Palestinian population. Inside this new Nation Estate, the residents have recreated their lost cities on separate floors: Jerusalem on 3, Ramallah on 4, Sansour’s own hometown of Bethlehem on 5, etc.
Sansour’s shortlisted work, ‘Nation Estate,’ conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for UN membership, is a multimedia science fiction project that imagines a future Palestinian state in the form of a skyscraper. The single skyscraper houses the entire Palestinian population, with residents recreating their lost cities on separate floors.
Sansour from Bethlehem is a prominent Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Her most recent film, ‘A Space Exodus,’ was nominated for the short-film category at the Dubai International Film Festival
The Musée de l’Elysée has announced its suspension of the 2011 Prize and has offered to exhibit ‘Nation Estate’ outside the framework of the prize and Lacoste’s sponsorship.
originally reported in ahramonline
more on Larissa Sansour rejection at Artinfo or see her web site larissasonsour for more info on her.
for Women Photographers
Professional and non professional women photographers from all countries. On this occasion there will be only one section: pro and non-pro will be juried together.
Deadline: December 30th, 2011, at 11:59pm PST
Jurors: Amber Terranova and Dina Bova.
Amber Terranova is the photo editor for Photo District News. She worked previously for New York magazine and Outside. She holds a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, Manhattan. Amber has assisted with programming at Center, a Santa Fe-based non-profit organization that supports photographers. Her taste in photography tends toward emerging and established artists with strong personal projects, surprising content and evidence of political or social engagement. She’s most drawn to introspective, provocative work.
Dina Bova was born in Moscow and currently lives in Israel. Her images have been awarded in Px3, Hasselbald Masters, Sony Awards, 1st edition of the JMCA, Nikon, PDN’s World in Focus, and have won 21 Gold medals in international photo-contests under FIAP/PSA patronage in USA, Austria, France, England, Croatia, Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel. Her art is a world of allegories, metaphors and multifaceted associations. She thinks that it’s not important how an artist creates his work. It can be created with any tool and any medium, but it should speak for itself and convey a very special mood. It should need no explanation, no elaboration and no apologies. It can be very aesthetic or the opposite of it. For Dina, the most important thing is freeing the imagination.
Award:
The Julia Margaret Cameron Award will be given to 12 women photographers which will be invited to exhibit (and sell) their work in a very selective collective exhibition in Paris during 2013, honoring one hundredth year of the birth of Robert Capa, co-founder of Magnum Photos and famous war photojournalist. WPGA will take care of the framing and matting, as well as all gallery expenses. Exhibitors will receive 40% of the sales, 20% will be reserved for the gallery/organizers, and 40% will be donated to a charitable organization selected by the awardees.A catalog will be printed, and all 12 awardees will receive one free copy.
Categories:
Portraits
Landscapes and Seascapes
Street Photography and Cityscapes
Fine Art
Nude and Figure
Documentary and Editorial
Only Single images will be accepted; no portfolios in this edition.
Announcement : March 8th, 2012 (honoring the International Women’s Day, observed for the first time on 28 February 1909 in United States; proclamed in 1977 by the United Nations General Assembly as the UN Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace; and marked in 2011 by President Barack Obama as the International Women’s Day to reflect “the extraordinary accomplishments of women” in shaping the country’s history” — and we expect this award will reflect the extraordinary accomplishments of women in picturing the human emotions, the nature, the current affairs, and the beauty that surround as well as calling for action to end with the conflicts and poverty in this troubled world.)
Entry Fees: $40 for the first 3 images; $10 each additional image
With National Breast Cancer Month (October) upon us (http://www.nbcam.org/), we want to throw our support behind some great organizations that are helping those patients, survivors, families and others that have been affected by this disease.
This Shoot Out photo contest is intended, mirroring the goal of NBCAM, to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure.
Enter your images that promote breast cancer awareness and/or celebrate the beauty, strength, spirit and nurture threatened by the disease. Enter your images that tell a story of inspiration, of strength, of survival. Enter your images that are touching, humorous, sensual, perceptive… real.
We want to really make a splash. We’ve got lofty goals for this contest and would love to see the total raised get OVER $100,000. To do this, WE NEED YOUR HELP! We need everyone to get the word out… share this on Facebook, Twitter, via email. Tell your friends, your neighbors, your clients, your kids’ friends… everyone.
The ‘starting pot’ will be $100 in total, but we want to see a truly inspiring number here. So help us get these numbers growing! Help us demonstrate the power of images to help raise awareness and money to make a difference!
We’ll be updating the prizing as the entries come in, so check back… and enter as often as you can! You’re supporting a great cause!
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the George Segal Gallery at The Montclair State University once again along with, Mary Durante Wehrhahn and i Jene Youtt cordially invites you and your guest to our special art exhibition and sale. Opening reception Sunday January 23, 2011, 2:00pm -5:00pm, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043
* Access from the 4th floor of the Red Hawk Deck parking area adjacent to the Alexander Kasser Theater
Exhibition dates: January 18 – February 19, 2011. Gallery hours: tue,wed,fri & sat 10a to 5pm, thru 12:30p to 7:30p.
973 655 3382 / montclair.edu/segalgallery
we, mary & i, both have work showing this year. we would be more than happy to chat about our artistic styles and philosophy over a glass or two of wine. in the past we’ve met some interesting artist and photographers from all over here and they have met us.
i know this is during the green bay packer / chicago bears playoff game, and i’ve no idea what these college people are thinking when they plan these events, but hey maybe you don’t follow football and want to meet us. cool
Golden
ugh a dastardly chore but it gives me a chance to sit here in front of my computer screen perusing hard drives and long ignored files. in a way i get to see my images in a new light as it were. today i processed color images to B&W and found some pretty cool images of a young female artist i had the privilege to work with a few years ago.
Caught
well to you observant types yes you’re right…this is a male image i threw in because i thought this was pretty cool and had worked on it also to submit to SHOTS magazine which is a B&W mag.
but i’ll try and show the images in color then B&W so we may see the difference. first let me say the young artist didn’t seem too happy with my images. she had said she was looking for images to post for fine art modeling. heck i thought that’s right up my alley so it should be pretty easy. at least i liked some of them.
young artist portrait
a bit dramatic i guess but we went all over trying different looks in the same dress and some not.
B&W
it’s hard for me to be objective about my work, love it when the clients are ecstatic but to get nothing from them is hard. i do meet a lot of people that way, maybe it’s a generational thing.
another version
then B&W
B&W
but just so you don’t get the idea we lost our vision for what she said she wanted images for we did some of these
nude female
and then this
B&W
yes the lighting is a bit dramatic as i was using my lowel lighting tungsten package.
reclining nude
but this image works much better in B&W than it does in color unlike the others above, but then what do i know, i just pushed the button
B&W
do i think any of these images are prize winning? i’ve no idea but it keeps me from causing too much trouble out here in the world, although i did submit a complaint against con edison to the public service commission and another to my landlord for the conditions in my public hallways today. it’s raining too hard to be wandering around the streets of New York.
i was going to try and finish up the california trip today having caught up with posting expenses etc, cleaned my kitchen yesterday washed the window always a hard job because the window has an exhaust fan in it that gets the window screen greasy so ammonia has to be used. the one positive effect of cleaning with ammonia is i can breathe easier now. but that’s why i left the chemical darkroom the smell of the fixer.ugh
but reading my email this morning i had some pleasant news from the International Aperture Awards
Aperture Award announcement
pretty cool huh? i love this image maybe because i know the story of when and where. it was taken on RT 7 in Vermont during the time i was showing mary around where i grew up and where my family was from. We had an exhibit in Burlington and decided to drive up there to deliver the prints and stay for the opening.
this picture looks across farmland in front of Lake Champlain [not seen] toward the mountains of new york state in the background. mary stopped the car and pulled over and i took a couple of exposures. i loved the lone tree and the rays of lighting. it reminds me of how i’ve felt most of my life, me against the world.
this is the same trip where i asked mary if she would be my wife. life has changed for me now, i don’t feel as if i am alone in this world. even if i’d not asked and mary accepted my proposal did i feel the same old negative feelings of being alone. i had mary in my life but i wanted to make a statement, to whom i am not sure, the world? how i felt about her and what she really meant to me.
having her in ones corner is a real asset because once she makes up her mind, she’s there. so maybe this tree symbolizes mary and not me. i have to remember life isn’t all about me nor are the pictures. they actually present themselves to the world for all to see and if i am lucky enough to be there and capture the moment with my brownie i have a way of remembering and sharing that moment of beauty with others.
just like now, being married to mary, we both have the legal & moral right to share and enjoy our work together. my life has improved so much after meeting her, being open with her is something i highly recommend as is having love in ones life. it does open new vistas and opportunities. but don’t get any funny ideas as she is taken and we don’t share well with strangers.
so any award i win we both win as she is a part of what and where i do life along with how open my eyes and ears are. having a life and sharing it is a wonderful thing, i highly recommend it.
so maybe you can think of ways you can share your life and the wonders that befall you, or just turn to the stranger next to you and say hello. it does make a difference.
The lake shore limited dropped us at lovely Union station Chicago.
art deco sign
union station chicago
For a major city train station, union station is clean and quiet. The main waiting room is detached from the train waiting rooms, which are in a newer annex across and under the street under a newer building along the Chicago river.
I was struck how calm the station was even though there were many people wandering around. Union stations main waiting room was practically empty except for the tourist photographers,
Union station waiting room
not like crowded penn station in new york which probably has 8 police at any given time hanging around the waiting room. We didn’t see one police person in the entire station and yet it wasn’t a homeless hangout. Did we miss something?
Using our limited time in the city we wandered around a few blocks also fitting in lunch along with picture taking. Chicago is a mix of the old and new on maybe a more human level than new york. What we saw beyond the new buildings were the unique items at least to us. Yes it was cool and windy but the day before they had hurricane winds which was the talk of the lunch crowd around us.
boats chicago river
Sightseeing boats cruising and tied along the Chicago river. counterweight bridges on major streets that still work, how cool is that?
bridge tower
just in case
We did see an interesting building approaching Chicago with a statue on top. The Chicago Board of Trade
chicago board of trade
who the statue was on top of building we’ve no idea nor any pictures. But following our quest to the building we found the Chicago loop-elevated subway.
loop tracks
chicago loop elevated train
the old with the new, see somethings can co-exist quite nicely. things don’t have to be torn down to make way for the new.
But it was time to catch the zephyr a super liner train. Cool right?
Zephyr
Well the super part of the train means they can get more people on because it has a double deck of compartments. Which meant to us that the top bunk has less headroom, so low that mary couldn’t sit up in bed and had to roll into it, which was different than the lake shore.
The zephyr has a lounge car with strange seats. I remember as a kid seeing ads for lounge chairs that swivel along with glass windows but these are plastic/metal and designed for little people.
Zephyr lounge car
Train travel in America is so different than other parts of the world. We’ve traveled by train in italy and japan. In italy we did a sleeper while japan was the bullet train. Somewhere a decision was made to let train travel fall by the wayside to the more glamorous air travel. What we find is that the older population enjoys train travel, who really likes airports? The new bus terminals of travel.
Train travel lets one relax and enjoy the scenery, which is impressive. I’ve driven across the country 3 or 4 times and moving at 60 mph I’ve never had the chance to just enjoy the beauty of the country. Sometimes I found myself not taking pictures out the train windows, just enjoying seeing what passed before me. Very relaxing.
Farm
Next stop Amtrak station Granby Colorado, to the town of grand lake, gateway to rocky mountain national park.
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