This spring semester there will be an exciting opportunity to take your class experience into the desert! This three credit course will be offered Spring 2009 and have a limited enrollment of 20 students. The course will be ART 380 or CPH 380.
Keep it in mind and be on the lookout for signs (and another blog post) about an informational meeting which will answer all of your wildest questions in a sensible manner.
Questions like: What desert? Is there water? Will we see giant lizards? Yes, they will be taken in order and attended properly. Excited already? You must wait for enrollment to open for the Spring semester!
Questions can be referred to Prof. Anthony Thompson, Kate Siekman or Matthew LaVere
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Photographer's Forum | 29th Annual Spring Photography Contest
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
David Bergman's 1,474 MP Presidential Inauguration Photograph
New York photographer David Bergman snapped 220 photos using his Canon G10 and the result was a 1,474 Megapixel image of Barack Obama's Presidential inauguration. The complete image can be viewed by clicking here.
Mark Seliger, Photo Assistant Position
In a down economy, dream jobs like this don't come up too often:
ATTENTION EXPERIENCED NYC PHOTO ASSISTANTS:
Currently, there is an opportunity to work fulltime as a first photo
assistant for Mark Seliger, one of the most well-respected and
successful editorial and portrait photographers in the photo industry
today. For over 25 years Mark Seliger has remained on the forefront
of the celebrity portraiture and fashion industries as he shoots
regularly for GQ, Vanity Fair, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue and others.
Who we are looking for:
We are looking for a seasoned assistant (minimum two years of
consistent NYC-quality assisting) with an upbeat and enthusiastic
attitude and a strong work ethic. All candidates must possess the
ability to operate effectively and efficiently under high-pressure
photo assisting situations. In order to do this you need be highly
organized and able to multi-task effectively during heavy shooting
periods. Also, your ability to adapt to an ever-changing and highly
demanding work schedule is imperative for success.
Time commitment:
We are looking for a minimum of a two-year commitment following an
eight-month training period.
Skill sets needed for the position:
-Experience using the following analog and digital camera systems:
Canon and Nikon digital 35mm systems, Hasselblad medium format camera
system using PhaseOne digital backs, Mamiya RZ, Pentax 67, and the
Sinar 4x5 and 8x10 large format systems.
-Substantial experience in teching, rating, and developing film.
-A strong background in using all types of grip equipment as well as
the ability to manage the power needs of large-scale location and
studio jobs.
-A high level of technical studio and location lighting experience
using Profoto, Dynalite, and Briese lights and light shaping tools.
-Proficiency in traditional black and white printing.
-Must have a great deal of experience using Photoshop (for retouching
and workflow management) as well as Capture One.
-International travel experience (i.e. use of a equipment carnet) as a
photo assistant, as well as valid passport + driver’s license.
Responsibilities of the Full Time Assistants:
The responsibilities outlined below are split between the full time
First and Second Assistants:
-Photoshoot Preproduction: creating equipment budgets, scouting shoot
locations, placing equipment orders, building assistant team, and
loading and teching film.
-Managing photo equipment rentals as well as overseeing and approving
all photo-related billing/purchases.
-Onset management of crew, delegation of tasks, and working with Mark
on-camera.
-Post-production: scanning negatives, retouching and compositing
images, and overseeing post-production (working as a liaison between
Mark and client as well as retouching company and client).
-You will be responsible for the organization and maintenance of
Mark’s extensive array of photographic, digital and camera equipment
(including shoot computers), as well as our in-house studio and
darkrooms. This includes finding creative solutions to everyday
photographic needs (including the organization or development of new
or existing equipment packages).
Compensation:
Compensation is salary based and highly competitive. Benefits offered
for this position include: overtime weekend day rates, health care +
dental package, partial cell phone reimbursement, use of dedicated
studio laptop and desktop (brand new), business-class upgrades on all
applicable flights, among others.
If you meet the criteria outline above, and are interested in learning
more about this position, please contact Patrick Randak at patrick@seligerstudio.com
ATTENTION EXPERIENCED NYC PHOTO ASSISTANTS:
Currently, there is an opportunity to work fulltime as a first photo
assistant for Mark Seliger, one of the most well-respected and
successful editorial and portrait photographers in the photo industry
today. For over 25 years Mark Seliger has remained on the forefront
of the celebrity portraiture and fashion industries as he shoots
regularly for GQ, Vanity Fair, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue and others.
Who we are looking for:
We are looking for a seasoned assistant (minimum two years of
consistent NYC-quality assisting) with an upbeat and enthusiastic
attitude and a strong work ethic. All candidates must possess the
ability to operate effectively and efficiently under high-pressure
photo assisting situations. In order to do this you need be highly
organized and able to multi-task effectively during heavy shooting
periods. Also, your ability to adapt to an ever-changing and highly
demanding work schedule is imperative for success.
Time commitment:
We are looking for a minimum of a two-year commitment following an
eight-month training period.
Skill sets needed for the position:
-Experience using the following analog and digital camera systems:
Canon and Nikon digital 35mm systems, Hasselblad medium format camera
system using PhaseOne digital backs, Mamiya RZ, Pentax 67, and the
Sinar 4x5 and 8x10 large format systems.
-Substantial experience in teching, rating, and developing film.
-A strong background in using all types of grip equipment as well as
the ability to manage the power needs of large-scale location and
studio jobs.
-A high level of technical studio and location lighting experience
using Profoto, Dynalite, and Briese lights and light shaping tools.
-Proficiency in traditional black and white printing.
-Must have a great deal of experience using Photoshop (for retouching
and workflow management) as well as Capture One.
-International travel experience (i.e. use of a equipment carnet) as a
photo assistant, as well as valid passport + driver’s license.
Responsibilities of the Full Time Assistants:
The responsibilities outlined below are split between the full time
First and Second Assistants:
-Photoshoot Preproduction: creating equipment budgets, scouting shoot
locations, placing equipment orders, building assistant team, and
loading and teching film.
-Managing photo equipment rentals as well as overseeing and approving
all photo-related billing/purchases.
-Onset management of crew, delegation of tasks, and working with Mark
on-camera.
-Post-production: scanning negatives, retouching and compositing
images, and overseeing post-production (working as a liaison between
Mark and client as well as retouching company and client).
-You will be responsible for the organization and maintenance of
Mark’s extensive array of photographic, digital and camera equipment
(including shoot computers), as well as our in-house studio and
darkrooms. This includes finding creative solutions to everyday
photographic needs (including the organization or development of new
or existing equipment packages).
Compensation:
Compensation is salary based and highly competitive. Benefits offered
for this position include: overtime weekend day rates, health care +
dental package, partial cell phone reimbursement, use of dedicated
studio laptop and desktop (brand new), business-class upgrades on all
applicable flights, among others.
If you meet the criteria outline above, and are interested in learning
more about this position, please contact Patrick Randak at patrick@seligerstudio.com
Dallas SPE | Special Pre-Conference Event
Special Pre-conference Event at the National SPE
SPE Special pre-conference event featuring Barbara Crane and her work this year. SPE members wishing to attend this event will need to adjust travel plans accordingly and sign up by calling SPE's national office before the end of January. The event is not included on the conference registration form - reservations can only be made by calling SPE's national office 216-622-2733.
If there are not enough reservations this event maybe cancelled.
Where: The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth
Date: Wednesday March 25, 2009 - the day before SPE's 46th annual conference in Dallas
Times: 2pm - bus to Amon Carter departs the Fairmont Hotel-Dallas (bus costs flat rate of $10 - cash or check on site please - for one-way or round trip)
3-5pm - view Barbara Crane exhibition and tour Amon Carter collection visit the Modern Art Museum-Fort Worth (free admission on Wednesdays!), the Kimbell Art Museum, and/or the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame - all within walking distance from the Amon Carter
5pm - lecture by Barbara Crane: It’s a Click I Belong To
6pm - reception at Amon Carter
7pm - (approx.) bus departs for return to Fairmont Hotel-Dallas (people who come straight to Fort Worth from the airport can store their luggage at Amon Carter and can take the return bus back to Dallas for the same flat rate of $10)
SPE Special pre-conference event featuring Barbara Crane and her work this year. SPE members wishing to attend this event will need to adjust travel plans accordingly and sign up by calling SPE's national office before the end of January. The event is not included on the conference registration form - reservations can only be made by calling SPE's national office 216-622-2733.
If there are not enough reservations this event maybe cancelled.
Where: The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth
Date: Wednesday March 25, 2009 - the day before SPE's 46th annual conference in Dallas
Times: 2pm - bus to Amon Carter departs the Fairmont Hotel-Dallas (bus costs flat rate of $10 - cash or check on site please - for one-way or round trip)
3-5pm - view Barbara Crane exhibition and tour Amon Carter collection visit the Modern Art Museum-Fort Worth (free admission on Wednesdays!), the Kimbell Art Museum, and/or the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame - all within walking distance from the Amon Carter
5pm - lecture by Barbara Crane: It’s a Click I Belong To
6pm - reception at Amon Carter
7pm - (approx.) bus departs for return to Fairmont Hotel-Dallas (people who come straight to Fort Worth from the airport can store their luggage at Amon Carter and can take the return bus back to Dallas for the same flat rate of $10)
Call for Entry | Desotorow Gallery
Desotorow Gallery is releasing a call for entries for an upcoming photojournalism/documentary exhibit, March 6-12, 2009. This solo show will be held in conjunction with "Creative Action"- a film series at Desotorow Gallery that celebrates the artistic use of the medium of film to explore social activism. The show will be on display during the screening of the series' first film, "Standard Operating Procedure", in which a documentary filmmaker examined the twelve photographs from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
Artists should submit 15-20 images in the photojournalism/documentary style via email or CD. An artist statement is also required to accompany the images. Payment may be made online, or by cash or check made out to Desotorow Gallery.
Email Address: info@desotorow.org
Mailing Address: Desotorow Gallery- Creative Action Exhibition, 2427 De Soto Avenue, Savannah, GA 31401
Submission Fee: $25 Submissions due: February 20th
Selected artist will be notified: February 23rd Exhibit Dates: March 6-12 in TruSpace- a desotorow gallery
Visit http://www.desotorow.org/opportunities/entry.html to download the prospectus. Please call 912-335-8204 or email with further questions.
Call for Entry | RITES OF PASSAGE
5th Annual RITES OF PASSAGE
A Competitive Annual National Exhibition of Works by New Artists
Featuring works by JUNIORS, SENIORS, and GRADUATES ONE-YEAR OUT
$300 Best of Show prize
Deadline to Submit: March 13th
Manifest seeks to energize students and recent graduates of art and design programs towards higher goals, professionalism, and public-mindedness. Therefore, for a fifth year in a row, we offer this challenge to students and their professors in local, regional, and national college programs to show us what you've got, bring it off campus, and share it with the everyday viewing public.
Since 2005 Manifest has exhibited the works of students from fifty-three different academic institutions across the U.S.
Eligibility: Entrants must have graduated or be scheduled to graduate in 2008, 2009, or 2010 from an undergraduate program of art or design.
Media: Work submitted may be in any visual art media.
Catalog: Manifest will produce a full-color catalog documenting the work in Rites of Passage. Exhibitors will receive a 50% discount on one copy of the catalog. For examples of past catalogs visit the Manifest Press library on the Manifest website.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/lists/lt.php?id=bUoKUQRRBVZMVFQCGFUDCA8%3D
CASH AWARD: A $300 Best of Show prize will be awarded. The award recipient will also receive 5 free copies of the exhibit catalog.http://www.manifestgallery.org/lists/lt.php?id=bUoKUQRRBVBMVFQCGFUDCA8%3D
Complete entry info here:
Thursday, January 22, 2009
UICA | Opening Reception for New Exhibition
This Friday, from 6-9 PM, UICA will have an opening reception for new exhibitions! Come meet Caroline Gore, Lynn Lukkas, and Ryan Molloy, while exploring their work and enjoying amazing food/drinks.
UICA
41 Sheldon Boulevard SE
Grand Rapids Michigan 49503
P 616 454 7000
F 616 459 9395
info@uica.org
Friday, January 2, 2009
A Year of Photographs Taken at the 'Sametime'
Morning Edition, December 31, 2008 · For the past year, half a dozen photographers have captured an image at the same time each day — 7:15 p.m. — then added a caption and uploaded the photo to the Web. The photos are uploaded on a weekly basis, giving the artists some time away from their photos and the words they add to them.
What began as a collaboration between a teacher and his former photography student evolved into an experiment in how art can be an integral and integrated part of daily life. The photos became an online gallery, where nothing was for sale and no public comments were allowed, though viewers could e-mail the artists, and a counter kept track of the number and locations of visitors.
Full Story here
Monday, December 29, 2008
Desotorow Gallery | The Extended Moment
Desotorow Gallery is seeking submissions of photographic works for a juried exhibit scheduled for February 13-18. The exhibit, "The Extended Moment," will be juried and curated by a Guest Curator, Craig Stevens. Work submitted to this exhibit should explore the idea of the extended moment- a longer exposure, multiple exposure, or a sequential imagery theme.
Craig Stevens is currently a photography professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, and he has also taught at the Maine Photographic Workshop for 29 years. He has written numerous articles about photographic craft and vision and is a respected workshop leader and teacher. He is also the proprietor of L' Atelier, a fine art digital printing service in Savannah, GA. Please visit Stevens' website www.craigstevens.net to learn more.
Submissions (in digital form only) are due to Desotorow Gallery by January 23, 2009. Submissions may be made via mail:
Desotorow Gallery
2427 De Soto Avenue
Savannah, GA 31401
or by email: info@desotorow.org
Artists may submit up to 5 works for a $10 fee. Payment made be made via PayPal on Desotorow's website: www.desotorow.org/opportunities/entry.
or by check or cash mailed to Desotorow Gallery.
The exhibit will take place in TruSpace- a desotorow gallery. Please call 912-335-8204 or email info@desotorow.org with further questions.
PhotoSpiva
33rd Annual National Photography Competition
George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
Enter online at www.photospiva.org
Deadline: January 9th 2009
Juror: Jim Stone, Artist/Author/Associate Professor University of New Mexico
George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
Enter online at www.photospiva.org
Deadline: January 9th 2009
Juror: Jim Stone, Artist/Author/Associate Professor University of New Mexico
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Midwest SPE | Cleveland
In between the educational lectures, first-class exhibitions, and non-stop networking with our fellow photographic practitioners the GVSU SPE squad caught a few images of the trip to Cleveland this past November.
Monday, December 1, 2008
GV Lanthorn | ‘Shoots and Ladders’ prepares students for art world
‘Shoots and Ladders’ prepares students for art world
Grand Valley State University photography students will climb the rungs to success today during the opening reception for their "Shoots and Ladders" exhibit.
The event, featured from 5 to 7 p.m., will be held in the Fine Art Gallery Room 1121 in the Performing Arts Center.
photos by Matt La Vere for the Grand Valley Lanthorn
During the three-week exhibit, which began Monday and will run through Dec. 6, graduating photography students at GVSU will showcase their thesis works in the gallery.
Together, about 20 students have each chosen an individual theme for their selected works to showcase.
The event is part of a final project for a Senior Thesis/Project class, Photography 498, taught by Victoria Veenstra, assistant professor of the School of Communications.
In the class, students learn how to prepare for the real world after graduation and for photography outside of the classroom, said senior Chelsea Hoover. Her project, "Colors," is featured in the exhibit.
"We have learned a lot of things this semester like how to do resumes and frames, but mostly we have leaned a lot about real life experiences," Hoover said.
Like her fellow students, Hoover said the event is not only the final hurrah before graduation but is also a gateway into learning how to showcase their work in the future.
"This event is a way to prepare students for future exhibits and also for anything their future holds for them," Hoover added.
And this is an experience most college students do not get, said Danielle Elliot, whose project "Painting in Movement," is also featured in the show.
Elliot said she was informed that most colleges in the surrounding area do not have programs like the Senior Thesis Project class GVSU offers.
"This class has really prepared us," she said. "It has taught us how to approach galleries, how to get our work into galleries and how to be a photographer outside in the real world."
Although the class has received much praise by the students as a whole, the excitement, said Cacia Thompson -- whose work features high dynamic range processes -- comes from the opportunity for students to display their individuality through the exhibit.
"It is exciting just to see the different messages people have and the different dynamics of the works," Thompson said.
And in showcasing these different dynamics, the GVSU community can learn a lot, said Katie Hamilton, whose project "Sensations of Color" is featured in the show,
"We really need more events like these to help bring awareness about the art demographic and to be able to show off our skills," Hamilton said.
And in doing so, GVSU can celebrate the diversity of art, said Malin Towne, another senior featured in the show.
"We all have different messages and we are just trying to show that through our different perspectives," Towne said.
The Fine Arts Gallery and the "Shoots and Ladders" exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. For more information visit http://www.gvsu.edu/artgallery.
Grand Valley State University photography students will climb the rungs to success today during the opening reception for their "Shoots and Ladders" exhibit.
The event, featured from 5 to 7 p.m., will be held in the Fine Art Gallery Room 1121 in the Performing Arts Center.
photos by Matt La Vere for the Grand Valley Lanthorn
During the three-week exhibit, which began Monday and will run through Dec. 6, graduating photography students at GVSU will showcase their thesis works in the gallery.
Together, about 20 students have each chosen an individual theme for their selected works to showcase.
The event is part of a final project for a Senior Thesis/Project class, Photography 498, taught by Victoria Veenstra, assistant professor of the School of Communications.
In the class, students learn how to prepare for the real world after graduation and for photography outside of the classroom, said senior Chelsea Hoover. Her project, "Colors," is featured in the exhibit.
"We have learned a lot of things this semester like how to do resumes and frames, but mostly we have leaned a lot about real life experiences," Hoover said.
Like her fellow students, Hoover said the event is not only the final hurrah before graduation but is also a gateway into learning how to showcase their work in the future.
"This event is a way to prepare students for future exhibits and also for anything their future holds for them," Hoover added.
And this is an experience most college students do not get, said Danielle Elliot, whose project "Painting in Movement," is also featured in the show.
Elliot said she was informed that most colleges in the surrounding area do not have programs like the Senior Thesis Project class GVSU offers.
"This class has really prepared us," she said. "It has taught us how to approach galleries, how to get our work into galleries and how to be a photographer outside in the real world."
Although the class has received much praise by the students as a whole, the excitement, said Cacia Thompson -- whose work features high dynamic range processes -- comes from the opportunity for students to display their individuality through the exhibit.
"It is exciting just to see the different messages people have and the different dynamics of the works," Thompson said.
And in showcasing these different dynamics, the GVSU community can learn a lot, said Katie Hamilton, whose project "Sensations of Color" is featured in the show,
"We really need more events like these to help bring awareness about the art demographic and to be able to show off our skills," Hamilton said.
And in doing so, GVSU can celebrate the diversity of art, said Malin Towne, another senior featured in the show.
"We all have different messages and we are just trying to show that through our different perspectives," Towne said.
The Fine Arts Gallery and the "Shoots and Ladders" exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. For more information visit http://www.gvsu.edu/artgallery.
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