EXHIBITION: Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video

ARTIST PROFILE: Simen Johan

Simen Johan
Norway
(b. 1973)

Simen Johan uses staging and photo-montage techniques to create a strange, whimsical and often dark world. His work skims between deceptive realism and the altogether unreal. His most recent work with taxidermy animals involves both photography and sculpture.

To view more of Simen Johan's work, visit: www.simenjohan.com

OPPORTUNITY: Hey Hot Shot! 2009 Second Addition Call

DEADLINE: October 23, 2009

Entry Fee: $60

The premier international photography competition, Hey, Hot Shot!, offers photographers at all stages of their careers unrivaled opportunities for exposure and advancement. All entrants have their work reviewed by top-shelf panelists and enjoy the potential to be promoted online (more than sixty were featured on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog last season alone!), selected for 20x200 and exhibited in our New York gallery. Now in its fifth year, the competition has been acclaimed by curators, critics, educators and journalists alike.

A panel of seasoned photography professionals—including founder Jen Bekman, photography book evangelist and publisher Darius Himes, Aperture Foundation publisher Lesley A. Martin, former Creative Director of Colors magazine and photographer Stefan Ruiz, and Chronicle Books chairman and CEO Nion McEvoy—review all the photographs that are entered.

The guidelines are simple: contenders submit three photographs from a single body of work, using an online upload tool, with an entry fee of $60. The 2009 Second Edition will add new features and more benefits for all entrants—among the many reasons why Hey, Hot Shot! remains one of the most desirable photography competitions around. Stay tuned for details!

For more information visit: www.heyhotshot.com

OPPORTUNITY: Photo Levallois 2009 Epson Photography Award

DEADLINE: JULY 31 2009

As part of the Photo Levallois Festival, which takes place from 20th November to 24th December 2009, the city of Levallois, in partnership with Epson France, will be awarding a photography prize to support young international contemporary creation, and discover and promote new talents.

Photographers must present their own new work, which has not been previously published or exhibited. The selection panel will pay particular attention to the consistency of the artistic approach in its form and content. This prize is open to all types of contemporary photography (photojournalism, documentary, portrait, landscape, conceptual photography, etc...) and all still image techniques.

This prize includes the sum of ten thousand euros and the opportunity for the winner to exhibit their work as part of the Photo Levallois Festival.

For more information, visit: www.photo-levallois.org

OPPORTUNITY: 3rd Ward Call to Photographers

Deadline: July 31, 2009

$10/image entry fee

Photography has been reinventing itself since it’s inception. From daguerreotypes to glass negatives, instant Polaroid film to unlimited digital shots, images are our reflections, our fantasies and our teachers. This competition is a search for the best new work from emerging photographers. 

One photographer will be awarded $500 & a 3rd Ward bike and the top 25 photographers will receive:

• A group show at 3rd Ward's gallery
• A feature in 3rd Ward's publication
• A one month membership at 3rd Ward with access to the photography studios

To Learn more or to enter, visit: www.3rdward.com

ARTIST PROFILE: Tierney Gearon

Tierney Gearon

United States (b. 1963)

Tierney Gearon is fine art documentary photographer known for her brutally honest and, at times, psychologically disturbing work.   Her series The Mother Project follows the everyday life of Gearon's eccentric mother.  I first saw this series in the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, and I left the exhibition feeling both intrigued and a bit embarrassed.  Her photographs, none-the-less, are beautifully executed and never fail to provoke a good conversation.  

To view more of Tierney Gearon's work, visit: www.yossimilo.com

ARTIST PROFILE: Richard Misrach

Desert Fire 153 (Man with a Rifle), 1984 | Outdoor Dining, Bonneville Salts Flats, 1992

Richard Misrach
United States
(b. 1949)

Richard Misrach is a large-format, 8x10 landscape photographer working mostly in California and the American deserts. His work deals with the relationship between humanity and the natural environment, often focusing on abandoned landscapes where the effect of human intervention is evident. The sheer beauty of his images is incredibly seductive, however their content presents the potential problems human impact has on the environment.

To see more of Richard Misrach's work, visit www.artnet.com.

PUBLICATION: "Image Makers Image Takers"

Image Makers Image Takers:

The Essential Guide to Photography by Those Who Know

by: Anne-Celine Jaeger

This book is a collection of interviews with some of the most influential figures in photography today. The book not only consists of interviews with photographers, but also curators, photo editors and publishers. Jaeger asks very straight forward questions which elicit some insightful answers.

Includes interviews with:
Alec Soth
Mary Ellen Mark
David Lachapelle
Reinke Dijkstra
Tina Barney

ARTIST PROFILE: Alessandra Sanguinetti

The Black Cloud, 1998-2006 | The Necklace, 1998-2006

Alessandra Sanguinetti
USA/Argentina
(b. 1968)

Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti's work captures the intimacies of life in rural Argentina. Her series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams follows the lives of two young cousins growing up their family’s farm outside Buenos Aires. Sanguinetti's photographs have a sad, poetic quality that I find very intriguing.

Alessandra Sanguinetti is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York and Ruth Benzacar Gallery in Bueno Aires.

To see more of her work, visit alessandrasanguinetti.com.

OPPORTUNITY: Terry O'Neill Award 2009

DEADLINE:
JULY 31, 2009

Submissions are invited for the Independent Photographer’s Terry O’Neill Award 2009. The competition forms a showcase for both established and new photographers, providing valuable exposure of their work and a prestigious opportunity to enhance their careers. The award, an important addition to the cultural calendar, celebrates the diversity of talent working in the photographic medium today.

For further information, visit the Terry O'Neill Award website.

ARTIST PROFILE: Hiroshi Sugimoto

U.A. Walker, NYC, 1978 | Earliest Human Relatives, 1994

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Japan
(b. 1948)

Falling somewhere between humor and quiet meditation, Sugimoto's photographs study the role artificiality plays in our everyday lives. While he documents places like New York City's Museum of Natural History, movie theaters, and wax museums, his photographs also poignantly illustrate the deceptive qualities inherent in the photographic medium itself.

"However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real."
- Hiroshi Sugimoto on his work with dioramas.

To see more of Hiroshi Sugimoto's work, visit www.sugimotohiroshi.com .

ARTS ORGANIZATION: Humble Arts Foundation

Humble Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that works to advance the careers of emerging fine-art photographers by way of exhibition and publishing opportunities, limited-edition print sales, twice–annual artists grants, and educational programming.

Founded in 2005 by amani olu and Jon Feinstein, Humble has been a pioneering hub for showcasing new fine-art photography, and has served as a resource for collectors, galleries, museums, curators, photo editors, and bloggers internationally.

Visit the Humble Arts Foundation website for more information.

PUBLICATION: Portfolio Catalogue

Portfolio Catalogue is a fine-art photography publication based in Edinburgh, UK.

This publication has a simple concept: a clean, straight-forward presentation of an artist's body of work. With little very advertisements and unnecessary text, this magazine is a refreshing change from most publications.

To learn more, visit Portfolio Catalogue's website.

OPPORTUNITY: Aperture Portfolio Prize

DEADLINE: JULY 16 MIDNIGHT

First prize is $2,500. The first-prize winner and runners-up are featured in Aperture’s website for approximately one year. Winners are also announced in the foundation’s e-newsletter, which reaches thousands of subscribers in the photography community.

Entrants must be paid subscribers to Aperture Magazine as of the Fall 2009 issue.

$25 Application fee

For more information visit the Aperture Foundation website.

ANNOUNCEMENT: IMAGES' Festival Winners

Over 1,000 project proposals were submitted to Foundation Vevey's 7th International Photo Awards. The winner of this biannual award receives roughly 20,000 Euros to complete a personal project

The jury made a controversial decision by naming two winners this time around. The two photographers both take a documentary approach to their work. The jury "believes that the complementarity of these projects contributes to the current debate on different way of the documentary photography". The monetary award will be divided evenly between them.

The winners are:

Christian Lutz- (Switzerland) b. 1973

G.M.B Akash- (Bangladesh) b. 1977

OPPORTUNITY: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

DEADLINE: JULY 24, 2009
Submissions are now being invited for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. Entry is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 and over.


The selected exhibition will be shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 5 November 2009 - 14 February 2010.

Visit the National Portrait Gallery's website for more details.

Image credit:Hendrik Kerstens

ALTERNATIVE VENUE: Women in Photography

WIPNYC was launched in June of 2008 by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips. As an internet-based project, WIPNYC is an outlet to exhibit work outside of the traditional model of the commercial art world, allowing it to reach a global audience. Mixing emerging photographers with artists that have achieved high levels of success within fine art and commercial worlds, the project is designed to be a resource for photographers, editors, curators, gallery owners, and viewers alike to discover and enjoy the work of female artists. Exhibitions are bi-monthly and include artists both selected from an open submission and those sought out to participate. WIPNYC presents a solo exhibition of work from select photographers every other Tuesday of the month.

CURRENT FEATURED ARTIST: Erika Larsen (above)

PREVIOUSLY FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE: Kelli Connell, Elinor Carucci, Laura Letinsky

For Further Information, visit: www.wipnyc.org

ARTIST PROFILE: Nicolai Howalt

Boxer #19, 2003 | REMISEDALEN II / THE VALLEY BEAT II. 2005

Nicolai Howalt
Denmark (b. 1970)

Nicolai's photographs can be most easily described as documentary, however the poetics of his work delve much deeper than mere observation. He is most well-known for is series Boxer which depicts young, male boxers before and after fights. His photographs present the subjects much like scientific specimens, maintaining a standardization in both point of view and pose.

Nicolai Howalt is represented by Martin Asbæk Gallery, Denmark and Silverstein Gallery, New York

To see more of his website at: www.nicolaihowalt.com