photo-eye | BLOG: CENTER

Showing posts with label CENTER. Show all posts

Known as one of the most effective professional development programs for photographers, photo-eye is thrilled to sponsor CENTER's 18th annual Review Santa Fe Photo Festival. Designed to facilitate relationships between photographers and leading industry professionals, CENTER’s Review Santa Fe is one of the world’s premier events for photographers seeking recognition and career advancement. Nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, CENTER connects 100 photographers with today’s most relevant and esteemed reviewers.

16 of CENTER’s 2018 Award & Grant winners will present their work over the course of two days: Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20. Each artist will display slides of their award-winning projects, and discuss the subjects that their work explores. Each 30-minute talk is followed by a question and answer session with the audience. View this year’s award-winning projects HERE.

New this year, Center is hosting a Photographic Book Fair, Sunday, Oct 21, 10am-12pm, at the Drury Plaza Hotel and photo-eye is excited to be participating. Come and get signed books – including the nearly sold out Too Tired for Sunshine by Tara Wray – and talk with several photobook publishers from around the country including, Candela Books Kris Graves Projects, Fraction Editions, Peanut Press, Princeton Architectural Press, Radius Books, and photo-eye Bookstore.

» VISIT CENTER » VIEW THE FULL SCHEDULE » GET A FESTIVAL PASS

However, the festival's reach extends far beyond the review session. This year CENTER is thrilled to host Splendor and Misery a retrospective exhibition of iconic works by photographic legend Joel-Peter Witkin curated by Angie Rizzo. Not exhibited in Santa Fe since 2014, Splendor and Misery will be one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Witkin’s work to take place in New Mexico in recent history. Up to 30 photographs and several drawings from the Joel-Peter Witkin Collection will be on view from October 5 through November 4, 2018, at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe Gallery.

An Evening With Joel-Peter Witkin will serve as the closing event of the annual Review Santa Fe Photo Festival—Saturday, October 20, at the Drury Plaza Hotel. The event includes a reception, dinner, a talk by photography writer and scholar Eugenia Parry and a presentation by Witkin.

"Just as the new objectivists were called degenerates for their express beliefs, my work will be recognized, hopefully in time, as one of the most significant presentations of mankind's splendor and misery in the process of our craving the truth and the courage to live."

—Joel-Peter Witkin, from the book, Witkin & Witkin

» READ MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

» LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVENT

On Friday, October 19 from 6–8 pm, all are invited to be dazzled by a Portfolio Walk showcasing the 100 selected photographers’ projects. This is a rare opportunity to browse portfolios and speak with the artists.

CENTER is pleased to provide a platform to view the 100 portfolios of the 2018 Review Santa Fe attendees with a chance to network with photographers, reviewers, and the Santa Fe art community. Portfolio Viewing hosts esteemed gallerists, curators, editors, and other photography enthusiasts to view a broad range of contemporary photography encompassing social, environmental and political issues, including stellar fine art projects.

Hundreds of Photographers from around the world apply to take part in the Review Santa Fe Photo Festival with only about 20% of the total applicants chosen to participate. The photographers were carefully selected by an independent jury of esteemed professionals, read more here. This is an extraordinary opportunity to view the 100 compelling projects of the nationally and internationally recognized photographers, as well as many on the brink of wider acclaim.

For more information, please contact CENTER at 505-984-8353 or programs@visitcenter.org.

In conjunction with CENTER, photo-eye is excited to announce an exhibition of works from Jeanine Michna-Bales’ stirring series Through Darkness to Light in our Bookstore Project Space as a part of PhotoSummer 2017. The show runs June 2nd through July 15th, and SIGNED copies of the artist’s recently published monograph of the same title, will be available for purchase at the photo-eye Bookstore during the exhibition.

In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker.

Look for the Gray Barn Out Back.
Joshua Eliason Jr. barnyards and farmhouse, with a tunnel leading under- neath the road to another station.
Centerville, Indiana, 2013 – © Jeanine Michna-Bales

Nightlight. Passing into Fayette County, Indiana, 2014 – © Jeanine Michna-Bales

Stopover. Frogmore Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, 2014 – © Jeanine Michna-Bales

Eagle Hollow from Hunter’s Bottom. Just across the Ohio River, Indiana, 2014 – © Jeanine Michna-Bales

Friend or Foe? Station just outside Metamora, Indiana, 2014 – © Jeanine Michna-Bales

Michna-Bales’ work explores the relationships between what has occurred or is occurring, in a society and how people react to those events. She meticulously researches each topic – considering different viewpoints, causes and effect, and political climates – often incorporating found or archival text and audio into her projects. Through Darkness to Light received the Curator’s Choice award during CENTER’s 2014 Review Santa Fe Festival. Michna-Bales’ work is in the permanent collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Duke University’s Archive of Documentary Arts, and has been exhibited extensively nationwide. The artist currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.

View More Work by Jeanine Michna-Bales

Visit CENTER's website

Visit the SummerPhoto Website

Purchase a SIGNED copy of Through Darkness into Light

CENTER presented its annual Review Santa Fe, one of the years most distinguished portfolio reviews and photographic festivals, last weekend Nov. 4–6 here in Santa Fe, NM. The juried review selects one hundred top emerging contemporary photographers from around the world uniting them with fifty reviewers consisting of the industries leading curatorial and publishing professionals. photo-eye was proud to partner with CENTER to host a number of exhibitions and events during the festival to celebrate CENTER artist winners and honorees.

Wendel White's Schools for the Colored installed at photo-eye Bookstore's Project Space. White's project was selected for the Jurors Choice Award in the Project Launch category.

A view from photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly's table during Saturday's review sessions with invited photographers.

photo-eye had the pleasure of kicking things off with a packed welcome reception Thursday evening in our Gallery and closing the weekend's events Sunday with a book signing by the acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas at photo-eye bookstore. Meiselas was honored Saturday evening at the CENTER benefit dinner for her extraordinary career in documentary photography, and her legendary 1981 monograph Nicaragua was recently reissued by Aperture.

Welcome Reception for Review Santa Fe 2016 at photo-eye Gallery. Exhibitions by CENTER Project Grant Winners Elena Anosova and Megan E. Doherty on view.

Megan E. Doherty (left) and Elena Anosova (right) at the Welcome Reception and Opening
for their CENTER Project Winners Exhibition.

Susan Meiselas signing copies of Nicaragua at photo-eye Bookstore on Sunday November 6th.
• PURCHASE a SIGNED copy of Nicaragua •

CENTER benefit dinner honoring Susan Meiselas with Meiselas lecturing about her work and career in front.

Friday evening consisted of an open portfolio walk where the public was invited to see the work of all 100 photographers being reviewed. CENTER’s 2016 Project Development Grant winner, Megan E. Doherty, and Project Launch Grant Winner, Elena Anosova have their winning projects on display at photo-eye Gallery through November 26th, 2016. photo-eye would like to thank all of the participating photographers for their hard work and to CENTER, for their steadfast mission to help advance the careers of so many talented photographers.

Elena Anosova with work from her series Section, installed at photo-eye Gallery through Nov. 26th
• Veiw work and Read more about Section •

Megan E. Doherty with her series Back of the Yards installed at photo-eye Gallery
• View Work & Read More About Back of the Yards •

Megan E. Doherty with Br. Jim, a main subject in her series Back of the Yards and the last remaining member of a street
ministry serving the South and West Sides of Chicago, IL.

Wendel White during Friday Night's portfolio viewing at the Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavillion.
View Schools for the Colored • Read more about the project

Photographer's Showcase artist Teri Havens with her portfolio Last Light
at Last Friday's portfolio viewing.
VIEW Last Light • Read more about Last Light

For more information and to purchase prints, please contact the Gallery Staff at 505.988.5152 x 202 or gallery@photoeye.com.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to exhibit select works by the 2016 CENTER grant recipients Megan E. Doherty and Elena Anosova. These grant winners were selected by an independent jury comprised of photographic professionals, and the exhibition opens during CENTER’s Review Santa Fe Photo Festival (Nov 2–6, 2016).

MEGAN E. DOHERTY – Back of the Yards

Back of the Yards, Spring, 2014 – © Megan E. Doherty

Megan E. Doherty is the winner of CENTER’s 2016 Project Development Grant, an award acknowledging an outstanding documentary or fine art photographic project still in progress. Doherty’s black-and-white series Back of the Yards documents the last remaining member of a tiny street ministry tending to those involved in, and victimized by, gang violence on the South and West Sides of Chicago. According to Doherty, “There are many photo projects that document urban poverty and violence, specifically gang violence, in all corners of the world. But I wanted to do more than show how this can be hell – which it surely is – I wanted to show how these people struggle through this hell trying to achieve redemption.” Megan holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and is a freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in Chicago Art Magazine, Gapers Block, and WBEZ Chicago Public Media among others. She currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

The Project Development Grant offers financial support to fine art, documentary, or photojournalist works-in-progress. The grant includes a cash award to help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and professional development opportunities for the work’s final stages. This grant is awarded to projects that are still in progress and have not been exhibited or published.

This year's Project Development Grant was juried by independent curator & writer Susan Bright. Susan Bright is a curator and writer. Her published books include Art Photography Now (2005), Face of Fashion (2007), How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007: co-authored with Val Williams) Auto Focus (2010) and Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (2013). The exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain was the first major exhibition of British photography at Tate. The exhibition of Home Truths (Photographers’ Gallery and the Foundling Museum and traveling to MoCP, Chicago and Belfast Exposed ) was named one of the top exhibitions of 2013/2014 by The Guardian and The Chicago Tribune. Bright was visiting scholar at the Art Institute Boston in 2014. She currently lives in Paris and is completing her PhD in Curatorial Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Blessing, 2015 – © Megan E. Doherty

Cemetery, 2015 – Megan E. Doherty

Back of the Yards, Winter, 2015 – © Megan E. Doherty

Br. Jim, 2014 – © Megan E. Doherty

India, 2014 – © Megan E. Doherty

Food Insecurity, 2014 – © Megan E. Doherty

VIEW Back of the Yards • Read More about Back of the Yards • Visit Megan E. Doherty's Website

ELENA ANOSOVA – Section

Elena Anosova is the winner of CENTER’s 2016 Project Launch Grant, which is awarded to an outstanding photographer with a complete, or nearly complete, fine art or documentary project. Anosova’s Section is a series of color portraits focusing on the emotional toll experienced by female inmates in Russian prisons. Section is one part of a trilogy by Anosova centered around the lives of women in closed institutions; an interest brought about by her time spent in a rehabilitation boarding school as a teenager. In Section, it was important for Anosova to “try and catch the woman’s inward, self-isolating gaze, their faces and gestures deformed by the constant watchful presence of prison authorities and cellmates …” Elena Anosova is currently based in Moscow, a graduate of the Rodchenko Art School, and is a two-time winner of the Anderi Stenin International Press Photo Contest. This is Elena’s first exhibition in the United States.

CENTER's Project Launch is granted to an outstanding photographer working in fine art series or documentary project. The grant includes a cash award to help complete or disseminate the works, as well as providing a platform for exposure and professional development opportunities. This year's Project Launch Grant was juried by:

Frank Kalero — Photoquai Biennale Art Director, 2013 & 2015 (Paris)Founder of magazine Ojodepez (Madrid) and Punctum (New Delhi)Co-Founder Goaphoto festival, (Goa, India)
Alison Nordström, PhD — Independent Curator; Artistic Director, Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland)
Ingo Taubhorn — Curator, House of Photography Hamburg

VIEW Section on CENTER's Website • Read More about Section • Visit Elena Anosova's Website

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact the Gallery Staff at 505.988.5152 x 202 or gallery@photoeye.com

In partnership with CENTER, photo-eye is pleased to announce Wendel White's Schools for the Colored – now on view in our Bookstore + Project Space through November 26th, 2016. In this series of black-and-white images, Wendel White photographs the remains, transformation, or imagined footprint of structures once used as segregated schools along the northern border of the Mason-Dixon Line. White has been invited to participate in 2016's Review Santa Fe, which runs November 2nd through the 6th, and photo-eye is proud to have his powerful project on display during the festival.

"Schools for the Colored is an extension of the ideas that formed my project Small Towns, Black Lives, in that; it is a continuation of my journey through the African American landscape. I began making photographs of historically African American school buildings during the very first weeks of the Small Towns, Black Lives project more than twenty years ago. In Schools for the Colored, I began to pay attention to the many structures and sites (also making photographs of places where segregated schools once stood) that operated as segregated schools.

These photographs depict the buildings and landscapes that were associated with the system of racially segregated schools established at the southern boundaries of the northern United States. This area, sometimes referred to as “Up-South,” encompasses the northern “free” states that bordered the slave states. Schools for the Colored is the representation the duality of racial distinction within American culture. The “veil” (the digital imaging technique of obscuring the landscape surrounding the schools) is a representation of DuBois’ concept, informing the visual narrative in these photographs. Some of the images depict sites where the original structure is no longer present. As a placeholder, I have inserted silhouettes of the original building or what I imagine of the appearance of the original building. The architecture and geography of America’s educational Apartheid, in the form of a system of “colored schools,” within the landscape of southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois is the central concern of this project."

— Wendel White

Schools for the Colored by Wendel White from DEVELOP Tube on Vimeo.

Wendel A. White has taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, NY; the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY; the International Center for Photography, NY; and the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University. He is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography, three artist fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a photography grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and a New Works Photography Fellowship from En Foco Inc. His work is represented in numerous museum and corporate collections.

View Books by Wendel White

View Schools for the Colored on the Photographer's Showcase

Social Media