photo-eye Gallery 2016 CENTER Project Winners Exhibition CENTER presented its annual Review Santa Fe, one of the years most distinguished portfolio reviews and photographic festivals, last weekend Nov. 4–6. 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.

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.
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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
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Megan E. Doherty with her series Back of the Yards installed at photo-eye Gallery
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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.
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Photographer's Showcase artist Teri Havens with her portfolio Last Light 
at Last Friday's portfolio viewing.
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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 Wendel White: Schools for the Colored – Exhibition and Portfolio Introduction 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.

Marshalltown School, Mannington, New Jersey, 2008 – © Wendel White

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.

Booker T. Washington School, Columbus, Indiana, 2007 – © Wendel White 

"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.

Ambidexter Institute, Springfield, Illinois, 2008 
© Wendel White 

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.

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