On-Line Exhibition at the University House Wallingford

I'm pleased to be part of the On-Line Exhibition at the University House Wallingford in Seattle. The exhibition was curated by June Sekiguchi and features the work of 39 artists. Two prints from my One Thin Line series, vertical diptychs that explore the differences and similarities between images that I captured in Paris and Latin America, will be in the exhibition. The show will be on display from June 20 through October 14, 2013, with an opening reception on June 20 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The University House Wallingford is located at 4400 Stone Way N, Seattle.

Rue Tronchet, Paris  -  Ricos Tacos, Oaxaca

Second Class Bus Station, Oaxaca  -  Rue Pierre Lescot, Paris

Review Santa Fe

I’m excited to be on my way to Review Santa Fe for the first time. One hundred photographers from around the world have been invited to this prestigious event where they will show their work in twenty-minute sessions to reviewers they have selected from a list of 44 curators, gallerists, publishers and collectors. I will be showing my Metro portfolio to nine reviewers during the three-day event. In addition to the reviews, there will be several public events, include a Portfolio walk on Friday, June 7, from 6 to 8 pm at the IMH Retreat Center and public lectures. Now, all I need to do is to figure out how to get from the Brighton Beach MTA Station in Brooklyn to Santa Fe.

Brighton Beach MTA Station, Brooklyn

Black & White Magazine Excellence Award

I’m extremely pleased that my portfolio Avoid Naples! has been selected for an Excellence Award in the 2013 Black & White Magazine Portfolio Contest. Six images from this portfolio are featured in a four-page spread Black & White Issue 98, August 2013, which is now on newsstands. This is quite an honor since there were only 15 winners in this category out of 1008 portfolios submitted.

Dante Monument, Naples

Spanish Quarter Warning, Naples

Via Mario Morgantini, Naples

Fishmonger, Naples

Via Foria, Naples

Linea 2 at Montesanto, Naples

Photolucida 2013

I’m excited to be heading down to Portland for the 2013 Photolucida Portfolio Reviews. This event, which takes place every other year, brings together 160 photographers and 60 reviewers from around the world. Over the next four days, each photographer will have the opportunity to meet with 18-20 reviewers of their choice for twenty-minute in-depth review sessions. The reviewers, who are gallery owners, curators, publishers, editors, and consultants, provide valuable critiques of the work. In many instances the connections result in exhibitions, publications and sales. In addition to the formal reviews, photographers share their work with one another and with informal roving reviewers. Several events are open to the public. There will be a portfolio walk featuring the work of the 160 participating photographers from 6 - 9 pm on April 18 at Castaway, 1900 NW 18th Avenue, Portland. Alec Soth will give a talk at the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium at 7 pm on April 19 with advanced tickets suggested. Photolucida is part of Portland Photo Month.

Website Update

I just completed some house cleaning on my website in preparation for Photolucida. I added  images from my Daybreak on the Ganges series. I also deleted a few galleries of older work and edited the remaining galleries by removing some photos. It's always difficult to remove favorite old images, but this is often necessary to strengthen a body of work. Stop by and have a look. I would appreciate any comments you may have.

Gai Ghat, Varanasi

Shots 119 - Spring 2013: Creatures Issue

I'm extremely pleased that my photo Departing Dog, Varanasi is featured in Shots 119 - Spring 2013: Creatures Issue. Shots is a quarterly independent, reader supported journal of photography which is edited and published by Russell Joslin. This is the first time my work has been shown in this important publication.
  

Departing Dog, Varanasi

LENSCRATCH 2013 Portrait Exhibition

I'm delighted to have my photo At the Coal Yard, Varanasi included among the compelling collection of images in Aline Smithson's LENSCRATCH 2013 Portrait Exhibition. This shows a somewhat different side of Varanasi from the serene images that I captured along the Ganges at dawn.
   

At the Coal Yard, Varanasi 

Daybreak on the Ganges

The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus and it is worshiped as the goddess Ganga. Varanasi, located on the banks of the Ganges, is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. According to legend, Varanasi was founded by the god Shiva. Hindus believe that death at Varanasi brings moksha - the liberation from the cycle of repeated death and rebirth. A stroll along the ghats of the Ganges at daybreak, where pilgrims wash away a lifetime of sins by performing their ritual ablutions, provides a tranquil, timeless perspective. 
  
Nine prints from my series Daybreak on the Ganges will be on display at the Clarridge Gallery in Bellevue, WA from March 3 through March 27. The Clarridge Gallery is located in the office/bookstore of the Eastshore Unitarian Church, 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA. Gallery hours are weekdays 9 am to 5 pm.  Call 425 641 3146 for weekend hours.
   

 Man Mandir Ghat, Varanasi 

 Meer Ghat, Varanasi

 Ram Ghat, Varanasi

 Lalita Ghat, Varanasi

 Scindia Ghat, Varanasi 

 Lal Ghat, Varanasi

 Three Bathers, Varanasi

 Gai Ghat, Varanasi

Under the Malviya Bridge, Varanasi   

All of these images were capture during my visit to Varanasi in 2012.  

TPS 22: The International Competition

I'm pleased that my photo Under the Malviya Bridge, Varanasi has been selected in the Texas Photographic Society 22 International Competition Exhibit. The show includes the work of over 50 artists and will be on display at the A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas, from March 1 through March 31, with a reception on March 30. It will then tour to other venues for one year. The competition was juried by Blue Mitchell, the Founding Editor of Diffusion: Unconventional Photography.

Under the Malviya Bridge, Varanasi

Black Box Gallery Portrait Exhibition

I'm delighted to have my image Muchacha en la Silla - Ometepe, Nicaragua included in the Black Box Gallery exhibition entitled Portrait: Image and Identity. The exhibition was juried by Alice Shaw and runs from February 1-22, The opening reception is on Friday, February 1 from 5:00-8:30 pm. The Black Box Gallery is directed by Todd Johnson and is dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary photography. It is located at 811 East Burnside Street, Suite 212, Portland, OR 97214. 503 804 5032

Muchacha en la Silla - Ometepe, Nicaragua

First Place in Photography - Collective Visions Gallery

I'm honored to be awarded First Place in Photography at the 2013 Annual Washington State Juried Art Competition at the Collective Visions Gallery for my photo Chica en el Mercado de Abastos. The show was juried by Alfredo Arreguin, an internationally known painter from Seattle, and it includes work by 127 Washington State artists. The exhibition will open on January 19, 2013 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm and will run until February 23. The show includes a number of special events and lectures which are listed on the gallery website. The Collective Visions Gallery is open Tuesdays – Saturdays 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sundays 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The gallery is located in downtown Bremerton at 331 Pacific Avenue, just 3 blocks from the ferry terminal. Phone: 360 377 8327

   

Chica en el Mercado de Abastos

   

LENSCRATCH Favorite Photographs of 2012

I'm delighted to be included in the diverse collection of images in Aline Smithson's LENSCRATCH Favorite Photographs of 2012 Exhibition with my photo On the Launch from Elephanta Island, Mumbai, India.
    

On the Launch from Elephanta Island, Mumbai, India

Art Photo Index

The Art Photo Index has just officially launched. This online, searchable index currently contains over 12,000 images by nearly 3,000 art and documentary photographers who have been invited to display their work. All of the included artists have been vetted at a high level and recognized for their work by awards, publications or gallery representation. Artists manage their own profile pages and images on the website which also contains their artist statements, biographical sketches and contact information. The Art Photo Index was conceived by Rixon Reed, Founder/Director of photo-eye. The API has been years in development and it was designed to be the most useful index and search engine for discovering and exploring fine-art and documentary photography. I'm proud to be included in this innovative endeavor.
    

Street Shots/NYC Exhibition

Although the South Street Seaport Museum sustained considerable damage on October 29 from super storm Sandy, it has reopened with the Street Shots/NYC exhibition which will be on display through April 5.

More than 5,000 images were submitted in response to the open call for this exhibition and the show will feature 150 images of contemporary NYC street photography by nearly 100 photographers. The exhibition was juried by Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, 

I'm delighted that my photo Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn is included in the show. This image was previously awarded First Place Best of Show in the 2010 New York Photo Festival Capture Brooklyn Exhibition and was also was included in my Return to New York portfolio in Lenswork #97. 

Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn

CDS/Honickman First Book Prize Finalist

The Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University have combined to create a biennial book-publication prize for photographers from America and Canada who are engaged in personal projects of creative or social significance that do not have direct commercial interest. Winners of the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography receive a grant of $3,000, publication of a book of photography and inclusion in a website that features the prizewinners work. The winner is also given a solo exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies and their prints will be placed in the Archive of Documentary Arts.

I’m honored to be one of thirteen finalists for the sixth biennial Honickman First Book Prize in Photography with an entry from my series Metro Moments.

The competition required a portfolio of forty images, an artist statement with project details, and a brief biography. This year the thirteen finalists were selected by Kimberly Rorshach, director of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the current vice president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. The finalists were then asked to submit ten sample prints from their portfolio. All of the materials will be sent to the juror Deborah Willis, Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. The winner of the prize will be announced in January 2013. Update: Information on the winner and finalists is now on the CDS website. 

Linea 1 near Museo, Naples

Viewbook Photostory 2012: Small Stories

I'm honored that my portfolio Avoid Naples! was selected for the Viewbook Photostory 2012: Small Stories Competition. The Viewbook Photostory is an international competition that focuses on the narrative aspects of the photography. This year’s edition focuses on work with a personal view and intimate perspectives, hence the theme Small Stories.  Links to all of the Small Story submissions may be found on Viewbook and additional information is on their Facebook page.
   

Dante Monument, Naples
   
The jurors for the competition include Ineke Smits, Thomas Dworzak of Magnum Photos, Roberto Lopardo, Director of Cuadro Gallery, Erik Vroons, chief editor of GUP Magazine, and Sam Barzilay, Independent curator and festival organizer.
    
I'm also pleased that my Small Stories entry was featured in the Blipfoto Blog.

LENSCRATCH Masks and Costumes 2012 Exhibition

I'm delighted that my image Sin Cabeza, taken in Oaxaca, Mexico, during Día de los Muertos celebrations in 2011, was featured in Aline Smithson's LENSCRATCH Masks and Costumes Exhibition.

Sin Cabeza, Oaxaca

Ernesto Bazan at PCNW

I'm looking forward to two extremely special events at PCNW in Seattle next week.

On Sunday, November 18, at 6:00 pm Ernesto Bazan will be giving a talk and slideshow of his Al Campo book from Cuba. This lush color work provides an interesting contrast and complement to his black and white photos in Bazan Cuba. Both of these books will be available for purchase and signing after the talk. These are two of my favorites in my large collection of photo books. More info on the Sunday talk may be found here.

On Monday and Tuesday, November 19 & 20, from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm each day, Ernesto will be teaching a workshop on building a strong portfolio through editing and sequencing. I have taken several workshops with Ernesto and he is an amazing teacher with an incisive eye for editing and sequencing a body of work. This two-day workshop may dramatically change the way you evaluate your photography and will bring your work to a higher level.

The entire workshop will be spent evaluating and sequencing images you have already made for a body of work you are creating. There will be no shooting of new images during the workshop. Instead, Ernesto wants participants to bring approximately 30 images (digital and/or prints) to be evaluated. It doesn't matter if you do street photography, documentary work, portraits or still-lifes, Ernesto will be able to provide you with new insights to improve your portfolio. More information about the workshop may be found here. The two-day workshop costs $400 and there is a 10% discount if you're a PCNW member.

There are interesting links to Ernesto's work in Time Lightbox, NYT Lens Blog and  an  ASX Interview. 

Adore Noir 2012 Portfolio Contest Issue 10

Adore Noir 2012 Portfolio Contest Issue 10 is now available 
for download.

Heads Up at University Tower

I'm pleased to have four prints from my Faces of China series in the University of Washington Photographers Group Heads Up exhibition at the University Tower, Fourth Floor Mezzanine Gallery. The exhibition runs from October 2, 2012 through January 6, 2013 and also features work by Marilyn Barnard, Kari Berger, Tess Brown, Deborah Conger Hughes, Stephen Lundgren, Karen Portzer, Lyn Smith and Jerry. The University Tower is located at 4333 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195.

At the Chinese Opera - Lishui, China

Man with Tea - Anren, China

Man with Portraits - Xizhou, China

Old Woman - Baisha, China

Newspace Members' Showcase

I'm delighted that my photo Girl at the Abastos Market, Oaxaca will be on display at the fourth annual Newspace Members' Showcase in Portland from October 5 to October 28.  There will be an opening reception and 10 year anniversary celebration on October 5 from 6-9 pm. The Newspace Center for Photography is located at 1632 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR.

Girl at the Abastos Market, Oaxaca

Urban Landscapes at The Center for Fine Art Photography

I'm pleased that my photo Piazza Cavour from my series Avoid Naples! was selected for the Center for Fine Art Photography Urban Landscapes exhibition by juror Julia Dolan, curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum. The exhibition includes work by fifty-three artists for six countries. Urban Landscapes may be viewed on the Center's online gallery and will be on display in the physical gallery from November 20, 2012 through January 5, 2013. There will be an opening reception on Friday, December 7, 2012 from 6:00 - 9:00pm in the gallery at 400 North College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO. 

Piazza Cavour, Naples

The Human Condition Exhibition at Mpls Photo Center

I’m delighted that two of my prints will be on display at the Mpls Photo Center exhibition The Human Condition: A Survey of Humanity. My photo Dante Monument from my series Avoid Naples! was awarded honorable mention, and my image Rue Tronchet from my series Parisian Gestures is also included in the show. The exhibition was juried by Annie Griffiths-Belt, a National Geographic photographer deeply committed to women’s issues. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Ripple Effect Images, a not-for-profit organization documenting programs to help poor women deal with the effects of climate change. 
  
The exhibition includes the work of 46 artists and a listing of their images is on the web. There will be an opening reception on November 10 from 7-10 pm and the exhibition will run through January 4, 2013 at the Mpls Photo Center, 2400 North Second Street, Minneapolis, MN. A Blurb book for the exhibition will also be available.
    

Dante Monument, Naples

Rue Tronchet, Paris

Poetry at the Group f/5.6 Members' Show

I'm pleased to have two prints from my Metro Moments series in the Group f/5.6 Members' Show at the Clarridge Gallery. The exhibition runs through September 29, 2012. The show features 16 prints by six Group f/5.6 photographers who have paired their prints with passages of poetry that inspired or complement the images. The other artists are Jan Bogle, DeAnna Foran, Ron Hammond, Doug Rosenoff and Diane Stefanich.

The Clarridge Gallery is located in the office/bookstore of the Eastshore Unitarian Church, 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA. Gallery hours are weekdays 9am to 5pm.  Call 425 641 3146 for weekend hours.

Metro Line A at Tepalcate, Mexico City

Metro 1 near Świętokrzyska, Warsaw

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    We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky,
    and lost among the subway crowds, I try to catch your eye.

                                  — Leonard Cohen, Stories of the Street

Lenscratch 2012 Hometown Exhibition

Aline Smithson has published the Lenscratch 2012 Hometown Exhibition in her blog.  This wonderful collection of over 150 images provides a diverse interpretation this subject by photographers from around the world. I'm pleased that my photo Sevenscore Years Later, Pioneer Square, Seattle is included in the exhibition. 

Adore Noir 2012 Portfolio Contest

I’m delighted to have been selected as one of six winners of the 2012 Adore Noir Magazine Portfolio Contest with images from my Avoid Naples! series. The contest was judged by Chris Kovacs, editor of Adore Noir, and Susan Spiritus of the Susan Spiritus Gallery. Each of the six photographers will have their work featured in Adore Noir with a twelve page spread and a detailed interview in Adore Noir Issue 10, to be published in October 2012. The other winning photographers are Allan Gill, Alexei Krasnikov, Eric Kellerman, Russell Monk and Tommy Ingberg. Adore Noir is a bimonthly PDF based E-magazine which features fine art black and white photography and articles covering a wide variety of topics. Individual issues and issue samples may be viewed on the Adore Noir website.

  

Fishmonger, Naples