G.W.A.G.H.M.A.C.J.E.A.K.F.S.F.I.L.C.J.B.D.Z.

Alana Celii e-mailed me today about an exhibition that she and some other recent Parsons graduates have put together. The show, entitled G.W.A.G.H.M.A.C.J.E.A.K.F.S.F.I. L.C.J.B.D.Z., will be opening at Daniel Cooney Fine Art on June 11th. If you're in the neighborhood, you should swing by and see the exhibition! You can find all the pertinent details below.



G.W.A.G.H.M.A.C.J.E.A.K.F.S.F.I.L.C.J.B.D.Z.

Photographs by: by Grant Willing, Anna Gonzalez-Huix Miro, Alana Celii, Jemma Evans, Alia Kahan, Fiona Struengmann, Fernando Ibarra, Lorena Costa, Jonathan Baskin, and Daniel Zuchnik

June 11–20, 2009
Opening: June 11, 2009 6–9pm
Daniel Cooney Fine Art
511 West 25th Street, Suite 506
New York, NY

Photograph from the series Svart Metall

Image © Grant Willing

John Stezaker

British artist John Stezaker's photographic collages exist in the long, and often socio-political, line of artists whose work defined movements like Surrealism, Constructivism, Conceptualism and Postmodernism. Following this train of thought, Stezaker's work shares many similarities with Joachim Schmid's series Photogenic Drafts (posted on this blog here). As excerpted from the Stills website:



"Breathing new life into photographs salvaged from forgotten film archives and obsolete magazines, John Stezaker intuitively transforms these found portraits into otherworldly, uncanny beings. Playing with our fascination with the face, Stezaker’s subtle yet unsettling interventions toy with the subconscious and the surreal.

Using a manual cut-and paste technique he continues the rich history of collage by dissolving the naturalistic picture plane and constructing a fragmented and dislocated view of contemporary reality. The individual images fuse and separate before our eyes, opening up new characters, relationships and meanings."











All Images © John Stezaker

Boston Photography Focus' Be Exposed

The PRC will be featuring images from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition on their blog, Boston Photography Focus, on Mondays and Thursdays in the next few weeks. Be sure to check in regularly for new updates on EXPOSURE artists.

Anja Schaffner's Susurrus

I discovered Anja Schaffner's haunting series Susurrus via The Sonic Blog today. I have to admit that I was previously unfamiliar with the word susurrus. After looking it up, however, I discovered it is: a whispering or rustling sound; a murmur. Schaffner's statement poetically asserts:

"There are moments when I want to slow things down. I stare and imagine those moments on hold. It is like when someone says 'pssst' and you stop and listen for a short while. Afterwards, things continue in their usual way... some images continue to hum though.

Taking photographs is one way of creating a sense of continuity in life. Photographs never end, but perhaps new images can stop the old ones from haunting us."











From Top To Bottom:

Under Cover. Portohelli, 2008

Iro II. London, 2008

Johnny. London, 2008

Eisfeld. Horn-Bad Meinberg, 2007

Auf der Moorlage. Horn-Bad Meinberg, 2008

All Images © Anja Schaffner

mus-mus @ Paris Call For Entries

mus-mus' most recently call for entries, @ Paris, is "a return to an early and sustaining subject of photography -- Paris. If anyone out there needs some incentive, Stephen Shore and Gil Blank have kindly offered their jurying services for the competition.


As with @600 Mus-Mus will strive to use the ease and power of the web combined with the talents and camaraderie of the global photography community to develop a striking online archive of images. This time the focus is around this singular place, Paris, as seen through the vision of photographers from all parts of the world.

It is fitting that Paris, lovingly called "The City of Light" should have been one of the first and most thoroughly photographic and photographed places on earth. The list of Paris' photographers runs from Daguerre and Nadar to Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson and from Atget to Man Ray, Kertez and Klein and many more, a remarkable number of photography's greatest artists made their mark 'a travers' Paris. Their photographs and publications have fixed in our mind's eye a vision of Paris that is beautiful, often as edgy as elegant, and always complex.

The rules are simple:

1. submit one photograph taken by you in Paris before July 14th, 2009 (JPEG format, 72dpi, 1000 pixels larger side, Srgb Please name your file this way: SurnameName.jpg). Photo can be taken for the project or chosen from your archives.

2. include information about the date, the place and some brief statement about the photograph and its relationship to your sense of Paris.

3. certify that the submission information is correct and that the photograph is previously unpublished and that the copyright is yours.

4. Curriculum Vitae together with your website and email

5. be older than 18 year old.

Please check the complete submission guidelines, technical details and
conditions here.

We look forward to seeing what you see. And thanks in advance for sharing
your wonderful work and participation.

Grant Ernhart's Gustine

Grant Ernhart recently updated his website with a selection of images from his new series Gustine. Have a look.











All photographs from the series Gustine

All Images © Grant Ernhart

Grace Kim's Love Hotel

The images in Grace Kim's series Love Hotel depict unmade beds in various Seoul hotels known to house secret affairs and love trysts. As her statement explains:

"I have been creating portraits of unmade beds at love hotels in Seoul. Lovers often use the hotels to carry on secret affairs, I visit the rooms just after they have departed. The photographs are personal reflections on the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of love. Absence inspires imagination and nostalgia, and what is secret or forbidden seems authentic in a way, because it actively questions and resists the status quo, rather than remaining complacent."











All photographs from the series Love Hotel

All Images © Grace Kim