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Call For Submissions FotoGrafia Festival in Rome

Friday, February 26, 2010

Marc Prust, formerly of Agence Vu and World Press Photo, was recently announced as one of three curators for 2010-2012 for the FotoGrafia Festival in Rome.
Marc is working on exhibitions related to the theme “Photography and Publishing”.
In Marc’s words (with my bold added):
Let me explain the concept of my exhibition. As I am working on [...]

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NYC Gallery Openings Thursday February 25, 2010 (and some already open…)

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

A few shows that are open or about to open in NYC that are on my list of things to do:
Opening Thursday February 25:
Whitney Biennial

At Clampart is a group show called “The Museum of Unnatural History“

Pieter Hugo at Yossi Milo

Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz and William Eggleston at Edwynn Houk

Already open:
Daido Moriyama has [...]

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Foam Magazine Talent Issue Call For Submissions

Monday, February 22, 2010

A little heads up… Foam Magazine, one of my favorite publications, will be accepting submissions for their annual Talent issue beginning on March 1st. Past artists selected include:
To submit go HERE.
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Interview in At Length Magazine

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery recently interviewed me for At Length Magazine, a print-friendly online magazine.

If you’re interested, read the interview HERE.
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The Photography Post

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Photography Post is a new website. It’s a very cool photo site that is part blog and part aggregator with live feeds. Photo blogger Jedi Rachel Hulin is onboard so I expect greatness.

Check out The Photography Post here.
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A Conversation With Jason Eskenazi

Monday, February 8, 2010

Jason Eskenazi is a great guy and one of the best photographers most people haven’t heard of. I look to him as a role-model even as I question some of his life decisions. Maybe that’s because I’m not willing to make some of the sacrifices he’s made (just thinking about living with my parents when [...]

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Interview with Francesco Bonami, Co-Curator of 2010 Whitney Biennial. (Photos by Stefan Ruiz)

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Interview Magazine has posted a conversation between Lisa Phillips, director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Francesco Bonami, co-curator of the 2010 Whitney Biennial. And if that’s not enough, Stefan Ruiz is responsible for the photographs.
“The Career of an artist is about urgency and relevance in the dialogue of art, culture, and society [...]

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Photo España Portfolio Review

Monday, January 18, 2010

DESCUBRIMIENTOS PHE MADRID CALL FOR ENTRIES OPENS
PHotoEspaña, Madrid’s International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, invites photographers of all nationalities and disciplines to present their work to Descubrimientos PHE.
Descubrimientos PHE is PHotoEspaña’s portfolio review that will take place from June 10 to 12, 2010. The portfolio review offers photographers the opportunity to show their work [...]

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Buy a Print and Help Haiti

Monday, January 18, 2010

go HERE and spend $50 on an 8×10 print. 100% of the proceeds go to Yele Haiti Foundation.
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Appreciate A Photographer Week

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

As I’m sure most of you now know, a recent report ranked being a photographer or photojournalist as two pretty crappy jobs to have in its list of  the 200 best and worst jobs of 2010:
#122 Vending Machine Repairer
#125 Waiter/Waitress
#126 Photographer
#131 Maid
#134 Undertaker
#156 Dishwasher
#189 Photojournalist
#190 Butcher
#195 Garbage Collector
With the hope of putting a little smile [...]

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