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Show + Book Signing: COLLECTIONS: BIRDS, BONES, AND BUTTERFLIES

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-10-01

Opening Reception: October 19 Location: Rayko Photo, San Francisco CA Leah Sobsey will be presenting her newest book from Daylight Books, Collections: Birds, Bones, and Butterflies at the Rayko Photo Gallery in San Francisco. Leah Sobsey works at the intersection of nineteenth century photographic processes and twenty-first century digital technology. Sobsey photographs bird skins, bleached bones, clipped ferns, and tattered shoes that she unearths from the dark drawers of national park museum collections. Plucked from their original context, she illuminates them with sun and light, giving them new definition. The subject matter of each series she creates is dictated by her discoveries,...

FELIFA FoLa INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-09-28

Dates: November 23 - 27 Location: FoLa premises, Buenos AiresFELIFA, Feria de Libros de Fotos de Autor and FoLa, Fototeca Latinoamericana, invite photographers and editors from around the world to submit work to the FELIFA FoLa INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016, which will award the BEST EDITORIAL WORK a total of U$ 2000.Books published by independent and large publishing houses, self-published editions, and books published by institutions are all eligible for the prize.The winner will be announced at an event held on Friday, November 25 at 7PM.

Daylight Panel Discussion @ Photoville

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-09-27

INCEPTION TO PERFECTION: MAKING A PHOTO BOOK A photograph is made in the blink of an eye but long-term photographic projects can take months or years to bring to completion. Often culminating in a book, these projects take fortitude, dedication and, sometimes, a silly degree of commitment and sacrifice. Daylight's new season of book releases feature a number of such projects and we will be gathering some of our new artists to discuss the various facets that go into packaging long-term photographic projects into book form. The panel will feature short artist presentations by Mark Marchesi, Barbara Kyne, Vincent Cianni, Patty Carroll...

Artist Talk + Book Signing: 21c Durham

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-09-15

Date: October 13, 7PM Location: 21c Durham Leah Sobsey is a photographer and educator from Chapel Hill and Durham, NC with degrees in both anthropology and studio art. Using both digital technologies and 19th century techniques, Sobsey’s art merges her two interests to illuminate forgotten histories of natural and human worlds and transform the national park collections she studies into vital representations of our present moment. The artist notes, “My current focus on national parks is a way of preserving these fragile specimens that represent American history. This comes at a time when climate change and funding allocations threaten indigenous...

Leah Sobsey Talk + Book Signing: Collections: Birds, Bones and Butterflies

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-09-05

Date: September 29, 6:30 - 8:00PM Location: Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC Please join us for a special artist talk by Leah Sobsey on the release of her latest publication, Collections: Birds, Bones and Butterflies (Daylight Books, 2016), a series of exquisite photographs of the collections of North America's National Park Museums on the occasion of the centennial year of the National Park Service. Leah Sobsey, Visiting Assistant Professor, UNCG, works at the intersection of nineteenth century photographic processes and twenty-first century digital technology. Inspired by Anna Atkins, the 19th-century botanist and photographer, Sobsey photographs bird skins, bleached bones, tattered shoes, and...

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