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RayKo Photo Center will be hosting an exhibition of photographic work made without cameras in our main gallery (San Fransico, CA). This is an open call for creations of your imagination, photograms, scan portraits, lumen prints, chemigrams, and laptopograms, just to name a few processes. All work must be original and works previously shown at RayKo are not eligible. The deadline is fast approaching (May 1^st, 2011), so utilize your skills and creativity and submit your work to this rare opportunity. For more information about the competition, guidelines and requirements, visit the RayKo submission page: http://raykophoto.com/gallery/no-mirrors-submission-page/

Daylight Magazine contributor Sarah Pickering will be exhibiting her installation of photographs entitled Art and Antiquities at the Belgian gallery Meessen De Clercq. Ms. Pickering’s examination of the photograph’s relationship to ‘the real’ and the concept of authenticity (propelled by her research of the notorious art forger Sean Greenhalgh), is further aided by her access to Scotland Yard’s Fakes and Forgeries archive. 

Excerpt from Arts and Antiquities Press Release: 

Pickering’s work often turns on photography’s ambiguous relationship to the real. On the one hand, the indexical veracity of her photographs insist that what we see (now) was really there (then); on the other hand, her uncanny subjects urge us to question the conditions of their framing. Her decision for this work to present The Faun, falsely attributed to Gauguin, via its reproduction in six separate fine art catalogues did more than convey the reach of Greenhalgh’s trickery; it also undermined the very processes and structures by which authenticity is established and maintained. Almost a century ago, Walter Benjamin observed that, with mechanical reproduction, the aura associated with the ‘original’ art object is radically superseded by the political. By showing art as already corrupted by its transmission via reproducible media, Art and Antiquities reinvigorated Benjamin’s suggestion, and intimated the reach but also the fallibility of authority more broadly. This understanding of the arts as socially and politically inscribed has surfaced in earlier works, not least Public Order (2002-5). The first of Pickering’s projects to engage the authorities, this series of photographs witnesses sites of police riot-training. In their description of eerily vacant streets, lined only with building facades, the images simultaneously expose and destabilise the state apparatuses for maintaining civil order by lifting the curtain on the scene of rehearsal. In Art and Antiquities, Pickering employed reenactment, rather than the rehearsal, to defamiliarize and thus reveal usually imperceptible mechanisms of power. This shift in emphasis is apt given the photograph’s always-past tense (albeit a past deferred to unknowable, future viewers), and as such permitted greater reflexivity, not least in enabling Pickering to implicate and problematize her own working processes and status as Fine Art photographer.

Ripple Effect is a collective of world-class journalists dedicated to documenting the plight of poor women and girls around the world, and highlighting the programs that are working to empower them, especially as they deal with the devastating effects of climate change.

Women in developing countries bear the biggest burden as climate change impacts the world. In drought, they must walk for hours to find water for their families. In nearly all situations, women are the ones who feed the children and the elderly, carry the young when they are forced to migrate, and nurse them when they are sick from waterborne diseases or malnutrition. It is in the daily lives of these women that the battle to save the family, the planet, and the future is played out. 

It is a fact that the highest impact programs that mitigate climate change are those that invest in women and girls. Statistics show that when women are offered even a small opportunity, they pay it forward to their families and communities at three times the rate that men do. Climate change dollars designated for women’s programs have a significant impact on both human lives and the environment.

Working closely with scientists and NGOs to identify both the needs and the innovative programs that are helping women and girls, Ripple Effect journalists, which includes a MacArthur Genius fellow, Pulitzer Prize and National Humanities Medal winners, and an Emmy Award winning filmmaker, travel to these international hot spots where the role of women in society is entwined with environmental concerns; where conflict and poverty meet dwindling resources, desertification, water scarcity, crop failure, rising sea levels, and the spread of disease. The resulting photographs, video, and stories are then made available at little or no cost to partner aid organizations, policymakers, NGOs, ambassadors, corporate leaders, and the State Department.

http://rippleeffectimages.org/

"In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and children. And that must change." –Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State

Marla Hamburg Kennedy's recent book release, NEW YORK: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S CITY, published by Rizzoli, will be celebrated at a a book signing event at 192 Books tomorrow, Tuesday, April 19th, 2011. The coffee table book of over 300 photos of NYC includes images by many contemporary photographers, such as Andreas Gursky, Edward Burtynsky, Thomas Struth, Vik Muniz, Doug Aitken, and yours truly, see my Coney Island image above. The attending-in-person photographers list is a work in progress, but check in with 192 Books ahead of time for updates. Currently, that list includes: Theo Anderson, Erica Baum, Jimi Billingsley, John Cyr, Iannis Delatolas, Skuta Helgason, Larry Racioppo, Bastienne Schmidt, Jamel Shabazz, Benjamin Swett, Robert Vizzini, Sara Wight, Mark Yankus.

192 Books
Tuesday, April 19, 7-9 PM
192 10th Avenue @ 21st street

http://www.192books.com/eventsupcoming.htm

http://www.rizzoliusa.com/book.php?isbn=9780847835843

LUCEO is proud to announce a call for entries for the 2nd annual LUCEO Student Project Award. The award is offered each year to a student photographer working to develop a significant body of work. Last yearʼs recipient Masud alam Liton, a student of Pathshala South Asian Media Academy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, presented a compelling project looking at the lives of sex workers in Douladia Ghat, Rajbari, Bangladesh and focused the question of what freedom means in the context of class, tradition and the internecine workings of the commercial sex industry in his home country. 

This year, full time students from both undergraduate and graduate programs are invited to submit an application for submission. The deadline for receipt of applications is 11:59pm EST May 15, 2011. Ten finalists will be selected and announced in late May. 

A select panel will judge from the ten finalists at LOOK3: The Festival of the Photograph in June where the winner will be announced. Michael Wichita, Director of Photography at AARP Bulletin, will serve as moderator for the judging panel, and will be awarding an assignment to one of the contest finalists. 

This yearʼs winner will receive $1,000 to go towards completion of their project as well as mentorship with the project for the duration of the year from one LUCEO member.

About LUCEO
LUCEO is united in a common belief that, through these times of change, the still image continues to be relevant. We believe that history extends beyond the news-cycle, and that ordinary people and personal struggle are avenues through which we can explore the bigger issues facing our world. It is with this purpose that we created the LUCEO Project Fund and the LUCEO Student Project Award.

LUCEO Project Fund
LUCEO believes in actively encouraging the completion of significant personal bodies of work, which lack funding through mainstream outlets. In pursuit of this goal, LUCEO contributes a percentage of all editorial, commercial and corporate commissions toward the LUCEO Project Fund. This fund exists solely to support the long-term projects of LUCEO’s member photographers. Every commission allows our clients to support significant photographic work.

LUCEO Student Project Award
LUCEO also believes that developing photographers need support. To advance this cause, LUCEO pledges a portion of this fund towards the LUCEO Student Project Award. This award will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work. 

LUCEO is: David Walter Banks, Kendrick Brinson, Matt Eich, Kevin German, Daryl Peveto Matt Slaby.