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Connect 2011 offers the opportunity to meet top photographers, curators, art directors, editors, gallery directors, ad agency creatives, educators and industry leaders in the spectacular desert environment of Palm Springs, California for this year’s Palm Springs Photo Festival. Show your portfolios, study with legendary photographers, attend cutting-edge seminars / symposiums and enjoy evening projections by world famous image-makers. network with the master photographers, industry insiders and your contemporaries at several great parties and enjoy the warm Palm Springs weather. Walk away with a renewed passion for the art of image making.

For more information, visit; www.palmspringsphotofestival.com

According to Artinfo, via Huffington Post, a promise to color photography has been made in the form of the William Eggleston Museum in Memphis, Tenn.: "Preparation for the new institution has been spearheaded by New York-based intellectual property lawyer Mark Crosby, who rallied a group of philanthropists around the idea. Crosby has already raised $5 million in pledged start-up funds. "They're not creative types, or even fans of Eggleston especially," Crosby told the Commercial Appeal of the anonymous donors, "but they're Memphians who have a public mission." The museum is expected to open in 2013, in one of three midtown Memphis sites: Overton Park, Overton Square, or the Crosstown neighborhood. It will house the offices of the Eggleston archive -- overseen by the Eggleston Trust, which is headed by the photographer's son Winston -- as well as gallery spaces to show the photographer's work and the work of other contemporary artists. In exchange for storing and maintaining the archive, the museum will have the research and display rights to more than 60,000 photographs. "At first I thought it was some kind of vague idea," Winston Eggleston told the Commercial Appeal of being approached about the museum. "I didn't realize that it was such a serious thing." With Eggleston's legacy ever more firmly cemented in the history of photography and art -- particularly after his expansive 2008 retrospective at the Whitney, which toured the country -- it is easy to see why other Memphians are giddy about reclaiming a local hero. "You've got the world leader, the man who really placed color photography among the acceptable forms of art... not through elaborate, hard-to-understand subject matter, but by capturing the everyday," Memphis mayor A C Wharton said. "Eggleston truly is Memphis." According to John Szarkowski, however, when it comes to Eggleston's photographs, while they may be of Memphis, they are not Memphis. "It would be marvelous to think that the ordinary, vernacular life in and around Memphis might be in its quality more sharply incised, formally clear, fictive, and mysteriously purposeful than it appears elsewhere," the curator continues in his essay -- but of course this is not the case. The new museum will offer the unique opportunity to observe the gap -- between reality and its sharply focused photographic representation -- firsthand." (above, fromhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/artinfo/move-over-graceland-memph_b_811830... )

The Open Society Documentary Photography Project is currently offering a grant to support alternative models for presenting and disseminating documentary photography to the public. The Audience Engagement Grant supports photographers to take an existing body of work on a social justice or human rights issue and devise an innovative way of using that work as a catalyst for social change. Five to eight grants of $5,000 to $30,000 will be awarded. The deadline to apply is May 13, 2011. Past grantees include Donna De Cesare, Eugene Richards, Jonathan Torgovnik, Mitch Epstein, Wendy Ewald, and many other distinguished photographers. 

In addition, the Open Society Foundations invite photographers to submit a body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 19 group exhibition. Moving Walls is an exhibition series that features in-depth and nuanced explorations of human rights and social issues. Open to both emerging and established photographers, the deadline to submit work is April 1, 2011. Past exhibitions have included work by Benjamin Lowy, Paolo Woods, Ed Kashi, Lynsey Addario, Tim Hetherington, and many more. 

Guidelines and more information about the Audience Engagement Grant 

Guidelines and more information about Moving Walls

On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal Daniel Cooney Fine Art 511 W 25th St Suite 506, New York, NY January 6 - February 12, 201 and Southern Views University of Virginia Art Museum January 14 - June 5, 2011 Final Friday opening receptions: January 28, February 25, March 25 April 29, 5:30-7:30pm Links: http://www.danielcooneyfineart.com http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/on_view/exhibitions/Southern_Views.php

This Thursday, Pierre Le Hors will be presenting new work, "Alikeness", and also celebrating the launch of his new book "Firework Studies", published by Hassla, at Ed. Varie. The show will feature several small C-Prints, gorgeous images of fluid displacements, and a sculpture. Le Hors wrote the following about the show. "Alikeness is about the impulse to halt time and to preserve, to give permanence to something before it slips away. The group of photographs shown stop motion in order to more closely observe a phenomenon. Likewise, a wax effigy is presented as a record of the artist's body, with funereal implications -- a likeness of youth as death mask (is the figure dead or asleep?). Alikeness is the instant at which a representation (of life, of movement), charged with potential but frozen in time, slips uncomfortably into memento mori." Concurrently, his book "Firework Studies" will make its debut. Over the three hundred plus pages, stark black and white renderings of fireworks shot against the night sky move between spherical explosions, digital noise and clouds of debris. Ed. Varie 208 E. 7th st. West Storefront NYC, NY 10009 Thursday, January 20th, 6-9 pm Pierre Le Hors: http://www.pierrelehors.com Ed. Varie: http://edvarie.tumblr.com/ Hassla Books:http://www.hasslabooks.com/