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This year's Photo Review International Photography Competition will be juried by Brian Paul Clamp, Diretor of CLAMPART, one of New York’s leading contemporary photography galleries. The Photo Review's is "a competition with a difference" that enables thousands of people across the country to see the accepted work in the 2010 competition issue of The Photo Review and on Photo Review's website. Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

An entry fee of $30 for up to three prints or slides, and $5 each for up to two additional prints or slides, entitles all entrants to a copy of the catalogue. In addition, all entrants may subscribe to The Photo Review for $36, a 20% discount.

All entries must be received by mail between May 1 and May 15, 2010.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

CCNY's 2010 Juried Competition Deadline Extended to May 3
Juror: James Casebere

Deadline Extended: Monday, May 3, 2010

We will be accepting submissions to our Annual National Photography Competition until Monday, May 3. Photographers and photo-based artists working in any genre are eligible to apply.
Selected applicants will be featured in an exhibition at the CCNY gallery in the summer of 2010 and on the CCNY website. The first place selection will receive a $500.00 cash award.

http://www.cameraclubny.org/competition.html
 

Call for entries

Work: photographs on the theme +1000 metres altitude
participation: photographers under 40 years of age
deadline: 24th May 2010 | information and application forms: www.plus1000.ch

Taking place in the Rossiniere, Switzerland, Alt. +1000 Photography Festival, will launch its second edition with eight photographic exhibitions.

The photographic work must be based on the theme of +1000 metres altitude. All genres, approaches and techniques are welcome: artistic, conceptual or documentary, featuring the life of mountain inhabitants and/or their environment. Alt. +1000 is a festival which aims to capture different perceptions of the mountain. The selection of the works will be carried out by a jury of professionals.

Deborah Colton Gallery is pleased to announce a mid-career exhibition and book surveying the photo-based work of Canadian artist Frank Rodick at Colton Farb Gallery, Houston. Labyrinth of Desire: Work by Frank Rodick, offers an extraordinary look into the creative process of one of the field’s most interesting artists and will feature selections from his several bodies of work, from the early black-and-white images in Liquid City and sub rosa to the multiple, toned images of Arena and Faithless Grottoes.  The artist’s most recent work, Revisitations, will be shown here for the first time in a special installation within the exhibition.  The exhibition is timed to coincide with the Houston-based FotoFest, founded in 1983 as the first international biennial of photography and photo-based art in the United States.

Rodick, an internationally recognized artist , creates powerful, evocative, and sometimes controversial pictures that integrate elements of traditional photography, alternative darkroom techniques, video, and digital imaging.

In his more recent work, Rodick alters and combines images into sequenced compositions that explore the complex realm of the human psyche, probing the ambiguity of our inner lives.  His juxtaposition of images mimics the imprecise and non-linear workings of our private thoughts, memories, and desires.  “Hallucinatory as they might sometimes seem,” Rodick says of his work, “what I’m looking for are images that feel more intimately real than our cursory experience of everyday life, images that give a voice to the worlds that live inside us and which somehow demand witness."

Rodick’s work has been exhibited widely throughout North America, Latin America, and Europe.  His work is in the collections of numerous international institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the Kinsey Institute; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; the Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi in Belgium; the Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark; Lehigh University Art Galleries; and the Museo Nacional de Bella Artes de Buenos Aires in Argentina.

The curator for the exhibition is Katherine Ware, formerly a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, who is now Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  She has organized exhibitions of work by contemporary photographers as well as by masters such as Harry Callahan, Man Ray, and László Moholy-Nagy.  Ware’s publications include Dreaming in Black and White:  Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery, Elemental Landscapes: The Photographs of Harry Callahan; In Focus:  Man Ray; In Focus: László Moholy-Nagy; and essays on Man Ray, Bauhaus photography, and contemporary photography.  She first encountered Rodick’s work at FotoFest in Houston and subsequently chose his work for the 2006 exhibition Discoveries of the Meeting Place.  “Rodick’s relentless examination of the inner workings of the human animal never ceases to intrigue me,” Ware said.  “Despite the valiant work of Dr. Freud and some of his successors, our emotional landscapes remain relatively mysterious and uncharted.”

Labyrinth of Desire runs to April 24th, 2010

Colton Farb Gallery
info@deborahcoltongallery.com
www.deborahcoltongallery.com
ph 713.869.5151

Katherine Ware
kwphotocurator@gmail.com

Frank Rodick
frankrodick@frankrodick.com
www.frankrodick.com

Jean Michel Basquiat, born in Brooklyn in 1960, became one of the most successful African American artists of his generation. After leaving home at age 17, Basquiat bummed around Manhattan, writing graffiti as SAMO and sleeping where he could. Tamra Davis was a friend and was able to interview Basquiat before his unexpected death. She has finally turned that footage into an amazing documentary chronicling the intensity and struggle that was so much a part of his short life.

I scrambled up a flight of stairs toward an auditorium at the University of Rochester, expecting to walk in to a room full of people intently watching as Tamra Davis’s new film, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, started to play. As I opened the door, I instead found myself in a room with five other people and a table of assorted bread, meat, chips and a few cans of soda that appeared to have been the leftovers from some other larger gathering. I sat down and the graduate student who organized the screening introduced herself and the film.

From start to finish, I was captivated. The film intimately depicts the life of Jean from when he left home as a teenager, becoming a homeless street artist, to his first gallery show, to his close friendship with Andy Warhol and finally to his tragic death from a heroin overdose in 1988. The film is set to be officially released July 21, 2010.

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