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Announcing the 2015 Daylight Photo Awards!

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Submissions are now open for the 2015 Daylight Photo Awards. The winning submission will receive a solo show at the Daylight Project Space, as well as a digital showcase of their work! Juror picks will receive a selection of Daylight's previously published books. Previous Daylight Photo Award winners include Zhang Kechun, Bryan Schutmaat, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, and Tamas Dezso.This year's jurors are Peggy Sue Amison (East Wing Gallery, Dubai); Luca Desienna (Gomma, UK); Shane Lavalette (Light Work, US); Karen McQuaid (Photographers Gallery, UK); and Takeki Sugiyama (Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival, Japan).For more info, and to submit, visit: daylightphotoawards.com

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Zofia Rydet's 'Sociological Record'

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Photographer Zofia Rydet’s Sociological Record, realized between 1978–1997, represents one of the most important achievements in 20th-century Polish photography. Rydet (1911–1997) assembled her photographic “Record” by systematically and methodically documenting the lives of individuals depicted primarily within the literal frame and context of their homes: village huts in the countryside or else apartments suspended amidst blocks of city flats.Of canonical significance, the “Record” has nevertheless remained a challenge for scholars and art critics alike, owing to the sheer breadth of the project’s scope and Rydet’s prolific industriousness. In efforts to preserve and spread knowledge of Rydet's work, several institutions have collaborated to create...

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SNAP! MIAMI PRESENTS: E. BRADY ROBINSON ART DESKS Book signing @ Sagamore Hotel

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SNAP! MIAMI is hosting a book signing & champagne reception for Art Desks with E. Brady Robinson at the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach during Art Wynwood. A years-long project, Art Desks features photographs of the desks and working spaces of artists, curators, art dealers, and critics throughout the East Coast. The series explores the idea of the desk as portrait of its owner, combined with the social experiment of navigating the art world. With an essay by Andy Grundberg.Feb 15th, 1-3pmMiami Beach, FL  1671 Collins Ave.  More about the book at art-desks.com

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MONO Volume 2 Kickstarter

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The MONO Trilogy is about celebrating that beautiful and timeless art medium that is black white photography. It represents an invaluable contemporary snapshot of the black and white genre.

At the moment, Gomma has a crowdfunding campaign open where backers are able to preserve a copy of the new volume at reduced price of 40% and with the addition of prestigious gifts such exclusive signed prints. Furthermore, the possibility to purchase a copy of the Gold Limited Edition.

MONO Volume Two will showcase approx 250 pages of outstanding imagery, encased in an elegant and lushly black cloth hardcover. The photographers selected for the new volume so far are the following: Martin Bogren, Dirk Braeckman, Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni, Lorenzo Castore, Robert Hutinsky, Gert Jochems, Jon Lowenstein, Alexia Monduit, Paulo Nozolino, Hideka Tonomura, Scott Typaldos, Ester Vonplon, Tereza Zelenkova, and Miron Zownir.

For more info and to donate, visit: kickstarter.com/projects/2122756189/mono-volume-two

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The New York Times on Daylight's '#SANDY'

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"...This collection should remind readers of the unfinished agenda in Hurricane Sandy’s wake."

Read more from the New York Times' coverage of '#SANDY: Seen Through the iPhones of Acclaimed Photographers' here.

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