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Grant Writing for Photographers 101

Posted by Daylight Books on 2013-12-06

As photography becomes increasingly more competitive and saturated, we need to be creative when finding ways to fund our personal projects. At ONWARD, they recommend grants from private foundations as a good area to explore. To give you a head start in attempting the grant-seeking process, they recently spoke with Ken Goldman, a professional grant writer at Drexel University.

Check it out here

Review Santa Fe

Posted by Daylight Books on 2013-12-04

Review Santa Fe is the premier juried portfolio review event in the world and considered one of the most important events for photographers who seek career advancement. Review Santa Fe is designed to facilitate relationships between photographers and leading industry professionals looking for new work.

The three-day event includes a minimum of nine portfolio reviews, inclusion in the Review Santa Fe 100 online resource, an opening reception, a closing reception, as well as an educational photographic seminar to create a vibrant and inspiring weekend to nourish the photographic community and create fertile ground for photographers.

Deadline for entries is January 22, 2014.

Approachable Galleries

Posted by Daylight Books on 2013-12-02

Entering photo competitions can be a great way to get your work out there and possibly get shown in a group exhibition. However, there are many galleries that are looking for submissions of new work year round. ONWARD Compe has been hard at work compiling a list of approachable galleries that might be more open to accepting work from emerging photographers.

Photo arts centers are an excellent place to start submitting your work. Many of them have an open deadline and no submission fee, offering the same exposure you’d get in a competition, but allowing you to apply at your leisure.

Universities are not only a hotbed for artistic appreciation, but they may also be home to some of the most approachable galleries in the United States. Once again, it is important to carefully review the submission guidelines, as all of them are different–one gallery may prefer MFA grads, while another may ask you to come and speak to one of their classes about the work you are exhibiting.

Body Language at Saatchi Gallery

Posted by Daylight Books on 2013-12-02

From November 20 until March 16, the Saatchi Gallery is holding its latest exhibition, aptly titled Body Language. The group show includes a plethora of exclusively figurative pieces from 19 different international artists. You can surmise what the works are about from literalness of the title: how the body can be used to communicate. These are not formal studies as much as explorations of what the body can mean as an object of representation. Body Language, both the show and its namesake, remind us that some things can only be communicated through a language without speech.

The show doesn’t stick to one mode of expression, but rather displays the variety of the body’s manifestations. Tanyth Berkeley’s post-operation transgender portraits make us consider not only the artifice of the gender binary but also the incredible diversity of human life. Nicole Eisenman’s “Beer Garden at Night,” with its depiction of a sprawling bacchanalian party at which people both laugh and cry, emphasizes our simultaneous desire for community and solidarity. Marianne Vitale’s huge, scorched “burned bridge” and tombstones, ominously titled “Markers,” show us the fragility and inescapable entropy of the human body in the face of nature, with only decrepit objects to mark what we leave. On a lighter note, Makiko Kudo’s oil paintings depict cartoonlike children surrounded by lush landscapes, reminding us that our world is a place of imagination and mystery.

Ultimately, Body Language exemplifies the body as the most effective way to ground the infinitely vast iterations of the human experience to the reality of the physical world.

You can check out Saatchi Gallery’s online store at: www.saatchionline.com

James Welling Autograph

Posted by Daylight Books on 2013-11-28

James Welling operates in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture, and traditional photography. For over 40 years he has explored issues of presentation and abstraction in his work, and is equally esteemed by critics, artists, and collectors as a central figure of international contemporary photography. The exhibition Autograph presents Welling’s documentary-style photographs in the tradition of classical art photography. In addition, the exhibition showcases Welling’s abstract photograms. Welling’s methods range from analogue techniques to digital technologies, in color and black-and-white, both with and without a camera. Fascinated by the possibilities the medium, James Welling has followed the fundamental transformation of photography into the present day. The show will be open from November 30, 2013 to February 16, 2014 at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.

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