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| Taking the time to participate in the portfolio reviews for the first time has proven vital for my career and I'm very grateful to FotoFest. |
- Jennifer Schlesinger, Santa Fe, NM
2010 Meeting Place Registrant |
| The Meeting Place was energizing, motivating, enlightening and inspiring. Between what I learned and who I met, I can feed off the experience and use it to advance my current projects. |
- Arthur Drooker, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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| The Meeting Place remains a premier place to present work to a wide range of decision-makers and a wonderful spot to visit with old friends. |
- Candace Plummer Gaudiani,
Menlo Park, CA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant |
| The Meeting Place is an exciting forum for meeting with and reviewing the work of photo-based artists. While the artist might consider it solely as an opportunity to promote his or her own work, the arts professional – curators, gallerists, and publishers alike- is offered that same, unique occasion, one in which he/she has a chance to view photographic work from around the world. |
- Charles Guice,
Charles Guice Contemporary,
Katonah, NY
2010 Meeting Place Reviewer |
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| 2010 Meeting Place. Photo by Hall Puckett |
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2010 Meeting Place.
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| 2010 Meeting Place. Photo by Vinod Hopson |
Over the past 24 years, hundreds of photographers have come to tell us, send letters and email us about the ways their careers have benefitted from FotoFest’s Meeting Place Portfolio Reviews. The Meeting Place, developed by FotoFest in 1986, has been the catalyst for hundreds of U.S. and international exhibitions, publications, sales and portfolio reproductions for attendees of the portfolio reviews.
We are glad to announce also that, ten Meeting Place artists whose works were picked by reviewers in 2008 to be part of the 2010 Discoveries of the Meeting Place will be shown in Mexico City at Mexico’s primary center for photography, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, The Discoveries exhibitions, started in 1996, have traveled to Russia, Brazil and Mexico.
The artists who have sent their success stories to us are listed below alphabetically.
To see a list of the Reviewers’ Successes from the Meeting Place, please click here.
We are waiting for more of your stories! If you were able to arrange an exhibition, publication, or purchase of your work, please send your success stories to Sarah Craig, Meeting Place Assistant, meeting@fotofest.org and we will celebrate your successes here. We continually update these pages. If you have exhibitions, publications, or sales still pending, please send us an email, with images, once your projects are finalized.
Jeffrey Aaronson - Santa Barbara, CA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, California
Driving Desire
April 24 - June 5 2010
This show was a direct result of my meeting with Hossein Farmani who extended an invitation to participate in the 2010 Month of Photography Los Angeles resulting in a solo show at Fabrik Projects.
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Jeffrey Aaronson, Untitled Freeway#1, from the series Driving Desire, 2010
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 Mariette Pathy Allen, New York, NY
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
Purchases
The photograph Drew, from the seriesThe Gender Frontier, was purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX.
Mariette Pathy Allen, Drew, from the series The Gender Frontier, 2002 |
Renate Aller - New York, NY
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Renate Aller, from the series Oceanscapes, Ongoing project
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Publication
Exhibition
John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX
One View, Ten Years
January 15 - February 12, 2011
Book Signing at John Cleary Gallery on January 14
Purchases
Collector from Houston purchased an Oceanscape from the Radius Books auction and then donated it to the New Mexico Museum of Art. |
Gabriel Benaim - Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publications
Photonews Magazine, Hamburg, Germany
May 2010
Photonews published a two page spread including five of Mr. Benaim's photographs from the series Tel Aviv at 100, together with an essay by Anna Gripp and an interview with Walter Keller.
Exhibitions
Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
In Review
June 18 – September 4, 2010
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Gabriel Benaim, Ayalon Swirl, from the series Tel Aviv at 100, 2008
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Brad Carlile - Portland, OR
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Brad Carlile, Bange, from the series Tempus Incognitus, 2009
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Exhibitions
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Pelle Cass - Brookline, MA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Pelle Cass, Tree, Boston Public Garden, from the series
Selected People
, 2008
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Exhibition
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John Chervinsky - Somerville, MA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
 Gallery Representation
Exhibitions
John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX
Found: Discoveries of FotoFest and PhotoNOLA
July 10 - September 4, 2010
Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
In Review
June 18 – September 4, 2010
John Chervinsky, Where Fruit Comes From, 2010 |
Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton - Plantation, FL
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton, Tree Line, from the series
Wondering about Pictorialism, 2008
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Gallery Representation
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Susan Dobson - Guelph, ON, Canada
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Susan Dobson, Harvey’s, from the series Retail, 2008
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Exhibitions
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Beth Yarnelle Edwards - San Francisco, CA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publication
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Her first monograph,Suburban Dreams was published in January and will available in the US in fall 2011
Exhibitions
Beth Yarnelle Edwards began exhibiting in Europe in 2000 after a photographer she met at FotoFest told her about a competition in France, which she entered and won. That prize led to a solo exhibition in 2003 at the photography museum in Toulouse, Chateau d'Eau. She had another solo museum exhibition at the Musee de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium in 2004, which resulted from meeting the museum's director and curator, Xavier Canonne and Marc Vausort, at FotoFest.
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Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Niki, from the series Suburban Dreams |
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Charlie Ferguson - Austin, TX
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publications
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Charlie Ferguson, Wasted Expression 8, 2010
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Mauro Fiorese - Verona, Italy
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Mauro Fiorese, Sighting #0001-x, from the series U.Pho.S, 1998
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Mauro Fiorese's success stories came from his portfolio review session at FotoFest and from his exhibition at John Cleary Gallery during FotoFest.
Gallery Representation
Exhibition
The U.Pho.S. Mockumentary short film from the U.Pho.S. Project has been shown at Discovery Green Dowtown in Houston, Texas during "FotoFest at Discovery Green" on Saturday May 1, 2010. |
N.W. Gibbons - Green's Farms, CT
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
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N.W. Gibbons, Bridgeport Brass Mill
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Joy Goldkind - San Jose, CA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Joy Goldkind, Rose, from the series
Girl Friends |
Exhibitions
Purchases
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Judy Haberl - Boston, MA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Judy Haberl, Hidden Agendas: Purse 6, 2009 |
Exhibitions
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Daniel Handal - New York, NY
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment
April 2011
Katherine Ware is curating the exhibition and it will also include an online preview and a book.
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Daniel Handal, Kale Harvest at Sister’s Hill Farm, Standfordville,
from the series Between Forest and Field, 2009
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Liz Hickok - San Francisco, CA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant and Discoveries of the Meeting Place 2010 Artist
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Liz Hickok,San Francisco, from the series
San Francisco in Jell-O, 2005
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Purchases
Photo acquired by Private Collector, Joaquim Paiva,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Exhibitions
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Priya Kambli - Kirksville, MO
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
XVI Encuentros Abiertos Festival de la Luz
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 solo show at the Centro Cultural Recoleta Sala 11
August 6 - 29, 2010
Elda Harrington, Director of Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia, invited Priya Kambli to participate in the Festival.
Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Exhibition runs from September 2010 - January 2011
Chosen by Anne Tucker to participate in the exhibition
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Priya Kambli Me (Flour), 2009 |
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Chang Kim - Long Island, NY
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publications
Photographie Magazine, Stuttgart, Germany
July issue
A story about the series Temples, written by Ute Noll.
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Chang Kim, Best Buy, from the series Temples, 2010
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Exhibitions
Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
In Review
June 18 – September 4, 2010
In Focus Galerie, Köln, Germany
American Temples
Opening March 12, 2011
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Danica Kus - Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
 Purchases
Danica Kus, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, SANAA, 2009
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Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman - Baltimore, MD
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publications
Fraction Magazine, Online
Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream 2009-2010
Issue 14, May 2010
Exhibitions
Purchases
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Nate Larson and Marni Schindelman,Geolocation (Location Thing
for Twitter), 2009
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Honey Lazar - Cleveland, OH
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Honey Lazar, Rollerblading, from the series Neither Plain nor Simple
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Exhibition
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Isa Leshko - Salem, MA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
In Review
June 18 – September 4, 2010
RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
(Por)trait Revealed
July 28-September 10, 2010
Purchases
Publications
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Isa Leshko, Embden Goose, Age 28, II, 2009
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Pedro Lobo - Évora, Portugal
2004 Meeting Place Registrant
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Pedro Lobo, Itaguy, Medellín, 2006 |
Exhibitions
September, 2005 - Christopher Rauschenberg and Blue Sky Gallery of Portland, OR exhibited Imprisoned Spaces images from the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil. As a result, two of the large prints were acquired for the Photographic Collection of the Portland Museum of Fine Art.
October, 2006 - Juan Gavíria and the Centro Colombo Americano of Medellin, Colombia exhibited Espacios Encarcelados with images from the Carandiru Penitentiary and from prisons in Medellin. The exhibition was greatly expanded with the results of a workshop with prisoners and art students during which the participants photographed Itaguy prison and showed their results at the prison itself and at the CCA Gallery in downtown Medellin.
October, 2010 - Mark Sloan, Director of Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary Arts, co-curated with Mark Long the exhibition Architecture of Survival with images of the "favelas" of Rio de Janeiro.
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Veronika Marquez - Madrid, Spain
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
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Veronika Marquez, Camila, 2010
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Rania Matar - Brookline, MA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Gallery Representation
Exhibitions
Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
In-Between: Portraits of Teenagers
September 17 - October 30, 2010
Purchases
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Rania Matar, Siena 17, Brookline, 2009
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Bill McCullough - Austin, TX
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publications
Photonews Magazine, Hamburg, Germany
May 2010
Bill McCullough’s portfolio was featured as a main editorial on the cover. The article was written by Anna Gripp.
SPOT Magazine, Houston, TX
October 2010
Exhibitions
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Bill McCullough, March 14, 2009 Band (Band at Preservation Hall),
from the series Technicolor Life, 2009
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Gennady Meergus - Kefar-saba, Israel
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Gennady Meergus,Chapel of St.Basil, 2009 |
Exhibitions
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Meike Nixdorf - Berlin, Germany
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Purchases
Triptych La Graciosa, 2009, from the series The Point of View,
acquired by Private Collector Joaquim Paiva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Meike Nixdorf, La Graciosa, 2009
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David Pace - Los Altos, CA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX
Hot Dogs, Football and Ouagadougou
July 31 - September 4, 2010
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David Pace, Kiosk, Ouahiguya, 2009
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Gerald Pisarzowski - Toronto, ON, Canada
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Exhibitions
John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX
Found: Discoveries of FotoFest and PhotoNOLA
July 10 - September 4, 2010
Purchases
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Image from the series Pools, Puddles & Ponds purchased for the museum's collection
Also sold an image from the series Pools, Puddles & Ponds to a private collector in Houston.
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Gerald Pisarzowski, Pools, Puddles & Ponds #30, Eastport, Newfoundland
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Michelle Sank- Exeter, United Kingdom
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publications
Purchases
A selection of prints was taken by Brian Clamp, Clampart, New York
Exhibitions
Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Easy Acquisitions: New Discoveries from Around the Globe
July 9 - Sept. 11, 2010
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Michelle Sank, Quinceanera Girl, from the series The Adorned
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Jennifer Schlesinger - Santa Fe, NM
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Gallery Representation
 Purchases
A selection of prints was purchased by four private collectors
Exhibition
Jennifer Schlesinger, Object Diaspora #9, 2009 |
Evzen Sobek -Brno, Czech Republic
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Cover of HotShoe Magazine - from Evzen Sobek's, LIFE IN BLUE
series |
Publications
LIFE IN BLUE was published by Kehrer Verlag, Germany.
LIFE IN BLUE series featured in HotShoe Magazine April - May 2011. Essay by Bill Kovehowen.
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Susan May Tell - New York, NY
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Susan May Tell, Waiting for Train, from the series Structured Moments |
Exhibition
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Donna J. Wan - Menlo Park, CA
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publications
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Donna Wan, Untitled (Peace Island), from the series Promised Lands, 2007
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Anderson Wrangle - Clemson, SC
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Anderson Wrangle,Interior Gardener, 2001 |
Purchases
Three photographs became part of the Joaquim Paiva Collection
Exhibition
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JeongMee Yoon - Seoul, Korea
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
Publication
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Jeongmee Yoon, The Pink Project II, Lauren and Carolyn, 2006–2009
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Mark Yashaev - Israel
2010 Meeting Place Registrant
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Mark Yashaev, Father in my Dream, from the series
Cirriculum Vitae, 2008
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