FOTOFEST 2006 Reviewers
Peggy Sue Amison, Director
- Reviewing March 10-13
Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
www.iol.ie/~cobharts
Peggy Sue Amison is the Director of the Sirius Arts Centre
in Cobh, County Cork Ireland. Originally from America, Peggy
has been directing the Sirius for the past 5 years. Sirius
is a non-profit, multidisciplinary arts centre that also runs
an international artist in residency program, as well as developing
visual arts exhibitions. Prior to her work with Sirius, Peggy
exhibited as a fine art photographer and also wrote for a
number of publications in the U.S. Sirius Arts Centre is looking
for artists who might be interested in making work, or exhibiting
in Ireland with a specific focus on issues surrounding global
citizenship and identity. Peggy is most interested in looking
at work by artist who are developing a body of work that goes
beyond the surface into deeper issues of human existence and
identity or with a different contemporary artistic vision.
Fred Baldwin, Chairman
FotoFest, Houston, Texas
www.fotofest.org
Fred Baldwin is Chairman and co-founder of FotoFest. He has
broad experience as a magazine and documentary photographer.
Mr. Baldwin's documentary work has been exhibited in museums
and galleries in many countries. He taught documentary photography
at the University of Texas in Austin and the Photojournalism
Program at the University of Houston. Under Mr. Baldwin's
leadership, the Texas Commission on the Arts cited FotoFest
as the "Best Cultural Organization in the State of Texas".
Pavel Banka, Chief Editor,
Co-Founder - Reviewing: March 20-23
Fotograf, Prague, Brno, Czech Republic
www.fotografnet.cz
Pavel Banka co-founded Fotograf in 1982 and has been
chief editor since 2000. Fotograf is a semi-annual
comprehensive 120-page magazine that publishes the work of
photographers and other artists working in photography and
related arts. Pavel Banka is most interested in seeing work
which is personal, innovative and attempts to open the range
of photography toward a new perspective of contemporary art.
There are no restrictions for the subject of your work; only
the originality and the freshness are important! Meeting Place
has always been a great source of new artists to be published
in Fotograf magazine.
Jayne H. Baum, Director - Reviewing:
March 20-23
JHB Gallery, New York, NY
www.jhbgallery.com
Jayne H. Baum established JHB Gallery in 1982, exhibiting
emerging and renowned artists who were at the forefront of
contemporary international photography. Many were pioneers
of the fabricated image, computer generated photography, conceptually
based imagery, installation and video. Exhibitions such as
Odalisque and Voyeurism drew strong critical acclaim. The
SoHo space closed in 1995, and JHB Gallery transitioned into
a private firm that continues to advise, consult, and create
art collections for private and public collections, museums,
and corporate entities. Ms. Baum has also lectured and participated
in public forums and panels discussing issues of contemporary
art, criticism, and photography at various universities, institutions,
and museums. JHB Gallery still promotes and represents artists,
including Ellen Carey, Alain Fleischer, Scott Morgan, Yuki
Onodera, Nigel Rolfe, and Ofer Wolberger. Ms. Baum is interested
in viewing portfolios of work that are conceptual in basis
and pushes the boundaries of what we know photography to be.
Ms. Baum does not wish to see images that follow a more traditional
path.
Linda Benedict-Jones, Executive
Director - Reviewing: March 20-23
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
www.silvereye.org
Since 1999, Linda Benedict-Jones has been the Executive Director
of Silver Eye Center for Photography, the only non-profit
art center in the Western Pennsylvania region that is dedicated
exclusively to the promotion and appreciation of photography
as an art and as a compelling form of visual communication.
Silver Eye presents just four exhibitions each year in the
Main Gallery and many of these tend to be traveling exhibitions
dedicated to the work of major photographers. Current work
by emerging and mid-career photographers is typically shown
in our increasingly popular Members' Gallery and Members'
Gallery Online where each year we exhibit a total of 48 photographers
from around the country. Ms. Benedict-Jones is interested
in seeing projects that deal with the problem of sprawl in
North America as well as bodies of work about the recent hurricanes
and devastation of the American landscape. She is not interested
in seeing nude, fashion, or botanical studies.
Lucia Benická, Director/
Curator - Reviewing: March 10-23
Dom Fotografie / House of Photography, Poprad, Slovakia
www.domfoto.sk
Since 1996, Lucia Benická has been Director and Curator at
Dom Fotografie in Poprad, Slovakia. At Dom fotografie, Ms.
Beniká is responsible for running the international photography
exchange projects including workshops, network seminars, and
traveling exhibitions. Dom fotografie, Poprad is the only
and specialized non-profit photographic institution ín Slovakia.
Dom fotografie develops projects of national and international
exchange such as exhibitions, workshops, artists-in-residency
and educational programs and maintains the photographic archive
focused on contemporary Slovak and Eastern European photography.
Ms. Benická is seeking to review contemporary photography
that illustrates a researched topic (night photography, bestiary
- animals in contemporary photography, another landscape,
or metaphors of mountain landscapes). Ms. Benická is most
interested in new tendencies in contemporary photography,
including photo-objects and installations. She is ONLY interested
in seeing developed bodies of work. She does not want to review
traditional landscape photography or documentary.
John Bennette - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Collector, New York, New York
John A Bennette is a collector, instructor New School, New
York, writer, lecturer and former Discovery Editor for 21st
The Journal of Contemporary Photography. He is willing and
interested in looking at most photography, and is known for
working with emerging artists. For Mr. Bennette it is about
discovery and seeing the new while still respecting the traditions
and history of photography. He would like to see work by artists
he has previously reviewed and to get feedback from them and
continue the dialog.
Evgeny Berezner & Irina
Tchmyreva -Reviewing: March 15-18
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
www.photographer.ru
Evgeny Berezner is the Vice-Director of Moscow Museum of Modern
Art, and Director of the Department for Photographic and Multimedia
Projects. He started as a photographer and editor for photography
in "Planeta" - the only publishing house in USSR that worked
with photography. He was a curator of the first huge shows
of photography in Perestroika times, "150 Years of Photography"
(Moscow, 1989) and "Art of Contemporary Photography:
Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia" (Moscow, 1994). In 2002,
he co-curated with FotoFest, "Russian Pictorial Photography,
1890-1990." He has been reviewing and building contacts with
photographers and institutions around Russia and abroad for
many years. Mr. Berezner founded the The Department for Photographic
and Multimedia Projects, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the
only Russian contemporary photography museum in Russia. Evgeny
Berezner is interested in all shapes of photography and visual
arts.
Irina Tchmyreva is head researcher and
curator, Moscow Museum of Modern Art in The Department for
Photographic and Multimedia Projects. She has PhD in art history,
is a curator and writes on photography. She has been working
in a field of Russian photography during last 10 years. In
2002, she co-curated with FotoFest "Russian Pictorial Photography,
1890-1990." For last five years she has taught the history
of photography and visual arts in Moscow State University
for Printing Arts. She has publications in Russian and foreign
editions, including Aperture (USA), European Photography (Germany),
IMAGO (Slovakia), Fotografia Kvartalnik (Poland), Photo (France),
Foto&Video (Russia) - being a member of editorial boards
of few of them. Irina Tchmyreva is one of the founders and
co-editor of Russian web-resource on photography www.photographer.ru.
She is most interested in seeing work that explores the relationship
of photography to other media as well as contemporary fine
art photography. Irina Tchmyreva can help photographers by
promoting their work, including them in an exhibition, helping
with the editing of work.
Vladimír Birgus - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University, Opava,
Czech Republic / Prague House of Photography
www.birgus.com and www.itf.cz
Vladimír Birgus has been Head of the Institute of Creative
Photography at the Silesian University in Opava since 1990
and Professor of the Department of Photography of the Film
and Television Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
and his photographs have been exhibited in over 50 one-person
exhibitions. He has curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions
in many museums and galleries in Europe and the USA and is
curator of galleries Opera in Ostrava and Gallery of Photography,
House of Art in Opava. He is a member of the Art Board of
Prague House of Photography, Chief Editor of Photorevue, Czech
editor of Imago magazine and collaborator of many other magazines
including Fotograf, Photonews, European Photography
etc. He can help photographers by including them in an exhibition,
helping with the editing of work, and teaching how to make
the appropriate contacts in the contemporary art world with
dealers, galleries, and collectors. He is interested in many
kinds of contemporary photography including documentary, photojournalism,
portraits, staged photography etc. He does not wish to see
traditional nudes, glamour photography, flowers or animals.
Suzanne Bloom
University of Houston, School of Art, Houston, TX
Suzanne Bloom is an artist and a Professor of Art, Coordinator
of Photography/Digital Media, at the University of Houston
where she has taught for thirty years. She and Ed Hill have
produced art under the name MANUAL since 1974. A retrospective
of MANUAL’s work organized by the International Center
of Photography was shown at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
in 2004. MANUAL’s work and expertise encompasss a whole
range of photography, video and multimedia practices. They
have been using the computer in relation to photography since
the mid-1980s and are considered pioneers in the use of the
digital in art making. Recently they were commissioned by
the Hood Museum of Art to create 113 still-frame animations,
as well as a HD video, of works of art from the Hood’s
Collection. From 1984-1991 Bloom and Hill reviews and articles
for Artforum. In 1987 they established the Website for digital
imaging (http://www.art.uh.edu/dif). Ms. Bloom is interested
in viewing all imagery with the exception of traditional nudes,
flowers and other conventionally sentimental subject matter.
Sian Bonnell - Reviewing: March
20-23
Trace, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
www.traceisnotaplace.com
Sian Bonnell's work has been published and exhibited throughout
Europe and the United States. She is also well-known from
her work on TRACE which is an artist-led non-profit project
run from the artist's home in Weymouth, Dorset. Since its
start in summer 2000,an average of four exhibitions every
year have been held in the house. Several TRACE curated exhibitions
are now being scheduled for public venues in the UK and Europe
over 2004 - 5. Since 2002 talks and seminars have been held
for each TRACE exhibition given by invited curators and writers
from national galleries and museums including the V&A
and Photographers Gallery in London. More recently TRACE has
begun publishing artists' books for the 'Nexus' series of
shows which commenced in autumn 2003. TRACE offers exhibition
possibilities, small-scale publishing in-house, talks, seminars,
and mentoring. Sian Bonnell is most interested in seeing conceptually
strong and developed bodies of work and does not want to see
any commercial work.
Chris Boot, Founder - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Chris Boot, Ltd., London, United Kingdom
www.chrisboot.com
Chris Boot is Founder of Chris Boot, Ltd., a publishing and
book packaging company in London, UK. Chris Boot set up his
publishing imprint in 2003, after 20 years of working as a
photographers' editor and agent (at Photofusion, London, and
Magnum Photos, London and New York), and after 2 years as
Editorial Director of Phaidon Press, London. Recent books
include Our True Intent is All For Your Delight - the John
Hinde Butlin's Photographs (2003), History by Luc
Delahaye (a limited edition book, 2003), James and Other
Apes by James Mollison (2004), Lodz Ghetto Album -
Photographs by Henryk Ross (2004, winner of the Infinity
Award for best book of 2004) and Things As They Are - Photojournalism
in Context Since 1955 in association with World Press
Photo (2006). He is also the author of Magnum Stories
(Phaidon 2004). Mr. Boot is interested in reviewing documentary
work and he can assist photographers with book publishing.
Sue Brisk, Editorial Director
- Reviewing: March 10-13
Magnum Photos, New York, New York
www.magnumphotos.com
Sue Brisk is the Editorial Director for North America for
Magnum, and a former Bureau Chief for Sipa Press, and an Editorial
Assistant for Newsweek Magazine. Magnum is a cooperative that
was founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Capa,
George Rodger and David Seymour. Ms. Brisk received a BFA
in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and a
MS degree in Journalism from Boston University. Ms. Brisk
offers artist guidance on how to get a project published in
the editorial market, how to make a strong edit and presentation,
and who to target as a realistic option. Ms. Brisk is most
interested in reviewing long term documentary projects. Ms.
Brisk is not interested in conceptual work and nature pictures.
MaryAnn Camilleri, Director
and Founder - Reviewing: March 20-23
The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada
www.magentafoundation.org
Ms. Camilleri is the Founder of The Magenta Foundation (2004)
and formerly was a free lance publisher having worked with
Magnum Photos and leading publishers such as Prestel, Scalo,
Phaidon, Powerhouse, and Penguin/Viking Books. The Magenta
Foundation is the first of its kind charitable arts publishing
house in Canada. Ms. Camilleri Foundation forges alliances
with international curators, gallerists and artists to bring
the most vital contemporary art to Canadian audiences. The
Magenta Foundation intends to reintroduce the world to Canada
and Canada to the world. Every year Magenta hosts an Emerging
Photographers juried competition for ALL photographers 34
years of age and under in Canada, the US and the UK. The selected
photographers work will appear in a published book, along
with a large exhibition in Toronto, Canada. In reviewing portfolios,
Ms. Camilleri is interested in complete bodies of work, with
strong visual content for publishing. She is not interested
in reviewing traditional landscape, nature photography, or
conventional portraiture.
Krzysztof Candrowicz -
Reviewing: March 15-18
International Festival of Photography, The Union of European
Festivals of Photography, Lodz, Poland
www.few.pl; www.fotofestiwal.com;
www.lodzartcenter.com;
and www.festivalunion.com
Krzysztof Candrowicz is a founder and director of Foundation
of Visual Education in the city of Lodz in Poland. The foundation
has started organization of the International Festival of
Photography in 2001 and now is preparing the fifth edition
in 2006. Every year during the festival he coordinates 50
exhibitions and a numerous workshops, lectures, slide-shows
and movie presentations. As a director and chief curator of
this event, he established an association of 30 European festivals
of photography, called PHOTO FESTIVAL UNION. The organization
is responsible for common activities of European photo events,
such as annual meetings, publications, photographic exchange
and common promotion. From October 2005 he became also a director
of Lodz Art Center, which will start its activity in May 2006,
as a center of international art exchange in Poland. Mr. Candrowicz
is interested in viewing work of international interest, particularly
creative photography, documentary projects and new interdisciplinary
approaches to the medium. He is not, however, interested in
viewing nude, landscapes, flowers or glamour photography.
Xavier Canonne & Marc
Vausort - Reviewing: March 15-18
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
www.museephoto.be/popup.htm
Xavier Canonne has been director of the Musée de la Photographie
since March 2000. He has curated many exhibitions and has
edited and written various books and studies, especially about
surrealism. He was the curator and the author of the exhibition
Intimate Man Ray (2003). Marc Vausort has been at
the Musée de la Photographie for thirteen years and has been
curator since 2000. Mr. Vausort previously worked in the print
room of the Royal Library in Brussels. Mr. Vausort has curated
many exhibitions about Belgian photographers but also, with
Georges Vercheval, about the photographs of the Farm Security
Administration. Mr. Canonne and Mr. Vausort are most interested
in reviewing creative photography, documentary photography
and photojournalism. They do not wish to review commercial
works.
Jean Caslin,
Partner
Caslin Gregory & Associates, Consultants to the Arts,
Houston, Texas
www.caslingregory.com
Jean Caslin is a founding partner of Caslin Gregory &
Associates Consultants to the Arts. CG&A provides coaching
for visual artists, as well as exhibition, editorial and event
planning services for artists and organizations. Her firm
curated or coordinated nine exhibitions in conjunction with
FotoFest 2006. She holds a BA in English and art history from
Boston University and an MA in art history from Stanford University.
During 26 years in non-profit arts management, she served
as administrator, curator, educator, and fundraiser while
fostering the careers of emerging and mid-career artists.
From 1979 to 1988, she was assistant director of Photographic
Resource Center at Boston University. Caslin served as executive
director and curator of Houston Center for Photography from
March 1988 through February 2005. She taught courses in the
history of photography over a 20-year period at four colleges
in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Texas. She also reviews
portfolios at Photolucida, Santa Fe Center for Photography
and Society for Photographic Education. Jean Caslin wants
to meet and support artists whose work shows innovative approaches
to either traditional or experimental photography.
Alejandro Castellanos,
Director - Reviewing: March 15-18
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, México
www.conaculta.gob.mx/cimagen
Alejandro Castellanos is a critic, professor, and curator.
He serves as director of the Centro de la Imagen, which was
founded in Mexico City in 1994. The Centro de la Imagen is
one of the main spaces dedicated to the promotion of photography
and related media in Latin America. Some of the projects it
supports are: the magazine Luna Córnea, the
Festical Fotoseptiembre and the Biennials of Photography and
Photojournalism. Prior to this, Mr. Castellanos was publisher
of the magazine Fotozoom, sub-director of the National
Center for Visual Arts Investigation, and in 1993 he won a
prize from the National Center for Visual Arts Research.
Fernando Castro
Critic/Curator, Houston, Texas
Fernando Castro is an independent artist, critic and independent
curator affiliated with Sicardi Gallery, Gremillion Gallery,
and FotoFest, and writes for Art-Nexus, Aperture, and Literal.
He is a philosopher and artist who has referred and recommended
artists to galleries, curators, collectors and publications.
He has used works in shows he has curated. He has written
about works of different artists. Most importantly, He has
established friendships.
Gary Chassman, President
- Reviewing: March 20-23
Verve Editions, Burlington, Vermont
www.verveeditions.com
Gary Chassman is President of Verve Editions, an independent
producer of books and museum exhibitions in the areas of art,
photography, and illustrated books. Verve collaborates with
outstanding authors, artists, photographers, graphic designers
and printers to create distinguished publications conceived
to reach the widest possible audience. With over three decades
in publishing, Gary Chassman has worked with many of the major
publishers of illustrated books in the U.S. and Europe, along
with museums such as the Smithsonian Institution, The Wiseman
Art Museum, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. His exhibition
and book on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King involved
more than 100 artists. His most current exhibitions are "Protest
in Montgomery," (Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts) and
"Portraying Lincoln." He has published the work
of classic photographers such as Edward S. Curtis as well
as numerous contemporary photographers including Arno Minkkinen,
Keri Pickett, Patty Carroll, and Lloyd Wolf. In addition to
his activities as a book producer, Chassman provides assistance
and consulting services for photographers and other visual
artists.
Brian Paul Clamp - Reviewing:
March 20-23
ClampArt, New York, New York
www.clampart.com
In 2000 Brian Paul Clamp opened ClampArt, a gallery in Chelsea
specializing in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis
on photography. ClampArt mounts six to eight exhibitions per
year featuring the work of emerging and mid-career photographers.
For eight years prior to opening ClampArt, Brian Paul Clamp
served as the director of a gallery on Manhattan's Upper East
Side that specializes in late 19th- and early 20th-century
American art. Clamp has curated numerous photography shows
at various venues throughout the United States, and has reviewed
photographers' portfolios on dozens of panels over the past
several years. Brian Paul Clamp is the author of fifteen publications
on American art to date, and also occasionally contributes
written work to various art periodicals. Mr. Clamp can offer
exhibition opportunities at his gallery in Manhattan, in addition
to other spaces where he occasionally curates shows He can
also suggest alternative venues for work, and provide commentary
on and critique of portfolios. Mr. Clamp is most interested
in reviewing developed and innovative bodies of work suitable
for exhibition in New York. All types of imagery are welcome-from
documentary to landscape, still life to conceptual. However,
Mr. Clamp is not interested in reviewing commercial work intended
for stock or advertising.
John M. Cleary, Collector/Dealer
John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas
www.johnclearygallery.com
John Cleary has been a private collector for 25 years and
a fine art photography dealer for 10 years. He is a member
of the Houston Art Dealers Association and AIPAD (The Association
of International Photography Dealers). In 1996 he opened the
John Cleary Gallery in Houston. Mr. Cleary prefers to review
black and white photography.
Joan Davidow, Director/Curator
- Reviewing: March 20-23
The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas
www.thecontemporary.net
Joan Davidow serves as director/curator at The Dallas Center
for Contemporary Art. As director for the five years, Davidow
has changed the face of the museum by exhibiting more cutting-edge
work. Focusing on emerging Texas contemporary art, Ms. Davidow's
forte is to present theme-based exhibitions that juxtapose
talents working on similar concepts. With a strong commitment
to education, Davidow has invented an Art Think program that
teaches all ages how to look at, think and talk about contemporary
art as a launching pad for creative thought. Curating for
a mid-sized museum, Ms. Davidow can give curatorial feedback,
consider new artists for exhibitions and suggest career ideas.
Most interested in pushing boundaries, Ms. Davidow appreciates
conceptual, inventive approaches to photography and prefers
not to see non-imaginative, traditional subject matter. She
watches for work that stands up best to what's being done
globally.
R. Eric Davis, Director
Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas
www.deborahcoltongallery.com
R. Eric Davis is currently the director for Deborah Colton
Gallery. He has previously served as Curatorial Assistant
to the curators of photography and prints and drawings at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and as director for two
other Houston galleries. His unique perspective on non-profit
and commercial venues will allow Mr. Davis to provide a breadth
of advice. The gallery, producing approximately 10 exhibitions
a year, is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing
presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary
contemporary artists world-wide, whose diverse practices include
painting, works on paper, sculpture, video, photography, and
conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires
to provide a forum through connecting Texas, national and
international artists to make positive change. Mr. Davis would
like to review work of contemporary international interest,
including documentary, and bodies of work which possess new,
innovative, or interdisciplinary approaches to photography
and photo-related art (including video). He does not wish
to review nudes, traditional landscapes, glamour, flowers,
or architecture.
Suzanne Dechert,Founder and
Director - Reviewing: March 10-13
Melkweg Galerie
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.melkweg.nl
Suzanne Dechert is one of the leading founders and art directors
of the Melkweg: International Center for music, dance, theater,
cinema, photography and new media (1972). In 1985 Ms. Dechert
was founder of the Melkweg Galerie, the first photogallery
in Amsterdam. In the 1980s and '90s Ms. Dechert was an organizer
and director of large international events and festivals concerning
women, African culture, AIDS, gays, refugees, the environmental
and homeless. Working in conjunction with World Press Photo,
Médecins sans Frontières, Amnesty International, Greenpeace,
organizations for the homeless, disabled people, children
and art institutions Ms. Dechert helped present visual arts
in combination with theater, music and workshops. She has
curated numerous solo and group shows and enjoys curating
themed-exhibitions (social, political, spiritual). Ms. Dechert
is most interested in reviewing series of portraits and creative
staged photography. She is not interested in reviewing nudes,
architecture, fashion and advertising. Ms. Dechert can offer
possibilities for solo or group exhibitions in the Melkweg
Galerie.
Kathy Aron Dowell, Director/Curator
- Reviewing: March 15-18
Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
www.scponline.org
Kathy Dowell has served as the Executive Director/Curator
of the SCP for nearly seven years and oversees all of the
organization's key activities. Through its exhibitions program,
SCP promotes and explores the breadth of contemporary photo-media
and its interconnections with wider art practices and ideas.
Ms Dowell is most interested in seeing bodies of work which
are complete and which possess new, innovative or interdisciplinary
approaches to the medium. She does not wish to see traditional/conventional
work best suited for commercial galleries; including nudes,
landscapes, flowers, or abandoned buildings and graphic architecture.
Ms. Dowell offers the potential for curated group and/or solo
exhibitions at the SCP, and other venues she curates.
Diana Edkins, Director of
Exhibitions and Limited-Edition Photographs - Reviewing: March
20-23
Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
www.aperture.org
Diana Edkins is director of Aperture Foundation's traveling
exhibitions program as well as the exhibitions program at
Aperture's new space in Chelsea. She also runs the limited-edition
photographs department. Since her arrival at Aperture in October
2002 she has placed many of Aperture's existing exhibitions
worldwide as well as collaborating with photographers such
as Stephen Shore, Joan Fontcuberta, Bruno Rosier, Gary Schneider
and institutions such as Ellis Island in creating exhibitions
of their work. Before her position at Aperture, she organized
and curated the photographic archive at Condé Nast Publications.
This became a vital source for magazines worldwide as well
as numerous books and videos. She edited a number of books
from the collection over the years. Prior to her many years
at Condé Nast she worked with John Szarkowski in the Department
of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art and worked with
and studied under Beaumont Newhall. She has worked as an archivist,
curator, editor, and appraiser. Ms. Edkins has reviewed and
juried numerous exhibitions and competitions. With her experience
from these diverse areas of photography she has gained an
interest in and insight into a great diversity of photography.
She enjoys seeing how individual visions are shaped, but is
not partial to one area of photography.
Dr Bernd Fechner - Reviewing:
March 15-18
photomarketing.de, Berlin, Germany
www.photomarketing.de
and www.fotobild05.de
In 2001 Dr. Bernd Fechner established "photomarketing.de"
in Berlin, the German agency for fine art photography. "photomarkting.de"
is an agency for art photography which represents and consults
on all issues of photography in the art market, contracts,
publishing, fundraising and royalties. For the last two years
"photomarketing.de" has directed Fotobild, the German Photographer's
Fair. Dr. Fechner is member of the board of the German Society
for Photography (DGPh) and the jury of Artcologne and has
worked with well known photographers and international art
and lifestyle magazines as the director of the PR and marketing
department of Benedikt Taschen in Cologne. He is interested
in any area of photography and offers insight in presentation
ideas particularly any photographic project which is good
for a gallery or museums, exhibitions and equally good for
an eight or sixteen page feature in a public magazine.
Burt Finger - Reviewing: March
10-18
Photographs do not bend Galley, Dallas, Texas
www.photographsdonotbend.com
Burt Finger is the director and co-owner of Photographs Do
Not Bend Gallery. The gallery specializes in exhibiting contemporary
works including conceptual, documentary, and social landscape.
He and his wife, Missy, opened this gallery in 1995. Photographs
Do Not Bend Gallery is approaching its eleventh year next
month. The gallery specializes in exhibiting contemporary
works including conceptual, documentary, and social landscape.
It also focuses on the 1970's era of conceptual works and
performance art. Also exhibited are vintage photographs by
early 20th Century Masters. Before 1995 Burt was a private
dealer in photography and antiques. Prior to this, Mr. Finger
has had many interests and careers. While he was a photographer
in the 1970s, he studied art and was exhibited in various
galleries in Texas including the Contemporary Art Museum in
Houston. He also taught photography at the University of North
Texas. His current position as gallery director involves curatorial
duties, research and sales. He also curates exhibitions outside
the gallery for non-profit spaces. Mr. Finger is asking that
photographers submit work that brings new vision and ideas
to the art of photography.
Missy Finger - Reviewing: March 10-18
Photographs do not Bend, Dallas, Texas
www.photographsdonotbend.com
Missy Finger is co-owner of Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery.
The gallery specializes in exhibiting contemporary works including
conceptual, documentary, and social landscape. Her partnership
at the gallery involves curating exhibitions, writing, sales,
publicity and research. She co-founded the gallery with her
husband, Burt Finger, in 1995. Prior to opening the gallery,
she and her husband acted as private dealers in fine art and
antiques. Ms. Finger would like to review work that is challenging,
unexpected. Works that are not confined to the image on the
paper are of interest. She wishes not to view conventional
nudes or conventional landscape.
Blake Fitch, Executive Director
- Reviewing: March 10-13
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts
www.griffinmuseum.org
Blake Fitch is the Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin
Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. The Griffin Museum
of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts is a small photography
museum whose mission is to promote an appreciation of photographic
art and a broader understanding of its visual, emotional and
social impact. Fitch herself is a fine art and documentary
photographer and holds a B.F.A. in Photography and a minor
in photo history from Pratt. Additionally, she has pursued
M.F.A. studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and holds a M.A. in Arts Administration from Boston University.
Ms. Fitch is most interested in seeing completed bodies of
work that are ready for exhibition and particularly interested
in unique approaches to documentary work, though open to most
any challenging, well thought out good work.
Mauro Fiorese, Consultant
Curator - Reviewing: March 20-23
Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri, Verona,
Italy
www.comune.verona.it/scaviscaligeri
Since 2005 Mauro Fiorese has worked as a consultant curator
for exhibitions programs and for cultural activities such
as workshops and lectures for contemporary photographers.
Mauro Fiorese is a professor of Language and History of Photography
at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the University of Verona
in Italy. His works have been exhibited worldwide and are
part of several private and public institutions such as the
Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, and the Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi
Scaligeri in Verona. He can provide the opportunity of exhibiting
and selling photographers works to the Centro Internazionale
di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri and to other private galleries
in Italy. He is interested in seeing committed, conceptual
bodies of works by young and established photographers/artists
with a consistent, personal style and language. Mauro Fiorese
is not interested in seeing commercial or sport photography.
Roy Flukinger, Reviewing:
March 15-18
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas,
Austin, Texas
www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/photography
Roy Flukinger is the present Research Curator of Photography
and former Senior Curator of Photography and Film of the Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas
at Austin. He holds degrees from Tulane University and from
UT Austin, and teaches as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at
The University. He has published and lectured extensively
in the fields of regional, cultural and contemporary photography
and the history of art and photography, and has produced or
participated in nearly eighty exhibitions. The Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center of The University of Texas at Austin's
collection has grown to encompass five million prints, negatives
and transparencies, a research library of some 35,000 volumes
of books and periodicals, numerous archives, and many holdings
of photographic apparatus, manuscripts and memorabilia. Mr.
Flukinger has been an adjunct assistant professor in the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science and the Department
of Art History at the University of Texas, as well as the
Department of Art at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Mr. Flukinger is interested in reviewing all types of photography.
He is not interested in looking at amateur photography.
Juan Alberto Gaviria - Reviewing:
March 20-23
Centro Colombo Americano, Medellìn, Columbia
www.colomboworld.com
and www.fotofiestamedellin.com
Juan Alberto Gaviria is Director of Visual Arts for the Centro
Colombo Americano (CCA) and also co-curator of FOTOFIESTA
MEDELLIN. He has created and managed the most important international
arts exchange program in Colombia, working with numerous institutions
around the country. Mr. Gaviria has a strong commitment to
international arts exchange and has placed a strong emphasis
on photography since the mid 1980s. Most recently he participated
as co-curator for the newly created photography biennial,
FOTOFIESTA MEDELLIN. The Centro Colombo Americano, founded
in 1947, is a private non-profit international cultural center
devoted to academic and cultural exchange while promoting
the multicultural diversity of the world we live in. The main
program areas include foreign language learning, cinema, visual
arts, and residencies for artists, lecture series, dance,
library programs and academic exchange. The CCA produces publications
in the areas of cinema and the visual arts. Mr. Gaviria is
interested in reviewing a wide range of work, including both
traditional and more avant garde work that will be considered
for exhibitions and or residency projects at the Centro as
well as for FOTOFIESTA MEDELLIN which is co-produced by the
CCA and the Museum of Antioquia.
Christian John Gerstheimer,
Curator - Reviewing: March 10-13
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
www.elpasoartmuseum.org
In over two years as curator at The El Paso Museum of Art
Christian Gerstheimer has curated exhibitions of the work
of photographers such as Emmet Gowin, John Ward, Linda Ridgway
and Michael P. Berman. While the El Paso Museum of Art is
not specifically a photography museum it has actively collected
and exhibited the work of contemporary photographers since
its foundation forty years ago. Mr. Gerstheimer is also the
author of various artist essays in the soon to be published
Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography and is
interested in seeing all types of art photography as well
as artist's projects that incorporate photography. Documentary/photojournalistic
work about contemporary issues that display a high understanding
of the medium will also be considered.
Tom Gitterman - Reviewing:
March 20-23
Gitterman Gallery, New York, NY
www.gittermangallery.com
Tom Gitterman is the founder of the Gitterman Gallery which
specializes in the medium of photography. The Gallery is concerned
with exhibiting and representing artists and estates while
also maintaining an inventory of work in a full range of styles
and periods. He has also acted as the director of the Howard
Greenberg Gallery and Gallery 292, and worked for the Zabriskie
and Pace/MacGill Galleries. He offers and honest reaction
to the work, ideas to help contextualize it within the history
of art, the medium and the market place, and suggestions for
editing, presentation, and direction. He is not interested
in commercial photography.
Gigi Giannuzzi, Publisher
and Director - Reviewing: March 20-23
Trolley Books, London, United Kingdom
www.trolleybooks.com
Mr. Giannuzzi began his publishing career with Rizzoli and
later founded his own independent publishing enterprise Westzone
in 1997. Since 2001 he has been the publisher and director
of Trolley books whose focus is reportage, social documentary
and photojournalism. Several of the Trolley books are the
work of Magnum photographers including Philip Jones' seminal
work in Viet Nam. Trolley has published over 40 titles in
4 years with a diverse often daring subject matter that is
not always conventionally easy to look at but whose stories
are important. Mr. Giannuzzi is most interested in reviewing
photojournalist, reportage, and social documentary work. He
is not interested in reviewing photography without an issue
or an interesting story behind it.
Anna Gripp - Reviewing: March
15-18
PHOTONEWS, Hamburg, Germany
www.photonews.de/PHOTONEWS
Anna Gripp has been Editor of PHOTONEWS since 1989
and today shares the position of Chief Editor with Denis Brudna.
PHOTONEWS is a magazine focused on the cultural aspects
of photography. It is published ten times per year in German
and is distributed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with
worldwide subscriptions. PHOTONEWS reports on international
festivals and events related to photography, publishes interviews
with interesting persons from the photography scene, exhibition
and book reviews, recent news from universities, scholarships
and prizes. In each issue PHOTONEWS publishes a mixture
of different portfolios of emerging and established artists,
documentary, photojournalism, conceptual, and fine art. Anna
Gripp is open to different fields of photography. She does
not wish to see traditional nudes or flowers and commercial
work for advertising.
Marek Grygiel, Curator -
Reviewing: March 15-18
Centre for Contemporary Art., Mala Gallery ZPAF-CSW, Gazeta
Wyborcza daily newspaper, Warsaw, Poland
http://fototapeta.art.pl
Marek Grygiel has been the director of the Mala Gallery of
the Union of Polish Art Photographers and CCA in Warsaw since
1982. The Mala Gallery is one of oldest and most independently
active places for photography in Poland and Europe and he
has personally overseen the curation of over 300 exhibitions.
Mr. Grygiel is also the curator for the Centre of Contemporary
Art in Warsaw and a Honorary Member of the Union Polish Art
Photographers. He has curated international photo exhibitions
in Germany, Austria, France, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden,
Denmark, Hungary, Great Britain, Estonia, and Japan. He is
the founder and editor in chief of the Fototapeta magazine,
the picture editor in Gazeta Wyborcza daily newspaper,
and he cooperates with art and photography magazines, Exit,
Imago, Obieg. His major focus is on contemporary photography
as art form and also some new documentary and journalistic
photography connected with mass media. He is interested in
viewing conceptual, experimental, humanistic photography and
issue-oriented work.
Zheng Gu, Vice Director - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Center for Visual Cultural Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai,
China
www.fudan.edu.cn
Gu Zheng is an author, lecturer and Vice Director for the
Center for Visual Cultural Studies, Fudan University. Gu Zheng
has curated 10 shows in the U.S., China, Korea and Japan including
the Chinese section of the 2002 Asia Photo Biennale, "Shifting
Views: Chinese Urban Documentary Photography;" and "Between
Memory and Reality;" Mr. Zheng is most interested in viewing
photojournalism, new documentary and art photography. Gu Zheng
can provide information and lectures regarding contemporary
Chinese photography. He is not interested in viewing traditional
landscapes, nudes and portraiture.
Ellen Handy- Reviewing:
March 10-13
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas,
Austin, TX
www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/photography
Ellen Handy is Executive Curator of Photography and Visual
Collections at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
which houses one of the world’s greatest of photography,
including the first photograph ever made. The Ransom Center
regularly acquires works by outstanding contemporary photographers
and maintains active photography exhibition, publishing and
lecture programs. Ms. Handy formerly served as curator of
collections at the International Center of Photography in
New York, and has taught history of photography and art at
many universities, as well as writing art criticism for a
variety of publications. She is seeking photographs of interest
to the Ransom Center, and can also give practical advice regarding
how curators tend to respond to new work and the photographers
who make it. She offers photographers dialogue about the place
of their work within the larger critical framework of the
medium and within contemporary art and photographic practice.
Ms. Handy is open to most photographic subjects, genres and
media, but is not interested in seeing conventional images
of flowers, nudes, travel and the like.
Elda Harrington, Director
- Reviewing: March 20-23
Encuentros Abiertos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.encuentrosabiertos.com.ar
Elda Harrington has been the Co-Director of Encuentros Abiertos
de Fotografia for 16 years and the director of the Escuela
Argentina de Fotografia since 1987. She is also the president
of Luz Austral Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting
photography in Argentina. Ms. Harrington is an international
curator for Argentine photography, an independent photographer,
publisher of photo catalogs and advisor to the Cultural Department
of the Argentine Foreign Ministry. She is active as a reviewer
in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, US,
Spain and France. Ms. Harrington is interested in reviewing
all types of photography except photojournalism and advertising.
She can provide an opportunity for invitations to exhibit
and participate at the Encuentros Abiertos-Festival of Light
in Argentina August 2006.
Melissa Harris, Editor - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Aperture Magazine
www.aperture.org
Melissa Harris is Editor-in-Chief of Aperture magazine,
and editor/curator of selected books and exhibitions. She
also writes for various arts and culture publications, and
teaches at NYU and Columbia. Aperture foundation began in
1952 as a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to advancing
fine photography. Aperture magazine purpose is to serve the
medium, and photography users and fine art lovers worldwide.
Ms. Harris is interested in work that is at least one year
in progress, challenging, focused, and controversial is fine.
She is not interested in banal photography. Ms. Harris can
offer photographers the opportunity to be published.
François Hébel, Director -
Reviewing: March 15-18
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
francois.hebel@rencontres-arles.com
François Hébel has directed many photography festivals including
the Magnum Photos and Magnum International, and continues
to direct the Rencontres d'Arles photo festival. He is the
director of the FNAC photo galleries in France and Belgium
and has published many books. He is interested in honestly
reviewing innovative photography that pushes the medium in
new esthetical directions. He has no interest in classical
and academic work.
Virginia Heckert, Associate
Curator,Department of Photographs - Reviewing: March 10-13
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
www.getty.edu/museum
Virginia Heckert joined the curatorial staff of the J. Paul
Getty's renown Department of Photographs in November of 2005,
following a four-year tenure as the inaugural William and
Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum
in West Palm Beach, FL. The Getty's Department of Photographs
was formed from nine important private collections and parts
of several others in mid-1984. Comprising European and American
photographs that span the history of photography from its
invention to the present day, it is the only collection at
the Getty Museum to include modern and contemporary art. While
the Getty's strengths are evenly divided between the 19th
and 20th centuries, the work of our times has become increasingly
relevant to the Museum's mission; FotoFest thus provides an
opportunity for its staff to be well informed about current
practices. Ms. Heckert is most interested in seeing the work
of photographers who have already had some exposure to the
art market in the form of gallery or museum exhibitions, and
whose work demonstrates a dialogue with both traditional and
more experimental forms of photographic practice.
Gary Hesse, Reviewing: March
10-13
RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, California
www.raykophoto.com
Gary Hesse is currently the director/curator of the RayKo
Photo Center, prior to his appointment in 2004, Hesse was
the associate director of Light Work, a non-profit organization
supporting emerging and under represented artists through
exhibitions, publications, and residencies. The RayKo Photo
Center is a unique artist-run photographic arts center that
has been serving the San Francisco Bay Area photographic community
since 1990 through exhibitions, lectures, and educational
programming. In 2004 the organization opened a brand new and
expanded facility in the city's Museum District dedicated
to the creation, presentation, and appreciation of contemporary
photography. The RayKo Photo Center serves to advance public
appreciation of photography and create opportunities for regional
and national artists to create and present their work in stimulating
environment which fosters creation, experimentation and innovation.
Mr. Hesse is interested in reviewing all types of photography
and related media for future group and solo exhibitions. He
does not wish to view commercial or stock photography
Eva Marlene Hodek, Director
- Reviewing: March 10-23
Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic
www.php-gallery.cz
Eva Hodek is a curator, critic and teacher of photography,
external member of the Selection Board of Czech Ministry of
Culture (Foreign Department), and the Director of the Prague
House of Photography (PHP), a non-profit institution / center
dedicated to photography. The PHP has presented both classic
and contemporary photography, domestic and international photographers,
with special exhibits devoted to the cultural / art heritage
of Czech Avant-Garde Photography. My interest is, among others,
viewing portrait and documentary photography. I would like
to see conceptual, experimental and issue-oriented work that
operates within a social or cultural context, works employing
a social or political theme in addition to fine art photography
and architecture. She is open to new trends and to any innovative
/ creative approaches to the medium across all genres. Ms.
Hodek is not interested in reviewing photojournalism, commercial
work, decorative photography, editorial photography, photo
installations, nude or glamour photography, traditional landscapes
or flowers. Ms. Hodek can provide the opportunity of exhibiting
and presenting photographer's work at the Prague House of
Photography or in other galleries and institutions in the
Czech Republic.
Lisa Hostetler, Assistant
Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
www.mam.org
Lisa Hostetler is currently the assistant curator of prints,
drawings and photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She
received her BA in Art History from New York University and
holds a PhD in the History of Art from Princeton University.
She came to Milwaukee in April of 2005 after four years in
the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York and several prior years at the Howard Greenberg
Gallery. From 2000 to 2002, she taught the History of Photography
as an adjunct professor at New York University's Tisch School
of the Arts. She brings to The Meeting Place a curatorial
eye well schooled in the medium's history and attuned to contemporary
issues in the field, and she will happily share her extensive
knowledge of museum and gallery procedures with aspiring photographers.
For exceptional work, exhibition and/or acquisition opportunities
at the Milwaukee Art Museum are a possibility. She looks forward
to seeing and discussing new work with participating photographers,
but is not particularly interested in the following areas:
commercial photography, fashion/glamour photography, and predictable
images in traditional photographic genres. Innovative street
photography, well-developed bodies of work in conceptual art,
and experimental approaches to aesthetic problems are of special
interest to her.
W.M. Hunt, Bill Hunt - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Hasted Hunt, New York, New York
www.hastedhunt.com
W.M. Hunt - Bill Hunt - is a New York-based collector, curator
and consultant, a champion of photography. He is one of the
partner's in Hasted Hunt. His Collection Dancing Bear consists
of magical, heart-stopping images of people whose eyes cannot
be seen; the collection has been profiled in The New York
Times, Art News, and other publications and on PBS. In the
past year Sans Regard or No Eyes, Looking at Collection Dancing
Bear was exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in France and
at the Musee d'Elysee in Lasaunne, Switzerland. He is the
Chairman of the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the
former Chairman of Photographers + Friends United Against
AIDS. He serves on the Board of the W. Eugene Smith Fund,
and he was the head juror for this year's Smith Award. For
Photo District News he produces and moderates a series of
panels, "Your Picture ... ". and he is an adjunct professor
at the School of Visual Arts. Mr. Hunt is most interested
in reviewing work that work that demonstrates an independent
and innovative thinking. His is not interested in viewing
montages, nude studies (erotic work is fine), or works in
progress. Bill Hunt can offer a critical assessment or try
to stimulate a way of thinking about the marketing and promotion
of an artist's work.
Allison Hunter, Executive
Director
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
www.hcponline.org
Allison Hunter is Executive Director of the Houston Center
for Photography. Before working at HCP, Hunter was Artistic
Director of De Santos Gallery in Houston. She was Curatorial
Assistant for the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in
Saratoga Springs, New York and worked for other commercial
galleries in New York and Lausanne, Switzerland. Hunter taught
university-level visual art (Computer Art, Cyber Art, and
Web Design) courses for several years after completing her
MFA in Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Hunter writes about art for national publications such as
HOW design, Sculpture, and electronicbookreview.
She has edited SPOT magazine for the past 3 years.
Ms. Hunter is most interested in reviewing work that re-defines
photography through experimental or conceptual strategies.
She welcomes multi-media work, installation, as well as traditional
media. Photo-based projects for SPOT magazine are
also of interest. She is not interested in reviewing Commercial
photography and "babescapes." Ms. Hunter can respond to artwork
with a contemporary eye, advise artists on sequencing images
in their portfolio, suggest appropriate venues in the US and
Europe (particularly Houston and New York).
Razvan Ion, Editor - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Pavilion Magazine, Bucharest, Romania
www.bucharestbiennial.com
and www.pavilionmagazine.org
and www.tartnet.org
Media artist and theoretician. Editor of the contemporary
art magazine artphoto distributed world-wide. He published
recently his artist book "visual_witness". Visiting lecturer
at various universities and art centers like University of
California Berkeley, Headlans Center for the Arts San Francisco
and Art Academy Timisoara. As artist he exhibited around the
world including latest "Going Public" curated by Claudia Zanfi,
"identity_factories" curated by Eugen Radescu and "Distance"
curated by Zsolt Petranyi. Creator of the art group and reader
"Critical Factor". Curator of "The Art, Tehnology and Culture"
lectures series in Bucharest and one of the initiators of
Tart (art magazines network) [www.tartnet.org]. He is also
the director of Bucharest Biennial (former artphoto festival).
Razvan ion can publish the work in the magazine and can recomend
artists for Bucharest Biennale and for many other art events
where he is member of advisory board. He is interested in
reviewing contemporary artwork.
Michelle Jackson, Senior
Art Buyer - Reviewing: March 10-13
Snap Indigo, New York, New York
Michelle Jackson spent the last 10 years working in New York
as an Art Buyer in commercial advertising for a variety of
companies, including Grey Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi
and J. Walter Thompson producing a variety of campaigns for
clients such as Tanqueray, Starburst and Nokia. In the Fall
of 2005, Michelle founded her own company in order to expand
her work in the photography industry. She continues her work
as an Art Buyer while running a bimonthly photography series
at the Half King in Chelsea and working on a variety of curatorial
projects. Ms. Jackson brings a keen understanding of the commercial
photography industry and offers the potential of hanging exhibitions
at the Half King and other area venues. Ms. Jackson is particularly
interested in photojournalism, documentary, portrait and fashion
photography. She is does not wish to see architecture or flowers.
Russell Joslin, Editor - Reviewing:
March 20-23
Shots Magazine
www.shotsmag.com
Russell Joslin is the Owner/ Editor, and Publisher of Shots
Magazine. Shots is an independent, reader-supported,
quarterly journal of fine art photography known for its democratic
presentation of work by a variety of photographers from around
the world. Often described as a "photographer's photography
magazine, " Shots reaches a broad audience that includes not
only photographers, but also educators, gallery directors,
museums, and others interested in photography. Joslin offers
the opportunity of publication of photographers' work in Shots,
and is interested in seeing developed bodies of thought-provoking
imagery of all types and subject matter, but does not wish
to review floral, glamour, wildlife, architectural, or traditional
landscape photography.
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
- Reviewing: March 10-13
Vsl “Sviesos rastas” - F Galerija/Kaunas Photo
Days, Kaunas, Lithuania
www.light.it
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas is the founder of the only festival
of Photography in the Baltic states, Kaunas Photo Days and
F Galerija ir Kaunas. The 2006 Kaunas Photo days theme is
"Time." Kaunas Photo Days consists of 30+ exhibitions, portfolio
reviews, workshops, conferences and other satellite events.
Kaunas Photo Days is a founding member of the Photo Festival
Union. Mr. Kavaliauskas wants to review work that has strong
visual content such as time, contemporary landscapes, consumer
society, photographic montage, staged photography and optical
manipulation. He does not want to review glamour, war photography
and images of violence. Mr. Kavaliauskas can exhibit work
within Lithuanian galleries, include work in national and
international publication and promote interesting work within
the network of Photofestivals in Europe.
Thomas Kellner - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Photographers:network, Siegen, Germany,
www.tkellner.com
Thomas Kellner is an artist, teacher and collector who manages
an artist-to-artist project called "photographers:network."(2004).
Every year he invites 100 artists to participate in an international
juried show, based on trading prints. Thomas Kellner is a
photographer, teacher, curator and collector and actively
organizes networks with fellow artists. Together with his
partner he runs a gallery in Siegen/Germany and is well connected
to all kinds of exhibition possibilities and media in Germany
and Europe. Mr. Kellner is able to provide advice on how to
create your own career or to involve you in his projects and
exhibitions. Thomas is interested in seeing all kinds of work,
but with an individual and strong visual language. Thomas
Kellner is not interested in reviewing commercial or stock
photography.
Julie Kinzelman, President
Kinzelman Art Consulting
www.kinzelmanart.com
Julie Kinzelman is the President and Senior Project Manager
on all projects. For six years Kinzelman Art Consulting has
been providing arts-management services including: art acquisition
advisement for corporate, institutional and private collections.
Since 1995 Julie Kinzelman has been providing art consulting
expertise to clients in the areas of acquisitions, collections
management, curating exhibitions, educational art programming,
public relations and marketing. From 1992-1995 Ms. Kinzelman
worked at the George Eastman House, Museum of Film and Photography,
Rochester, NY. In 1994 Ms. Kinzelman received her Master of
Imaging Arts and Sciences, Fine Art Photography from The Rochester
Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY and her Bachelor of
Fine Arts, Photography from Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas. I am interested in reviewing innovative or interdisciplinary
approaches to photography in addition to fine art landscape
imagery. I am not interested in viewing Socio-Political, Documentary,
Environmental, Nude/Glamour, or Flower Photography. I can
advise and assist photographers with appropriate ways of presenting
their portfolios and work for consideration by Corporate Consultants
and Collectors. I can also advise on aesthetic considerations
that may assist photographers with content, composition, concept,
printing and presentation.
Hans-Michael Koetzle, Editor
- Reviewing: March 15-18
Leica World Magazine, Munich, Germany
www.leica-camera.com/kultur/leicaworld/index_e.html
Hans-Michael Koetzle is working as a freelance art critic,
writer, editor and exhibition curator, based in Munich (Germany).
Beside his activities for museums, galleries and print media
he is editor of Leica World magazine since 1996. Leica World
is published twice a year by Leica Camera AG, Solms, Germany.
With it's big format, extraordinary printing and classic design
Leica World tries to be a distinguished platform for contemporary
photography between photojournalism, documentary and art.
Portfolios go from 6 up to 12 pages in superb black and white
or color printing quality. Photo essays, reportages or series
published in Leica World can also enter the international
Leica Gallery program, where Mr. Koetzle is part of the jury.
Mr. Koetzle is interested in viewing work which follows an
idea, is based on a concept and shows visual strength. If
the work is not yet ready to be published, Mr. Koetzle is
able to give advice or develop together with the photographer
future possibilities to bring the work to an audience.
Paul Kopeikin
- Reviewing: March 20-23
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paul Kopeikin has owned and operated the Paul Kopeikin Gallery
in Los Angeles for over fourteen years. During that time he
has curated over 100 exhibitions in the gallery as well as
judging numerous competitions. He is most interested in seeing
contemporary color work. He is least interested in reviewing
traditional black and white work. Mr. Kopeikin can represent,
exhibit and /or purchase work.
Angela Krass, Consultant/Editor
- Reviewing: March 20-23
FOTO-PROJX and Graphis, York and Los Angeles USA
www.fotoprojx.com
Angela Krass has produced hundreds of commercials, music videos
and television projects. In 2000 she ventured into the still
photography world as a marketing consultant for American Showcase
where she produced, edited and marketed the advertising industry
tome KLIK from Volume 8 through 11. The success of these books
lead her to consult for Graphis Press and the "Photography
Profile," featuring exceptional work from emerging new talents
as well as established artists from all over the world. Late
in 2004 she formed FOTOPROJX, a consultancy focusing on marketing
for the arts; agenting art with photographers, publishers,
galleries and art institutions. Angela Krass is interested
in reviewing a wide range of work, but prefer seeing creative,
comprehensive bodies of work that are ready to market or those
seeking evaluation of work in progress. She would like to
see any work that would allow her to review its publishing
or exhibition potential. Ms. Krass is not interested in photo
illustration and commercial stock photography.
Dewi Lewis - Reviewing: March
15-18
Dewi Lewis Publishing, Manchester, United Kingdom
www.dewilewispublishing.com
Dewi Lewis has extensive experience of working within the
arts, specializing in cultural development projects. He began
publishing photography books over 20 years ago, and establishing
his own company in 1994. He has published the work of many
leading international photographers including Simon Norfolk,
Martin Parr, Bruce Gilden, Bill Brandt, William Klein. He
is also the author of Publishing Photography which
won PhotoEye's Photography Resource Book of the Year award
in 1999. Mr. Lewis can bring a realistic understanding of
the world market for photography to photographers. Mr. Lewis
is interested in viewing work of international interest, particularly
photojournalism, new documentary, and landscape. He is not,
however, interested in viewing nude photography.
Kevin Longino,
Managing Director
Watermark Fine Art Photographs and Books, Houston, TX
www.watermarkfineart.com
Kevin Longino is the Managing Director of Watermark Fine Art
Photographs and Books. The gallery has been open for 2 years
and specializes in contemporary photographic art and features
emerging to mid-career photographic artists. Mr. Longino is
a founder and part-owner of the Gallery and is responsible
for managing the artists’ relationships, exhibition
selections and client development. Formerly, Mr. Longino was
affiliated with the high-tech industry. Mr. Longino and Watermark
are most interested in seeing new approaches to traditional
subjects, techniques and alternative processes. Watermark
gallery is not interested in reviewing work that is overtly
sexual or violent. Watermark can provide feedback to new photographers
on presenting their work and developing relationships with
galleries. Waterman also has plans to increase its representation
of photographers over the next year.
Celina Lunsford, Artistic
Director - Reviewing: March 15-18
Fotografie Forum international, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
www.ffi-frankfurt.de
Celina Lunsford is a curator and consultant for Fotografie
Forum international and a critic and author on photography.
She is a European representative of the Imogen Cunningham
Trust, guest curator for the Goethe Institut, Frankfurt am
Main; juror and consultant for Slow Exposures, Georgia, USA.
Ms. Lunsford is a commissioned writer for revised edition
of the Witkin Photography Collectors Guide (2006), IRIS (UK),
publication on Still-Lifes (2005) and Photo Technik International
Magazine, Hamburg. Her professional experience spans over
20 years of curating and organizing photographic exhibitions
throughout the world Ms. Lunsford is interested in viewing
well developed projects of journalistic or fine art photographic
quality which are fresh for the exhibition or publication.
She is not interested in viewing commercial or advertising
photography. She can provide advice on editing and marketing
your work and exhibitions.
Gordon MacDonald - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Photoworks, UK
www.photoworks.org
Gordon Macdonald has been the editor, curator and projects
manager of Photoworks magazine, based in Brighton, England,
since its inception in 2003. Photoworks is a visual arts organization
based in the South East of England. We commission new photography
projects, produce exhibitions and publications, and initiate
research and education programs. He is most interested in
reviewing all contemporary photographic works for magazine
publication. He will be curating a science/art exhibition
and publication in 2007. Gordon MacDonald is not interested
in reviewing nude studies, glamour photography or platinum
prints of landscapes. He can publish work in Photoworks magazine,
commission photographers to work in the UK and select work
for group and solo exhibitions in the UK.
Vaclav Macek - Reviewing: March
15-18
FOTOFO Foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia
www.fotofo.sk
Vaclav Macek is the Director of the Mesiac fotografie (the
Month of Photography), which is the most important photography
festival in Central Europe. The festival was founded in 1991
and presents between 30-40 exhibitions from all over the world
each year. Vaclay Macek is interested in reviewing a range
of work, particularly documentary projects.
James E. Maloney
Private Collector, Houston, Texas
Mr. James E. Maloney has worked with the photography accessions
committee at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is also
a former member of the board of directors for FotoFest and
the Houston Center for Photography. Mr. Maloney is most interested
in viewing European, Eastern Europe, sheet photography and
new techniques. He is not interested in reviewing landscapes.
John Wesley Mannion - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse, New York
www.lightwork.org
Since 1973, Light Work/ Community Darkrooms has provided direct
support to artists working in photography and digital imaging
through exhibitions, lectures, classes, artists residencies,
publications and other related projects. John Wesley Mannion
has been the Digital Imaging Lab Manager at LW/CD for the
past five years. John teaches Syracuse University's advanced
digital photography classes as well as graduate classes in
the School of Information Studies. John is willing to look
at a variety of work in any stage of process, but is most
interested in artists who are looking to produce their work
digitally. He is looking for potential Artist-in-Residence
and can assist artists in understanding the possibilities
for the production of their work
Lesley A. Martin, Executive
Editor- Reviewing: March 20-23
Aperture Foundation, New York, New York
www.aperture.org
Lesley A. Martin is executive editor of the book-publishing
program at the Aperture Foundation, where she has worked on-and-off
for the past ten years. In between stints at Aperture, she
served as Senior Editor and Production Director at Umbrage
Editions. Her writing has been published in Aperture, American
Photo, DoubleTake, and Interiors magazine, among other publications.
She is the editor of over forty books on photography, including
Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer; and Model American: Katy Grannan.
Aperture was founded in 1952 as a not-for-profit arts organization
and publisher dedicated to promoting photography as a unique
form of artistic expression.
Reaching a worldwide audience, Aperture¹s programs include
Aperture magazine, book publishing, traveling exhibitions,
education and outreach programming. Lesley is interested in
looking at strong, well-developed work that pushes the boundaries
of photography, combines genres in interesting ways, and otherwise
defies expectations. Most of all, I am interested in meeting
with photographers who are open to honest feedback and discussion
of ideas. I can help with shaping book projects toward potential
publication, whether or not they are projects that would be
appropriate for Aperture.
Stephen Mayes, Director - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Image Archive at Art + Commerce, New York
eyestorm.com
Stephen Mayes has worked with photography, art and journalism
for 20 years. He is Director of the Image Archive at Art +
Commerce, the New York agency representing photographers working
across the fields of fashion, art and commerce. Stephen previously
worked as Director of Network Photographers, an independent
reportage agency and he went on to develop creative strategies
for major commercial agencies as Creative Director of Getty
Images and CEO of Photonica in USA. While Creative Director
of eyestorm.com Stephen worked with many contemporary artists
including Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richard Misrach and others.
Stephen has curated several photographic exhibitions including
"Positive Lives" which continues to tour in four continents.
He has written and broadcast extensively on the ethics and
a reality of photographic practices, and is currently the
Secretary to the jury of the World Press Photo competition.
Stephen is interested in seeing project work and can advise
on commercial opportunities including publishing and distribution.
He is not interested in seeing fashion work.
Kate Menconeri, Program
Director - Reviewing: March 20-23
Center for Photography at Woodstock
www.cpw.org
As the Program Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock,
Kate Menconeri conceptualizes and directs CPW's year-round
creative and educational offerings. Founded in 1977, CPW is
dedicated to supporting the creation, education, and presentation
of the photographic arts. Menconeri, who has been with CPW
since 1995, has curated numerous solo and group shows including
Foreign Affair, True Story, Invisible Cities, and co-curated
with Ariel Shanberg, Managing Eden, which traveled to the
University of North Texas in Denton. She is the co-editor
of PHOTOGRAPHY Quarterly Magazine and produces CPW's
nationally distinguished Woodstock Photography Workshop and
Lecture series. In addition to her work at CPW Ms. Menconeri
most recently served as a juror for the 21st Annual PDN /
Nikon Self Promotion Awards, PhotoLucida's Critical Mass,
and has been reviewing portfolios at Fotofest since 2000.
As a reviewer, Kate offers participants professional development,
supportive guidance, and curatorial insight, as well as CPW's
diverse program opportunities. She is most interested in seeing
innovative, cohesive, and meaningful bodies of contemporary
creative photography with a strong concept or theme. Please
note that CPW rarely exhibits traditional photojournalism,
nudes, landscapes, nature, and commercial work for stock or
advertising.
Pedro Meyer, Editor-in-Chief
- Reviewing: March 15-18
ZoneZero, Mexico City, Mexico
zonezero.com
ZoneZero is a site on the internet, dedicated to photography
and its journey from the analog to digital world. It is a
non-profit organization dedicated to the on-line publication
of photographic work, discussion forums, editorial reviews
and articles regarding photography. ZoneZero has been operating
for 12 years from its headquarters in Mexico City with Pedro
Meyer as Editor-in-Chief. Hosting the work of more than a
1000 photographers from all over the world ZoneZero is viewed
by an average of 500,000 visitors a month. 55 million webpages
at the ZoneZero website have been visited over the last 12
months. Pedro Meyer is one Latin America's most prominent
photographers who from the seventies on expanded the awareness
of international circles about the work done by his colleagues
in Latin America. He has also contributed significantly with
his pioneering work to bridge the transition between traditional
photography and digital-image making. His work has been exhibited
in over 120 collective exhibitions, and more than 100 solo
presentations. He has been recipient of awards both in Mexico
and abroad, amongst which he counts grants from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller
Foundation. His latest show "The Camera's Brushes" features
a series of large-scale portraits taken during a religious
procession in Trenedad, Brazil. This work combines the painterly
with the hyper-real. He is most interested in reviewing non-commercial
porfolios. As head of ZoneZero he can publish fresh and exciting
new work in a world-reknown virutal gallery.
Yossi Milo,
President - Reviewing: March 20-23
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York
www.yossimilo.com
Yossi Milo is the Director of the Yossi Milo Gallery in New
York City. Established in 1997 the gallery is dedicated to
presenting the work of emerging and established photographers
and has grown into a well-respected venue for contemporary
photography. The photographers represented by the gallery
come from a vast array of backgrounds and include Loretta
Lux, Shelby Lee Adams, Simen Johan, Alessandra Sanguinetti,
Lise Sarfati, and Nicholas Nixon. Mr. Milo is best known for
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