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 Frontičres, 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
Bibliothčque 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, Medellěn, 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, Aperturešs 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
finding emerging talent and presenting exhibitions of never
before seen work. Yossi Milo sits on the Board of the Center
for Photography at Woodstock and has done portfolio reviews
and lectures across the United States. He is most interested
in seeing completed work in the area of Fine Art Photography,
including digital work.
Charles Dee Mitchell - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Freelance Art Critic, Dallas, TX USA
Charles Dee Mitchell has been writing about contemporary art
for the past 25 years. He is currently a regular contributor
to Art in America and the Dallas Morning News. He has contributed
catalog essays to exhibitions at The Dallas Museum of Art,
The Columbus Art Museum (Columbus, OH), as well as other museum
and gallery spaces. As a curator he has worked with both commercial
and academic venues. He strongest interests are in documentary
projects and photo journalism, but he does not want to limit
his reviews to only those areas. He is not interested in glamour
photography or fashion. A thirty year career in book retailing
has kept him in close contact with art and photography publishing
both here and abroad, For photographers interested in developing
book projects he can advise on both how to shape the project
and suggest potential markets.
Chuck Mobley - Reviewing:
March 10-13
SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
sfcamerawork.org
Chuck Mobley is currently the associate director of San Francisco
Camerawork. Camerawork is a nonprofit organization established
in 1974 to support the work of emerging and mid-career artists
who explore new directions in photography and related media.
Through exhibitions, publications, and educational programs,
Camerawork aims to stimulate public dialogue and inquiry about
contemporary image-making. Mr. Mobley offers the potential
for group and/or solo exhibitions at Camerawork as well as
inclusion in the organization's publication, Camerawork: A
Journal of Photographic Arts. Mr. Mobley is most interested
in work that may be a hybrid of different mediums or that
utilize antiquarian processes by emerging artists. He is not
interested in seeing traditional nudes, landscapes, or commercial
photography.
Joan Morgenstern
Private Collector, Houston, Texas
Joan Morgenstern is a private collector living in Houston
and is involved in various aspects of the photographic community.
Her collection is varied and eclectic. She is co-chair of
the Robert I. Kahn Gallery of Congregation Emanu El, which
has an extensive collection of Jewish Artwork, including a
number of photographs. The work that is exhibited and collected
by the gallery includes Jewish subjects, or subjects of a
moral or ethical nature. Rarely are shows dealing with the
Holocaust exhibited because of the existence of the Houston
Holocaust Museum. She is also a member of the Photography
Accessions Committee at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Sarah Morthland, Director
- Reviewing: March 20-23
Archive Consulting and Management Services LLC, New York,
NY
Sarah Morthland has worked in the field of photography for
over 25 years. In 1996, after serving for nine years as the
director of the Howard Greenberg Gallery and founding Gallery
292 in New York, she departed to open Sarah Morthland Gallery,
the first gallery devoted to photography in the Chelsea art
district of Manhattan. In 1998, she also developed Archive
Consulting and Management Services, an appraisal business
that specializes in estate and collection management. Ms.
Morthland is a longterm member of the Board of Advisors for
the Center for Photography at Woodstock. She is most interested
in seeing black, white and color fine art photography and
the contemporary use of 19th century and other alternative
processes, with an emphasis on in-depth projects, and offers
advice in pursuing and completing a project, editing a body
of work, portfolio presentation, and historic and contemporary
contextualization. She does not wish to see advertising and
other commercial type photographs, traditional landscapes,
traditional documentary projects.
Karla Osorio Netto,
Executive Director/Curator - Reviewing: March 15-18
FOTO ARTE FESTIVAL, Brasilia, Brazil
Karla Osorio Netto is a lawyer and art historian, a contemporary
art collector and the executive director/curator of FOTO ARTE
FESTIVAL in Brasília, Brazil, which has existed since
2002 and is one of the most important photographic festivals
in Brazil dedicated to photography and new media. The Festival
is coordinated by the ARTE 21 office of consultancy and becoming
a non profit arts organization. Previously occurring every
year, the festival will now be a biennial, and produce some
exhibitions year round. From 2006 on it will offer a national
prize of photography, and the other years a complete festival
with several (around 70 exhibitions), portfolio reviews, lectures
and workshops. Mrs. Osorio is also a publisher of art books,
specialized in contemporary art and photography. Mrs.Osorio
is most interested in seeing bodies of work which are (or
nearly) complete and which possess new, innovative or interdisciplinary
approaches to the medium and intend to be closer to a contemporary
art work. She does not wish to see traditional nudes, landscapes
and flowers.
Robert Morton, President -
Reviewing: March 15-18
Aspetuck Press, Redding, CT, USA
Robert Morton is the president of Aspetuck Press, which is
a book publishing consulting firm, specializing in art and
photographically illustrated books, catalogues, and exhibitions.
Robert Morton was a picture editor and series editor with
Time-Life Books in the 1960s, and served as editor-in-chief
at New York Graphic Society (now Bulfinch Press), Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., and Aperture Foundation Book Division. During
this time Morton edited books by Henri Cartier Bresson, Richard
Avedon, Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Andreas Feininger, Elliot
Erwitt, O. Winston Link, and many others. Since 1994 he has
been a freelance editor of books, a book packager, and a consultant
on photographic book publishing. He has recently served as
curator of a major photographic exhibition for a New York
museum. He is interested in reviewing significant bodies of
work that have potential as books; the content/subject matter
may be anything. He is not interested in abstract work or
highly manipulated work of pure imagination. Robert Morton
can offer photographers insights into the viability of their
work in book form, suggestions on finding a publisher, making
presentations, and concluding an arrangement. In a few cases,
he may offer to take a project on as agent or packager
Alison Nordström, Curator
of Photographs - Reviewing: March 10-13
George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography and
Film, Rochester, New York
www.eastmanhouse.org
Alison Nordström is the Curator of Photographs at George Eastman
House, the oldest and largest museum of photography in the
world. Its collection includes more than 400,000 photographs
covering the history of the medium from daguerreotype to digital.
She is responsible for acquisitions and exhibitions and is
the USA Director of the Ryerson University M.A. program in
Photographic Preservation and Collections Management. Formerly
the Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of
Photography, she is widely published and has produced over
100 photographic exhibitions. She holds a PhD in Cultural
and Visual Studies. Nordström offers photographers a critical
assessment of their work and its presentation as well as the
possibility of exhibition, publication and acquisition by
GEH. She is currently interested in experimental work in progress
including video mixed media and web-based practice as well
as work with political content and work related to teenagers.
She is not interested in viewing traditional nudes, landscape
or travel work, or work that employs infra-red, solarization,
or basic photoshop for its effects.
Ute Noll - Reviewing: March
20-23
Frankfurter Rundschau Magazine, Frankfurt, Germany
Ute Noll is picture editor of the Frankfurter Rundschau Magazine,
the award winning weekend supplement of the national daily
newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau. Weekly she has published
Portfolios on emerging and established artists in her section
"Focus on..." for nearly six years now. The magazine mainly
produces color material. In the editorial section of the magazine,
she is known for using cutting edge photography, which on
occasion generates the editorial theme. For the weekly politics
supplements of the paper Ute Noll is also known for combining
editorial issues with issue orientated art projects in a way
that it is a completion for both parts. In her group show
"extrem" 2004 in Frankfurt she showed some of her dicoveries
from Fotofest 2003: Dave Anderson, Sian Bonnell, Allison Hunter,
Jennifer Long, Nathalie Latham. Most recently Ute Noll has
started to teach part-timeat the university of applied arts
in Dortmund. In the reviews Ms. Noll wants to see innovative
and cutting edge photography in all aspects of art, fashion,
cultural,social, political,documentary, and staged photography.
She does not want to see traditional nudes and landscape photography.
Christine Ollier, Artistic
Director - Reviewing: March 15-18
Gallery Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France - Brussels/Belgium
www.fillesducalvaire.com
Ms. Ollier is the Artistic Director and Cofounder of Gallery
Les Filles du Calvaire, a commercial institution specializing
in contemporary art. Formerly Ms. Ollier was an antiques dealer,
art historian, curator, gallery director in New York. She
has also served as President of a non-profit association that
networked art exchanges between galleries other arts organizations
and promoted cultural events. Ms. Ollier is interested in
reviewing contemporary staged, narrative and documentary photography.
She is not interested in reviewing photography that is photojournalistic,
classic, nude or erotic in nature. Ms. Ollier can advise phographers
about the French and European contemporary art scene and help
them make connections with curators, festival directors and
galleries.
Edward J. Osowski, Ph.D.
Collector, Houston, Texas
Since September 2003, Edward Osowski has been employed as
a photography consultant with Royka Auctioneer and Appraiser.
He served four terms as resident of the board of Houston Center
for Photography (1993-1997). At HCP he has been a regular
contributor to Spot Magazine with reviews of books
and exhibitions. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Board
of Directors of Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts,
where he focused his attention on assisting with the development
of the museum's holdings of new photography and with locating
funding sources for the Museum's anticipated celebration of
100 years of exhibiting photography later this year. Mr. Osowski
is interested in reviewing work by photographers who have
not had much exposure. He is interested in documentary/photo-journalism
and is also interested in photographers working with 19th
century techniques. Mr. Osowski is not interested in installation
pieces or digital work. He will be able to assist photographers
in strengthening the verbal aspect of their presentations.
Joaquim Paiva - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Madrid, Spain
jpaiva01@hotmail.com;
jpaiva@solar.com.br
Joaquim Paiva has been photographing, curating, lecturing,
and observing the international contemporary visual arts scene
since the mid 1970s. Mr. Paiva translated Susan Sontag's book
On Photography into Portuguese. He is also a photographer
concerned with the medium as a means for self-expression.
Parts of his collection has been exhibited at home and abroad,
including Buenos Aires 1997, FotoFest Houston 1998, Lima 1999,
Paris 2001, Săo Paulo 2002 and Nice-France 2005. An important
book on Mr Paiva´s collection was published in Brazil in 2003
with 275 images by 97 photographers. Joaquim Paiva is interested
in reviewing all types of work particularly creative, experimental
bodies of work in which the photographer is committed to quality,
innovative and contemporary issues. Mr. Paiva can assist photographers
by purchasing photographs, curating exhibitions, and helping
photographers make connections with galleries and institutions
in Brazil and Spain.
Ann Pallesen, Gallery Director
- Reviewing: March 20-23
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington
www.pcnw.org
Ann Pallesen is an artist, lecturer, curator, panelist and
the Gallery Director of PCNW (Photographic Center Northwest),
a non-profit dedicated to offering fine art photography education,
supporting the arts community, and enhancing public awareness
of fine art photography since 1988. The Center fosters community
through gallery exhibits and receptions, lectures, projects
with other arts organizations, artists-in-residence,events
for members, darkrooms used by students and renters, and subsidized
programs for youth. Ms. Pallesen has curated and organized
over 100 exhibitions and lectures in Seattle, by artists such
as Gertrude Blom, Elinor Carucci, Keith Carter, Bruce Davidson,
Harold E. Edgerton, Elliott Erwitt, Arthur Fellig (Weegee),
Jason Fulford, Graciela Iturbide, Chris Jordan, Alberto Korda,
Andrew Miksys, Bill Owens, Ken Rosenthal, Marla Sweeney, Hiroshi
Watanabe & Beth Yarnelle Edwards. Ms. Pallesen is interested
in reviewing comprehensive bodies of work for exhibition.
She is not interested in reviewing traditional landscapes
& nudes, nature photography, or commercial work. Ms. Pallesen
can assist photographers with gallery exhibitions, lectures,
workshops/classes, and artist in residencies.
Samantha Profitt - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
www.gpgallerydallas.com
Samantha Profitt is currently the photography specialist at
the Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas. She has been with the gallery
for almost two years and is actively developing a photography
department in conjunction with Gerald Peters sister galleries
in New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico. During her short
tenure, Samantha has been instrumental in securing membership
with AIPAD as well as increasing the gallery's presence at
photography related fairs, publications and exhibitions including
a full retrospective of Irving Penn. Ms. Profitt can provide
a realistic understanding of the gallery world and advice
about proper protocol for approaching galleries for possible
representation. She also offers the potential for a summer
exhibition at the esteemed gallery. Ms. Profitt is interested
in seeing solid (or nearly so) bodies of work that explore
a complete aesthetic, intellectual or photographic idea. She
does not wish to view installation specific, commercial or
nude photography.
Alan E. Rapp, Senior Editor
- Reviewing: March 20-23
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, California
www.chroniclebooks.com
Alan Rapp is the editor of art, design, and photography books
at Chronicle Books, where he has worked in both publicity
and editorial for more than twelve years. He is also a writer
who contributes criticism to such publications as photo-eye
Booklist, San Francisco Magazine, and Metropolis. Chronicle
Books is one of the most widely admired illustrated trade
publishers in the U.S., with an Adult, Children's, and Gift
division, as well as several distribution clients. As a photo
book editor, Mr. Rapp has worked with such photographers as
Nick Brandt, Elinor Carucci, Henry Horenstein, Danny Lyon,
Jim Marshall, and Michael Rauner to bring their visions to
finished book form. Mr. Rapp will be primarily educating photographers
on the publishing process and how they can best position their
work for book publication. Mr. Rapp is most interested in
reviewing uniquely conceived and executed work which explore
little-known subjects, or have a formal, biographical, or
conceptual twist. This can encompass a photographer's unique
vision of place, self, and family, or be shown in documentary
work of subjects which lie on societal or historical fringes
(or which have been merely forgotten). Mr. Rapp is less interested
in reviewing traditional landscape or nature photography,
or conventional portraiture.
Christopher Rauschenberg
- Reviewing: March 10-23
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
www.blueskygallery.org
Christopher Rauschenberg is co-director and board chairman
of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Blue Sky was established
in 1975 by Rauschenberg and 4 other photographers. Since then
he has co-curated 539 solo shows by 467 different artists,
and 42 group shows, and has edited and produced over 50 publications.
Rauschenberg has been a photographer since 1973 and has had
74 solo shows in six countries. Blue Sky Gallery is a non-profit
artists' space which produces 20 to 24 solo exhibitions per
year and an occasional group show every couple of years or
so. We produce a yearbook that reproduces 6 images for each
show. Our focus and passion is on promoting emerging artists
(like you) through exhibitions. While Christopher Rauschenberg
likes to look at everything, Blue Sky does not tend to exhibit
classic traditional nudes, portraits or landscapes. The landscapes
that they show are usually documentary and sociological rather
than scenic or abstract.
Rixon Reed - Reviewing: March
10-23
Photo-eye Books and Prints, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.photoeye.com
Rixon Reed is the founder and director of photo-eye and photoeye.com.
Founded in 1979, photo-eye has been the leading resource for
art photography books. photoeye.com's Photographer's Showcase
and photobistro.com are the web's premier showcases for fine-art
photography. Mr. Reed is interested in seeing cohesive bodies
of work from photographers with fresh viewpoints for possible
exhibition in photoeye.com's Photographer's Showcase, PhotoBistro.com,
or photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe. He is also interested in seeing
book projects.
Arianna Rinaldo - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Freelance Photo Editor and Curator, Milan, Italy
Arianna Rinaldo is currently based in Milano and works as
a freelance photoeditor, researcher and curator. She is the
former Photo Editor of Colors magazine and before
that managed the archives of Magnum Photos in New York. She
collaborates with various Italian magazines and freelances
as photo editor and image consultant (last endeavor is the
Spanish documentary magazine Ojodepez#2). For the
past year she has been mainly working as a consultant for
Marka, an online photo agency that is in the process of enriching
its collection of stock images with a newer and fresher style.
Ms. Rinaldo's primary goal with Marka is seeking documentary
work by foreign photographers to distribute in Italy and internationally
through Markašs network. She offers to find a suitable publication
for documentary work that qualifies, as well as possible distribution
for stock-oriented photographers. Her curatorial activity
focuses on new emerging talents and special photo projects.
Ms. Rinaldo is open to see a variety of work. She is also
interested in strong single images that possess a visual impact
as possible editorial or commercial stock. Ms. Rinaldo's main
interest is documentary photography and social reportage with
an innovative style suitable for either publication or exhibition.
She is not interested in reviewing fashion photography.
John Rohrbach - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
www.cartermuseum.org
John Rohrbach is senior curator of photographs at the Amon
Carter Museum, a museum of American art. He joined the museum
in 1992. Since the museum opened in 1961 it has built an extensive
collection of 30,000 American photographs that span the history
of the medium from 1840 to the present. Collection strengths
include landscape and modernist work. The collection also
includes the archives of photographers Laura Gilpin, Eliot
Porter, Nell Dorr, Carlotta Corpron, Erwin Smith, and Karl
Struss. Acquisition of contemporary work is limited due to
fiscal constraints and is focused primarily on outstanding
work that is cognizant of photography's historical roots.
A recent building expansion delivered 3,700 square feet of
gallery space devoted to photography, though exhibition opportunities
for contemporary photographers are quite limited. Mr. Rohrbach
is most interested in viewing completed bodies of work created
in the United States which build on photography's traditions,
but which take those traditions in substantively new directions.
He does not wish to see nudes or traditional nature photographs.
Miriam Romais - Reviewing:
March 10-13
En Foco, Inc., Bronx, New York
www.enfoco.org
Miriam Romais is the Executive Director for En Foco and the
Editor for Nueva Luz photographic journal. She has served
as its Managing Director for 13 years, in addition to being
a photographer and curator. En Foco is a non-profit photography
organization, founded in 1974 to nurture, publish and exhibit
photographers of Latino, African, Asian, Pacific Islander
and Native American heritage. The publication Nueva Luz is
national in scope and is the premier magazine in its field.
The annual New Works Photography Awards program selects three
photographers per year from a national call for entries who
receive an honorarium and photo-related materials to create
new work. Ms. Romais offers publication and exhibition possibilities,
also comments on general presentation. Ms. Romais is most
interested in reviewing in-depth fine art and documentary
work by serious emerging and mid-career photographers of African,
Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage.
Black and white work is preferred, since the magazine only
publishes one artist per year working in color. Ms. Romais
is least interested in reviewing commercial, advertising or
stock photography.
Ernestine Ruben - Reviewing:
March 15-18
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
www.umma.umich.edu
Ernestine Ruben is a consultant to the National Advisory Board
of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, where she has
served for five years. The Art Museum, which is attracting
national attention because of its present exhibition and rebuilding
program, is now establishing a new study and exhibition center
devoted to photography. It has already embarked on dynamic
photographic exhibitions and acquisitions programs. Ms. Ruben
has been an art teacher for many years and also does international
workshops about personal vision and extensions of photography.
She is particularly interested in helping the individual artist
clear paths for greater productivity and take risks in new
directions. For the past twenty-five years, her work has been
exhibited and published extensively. It is found in museum
and private collections internationally. A recent published
book, In Human Touch, won a University of Michigan award.
Ms. Ruben who collects photography both privately and publicly
is interested in purchasing innovative conceptual photography.
She is also willing to make recommendations to help artists
connect internationally with galleries, institutions, and
other artists for possible exhibitions.
Chuck Samuels, Administrative
Director - Reviewing: March 20-23
Le Mois de la Photo ŕ Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
www.moisdelaphoto.com
First presented in 1989, Le Mois de la Photo ŕ Montréal is
an international biennale of contemporary photography. Chuck
Samuels has been the Administrative Director of the event
since it became an autonomous, non-profit organization in
September 2002. Every two years Le Mois de la Photo ŕ Montréal
explores a theme proposed by a guest curator through a series
of mostly contemporary photography exhibitions, a colloquium,
artists' talks, a publication and other related activities.
The biennale presents work by emerging, mid-career, and established
artists from Canada and abroad. Chuck is also an artist whose
work has been exhibited, published, and collected internationally
since 1980 and he very occasionally writes on photography
for arts magazines.
Mark Sealy, Director - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Autograph ABP, London, United Kingdom
www.autograph-abp.co.uk
Before becoming Director of Autograph ABP (Association of
Black Photographers) in 1991 Mark Sealy worked for a major
newspaper on Fleet street and for three years with Network
Documentary Photographers in both development of reportage
features, syndication and sales. He has curated several major
international photography exhibitions, and lectured extensively
throughout the UK and abroad. He and writes for several journals.
Along with his role at Autograph he acts as an independent
photographic consultant and is a regular advisor to Amnesty
International's Media Awards Team. In 1998 he co-curated Revealing
Views: Images on Ireland at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Mark Sealy has recently completed a new book project with
Phaidon Press Limited titled "Different" on photography and
identity with Professor Stuart Hall. He was until recently
a purchaser for the Arts Council of England's Fine Arts Collection.
He currently sits on the board of directors for Photoworks
in Brighton and Space Studios in London he has recently agreed
to be the advisor to an emergent group of artists known as
Wallsend. He is now developing a Ł6.5 million capital building
project in partnership with the Institute of International
Visual Arts. This will be the first new build visual arts
project in London for over 40 years to be developed mainly
with Arts Council Lottery funds which is due for completion
in 2007.
Ariel Shanberg, Executive
Director - Reviewing: March 15-18
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York
www.cpw.org
As the Executive Director of the Center for Photography at
Woodstock, Ariel Shanberg provides the organization’s
vision and leadership. Founded in 1977, CPW is dedicated to
supporting the creation, education, and presentation of the
photographic arts with year-round offerings including solo
& group exhibitions, workshops, lectures, PHOTOGRAPHY
Quarterly magazine, residencies for artists of color,
& services for artists. Through these services, CPW helps
advance the development and careers of emerging artists working
in photography and related media. Shanberg who has been with
CPW since 1999, serves as the co-editor of PHOTOGRAPHY
Quarterly. He has curated numerous exhibitions; contributed
essays for publications; served as guest lectured at FIT and
Syracuse University, and reviewed portfolios at SPE, Rhubarb
Rhubarb, and Fotofest. As a reviewer, Mr. Shanberg offers
participants, professional development, guidance, and curatorial
insight, as well as CPW’s diverse program opportunities
available to artists. He is most interested in viewing innovative,
cohesive bodies of work with a strong concept or theme. Please
note that CPW rarely exhibits traditional photojournalism,
nudes, landscapes, nature, and commercial work for stock or
advertising.
Maria Tereza Siza - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Portuguese Centre for Photography/Ministry of Culture, Director
www.cpf.pt
Tereza Siza is Director of the Portuguese Centre for Photography/Ministry
of Culture. The Portuguese Centre for Photography (C.P.F.)
is a public service created by the Ministry of Culture in
1997 in order to ensure a national policy regarding photography.
Ms. Siza is an inependent curator of several exhibitions and
photographic projects; photographer Prior to her working with
CPF, Ms. Siza taught high school level courses in Philosophy,
Communication and Photography in addition to teaching photography
at Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Árvore (Porto). Ms. Siza
was also Director of the University Studies of Photography
at Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Árvore from 1986 to 1988/89.
Ms. Siza is willing to review any type of artwork. She can
assist photographers in finding exhibitions opportunities
in Europe and making Acquisitions for the Portuguese National
Collection.
Barry Singer - Reviewing:
March 10-13
Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, California
www.cpf.pt
Barry Singer has been involved with the photographic image
for over 30 years. Graduate trained in photography, he has
exhibited in group and solo exhibitions. In 1977 he founded
Singer Printing Co. an offset lithography business specializing
in two-color duotone reproduction of black and white photographs
for photography books, catalogues and announcements for top
galleries and museums in the country. In 1991 he became the
Executor for Lou Stoumen Estate, administered through the
Museum of Photographic Arts, San DiegoMr. Singer is responsible
for the Lou Stoumen Prize a bi-annual cash award ($35,000)
made to mid career photographers. This position was an impetus
for him to become a private dealer. In 1998, he opened the
Barry Singer Gallery and specializes in vintage and contemporary
work. Barry Singer is most interested in seeing completed
bodies of work that possess the artist's clear intent and
personal voice. Color and BW photography are of interest as
well as alternative and experimental work. No glamour or nude
photography.
Johan Sjöström - Reviewing:
March 20-23
BildMuseet, Umea University, Sweden
www.bildmuseet.umu.se
Johan Sjöström (b 1975) has been a curator at BildMuseet in
Umea, Sweden since 1998. BildMuseet is a museum of international
contemporary art and visual culture, and one of the leading
institutions of its kind in Scandinavia and Europe. With 6
exhibition halls and it houses approximately 12-15 exhibitions
per year. Mr. Sjöström has been invited to review and lecture
at numerous international photo events and has contributed
to magazines such as Artphoto and Paletten, and is also the
editor of several publications including "Lara Baladi - Kai'ro",
"The Politics of Place"; "Mats Hjelm: Trilogy"; "Mirror's
Edge", and "Head North". Mr. Sjöström can offer solo or group
shows at BildMuseet and is most interested in reviewing creative,
conceptually oriented photography and new media, political
and multicultural issues, postmodern landscape, issues of
gender, identity and sexuality. He is not interested in reviewing
traditional documentary, classical nudes and landscapes or
commercial work.
George Slade, Artistic Director,
Lead Curator - Reviewing: March 20-23
Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, Minnesota
www.mncp.org
George Slade has been the artistic director and lead curator
of the non-profit Minnesota Center for Photography since August
2003, after serving as a curator, editor, writer, and advisor
to the organization since 1992. His academic background includes
an American Studies degree from Yale, and he has written,
curated, and lectured widely on photography since the early
1990s. Slade would like to meet artists with well-developed
projects who are interested in being considered for exhibition
at MCP and in receiving some quick, intuitive feedback about
their work. The Center is the upper Midwest's sole organization
devoted to exhibiting, creating, and appreciating fine photography
by emerging and accomplished artists. There are no geographic
or stylistic limitations on its exhibition program, though
new directions and new approaches within traditional genres
are generally preferred. In 2006 MCP will have six exhibitions
in its main gallery space, and generally seeks work that has
socio-cultural motivations or that explores new territory
in photographic esthetics. Strictly formal or decorative images
are of less interest.
Jean-Luc Soret, Director of
the Festival @rt Outsiders, New Media Art Curator - Reviewing:
March 20-23
Maison Européenne de la Photographie (M.E.P.) Paris, France
www.art-outsiders.com
Jean-Luc Soret is the executive director/curator and co-founder
of the @rt Outsiders International Festival (2000) with Henry
Chapier at the European House of Photography in Paris. This
annual show is devoted to digital art and to cutting-edge
creations. Previous shows include: Image (2000), Avatar (2001),
Bio Art (2002), Space Art (2003), Censorship (2004), and digital
Brazil (2005). Mr. Soret has collaborated on the multimedia
stage management of Marcel Landowski's opera "The Fool," produced
by the Théâtre du Châtelet (2004). He teaches at Paris the
University of Panthéon/Sorbonne and he is a member of the
MIR european consortium (Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research);
Advisory Commitee of Leonardo/Olats (Fr); Leonardo Space Art
Working Group (Usa) and of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium
(Usa). Mr. Soret is also president of the SpaceArtOne agency
dedicated the promotion of Space Art. Mr. Soret is interested
in reviewing innovative photography associated with science
and/or new media. He can reference registrants' work in his
database and advise them concerning the French institutions
which could be interested in their work.
Mary Virginia Swanson - 3/9-3/19
M. V. Swanson & Associates Offices in Tucson, Arizona
and New York City/USA
www.mvsswanson.com
Prior to establishing her marketing/consulting firm, Ms. Swanson
was the founder/director of Swanstock, an innovative agency
managing licensing rights for fine art photographers. Ms.
Swanson lectures frequently on marketing and collecting photography,
and teaches workshops for artists on presenting their work
to appropriate markets. She is a strong advocate for emerging
artists, and through her volunteerism and non-profit Board
activities works tirelessly to bring relevant education and
marketing opportunities to photographers. Ms. Swanson is happy
to look at any work at The Meeting Place, whether it is evolving
or fully realized bodies of work of any subject or genre.
Ms. Swanson will look at any type of work. She endeavors to
help artists on presentation and market awareness.
Barbara Tannenbaum, Chief
Curator and Head of Public Programs - Reviewing: March 10-13
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
www.akronartmuseum.org
Barbara Tannenbaum, Chief Curator and Head of Public Programs,
has organized over forty-five exhibitions for the Akron Art
Museum since she started working there in 1985. These include
the first large-scale international exhibition chronicling
women's achievements in fine art photography, co-curated with
Naomi Rosenblum, and the 1991 Ralph Eugene Meatyard retrospective,
co-curated with David Jacobs. Dr. Tannenbaum guides the selection
process for the museum's annual Knight Purchase Prize for
Photographic Media, awarded to those who have made a major
contribution to the photographic arts, and serves on the Photolucida
National Advisory Board. The Akron Art Museum, founded in
1922, is a museum of modern and contemporary art with a collection
of around 3,300 works, almost half of which are photographs.
The museum's galleries are currently closed due to construction
of a new building and are scheduled to reopen in early 2007,
tripling the institution's size. Dr. Tannenbaum is interested
in seeing many different kinds of work, but prefers not to
review photography that is primarily commercial in nature.
Nudity is okay as long as it is truly at the service of artistic
expression.
Christopher Tannert - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Germany
www.bethanien.de
Christopher Tannert is an art historian, art critic and curator.
He is the Founder (1975) and Director (since 2000) of International
Artists in Residence and he has been a Board Member of European
Photography for 10 year. Mr. Tannert is most interested in
seeing bodies of work which are complete and which possess
new, innovative or interdisciplinary approaches to the medium.
He is open for different topics but not interested in work
of a pornographic nature. Mr. Tannert can assist photographers
in artistic dialogues and viewing work of an international
interest.
Finn Thrane - Reviewing: March
15-18
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
www.brandts.dk
Finn Thrane is a self-taught photographer and artist in the
field of photography and worked for a few years as an independent
photographer along with teaching at a folk high school. He
holds a master's degree in literature and film science from
Copenhagen University, has a basic course from the Danish
Film School, and later studied photography in France, Italy
and Sweden. He is the founding director of Museet for Fotokunst
(The Museum of Photographic Arts) at Brandts Klaedefabrik
in Odense, Denmark 1985, and curated more than 200 shows for
his own institution as well as for museums in Scandinavia
and for festivals in Spain, Lithuania, Slovakia and the USA.
He has written numerous of analytic articles for Danish and
foreign monographs and since 1988 been co-editing the bilingual
photo-magazine KATALOG. In 2000 Mr. Thrane initiated the international
festival of photography, "Odense Foto Triennial", and is for
the moment arranging its third version for October 2006 on
the theme of 'food'. Finn Thrane is interested in all types
of independent and innovative photography, conceptual as well
as subjective documentary, but prefers not to have to deal
with fancy commercial photography.
Katalin Timar, Curator - Reviewing:
March 15-18
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
www.ludwigmuseum.hu
Katalin Timar is a curator, art critic and lecturer of contemporary
art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest. She has earned
an MA in art history, and researched a PhD topic related to
the theory of photography. Ms. Timar has lecturer on multimedia
theory at the University of Design in Budapest, participated
in the Getty Summer Institute in Art History and Visual Studies
at the Univ. of Rochester in 1999, provided a paper at the
CAA congress in 2001, and is program director of conferences
on photography. She is most interested in reviewing new, innovative
and interdisciplinary approaches to the medium (and to traditional
genres). She is not interested in viewing traditional nudes,
landscapes and flowers. She can provide photographers the
means and methods of putting together a body of work for exhibition,
and information about the European infrastructure of photography
Issa Touma, - Reviewing: March
15-18
Arab Photographer and Curator
Issa Touma (Syria, 1962) is a self-taught photographer who
in 1992 established the first photography gallery in the Middle
East, Black and White Gallery. After its closure in 1995 he
opened Le Pont Gallery, which continues to be the only gallery
dedicated to photography in the region. In 1996, he served
as art director for the first European-Arab jazz festival
in Aleppo, Syria. In 1997, he founded one of the first contemporary,
international photography events in the Middle East, the International
Photography Festival in Aleppo. The event has grown from 600
visitors in its first year to more than 7,000 in 2004. Since
1999, he has been the organizer of the International Woman's
Art Festival in Syria, an event that features fine art, multimedia
and performing art. The activities of Touma and his group,
the Le Pont Organization, which includes the gallery, the
Photography Festival and the Woman's Art Festival, annually
draws in excess of 25,000 visitors, including international
students, diplomats and the general public.
Juan Travnik - Reviewing:
March 15-23
Director of La FotoGalería del Teatro San Martín
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Juan Travnik, an experienced teacher and curator in the field
of creative photography, is recognized as one of the most
important contemporary photographers of his country. He has
participated in many individual and group exhibitions all
over the world and was a founding member of the Consejo Argentino
de Fotografía. Mr. Travnik is director of La FotoGalería del
Teatro San Martín, founded in 1985. This gallery has a program
of at least 12 exhibitions annually and balances the participation
of emerging and established photographers. He is also director
of the EspacioFotográfico de la Ribera and curator of Encuentros
Abiertos de Fotografia. He can provide the opportunity to
exhibit and present photographer's work in Argentina. Mr.
Travnik is interested in seeing straight photography, essays
on different subjects, new trends, new visions, digital photography
and mixed media. He is not interested in viewing commercial
photography.
Anne Wilkes Tucker -
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
www.mfah.org
Anne Tucker is the Gus and Lyndall Wortham curator of photography
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she has worked
since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the
museum, which now has a collection of over 20,000 photographs.
She has curated over two-dozen exhibitions, including retrospectives
for Robert Frank, Ray K. Metzker, George Krause, Richard Misrach
and Brassaď. Most of these exhibitions were accompanied by
a publication. Ms. Tucker has published many articles and
lectured around the world. She has been awarded fellowships
by the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute for
the History of Art and the Humanities, and received an Alumnae
Achievement award from Randolph Macon Woman's College.
Cynthia van Roden Photographic
Collection Manager - Reviewing: March 10-13
Hallmark's Creative Collection , Hallmark Cards, Kansas City,
Missouri
Cynthia van Roden is Hallmark's first Photography Editor.
She edited one million images to identify work to be digitized
for Hallmark's Creative Photography Collection and now manages
this collection. Ms. vanRoden began her career as a photographer
then moved to the Time/Life Picture Collection. She has worked
with news/feature agency SIPA Press and a myriad of magazines
from Fortune, Money, EW and the start up of Conde
Nast Traveler. She was Photography Director for Times
Mirror Magazines (TMM) where she created a centralized photography
department for 16 of the (then) TMM titles (Golf, Ski,
Skiing, Field & Stream,Yachting, Popular Science,
etc.). Ms. vanRoden is interested in viewing fresh, pictorial
approaches to florals, pets, spiritual or symbolic landscapes
(not too dark); seasonal and holiday icons including various
religions and ethnicity; people/children/pets at play and
in relationships; family photographs with proper releases.
Imagery must possess emotion and/or storytelling, updated
lighting and styling. She is not interested in seeing travel,
fashion/glamour, nudes, news. The Creative Photography Collection
is similar to a customized stock agency built exclusively
for Hallmark. We are one of the few creative companies that
hire full-time photographers, stylists, producers and photographic
art directors - other than photo agencies. Ms. vanRoden enjoys
working with developing talent and referring creative people
to my colleagues across the industry.
Addie Vassie - Reviewing:
March 15-18
The hug Gallery for International Photography, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
www.hughug.info
British gallery Director and Owner Addie Vassie (née Elliott)
works not only as a gallerist, but also as a freelance curator,
consultant and writer through her space 'hug', which represents
25 international photographic artists, both contemporary and
historical. The hug Gallery is a forum for showcasing the
work of these artists and represents both well established
and up and coming photographers, from a broad range of nationalities.
'hug' operates an intensive programme hosting a new exhibition
on average every 5-7 weeks. One of Ms. Vassie's most recent
external projects was the guest curating of the exhibition
'Made in Britain: Contemporary British Photography' at The
Huis Marseille Institute for Photography & FOAM (Foto
Museum), in Amsterdam, in March to June 2005 and the writing
of the accompanying publication. Prior to moving to Amsterdam,
Ms Vassie spent almost eight curatorial years at the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London. Ms Vassie is interested in seeing
bodies of work, which are already complete,or nearing completion,
both contemporary and historical. She is not interested in
seeing commercial photography, traditional landscapes or nudes.
Richard Viera, Professor of
Art and Design/ Curator - Reviewing: March 15-18
Lehigh University Art Galleries/Museum Operation, Bethlehem,
Pennslyvania
Ricardo Viera is Professor of Art and Director/Curator of
Lehigh University Art Galleries/Museum Operation. The LUAG
mission promotes visual literacy across the disciplines as
an alternative to the classroom, where all temporary exhibitions
and the permanent collection serve as an educational laboratory.
The photography collection holds more than 2500 images from
most periods and topics in the history of the photographic
medium. The collection features a strong and integral Latin
American, Caribbean and USA Latino component. Professor Viera
is most interested in seeing bodies of works dealing with
new ideas/new approaches, either in wet or dry photography
as contemporary art and new media (video art, virtual reality).
Enrica Viganň, Artistic director
- Reviewing: March 15-18
FOTO&PHOTO, Milan, Italy
www.admiraphotography.it
Enrica Viganň is the artistic director of the annual photography
festival, Foto&Photo, held in Cesano Maderno, Milan since
2001. She is also owner of the agency, Admira, which is dedicated
to the organization of cultural events in photography. She
is also director of the gallery ClicArt in Milano, which concentrates
on the promotion of emerging photographers. Ms. Viganň has
curated many travelling shows and is part of the PhotoEspańa
staff in Madrid as director of Campus, a program of workshops,
after being coordinator of international projects and guest
curator. Ms. Viganň is interested in reviewing all types of
work except commercial photography. She can help photographers
show their work in Italy and the art world in general.
Wolfgang Vollmer
- Reviewing: March 10-13
CAMERA AUSTRIA International, Graz, Austria, and Berlin, Germany
www.camera-austria.at
Wolfgang Vollmer is an artist, and author. He curated the
1.Daegu Photobiennale in Korea in October 2006, and has been
working as a curator for the Photographische Sammlung in Cologne,
Germany. Since 1984, he has been an editor for CAMERA AUSTRIA
international (Graz/Berlin), which is dedicated to the artistic
and theoretical exploration of photography in the context
of contemporary visual art, new media and social developments.
Special attention is given to current approaches that focus
on the forms of photography and new media, their modes of
operation and patterns of reception against the background
of overall cultural conditions. Beside his editorial work
for CAMERA AUSTRIA, Mr. Vollmer works as a critic for numerous
magazines on contemporary art. Mr. Vollmer is interested in
contemporary photography and video works, with emphasis on
conceptual and documentary works. He doesn't want to review
traditional nudes. Wolfgang Vollmer can offer to publish artist's
work in the magazine CAMERA AUSTRIA, or to exhibit their work
at the exhibition place of CAMERA AUSTRIA.
Katherine Ware, Curator of Photographs
- Reviewing: March 20-23
Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Katherine Ware is Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art's Alfred Stieglitz Center for Photography in
the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. She has
organized numerous exhibitions from the permanent collection.
Ware is co-author of Dreaming in Black and White: Photography
at the Julien Levy Gallery, a book being published in
conjunction with the Museum's summer 2006 exhibition of its
recently acquired Julien Levy collection of photographs. She
previously served as Assistant Curator in the Department of
Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Ware is the author
of the book Elemental Landscapes: Photographs by Harry
Callahan (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001) and several
essays. The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents one major
photography show a year in its Berman and Stieglitz Galleries;
two to three photography exhibitions are offered annually
in its Julien Levy Gallery, a space dedicated to photography
that will be relocated to the Museum's Perelman Building in
2007. The Museum maintains an active acquisitions program,
enhancing the permanent collection with both historic and
contemporary works. Ms. Ware is interested in a wide range
of contemporary images connected to fairly resolved bodies
of work and is a stickler for content.
Terri Whitlock - Reviewing:
March 10-13
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
www.sfmoma.org
Terri Whitlock is a curatorial associate in the department
of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
SFMOMA began exhibiting and collecting photographs in 1935-the
same year it opened. Today its collection spans the entire
history of the medium, with strength in modernist and contemporary
genres while also representing historic and vernacular forms
of photographic practice. In her five years at SFMOMA Ms.
Whitlock has worked on photography acquisitions and exhibitions
and is currently co-curating a group exhibition that addresses
the relationship between the artist and the museum. Her area
of focus is contemporary photography and she can offer photographers
dialogue on their work, as well as guidance on appropriate
contacts, presentation strategies, and directions to pursue.
She is most interested in seeing idea-driven work, including
photography that explores a relationship to other media. She
does not wish to see neo-Pictorialist work, commercial photography,
or photojournalism.
Clint Willour, Executive
Director and Curator - Reviewing: March 15-18
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
galvestonartscenter.org
Clint Willour, Curator of the Galveston Arts Center for the
past sixteen years, has been an art professional for thirty-five
years. He is active on boards of numerous art organizations
in Texas, nationally and internationally and has served as
a juror for over fifty competitions in his career. He curates
24 exhibitions per year in Galveston, and serves regularly
as a guest curator for institutions throughout the state of
Texas. He is known for the multi disciplinary focus of his
taste. He is a past President of the Board of the Houston
Center for Photography and a current member of the programming
Committee, Chair of the Photography Accessions Sub-committee
of the MFAH (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), a member of the
Art Committee of FotoFest, Houston, Board member of Photo
Forum at the MFAH, and has been a meeting place reviewer at
every FotoFest Houston, as well as reviewing portfolios for
the Houston Center for Photography; the Texas Photographic
Society; Photo Americus in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Photolucida in
Portland, Oregon; Photo Primavera in Barcelona, Spain and
the Central Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He does
not wish to view commercial photography or work he has previously
reviewed.
Rhonda Wilson & Lorna-Mary
Webb - Reviewing: March 20-23
Rhubarb-Rhubarb - The UK's International Festival of the Image,
Birmingham UK
www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Rhonda Wilson is the Director of Seeing the Light, which hosts
Rhubarb-Rhubarb, where she holds the post of Creative Director.
Seeing the Light mentors programs for emerging photographers
of all ages and creates exhibitions ranging from young artists
(5-9 years old) to internationally renowned names. Rhubarb
has the reputation as the best folio review in Europe, with
its unique on-line booking system, leading to consistently
high percentages of exhibitions and commissions for photographers.
Both companies create projects which build confidence and
visibility for the artists involved. Ms. Wilson is a writer,
photographer and publisher and has exhibited internationally.
She is director of Ten.8 photo magazine and contributor to
Portfolio, British Journal of Photography and other European
titles. Ms. Wilson has curated and shown some of the sector's
most eminent photographers including Sian Bonnell, Thomas
Kellner and Frank Yamrus. Ms. Wilson is interested in seeing
lively and spirited work of any type, which is well conceived,
in progress or a finished body. She is not interested in seeing
nudes. Ms. Wilson has good international connections, with
potential for commissioning or curating and the ability to
advise photographers on the art markets, promotion and visibility.
Lorna-Mary Webb is the Operations Manager of the
Festival and its host organization, Seeing the Light. She
is the first point of contact with artists from all projects
and runs mentoring schemes with emerging photographers and
the Rhubarb Bursary Scheme for young artists. Ms. Webb organizes
and researches relevant reviewers for Rhubarb, alongside the
Creative Director, and follows development of participating
image makers and curates information regarding opportunities
and new outlets. Ms. Webb has a background in music, theatre
and the performing arts, bringing her tenacity and hunger
for knowledge now to photography. Last year she worked with
11 emerging photographers on Shoot - a program of mentored
skill building which culminated in an acclaimed exhibition
at Mailbox, Birmingham. Several of the participants have gone
on to exhibit further, create new work and are now developing
the next Shoot project, a show to coincide with Rhubarb 2005.
Tim B. Wride - Reviewing: March
10-18
No Strings Foundation, Malibu, California
www.nostringsfoundation.org
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
www.lacma.org
Tim B. Wride is the Executive Director of the No Strings Foundation,
as well as the Curator and Interim Head of the Photography
Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
The No Strings Foundation is a non-profit philanthropic entity
providing direct assistance to photographers and awarded its
first grants in December of 2005. In his role at LACMA, Mr.
Wride resumes his relationship with the institution where
he spent 12 years curating over 30 exhibitions. Mr. Wride
is also active as an independent curator and tireless proponent
of artistic integrity and excellence, Mr. Wride is not interested
in finding the next ArtStar. He is, however, supremely interested
in lively and painfully honest conversations with intelligent
and committed photographers who are making work that is visually
stunning, conceptually refined, and intellectually challenging.
He will look at everything and have a good time doing it.
Please bring your sense of humor and perspective to the table
with you.
Manfred Zollner, Director
of Photography - Reviewing: March 20-23
fotoMAGAZIN, Hamburg, Germany
www.fotomagazin.de
Since 1998, Mr. Zollner has been Director of Photography at
fotoMAGAZIN and selects all the photographic work
published in the magazine. fotoMAGAZIN has the largest
distribution of any German photography periodical with a print
run of 70,000 copies, and has been on the market for 56 years.
Since November 2003, Mr. Zollner has also been the Managing
Editor of fotoMAGAZIN's sister publication Photo
Technik International, a bi-monthly magazine for professional
photography, which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary
next year. Mr. Zollner will be selecting portfolios for fotoMAGAZIN
and Photo Technik International. fotoMAGAZIN
is also offering fine art prints to its readers 2-3 times
per year, so Mr. Zollner would like to select work for future
limited editions. Mr. Zollner is also willing to help photographers
with information on the German photography market and on publishing
photos in Germany. Mr. Zollner is interested in reviewing
any kind of fresh, new signature style work from all fields
of photography and is curious and open to see individual approaches
to photography.
Del Zogg
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
www.mfah.org
Del Zogg has a 25+ year career in photography. He worked for
over 21 year at the George Eastman House, International Museum
of Photography & Film in Rochester, NY. In 2002 he moved to
Houston to assume the position of Manager of the Works on
Paper Study Center at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The
MFAH has a photography collection of over 22,000 images dating
from 1840 to the present day. In addition to his work in museums,
Zogg is a photographer with works in several major photographic
collections. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Rochester
Institute of Technology and a Master's from Syracuse University.
In addition to assisting in the acquisition for the MFAH,
Mr. Zogg recommends artists to several institutions based
upon his contacts in the field. He is interested in works
in alternate and antique photographic processes. Traditional
photographic processes are also of interest. He is not interested
in viewing contemporary large scale color works.
Ireneusz Zjezdzalka -
Reviewing: March 10-13
Kwartalnik Fotografia Magazine, Wrzesnia, Poland
Ireneusz Zjezdzalka is a photographer, curator, gallery director
and critic. Since 2004 he has been the editor-in-chief of
Kwartalnik Fotografia, a bilingual (English/Polish) Polish
photography magazine that highlights contemporary photography,
history and theory of photography and interacts with photographers
from Eastern European. Formerly Mr. Zjezdzalka worked as curator
in PF gallery in Poznan, Poland. His photographic essays have
been published in many art magazines including Kwartalnik
Fotografia, EXIT- new art in Poland, Arteon, Imago, Czas Kultury,
Pozytyw. He's also editor of Jerzy Lewczynski's (very important
Polish vanguard photographer) book. Mr. Zjezdzalka's own art
work has been presented in individual and group exhibition
in Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Canada and
Lithuania. In 2004 he also became the Gallery Director of
2piR, a gallery within a humanistic high school in Poznan.
Mr. Zjezdzalka is most interested in reviewing documentary
photography. He does not wish to review traditional nudes,
wildlife, or flowers. |
