SESSION 4 - April 2 - 6, 2008
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Jean Caslin, Founding Partner
Caslin Gregory & Associates, Houston, Texas
Jean Caslin is a founding partner of Caslin Gregory & Associates, Consultants to Arts & Culture. CG&A provides coaching for regional and national visual artists, as well as exhibition, fundraising, editorial and event planning services for artists and organizations. Along with Diane Griffin Gregory, she curated or coordinated six exhibitions in conjunction with FotoFest 2008. Ms. Caslin 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 1988 to 2005. Since 1981, she has taught courses in the history of photography at six colleges in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Texas. Her current course is "Contemporary Photography & FotoFest 2008" at University of Houston - Downtown. She also reviews portfolios for Photolucida, Center, and Society for Photographic Education. Jean Caslin wants to meet and support visual artists whose work shows innovative approaches to either traditional or experimental photography.
Bruno Ceschel, Freelance Editor and Photographic Consultant
Brighton Photo Biennial, London, England
www.bpb.org.uk
Bruno Ceschel is a freelance editor and photographic consultant living in London. He is currently working on the 2008 edition of the Brighton Photo Biennial, and has a number of book, exhibition and magazine projects in preparation - the subjects of which include conflict, erotic themes and the vernacular of digital photo sharing. Previously, he was a book editor at Chris Boot Ltd, working on titles such as the award-winning titles, Lodz Ghetto Album and Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context since 1955, along with monographs by Martin Parr, Larry Towell, Simon Roberts and several others. Prior to that he worked on titles including La Porte, Indiana (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) and Ghetto by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (Trolley, 2003), and was creative editor at Colors magazine in Italy, where he was born.
Mr. Ceschel is most interested in reviewing documentary work on the theme of conflicts (the theme of the 08 Brighton Photo Biennial), complete bodies of work intended for book publishing, and erotic photography projects to consider for inclusion in a new publication he is working on. He is not interested in reviewing fashion work or incomplete bodies of work. He can advise on book publishing, and give general career advice.
Ellen Curlee, Director
Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
www.ellencurleegallery.com
Ellen Curlee is the Director of the Ellen Curlee Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri. The Gallery specializes in contemporary fine art photography, photo-based art and video. Since opening her gallery in 2005, she has collaborated with many internationally renowned photographers, exhibiting their work in solo shows as well as alongside the work of carefully selected emerging artists in thematically curated exhibitions. The gallery also publishes catalogs of selected exhibitions.
Ellen Curlee is also active as a consultant, advising individuals, institutions and corporations on art purchases with an emphasis on photography. Previous to opening her gallery, Ms. Curlee founded and operated a photographic agency with an extensive library of photographs, representing the work of over 50 artists. Although she enjoys all aspects of the medium, she is currently only interested in looking at fine art photography, photo-based art, and artful documentary photography. She is looking for work with an idiosyncratic vision, expressing ideas and reflecting the artist's way of looking at the world.
Diane Ducruet, Editor
Plainpicture, Hamburg, Germany
www.plainpicture.com
Diane Ducruet has been Editor of Plainpicture (Germany-France-UK-Denmark) since 2007. Plainpicture is a photography agency specializing in advertising, book-publishing and editorial work. Prior to this position, she worked for Photonica, a Japanese photography agency. At Photonica she worked as a researcher and photo editor for advertising, book-publishing, and editorial publications on the French market. Ms. Ducruet is also a Free-Lance Consultant for the advertising group TBWA France, "Strategy development for photographic funds".
Ms. Ducruet is interested in all type of works. The quality and originality of the point of view will be the main focus, more than the type of subjects chosen and developed in the work. She does not wish to review documentary, nudes, or flowers.
She is mainly searching for photographers whose work would be able to be distributed in Plainpicture collection (for book-publishing & advertising), and she can recommend photographers for different French and other European institutions, public and private. She can also advise photographers from the conception of his/her project, to its realization, until its promotion.
Dr. Bernd Fechner, Managing Director
FotoBild, Berlin, Germany
www.photomarketing.de
Dr. Bernd Fechner, managing director of photomarketing.de, worked before as an editor, and in program design for book publishing. He spent several years as director of the PR department with Taschen publishers in Cologne, Germany. In 2001 Dr. Fechner established photomarketing.de in Berlin. Photomarketing.de is the German agency for fine art photography. For the last five years photomarketing.de has directed FOTOBILD-BERLIN, Germany's photography fair. Dr. Fechner was elected in the board committee of the "German Society of Photography - DGPh" and has become a member of the jury of ART COLOGNE, Germany's most famous art fair. He is also accredited as German expert at international photography festivals: "PhotoEspana" in Madrid, "Rhubarb", Birmingham and most recently "Lianzhou Photofestival", China.
Dr. Fechner is interested in any areas of art and photography, which are immediately understandable by its photographic content and/or just one explaining additional sentence. He likes photography which opens our eyes and makes us see the world from different angles; any project which could be shown in a gallery or museum and at the same time on 10 pages in magazine. His interests also include science photography, photo collages or any photographic work in the context of contemporary new media.
Tom Hinson, Curator of Photography
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
www.clevelandart.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art has been in operation for 92 years. Tom Hinson has been a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art for 35 years. During this time, he has organized numerous solo and group photo exhibitions, written accompanying publications, and actively acquired work for the collection. Besides being in charge of the photography collection, Mr. Hinson was curator of contemporary art until 2000.
Mr. Hinson is interested in all aspects of photography and enjoys seeing a diversity of conceptual, formal, and technical approaches. He is constantly looking at work in search of future exhibition and acquisition ideas.
Jason Houston, Picture Editor
Orion magazine, Great Barrington
www.orionmagazine.org
Jason Houston is picture editor of Orion magazine, responsible for all visual elements and, as part of a small staff, for producing occasional in-house assignments. Orion is a bi-monthly non-profit, non-commercial (no ads) magazine that serves as a forum for well-developed stories focused on where issues of the environment intersect with all the other aspects of how we live on this planet. Each issue features picture stories and portfolios in addition to written reports and essays. Orion has been in print for 25 years and has won numerous awards for their work.
Jason Houston has worked with Orion magazine since 2000. In addition, he has worked for over 15 years as a freelance photographer and published hundreds of stories and thousands of images in magazines, books, and online around the world. He is currently involved in a multi-year, multi-media storytelling and book project to document the grassroots efforts of Rare Conservation in over 40 countries throughout the developing tropics around the world. His most recent site visits were to Nicaragua, Mexico, and eastern Africa.
He is interested in documentary and photojournalism, especially related to the environment.
We are actively and always looking for feature picture stories and portfolios that deepen our understanding of the relationships between people, nature, and how we live on the planet. We also assign a small number of stories every year and generously use artwork of all types to illustrate written essays. Orion often acts as an advisor for galleries, events, and other organizations helping to connect artists we've worked with to other editors and curators, etc. who are seeking environmentally inspired visual arts.
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. Ms. Kinzelman is interested in reviewing innovative or interdisciplinary approaches to photography in addition to fine art landscape imagery. She is not interested in viewing socio-political, documentary, environmental, nude/glamour, or flower photography. She can advise and assist photographers with appropriate ways of presenting their portfolios and work for consideration by Corporate Consultants and Collectors. She can also advise on aesthetic considerations that may assist photographers with content, composition, concept, printing and presentation.
Bill Kouwenhoven, International Editor
Hot Shoe Magazine, London, England
www.hotshoeinternational.com
Bill Kouwenhoven is International Editor of HotShoe magazine. HotShoe is Europe's leading contemporary photographic magazine showcasing the best of established and up-and-coming photographic talent across a wide range of photographic genres. Its informative and incisive comment is complemented by extensive information on what is happening and what is new in the international world of contemporary photography.
In addition to working with HotShoe for the past three years, Mr. Kouwenhoven is a frequent contributor to numerous other contemporary photography journals in the United States, England and Europe including Afterimage, Aperture, British Journal of Photography, Foto 8, Photonews, Foto, European Photography, and Camera Austria. From 1996 to 2001 he was editor of the late but fondly remembered Photo Metro magazine of San Francisco. He lives and works in Berlin and New York.
He is especially interested in documentary and photojournalism oriented work as well as compelling work addressing contemporary issues whether abstract or concrete. He is not interested in commercial or fashion related work, but can always be persuaded by the quality and strength of vision expressed by the photographer in any genre.
He is looking for well-edited portfolios to include in the magazine to which he contributes or edits as well as for the purposes of nominating work for other photography festivals. Mr. Kouwenhoven brings an experience of over 15 years in photography and a thorough knowledge of contemporary practice, gallery tastes, and publishing.
Amanda Maddox, Assistant Curator of Photography and Media Arts
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
www.corcoran.org
Amanda Maddox joined the Corcoran Gallery of Art as assistant curator of photography and media arts in 2007. Prior to this appointment she interned in the curatorial department of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art [MASSMoCA] and assisted in photo conservation of the Walker Evans Archive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photographic exhibitions to which she has contributed include Chance Encounters: Photographs from the Collection of Norman Carr and Carolyn Kinder Carr, Regarding the Rural, and Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power.
Among her particular interests in photography are the relationship between image and text, the genre of documentary photography, and the interplay between private and public display. She looks forward to reviewing photographs that derive from personal experience and/or relate to the documentary tradition.
James E. Maloney
Private Collector, Houston, Texas
Mr. James E. Maloney has been an attorney and photography collector for more than 20 years. He 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.
Martin H. McNamara, Director
Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
www.gallery339.com
Martin McNamara is director and part owner of Gallery 339, Philadelphia's only art gallery devoted to photography. Mr. McNamara began developing the business five years ago, and the gallery opened with its first exhibition in April 2005. The focus of the gallery is contemporary photography, exhibiting a mix of local work as well as photography from around the world. The gallery began its program of exhibitions with a show of work by Korean photographer Bohnchang Koo and British photographer Edward Dimsdale. Recent exhibitions have included a survey of work by Tina Barney as well as the show "Philadelphia Masters", which presented some of the city's most influential artists of the past forty years. McNamara's interest in photography developed as a collector.
Mr. McNamara is not partial to one specific area of photography.
Joan Morgenstern
Independent Collector, Houston, Texas
Joan Morgenstern is a long time Houston collector of photography and has been involved in the fine arts community for many years. She is a past President of Houston Center for Photography. She is currently CoChair of the Art Committee for the Robert I. Kahn Gallery at Congregation Emanu El and she is a member of the Photography Accessions Committee at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
She is interested in many different types of photography and processes. She is also interested in work with Jewish subject matter.
Robert Morton, Agent, Editor and Consultant for Photography Books
Redding Ridge, Connecticut, USA
Robert Morton has worked in book publishing for more than four decades. He began specializing in illustrated books in 1961 when he initiated for Bantam Books a series of quality paperbacks with titles by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Werner Bischof among others. At Time-Life Books in the 1960s, he became editor of the Time-Life Library of Art, and in 1970 joined New York Graphic Society (a subsidiary of Time Inc. later called Bulfinch Press) as Editor-in-Chief. There, he introduced a number of photographic books including ones by Margaret Bourke-White, Elliott Erwitt, Peter Beard, and Ansel Adams. In 1976, Mr. Morton became Editor-in-Chief of Harry N. Abrams, Inc. later acting as Director of Special Projects for twenty-five years and publishing the work of photographers such as Edward Steichen, O. Winston Link, Richard Avedon and Andreas Feininger as well as younger artists such as Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher. He retired from daily work at Abrams in 1998 and for the following three years produced books for the company, including the major two-volume photographic book called African Ceremonies. He returned to New York City for a year in 2002-2003 as Editor-in-Chief, Books of the Aperture Foundation, where he worked on books by Mary Ellen Mark, Sylvia Plachy, Len Jenschel and Diane Cook, and Lynn Geeseman. He has taught courses and conducted seminars in photography book publishing at ICP and elsewhere and is presently a member of the photography committee of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, where he also curated a major photography exhibition. For the past four years Mr. Morton has worked as an agent for photographers, and a consultant on contracts and publishing procedures.
He is interested in seeing thematic bodies of work on a variety of subjects that may develop into books, and is not interested in purely abstract art. His long experience in book publishing can aid photographers in seeking publishers, making presentations, and negotiating contract terms.
Pippa Oldfield, Senior Programme Manager
Impressions Gallery, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
www.impressions-gallery.com
Pippa Oldfield joined Impressions, one of the UK's leading independent photography galleries, five years ago. Impressions Gallery has since relocated to an impressive new purpose-built city centre space with enhanced exhibition facilities. Ms. Oldfield manages and promotes an ambitious exhibition programme, which focuses on emerging practitioners and overlooked mid-career photographers. Recent curatorial projects include an international touring exhibition of work by Stefan Ruiz, and a collaborative exhibition of photography and video work from Colombia with The Photographers' Gallery, London. She has also edited and co-edited several publications. Prior to joining Impressions, Ms. Oldfield specialized in print sales, working at The Photographers' Gallery, Tom Blau Gallery and The Special Photographers Company, all in London.
Whilst she has a particular interest in photography and Latin America, she wants to see critically engaged work on any subject, with any approach, including video work. Given Impressions' remit, she is not interested in seeing purely commercial work or work for print sales.
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.
Michele M. Penhall, Ph.D., Curator, Prints and Photographs
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
unmartmuseum.unm.edu
The University Museum was founded in 1967 by Van Deren Coke and Clinton Adams. Michele Penhall has been Curator of Prints and Photographs since 2004. Ms. Penhall's field of expertise includes the History of Photography and the Graphic Arts. Her dissertation was on the Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi. In 1999 she received a grant from Earthwatch Institute and was the Principle Investigator on a three-year field research project to recover, digitize, and preserve early twentieth-century photographic archives in Arequipa and Cusco, Peru, and La Paz, Bolivia. She has written on the work of Betty Hahn, and is currently organizing a retrospective exhibition and monograph on the work of Patrick Nagatani.
Ms. Penhall is most interested in seeing portraits, landscape, architecture, non-silver, and large format. She is not interested in seeing diaristic work i.e. Nan Goldin etc.
Temple Smith Richardson, Director of Exhibitions
Umbrage Editions, Brooklyn, NY USA
www.umbragebooks.com
Temple S. Richardson is the Book Publisher and Packager at Umbrage Books. Prior to this position she was photo editor at Magnum; picture editor at Esquire; and a free-lance photo editor for publications and individuals.
Ms. Richardson is most interested in photojournalism and documentary photography. She is not interested in seeing conceptual work. She can offer photographers advice in how to edit, and help them find a direction or theme in their work.
Mark Sink, Director
Gallery Sink Consulting, Denver, Colorado
www.gallerysink.com
Mark Sink is a private art consultant. He represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. A recent project in construction now is RedLine, a downtown city block of new gallery and multimedia studio work spaces that will be granted to selected emerging and mid career artists. Mr. Sink is founder and director of MOP (Month of Photography) in Denver, coordinating all the regional galleries, museums and art spaces to show photography for the month of March.
Mark Sink is also an internationally recognized photographer who, for most of the 1980s, worked at Andy Warhol's Factory. Upon returning to Denver in 1991, Mr. Sink co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver and opened his own gallery space Gallery Sink. Gallery Sink has been showing a wide range of emerging talent many found from Fotofest, SPE and Photolucida, placing them with internationally recognized photographers. Photography exhibits culled and from Internet has been a ten-year passion with Mark. He achieved successful results working with web sites such as noknockroom.com, festivaloflight.net, thesight.com.
Mr. Sink is always on the search for unique talent for his many ongoing curatorial projects and collection placements. He is looking for work that has craft, completed thought, in series and is ready for presentation in a professional gallery or museum setting.
Charles Stainback, William & Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
www.norton.org
Charles A. Stainback is the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach Florida. From 1997 until 2004 he was the Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Professor of Liberal Studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Opened in 2000, the Tang Museum quickly came to national prominence for its innovative programming which included its inaugural exhibition S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds and From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection. From 1985 to 1997 Stainback served as Director of Exhibitions for the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City. At ICP he oversaw the exhibitions for both of ICP's Manhattan venues, curating a number of critically successful exhibitions including a mid career survey of the work of Vik Muniz, "Seeing is Believing" and David Levinthal's, "Work from 1975 to 1996". Over the last two decades Stainback has published several books in conjunction with exhibitions he has organized.
Mr. Stainback is most interested in seeing contemporary, non-traditional work.
Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator of Photography
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
www.mfah.org
Anne Wilkes Tucker received undergraduate degrees from Randolph Macon Woman's College and Rochester Institute of Technology and a graduate degree from the Visual Studies Workshop, a division of the State University of New York. After working in various museums and universities, she joined The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1976 and is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator. She founded the museum's Photography Department that now has a collection of over 22,000 photographs. She has curated over forty exhibitions, most of which were accompanied by a publication. She has contributed essays to monographs and catalogues and published many articles. She has lectured throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America and been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and The Getty Center. In 2001, in an issue devoted to "America's Best", TIME magazine honored her as "America's Best Curator". She was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Focus Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography in 2006.
Herman van den Boom, Director
HEXGALLERIES, Heks Belgium
www.hexgalleries.org
Hexgalleries is an international exhibition space and meeting place.
It is located in Belgium close to the German and Dutch border which helps attract a professional international audience. Herman van den Boom is an artist/photographer who has curated numerous exhibitions. He curated the very first show of German photographer, Thomas Demand, and curated shows by Noritoshi Hirakawa and Wolfgang Zurborn, among others. Herman van den Boom is most interested in reviewing creative photography. He does not wish to review commercial works. He can present artists to a professional audience of curators especially within Belgium.
Irina Tchmyreva, Ph.D., Independent Curator
Moscow, Russia
www.photographer.ru,
www.counterform.ru
For the last five years, Irina Tchmyreva was the senior researcher and curator at the Photo and Multimedia Projects Department in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Prior to that, she worked for the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in the department for Photography Projects and Collections of the State Center for Museums and Exhibitions ROSIZO. She is co-founder and editor of www.photographer.ru. Ms. Tchmyreva is the Russian member of several editorial boards, in magazines such as "European Photography", Germany; "Imago", Slovakia; "Fotografia Kwartalnik", Poland. In 2007 she was a guest editor of Ojo de Pez, documentary photography magazine from Spain. She has curated more than 50 exhibitions of old and contemporary Russian photography.
Ms. Tchmyreva is interested in reviewing work made with old photo techniques, personal themes, self-portraits, experiments with new technology, and new documentary photography. She can assist photographers in getting their work published in a portfolio or article in an International photo magazine, or in a web-magazine. She can give advice on how to organize a portfolio, and on strategy.
Finn Thrane, Independent Curator, Artistic Advisor
PhotoMondo Internet Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark
www.photomondo.dk
PhotoMondo is an idealistic, non-commercial network of selected photographers from Denmark who exhibit photography on the Internet. PhotoMondo's mission is to gather professional photographers to exhibit quality photography on the Internet. A further aim is to forge contacts between the artists and the public - and in the longer term also crucial contacts between the photographers and the market: the people who buy pictures. It started out in 2006 and from his entrance in 2007 Finn Thrane has been the artistic advisor and is currently curating the first Guest Exhibition for a group of foreign photographers.
Finn Thrane is a self-taught photographer and artist in the field of photography and worked for about 15 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 was the founding director of Museet for Fotokunst (The Museum of Photographic Arts) in Odense, Denmark, 1985, and has curated more than 200 exhibitions for his own institution as well as for museums in Scandinavia and for festivals in Spain, France, the Baltic countries, Slovakia and the USA. He has written numerous articles for Danish and foreign monographs, and founded and co-edited the bilingual photo-magazine KATALOG from 1988-2007. In 2000 Mr. Thrane initiated the international festival of photography, the ODENSE FOTO TRIENNALE, which is currently planning its 4th version in 2009.
Finn Thrane retired as active museum director in September, 2007, but continues as a freelance curator and artistic advisor for the Internet Gallery, PhotoMondo, along with his own life as an independent photographic artist. He is interested in seeing all kinds of artistic photography/ photo-based art, both thoughtful photojournalism and experimental conceptual photography, but prefers to avoid any kind of commercial photography.
Clint Willour, Curator
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
www.galvestonartscenter.org
Clint Willour has been curator of the Galveston Arts Center for the past seventeen years and has been an art professional for thirty-five years. He is active on boards of numerous arts organizations in Texas and has served as a juror for over sixty competitions in his career. Mr. Willour curates 24 exhibitions per year in Galveston, and serves regularly as a guest curator for institutions throughout the state of Texas and beyond. 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 their Programming Committee, Chair of the Photography Accessions Sub-committee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a member of the Art Board of FotoFest, Houston, board member of Photo Forum at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has been a Meeting Place reviewer at every FotoFest, Houston, (and Beijing, China) as well as reviewing portfolios for the Houston Center for Photography; the Texas Photographic Society; Photo Americas in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Photolucida in Portland, Oregon; Critical Mass, Portland, Oregon; Review Santa Fe, New Mexico; Photo NOLA, in New Orleans; Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Quebec; Les Rencontres d'Arles, France; Photo Primavera in Barcelona, Spain and the Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mr. Willour does not wish to review commercial work or work he has reviewed previously.
Laura Wyss, President/Photo Researcher
Wyssphoto, Inc. New York, NY
Laurawyss.com
Laura Wyss is the president of Wyssphoto, Inc. a photo research company specializing in book covers. She has over ten years experience in procuring artwork from domestic and international museums, artists, photographers, and stock agencies. Most of the photo research is for book covers of a wide range of trade and mass market titles, covering diverse subjects in fiction and nonfiction. Her clients include Grand Central Publishing, Little Brown, St. Martin's Press, Simon and Schuster, Random House, Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Penguin Book Group.
She is most interested in creative work that tells a story and work that may be appropriate for book covers. She is not interested in street photography or abstract work.
I can give them the opportunity to submit work for book covers. I work on 500-600 covers a year, and try to make matches with individual photographers as much as possible.
Madeline Yale, Executive Director & Curator
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
www.hcponline.org
Madeline Yale is Houston Center for Photography's Executive Director and Curator. HCP's mission is to increase society's understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture. Founded in 1981, HCP strives to encourage artists, build audiences, stimulate dialogue, and promote inquiry about photography and related media through education, exhibitions, publications, fellowship programs, and community collaboration. Recent exhibition projects include Txt Me L8r, a celebration of mobile technology in partnership with Aurora Picture Show, and Reality Interrupted, featuring the work of the Sanchez Brothers. On view during FOTOFEST2008 at HCP is Jeff Liao's Habitat 7 and Susan Meiselas' project Mined in China. Ms. Yale also serves on the editorial board of SPOT magazine, a biannual publication that includes portfolios, exhibition and book reviews, and articles on contemporary photography. Prior to joining HCP, she managed the photographic estate of Todd Webb (1905-2000), served as a photographic archivist, and organized exhibitions on photography and contemporary art in the US and Europe.
Ms. Yale is open to view a broad of photography. She is specifically interested in work that fits into one or several of the following contexts: artist as performer, humans' relationship to the environment, group dynamics, and cultural ethos and identity. She does not want to see work that she has previously reviewed.
Del Zogg
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX, USA
www.mfah.org
Del Zogg has held the position of Manager of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Works on Paper Study Center since 2002. Prior to that he was employed (1981-2002) at the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film in Rochester, NY. He holds a bachelor's degree in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master's degree from Syracuse University. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of several major museums.
Mr. Zogg has participated in portfolio reviews for FotoFest, the Houston Center for Photography, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, and Photo Lucida. He has curated several exhibitions at both Eastman House and MFAH, and recently taught The Big Picture: An Illustrated History of Photography for Rice University's Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. He is also scheduled to teach a photographic history workshop during the summer of 2008 for the Alfred C. Glassell School of Art of the MFAH.
Mr. Zogg is most interested in work that shows a mature vision no matter what the age of the artist. Antique or alternative photographic processes are of interest as are traditional imaging processes. Large format inkjet color images or digitally manipulated images are not of interest.
