Last Day to Enter Street Photography Show at The Center for Fine Art Photography

In my first post of the New Year, I’d like to wish all of our readers a happy and healthy 2008 and beyond. I’ll be back in full-force soon with some new podcasts, tips, a newsletter and more. If you’ve visited imagingbuffet.com lately, you may have noticed a little widget on the right side of the site which has upcoming calls for entry from The Center for Fine Art Photography.

The Center for Fine Art Photography’s Street Photography Show call for entries deadline is today (1/16/2008 – it was extended one day). The show’s Juror is Michelle Dunn Marsh, Deputy Director of Aperture Foundation.

In addition to being invited to have work exhibited at The Center’s new and expanded location, a list of other awards for winning entries can be found on the show’s call for entry page.

I am a member of The Center For Fine Art Photography’s Ambassador’s Circle, which is a group of volunteers who help to share information about events and calls for entry. I also recently was honored to be the juror for a show that will be opening at The Center in the beginning of February entitled, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” I highly recommend visiting the site when the show is posted, or better yet, in person at the new gallery. I was extremely impressed by the entries that were submitted by photographers from around the world.

Entries are due by 11:59PM Mountain Standard Time (MST) on Wednesday 1/16/2008, and are accepted via The Center’s website. For more info, here is a direct link to the Street Photography show’s call for entry page.

All the best!

Andrew

Stephen Johnson to give free lecture at the School of Visual Arts NYC 12/4/2007

The Master of Professional Studies Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts is hosting its first open to the public lecture on December 4, 2007 with renowned photographer, author, and educator Stephen Johnson. The lecture begins at 7:00 PM at the SVA Amphitheater, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor. The talk is sponsored by Canon’s Explorer of Light Program and is free and open to the public.

Before the lecture, the winners of the 2007 Real World Color Management Equipment Scholarship will be announced, and their winning prints will be shown. The scholarship is available to students enrolled in the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Photography program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). The scholarship is sponsored by Epson America and MPS faculty member and co-author of Real World Color Management, Chris Murphy. I’m also very honored to have been asked to judge the competition.

The lecture explores the state of digital photography today, from being a photographer in the 21st century, to cutting edge cameras and software techniques, to engaging discourse on the history and future of digital photography. Stephen Johnson has developed and spurred-on cutting-edge techniques for producing and reproducing images of the highest quality. This lecture is firmly based in his core belief that photography is fundamentally a light capture medium, rather than a pixel manipulation party.

Using his new book with O’Reilly Media: Stephen Johnson: On Digital Photography as his organizational structure for the talk, topics will include: making art, empowerment, ethics in the digital age, and some aspects of the digital darkroom. His lectures include very high quality digital image examples with which he can hone in on “uniquely digital” techniques and fundamental breakthroughs in photography that digital improvements have provided but which many have yet to realize. The talk includes a history of electronic imaging and details the transformation of the darkroom to the computer taking us all way up to the future trends in digital photography.

Stephen’s book and posters will also be available for sale and signing. I’ve had a number of opportunities to see Stephen Johnson’s pigment-based inkjet prints “up-close and personal” over the years and they are spectacular.

I look forward to seeing some of our readers there!

For more information about Stephen Johnson, visit his website here. For more information about this lecture, visit this page on SVA’s website, and for more information about the MPS in Digital Photography Program at SVA, visit this page.

Links to books mentioned in article on Amazon.com:

Stephen Johnson: On Digital Photography
Real World Color Management by Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy and Fred Bunting

The Center for Fine Art Photography Portfolio Show-Last day to enter 11/20/2007

About a week ago, I had the honor of being the juror for a show at The Center for Fine Art Photography. The experience was fantastic, and many of the images are still etched firmly in my mind. The Center for Fine Art Photography currently has a different type of show (The Portfolio Exhibition) that is accepting entries until 11:59PM MST (Mountain Standard Time) 11/20/2007.

Twelve photographers will be chosen to display their eight-image portfolio in The Center for Fine Art Photography’s gallery. The Portfolio Exhibition will be January 4 – 19, 2008 and the opening and public reception is Friday, January 4, during the Fort Collins Gallery Walk. The exhibition will also appear on the Center’s online gallery for the next two years.

For more info, visit The Center for Fine Art Photography.