Recent Tips and Art Resources Column (plus archives) on RedDogJournal.com

I recently wrote another column at RedDogJournal.com that I thought might be of interest. I generally write a column for their site every other week. In it I often offer printing tips and techniques, and other areas I highlight include: photo-related events; learning resources; exhibitions; talks and photo contests. For example, a tip from my most recent column is titled: Quick Printing Tip: How to Place Images Perfectly Every Time.

The most recent column can be found here:
https://reddogjournal.com/darlow-27.php

Also, by changing the number above from 27 to a lower number (1 to 26) like this:
https://reddogjournal.com/darlow-26.php you can find all 27 of the columns I’ve written over the last year and a half.

And if you’d like to receive the newsletter portion related to fine-art photography (those news items are not available at this time online-only through the newsletter), you can sign up here for free (I highly recommend it):
https://reddogjournal.com/join.php

Queens Visitors Center (NYC) Launches Second Exhibit – opening 12/5/2009

Just a few days ago I was in Queens, NY to visit a company, and I was so impressed by the neighborhoods I drove through. Just a few minutes out of Manhattan, it was very quiet, and felt a lot like so many suburbs you might find around the US. I just noticed this press release from a Queens-based photographer, and wanted to share it. It looks like a great event.

Queens Economic Development Corporation invites you to the launch of ThisIsOurQueens by photographer Michelle Kawka at the Queens Visitors Center at the Queens Center Mall on Saturday Dec 5 from 12 noon to 3pm. The Queens Visitors Center is located at the Queens Center mall (ground floor) at 90-15 Queens Blvd, Elmhurst, NY 11373 right across from the Applebees.

Photographer Michelle Kawka will be taking photos of participants in front of the wall size map of Queens.

Point out your neighborhood and Smile!

ThisIsOurQueens is a project that highlights the diversity of New York City’s borough of Queens.  Queens County, New York is a borough of over 2.2 million people.  It is the most ethnically diverse county in the world. Forty-six percent of the population is foreign born and over 138 languages are spoken throughout the borough. Showing a series of 200 portraits, ThisIsOurQueens depicts the lives of the people who live and work in her neighborhood, Queens, New York. This Is Our Queens was named one of the best projects of 2009 by the American Society of Media Photographers.

Michelle Kawka is an award winning, internationally exhibited New York-based photographer specializing in portraiture, lifestyle, corporate, fashion, travel, public relations and architectural work for a wide variety of advertising and editorial clients. Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, the City Hall of the 9th Arrondissement, Paris France, the Queens Hospital Center, The Langston Hughes Cultural Center & Library, the Gallery of Social and Political Art in Boston, the New England School of Photography & the Art-o-Mat in Long Island City, NY.

Upcoming Events in NYC In Association with Aperture.org

I was just sent an e-mail from Aperture.org (publisher of Aperture magazine and many outstanding books), so I thought I’d share these upcoming events (most if not all are free to attend). The Projected Image panel discussion looks particularly interesting because it’s amazing how the scale of an image, as well as the medium (think Times Square with its colossal images), can impact the viewer. There’s nothing like sitting in a darkened room with large images projected as a photographer or other artist speaks about his or her work.

Speaking from experience, if you have a chance to see great photographers like Joel Meyerowitz or Jay Maisel show and speak about their work in a location with high quality projection equipment, I think you’ll be speechless. I know I was.

Below are links to the events:
Events with Joel Meyerowitz
https://www.aperture.org/events/keywords.php?id=legacy
and
The Projected Image
https://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=613

I recently wrote about Joel Meyerowitz’s outstanding new books and exhibition at the Museum of the City of NY here:
https://reddogjournal.com/darlow-22.php

There are other events, including a holiday sale happening in December at Aperture. Check Aperture.org for more info.