Photo Exhibition at A Work of Art Gallery

Satyrs by Thom Bennett

A Work of Art gallery invites you to join us as we celebrate the opening of our new exhibition featuring all local photographers from the New Orleans Photo Alliance.

Iris by Patricia Sills

Members exhibiting their finest work include: Cile Bailey, Thom Bennett, Patricia “Muffin” Sills Bernstein, Mia Black, Ze daLuz, Paulo “Steven” Diniz, George A. Dupre, Najja Faluke, Bruce Keys, Michelle O'Reagan, Michelle Aline Pujols, Gary Michael Smith, Michelle “Misha” Wuttke

Saturday, February 28, 6:00PM

A Work of Art
8212 Oak Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-862-5244

Crinolines by Ze daLuz

Michelle Wuttke

Morning in Audubon by Gary Smith

Call for Entries: Works of Man

Theme: The drive to create is a strong one in humanity. Whether it is massive structures like the Pyramids or the Eiffel Tower, or the tiniest computer chip, humankind has always been driven to leave its mark on the planet. The Works of Man is an opportunity for artists to chronicle the indelible mark that has been made by these creations. With The Works of Man, The center for Fine Art Photography seeks to chronicle the drive to build, destroy, manufacture and dismantle, that resides in all of us. Images from the tallest building to the smallest child’s toy, the newest electric gadget to the oldest tool from the earliest people, truly anything created by the minds and hands of humanity will be considered for the show.

Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Juror: Chris Jordan: Former corporate attorney turned photographic artist, Chris Jordan is best known for his large scale works depicting consumerism in the United States. Jordan’s 2005 book In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster is a powerful display of his artistry. In October 2007 Chris appeared on the Steven Colbert Report to discuss his body of work, Running the Numbers. Most recently Chris was chosen by National Geographic Channels International to serve as their Eco-ambassador for Earth Day, 2008. His work, while often unsettling, is a bold message about unconscious behaviors in our everyday lives, leaving it to the viewer to draw conclusions about the inevitable consequences which will arise from our habits. To see Jordan’s photography and learn more about his creative vision, visit ChrisJordan.com.

Important Dates
• Entries due: April 9, 2009
• Notice of acceptance: April 20, 2009
• Exhibition dates: June 26 – July 25, 2009
• Public and Artists’ Reception during the Fort Collins Gallery Walk: July 3, 2009

Exhibition and Awards:
With selection for this exhibition, through the Center’s many media, artists and their work will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and others who appreciate and acquire fine art of photography.
• Juror’s Selection award: $300
• Director's Selection award: $200
• Gallery Visitor’s Choice Award: $100
• Two one-year subscriptions, valued at $120 each for the Artists’ ShowCase Online – the Center’s online image marketing website (preview at www.artists-showcase.org)
• All exhibitors are included in the Center's online gallery for two years

Call for Entries: CFAP Portfolio ShowCase Volume 3

Call for Entries
Portfolio ShowCase Volume 3: Book and Online Exhibition
Deadline: April 28, 2009

Fifteen photographers will be chosen to display their twelve-image portfolio in The Center for Fine Art Photography’s Portfolio ShowCase Volume 3: Book and Online Exhibition. The show will be featured on the Center’s web site at www.c4fap.org from June 1 – June 30, 2009 and will remain online for the next two years. The Center is pleased to provide artists with an economical means of having their work reviewed by an international juror and exhibited with no printing, framing or shipping costs involved.

Theme: Open - There is no theme for this exhibition. The images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work, rather than individual images.

The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in this exhibition. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome. The exhibition is open world wide to all professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

Juror: Stella Kramer

Awards:
This exhibition provides opportunities for artists to be published, and present their work to an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and others who appreciate photography.

For more information see the CFAP website: http://www.c4fap.org/cfe/2009portfolio3/port3.asp


Entry Fee
• The entry fee for this call for entry is $65.00 for Members and $85.00 for Non-Members for the first body of work (12 images). Each additional portfolio, regardless of membership, is $85.00
• Membership is not required to submit work. Photographer’s becoming a member when registering for the show will receive the member discounted entry fee. The annual Membership dues are $57.00

WPD Creative Wedding Photography Contest

2008 Grand Prize Winner "Jumping into the Future" by Sergey Bidun








2009 Annual Wedding Photography Contest

The Wedding Photography Directory (WPD) 2009 Annual Professional Creative Wedding Photography Contest is open to WPD members and outside professional wedding photographers. Contest finalists will be revealed to the public for voting and critique. The winners will be determined by voters. Points will be judged leaned torwards creativity and concept. Prizes include $1,000 cash, Photoshop CS4, an external hard drive, and WPD Memberships.

Submission is open for 2 more weeks, until 3/15/2009.

WPD is offering a special discounted $10 entry fee for New Orleans Photo Alliance members, and all proceeds from these entries will be donated to the Alliance. To take advantage of this discount enter Promotion Code: LKHDM

Read the 2009 Annual Wedding Photography Contest rules and submission guidelines here.

Desire & Friday Night at The Palace Reviewed in Gambit

Jackie Brenner











FEBRUARY 21, 2009
Friday Night at the Palace and Desire

BY D. ERIC BOOKHARDT


Near the intersection of St. Mary Street and Sophie Wright Place are two of Uptown's main photographic venues, the Darkroom and the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery. Both feature similarly obsessive and shadowy subject matter: pool halls and desire. Jackie Brenner's Friday Night at the Palace pool-hall series hints at her better-known stripper studies. Featuring stark, black-and-white views executed in a style somewhere between film noir and social work, it suggests how gracefully dancer-like pool players can be. But where her strippers' inner lives were revealed in close-ups of personal detail, here the pool-player psyche appears in the facial expressions and body language of competitors armed with pool cues. So we are left with a sense of the game as chess for contortionists, as we see in an image of a player attempting a tricky shot with a cue behind his back (pictured).

Woman With Fox At Kent by Catherine Gomersall

  Desire, at the Photo Alliance, can seem a little oblique at first, but that may have to do with curator Mayumi Lake's own proclivities as a photographer of quirky eroticism. The show runs the gamut from subtle to blatant, with the former including such ambiguities as Steffanie Halley's shot of a pretty redheaded girl sporting what may be a love hickey, or just a brush burn on her neck. Tones of pink and green run rampant through more glaring works articulating erotic quirks with John Waters-like abandon. Some of the most interesting images feature a sort of blatant ambiguity: Andrea Caldwell's cute girl sipping wine as the Iraq war unwinds on TV, or Catherine Gommersall's photo of a young woman having a meaningful relationship with a stuffed fox in a room that might make Waters green with envy.

FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE PALACE: Pool Hall Photographs by Jackie Brenner

Through March 7

The Darkroom, 1927 Sophie Wright Place, 522-3211; www.neworleansdarkroom.com

DESIRE: Group Exhibition of Photographs Curated by Mayumi Lake

Through March 21

New Orleans Photo Alliance, 1111 St. Mary St., 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance.org

Note: The New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery is now open on Sundays too!!
You can view the current exhibition Fridays 3-6, Saturdays 12-4 and Sundays 12-4.

Call for Entries: FEASTival Exhibition at Jazz Fest

FEASTival! ~ Forty Years at the Jazz Fest Table

For 40 Years, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell has prided itself on a world renowned menu steeped in the culinary heritage of Louisiana and its numerous cultural influences. We are seeking photographs that capture the joy and revelry that can only come from dining
at Jazz Fest. Our preference is for unusual and interesting photographs (not just a snapshot of a sandwich or plate of food) which convey that a
Jazz Fest experience is not complete until you've had something to eat.

Photographers are invited to submit images for consideration for this annual Jazz Fest Photography Exhibition. Images taken at Jazz Fest over the years
will be considered.

Photographers may submit up to six images. These may be in the form of actual photographs or CD and delivered by Friday, March 20 between 10 am & 5 pm to the Foundation office at 1205 N. Rampart St., corner of Gov.
Nicholls.

Those who prefer to submit electronically may send by Friday, March 20 an email including name, address and phone number to gallery@nojhf.org and up to 6 images in low resolution jpg files maximum 72 dpi, approximate size: 5"x7". Photographers will be notified by Monday March 30.

Accepted work must be framed, ready to hang and delivered to 1205 N. Rampart on Friday, April 17, between 10 am & 5 pm. The exhibition will open on Friday, April 24 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell.


Don Marshall
1205 North Rampart St.
New Orleans, LA 70116
Telephone: (504)-558-6123

Photo Attorney

An interesting site sent by member Jef Jaisun

Check it out:

http://www.photoattorney.com/

Photo Gumbo 2009 Convention, April 2-4

The Greater New Orleans Photographic Society in conjunction with the Gulf States Camera Club Council invites you to the

Photo Gumbo 2009 Convention

April 2-4

Please visit the web site at
www.PhotoGumbo2009.com
or
email @ PhotoGumbo20009@cox.net

Sylvia Plachy Workshop at The Darkroom, June 5th & 6th

Sequencing a Photo Essay:
workshop with Sylvia Plachy June 5th & 6th

Sylvia Plachy, the juror for our June exhibition, "Forever Hold You Peace," will be teaching a Sequencing a Photo Essay workshop on Friday and Saturday June 5th and 6th 2009 at The Darkroom Workshops in New Orleans.

This is an intensive editing class for those who want to use photographs to tell a story, be it a personal journey or professional assignment leading to a photo essay for a book, magazine, or publication.

A complete description is available on the website at neworleansworkshops.com

Price : $350 tax included ($300 for members of the New Orleans Photo Alliance).

To register call 504.522.3211 with credit card information to make a $100 deposit.

Call or Entries: Paraphrase

The Darkroom Gallery is delighted to announce a call for entries for the group photography show Paraphrase. The object of the exhibition is to allow artists to revisit classical or iconographic photographs by offering their own interpretation of the theme or subject. The opening will take place during Art for Art's Sake 2009 event, at the peak of New Orleans' cultural season.

We invite you to submit up to 10 photographs paraphrasing, spoofing, knocking off, or plagiarizing icons of photography for consideration in our Fall 2009 exhibition.

Juror: John H. Lawrence is the director of museum programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection where he is responsible for planning exhibitions and other aspects of public programming.

Complete instructions are posted on The Darkroom website.

Eligibility: Open to all photographers using any printing process on any media.

Entry fee: $25

Fri 08/22 Submission deadline
Mon 08/27 Artists are notified of the status of their entry
Sat 09/26 Last day to turn in framed artwork
Sat 10/04 Opening reception, 6-9PM

Gallery Volunteers Needed!

Since we are a volunteer-run organization, we rely on the help of members like you to keep our gallery doors open.

Will you consider donating a few hours to "gallery-sit" this month?

Here are the available days & times:

• Sunday February 22 from 12-4 (this Sunday!)

• Saturday March 7 from 12-4

• Sunday March 15 from 12-4

• Friday March 20 from 3-6

• Saturday March 21 from 12-4

We can also split the shifts on the weekends into two-hour slots (12-2 and 2-4) if that is more convenient.

Please let me know if you'd like to volunteer- thanks!

Michelle Wuttke
New Orleans Photo Alliance
Gallery Director
redbeansandrice@mac.com

Solidair Gallery: Portraits of American Heritage

Solidair Gallery Show: Portraits of American Heritage

New Orleans, Louisiana - February 20th, 2009 - In celebration of Black History Month Solidair Gallery will be hosting
a month-long showing of collected works featuring African-American artists.

Opening at 6 P.M. to run until 9 P.M.

Show to include: rare vintage photographs from the Solidair collection

Solidair Gallery, at 4223 St. Claude Ave, rides the cusp between the historic Bywater and Ninth Ward neighborhoods on the
burgeoning arts district of the St. Claude strip, between France and Poland streets bordering the Industrial Canal.
A proud associate of Prospect 1.

General Gallery Hours: by appointment only

Contact:
Steve Soltis
solidairgallery@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/solidairgallery
4223 St. Claude Ave,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70117
Ph: 504-324-1123
cell: 312-504-8950

PhotoNOLA Photo-Eye Photographer's Showcase Award Winners

Susana Raab, Tofu-dog, Playboy Playmate, PETA protest, Washington, DC, 2004
From Consumed

Two photographers who participated in the 2008 PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review were were recently awarded Photographer's Showcases on photo-eye.

Congratulations to Sarah Wilson and Susana Raab!

The Photographer's Showcase -- photo-eye's Juried Online Exhibition Space

Applications accepted year round. Find more information including how to apply here.

photo-eye Gallery
376-A Garcia Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Ph: 505.988.5152 (x119)
Fax: 505.988.4487

Billy Sheahan blog posts

Check out what Billy Sheahan, one of the artists in the DESIRE exhibit, has to say about his experiences here in New Orleans. Come back anytime Billy! His posts about New Orleans begin on 07/09.

http://billysheahan.com/blog/

Desire Opening

Thanks to featured artist Billy Sheahan for these images from the opening of "Desire" last Saturday!

GRANTS COMMITTEE INAUGURAL MEETING

The first meeting for the New Orleans Photo Alliance Grants Committee will be

Monday, February 16th
6:30pm
NOPA Gallery, 1111 St. Mary Street.

The main task of the NOPA Grants Committee will be to plan and facilitate the Michael P. Smith Grant for Documentary Photography. The annual grant will award one $5000 grant to a Gulf Coast photographer working on a sustained documentary project.

We need your ideas and time to help with this project. The Michael P. Smith Grant for Documentary Photography will become one of the lasting legacies of our collective.

If you have any questions, contact Lori Waselchuk at lori@loriwaselchukphotos.com

Programming Committee Meeting

The Programming Committee will meet Tuesday, February 17, 7:00 p.m. at the NOPA Gallery, 1111 St. Mary St.

The Programming Committee is responsible for developing
exhibitions, educational events, public forums, and exchange
programs with other similar institutions.

Two items need our immediate attention: the April/May time slot and Six Shooters. The April/May exhibit will be a member’s only Push Pin show and we need to work out the details. Six Shooters is planned for March 18 and we need to put together a team to manage our end of that event.

Looking forward: Our first Film Night will most likely be in June; we need a team to plan and implement that. The Aug/Sep exhibit needs to be planned; the overarching theme is “summer heat” so we need to take that and shape it into a very interesting exhibit. We will form a subcommittee which will define the theme further, write the call to artists, secure a juror, and work with the gallery on hanging the show. There is no better way to get to know your fellow NOPA members than working on an exhibit together. Lots of fun!

As always, new ideas for NOPA Programming are always welcome. If you are unable to attend and want your ideas heard please email me @ thomnola@yahoo.com. I will present them for you.

Remember, your voice is the voice of the Photo Alliance so come and be heard. We have a lot to do and it doesn’t get done without you! Look forward to seeing you there. There will be pizza; BYOB.

Thom Bennett
VP of Programming

Funding for Documentary Photographers

Funding for Documentary Photographers
Deadline June 19, 2009

The Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project is offering a grant to documentary photographers who have already completed a significant body of work on issues of social justice to collaborate with a partner organization and propose new ways of using photography as a tool for positive social change.

All photographers must have another entity (such as a nonprofit, NGO, or community-based organization) that will work with the photographer to design an innovative distribution strategy that targets specific communities and advocates for social change.

To be eligible for support, proposals must: present strong images that are contextualized, when necessary, with text, sound, or other media; address a current social justice issue (preference will be given to work that coincides with the issues and geographical areas that concern OSI); and engage a specific audience, community, and/or site and use creative distribution strategies that are tailored specifically for that context. Applicants must partner with an organization that will provide administrative, programmatic, and financial and/or in-kind support.

Grants of $5,000 to $30,000 each will be awarded.

For more information, please visit http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/focus_areas/distribution/guidelines

(This is forwarded from the Arts Council of New Orleans)

Exhibition Opportunity

Exhibition opportunity: NOPA members are invited to submit their work to be displayed at New Orleans’ newest fine art gallery, A Work of Art. The exhibit opens Saturday, February 28, 2009, 6-10 p.m. The gallery is located at 8212 Oak Street in the Riverbend neighborhood. Check http://aworkofartnola.blogspot.com/ for upcoming details. If you are interested in displaying, contact our newest member Gary Michael Smith at gms@garymichaelsmith.com for details. As with any gallery installation space will be limited so be sure you can have your work framed and ready for display by 2/28/09. Work will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Image Request: Pearlington, MS

Building Goodness Foundation seeks pre-Katrina photos of Pearlington, Mississippi. We are a volunteer group based out of Charlottesville, VA, who has had a committed, ongoing relationship with this small Gulf Coast community. Our volunteers built 140 shelters immediately after the storm and are close to completing a 6000 sq. ft. community center for the residents. We have lots of photos to tell the story since the storm but are looking for pre-hurricane photos of the area. Any help or leads would be appreciated! Contact Melissa at mronayne@buildinggoodness.org or 434.973.0993. www.buildinggoodness.org

PHOTOGRAPHER'S ASSISTANT AVAILABLE

Hello my name is Mia Black. I am a New Orleans-based photographer and I am available full or part-time to work as a photographer's assistant. My previous experience includes working in a gallery, and working as an assistant to a travel photographer based in Manhattan. Applicable skills include: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, web design (in HTML code and Java), printing images, matting and framing, basic studio lighting.

Some of my work can be seen at: www.miablackart.com and my resume is available upon request. Please feel free to contact me by email at miablackart@gmail.com or cell phone at (202) 607-3056.

Carnival at Homespace, Opening Feb 14

Bryce Lankard

Carnival
at Homespace
1128 St Roch
Saturday, Feb. 14th
6pm -9pm
917.584.9867
saintroch@hotmail.com

David Halliday

Photographs by:

David Halliday
Jennifer Shaw
Louviere & Vanessa
George Long
Kevin Kline
Richard Sexton
Jennifer Sampson
Wallace Merritt
Bryce Lankard
Craig Mammano
Rick Oliver
Charles Latham
Kevin Kline

Job Opportunity

I am looking for some one looking for someone to help out with my business 12 hours per week. Duties include: stretching canvas, matting photos, and digital printing. No experience needed, but must be handy with using basic tools. $7.50 per hour starting with opportunity for increase after one month. Good opportunity to learn the digital printing business!

Please contact me if your interested.
Alan Zakem
(504)220-7756
Alan@ZakemArt.com

DESIRE Opening Feb 7, Juror's Talk Feb 8

"amateur(to pursue for love)" by Steffanie Halley

New Orleans Photo Alliance Presents: DESIRE

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is pleased to present "DESIRE," a photographic group exhibition juried by Mayumi Lake. In curating this exhibition from a wide range of international entries, Lake, who is renown for her own work on the subject of illicit desires, chose 29 images that speak to the layered aspects of desire in a variety of ways.

Desire is an eager wish to possess or enjoy. Its objects range from the pious to the sensuous to the mundane. Desire is, by its nature, unsustainable. Desire is fleeting, but images last forever.

"DESIRE" will be on view from Feb. 7 through Mar. 21, 2009 at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, 1111 St. Mary St. New Orleans, LA 70130. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, Feb 7, from 6-9pm.
Ms. Lake will present a Juror's Talk on Sunday Feb. 8 at 7pm. A preview of the exhibition can be seen online here.

"Desire drives us in every aspect of our lives. How can this desire be transformed into a photographic image? Upon selecting images for the show, I emphasized images that could trigger various emotional reactions in the viewers' minds: Attraction, longing, libido, fear, remorse, surprise, passion, obsession and pleasure. Every image in the show holds multiple layers of narrative, either extreme or subtle, and invites viewers to add additional layers of their imaginations." - Mayumi Lake


FEATURED ARTISTS:

Steffanie Halley
Kate and Camilla Inc.
Stewart Harvey
Michal Sosna
Martyn Thompson
Leslie Harris
Timothy Sheaffer
Shawn Escoffery
Catherine Gomersall
Phoebe Brown
Matthew Gamber
Kevin Kline
Bryce Lankard
Mimi Ko
Trix Rosen
Andrea Caldwell
Fred Scruton
Billy Sheahan

"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied and most men live only for the gratification of it." - Aristotle

Stan Strembicki at LeMieux

"Zulu Parade, 1994", pigmented ink on archival paper

Stan Strembicki: "View From the Street"

Join us for a reception wtih the artist

Saturday, February 7th 6-8 p.m.

On view Through February 28, 2009

LeMieux Galleries
332 Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-522-5988

"Stan Strembicki's photographs give us Mardi Gras at street level-perhaps the most authentic way to experience the event".-John Lawrence, Director of Programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection

"Open Studio" Christopher Porche West

"Open Studio" Christopher Porche West
"Add some culture darlin' and stir the pot prior to the parade.."

Open Studio at the Bywater Studio of artist Christopher Porche West. Come downtown early and enjoy a leisurely viewing of his work prior to the first Parade: Krewe de View. Pot Luck- Bring your bottle, we'll discard the empty! Burgundy at Louisa Streets.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

12:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
3201 Burgundy Street
New Orleans, LA 70117

5049473880

porchewest@earthlink.net

Call for Entries: The Mind's Eye

Theme: The camera is the photographer’s medium to express his observations and interactions in response to the world, in which he lives, in the way he wishes to portray it. The images selected for this exhibition will provide viewers with exciting opportunities to see what is reflected from the eye of the photographer. There are no subject restrictions for this exhibition.

Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Juror: Christopher Rauschenberg

Important Dates

Entries due: February 17, 2009
Notice of acceptance: March 9, 2009
Exhibition dates: May 29 – June 20, 2009
Public and Artists’ Reception during the Fort Collins Gallery Walk: June 5, 2009

Submit online here: http://c4fap.org/c4e/defaultNewSys.asp

Opening at George Long Gallery, Feb 19

Folks are really fired up about Mardi Gras this year. And for the first time, several krewes will be parading right in front of George Long Gallery. Join us on 2/19 for the Muses parade with great food and an open bar and more King Cake than your diabetes can handle. It's guaranteed to be a great spot for parade festivities and we'd love to have you join us.

Thursday, February 19, 5-8pm
4516 Magazine Street

George's "New Orleans Before" series continues along with his "Katrina Days" book images and some of the most hilarious Mardi Gras photographs you'll ever want to see.

Call to Artists - Homage to the Ancestors

Greetings Beautiful People,

We are calling all artist who are interested in paying homage to those
trailblazers who have paved the way for us to do the various things
that we do today. Whether it be poems, raps, songs, paintings,
drawings, photography, etc...

If you are interested in participating in this show of tribute, please email us at your earliest convenience.

Have a Creatively Fabulous Day!

Erika "PoeticOne" Murray


Poetically Speaking
Every third Thursday of every month
The JuJu Bag Cafe
5363 Franklin Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana

Discounted menu items on Open Mic Thursdays

$5.00 Cover

Hosted by PoeticOne

Upcoming Shows
February 19th - Homage to the Ancestors
March 19th - Celebrating Women in honor of Women's Month