"Spicy Gumbo" photo workshop, May 20-24

Debbie F. Caffery & Carlan Tapp are offering a "Spicy Gumbo Photo Workshop," May 20-24 in Breaux Bridge, La. Fee is $2,200. Debbie also has a new studio (image above), which looks like a barn. I wonder what the story is behind that. Maybe we can get some interior shots for the blog at some point ... Debbie?

From the site:
This unique workshop is designed for the intermediate to advanced photographer wishing to immerse them self in the art of visual story telling through traditional photography and creative audio narrative. Under the guidance of master photographers, Debbie Fleming Caffery and Carlan Tapp, participants will have this rare opportunity to work deep in the heart of Lousiana’s Cajun Country, homeland to Debbie. Based out of Debbie’s family home in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana (crawfish capitol of the world) this workshop will explore and capture the Bayou’s people, landscape, tradition, food and music.

La. Partnership for Arts Advocacy - March on the Capitol, May 4

[From the Louisiana Partnership for Arts Advocacy:]

Meet up on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 At The Rotunda of the State Capitol 

Earlier this year the Arts Council sent information regarding the current situation of the Decentralized Arts Funding and Statewide Arts Grants Funding. Both the Decentralized Arts Funding Program (DAF)* and Statewide Arts Grants (SAG)* were targeted with deep and crippling cuts. The Executive Budget presented by the Governor in February requested a $1 million cut to DAF as well as a $1 million cut to SAG. This $2 million cut represented a 41% reduction to Louisiana’s state arts funding. In response, more than 13,500 emails were sent to the House Appropriation Committee members asking them to reinstate funds.

Since that time, representatives from Louisiana Partnership for Arts Advocacy made a presentation before the House Appropriations Committee. As advocates for the cultural economy of our state and of the arts, LPAA understands that cuts in the budget are required during these difficult economic times. In this regard, the request was made to restore both DAF and SAG at $750,000 each for a total of $1.5 million restored to House Bill 1. The economic value of this investment as well as the value of arts funding to residents’ quality of life was clearly presented.

The next step is for YOU TO JOIN THE LPAA FOR THIS EVENT ON MAY 4 IN BATON ROUGE.

PLEASE MEET AT 10am at the Capitol Park Welcome Center - 702 River Road and wear a bright blue (not navy) shirt to show your support for the arts. We will proceed to the Capitol as a group.

The morning will begin with a LPA/LPAA General Membership Meeting at 10. At noon the group will move over to the rotunda to set up regional displays and meet with legislators. By 1AM legislators arrive and by 3PM the day will wrap up. Limited parking is available across the street from the Welcome Center and at a near-by parking garage located on North Street and River Road. The Welcome Center will validate parking for this event.

VALUE OF THE ARTS IN LOUISIANA ARTS and CULTURE are a $10 billion industry supporting more than 148,500 jobs. ARTS and CULTURE are the state’s finest export article and second largest economic engine. If the Decentralized Arts Funding Program is drastically cut, a national model would be crippled. If the Statewide Arts Grants Program is drastically cut, a national model would be threatened. The $14 return for each $1 invested in ARTS and CULTURE produces $39 million to Louisiana’s tax base; the investment in Louisiana’s Cultural Economy equals revenue for Louisiana.

Please remember that Louisiana’s cultural economic engine and tourism industry will become crippled by a severe ripple effect if funds are not restored to DAF and SAG. Major cuts would affect artists of all disciplines, teachers, non-profit organizations, festivals, libraries, museums and theaters alike. No community will remain untouched and the economic loss will rank second only to the loss in social profit, community, and quality of life. Culture is Louisiana’s finest natural resource. We need to nurture and protect it for it to flourish.

RSVP to Jill at (225) 767-7640 or jill@tatmangroup.com.

[This post is provided in unedited form by the LPAA and is not a statement from the New Orleans Photo Alliance, though, of course, we do support the need for strong arts funding in our state.]

Russian creatives @ Photosite

 

In case you're interested in seeing what the Russians are up to, photographically speaking, check out Photosite. I spent about a year in Russia, ten years ago, and I learned that vodka makes you more creative. Or at least it makes you think you are. Anyway, there's some good stuff on the site, so check it out (at the site, click the thumbnails in the row of top images to browse).

Ashley Merlin: "Statuesque New Orleans" booksigning, May 7

Member Ashley Merlin announces the release of her new book, Statuesque New Orleans, in bookstores this week. You can also catch a booksigning at the Maple Street Bookshop, 7523 Maple Street, May 7, 5-7pm.

"Futureforward" exhibition @ BECA, May 1 - 29

The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the ‘FUTUREFORWARD’ exhibition of new art + new design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 - across from the Contemporary Arts Center from May 1 - 29, 2010.

The exhibition highlights works that reveal an idea, message, contribution, warning or solution that if carried forward may profoundly impact the future – be it positively or negatively.

This group exhibition features new work by Jonas Angelet, Nikkita Bhakta, Richard Elaver/Phil Renato/Dennis Dollens, Chris Esposito, Sayaka Ganz, Marc Holt, Yeji Jun and Molly Rogers.

Please join us for the Opening Reception: May 1, 2010 from 6pm - 9pm. The exhibition runs through May 29, 2010.

Gallery hours are TH/FRI: 1pm - 6pm and SAT/SUN: 11am - 6pm.

The full exhibition will soon be viewable online at: http://www.becaicad.org/upcoming-exhibitions.php

Above image by Nikkita Bhakta.

Pics from La. Road Trip exhibit

George Long has some shots on his website of the Jazz Fest "La. Road Trip" exhibit. We received a nice note of thanks from juror Nick Spitzer, as well.

"Pretty Baby" @ NOMA, May 5

Photo Alliance Movie Night: Pretty Baby

May 5, 6-8pm
New Orleans Museum of Art, Freeman Auditorium
Sponsored by the New Orleans Photo Alliance
Free and open to the public

1917. The red-light district of New Orleans. The story of the women. The photographer. And the prostitute's daughter. This is Louis Malle's fictionalized account of E.J. Bellocq and his portraits of Storyville prostitutes. This film was chosen to coincide with the exhibit now showing in the Photo Alliance gallery, "Four by Five" (featuring work by five large format photographers) since Bellocq used a large format camera to produce his glass plate negatives.

Thanks to George Long and Thom Bennett for the descriptions.

"6 Shooters" panel discussion @ CAC, May 12

"6 Shooters"
May 12 | 7-9 PM
Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street New Orleans

6 Shooters is a moderated panel discussion in which six photographic artists reveal the influences, processes, and inspirations of their work. This edition of 6 Shooters is the fourth in an ongoing series produced by the New Orleans Photo Alliance and features photographers who utilize large format view cameras in their work.

Featuring artists: Richard Sexton, Lisa Silvestri, Euphus Ruth, Ed Richards, Eleanor Owen Kerr & Bruce Schultz

Moderated by: Richard McCabe, Preparator of the Ogden Museum of Art

Above: Staircase, Belle Helene Plantation, 1998 by Richard Sexton

Where to rent photo equipment in New Orleans, and how to get assistant gigs

I had an email from a member who wanted to know where to rent equipment. I've also had queries about assistant work. I get the same questions from agents or photographers from out-of-state, who are coming in for a shoot. This being New Orleans and not NY, there are limited resources, but here's what I have:

Available Lighting is the one place I know of in NO that rents hot lights and grip for photographers. They also rent generators. They do not rent strobes, though.
www.availablelighting.com
826 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA 70121 - (504) 831-5214

If you're looking for an assistant or want to join the database, here's one that's nationwide -- every job I've ever gotten as an assistant has been through that. I get maybe one or two jobs a year. If you actually live in the city (or any big city), you'll probably get more.
www.1prophoto.com
And here's another one:
www.photocrew.com

If you want to rent a grip truck or van, try Hollywood Trucks.
www.hollywoodtrucksllc.com
1717 Canal St, New Orleans, LA - (504) 528-2480

If you need a seamless paper backdrop, Lakeside Camera sells them, as well as Bennetts Camera. Out-of-town photographers always want this stuff because it's a pain to have to ship from wherever they are. Plus, if you're the assistant, you'll walk away with the leftovers, because they won't want to haul it back to NY.
www.lakesidecamera.com
3508 21st Street, Metairie, LA 70002 - (504) 885-8660
www.bennettscamera.com
3230 Severn Avenue, Metairie, LA, 70002 - (504) 885-9050

No one around here rents camera bodies -- but you can rent lenses, bodies, batteries and other stuff online from Borrow Lenses. You can rent, for instance, a D3s body for three days for about $250. There are a few other companies for that as well.
www.borrowlenses.com

If anyone has tips or questions along this theme, let me know and I'll tack it on to this post, and answer as best I can, if needed.   Thanks  -E

Thanks to George Long and Kyle Petrozza for some extra tips!

The Ridiculous Amount of Work

This little peak into the day-to-day hustle of a working commercial photographer is so useful, I'm putting it here in its entirety. Thanks to Nick Onken again for this write-up -- the image above is from his blog, as well, where you can also see the gear setups for the auto shoot. (Did you know they actually take the windshield out for these kind of assignments? I didn't.)

The Ridiculous Amount of Work, by Nick Onken

A reader who was just reading the recent post “You Gotta Wannit” and was wondering what I meant by “putting in a ridiculous amount of work.” that goes on outside of taking pictures. I figured this my be a good thing to share with everyone. Behind the scenes there is a hell of a lot of work to be done that doesn’t even incorporate taking pictures. This is what’s called “The Hustle.” In fact, lately I’ve realized and felt that I should be out taking more pictures, but sometimes it’s a slow process of learning where to spread your time, which the older I get, the less I feel I have.

The ridiculous amount work all breaks down from the two rules of the photography game I described in a recent post. Make better images and show more people. It’s doing all the things that go into that.

A lot of the work comes from the self motivation and drive to get better at what I do between the actual paid shoots. I’ve always been a believer in the ABS theory(Always Be Shooting). The more I grow as an artist, the more planning and preparation goes into even my own test shoots. Since I’m putting my own money into my tests, I want to make sure that I’m pre-producing them to get the most out of them.

The other amount of work is showing more people, and that is a completely complex idea. Networking, marketing, promotion, social media, etc. This is all very time consuming but getting your work in front of people is the key component in even getting work.

So, that said, what are the daily tasks that fill my time?

[click "read more" below to continue]

Business tips from Kitchen Nightmares

Six ways to run a successful restaurant - or a photography business.

Behind-the-scenes with Nick Onken

See a behind-the-scenes gear slideshow from NY photographer Nick Onken, plus you can peruse his super-slick website, built to impress commercial and advertising art directors with 40" monitors who need to see big, striking images, and fast. If you want commercial work, here's your competition. Check out his blog for more - the image above is from a Chevy campaign.

Annenberg Foundation pioneers digital exhibition

The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles has combined a traditional print gallery with a cutting-edge digital exhibition system - this is probably something that will become the standard for high-end art galleries. See the story here.

Film Scanning with a Digital Camera - free workshop, Apr. 28

Come learn about this exciting new way to unlock the value of - and to help preserve - your valuable film library.

This evening workshop will present an affordable and rapid method for creating digital scans from your film by using a digital camera.

The camera scanning technique can create reproduction-quality scans of film quickly and easily. The film is photographed in the same way that duplicate slides used to be made (and can be done with some of the same hardware).  Once the film has been copied with the digital camera, you can use current image editing techniques to make color and tonal corrections to the images - as single images, or in bulk.

The Camera Scanning techniques work particularly well for black and white negatives, and for color transparencies.  Color negatives can also be scanned, but the color-correction process is more difficult and time consuming.  Come learn about this exciting new way to unlock the value of - and to help preserve - your valuable film library.

Wednesday, April 28, at the NOPA Gallery. Program begins at 6:30pm, doors at 6pm. FREE and open to the public. Attendees please register by emailing: programming@neworleansphotoalliance.org

Jen Shaw in "Women's Work"

Congratulations to member Jen Shaw for getting her work into the Women's Work exhibit for Slideluck Potshow in West Hollywood. If you happen to be out there, here's the info:

Join us on Sunday, April 25, at Kopeikin Gallery in West Hollywood for Women’s Work — a unique collaboration between Slideluck Potshow and Ladies Lotto.  This multimedia slideshow and potluck dinner and will feature artists from LA and beyond, presenting work that illuminates aspects of the contemporary female experience. - 4:00pm Potluck & Lounge  *  6:30pm Slideshow  *  8:00pm Afterparty

Zack Smith's "Grand Isle" exhibit - reception May 1

Zack Smith presents six images from his debut series, "Photographs from the End of the Earth," the first of many in his ongoing documentation of Grand Isle, La.

Reception at Canary Gallery, 329 Julia St.
Saturday, May 1st - 7:30-9:30 (come after jazzfest!)
On display through July, 2010
also showing: new photographs by Blake Haney

Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption

From the Boston Globe's The Big Picture: an amazing collection of Getty, Reuters, and AP photos of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption, plus the locals, cows, lighting and waterfalls. You can't get shots like this every day.

Daylight Magazine - call for entries

Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University have started an international competition, the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, to honor and promote talented and committed photographers, both emerging and established.

Submissions accepted: March 15 – May 15, 2010
Guidelines PDF

The First Prize Winner will receive a solo exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies, a multimedia Daylight podcast, a feature in CDS’s news magazine Document, presentation in Daylight and CDS online galleries, and $1,000 for exhibition-related expenses.

Juror’s Pick Winners will be part of a group exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies and featured in Daylight and CDS online galleries.

Ten Honorable Mentions will be named on Daylight and CDS websites.

"Dependence" in latest issue of 100Eyes

100Eyes presents its latest issue, entitled "Dependence," with photographs by Lauren Greenfield (above), Cheryl Hanna-Truscott, Katya Heinemann, and Salvatore Esposito. You can view the presentations as either a "flip" book or a slideshow.

Editor Andy Levin still has space available in his workshop in Coney Island, June 14-20, with Kevin Downs along for the project as well. The workshop takes the week of the annual Mermaid Parade, marking the beginning of the summer season, and will focus on creating stories about the neighborhood. There are a handful of scholarships available, to apply for a scholarship use the registration form on the workshop page and include a link to your work and state briefly what project you had in mind to shoot. Scholarships are limited to tuition and are directed primarily to those who have already shown a photographic interest in Coney Island.

"Hip-Hop" exhibit @ Ogden opens Apr 22

Galactic ft Glenn David Andrews & Rebirth Brass Band "You Don't Know" (Emynd Bounce Remix)byEmynd

"Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures”  - Exhibition opens April 22, 2010 at the Ogden Museum.

Bounce music's signature beats and call-and-response chants are deeply rooted in New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indians and second-line traditions. Using images, music and the artists' own voices, the exhibition documents pioneering New Orleans rappers from the 1980s and 1990s ¬ the period when bounce music evolved, melded and interplayed with lyrical hip-hop and gangsta rap in New Orleans to create a unique, hybrid Crescent City sound that is the newest branch of Southern roots music.

Photographer Aubrey Edwards and journalist Alison Fensterstock, over the course of 18 months, photographed and interviewed more than 40 rappers, DJs, producers, label and record store owners from the New Orleans bounce and hip-hop music scene. The exhibition includes original portraits and interview excerpts, original video and audio, collected artifacts including vintage records, tapes, scene snapshots and other ephemera.

In collaboration with the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Foundation. A selection from the exhibit will also appear in the Grandstand at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell.

Video from the View Camera workshop

Ken Pape and John Menszner shot and put together this video of the recent View Camera workshop with Steve Simmons.

The current issue of View Camera also features work from the workshop in New Orleans. You have to have a subscription to view it, though.

The Mix: marketing for a successful photo biz

Photoshelter has a great blog going, and recently posted one of the most useful online articles I've read about marketing yourself as a photographer and running a business. Well worth a look:
The Mix - The Marketing Formula of Successful Photographers

Above: Lighting It Up in Austin with Robert Seale

Patti Smith talks @ NOMA, Apr 22

On Thursday, April 22, the night before JazzFest opens in New Orleans, artist and musician Patti Smith will present a talk at NOMA entitled "On Photography" at 6:00 pm in the Museum's Stern Auditorium. Her talk will accompany the opening of an exhibition of forty-five photographs by Smith, donated by the artist to the museum in 2009 and 2010.

"Patti Smith: A Donation to NOMA," consists of forty-five silver prints made from negatives produced by the artist's antique Polaroid Land 250 camera. These prints will be augmented by a few original, but unique, Polaroid photographs, which are also part of Smith's generous donation to our museum. The exhibit will be on view in the 2nd floor Contemporary Art Galleries from April 22 until July 3.

Bill Gentile’s Backpack Journalism Workshop, May 12 - 16

The New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC) will host a Backpack Journalism Workshop With Emmy Award-winning journalist Bill Gentile, May 12-16 .

[Click the image above for more info.] 

The workshop is an intensive, five-day event covering the gamut of character-driven documentary production from story conception to editing. A pioneer in his field, Gentile brings three decades of experience to instruct beginners as well as seasoned professionals on this burgeoning genre of visual storytelling.

Past students have explored topics as far ranging as a youth court where at risk teens help each other stay out of jail, to co-parenting issues inside a same sex marriage, to the age old crafts of paper making, tattooing, and fencing." See videos from the workshop at the following links:

The Workshop Experience:
http://www.youtube.com/drastiquin#p/u/0/4vNlL77VHbc

A few Students films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGKSylk7lHc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpUO7-UN9Iw

NOVAC is hosting the event at its headquarters at 532 Louisa St. The course fee is $1495, and applicants can apply by going to http://billgentile.com/workshops.html. Registration ends at midnight on Friday 7, May 2010.

Contact: Bill Delano billdelano@gmail.com 1703 Coliseum St New Orleans, LA 70130 202.549.2607

PhotoNOMA reminder: Apr 21 @ NOMA

PhotoNOMA 

One night, one hundred photographers! 

Wednesday, April 21
5:30-7:30pm 

View a list of participating artists.

New Orleans Museum of Art

PDN "Great Outdoors" contest

PDN's Great Outdoors contest is looking for entries. $35 to enter, and you could win a resort stay at El Dorado Royale in Mexico. Deadline: Apr. 26, with a May 10 extended.

Check out last year's winners, there's some pretty stunning images.

Portfolio reviews @ the NY photo festival, May 13 - 15

The New York Photo Festival, the first international photo festival dedicated to contemporary photography, is proud to announce its NYPH'10 Portfolio Review. The reviews are a platform for all levels of aspiring and professional photographers to present their body of work for review and critique by leading experts in the fields of photography, art, media, and advertising and to receive guidance and mentorship for future artistic and commercial career development. The portfolio review will be run by photography book publisher powerHouse Books, which has organized six highly successful and acclaimed portfolio reviews since 2005.

We will host over 40 experts from all facets of the photography world, including a broad range of photo editors, gallery directors, museum curators, photography critics, commercial photography agents, publishers, art book packagers, and graphic designers.

It will take place over the duration of the New York Photo Festival, from Thursday, May 13—Saturday, May 15, 2010.

Four photo contests - call for entries

Fort Dearborn-Chicago Internatinal Photography Contest Photo Forum
International Photography Contest 2010
The competition has a category for most everyone: people, places, still-life, nature, and alteration of reality. 30 selected images will be exhibited at the Morpho Gallery in Chicago.
Tax Day Extension Deadline April 18, 2010

WPGA, The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award
Eight categories, $3,400 in awards, plus 50 images will be selected for a multi-continent traveling exhibition of selected work. Juried by Stephen Perloff, Editor of Photo Review.  Deadline April 25, 2010

2010 Photography Exhibition L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery,2010 Photography Exhibition
Work made in all photographic processes, both traditional and digital, are accepted for entry. May be representational or non-representational, and rural, urban, or suburban landscapes. Fine art images should emphasize unique composition, pattern, shape, and color/contrast. Awards: Gallery Exhibition, Best of Show: $600, 2nd Place: $400, 3rd Place: $300.
Deadline June 1, 2010

Black and White People Places and Things
Mpls Photo Center, People Places and Things
Submissions to this juried exhibition are limited only by your imagination and your photographic eye. Portraits, fashion, editorial, landscapes, documentary, conceptual--all of these genres, and others not named, are open for consideration.
Deadline: July 23, 2010

Thanks to photobizguru.com for the tips!

NOPA Gallery new hours

We've revised the NOPA Gallery's hours of operation. It will now be open to the public on weekends only: Sat & Sun, 12-4pm  -- and by appointment any other time. 

Questions? Call 504-610-4899, or email photoalliance@gmail.com.

Curious Camera Competition

Mary Findysz, President/Photographer for ArtsEye, announces their next Curious Camera Competition. She says:

This competition honors pinhole and plastic camera photographers with awards and prizes.

Deadline: Apr 23, 2010

The first rule is the lens needs to be a pinhole or plastic, and the second rule is to see the first rule. 

You can send in your entry by good old fashion snail mail or you can upload it via our “upload images” secure server. You can enter as many images as you want and the cost per entry is a mere $5 dollars. You can pay via Paypal, send us a check or if you come by the gallery with your submission you can pay with cash or credit card. There is also a competition for “Most Curious Camera”. Just send in a photograph of you camera along with a story about why it’s sooooo special and you may win a prize and a trophy and of course bragging rights for a whole year. 

We will be displaying all entries in ArtsEye Gallery and will host a reception on May 1 from 6-9 pm. 

We invite you to attend and bring your friends and family to show them how cool you are. Everyone is still talking about last years event and this years should be even better. Get creative and start photographing for fun.

BACK TALK with Miranda Lash

The Front is pleased to announce the launch of our new monthly lecture series, Back Talk.

Please join us Thursday, April 15th at 7:00 pm for a conversation with Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for The New Orleans Museum of Art.

Among her many achievements, Miranda Lash has reinforced NOMA's connection to the community by recently showcasing the work of local artists such as Skyler Fein, Jennifer Odem, Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat, among others. The lecture will take place outdoors, in The Front's backyard, 4100 St. Claude (at Mazant St.).

Back Talk is a series of monthly lectures, brought to you by The Front, focusing on topics important to the cultural community of New Orleans. This series is free and open to the public.

WPGA Annual Photography Competition

The Second Edition of the WPGA Annual Photography Competition announces a call to artists.

Early bird deadline: Apr. 24

WPGA will honor the overall winners with the Pollux Awards in the Gala Ceremony to be held in Madrid, in the Circle of Fine Arts, November 2010, benefiting Save the Children.

3 sections: professional, amateur, student
25 thematic categories
2 genres: single image and protfolio
450 award opportunities

Selected among thousands of photographers from all over the world, Dilip Bhatia (2009 1st Prize, WPGA Photographer of the Year, above), Larry Louie, Tom Atwood, John Delaney, Antonio Bolfo, David Zimmerman, Tom Chambers, Navid Baraty, and Lorne Resnick were the main awardees in the 2009 WPGA Annual Competition. Now this second edition offers new and outstanding recognition opportunities for professional and non-professional photographers worldwide. 

Prizes:
All prizes include a free round trip ticket and 3-days lodging to attend the Awards Ceremony, which will take place in Madrid at The Circle of Fine Arts in November 2010. Pollux Statue.

WPGA 2010 Professional Photographer of the Year:
$5,000 (USD) cash prize

WPGA Amateur Photographer of the Year:
$3,000(USD) cash prize

WPGA 2010 Emerging Talent of the Year:
$1,500 (USD) cash prize

WPGA Humanitarian Documentary Grant 2010:
$3,000 (USD) cash prize

creativeLive

NOPA's new governance committee chairman, Kyle Petrozza, passes along this link for creativeLive, a live, worldwide online classroom for photographers. They will present live, free courses from professionals in the field. The courses will then be viewable for a fee later if you miss the live version.

Facebook page with photo grant opps

Member Owen Murphy sends us this tip about a Facebook group for documentary photographers to share info about grant opportunities.

PhotoNOLA Committee Meeting Tonight

PhotoNOLA Committee Meeting
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
6:30pm
NOPA Gallery
1111 St. Mary St.

Please join us if you would like to get involved with planning and implementing PhotoNOLA, our annual photography festival which takes place each December. This year will be our 5th!

We're currently starting to organize the portfolio review, scheduled for Dec 4 & 5, 2010. We are looking to fill a few key leadership positions within the PhotoNOLA committee: Review Chair and Workshop & Education Coordinator. We also need people to help with Exhibitions Coordination - finding venues to host photography exhibitions in December. (These are all volunteer positions.)

Questions? Can't make this meeting but would like to join the committee?
Contact Jennifer Shaw at info@photonola.org.

How to photograph Dan Winters

There's an interesting post on Strobist about a newspaper photographer who was asked, suddenly, to do a portrait of Dan Winters. Winters, of course, is rather famous himself for his iconic portraits.

Fraction Magazine & William Greiner

Member William Greiner and others have work featured online in the latest (13th) issue of Fraction Magazine, which is edited by David Bram, who will be a reviewer during PhotoNOLA this year.

PhotoNOMA April 21

Image by Alissa Eberle, from the series "Cats"

PhotoNOMA: One Night, One Hundred Photographers!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
5:30-7:30pm

Free and open to the public

New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park


The New Orleans Photo Alliance, in partnership with the New Orleans Museum of Art, is proud to present PhotoNOMA, a photographers portfolio night at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The popular one-night-only exhibition will feature 100 photographers displaying their work for a community walk through.

PhotoNOMA is growing into a regional event with photographers traveling in from Texas, Mississippi and several outlying Louisiana locales to participate. A broad range of work will be on display, covering almost every genre and technique; including landscapes, commercial portraiture, street photography, wet plate collodion work and even an exposé on cockfighting.

The exhibiting photographers are:

Karen Allayaud
Renee Allie
Roman Alokhin 
Amber Alvarad
David Armentor
Bob Balkan
Jennifer Blanchard
Francesca Bontempi 
Mike Brouphy 
Morris Brum 
Laura Bruno 
Laura Burlton 
Kichea Burt
Ronnie Cardwell 
Omar Casimire 
Joseph Crachiola 
Darcy Culp
Laura D'Alessandro
Zé daLuz 
Arnaud Daval
Julie Dermansky 
Charlotte Diem
Jed Diem
Paul Douglas
Tish Douzart  
Alissa Eberle 
Kimberly Edwards 
Shawn Escoffery 
Dwayne Fatherree 
Esther Garcia 
Maja Georgiou
Joey Gidseg 
LJ Goldstein
Ed Hammerli 
Antonio Henriquez 
David Hoang
Stephanie Houseal
Jared Howerton
Rush Jagoe 
Mercedes Jelinek 
Jim Thorns 
David Jones 
Emily Kincke 
Robby Klein 
Kevin Kline 
Shannon Kolvitz
Stacy Kranitz 
Bonnie Landry 
Rebecca Lang 
Brenna Larson
Simone Laurent 
Sarah Lim 
George Long 
James Macaluso 
Lynn Magnuson 
Jan Marino 
Steve Martin 
Marsha Masterson
Kristy May 
Dana McGarty 
Ray Mikell 
Bernard Mitchell
Jill Moore
Jerry Moran
Ethan Moses 
Alex Nassar
Craig Nero
Lake Newton
Pamela O'Malley
Amee Palazzolo
Perry Papadopoulos 
Michelle Parish 
Erika Parker 
Samuel Portera 
Betty Press
Edward Richards 
Brittany Roberts
Celine Roggemans
Chad Ross 
Euphus Ruth 
Carlos Salazar 
Karla Marie San Martín 
Natasha Sanchez 
Scott Schexnaydre 
Charlsie Shaver 
Charles Silver 
Daniel Smith
Gary Smith 
Dana Statton
Erica Stavis 
Scott Stewart 
Zoe Sullivan
Kelly Tate 
Christina Terry 
Whitney Thomas 
Laurie Thompson 
Olga Trigo
Cathy Waugh
Lesley Wells 
Francis Wong 
Dennis Yermoshin

Frank Relle's latest shots

Frank Relle notifies us that he has some new images on his redesigned website. He says, "The site features my recently released photographs from the highways of Louisiana, the streets of Natchez and the sugarcane fields of White Castle. The rural images relate to my childhood growing up on a farm and the subjects that have inspired me to explore Louisiana and Mississippi."

Fuji Instax Mini Instant Camera

Instant credit-card-sized prints, in your hot little hand.
Polaroid isn't dead, just re-imagined.

Thanks to the Photojojo folks for the awesomeness. -eric

Halftone photo demo @ Artworks, again - Apr. 14

Micheal Pajone at La. Artworks is running another halftone demo, Apr.14th, in case anyone missed the last one. Same time, same price, 6:30pm and 8:30pm and $10. See the last post for details.

Louisiana ArtWorks
725 Howard Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 571-7373
info@louisianaartworks.org

ASMP copyright workshop, May 6

ASMP is offering a two-hour free workshop on registering your images with the copyright office. The workshop is open to ASMP members and non-members. The workshop will outline step-by-step the ASMP Best Practices for Registering Your Photographs and each participant will set up a template to make future image registration easy. ASMP Director Kate Baldwin is presenting this workshop.

Prior to the workshop, go to https://eco.copyright.gov/eService_enu/ and set up an online account with the Copyright Office. Participants need to bring a laptop and their eCO username and password to the workshop.

This workshop is part of ASMP’s Registration ©ounts initiative. For more information, go here.

Workshop Topics:

• The importance of copyright registration
• Common mistakes
• Step by step guide to online registration

FULL DETAILS
When:
Thursday, May 6, 2010
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Doors open half an hour earlier.
Where:
Tina Freeman’s Studio, 1040 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA
REGISTER HERE
This event is FREE but please register to ensure a space.

View Camera workshop wrap-up

Steve Simmons, publisher of View Camera magazine and the juror for NOPA's latest exhibition, Four by Five, conducted a workshop this past weekend, Apr.3-4, on using the view camera. Seven participants learned how to work with view cameras to photograph portraits and architecture. By the end of the workshop even those who had never handled a view camera before were comfortable with the intricacies of large format photography and making great images.

Many thanks to Fujifilm USA for the donation of 10 packs of instant film (5 packs of 4x5 and 5 packs of 3 1/4 x 4 1/4), to Ilford for donating 50 sheets of HP-5 and to PhotoArts of Hattiesburg, MS for providing the processing and individual attention to everyone's film. And thanks for the photographers who made the workshop such a blast.

And thanks to Thom Bennett for the blurb and photos! -eric

"Beautiful Empty" - call to artists

This is an open call for photographers of any age, background, skill level, and artistic point of view to participate in Beautiful Empty Photo Conspiracy - a music+photography collaboration. The goal of this project is simple: to use the release of a new record from an indie band as creative inspiration for more and different art, and through this collaboration, to bring the music and photography communities closer together.

Beautiful Empty Photo Conspiracy will be curated by Lucia De Giovanni, an award-winning photographer, internationally known photojournalist, and founder of MYPP, Mentor a Young Photographer Program. Participating artists will draw their inspiration from Beautiful Empty, the new record from John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light.

Every photographer who participates in this project will have their work promoted online at www.johncommon.com and at other Beautiful Empty Photo Conspiracy websites. A subset of the photographic entries will be chosen for physical viewing at a special exhibit in Boulder, Colorado at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, June 12th - the night of John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light's Boulder CD release for Beautiful Empty.

Artist Registration
Photographers who are interested should visit www.beautifulemptyphotoconspiracy.blogspot.com where they will find detailed instructions and project guidelines. Every participating artist will be given a copy of the music and lyrics from Beautiful Empty. Registration will remain open until May 15, 2010. The cost of registration is $10 for up to three photo submissions. Artists who are chosen to participate in the Boulder exhibit will be announced by e-mail and on the Internet upon completion of final judging on May 24, 2010.

Please contact Lucia De Giovanni at beautifulemptyphotoconspiracy@gmail.com or (303) 246-8674 for press inquiries, show details or sponsorship opportunities.

William Ferris: exhibit and book signing @ Ogden

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is pleased to announce the opening on April 22 of the exhibitions, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues – Photographs by William Ferris and the William Ferris Folk Art Collection. The exhibitions are on view through July 25, 2010. Ferris has been a longtime documentarian of the American South, and Mississippi in particular. He will be at the Ogden Museum for the opening and will have a gallery talk and booksigning.

WYES art auction: call for entries

The 28th annual WYES ART COLLECTION 12 will air June 11-13 and 18-20, 2010.

If you would like to donate any artwork, please download and fill out the auction donor form. Benefits of donating are:
    * Inclusion in the text of the WYES ART COLLECTION 12 catalog which is distributed prior to and during the auction.  Deadline to be in the printed catalog is April 1, 2010.
    * Visibility at the WYES ART COLLECTION 12 Preview which will be held May 16 – 18, 2010 at the WYES studios.
    * Participation in the juried art competition.  An independent judge will choose four local artists to be honored at the Preview.  A short video of each winner will be produced by WYES and will air on WYES throughout the following year.
    * Exposure on WYES-TV, www.wyes.org and New Orleans Magazine for Gallery Board donations.  A Gallery Board is an individual piece of art donated by a gallery valued at $2,000 or more.  Special interest art pieces may receive this promotion as well.

Important Dates:
Catalog deadline   April 1, 2010
Art Preview    May 16 – 18, 2010
Live Auction    June 11-13 and 18-20, 2010

NOTE! Even though the catalog deadline has passed, artists may still submit work, and will be in the Preview which is May 16th from 6-9 pm at the studios - the public is invited and approximately 700 people come to see the art. We accept work all the way up to the auction date which is in June but want to give the artists the most advertising we can give them, hence the early deadline. Bring whatever you have to the station at 916 Navarre Ave.

If you have any questions, please call the Auction Office at 504-483-8487 or e-mail auction@wyes.org.

Mary Virginia Swanson workshop, Apr. 14-17

Mary Virginia Swanson's workshop, Presenting Your Work to the Fine Art Community, April 14-17, at New Orleans Photography Workshops, was listed here earlier today in error as being canceled. The workshop is not canceled, and that post has been deleted. Again, the workshop is scheduled as before, for April 14-17. Contact New Orleans Photography Workshops for more info, or do a search on this site for "swanson" to see all related posts.