Help-Portrait seeking volunteers for Dec. 12 event

Michael McAndrew, a NOPA member and student at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, is asking people to join with him and other Crescent City photographers on a charitable project called Help-Portrait during the holiday season.

NOLA Help-Portait will be holding a portrait event on Sunday, Dec. 12 from noon to 5 p.m. at the New Orleans Musicians Union, located 2401 Esplanade Ave. Live music will be provided by students from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. A local chef will serve red beans and rice.

The efforts of Help-Portrait, an organization founded by Nashville-based photographer Jeremy Cowart, are undertaken by photographers, hair stylists, make-up artists, and other volunteers worldwide. The idea is to take portraits of people who wouldn't normally have access to or be able to afford the services of a professional photographer, and then to give them prints of the portraits.

Those who need prints, the effort organizers note, could be anyone, ranging from families with major medical expenses, families with sick children, the elderly, veterans, struggling performers, or families who never had the opportunity or funds to have a family portrait taken.

Photos taken in connected with Help-Portrait may not be used by photographers for their portfolios, websites, or put up for sale. For more information, you may write helpportraitnola@gmail.com, or contact McAndrew at nolaeventphoto@live.

NOMA hosts guided tour of LA photo exhibit on Wed.

The New Orleans Museum of Art will host a special walk-through of its collaborative exhibit with the Historic New Orleans Collection, "Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana," beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1. John Lawrence, the Collection's museum programs director, will lead the guided tour of the exhibit.

The exhibit is the eighth put together by the HNOC and NOMA, and the first based solely on institutional photographic holdings. It draws from the holdings of both museums and
features more than 100 photographs by artists who lived or worked in Louisiana. including Walker Evans, Arnold Genthe, Ernest Bellocq, Josephine Sacabo, Michael P. Smith and Clarence John Laughlin.

Also showing at NOMA now is, "Bernard Faucon: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth," which depicts one-day celebrations of young people (ages 15 to 20) from twenty-five international sites.

No admission will be charged. For more information, you may call (504) 658-4100.

Image: Photo by Diane Arbus.

Singer works exhibited at Neophobia for PhotoNOLA

Works by NOPA member Max Singer will be on exhibit in connection with PhotoNOLA 5 at Neophobia, a Crescent City home furnishings store at 2855 Magazine Street in Uptown, through the month of December. The exhibit, "Homage to Monet and Other Works," will be the first featuring works by Singer in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

An opening reception, featuring Singer, will be held on Saturday, Dec. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. DJ Ruckus will provide the evening's musical selections.

Singer is an artist and designer, now working full time in photography, whose work has appeared in national publications including the New York Times and New York magazine.

PhotoNOLA is an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by NOPA in partnership with local galleries, museums and photographers.

Local photography on exhibit at "Art Spill"

Work from New Orleans area photographers is being shown as part of a group exhibit, "Art Spill: Disaster, Art, Activism, and Recovery," which will be the focus of a closing celebration on Saturday, Nov. 20, at St. Claude Arts District in The Marigny at 2822 St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans. The event will be held from 4 to 10 p.m.

Among those with works exhibited for "Art Spill" are NOPA member Lynda Frese, along with Stacy Kranitz, and Craig Morse.

Auctions will be held online and at the exhibit site, in connection with the event, to benefit Defenders of the Coast and NOLA Emergency Response, watchdog groups working on Gulf Coast recovery issues. Food and drink will be provided by Eiffel Restaurant, and the Lazy Magnolia and Bayou Brew regional brewing companies.

"Art Spill" is sponsored by Ethnographic Terminalia, and Collective World Art Community, and is being held in collaboration with the ongoing Multi-Species Salon 3: SWARM.

UNO student seeking photo studio space for film

Andromeda Winters, a film student at the University of New Orleans, is seeking the use of a photography studio for a one-day film shoot on Sunday, Nov. 21. The studio will serve as the film's setting only, in the service of its story.

More specifically, Winters is seeking a modest, dark-walled, and hard-floor photography studio space. Hanging and standing backdrops, canopies, stands, and cabinets could be used to help establish the space as a photo studio, so their presence would be a plus. The filmmaker will not use any existing studio lighting.

If you know of any such location, or want more information, you may write Winters at a.winters0@gmail.com.

HBO needing Borg-McEnroe in NOLA '79 shots

HBO Sports, which is producing a one-hour documentary on the classic, professional tennis rivalry between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe that is scheduled to air on cable network next spring, is looking for images and video from a match that the two played in New Orleans in 1979.

More specifically, the doc's producers are looking for photos or footage (as well as, if possible, radio coverage, a tournament brochure or program, or a ticket stub) from the match, which took place on March 24, 1979. It was a semi-final match, which McEnroe won 5-7, 6-1, 7-6.

The match was part of the New Orleans Tennis Festival, and was held at the Municipal Auditorium. A representative for HBO Sports noted that McEnroe and Borg have been interviewed for the documentary already, and that the men shared a story about something that happened during the match. Consequently, the producers need visuals to help tell the players' story.

If you hvae any information, you may write Helen Russell of HBO Sports at Helen.Russell@hbo.com or call (212) 512-8054.

Image: Borg and McEnroe in their hirsute heyday, but not in the Crescent City.

Slideluck Potshow New Orleans II - call for submissions - DEADLINE MONDAY

Submit your work to SLPS New Orleans II! It will be a kickoff event for PhotoNOLA, New Orleans' annual festival of photography. Slideluck Potshow provides a venue for photojournalists, painters, fashion and fine-art photographers to present work alongside one another in a relaxed and spirited atmosphere. This slideshow will feature emerging and established photographers and artists. We are currently seeking cohesive, creative, and thought-provoking submissions.

Deadline: Monday, November 22nd, 2010 - midnight -- Please see the SLPS NO II submission page for more info and submission guidelines.

The theme for this slideshow is community. SLPS New Orleans Director, Andrea Caldwell, and Andy Levin, creator and curator of 100Eyes, an online photographic showcase featuring contemporary photography including documentary, art, and alternative photojournalism will be curating the show.

"Community": so chosen for its breadth of interpretation and relevance to our daily lives, or rather, the art of daily living.

We not only want to see communities, from the quotidian existence of a termite colony to the front row faces of the fashion world, we want to see work that ponders the idea of community. What comprises it? How is it maintained? Sustained? Preserved? How does it, or can it, grow? Deteriorate?

Those questions leads one to think about cause and effect... Communities are made up of individuals that exist in a physical world - How does an individual effect a community? It is true that one can't give someone or something more than they have - so how does preservation of the self relate to the whole? Or preservation of nature? Or how does nature, in general, effect a community? Of course, your submission needs not be comprehensive or representative of community; at the least, a grazing.

Only the first half of the slideshow will consist of themed work; the second half will include any and all types. Presentations are a maximum of 5 minutes each, but most are much shorter, and we recommend between 15-40 images. Work is accepted in digital format only. We encourage all types of media that can be presented within this framework, be it painting, sculpture, or installation art. However, they must be comprised mainly of still images - no film or video will be considered, although multimedia pieces using video as punctuation can be submitted. When presenting photographs, there are many ways to go about it. One should not be afraid of making thoughtful observations, creating narratives, combining live music, speaking, or even performing with images. We want to see good work, but it need not be safe. Show us work in progress, outtakes from a job or if that makes you uneasy, show us your absolute finest work, because we like that, too.

See SLPS NO I's slideshows here.

Slideluck Potshow is a non-profit arts organization that provides an opportunity for artists and arts-appreciators to gather around food, friends, and artwork. The evening begins with a couple hours of mingling and dining on the home-cooked delights of those who attend (as it's a potluck), then the lights are dimmed, the crowd is hushed, and a spectacular uniquely curated slideshow commences.

PhotoNOLA is an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide. December 2010 marks the fifth annual festival. Scheduled events will take place from Dec 2-11, with broad ranging photography exhibitions on display throughout the month.

Contact neworleans@slideluckpotshow.com with any questions.

Big Top Gallery to host Stavis/Kranitz exhibit

The Big Top Gallery of New Orleans will host an exhibition of works--"Action/Reaction," a series of photos of ecstatic crowds at local music clubs--by NOPA Vice President Erica Stavis, from Dec. 3-31 for PhotoNOLA. Stavis' photos will be shown in tandem with an exhibit focusing on Louisiana cockfighting from fellow New Orleans photographer Stacy Kranitz.

The opening will take place form 6 to 11 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3.

The Big Top Gallery & Event Space and 3 Ring Circus Arts Education Center is located at 1638 Clio Street. The gallery is open on Thursday and Friday from 2-6 p.m. and Saturday from 12-5 p.m. For more information you may call (504) 569-2700.

PhotoNOLA is an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by NOPA in partnership with local galleries, museums and photographers.

Image: Erica Stavis, Untitled.

NOPA Newsletter Call for Info

NOPA Members, please send all photography-related events, news, sales announcements, etc. to newsletter@neworleansphotoalliance.org for inclusion in the December e-newsletter by NOV 26!

Call for PhotoNOLA Volunteers

PhotoNOLA SEEKS VOLUNTEERS: 

The 5th Annual Festival of Photography in New Orleans is right around the corner and we need your help! PhotoNOLA is an entirely volunteer run festival. Scheduled events run from Dec 2-11, 2010 but there will be volunteer needs from Nov - Jan to help it all run smoothly.  

Please let us know if/when/how you may be able to lend a hand by filling out this online volunteer form. Thank you in advance - we couldn't do it without you!

Michelle Bates Plastic Camera Workshop

Toying with Holgas Workshop 

Dec 5 & 6, 2010

Join Holga camera guru Michelle Bates to learn the ins and outs of shooting with Holgas and other plastic cameras. See images by world-class toy camera shooters and learn about their techniques. Get your Holga ready to roll and learn everything you need to know about shooting in all conditions, including using flash, long exposures, macro and more. Bring your Holga or buy one at the class; film and processing is included. Participants will shoot on Sunday afternoon and review the processed film on Monday.

The first ten students to register will receive a free Holga camera, courtesy of Holga Inspire. Students also receive a discount on signed copies of the brand-new second edition of Michelle’s book, “Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity.”

This two day workshop will take place during PhotoNOLA on Sunday, Dec 5 from 10am-4pm and Monday, Dec 6 from 4-6pm at The Big Top: 3 Ring Circus Arts & Education Center, 1638 Clio St., New Orleans, LA 70130.

Tuition: $175

Registration: http://photonola.org/2010/09/03/toying-with-holgas-with-michelle-bates/

Instructor: Michelle Bates first discovered the Holga at the Maine Photographic Workshops in 1991. She has exhibited her photography in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and Israel, and group shows worldwide. She has photographed for weekly newspapers, album covers, performers, artists and many others. Michelle loves teaching and frequently lectures on toy cameras to groups including the Society for Photographic Education, SF Camerawork, Powell's Books and the Creative Center for Photography. She teaches at the Photographic Center Northwest, Newspace (PDX), Maine Media Workshops, the Julia Dean Workshops (LA) and International Center of Photography in New York, among others. Her book,"Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity" was published in 2006 by Focal Press and an updated and expanded second edition was released in October 2010.

Michelle lives in Seattle, and is a member of Freestyle Photographic Supply's Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals. Read a recent interview with her here.

PhotoPhilanthropy 2010 Winners & PhotoSpiva CFE

PhotoPhilanthropy has announced the 2010 Award Winners & Finalists. Image by Grand Prize winner Emily Macinnes (one of four Grand Prize winners).
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PhotoSpiva will begin accepting entries for it's 35th Annual National Photographic Competition on DEC 3. Deadline is JAN 9. Fee is $40 for 5 entries and $10 each additional entry.
PhotoSpiva is open to any amateur or professional photographer in the United States or its territories. Submitted images must be the photographer’s own work, and it is the sole responsibility of the photographer to obtain written releases from any recognizable person(s) depicted. Work derived from any photographic process — traditional, digital, or photo-based mixed media — is eligible as long as the work is original and has never been exhibited at George A. Spiva Center for the Arts. Juried by Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.

NOPA member works in Baton Rouge exhibit

An exhibit featuring the work of several New Orleans Photo Alliance members--including Eleanor Owen Kerr, Bev Coates, Dede Lusk and Toni Goss--will open on Sunday, Nov. 14. in Baton Rouge.

The exhibit, "Wanderings: An Exhibit of Louisiana Photography," will be held at 4518 Hyacinth Avenue. An opening reception will be held at the exhibit site from 2 to 5 p.m. The by-appointment exhibit will run through Dec. 31.

Frese, Varisco works showing in SWARM exhibit

Works from NOPA members including Lynda Frese and Michel Varisco are being exhibited at the Old Ironworks Gallery, located at 612 Piety Street in New Orleans' Bywater neighborhood, as part of a larger group exhibition called "Multi-Species Salon 3: SWARM: Hope in Blasted Landscapes." The show will run through Sunday, Dec. 5.

The exhibit formally opened on Saturday, Nov. 13. The exhibit is being held in connection, however, with the American Anthropological Association's 109th Annual Meeting, which begins today in the Crescent City and will run through Sunday, Nov. 21.

Several conference attendees have been invited to be "embedded art critics" for the exhibit, which will explore relations between humans and other creatures, as well as multi-species survival in the wake of disaster.

Frese will be exhibiting work from her "Pacha Mama: Earth Realm" series for the exhibit. Her works combine egg tempera painting with photography, and involve imagined religious iconography. The work is influenced by the Italian Renaissance and the Mayans' year 2012 prophecies regarding an apocalypse or end times.

Varisco, meanwhile, will be showing photos from "Fragile Land."

For more information on the SWARM exhibit, you may visit its website.

Image: "Summer Circles" by Lynda Frese.

Portrait photo show deadline extended to Dec. 1

The Colorado-based Center for Fine Art Photography has extended the deadline for entry for its annual Portrait Photography Show, which will be held in February 2011, to midnight Pacific Time on Dec. 1.

The juror for this show is Rodney Smith, a photographer who has published and exhibited his work around the world. For more information, you may visit the center's website or or call (970) 224 1010

Art in America editor lecture: Nov. 18 at Tulane

Marcia E. Vetrocq, a critic, art historian, and editor of Art in America magazine, will present a lecture, "Blow-Up, Photography, and the Last Days of Truth in Art," at Tulane University on Thursday, Nov. 18.

The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. at the campus' Freeman Auditorium, located in the Woldenberg Art Center. Following the lecture, the university will host a reception for Vetrocq at Woodward Way. For more information, you may contact Laura Richens at lrichens@tulane.edu or (504) 314-2228.

Spaces available for O.C.H. Art Market, Nov. 6

About ten sales spaces are still available for the O.C.H. Art Market, an event that will be held Saturday Nov. 6th at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, located at 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. in New Orleans.

The market will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The spaces are available for $20 each. Outdoor spaces are 11’ x 11’ and indoor are 6.5‘ x 6.5’. The Market does not provide tents or set-up assistance but tables are available for $10 each. You can reserve your space online by clicking the "Purchase" link at the market website or by visiting Zeitgeist after 5 p.m.

This month's O.C.H. Art Market coincides with the O. C. Haley Blvd. Main Street Gospel Music Festival. The next market will be held on Dec. 4.

Image: Site of O.C.H. Art Market, Zeigeist.

2011 Alternative Photography Calendar

AlternativePhotography.com has announced the 12 winning photographs that were chosen in a competition where over 2300 people voted. All images were made with an alternative photographic process.

More info about the winning images and how to purchase.

2010 Clarence John Laughlin Award Recipient

The New Orleans Photo Alliance (NOPA) is pleased to announce the winner of its first annual Clarence John Laughlin Award. Juror John Wood selected Charles Grogg as the recipient of the $5000 award, which was established to recognize and reward a fine art photographer who is creating or has completed a significant body of photographic work.

John Wood writes:
“Charles Grogg’s photographs are hauntingly beautiful. And they are strange. But they are strange in a way that most “strange” photographs are not. There is no violence, no brutality, no shock, except the shock of authentic art, that shock that forces a viewer back again and again to look at them and keeps them as fresh on the one hundredth viewing as they were on the first.“
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See the winning images and finalists.
CharlesGroggPhotography.net

Poydras Home Annual Art Show

An annual tradition in New Orleans since its inaugural event in 1994, the area-renowned Poydras Home Art Show showcases luminaries from the local and regional art scenes with a hanging juried art exhibition in its historic main building and non-juried art and fine crafts displayed under tents on the Home's beautiful grounds at 5354 Magazine St., New Orleans, Louisiana 70115.

New This Year: Juried Photography Exhibit in partnership with the New Orleans Photo Alliance!
Admission to the Art Show is free and open to the public.

HOURS:
Saturday, November 6 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sunday, November 7 from noon - 4 p.m.

Patron Party with Flambeaux
Friday, November 5 from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Preview of Juried Art