Poydras Home exhibit to be open to NOPA members

Organizers of the 17th Annual Poydras Home Art Show & Patron Party are asking photographers to save the event date: November 4-6, 2011. The event will include a juried exhibition, co-sponsored by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, with a $500 best-in-show prize.

More information, including submission deadlines, will be released in coming weeks. All entrants will be required to submit materials via the NOPA website.

In the interim, please note that if you wish to sell photography during the event's Outdoor Show & Sale, scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 5-6, in either the Poydras Home tent or via your own tent, please write Charlotte H. Thomas, Poydras Homes' Director of Development at cthomas@poydrashome.com.

Bryce Lankard's "Land of Dreams" --upcoming events in NC

'Art in Nature' submissions deadline is June 8

The Center for Fine Art Photography of Fort Collins, CO is seeking entrants for a juried exhibition, "Art in Nature," which will be held in late 2011. The early submission date is Wednesday, May 25 with the final submissions date of June 8.

The exhibition will open on Oct. 28 and run through November 26, 2011.

Serving as the juror for "Art in Nature" is Nick Brandt, a photographer best known for his widescreen, black and white portraits of animals, ones taken largely in East Africa. Works he took in that region during the past decade have been condensed into two recent publications, "On This Earth" and "A Shadow Falls."

Entry fee and awards details can be found at Center's website. For more information, you may also write to exhibitions@c4fap.org or call (970) 224-1010.

Image: "Elephant Drinking, Amboseli, 2007. Killed by Poachers, 2009." © Nick Brandt.

NOPA members' work in "Louisiana Wanderings"

Photographs from four New Orleans Photo Alliance members are featured "Louisiana Wanderings," an exhibit that opened this week at the Grapevine Gallery and Cafe in Donaldsonville LA.

The NOPA members are Beverly Coates, Toni Goss, Eleanor Owen Kerr and Dede Lusk. The exhibit of their work began on Monday, May 16, and will run through Sunday, July 10.

Gallery hours are 11a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m. every Tuesday through Friday, 11a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. -2 p.m. for Sunday brunch. For more information, please see the Grapevine website or call (225) 473-8463.

The gallery and cafe is located at 211 Railroad Avenue in Donaldsonville.

Image: Eleanor Owen Kerr, "On the Batture Crossing," from the "Louisiana Crossings" exhibit.

Lori Waselchuk Interview + Talk at Boston's PRC May 19

Congratulations to Lori Waselchuk, award winning documentary photographer and former Secretary of the New Orleans Photo Alliance. Her Grace Before Dying project on the Angola Prison Hospice Program is being published by Umbrage Editions, June 2011.

Those in the Boston area can here Lori speak at the Photographic Resource Center on Thursday, May 19.  An exhibition of images from the book will be on view there from May 17 - July 10, 2011.

Read about more about the Grace Before Dying project in this recent interview conducted by Ray Mikell. 

Synthesis Opening at The Darkroom, May 14

 

"Synthesis" an exhibition of mixed media works juried by Russell Joslin opens at The New Orleans Darkroom on Saturday, May 14 from 6-9pm. 

Louviere + Vanessa's "Counterfeit" Opens at A Gallery this Saturday

"Counterfeit", a new series of work by Louviere + Vanessa is on view at A Gallery for Fine Photography, with an opening on Saturday, May 14, from 5-8pm.

Lafayette's Baldridge lecture set for May 11 in NOLA

Jamie Baldridge, a professor of photography at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and author of the Lucie Award-winning "The Everywhere Chronicles," will be one of two speakers at the Design Within Reach of New Orleans store's "Parallels" speaker series on Wednesday, May 11.

The doors for the lecture will begin at 6 p.m., with the event officially set to run from 6:45 to 9 p.m. The Uptown New Orleans studio of the modern design company is located at 3138 Magazine Street.

Also set to speak at the event is Stanley Hainsworth, chairman and chief creative officer of the Seattle-based creative agency Tether Inc. He was formerly a creative executive at Starbucks, Nike, and Lego.

The company's "Parallels" series is aimed at drawing connections between designers of different disciplines. For more information, you may check out the Design Within Reach website's New Orleans store page.

An Interview With Nell Dickerson

Ray Mikell recently interviewed photographer (and NOPA member!) Nell Dickerson about her newly released book, GONE: A Photographic Plea For Preservation.

Read the interview here.

Nell is currently on a book tour throughout the south, and will be in New Orleans for a slide show, discussion and book signing this Thursday at the Garden District Book Shop; May 12, 2011, 5:30-7:00pm.

US-Mexican border focus of exhibit, events at Tulane

A exhibit that focuses on border areas of the American Southwest and Mexican-US migration, "History of the Future," will open on Wed., May 11, at Tulane University's Newcomb Art Gallery in New Orleans. The show will feature work from Michael Berman and Julian Cardona, who have taken photos in the region for more than three decades.

Two other events, including a panel discussion and a multi-media lecture, are scheduled in connection with the event for later in the week.

According to the gallery, the work of these photographers focuses on the desert Southwest and people crossing the Mexico/U.S. border. Their New Orleans exhibit will feature work from their collaborations of the past seven years.

Events scheduled in connection with the exhibit include a multi-media lecture, featuring José Torres-Tama of New Orleans. The lecture, "Aliens are Coming: Fears of a Brown Invasion & the Vilification of Latino Immigrants in the USA," will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 13, in the Freeman Auditorium of Tulane's Woldenberg Art Center.

The panel discussion, meanwhile, will be held on Sat., May 14, from 3 to 5 p.m., at the auditorium. Discussants will include the photographers, as well as writers Charles Bowden and Yuri Herrera-Gutierrez, and curator Nancy Sutor. Dr. James Huck, Assistant Director for Graduate Programs at Tulane’s Stone Center of Latin American Studies, will moderate. A public reception, featuring Latin-inspired food and music, will follow.

For more information, you may visit the Newcomb Art Gallery website.

Image: Selections from "History of the Future."

NOPA Newsletter | Call for Info!

Please submit your photo-related news and events for the New Orleans Photo Alliance e-newsletter before MON, MAY 6! E-mail newsletter@neworleansphotoalliance.org.

Scott Dalton named the 2011 Grant Recipient of the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is proud to announce that Scott Dalton is the 2011 grant recipient of the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography (MPS Fund).  The MPS Fund’s 2011 juror was Tom Rankin, the Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Rankin selected Dalton’s project titled “So Close, So Far: Daily Life and Cartel Violence in Ciudad Juárez.” 

With the help of the MPS Fund grant, Dalton will continue his project documenting daily life in Ciudad Juarez. Dalton writes, “As a photographer I am interested in the often fragile relationship between people and the places they live, in how individuals, environment, and history can meld or collide to create a region with its own culture. I am exploring these ideas through images of daily life in a place where the drug war calls the very concept of 'daily life' into question.”

To learn more about Scott Dalton’s project and to see a selection of photographs from his portfolio, please visit:

http://neworleansphotoalliance.org/grants/MPS_Fund/2011/Scott_Dalton/index.php

Post-Katrina photography featured in Seattle exhibit

New Orleans Photo Alliance member and PhotoNOLA coordinator Jennifer Shaw is one of three photographers whose work on survival, hope, and rebuilding in the wake of disaster is part of an exhibit, "The Dust Never Settles," now showing at Photo Center NW gallery in Seattle.

A reception for the artists is set for Friday, May 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibit, which began on April 22, will run through May 29.

Other photographers with work in the exhibit include Dave Anderson, who documented the rebuilding of the Crescent City's Holy Cross neighborhood in his book "One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds." Photos from Wyatt Gallery, a documentary photographer who produced work on post-Katrina New Orleans, post-earthquake Haiti, will also be shown.

Shaw, meanwhile, will lead a seminar on portfolio preparation at the Photo Center on Sunday, May 8, from 12 to 3 p.m. Tuition is $85.

For more information on these events, you may call the Photo Center at (206) 720-7222 (extension 10 for the Shaw seminar) or see the organization's website.

Image: "The next morning we turned on the T.V., 2007," from Jennifer Shaw's "Hurricane Story."