This Land was Made for You and Me

Issue 13 of Spanish magazine OjodePez just came out. Included in this issue is Jessica Ingram's Hilltop High project and Colby Katz' Rabbit Hunting project.

Women in Photography Launch Party

Women In Photography is having a launch party!

Wednesday, June 11 6-8pm
@ Giano
126 E. 7th St. Near Ave. A

1/2 priced beer & wine from 6-7pm

rsvp@wipnyc.org- wipnyc.org

Hijacked- opening tonight!

Big City Press just anounced the release of their new book and exhibition, Hijacked. It features 24 Australian and 20 American photographers. Among the American artists showing are Amy Stein, Lisa Kereszi, Angela Boatwright, Alana Celii, Suzy Poling, Robin Schwartz, Sarah Small, and Jennifer Juniper Stratford.

"ChiefMag.com in collaboration with Big City Press and The Arm, enthusiastically present HIJACKED: VOLUME ONE, AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA book launch photo exhibition. Presenting the public with the most provocative and diverse new photography from Australia and America, HIJACKED breaks down barriers between artists, genres, and hemispheres to further the aim of contemporary photography.

While the work of each of the 44 photographers is wholly individual, the photographs collected in this book and exhibition speak of the time and place in which we live. HIJACKED embraces our prevailing wanderlust; these creative minds exhibit a fascination with international subcultures, fragmented trends, alternate lifestyles and urban landscapes. Explorations of suburban pleasures are placed on par with ‘high’ artistic experimentation. HIJACKED, a book of photography, is a survey of contemporary photography in both The United States and Australia."

Opening reception:

Friday, June 6th 7pm-11pm
The Arm, 281 N. 7th St., Brooklyn, NY
Music by DJ Rev McFly and DJ Teenwolf

1000 Words Photography

New web magazine 1000 Words Photography's first issue is online now. It has a good selection of work paired with interesting writing including Candida Hofer's Series, In Portugal.

(via Conscientious.)

Summer exhibits at Wave Hill

Check out In Response: Summer Projects at Wave Hill's Glyndor Gallery and Grounds. I can't wait to see Maria Martinez-Canas's "A Room for Eden (To Ana)" in person. And while you're there you can take a stroll through Wave Hill's 28 acres of gardens, grounds and woodland. It's definitely worth the trip out of the city.

2008 NYFA Fellows announced

Congratulations to all the talented women photographers among this years NYFA fellows!

Elia Alba, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Erica Baum, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Cybele Clark-Mendes, Ana De Orbegoso, Shari Diamond and Ellen Wallenstein.

On a roll

Joerg Colberg updated his blogroll on his popular photo blog Conscientious. It now includes Nymphoto's Nina Buesing's blog where she muses about photography, art, travel, and life in NY. He also included Hee Jin Kang's new photoblog where she has already made some interesting posts.

Women in Photography launches

The new Women in Photography website launches today with work by Elinor Carucci.

Elena Dorfman (via Aperture)

APERTURE AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENT:

ELENA DORFMAN
Photographer @ the Library

In Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay (Aperture, 2007), Elena Dorfman is the first photographer to examine in depth the pop culture phenomenon of “cosplay” (the merging of “costume” and “play”), in which participants dress up in costumes—and live part of their lives—as characters from video games, animated films, and Japanese graphic novels. Dorfman’s portraits of “cosplayers” put the spotlight on a subculture that is exploding internationally. Japan and the United States are the biggest markets of cosplay which has held over 200 conventions worldwide including the successful inaugural New York Anime Festival last December which attracted a huge crowd at the Javits Center.

Explorations of identity through portraiture are at the forefront of Dorfman’s work, with the blurred lines between fantasy and reality a continuing theme. Her work has appeared in Village Voice, International Herald Tribune, Art & Auction, and Artweek. Her previous series, Still Lovers, appeared in museum and gallery exhibitions internationally and is the subject of two monographs.

WHEN AND WHERE:

Monday, June 9
6:30 p.m.

New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York
(212) 340-0849

FREE

Media contact: Yseult Chehata, Aperture Foundation; (212) 946-7108 or ychehata@aperture.org

Reminder: HIV Law Project Art Auction Tonight -Tema Stauffer, Charlotte Dumas & many more artists participating

Tonight is the the HIV Law Project Exhibiton & Silent Auction at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York - from 6-9 pm. Participating are artists such as Tema Stauffer, Charlotte Dumas and many others.
View all the art in the exhibit/auction here. And buy tickets to the event here.