Center of Photography at Woodstock's Photography Quarterly

Pour, Shihmen Dam, Dasi, Taiwan, © Rona Chang

The Center of Photography at Woodstock have released their Photography Quarterly #98 Magazine, which features portfolios by previous artists-in-residence, many who have appeared on Nymphoto!

Our very own Rona Chang is also featured in the quarterly, along with Hee Jin Kang, Juliana Beasley, Justine Reyes, Kanako Sasaki, Jennifer Williams, and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar to name a few.

There's also a great selection of essays and interviews.

Wendy Ewald interviewed by Emily Glass
There is perhaps no other practicing artist in photography that converges the margins between artist and subject more than Wendy Ewald. Emily Glass interviews this ground-breaking image-maker at her upstate New York home about her process and her ongoing career.

Notes from the Blogosphere by Liz Unterman
Unterman investigates this exciting new platform where ideas are being exchanged, voices are being discovered and the roles of artist, curator, and tastemaker are being converged and asks five leading bloggers about what Blogs they turn to in order to know where photography is at.

Art for Haiti: Auction Highlights

As part of our Art for Haiti Auction, we'd like to show you works that are available during this week. To learn more about the auction please click here for the press release information.


Artist: Hidemi Takagi
Title: "Untitled" from "Happie Photographie"
Date: 2001
Medium and Size: 11x14" C-print with signature on back

Hidemi Takagi was born in Kyoto, Japan and resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Ms. Takagi has been exhibited both nationally and internationally for several years. Takagi participated in the AIM program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2003. The program led to a group exhibition as well as a catalogue, NYFA’s (The New York Foundation for the Arts) Immigrant Outreach program for New York-based immigrant artists in 2006-2007, and was selected for LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) Swing Space, will participate in 2010. Her work reviewed in Time Out Tel Aviv, Time Out New York, NY Times, and Village Voice. Takagi’s latest project “Blender” was published on NYFA (NY Foundation for the Arts) Current.

Click here to bid on her work!


Artist: Michelle Kloehn
Title: "Untitled"
Date: 2008
Medium and Size: 5x7" Tintype, signed and dated on back

Michelle Kloehn received her MFA from Bard College and her BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She is the recipient of two MacDowell Colony Fellowships and her work has been included in exhibitions at Sepia International (NY), Jen Bekman Gallery (NY), and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Her work was featured in BLIND SPOT Issue 36, Fall Portfolio and has been written about in The New Yorker, ARTnews, and New York Arts Magazine. Her photographs are in the collection of the National Media Museum in Bradford, England and in various private collections. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Artist: Hee Jin Kang
Title: "Slippers"
Date: 2009
Medium and Size: 11x14" Archival Inkjet Print, signed on back

Born in Seoul, Korea, Hee Jin Kang holds degrees from Yale University and the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and published in various magazines. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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The Art for Haiti auction will be coordinated by eBay Giving Works and 100% of the proceeds will go to Partners in Health. The auction & print sale will run now through the end March 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM (EST).


Remember, you only have 3 days left of the auction! Please help us support Haiti.
Click here to see all the artwork offered in the auction and be sure to check if the reserve minimum have been set.

Graphic Intersections

from The Exposure Project:


from graphic intersections © Jane Tam

Graphic Intersections is a collaborative project loosely based on the old Surrealist and Dadaist game The Exquisite Corpse. Designed to unite disparate artists in an interconnected photographic relay of images inspired by one another, this project strives to emphasize a system of response entirely rooted in unmediated visual reaction.

The first photographer made a photograph, which was subsequently forwarded to the second in line. The 2nd then, based solely on their own visual, emotional, intellectual or philosophical response, in turn made photographs in artistic reaction to the one they were given. The artists involved were not given any written material to accompany the photograph, nor did they know whose image they were responding to. This was designed to propagate chance, or as the Surrealist’s put it, exploit “the mystique of accident.”

Ultimately, Graphic Intersections to challenge the bounds of sequential, narrative imagery, while simultaneously fostering stronger lines of artistic affiliation.

Graphic Intersections brings together images by:
Ben Alper, Anastasia Cazabon, Thomas Damgaard, Scott Eiden, Grant Ernhart, Jon Feinstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Alan George, Hee Jin Kang, Drew Kelly, Michael Marcelle, Chris Mottalini, Ed Panar, Bradley Peters, Cara Phillips, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Irina Rozovsky, Brea Souders, Jane Tam and Grant Willing

Hee Jin Kang

All images courtesy Hee Jin Kang © Hee Jin Kang

Art is all about expression and artist Hee Jin Kang is taken full advantage of her right.
Visit her blog for not only information about Hee Jin and her work, but also if you want to find out how to help in this election: www.heejinkang.wordpress.com.

H.J.K.: Barack Rock!

Visit Hee Jin Kang's (who we had the pleasure to interview a few months back) blog to find out more about Barack Rock - an evening of Music, Comedy & Action.

Hee Jin Kang in Red Wing

Hee Jin Kang has embarked on photographing & tracing the roots of her parents in Red Wing, Minnesota - something she talked about when Rona interviewed her for this blog.
Keep up with Hee Jin Kan's experience via her blog: www.heejinkang.wordpress.com

Hee Jin: we are happy you made it to Red Wing in one piece :)

Hee Jin Kang & A Declaration of Immigration

If you are in Chicago don't forget to check out the work of Hee Jin Kang in the A Declaration of Immigration exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art.

National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 West 19th Street
Chicago, IL

If you are not yet familiar with the work of Hee Jin take a look at our recent interview with her (as part of Nymphoto Conversations) here.
And also checkout her excellent blog: H.J.K.

And Happy 4th!

A conversation with Hee Jin Kang

We took notice of Hee Jin Kang's project about her parents' deli, entitled "Sandy's Deli," in the Winter/Spring 2008 issue of En Foco magazine. Then Joerg of Conscientious suggested we check out her photoblog. Through Hee Jin's photoblog we learned about her participation in A Declaration of Immigration, at the National Museum of Mexican Art opening on Independence Day. We thought it would be appropriate to highlight her work for this holiday that means so many thing to each of us.


Sandy's Deli (after Walker Evans) © Hee Jin Kang

NP: Tell us a little about yourself.

HJK: I was born in Seoul Korea, and my family moved to New York- Queens specifically - when I was three years old. I grew up in Queens, and then on Long Island. Apart from school (studying in New Haven, Paris and London), I've lived in Brooklyn for most of my adult life. I currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.


Sandy's Deli (portrait with hats) © Hee Jin Kang

NP: How did you discover photography?

HJK: I randomly applied for a photo class my sophomore year in college and got in - to the question, "why do you want to take photography", I think I replied "because I don't want to major in econ". Luckily I had a couple of great professors who encouraged me.

NP: Where do you find inspiration?

HJK: Usually I find inspiration in people and things closest to me. I find the familiar and ordinary oddly inspirational.


Sandy's Deli (Halloween) © Hee Jin Kang


Sandy's Deli (Elvis at home) © Hee Jin Kang


NP: How did this project come about?

HJK: I was in NYC during Sept 11th, on my summer holiday from grad school in London. I had to go back to the UK a week after the attacks. When I moved back to New York after getting my degree, I realized that I wanted to spend more time with my parents. Photographing their store was my way of being productive while also being near my parents and documenting their lives.


Sandy's Deli (beach portrait) © Hee Jin Kang

NP: What's next?

HJK: Well there's an ongoing project about Brooklyn, primarily based on small details and found objects. Also, I've just spent two weeks in Woodstock on an artist residency shooting in Ulster County. At the end of August, I have another residency in Red Wing, Minnesota, the small town where my parents first met. I'll be photographing at the farm where my father worked as well as the town and townspeople. The Red Wing project is the prequel to Sandy's Deli.

These quiet, detailed filled still-lifes tell us so much about the occupants of Sandy's Deli. Thank you for sharing your work with us Hee Jin! Be sure to check out the complete "Sandy's Deli" portfolio and other projects on Hee Jin's website and see A Declaration of Immigration.

A Declaration on Immigration
July 4- September 7, 2008

National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 West 19th Street
Chicago, IL 60608
10 AM - 5 PM
Tuesday - Sunday
Admission is FREE

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.