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: Jennifer Williams
Title: “building” (from the “stalled” series”)
Date: 2010
Medium and Size: 24x30" Archival Matte Inkjet Print, edition 1/20, signed

Originally from the countryside south of Pittsburgh, PA, Williams attended graduate school at Goldsmiths College in London, England in 1996-97, and undergraduate at The Cooper Union in New York 1990-94. She has lived and worked in Manhattan for the last twenty years and has made the visual exploration of New York City a central theme in her work. Recent exhibitions include: “Cut: Contemporary Collage” at Platform Gallery in Seattle, WA; a solo show at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; and in the “New Works Gallery” at Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh,PA. She is a 2008-2009 A.I.R. fellow, and was awarded a residency in June 2009 at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. An interview and photos will be included in the book “Nymphoto Conversations: Volume 1”, with an accompanying group show at Sasha Wolf Gallery in Soho. She currently is a Visiting full time Professor at Brown University.

Click here to place a bid on her print! (note the reserve minimum)


Artist: Keliy Anderson-Staley
Title: "Elijah"
Date: 2006
Medium and Size: 11"x14" Digital C-print from a wet plate collodion tintype
Print comes framed in a complimentary brown 16"x20" wood frame.


Keliy Anderson-Staley received a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Hunter College, CUNY. Keliy was a 2008 NYFA Photography Fellow. She has taught the nineteenth-century wet plate collodion tintype process at the Center for Alternative Photogaphy in NYC, the Bakery Photo Collective, at Bowdoin College, Hampshire College, and New Jersey City University. Her work has been featured in fine art photography magazines and exhibited in numerous galleries and museums.

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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, the auction ends tomorrow night at 7:30PM! 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.

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: Rona Chang
Title: "Rocking Chair"
Medium and Size: 4.5x5.96" on 8.5x11" Hahnemuehle paper, inkjet print, open edition, signed on front

Rona Chang was born in Chungli, Taiwan, a town that is famous for its spicy beef noodle soup. As a child she picked mulberry leaves for her pet silkworms while playing in the black sand pile at the construction site that was at the entrance to her cul-de-sac. At the age of seven, Rona emigrated with her mother and sister from Taiwan to Buffalo, NY, later moving to Queens, New York. In Queens her family moved almost every year. Rona spent many summers living with her father in Taiwan, taking Chinese calligraphy and painting lessons. Rona still lives in Queens, and travels often, attributing her desire to travel to her many childhood moves and her love for packing.

Rona was an associate artist at the Atlantic Center of the Arts residency under the guidance of Thomas Struth. Her work has been showcased online and has exhibited internationally. Rona was chosen by Jen Bekman for the Center of Photography at Woodstock's Photography Now 2008. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and was a photographer for the Asian Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nine years. She has photographed all of the Japanese woodblock prints, Indian paintings, and Chinese handscrolls in the collection. Rona is member of Nymphoto, a collective of women in photography that is invested in its community of artists through its various projects.

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Artist: Yijun Liao
Title: "The Stranger in Her Room"
Date: 2009
Medium and Size: 16"x20" C-print, Edition 1/15, signed on back

Born and raised in Shanghai, Yijun Liao is a fine art photographer currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Liao’s photographs have been widely exhibited in both United States & China, including L Ross Gallery (Memphis, TN), Medicine Factory (Memphis, TN), Jen Bekman Gallery (New York, NY), Center of Photography at Woodstock (Woodstock, NY), Camera Club of New York (New York, NY), Photography at Center of Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Shaluohua Gallery(Beijing, China) ,2008 China Pingyao International Photography Fest (Shanxi Province, China), 2008 China Lianzhou International Photography Fest (Guangdong Province, China), etc. She had her first solo show at Adam Shaw Studio (Memphis, TN) in 2008.

Liao has won Hey, Hot Shot (volume iv, edition ii), Jen Bekman Gallery, Photography Now 2009, Center of Photography at Woodstock, and 2009 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography. She was also a Honorable Mentionee of New York Photo Awards 2009, and New York Photo Festival and National Competition, Camera Club of New York.

Click here to make a bid on her work!

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 2 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.

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: Julianna Swaney
Title: "Kindel of Hares"
Date: 2009
Medium and Size: 8 1/2x11" limited edition inkjet print, signed and numbered, edition of 40 (this print is 5/40)

Julianna Swaney grew up in rural Michigan, spending lots of time playing and exploring outside. She got her BFA in Printmaking from Maine College of Art in 2005. Since then she has moved to Portland Oregon and makes a living selling her work online. She has participated in shows all over the country including New York and LA.

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Artist: Cameron Goodyear
Title: "Fin"
Date: 2010
Medium and Size: 9x11.5" Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, signed

Cameron Goodyear received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. She has shown at galleries in New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island, and her work is represented in many private collections. She currently lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Artist: Minette Lee Managhas
Title: "Deer Park Heart/Mind"
Date: 2009
Medium and Size: 19x13" signed print 1 of 10

Minette Lee Mangahas layers calligraphic painting, animation, and video in installations. Born in Hawai’i and raised in the Philippines, she studied under the tutelage of Zen calligrapher Kazuaki Tanahashi for seven years. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals at venues such as the San Francisco Apature Festival, the Pacific Asia Museum in Los Angeles, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo Costa Rica, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Arario Gallery in New York.

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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).

Conversations Special: Art for Haiti Auction

Artist: Brea Souders
Title: Hung
Date: 2008
Size: 20x20 inches
Medium: C Print
Edition size: 10
Signature: Signed in ink, on reverse

As part of our Art for Haiti Auction event, we'd like to revisit conversations with participating artists. Today we're focusing on Brea Souders and Emily Shur, both of which are in Humble Arts Foundation's 31 Women in Art Photography.




© Brea Souders

Nymphoto: Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Brea Souders: I was born and raised in Frederick, Maryland and studied photography at the University of Maryland Baltimore County before moving to New York City in 2005. I grew up as an only child in a house surrounded by woods, and I always had plenty of time to myself to daydream and breathe in my surroundings. My mom is a painter and my dad a physicist, and they have both influenced me in many ways. I was interested in psychology for most of my life growing up and started out in college as a psychology major, but quickly learned that I was not so interested in rigid text book theories, but instead in the vast potential and diversity of the human mind. I began to look to people who were pushing those boundaries rather than defining them. It was at this time that my interest in art became my primary interest. I wanted a better way to understand and engage life, and photography provided a perfect outlet.



© Brea Souders

NP: Where do you find inspiration?

BS: All kinds of things – the changes of seasons, shifts in light, bicycling at a fast clip, overhearing snippets of conversations when I’m out having coffee somewhere. All the usual things like that. The fabric and flower districts in New York are new places of inspiration – I like to cruise the aisles and imagine ways to use the various gems I discover. I always like to have a lot of books on hand, although unfortunately I rarely finish them. I’ve been reading a lot of dream journals for a current project and have found that to be really invigorating. Jack Kerouac’s Book of Dreams is an especially exciting read! Of course, learning about anything new is always inspiring, and I’m influenced by people who are determined to live in an expanded world and people with unusual beliefs. I’m also inspired by the discoveries of strange new organisms and any discoveries in space. And maybe most of all, I find a great meal with friends to be very inspiring. Good things usually come out of conversations had over a delicious feast!



Artist: Emily Shur
Title: "Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, California"
Date: 2004
Medium and Size: 20x24" Digital C-print, edition 5/15, signed


Mila Kunis © Emily Shur

Nymphoto: Tell us a little about yourself.

Emily Shur: Well, since you asked! I was born in New York City in 1976. We moved around the tri-state area a bit and then eventually landed in Houston, TX when I was seven years old. I grew up in Houston and lived there until I went to college at NYU when I was seventeen. I was back in New York for almost twelve years. Now I live in Los Angeles with my husband and our dog. I am an only child. I enjoy eating sushi and drinking red wine (not at the same time of course), and I hope to excel at the expert level of Guitar Hero at some point in my life.


Images from Japan © Emily Shur

NP: You are an accomplished photographer. Can you tell us a person you would like to photograph, who you have not had the chance to photograph yet? And which sitting has been your favorite so far and why?

ES: Some people I would like to photograph but have not yet had the chance include (but are not limited to) Stevie Wonder, Anthony Bourdain, Jack Black, Anne Hathaway, Barack Obama, David Lee Roth, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Tina Fey, Jenny Lewis (I have shot Rilo Kiley but it wasn’t one of my best), and Morrissey. I have different reasons for wanting to photograph all of those people, and those same reasons are what would make a past shoot stand out as a favorite. Some shoots I love because I got to photograph a person I have admired for a long time and has done something that truly impacted me...say David Byrne and/or Al Gore. Some shoots I love because it’s someone I think is super talented and the shoot is a true collaboration with that person...say Jason Schwartzman, Amy Poehler, and Alan Arkin. Then there are some people that are just plain great to photograph for multiple reasons. They get it. They get the process of photography, what makes for a good portrait, they look great, they’re interesting....say Jeremy Piven, Zooey Deschanel, and more recently Amanda Seyfried.


Images from Japan © Emily Shur

NP: On your blog you speak about your personal work and you have a section for it on your website. What drives your personal work? It is interesting that you photograph people for a living while they are absent for the most part in your personal work.

ES: I could bullshit this answer, but to be honest I’m not 100% sure what drives my personal work. I can say that I love exploring and wandering and documenting and feeling calm. This is exactly what’s going on with me when I’m making my personal work. I have never been a very project oriented photographer, but I do have certain long term bodies of work that I am currently in the midst of. Right now I am in love with photographing in Japan, have been for a while. I also recently began a project in New Jersey. As you said, there are barely any people in any of my personal photographs. I think one reason for this is that I make a living dealing with people and personalities. Portraits are so mental. It’s a lot of work to connect with a stranger, appease multiple people at a time, and make it look good. When I shoot for myself, I just want to deal with just one personality – my own. Mostly, I want to explore things and places that are interesting to me and interpret them and my place within them using my voice and perspective.

Remember, you only have 5 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.

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: John Shireman
Title: "Untitled"
Date: 2007
Medium and Size: 13.5"x16.5" (on 16x20 paper) Silver Gelatin print, signed, edition of 20 (this print is 2/20)

John Shireman is a commercial & fine art photographer based in New York City. His clients include Fedex, BBDO, Paper Magazine, and Little Brown among others. Click here to bid on his print.


Artist: Stephen Meierding
Title: "Frost #1"
Date: 2010
Medium and Size: 15"x15" (on 16"x20" paper) Digital Ink Jet Print, signed, edition of 2 (this print is 1/2)

Stephen Meierding has a passion for bringing normally uninspiring objects to life through the investigatory process of photography. "It's a thrill when an object that at first seems normal and mundane, is suddenly brought to a magical new stature through lighting and composition," says Steve. His process is about exploration and investigation. "Everything has something positive, new, and interesting that can be exposed and brought to light."

Steve studied Advertising and Graphic design at the University of Delaware and began his photography career in New York City in 2002. He learned still-life photography while working full time as an assistant for advertising photographer, Craig Cutler, working on hi-end brands such as Rolex, Bombay Sapphire, Tiffany's, Infiniti Cars, and IBM, among many others. He also worked under Fashion Photographer, Regan Cameron, and Kevin Macintosh, among many other heavy hitters in fashion before he moved his own photography to the front burner. Click here to bid on his print.

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).

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: Candace Gottschalk
Title: "Untitled, from the Series Driving to Ensenada
Date: 2000
Medium and Size: 15x15" on 16x20" paper, C-print, Edition 1 of 15, signed on back

Candace Gottschalk received her M.A. from New York University/ International Center of Photography in 2000. Candace has exhibited her work in various group shows at galleries such as OK Harris Gallery, Artists Space, Jen Bekman Gallery and Sasha Wolf Gallery. Candace is a founder of Nymphoto, a collective of women in photography. Click here to bid on her work.


Artist: Suzanne Révy
Title: "Evolution"
Medium and Size: 10x13" on 11x14" paper, Selenium toned gelatin silver print, signed on back

A native of Los Angeles, California, Suzanne Révy moved to the east coast to study photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In the years following art school, she worked as a photography editor for a photography agency and two magazines, U.S.News & World Report, and Yankee Magazine. With the move to New England, and the arrival of two sons, she began photographing her children, their cousins and friends. Her ongoing series, Small Wonders, has been shown at the Camera Club of New York in Manhattan, the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Atelier Gallery at the Stoneham Theater in Stoneham, Massachusetts, the Workspace Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Danforth Museum’s 2009 New England Photography Biennial in Framingham, Massachusetts, and Project Basho’s Onward ‘10.
You can also revisit Suzanne's Conversation with us here.
Click here to bid on her work.

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 begin February 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM (EST) and end March 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM (EST).

Nymphoto's Art for Haiti Auction now online!

Artist: Tiana Markova-Gold
Title: Bathing/Benyen: A woman bathes in the sacred waterfall at Saut d'Eau, near Ville Bonheur, about 60 miles north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The annual three day holiday, which takes place in July, honors Our Lady of Carmel, the patron saint of Ville Bonheur, and Erzulie Dantor, a Vodou spirit associated with water and sometimes also portrayed by the Virgin Mary.
Date: July 2004
Size: 11x14"
Medium: Chromogenic Print (this analog c-print was printed by the artist herself)
Edition: Limited Edition of 25, signed and numbered

Nymphoto's Art for Haiti Auction has begun! Everyday this week, we will feature artwork from our participating artists. Please feel free to spread the word on this auction to any art lovers!

Click here to our eBay page to see all the artwork available in our auction.

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 begin February 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM (EST) and end March 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM (EST).

Artist: Maria Passarotti
Title: "Illumination"
Date: 2006
Medium: Digital C-print from negative
Size: 10.5"x13.25" on 11x14" paper
Edition: 4/10, signed

Artist: Jeff Cate
Title: "Untitled"
Date: 2003
Medium and Size: 11"x14" sepia toned silver gelatin print, unsigned

Partners in Health is a recognized non-profit organization that, over the course of 20 years, has established 12 medical non-profit facilities in Haiti. Partners in Health is committed to continue to work with the people of Haiti for better health care.

Work by (in alphabetical order by last name) Keliy Anderson-Staley, Nina Büsing Corvallo, Jeff Cate, Rona Chang, Cameron Goodyear, Candace Gottschalk, Laura Heyman, Geoffrey Hutchinson, Hee Jin Kang, Michelle Kloehn, Yijun Liao, Minette Lee Managhas, Tiana Markova-Gold, Stephen Meierding, Maria Passarotti, Suzanne Révy, Jon Shireman, Emily Shur, Brea Souders, Tema Stauffer, Julianna Swaney, Jane Tam, Hidemi Takagi and Jennifer Williams.

A warm thanks to our media partners:

Art for Haiti - LIVE!

Up for Auction: Jane Tam's Grandmother's Swollen Foot and Sweet Potato Leaves © Jane Tam

Nymphoto's Art for Haiti Auction is now live! Please visit: http://myworld.ebay.com/nymphoto_collective/!
We will highlight the work of the artists who so generously donated to this cause, this and also next week. We would like to start by pointing you to our own Jane Tam. Jane is soon heading to Fotofest where her work was selected by Aaron Schuman for the exhibit Whatever is Splendid. Congrats, Jane!


© Jane Tam

Jane Tam
Whatever Was Splendid
Fotofest Biennial 2010, curated by Aaron Schuman
Vine Street Studios
1113 Vine Street
Houston, Texas
March 12 - Apr 25, 2010

NOTE: if you feel like you do not see everyone's work, refresh or come back a little later. Ebay was a bit buggy so it might take a little longer for some works to show up. Don't panic, the auctions runs through March 9th, 2010! You have plenty of opportunity to bid on all that great art work.

Art for Haiti

Bathing/Benyen, 2004 © Tiana Markova-Gold

The Nymphoto Collective is proud to announce its online auction and print sale to benefit the relief effort in Haiti.

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 take place February 27 through March 9, 2010.

Partners in Health is a recognized non-profit organization that, over the course of 20 years, has established 12 medical non-profit facilities in Haiti. Partners in Health is committed to continue to work with the people of Haiti for better health care.

It has been only a month since the earthquake in Haiti, but the press is already beginning to slow down its coverage, which is why the Nymphoto Collective has organized this online auction. The Haitian people have a very long road ahead to recovery. The artists participating in this fundraiser want to show their solidarity and let the Haitian people know that they will continue to support them in the months and years ahead. Some of the participating artists have family and friends in Haiti, and some have built relationships with the Haitian people and culture through photography.

Work by (in alphabetical order by last name) Keliy Anderson-Staley, Jeff Cate, Nina Büsing Corvallo, Rona Chang, Cameron Goodyear, Candace Gottschalk, Laura Heyman, Geoffrey Hutchinson, Hee Jin Kang, Michelle Kloehn, Yijun Liao, Minette Lee Managhas, Tiana Markova-Gold, Stephen Meierding, Maria Passarotti, Suzanne Révy, Jon Shireman, Emily Shur, Brea Souders, Tema Stauffer, Julianna Swaney, Jane Tam, Hidemi Takagi and Jennifer Williams.

This eclectic group of artists has shown in museums and galleries around the world. The fundraiser offers an opportunity for collectors to acquire artwork and contribute to an important cause.

Download Press Release >

Please visit www.nymphoto.com on February 27th to be directed to the auction.

Susana Raab: Prints & News

Haitian Migrant Child after Mass, Immokalee, Florida ©Susana Raab

The Smithsonian is acquiring Susana Raab's series Consumed, Off-Season and A Sense of Place.
And Susana is offering affordable limited edition prints from the A Sense of Place series on www.etsy.com along with other work. Take a look, here.