Lili Along

Head over to powerHouse to read an interview with photographer Lili Along.

NYT: Subway Killing Captured by a Photo Student

Subway Killing Captured by a Photo Student by James Barron for the New York Times (Nov.26, 2009).

Say NO

Artist Amy Stein just started an action on the Say NO to Violence Against Women site called Photographers Say NO. Please join the campaign by clicking and then reposting this URL http://j.mp/1lRD2U and using #photosayno on Twitter.

Spread the word!

Visual Op-Ed: Kerry Mansfield

Recently while researching women photographers for a project I came across the work of Kerry Mansfield (tx, Jane Tam & Lenscratch).
Kerry is an artist with a strong vision and an assured sense of space coupled with a superb color palette. See her work at www.kerrymansfield.com and look for our interview with Kerry as part of the Nymphoto Conversations series in the weeks to come.

But today I wanted to share a different body of work by Kerry Mansfield's.
Aftermath is very personal, incredibly frank, courageous and will not leave you untouched.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Go get checked, check yourself. Remind your friends and family to get checked. Help raise awareness.



Aftermath © Kerry Mansfield

Katy Grannan for The New York Times

Head over to www.nytimes.com to see Katy Grannan portraiture illustrating Nicolas D.Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn's report A Powerful Truth.

If You Are in Beijing, China

(from China Daily)

An ongoing photo and video portrait exhibition at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces, shows the French actress and jury leader of the 62nd Cannes film festival caught on film by about 100 leading international photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Willy Ronis, Nan Goldin, Juergen Teller, Wen Fang and Helmut Newton.

-through July 19, 2009

Juliana Beasley's Photographs @ Starlette on PRIDE Night @ Angels and Kings

from Juliana Beaseley:


courtesy Juliana Beasley

The Lovely Ladies of "Red Ruby Photography"
WE SUPPORT OUR LESBIAN SISTERS DURING PRIDE!

Come celebrate pride with us at Angels & Kings' Starlette Sunday on June 28th! Let our all ladies Red Ruby crew provide you with an amazing image to commemorate PRIDE Day, NYC 2009.

We are simply taking RED COUCH PORTRAITS WITH RAINBOW FLAG TO BOOT!

Wanda Owner of Starlette at Angels and Kings and the Super Famous, Marga Gomez., 6/09.


Just take a seat on the a stunning red velvet couch, covered in tasteful plastic. A beautiful rainbow flag behind you! Now all you need to do is sit with your sexy MAMMASITA OR BIG DADDY or better yet, pick up the girl or boy of your dreams and make a fun, very fun memory!!!

This an opportunity for all gender orientations to support the purpose and meaning behind PRIDE. So, welcome! Come away with a keepsake. I've been known to pull out a Sharpie and sign the 4X5" print in front of your face...heee, heee.

Doors open at 7pm till ? !!!

Red Ruby Photography Serves the Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Community in the Tri-State Area. We are available for private parties, club soirees, weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, etc.

Young Women: Submit!

Professional Women Photographers is pleased to announce their 5th Annual Student Awards Program for young women enrolled in a New York City High School with an enthusiasm for photography. Submissions are accepted in two categories: 9th and 10th grades or 11th and 12th grades. The theme for this years awards if "Feminine". The following prizes will be awarded in each category: $500 first prize, $250 second prize, $125 third prize, and an honorable mention. Students who are awarded will have a weeklong exhibition at the HP Gallery at Calumet Photo. For submission details, please visit: http://www.pwponline.org/outreach/awards.php. (tx, Dina!)

On Photography Collectives & Thank you

Joerg Colberg blogged about Photography Collectives today. It is an interesting post and made me think about Nymphoto's efforts and history.

Nymphoto was conceived because we saw a need to help promote women artists but also because we all yearned for community and support (particularly after the loss of structure that comes with finishing one's studies and leaving the academic environment).
Running a collective is not easy. Especially in New York. New York, where everything is expensive, where no one has enough time, where there are a multitude of legal obstacles, where everyone has an opinion and where everyone is happy to criticize and where sometimes people even are happy to belittle or undermine one's efforts. But New York is still a great center for creativity and culture and so New York based Nymphoto soldiers on.
Cara Phillips wrote about her experience of creating & running Women In Photography (also New York based) in her blog post titled "Risk & Reward" (June 6, 2008) and in it she explains how much effort goes into something that might look effortless to others.
Nymphoto continuous to grow. And 2008 promises to be a great year for Nymphoto. And in the spirit of this holiday week, I just wanted to thank my cohorts at Nymphoto and applaud all others out there supporting us and one another: THANK YOU!

Be Alert: Serial Rapist Targeting Women in the Union Square Area

(via The New York Post):

By MURRAY WEISS, CHUCK BENNETT

Last updated: 10:23 am
November 11, 2008
Posted: 3:34 am
November 11, 2008

Police are hunting for a serial rapist who prowls Manhattan's Union Square subway station for young Asian women to follow home and brutally attack.

The fiend viciously raped two of the women in their building vestibules, and has attempted to assault two others since Oct. 1, police sources said. There may be more victims who have yet to come forward.

The suspect waits until a woman unlocks the door to her apartment building and then pounces from behind - choking his victims unconscious before raping them.

The perp is described as 6 feet tall and 170 pounds, and is in his late 20s. He wears a dark, hooded sweatshirt.

The three most recent attacks occurred on Oct. 20.

Anyone with information should contact the Crime Stoppers hot line at (800) 577-TIPS, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577

Reminder: October is Breast Cancer Awarness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awarness Month.
Photographer & filmmaker Jila Nikpay published Heroines in 2006, a collection of black and white portraits of 21 Minnesota women who dealt with breast cancer.
Find out more about this project at Jila Nikpay's website, www.jilanikpay.com. Or listen to Minnesota's Public Radio feature about the project, here.

The Invisible Age

The Invisible Age
Self-Portraits of women aged 50-65
RayKo Photo Center
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
- through October 10, 2008

What is the invisible age? To a large extent it’s a phenomenon of our society, which sees and values younger women for their beauty and energy, and also sees and values older women for their wisdom and character. But, in the eyes of this same society, the 50ish to 65ish woman is of little value and practically invisible.

And yet, what we’re dealing with is not a purely external phenomenon. The invisible age is also internal. It’s an age of transition, when women often must go through the unsettling process of redefining who they are to themselves and to the world. Each individual experiences this age differently. What you'll see on the walls at Rayko is the work of 30 artists, from around the country and as far away as Canada and England, expressing what being at the invisible age means to them.

Exhibition curated by Jan Potts and Beth Kientzle.

www.TheInvisibleAge.com

Artists:

Susan Arthur	Cynthia Batmanis	Niki Berg
Norma Bernstock	Carol Dass	Topher Delaney
Mary Farmilant	Martine Fougeron	Peg Fredi
Jane Fulton Alt	Candace Plummer Gaudiani	Martha Grenon
Ingrid Hesling	Deborah Lattimore	Jean Locey
Charlotte Niel	Erin O'Neill	Jeanette Palsa
Wendy Paton	Jan Potts	Mary Ramain
Barbara Rothman	Nada Savic	Elizabeth Siegfried
Aline Smithson	Rebecca Lynn Swanson	Jacqueline Walters
Marydorsey Wanless	Anita White	Ewa Monika Zebrowski

TGP News

© The Girl Project 2008

We recently checked in on The Girl Project blog to see how the project was involving and man did it gather steam! Congrats!
Head over to their blog to find out more: thegirlprojectblog.blogspot.com
And you can re-visit our interview with Kate Engelbrecht (the woman behind The Girl Project), here.

Intern Wanted for The Girl Project

Head over to The Girl Project Blog to find out who they are looking for: thegirlprojectblog.blogspot.com

Erin Patrice O'Brien Opening

(Via Whats the Jackanory?)

Tonight is the opening reception for Erin Patrice O'Brien's "Mamás Adolescentes: NYC 2006-2007"

A photo exhibition that chronicles two years in the lives of Mexican-American teenage mothers in Brooklyn, NY. The photos in this exhibit are windows into a world that is largely hidden. They tell the story of Fanny, Elizabeth, Maria, Gina and Yolanda when there is no one else to tell it for them.

On View: Saturday, August 16 - Saturday, August 24, 2008

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 16, 2008 4-7pm

Artist Panel Discussion: Saturday, August 16, 3-4pm.

Moderator: Yesenia Ruiz, PhD Candidate, Anthropology

Panel: Dr. Yvette Martas, former Director of the Adolescent OB/Gyn Clinic at Bellevue Hospital, Franziska Castillo, former Contributing Editor of Latina Magazine and Public Relations Manager from El Museo del Barrio and Erin Patrice O'Brien, photographer. Curated by Nina Ziefvert.

Danny Simmons’ Corridor Gallery, 334 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238

After the birth of her own daughter in 2005, Photographer Erin O’Brien was struck by how overwhelming motherhood could be and wanted to know how being a mom felt to those barely into adulthood themselves. Dedicated to documenting the situation Erin contacted Dr. Yvette Martas, head of the Bellevue Hospital Adolescent OBGYN clinic, who in 2005 introduced her to Fanny, 14, Elizabeth , 15, years , Maria, 18, Gina, 16, and Yolanda, 17. After that Erin met with the girls on a regular basis and photographed the girls’ during their pregnancies and for up to a year after their babies’ births. Many of the girls are first generation immigrants, with limited knowledge of English, in search of new lives, but instead have wound up in tenement apartments they share with other families. Cut off from school and friends, they are dependant on their younger siblings or roommates to translate for them, and caring for their babies alone all day often results in isolation. “Erin made these young women feel important by validating their lives by photographing them when the whole society ignores them”, says Dr. Yvette Martas.

The teen pregnancy rate among Latinas is nearly twice the national average, and rising. According to the Latino Initiative’s National Campaign, the birth rate for Latinas aged 15-19 increased in 16 of 37 reporting states and the District of Columbia between 1990 and 2005. Source: www.thenationalcampaign.org

Cui Xiuwen, Xing Danwen

On July 30, 2008 The New York Times published an article by Holland Cotter titled "China's Female Artists Quietly Emerge". Read the article and find out about photographers Cui Xiuwen, Xing Danwen & other female Chinese artists.

Ellen Rennard @ WIPNYC.ORG

Hop over to Women in Photography to see the work of Ellen Rennard.

Community Building!

The NP version and the true & tried original

The now infamous New York Times Gallerina article triggered all kinds of reactions. The formidable Liz Kuball (with some input from Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips) came up with a badge that women photographers could add to their sites and thus signal that they were part of a 'sisterhood'. We thought that was a great idea and put up a widget. Somehow it disappeared from the blog. We don't know why or how. But of course we wanted to bring it back. Since Liz encouraged people to make their own designs, we came up with the one you see above on the left. The one on the right is the original. And we highly recommend adding one to your site!
It is been great seeing everyone's badges on the blogosphere and web. And to see more and more women artist out there and speaking up. Women in Photography is another great example of the community building that is going on.
Kudos Liz Kuball!

Guerrilla Girls

GG in The Mistress , the Spider & the Tangerine

For the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Guggenheim NY, Film Forum in New York is showing "Louise Bourgeois: The Mistress, the Spider and the Tangerine" until July 8th, 2008. For this movie portrait of the artist, the documentary filmmakers (the late Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach) interviewed the Guerrilla Girls, who rightfully hail Louise Bourgeois as a pioneer.
The Guerrilla Girls helped pave the way for women artists (and collectives like this one). Because the Guerrilla Girl might be unknown to the next generation, posted here -for the purpose of (re)acquaintance- are a link to an interview with GG www.guerrillagirls.com/interview/index.shtml and a few of the classic posters authored by the Guerrilla Girls:



some posters by the Guerilla Girls, find more here. ©Guerilla Girls

The Girl Project: A Conversation

© The Girl Project

The talented Dina Kantor recently made us aware of the ongoing The Girl Project --"A national collection of photographs taken by teenage girls. The photographs represent teenage girlhood and life as seen through the eyes of young women in America", states the project's website.
Reminiscent of projects such as "Kids With Camera" and "Through The Eyes of Children - The Rwanda Project", this project however gives viewers a unique look at girlhood in America today and encourages and empowers girls to express themselves and take ownership.


© The Girl Project

The project intrigued us and made us curious about who is behind the idea. The Girl Project is spearheaded by New York based photographer Kate Engelbrecht, who took the time to answer a few questions for us:

NP: Tell us a little about yourself.
KE: I am from Minnesota originally. I grew up in Northern MN but have lived in NYC for the past 10 years. After college I didn't have a clue what to do with myself. I had majored in sociology and was not interested in a career in academia, so I moved to NYC and started working in advertising. Shortly after I learned I didn't want to work in advertising.

NP: How did you discover photography?
KE: It was at the ad agency I worked for. While I was quickly becoming uninterested in advertising I was even faster falling in love with photography. I bought a used Minolta with a 50mm lens for $150 and started shooting. It is still my favorite camera.

NP: How did this project come about?
KE: I had been toying with the idea for some time - looking for a way to blend two things that interest me (photography and girlhood). At some point I realized that the opportunity was bigger than just examining female adolescence through photography... and that it could also be a way to understand girls in an entirely new way. I figured why not go to the source - why not let the subject speak for herself.

NP: What would you consider to be the ideal venue to show an exhibit of these images you are collecting and curating?
KE: Great question. And I'm torn between two answers. One is institutional, by where my dream is to see The Girl Project on exhibit at ICP, Mass MoCA or The Walker. The other is to make it more approachable... more accessible... and get Target to sponsor a traveling exhibition in their stores.

NP: Thanks so much! We are much looking forward to seeing how the project progresses.


The Girl Project also has a blog: thegirlprojectblog.blogspot.com