C4FAP + Crista Dix present Low Tech

I am excited to be teaming up with the Center for Fine Art Photography to jury their upcoming show, Low Tech.

As anyone who has seen wall space knows, I love well crafted images. This is a great way for me to see new work, to experience great work and to support the tremendous efforts of C4FAP, who's mission is to celebrate photography. My thanks to Hamidah Glasgow and Azarie Furlong for inviting me to be participate.

image - Galina Kurlat, Ambrotype


So here are the specifics -

IMPORTANT DATES:
Entries due: July 13, 2010
Notice of acceptance: July 23, 2010
Exhibition dates: Oct 1 - 30, 2010

Public / Artists’ Reception: Oct 1 from 6-9pm (I'll be there too)

Prospectus -
While many of the low-tech processes have come in and out of favor, they remain a steadfast part of the photographic cannon. The Center is currently celebrating the low-tech processes and is interested in exhibiting the best low-tech images that photographers are producing. This call is open to all subjects and styles of photography that include a low tech means of image making or printing. This includes, but is not limited to; toy, Holga and Diana cameras, Pinhole, Wet Plate Collodian, Photograms, Callotypes, Cyanotypes, Polaroid and other traditional processes.

and the winners receive?

With selection for this exhibition, featured artist's work will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and other advocates of fine art photography. Each participant will be included in the Center's Main Gallery exhibition and Online Gallery exhibition.

liveBooks Website Award: Valued at $399 each, two artists will receive a one year subscription for a website from liveBooks.com

Juror’s Selection Award: $300 and a Blurb book award from Blurb.com

Director’s Selection Award: $200 and a Blurb book award from Blurb.com

Honorable Mention Award: $100

All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery.

I look forward to your submissions. If you have any questions, please contact the gallery or C4FAP for details.

Reaching Out - May 20th-23rd, with Tim Wride

wall space is excited to be working with Photographic Center Northwest to bring Tim Wride, former curator at LACMA, and Executive Director of No Strings Foundation to Seattle for a weekend of events celebrating photography, its artists and ideas from May 20-23rd, 2010.

Here is the schedule -

Thursday 20 May, 2010 - 7pm Photographic Center Northwest
cost $5.

The Sky is Falling?
Just when you thought it was safe to go out in the Art World...everyone starts talking about toxic assets and downsizing! What’s an art lover to do? Curator/writer/educator Tim B. Wride will give his unique, and usually irreverent, look at the state of the Photography World in the wake of our current economic, social, and aesthetic meltdown. Follow as he guides us through the past and present trends that are in crisis, and take a leap as he offers insights into what may be the look of the future. Tim will point fingers, name names, and tilt at windmills as he explains how he dares harbor a satisfied sense of total OPTIMISM for the future of image making.

Saturday 22 May, 2010 - 11am - 3pm PCNW
cost $95.

Introduction to Critical Looking: A Seminar for Thinking Photographers

After all the practical workshops, after all the tech consultations, after all the seminars, after all the portfolio reviews ....now what? How does all of the information apply to YOUR process and YOUR work? How do the trends and climate of the art world affect you and your work? Do you know how to look at photographs—including your own—and CRITICALLY ascertain the direction and relevance of them? What is the difference between the work you want to do and the work you SHOULD do? How do you know which way to turn in order to grow as an artist?

Curator/writer/educator Tim B. Wride will guide you toward a fuller understanding of the art climate in which you are working and the social, economic, and creative pressures that are affecting your photography. Through a dynamic program of lectures, Q&A’s, and group interaction, we will explore the state of the market, the directions of creative interplay, and, most important, the necessity of critically and intensely LOOKING at the work you see as well as the work you make. For too many artists this is the most overlooked aspect of their tools and talents; for all artists, however, CRITICAL LOOKING is the most basic skill that must be developed in order to challenge and advance their artmaking ability.

Sunday 23 May, 2010 - 11am - 4.30pm PCNW
Cost $375. Class is Limited to 15 participants!!

Critical Looking: The Art of Conscious Creativity-

Do you know how to look at photographs—including your own—and CRITICALLY ascertain the direction and relevance of them? What is the difference between the work you want to do and the work you SHOULD do? How do you know which way to turn in order to grow as an artist? CRITICAL LOOKING is the key to expanding your awareness and applying a conscious understanding of your artistic process.

Tim B. Wride guides you through a dynamic series of historical perspectives, contemporary observations, interactive exercises, group critiques, and one-on-one portfolio reviews with the goal of awakening a fuller understanding of YOUR unique creative process and the directions that may be open to you with this new understanding. Open up your creativity and apply it to the way in which you approach images and imagemaking. Make the move to growth through self-awareness.

About Tim -

Tim B. Wride is a voracious consumer of photographic images. He likes nothing better than to look at photographs and talk to photographers about their work.
As Curator of the Department of Photographs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for 14 years, Tim curated over 50 exhibitions, authored and contributed to a dozen books, and has lectured, participated in panels, juried exhibitions, and provided portfolio reviews internationally. In 2004, Tim became the founding Executive Director of the No Strings Foundation, a Los Angeles-based non-profit that provides individual artist grants to U.S. photographers.

for more information, or to sign up for any of the events, please call wall space at 206.330.9137 or contact the gallery or PCNW

image Joelle Jensen, Interiors (Portrait Wall)

J. Wesley Brown

I'm a fan. Have been since Critical Mass 2008.
His work is cinematic and moody, voyeuristic and just plain cool. His series semblances is the big lonely city at night. In looking over his website, the images are great, but I miss the words, I want to know why these women are sitting alone at a bus stop, where were they? where are they going? I love telling stories, so I just add my own narrative, but every once in awhile a clue would be great.



Wesley's work was part of our New Directions 2010 show and I was thrilled to see it up on the wall. Being a generous and all around good guy, he created a special edition of Bus Stop for Life Support, our program to provide support to Doctors without Borders and Haiti relief.
I think he has a great career ahead of him, what do you think?

Down + Out | Andrew Binkley - Best of Show

Andrew Binkley, from the lovely Hawaiian Islands, is part of our New Directions 2010, Down + Out show, and our Best of Show choice by our juror Dr. Carol McCusker. His series Crossings has an arresting quality to it, making the viewer stop, pause and really delve into the facets, like a diamond, of all of the intricacies in the exposures. The bold color on the neutral background helps to define the organized chaos in a vibrant form.

As the Best of Show winner, Andrew has been awarded a gift certificate from Blurb Books to self publish his work. Congratulations Andrew and a huge Thank You to Blurb for supporting Wall space and New Directions.

His series Crossings, is working within the themes of intersection, of sharing paths, transforming or changing relationships, and the unknown connections between people through time. Here are more images from his series.









In looking deeper at his work, I loved his black and white series, Just Being. These beautiful black and white constructions have balance, symmetry, and a certain quietness that is respectful of the subject, meditation.
Here are some images from that series -

life support

I wanted to do something. I think we all did. We started out with such hope for this new year, I don't know anyone who wanted to even see 2009 in the rear view mirror. When the earthquake happened in Haiti, I needed to do something. One of our New Directions artists, Jeff Antebi, had a photograph in the show of Cite Soleil, a Haitian slum. He and I talked about a benefit using his photo, and from there, I saw the power of an image, and wanted to expand the idea.
I am so honored to represent such tremendous artists, all banded together to create Life Support. The gallery and our artists are donating all of the proceeds, so 100% of the purchase goes to the group Doctors Without Borders. I can't think of a more worthy organization.

For those of you who have already shopped Life Support, thank you. For those of you who haven't seen the work yet, take a look. Here are some of the images available.




Wedding Clothes, Aline Smithson



Magnolia, Charles Grogg




Full Moon, Bill Finger




Bonnie, Brenda and Betty, Lydia Panas



Capitol Reef Storm, Mitch Dobrowner


Aajooba and Me, Priya Kambli



Kurama Sake Barrels, Ron Reeder



Architectural Detail No. 73, Randall J. Corcoran



Our New Directions 2010 artists are also participating. Purchase one of their special editions for $25 and all proceeds are contributed to Doctors Without Borders as well.

Thank you for helping us make a difference in peoples lives.

Emily Nathan + Haiti Relief

Emily Nathan Has generously donated all proceeds of her gorgeous print, Green Sea to aid in supporting disaster relief in Haiti.

To purchase this print take a look.

Thank you for your support.

Jeff Antebi, Cite Soleil + Doctors Without Borders

Jeff Antebi, one of our New Directions participants has a beautiful image of one of Haiti's poorest slums, Cite Soleil on the wall in the gallery. Jeff and I humbly ask you to support Doctors without Borders, OxFam or the Red Cross to help provide basic services and care that are so desperately needed in the country after the earthquake. On the gallery's website, we have an 8x10 print available for a price of $25. all of which goes to the relief organization of your choice. This small amount will go a long way to providing medical supplies and food to this impoverished nation. If you do not wish to purchase a print, support the relief effort in other ways.

Text Haiti to 90999 to instantly donate $10.
Give directly to Doctors Without Borders here.
Give to the American Red Cross.
Give directly to OxFam here.
MSNBC has a list of relief organizations working in Haiti here.

We are pleased to do our part to help. We hope you will as well.