For the past few years, Seattle's Photographic Center Northwest has been organizing an annual 24-hour global photo shoot and exhibition to help raise money for their exhibitions and educational programming. Kicking off June 10, photographers from around the world can shoot and submit photographs from wherever they are. Submit up to 5 photos by June 12, and a panel of jurors including Humble's Jon Feinstein will select one image from each photographer to be included in a slideshow and pop-up exhibition on June 17th. See the full details HERE.

Below are some of our favorite images submitted to Long Shot 2016.

PostedMay 25, 2017

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions

Tagsphotothon, photocenter northwest, photography hackathon, Seattle photography

A "transporter" is a common science fiction trope, a teleportation machine that can instantly send an individual or object from one place to another, popularized most commonly in Star Trek, or The Fly. One hypothetical concern was its potential "accidents," in which the device might incorrectly materialize its source. Like in Mel Brooks' classic Space Balls in which a "microconverter malfunction" accidentally places Brooks' head on backwards, giving him a better view of his behind.

Enter Transporter, a group exhibition curated by Katie Shapiro and Sean Higgins at Los Angeles' Paul Kopeikin Gallery, which includes photography, video, and sculpture that addresses these lapses and distortions in transportational movement.
The exhibition is up though June 17th, 2017.

I contacted curator Katie Shaprio to learn more about her and Higgins' ideas behind the exhibition.

Interview by Jon Feinstein

PostedMay 23, 2017

AuthorJon Feinstein

CategoriesGalleries, Exhibitions, Artists

TagsKatie Shapiro, Art About Science Fiction, Sean Higgins, Paul Kopeikin

This Thursday, May 18, the seventh annual Long Island City Arts Open presents Disruption, a photography exhibition curated by Orestes Gonzalez, featuring five photographers from Cuba, Spain, and the United States. The show addresses contemporary environmental, political, and social issues as they relate to the feeling of being an outsider. Gonzalez selected work that he describes as encouraging viewers to empathize with the experience of physical, mental, and spiritual dislocations caused by immigration from one’s homeland and the sense of personal loss. Included are hard hitting images like Griselda San Martin's photographs of families embracing on each side of the wall at the Mexican border, and 2017 Aperture Prize nominee Kris Graves' photographs on the exact spot in various locations throughout the United States where black men were murdered by police last year.

Disruption opens Thursday, May 18 @ 6:00pm at The Factory in Long Island City, NY, followed by an artist talk on Sunday, May 21 at 2:30pm. Open through May 25. More details HERE.

Disruption opens Thursday, May 18th @ 6:00pm at The Factory in Long Island City, NY, followed by an artist talk on Sunday, May 21th at 2:30pm. Open through May 25. More details HERE.

PostedMay 15, 2017

AuthorJon Feinstein

CategoriesExhibitions, Artists, Galleries

TagsOrestes Gonzalez, Griselda Dan Martin, Long Island City Arts Open, Kris Graves, Veronica Cardenas

Binocular Tropical © Joseph Desler Costa — *Binocular Tropical* © Joseph Desler Costa

Last summer I visited Foley Gallery in New York City’s Lower East Side to see High Summer, an exhibition curated by Joseph Desler Costa and Jeremy Haik, and had the chance to interview both artists about their work and approach to art-making. Desler Costa, who is represented by Michael Foley, recently celebrated the opening of a solo exhibition of his own work, Particle Paradise, a display of seventeen new photographs and sculptural pieces. I visited the gallery on an overcast afternoon and was met by the artist for a private tour of the show. Continuing our conversation later, we discussed some of the finer points of his new work.

PostedApril 5, 2017

AuthorAdam Ryder

CategoriesExhibitions, Artists, Galleries

TagsJoseph Desler Costa, Jeremy Haik, Adam Ryder, Michael Foley, Foley Gallery, New Photography

Photo Courtesy of Shutterstock / Everett Collection

"Beauty" is a loaded, complicated, and occasionally so-overused-it's-neutralized term in photography and beyond. A quick Google search turns up everything from On Beauty, Zadie Smith's 2005 novel, to Robert Adams' classic photography book of the same title. A likely first thought for fellow visual literacy junkies might be the ever-present "male gaze" -- the idea, described by John Berger and officially coined by Laura Mulvey decades ago-- that every aspect of visual media and history has been filtered through a heterosexual male lens. While our thoughts bounce from slick, and often damaging fashion campaigns to countless cinematic tropes, they also toggle between hackneyed photographs of sunsets and flowers, and early ennobled American landscape photographs that fueled Manifest Destiny. Idealization at its imagined finest.

Where are we going with this?

For Group Show # 53: On Beauty we'd like to see photographs, gifs, photo-based collage and a range of other light-sensitive media that address and dissect how beauty is represented and understood. How has rapidly shifting image-culture influenced our perceptions of the visual ideal? Like most of our open calls, the conceptual guidelines are open to interpretation. We invite you to get crazy, think outside expectation, and subvert our minds.

We're excited to welcome one of our favorite writers and curators Roula Seikaly to co-curate the exhibition with Humble's co-founder Jon Feinstein.

Submission Details:

PostedMarch 28, 2017

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions

Tagsopen call, male gaze, beauty in photography, Jon Feinstein, Roula Seikaly

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Open Call - Group Show # 53: On Beauty