about face

This exhibition opens today; I feel so lucky to be included. Two friends from the KC area also have work in the show: Deanna Dikeman and Phillip Heying.

There are some fun festivities celebrating this exhibition, and there is a Flak Photo (Andy Adams) slide show of portrait work by many other photographers running alongside the exhibition. It's all pretty wonderful!

Hopefully, those of you who live in KC will have a chance to check out "About Face." It was curated by Jane Aspinwall and April Watson and will be at the museum until January.

save the date for "about face"

ABOUT FACE:

CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE

August 9, 2013-January 19, 2014

Location: Bloch Building, Gallery L11
Admission is free

"This exhibition will explore the breadth and global diversity of contemporary photographic portraiture since 2000, highlighting recent acquisitions to the museum's permanent collection.

About Face will include works by twenty-nine artists from the United States, England, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Iran and South Africa. Though each of these photographers approaches portrait-making differently, certain thematic threads resonate throughout the show, including questions of racial, cultural, ethnic, class and gender identity; the relationship between individuals and typologies; the way photographic processes themselves inform meaning; the relevance of historical precedents to contemporary practice; and the impact of media stereotypes on self-presentation. Considered collectively, the works in About Face offer a provocative and engaging forum for considering the question: how do we define portraiture today?

For this exhibition, co-curators Jane L. Aspinwall and April M. Watson at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art are partnering with FlakPhoto.com creator Andy Adams to create a collaborative exhibition project focusing on contemporary portraiture.

The project will present two distinct, simultaneous exhibitions: About Face, our in-gallery exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins, and 'Making Pictures of People,' a digital exhibition presented online for web-based audiences worldwide. Visitors will be able to access the Flak Photo exhibition via touch screens in the gallery and on mobile devices outside the museum.

The goal of our collaboration is twofold: to celebrate the complementary experiences of engaging with photographs as objects and as images, and to connect museum visitors in Kansas City with an international community deeply engaged in thinking about portraiture and contemporary photographic practice."

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Pieter Hugo, South African (b. 1976). Annebelle Schreuders (1), 2012. Inkjet print. 

I am very pleased to share that one of my pictures from Uganda, "Two Girls in Sunday Dresses" will be included in this exhibition!

fraction magazine holiday print sale

I have made available 5.5" x 5.5" signed (not numbered) archival pigment prints of "Jump Rope, Kajjansi, 2010" in the annual Fraction Magazine Holiday Print Sale. Buy art this holiday season for yourself or those on your gift list at very reasonable prices. (Mine is only $50 plus shipping.) The photographers included in the sale are those whose work has been featured in Fraction. A big thanks to David Bram for organizing the sale, which you can peruse here and a big thanks to Andy Adams for including a selection of images from the sale on Flak Photo.

100 Portraits — 100 Photographers

For the past five years editor Andy Adams has been been publishing FlakPhoto, a website that promotes photography from within the online photo community. In November 2010, Adams teamed up with curator Larissa Leclair to produce a photo projection for the FotoWeek DC Festival of Photography. It screened simultaneously at several non-traditional exhibition venues: on the exterior of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in the Satellite Central projection theater and on screens fixed to trucks traveling throughout the streets of the city. The project(ion) was called "100 Portraits - 100 Photographers." I talked about it some time ago in this post.

The screening has subsequently been shown at the "Head On Photography Festival" in Sydney, "Snap!", "Celebrate the Photograph" in Orlando, and the "New York Photo Festival" in Brooklyn.

"100 Portraits - 100 Photographers" received its first physical exhibition this summer at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, Australia. Andy, one of the hardest working guys I know, recently shared these photos of the installation with the other 99 photographers and me.

I'm really proud to be part of this exhibition.

Watch this cool installation video of the show in Sydney.

"huge" exhibition

FotoWeek DC starts tomorrow. All things related to photography will spring to life in Washington DC. That includes exhibitions, lectures, workshops and portfolio reviews.

Considered one of the most spectacular parts of FotoWeek DC is the NightGallery program. I’ve never attended any of the events, but I have heard that this is especially cool. The NightGallery turns the entire city into a massive nighttime gallery, illuminating the facades of DC’s architecture with gigantic photographic projections. This year, the NightGallery projects are being projected onto these buildings: the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Newseum, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, American Red Cross, National Museum of the American Indian, Satellite Central and Human Rights Campaign building.

The NightGallery selections are presented in three divisions - journalism, environmental and fine art - and were curated (respectively) by Jamie Wellford, the photo editor of Newsweek; Kathy Moran, senior editor for natural history projects at National Geographic magazine; and Andy Adams, Editor & Publisher of FlakPhoto.com—along with Larissa Leclair, photography writer and curator.



I am very pleased to say that my photograph “Children in Front of Chalkboard, Magada, Uganda, 2006” is among the photographs chosen for the fine art display, which is entitled “100 Portraits – 100 Photographers.” These photographs will be shown on the façade of the Corcoran Gallery.

I wish I could be there to see and experience what must be a breathtaking way to view images! Please check out some of the work of the other photographers, in whose company I am thrilled to be.

flak

One of my photographs from Uganda is featured today on Flak Photo, a daily photography website that celebrates the art & culture of photography online. Produced by Andy Adams, the site highlights new series work, book projects and gallery exhibitions from an international community of contributors. I'm so pleased to be included!