girlandagun by Stephanie Cinelli

Yes. Look-Look Magazine is a great publication, and Spring 2005 Hot Shot, Stephanie Cinelli, is having her work published in issue #6. It's due to hit stands in early June. Yes.

Rebecca Smeyne, Winter 2006 Hot Shot and lead writer and photo director for myopenbar.com, was at a wild party in Manhattan called Happy Valley a few weeks ago where she took some photos. One of them was included in Anthem Magazine on April 19th.

Black Face Jesus by Rebecca Smeyne

Hedda Lettuce by Rebecca Smeyne

This excerpt from Anthem Magazine does its best to describe the scene:

"So this club Happy Valley has been getting mad NYC media love lately, and after last night's Joanna's Angels release shindig, I can certainly see why. It's like some weird amalgam of crass Eurotrash excess and a cocaine-fueled 1980s I never lived through; transvestites with big fake boobs; a DJ booth set in a gaudy disco ball; various people taking their clothes off; various people smoking inside and not getting yelled at; $11 plastic cups of Jack Daniels; a really flamboyant dude who was, I swear, wearing a jacket made out of an oven mitt; a 20-minute trailer of the Angels' porn, the plot of which was a bit hard to follow (presidential meetings and secret missions punctuated by bouts of tender, tender lovemaking); trying to sit next to various transvestites with fake boobs and/or wearing nurse's costumes in the hopes of procuring some of their Grey Goose bottle service overflow (which never happened); arriving home at 5 a.m. still wired and waking up feeling like somebody chewed on a vital corner of my brain. As a former college classmate of the lady in question, I can still remember when Ms. Angel was a saucy co-ed with a Web site and a dream. After last night, all I can say is--these kids sure grow up fast."

Paaarty.

Untitled by Tema Stauffer

Jen recently began a kind of collaboration with Jonathan Rubinstein, owner of Joe -- a pair of New York coffee shops. Jen shows photographs from the gallery's inventory at Joe on 13th Street, and will be showing work at Joe on Waverly Place shortly. The name of the collaboration is jen@joe. Awww.

Little Blue House by Dylan Chatain

Jen is currently showing work from previous Hot Shots (and former Hot Shot panelist Tema Stauffer) and there will be a reception to officially launch jen@joe on Sunday, April 30th, between 2 and 4 PM at 9 East 13th Street. The featured Hot Shots are:

Martin Amis
Dylan Chatain
Kelli Anderson
James Deavin
Joseph Holmes
Florianne de Lassee
Diane Meyer(her website, www.dianemeyer.net, is coming soon)
Youngna Park
Tema Stauffer
Matthew Tischler

Jen, Joe, and a number of the Hot Shots will be there. Come by. Ask questions. Ogle.

Joe
9 East 13th Street
between University Place and 5th Ave.
(That's *this* Sunday (4/30) 2pm-4pm)

Shawn Records, a Fall 2005 Hot Shot, is certainly leaving his mark! He's been up to so much that I'm just going to make a bulleted list of his accomplishments.

Shawn:

-has been selected for inclusion in the 2006 Oregon Biennial to be
held in July.
-currently has work up in a show called "Contrasting Objectives:
Fifteen Pacific Northwest Photographers" at the Whatcom Museum of
History and Art in Bellingham, Washington.
-has been selected for inclusion in the Portland Modern, a juried
publication and exhibition.
-has done three editorial assignments for W magazine and one for Res
magazine.
-had two images of his personal work included in Ripe magazine.
-has been selected for the "Photography Now" issue of the Photography Quarterly magazine, a publication of the Center for
Photography at Woodstock. This time around, the competition was juried by Dana Faconti, editor of Blind Spot.
-has been teaching at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington.

Wow. Keep up the good work, Shawn!

Summer 2005 Hot Shot Martin Amis was chosen as one of Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographers in 2006 for his Racing Seen series. More photos, such as the one below from Racing Seen, can be viewed on Martin's website: lifeshots.co.uk

Martin will have his work printed in a delightful art book along with photographs by other selected artists from the US, UK, and Canada, which will be published in November of this year. In September, the emerging photographers will have an exhibition in Toronto at the Lennox Contemporary.

Congrats, Martin!

Winter 2006 Hot Shot Nicole Jean Hill will have her hands full over the next few months!

This summer her photo, Lou, formerly in the Winter 2006 Hey, Hot Shot! exhibit at Jen Bekman Gallery, will be shown at the Print Center's 80th annual photography exhibtion in Philadelphia.

Lou by Nicole Jean Hill

She will also be in the BemisUNDERGROUND:Terrain show with two other artists, Lydia Moyer and Mark Bradley-Shoup at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, where whe will exhibit a new series of landscape photographs from May 5 to June 10.

Bemis Center writes:

"Omaha artist Nicole Jean Hill utilizes large-format color photography to explore both the social and physical aspects inherent in Midwestern landscape. Through the process of photographing ordinary spaces such as baseball diamonds, Hill seeks to create metaphors for land and our use of it. In so doing, she addresses global issues of land use through very local reference points. In her recent body of work, Hill has been creating several "picturesque" images of a single capped landfill in eastern Nebraska."

Furthermore, Nicole's first European exhibition will be at Gallery Sottoportego, Venice, in July. In August, she will begin her residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah where she'll be documenting drag racing in the salt flats. Nicole also received a scholarship to take a digital bookmaking course at the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, which she will be attending at the very end of the summer.

This is one of the portraits from Noah's latest project...

untitled #8 (plasma television) by Noah Addis

air force base: 01:16 am by Noah Addis

Noah Addis, a Winter 2006 Hot Shot, has moved away from "Night Skies" to a new series of portraits.

Of these portraits, Noah writes,

"This new body of work explores the connection between modern society and mass media technology. As people spend more and more time glued to their televisions and interacting on the internet, they retreat somewhat from society and become anonymous consumers of electronic information."

He uses either computer screens or televisions as the unique light source in each portrait. They're very, very cool, so have a look! He has designed a new website with the same URL: noahaddis.com.

Since the inception of the Hey, Hot Shot! blog, I've heard from a number of the former Hot Shots about their current endeavors. They're all contributing to the world of photography, keeping busy and doing great things. I'll be posting updates as they are received, so stay tuned!

Robert Knight, a Summer 2005 Hot Shot, will be in back-to-back (literally) shows at the end of this month! The first will be his MFA thesis exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art's Bakalar Gallery. It will be up from April 26th to May 6th. The second will be "Spaces: Process Revealed" in Brooklyn at the Pearl Street Gallery from May 6th to May 28th.

Visit his website to view photos from two of his series, "Dwelling: Domestic as Portrait" and "The Harry Project", and, if you're in the neighborhood(s), go see his work in the upcoming shows. Support your fellow Hot Shots!

Jake Rowland, a Summer 2005 Hot Shot, is exhibiting his work in SVA's Mentors, an exhibition of photographs by emerging artists.

Mentors is a show for the 56 SVA students who participated in "a year-long mentorship with leaders in the visual arts." Students were paired with the city's "best-known photographers, curators, art directors, publishers, art dealers, critics and writers" to learn how to gain a wider audience for their work. Ms. Jen Bekman is actually a mentor herself; her prodigy is Nicholas Fevelo.

Jake makes pretty rad portraits. The one above is part of a series of photographs called The River Rock Variations (the series can be seen on Jake's website, which can be accessed by clicking up top on Jake's name). You should head to SVA and check out his work. The show will be up until April 29th.

The exhibition is at the:

Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
NEW YORK

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It turns out they've just written a piece entitled "The 7 Best Photo Contests to Enter Today: You're a Star, Now Show the World," and Hey, Hot Shot! was on the list! Damn straight.

Salutations.

You met Christine the intern a few weeks ago. I'm Anna, and I'm an intern, too. Jen has asked me to edit a new blog that will focus specifically on the quarterly Hey, Hot Shot! photography competition. We recently had an exhibition for the 10 Winter Hot Shot winners, and it received great press. The opening packed the gallery to the gills and was a wonderful success. Stuff about the competition and the artists will be posted regularly, but first I must introduce myself properly.

This may help:

February 22, 2006
Dear Jen Bekman and friends, When I saw your post on NYFA, I was so excited. I discovered your gallery a few years back and have always appreciated the art you exhibit. I received a Bachelor's degree in Art History from Davidson College in May, 2005, where I discovered a passion for Contemporary Art. As an undergraduate, I studied the works of established Contemporary artists. However, I have always been interested in learning about unknown and emerging talent; your gallery appears to be the perfect venue for this.
You're a young gallery doing so much! I am interested in learning about how you operate, from the curatorial and research aspects to your web blog and Hot Shot photography contest (I love that you have this contest!). I believe an internship at your gallery would give me the opportunity to understand how the scholarly world of art and that of commercial art are bridged. I am thrilled at the prospect of helping out with upcoming exhibitions. I also have strong research, writing, and computer skills and am able to do any and all curatorial and handy work around the gallery. Below you will find my resume with additional information including education, experiences, skills, and languages. I would love to meet with you and discuss the position in further detail. Jen Bekman is a fresh gallery where I hope to get my wings!
Thanks in advance for considering me as an intern at your gallery.

Sincerely yours,

Anna Wolfgang

Until very soon, then!

Anna