5,537,594 Suns by Penelope Umbrico

Hello dear readers and photographers. We're starting a new series called Week in Review, where we reminisce on the highlights of each week, point out some great things we saw on the internet, and drop hints about what the future holds!

Openings:

- On Wednesday, a whole bunch of us headed to Brooklyn to catch the opening of Leonards for Leonard & 5,537,594 Suns (above), two found-photographic installations at BAM by Penelope Umbrico (also a 20x200 edition-maker). The works are photographic in the unorthodox sense that Umbrico used printouts of photographs she found on Google Images and Flickr to create her installations. See this next time you catch a movie at BAM, highly recommended!

Natman Room, BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building
Jan 6-Mar 14, 2010
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY

- Versus, a show pitting photographers against each other as well as pairing them together, opened at Hous Projects yesterday. The show includes 2008 Second Edition Hot Shot Cara Phillips, photographer and 20x200 edition-maker Brian Ulrich, and 2008 Second Edition Honorable Mention Alex Leme, among others.

Hous Projects
Mon-Sat, 10 am-6 pm
January 7 - March 8, 2010 31 Howard Street 2nd fl
New York, New York

Hot Shot Q&As:
- We want to get to know the person behind the camera so each round of HHS! we send out our trusty questionnaire to each of the Hot Shots. This week we heard from Leah Tepper Byrne and Alejandro Cartagena. The last three Q&As will run this coming Monday, Wednesday and the Monday after that, so get pumped and stay tuned.

On the web:

- As if three blogs wasn't enough for you, JBP is officially on Tumblr! We haven't made a fuss about it yet since we're still kicking the tires, but it's a casual running dialogue from our team in New York (a.k.a. an opportunity for us to share the funny things we find on the internet and drop hints about upcoming editions, exhibitions and things you can look forward to from JBP). If you're on Tumblr, follow us for the inside scoop.

- 01 Magazine released their Photography Issue including the work of Summer 2005 Hot Shot Noah Kalina and 2009 Second Edition Hot Shot Jessica Eaton.

- Online art resource Culturehall presented a showcase of work including the Aura Portraits of Fall 2007 Hot Shot Carlo Van de Roer and work by Honorable Mention Alex Leme. The showcase, which also includes Gina Levay and Matthew Pillsbury, was curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel (also curator of the aforementioned Versus show) and runs on the front page of Culturehall through January 12th.

- We're not entirely sure whether Polaroid fans should rejoice or beware, all we know for sure is that Lady Gaga has officially been appointed Creative Director of Polaroid.

- Tomorrow is your very last day to catch Mixtape at Jen Bekman Gallery so scurry on down to Spring Street and check it out. There are lots of Hot Shots in the show and I can attest to the fact that the work is even more impressive in person than on the screen. After this show comes down JBG will be unveiling What You're Told, the NYC debut solo show of painter Clare Grill.