Apply to HHS! by April 22nd to win a chance at a generous gift bag from Radius Books
We are extremely excited to announce that Darius Himes, a founding editor of Radius Books and also a HHS! panelist, will be the guest curator for the first month of competition! Radius Books is a non-profit art book publishing company based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. But, beyond producing an exquisite collection of books, Radius also encourages an ongoing and challenging dialogue in the arts.
All contenders who enter the competition by April 22nd are automatically considered for this first Curator's Choice Award.
Hot Shot Artist Pages
Aside from revamping the HHS! competition for our 5th anniversary, we launched an awesome new feature: Hot Shot Artist Pages. Now, every season of the competition and every individual Hot Shot since the competition first opened five years ago has their own profile page! Here's a random sample of artist pages: Mickey Smith, Birthe Piontek, Michelle Arcila, and Justin James King.
Ride from Jen Bekman Gallery to the BAM Silent Auction + Cocktail Reception (and back!)
We'll be chartering a coach bus from Jen Bekman Gallery to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and back tomorrow, March 27th, for the 6th Annual BAM Silent Auction + Cocktail Reception. Work by Hot Shots Ian Baguskas and Colleen Plumb are on the block so we hope you'll come out with us to bid on their work and support BAM! You *must* RSVP ahead of time to reserve a seat on the bus.
This Week's Contenders
This week we kicked off our series of Hey, Hot Shot! Contender posts. One of the perks of entering the competition is that our team will be blogging regularly about entries that catch our eye up until the day the Hot Shots are announced.
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Hey, Hot Shot! News
- The home of photographer and design aficionado (he's the head of the Cooper Hewitt shop!) Gregory Krum is featured this week on Sight Unseen.
- HHS! Panelist and publisher of the Aperture Foundation books program, Lesley A. Martin is interviewed with photographer Trevor Paglen, whose monograph will be published by Aperture this fall.
- Colin Blakely was featured this week on NPR's The Picture Show blog, which presented a slideshow of Colin's work, along with a 100 word statement.
From the Web
- We just posted over at the Jen Bekman Gallery blog about one of our favorite photographers, Zoe Strauss, who will be concluding her celebrated I-95 project this year. She'll also be in Philadelphia making Polaroid portraits tomorrow, March 27th from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. at 838 Cantrell Street.
- Jamie of From Me To You was one of the winners of our Twitter contest who got invited to the SNAP! Out of Winter Party at Aperture last Friday. She posted a nice set of pictures from the event. Also, JBP's own Kika and Sukchander won a raffle at the party and got this beautiful print.
Photography on 20x200
Blue-and-yellow Macaw_044 by Andrew Zuckerman
This week on 20x200 we were excited to release a starkly colorful edition by studio-photographer Andrew Zuckerman. The images seem to be straight forward, but perfectly capturing these rare species in motion is no easy task. The grand scheme his work is extremely ambitious and interesting:
The animal series will continue with endangered animals; the human portraits will continue into fashion and film. Ultimately, the volumes will comprise a singular view of both the animal and human world, brought into focus under one lens, in one light.
Don't miss the high definition BIRD film (set, appropriately, to Animal Collective.) Also, our awesome friends at Chronicle Books are offering an exclusive discount: 30% off and free shipping (within North America) on purchases of Andrew Zuckerman's BIRD book, featuring 200 color photographs from the series. Simply use promo code BIRD30 at checkout on ChronicleBooks.com
That's it for this week! If you see anything we missed drop us a line on Twitter @heyhotshot. Have a great weekend!