Response to Print of Green Hill, Washington, 2010 by Laura Plageman

Hi, photographers. We've been (quietly) working towards a big month, and now we're kicking off the new year with big Hey, Hot Shot! news. The Hey, Hot Shot! First Edition 2011 Showcase opens THIS Friday, January 6th, with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Come join us in celebrating the work of these very talented photographers—meet and mingle with some of the First Edition 2011 Hot Shots: Robert Grimm, Kevin Kunishi, Uygur Yilmaz, Laurie Kang and Laura Plageman.

The Hey, Hot Shot! First Edition 2011 Showcase presents a diverse selection of contemporary photography from around the globe. Robert Grimm gleans images of male strippers from live video streams, exposing a complex portrait of the young men who strip online and the yearnings of those who pay to watch them. Laurie Kang's serene still lifes and sculptural photographs reveal a world of loneliness and boredom where we least expect it. Uygur Yilmaz finds rhymes and cadence among the abandoned beach setting of a Turkish coastline during off-season. Traveling through war-torn Nicaragua, Kevin Kunishi takes an intimate look at pro- and anti-Sandinista guerrillas and the environments and objects that surround them. Laura Plageman pushes photography to its limits as she tears, bends and crumples up her luscious, green landscapes.

Our distinguished panel of arts professionals, together with the Jen Bekman Projects curatorial team, chose these five artists for their unique contributions to contemporary photography. Since its inception in 2005, Hey, Hot Shot! has awarded more than one hundred and forty photographers—including 2010 Whitney Biennial artists Nina Berman and Curtis Mann—with unparalleled opportunities for support and exposure.

Robert, Kevin, Uygur, Laurie and Laura are now under consideration for our Grand Prize—a $10,000 honorarium, solo exhibition and representation from Jen Bekman Gallery. The grand prize-winning Ultra will be announced in the coming weeks. The chosen photographer will join ranks with other JBG-represented artists, including 2010 Ultra Chikara Umihara and 2009 Ultras Mike Sinclair and Kurt Tong. We're looking forward to many collaborations with all of these photographers at the gallery and on 20x200.

The exhibition will be on view January 7th through January 22nd, 2012.
The opening reception will be Friday, January 6th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, NY 10012
e: info@jenbekman.com | w: www.jenbekman.com | p: +1.212.219.0166

The gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday from noon – 6:00 p.m., or by private appointment.

More Hey, Hot Shot! news to be announced. Stay tuned!

+ In just a matter of weeks, you'll find out who the Second Edition 2011 Hot Shots are, and the Second Edition 2011 showcase will be announced.

+ Hey, Hot Shot! 2012 will be opening its first round of competition soon!

+ Keep an eye out for more limited-edition photographs on 20x200 by Hey, Hot Shot! photographers.

Response to Print of Egret Rookery, Louisiana, 2010 by Laura Plageman

Time's running out, photographers! If you haven't yet started your entry, you only have today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday, until midnight ET) before the fee increases to $80. Lock in that $70 fee now, then submit your entry no later than Monday, November 14th at 11:59 p.m. ET for consideration to become a Second Edition 2011 Hot Shot.

At stake for one Grand Prize-winning photographer is $10,000, a solo show at Jen Bekman Gallery and two years of representation from JBG, plus (!!!) the opportunity to have your work sold as limited-edition fine art prints on 20x200. What are you waiting for? Enter now!

+ Stephen Frailey has rejoined the HHS! panel. Frailey, whose work is in the collections of the International Center for Photography (New York) and the Princeton University Art Museum, has been the chair of the photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1998. Frailey also founded the twice-yearly magazine of photography and writing DEAR DAVE, in 2007 and is its editor in chief.

+ Speaking of DEAR DAVE, if you're in Paris, you can visit them from November 10th through the 13th, either at Paris Photo in the Grand Palais, or at Offprint at the Lycee Technologique Auguste Renoir.

+ 20x200 today released a pair of limited-edition prints by Magnum photographer Inge Morath to benefit the Magnum Foundation's Legacy Program and the Inge Morath Foundation. Taken in 1955 by Morath, the photographs are a behind-the-scenes glimpse at a high-society charity ball in Paris. The benefit editions start at $100 for a pair of 10"x8" prints, and are available to purchase by clicking here.

Resting on a Bush, by Yijun (Pixy) Liao

Photographers, the end of the competition is fast approaching. Even faster: The entry fee will once again rise on Saturday, November 12th at midnight, EDT (to $80). That means you have a little over a week to start your entry. You'll have until the deadline, November 14th at 11:59 p.m. EDT to complete it, but start your entry now to lock in the $70 fee.

+ Congrats to Hot Shots Laurie Kang (First Edition 2011), Jessica Eaton (Second Edition 2009), Kurt Tong (First Edition 2009), Yijun (Pixy) Liao (Second Edition 2008) and Justin James Reed (Spring 2007), who'll be part of the Flash Forward 2011 Emerging Photographers exhibition and book launch, which kicks off Wednesday, November 9th, from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. in Toronto's AirShip 37.

+ Lens Culture FotoFest Paris 2011 is taking place from November 7th through the 9th. Our own Sara Distin will be representing JBP and reviewing portfolios. Be sure to say hi if you're there.

+ Also in Paris: Magnum Foundation and 20x200 will be presenting their latest collaboration, a pair of limited-edition prints by renowned photographer Inge Morath, to benefit Magnum Foundation's Legacy Program. Stop by Magnum Gallery on Friday, November 11th, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. to see the prints, and/or just say hi to Jen, Sara, President of Magnum Susan Meiselas and Director of the Legacy Program John Jacob.

+ And be sure to sign up for the 20x200 newsletter to get first dibs on the special, never-before-published pair of prints by Inge Morath, which will first be revealed on November 10th to newsletter subscribers.

+ In London: American photography critic A. D. Coleman will be leading a discussion titled "Dinosaur Bones: The End (and ends) of Photo Criticism." Set for Tuesday, November 8th, at 6:30 p.m., the panel and discussion will take place at Hotshoe Gallery.

For those of you still looking for an activity to fill your weekend (according to the latest iPhone weather forecast, it's going to rain both Saturday and Sunday, so you might as well be indoors), head over to DUMBO in Brooklyn to visit the various galleries participating in the 2011 New York Photo Festival. This year's festival is curated by Enrico Bossan and Elisabeth Biondi under the umbrella theme Photography NOW: engaged, personal and vital, and the two main exhibitions feature artists like Alejandro Chaskielberg, Stefano De Luigi, Carolyn Drake, A Yin, Olivia Arthur and Matt Eich.

In addition to the exhibitions, the photo festival encompasses a number of really exciting events, including Aperture Presents, a series of interactive talks given by Aperture-published artists, including 20x200 edition-maker Penelope Umbrico.

The details:
Saturday, May 14th, 2:00 p.m.
St Ann's Warehouse
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, New York

Other highlights include the Indie Photobook Library, which will be present at NYPH throughout the weekend. According to the iPL, "The entire catalogued collection of the Indie Photobook Library will be on display, plus the Blurb Photography Book Now winners and honorable mentions from 2009 and 2010!"

The details:
Thursday, Friday 12:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday 11:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 to 6:00 p.m.
@1 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

But there are plenty of other special events and featured exhibitions that you should check out, including the Slideluck Potshow (giant potluck dinner + photography...um, awesome!), just to throw an example out there.

For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to experience it, New York-based Slideluck Potshow (started by Hot Shot Casey Kelbaugh) is an innovative organization helping to change the way audiences engage with art. A mashup of a potluck and a slideshow (hence the name!), Slideluck exhibits artist-curated slideshows set to a soundtrack from a variety of photographers, from the well established to the very emerging. Since their first backyard event in 2000, they've grown to an established organization that's organized events celebrating both the edible and the visual in dozens of cities worldwide.

Mexico City 3 (Zócalo, MUCA/UNAM Campus), 2007 by Spencer Tunick

The genius of Slideluck Potshow is that it encourages people to participate in experiencing art as a community. Each Slideluck Potshow is active undertaking- guests provide the potluck ingredients, and the artists shown at each event are local. It's a fun party with serious art, and so markedly different from the traditionally solo, contemplative gallery or museum experience. In keeping with their community-focused ethos, Slideluck Potshow is expanding with a new event series called simply SLIDELUCK. Instead of a potluck, each event will be a collaboration with a local chef, restaurant, farm or dining club.

The New York launch of SLIDELUCK will take place this Wednesday, December 8th at Sandbox Studio. The event will be an auction and a fundraiser for the organization, co-chaired by Patrick McMullan and DJ Spooky. Participating artists include Spencer Tunick and 20x200's own Coke O'Neal and Mickey Smith! Limited tickets are still available for the cocktail reception, the dinner, the afterparty or for all three. View the full invitation here.

SLIDELUCK Launch Party and Fundraiser
Wednesday, December 8, 6-10:30 p.m.
Sandbox Studio
250 Hudson Street, New York

If you're part of the art world that'll be flocking down to Miami the first week of December, then be sure to stop by Jen Bekman Gallery's booth at PULSE Miami 2010!

The gallery will be bringing work from a number of their artists, including Hot Shots: Ian Baguskas, Nina Berman, Derek Henderson, Joseph O. Holmes, Gregory Krum, Brad Moore, Colleen Plumb, Mike Sinclair and Kurt Tong.

Pool, Palm Springs, California, 1983 by Mike Sinclair

PULSE is located at the Ice Palace, 1400 North Miami Avenue (at NW 14th Street) and will run from December 2nd to December 5th. JBG will be in Booth B-403, so if you're in Miami, swing by and visit us.

Fair hours are as follows:
Thursday, December 2nd: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (VIP Brunch and Preview); 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. fair opens to the public
Friday, December 3rd: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, December 4th: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 5th: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission is $15, $10 for students and seniors and $10 for groups.

Hot Shot Colleen Plumb also has work on view in the Wynwood Art District's Dina Mitrani gallery through Christmas Day—December 25th—from her series Animals Are Outside Today. Be sure to catch her in at least one--if not both--of these spots.

We recently awarded each of our five 2010 Hot Shots $1,000 towards making their own photography books at Blurb. But, what does publishing a photography book really entail? The task can be daunting, starting from selecting the images that will be included in the publication, all the way down to details like which typeface to use, what paper weight is best, and how many pages the book should be.

On Wednesday, December 1st, photo book experts Darius Himes (Founding Editor of Radius Books) and Mary Virginia Swanson will offer a free lecture at the New York Public Library: Publish Your Photography Book. They'll offer pointers about the current temperature of the photography book publishing industry, address how to market a book, and offer insights into what they've learned from their years in the publishing world. The talk shares a title with their forthcoming book from Princeton Architectural Press, to be published in January 2011, which you can pre-order now.

Princeton Architectural Press writes of the book:

For the students and working artists who have chosen photography as their primary means of expression, having their own photography book is seen as a passport to the international photography scene. Yet, few have more than a tentative grasp of the component parts of a book, an understanding of what they want to express, or the know-how needed to get a book published. Publish Your Photography Book is the first book to demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs. Industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson survey the current landscape of photography book publishing and point out the many avenues to pursue and pitfalls to avoid. This expert guide is organized in six sections covering the rich history of the photo book; an overview of the publishing industry; an intimate look at the process of making a book; a close review of how to market a photo book; a section on case studies, built around discussions and interviews with published photographers; and a final section presenting a wealth of resources and information to aid in the understanding of the publishing world.

If you're a photographer who's trying to make the move to bound, printed matter, or curious about the publishing industry, be sure to head to NYPL next Wednesday and hear about the art of photo book publishing from a few seasoned experts.

Publish Your Photography Book
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, 2nd Floor, Rm 227
Wednesday, December 1, 2010: 6:00 p.m. (doors at 5:30 p.m.)
First-come, first-served

Untitled, from the series Erasure by HHS! contender Ben Alper

Hey, Hot Shot! + Blurb invite you to celebrate our five newest 2010 Hot Shots on Friday, October 29th from 6 to 9 p.m. at the first-ever Blurb Pop Up/NYC at 60 Mercer Street (between Broome and Grand).

Jen Bekman, members of the Hey, Hot Shot! Panel and the Jen Bekman Projects' team are excited to meet and mingle with you—the New York City photography community. We'll have wine and snacks, you'll be able to browse a library of Blurb books, meet fellow artists, have the chance to win 20x200 prints and be able to learn about creating your own book. At 7:00 p.m., Jen Bekman will announce the five 2010 Hot Shots.

Space is limited, so make sure you RSVP here by Thursday, October 28th.

Who: Hey, Hot Shot! Panelists, contenders, Team JBP + the NYC Photography Community
What: Meet the 2010 Hot Shots
When: Friday, October 29th, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Where: 60 Mercer Street, New York, NY

Jen will also be giving a talk, Getting Your Work Out There, earlier that afternoon from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

You've collected the best of your work, checked and triple-checked that each image is the absolute best it can be. But who's going to see it? Jen Bekman, founder of Jen Bekman Gallery, 20x200, and Hey, Hot Shot!, will give you the scoop on presenting yourself to potential fans and collectors online, as well as how to land a spot on a gallery wall. Jen is an art dealer, curator, writer, and entrepreneur whose inventive approach to the art world has created new models for connecting artists and collectors.

RSVP for Jen's talk here and be sure to take a look at the full schedule of events, lectures and workshops happening at the Blurb Pop Up/NYC from October 21 - 30th. See you on the 29th!

The Affordable Art Fair 2010 is coming to NYC this weekend. It seemed like a great place for us to connect with 20x200 collectors who will get excited about our whole "art for everyone" mission, so we've cooked up quite a presence at this NYC event. If you're in the area this weekend we'd love to see you. The chance to see your favorite 20x200 prints (including many by our Hot Shots) live and in person, all framed up and pretty, is reason enough to make a beeline for Booth E-200, but there's more! We're hosting a series of presentations and our pop-up framing shop will be making its grand debut.

Plus, friends of 20x200 (that means you!) get $5 off AAF admission (tickets are regularly $20). Get your discounted tickets here.

Here's where to find us:

20x200 at The Affordable Art Fair
The fun starts TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 29th, and continues through the weekend–Saturday, October 2 and Sunday, October 3.
7 West 34th Street
11th Floor Market Suites
Booth E-200 (scroll to the bottom for a map!)

There's so much to cover that we'll break it down into sections:

GREAT ART TO BROWSE (AND TAKE HOME)

We went through the 20z200 archives and plucked prints from a wide range of artists, which we've had professionally framed. See something you like? Take it home!

We'll be showing (and selling) work by: Clare Grill, Bert Teunissen, Carlo Van De Roer, Christian Chaize, Don Hamerman, Greg Allen, Hosang Park, Jane Mount, Jason Jagel, Jennifer Sanchez, Jeremy Kohm, Jessica Snow, Jonathan Lewis, Kent Rogowski, Kevin Cyr, Lauren DiCioccio, Michael Lundgren, Michelle Hinebrook, Mickey Smith, Penelope Umbrico, Sharon Montrose, Stefan Ruiz, Wendy MacNaughton and William Powhida.

20x200 TALKS

We'll also be hosting five talks in our space about the 20x200 story as well as practical advice for collecting and living with art.

Live With Art
Date: Friday, October 1 at 7pm
Speaker: Jen Bekman
Summary: Jen will be giving a personal talk about why she started 20x200. She'll also share some of our best 20x200 stories from a wide range of collectors.

Get Your Art On
Dates: Saturday, October 2 at 3pm + Sunday, October 3 at 3pm
Speaker: Jen Bekman
Summary: Jen will be talking about alternative ways to learn about and buy art—including, of course, the abundance of great resources available on the internet, as well as more personalized services.

Finishing the Picture: The Basics of Framing and Hanging
Dates: Saturday, October 2 at 1pm + Sunday, October 3 at 1pm
Speaker: Jeffrey Teuton
Summary: Jeffrey, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Gallery, will share his knowledge on framing and hanging artwork. He'll have a variety of examples on hand and will demonstrate installation techniques and offer tips on how to organize and save money when approaching a big art-hanging project.

20x200 POP-UP FRAME SHOP

** If you will be at the fair, we have just a few spots left for our framing pop-up shop, which is by reservation only. You can reserve a spot here and we'll be in touch to confirm your appointment. **

How many 20x200 prints do you have that you've never managed to get up on the wall that are, instead, sitting in a drawer? (Don't be ashamed! Some of us are guilty as well.) To remedy this we're running an affordable framing pop-up shop. Make an appointment and bring in your 8x10 and 11x14 20x200 prints and you'll leave with art that's ready to hang on your walls. We'll be offering high-quality, black, wooden frames, fitted with glass and custom archival mats, cut on site for your prints.

You'll also get a one-on-one consultation as we assemble everything for you, hopefully imparting some helpful tips along the way. The whole package is a steal: $45 per 8x10 print and $70 per 11x14 print. Plus, we've arranged for everyone with a framing appointment to get free admission to the fair.

Fill out our form to schedule your appointment--it will be fun and fast--a matter of minutes per print!

Select a one-hour slot between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m on Saturday, October 2nd or Sunday, October 3rd and we'll have time to frame up to five prints together. Unfortunately, we have limited space; appointments will be filled on a first come, first served basis, so book today--don't delay! We'll be in touch to confirm your appointment and will look forward to seeing you soon.

WHERE TO FIND US

20x200 at The Affordable Art Fair
TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 29th–Saturday, October 2 + Sunday, October 3
7 West 34th Street
11th Floor Market Suites
Booth E-200

Here's a map of where to find us in Booth E-200:

Tonight is the eve of Review Santa Fe, the annual portfolio review event that takes place amongst the low-slung adobe structures of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photographers from far and wide apply to bring their portfolios, and 100 are selected to bring their projects, both complete and in-progress, to be reviewed by esteemed curators, editors, publishers galleries and their own peers.

Fire, Ise-Shima by Emily Shur

Emily Shur, who attended Review Santa Fe last year, writes about some questions and thoughts she faces with the new body of work, Shizenkan, that she's bringing to the event tomorrow:

As I finish up my preparations for Review Santa Fe and make sure all my ducks are in a row, I get that this is something that will probably come up in my reviews. Am I showing something new or am I just photographing the same interesting things that many before me have found interesting? And does it matter? I guess what matters to me and what matters to gallerists, book publishers, and the like might be two different things. I go into this year's review having the benefit of participating previously, and I am not as nervous as I was last year. I know how I feel about this work. Whether or not my explanations of the project are what my reviewers are hoping to hear, I can at least go there knowing that other photographers before me have made their own personal masterpieces out of work they felt strongly about.

These are amongst the challenges—and inquries—many of these photographers will face, who come from fine art, editorial, commercial and documentary backgrounds as they open themselves up to hearing sometimes-laudatory and sometimes-harsh criticism that can both inspire and sting (but on both fronts is always meant to challenge intent and grow the artist).

After Day 2 of last year's event, Emily wrote:

I can honestly say that after today's reviews, I am officially in need of improvement. The art review is not my normal scene. Stick me in an office with a photo editor or art director, and I'm fine. The work is what it is. They either respond favorably or negatively. The art world is that, and then some....what is the intent behind the work? Why do you take these pictures? The pressure for those answers to be good and meaningful is pretty intense. This is what I have been thinking about all of last night and today.

While the 100 photographers attending the event are entrenched in their own rigorous schedule involving twenty (yes, twenty!) 9-minute viewing sessions, there is also a Portfolio Viewing session free and open to the public, where you can go and view the works of this talented bunch.

Review Santa Fe Portfolio Viewing
When: Friday, June 4, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Where: Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, 100 Sandoval St., Santa Fe, NM
Cost: Free and open to the public

Untitled from the series Custom Machinery by Joseph O. Holmes

There are quite a few JBP photographers bringing new and continuing bodies of work to Santa Fe, so while you're out there, be sure to keep a special eye out for these photographers and their projects:

Alejandro Cartagena: Fragmented Cities; Views of Suburbia Mexicana 2006-2009
Emily Shur: Shizenkan
Joseph O. Holmes: Custom Machinery
Lacey Terrell: The Passing Ring 1996-2010

If you're not lucky enough to be out in the Southwest, CENTER has released the names of the 100 selected photographers whose portfolios will be reviewed, which you can also view online. There's truly a trove of talent here, so take the time of these hot and humid days to click around.

The clock is ticking down to Sunday, May 2nd, at 15:00 hours Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is just under three days away. You may be in New York City reading your morning paper, in San Francisco on an early morning bike ride in the Presidio, or in Beijing having a late night beer with friends to cap off the weekend. What else will happen at that moment in time? Photographers all around the world—including you, we hope—will pull out their cameras and snap a picture capturing the world around them.

Photo by Jan Paulick on Flickr

The New York Times is inviting the world to create a collaborative portrait in which they are asking "everyone, everywhere, to join in making this worldwide photographic mosaic, with each photographer submitting their one best picture." They suggest topics like family, community, nature, economy, social issues and work—the possibilities are endless, so long as they happen at 15:00 UTC.

The project pays heed to a 1986 project, A Day in the Life of America, organized by David Elliot Cohen and Rick Smolan in 1986, which was also coincidentally on May 2nd. This project, part of a series of books capturing a day-in-the-life of a specific place in the world, has been published internationally as compelling portraits of our vastly diverse cultures.

You can snap a picture with camera phone, Polaroid, Contax, Canon or Nikon. Shoot digitally, on film, by pinhole, or through your computer's camera. You may be a professional photographer, a hobbiest, or a student. The invitation extends to everyone, all over the world: really!

Once you've taken the picture that represents your moment on time, be sure to submit it to The New York Times. Pictures will be published up to 1000 pixels wide, so the larger the file the better. Then, send your image to submit.nytimes.com/moment anytime before Friday, May 7th. Between the 2nd and the 7th, the photos will aggregate on the Lens blog and the NY Times, where you'll be able to view them by country and topic.

To find out what time 15:00 UTC is in your part of the world, check Time and Date, then set your timers and have your cameras ready.

In just a few weeks the photography world will rain down on DUMBO for the 2010 New York Photo Festival. That means the cobblestone streets will be rife with cameras, exhibitions, lectures and panels. But, the festival isn't entirely about looking, listening, and enjoying a picturesque view of the bridge -- you can also have your portfolio reviewed by a stellar group of professionals from the photography community. Jeffrey Teuton, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Gallery will join other gallery directors, curators, photography critics, agents, publishers, designers and editors between March 13th - 15th to review work on a first-come, first-serve basis, and it's a fantastic opportunity to get feedback on a new, ongoing, or existing project.

Jeffrey will be reviewing on Thursday, May 13th, so make sure to book a slot online in advance. See the full schedule of time slots and list of reviewers here and a list of all the ongoing exhibitions and activities over on the NYPH site. See you in DUMBO!

Get plenty of rest this week and take your vitamins, because it's going to be a busy weekend in the city for all of you photography lovers. To help you out, I put together a mini break-down of things that can be added to your to-do list if you're keen on partaking of the various upcoming art offerings:

©korafotomorgana on Flickr

First, it's the AIPAD Photography Show (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers) this weekend! We made a pre-announcement about this annual event last month, but now the time is at-hand. As I wrote last month, it's the one time of year where a whole lot of the photo-focused galleries of the world come to you, in one building. Open and your eyes and mind (and wallets, if you're in a prospecting mode), and come on down to the Park Avenue Armory.

AIPAD will be on view from:
Thursday, March 18 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, March 19 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 20 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 21 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

For more information on ticket sales and special exhibition talks (want to hear Bruce Davidson speak?), visit the AIPAD website and download their education program (pdf).

Whenever the AIPAD weekend rolls around in the city, many other galleries and photo-interested venues put on their Sunday Best, and the frequent problem that one confronts is how to cram in all of the amazing spring shows that are opening and closing all over the place. One event that you don't want to miss is the Aperture SNAP! Out of Winter party. As Youngna wrote earlier, there will be giveaways, drinks, desserts, a polaroid photo booth, chances to meet and mingle with Jen Bekman (a party co-chair), the JBP crew and the many friends of Aperture.

Party tickets are available at a range of prices, from $100 to $250, depending if you come solo, come in a pair, or purchase a ticket to include an exclusive limited-edition print by Dan Winters and an Aperture magazine subscription. Keep an eye out on JBP's twitter feeds (@JenBekman, @heyhotshot and @20x200) as well, because we'll be giving away a few tickets to a few of you followers out there.

For more info about the party and to purchase tickets, check out the event website.

SNAP! OUT OF WINTER
Friday, March 19, 2919
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor (Between 10th + 11th Avenue)
New York, NY 10001

Other shows of interest that I'd be wearing out the pavement trying to get to if I were you:

(Left) Peri, Route 64, Kentucky 2005 by Amy Stein and (Right) Kentucky Fried Chicken, 2009 by Brian Ulrich

Instruments of Empire, with photographic powerhouses Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich in holy-cow collaboration at Caption Gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

From the exhibition statement:

Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich present a vision of global capitalism's flipside: disposable spaces, stranded people, ruined avatars of global brands, the empty enthusiasm of advertising's incitements and the angry graffiti of those left out. Their powerful, dystopic visions expose the transformation of human beings into consumers. They recall the phrase of Napolean, "In the eyes of the empire builders, men are not men but instruments."

Instruments of Empire
Caption Gallery
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
55 Washington Street, No. 802
Brooklyn, NY

Angler Fish, 2009 by Lori Nix

Another strong group show I'm dying to see:The Museum of Natural Unhistory, a photographic exhibit about Natural History Museum installations, at CLAMPART, with work by Richard Barnes, Amy Stein, Justine Cooper, Jason DeMarte, Blake Fitch, Jill Greenberg, Nicole Hatanaka, Harri Kallio, Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon, Lori Nix, Matthew Pillsbury, Elliot Ross and Marisol Villanueva.

The Museum of Natural Unhistory
CLAMPART
521-531 West 25th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10001

20x200-artist and constructed-scene avian photographer Paula McCartney has an ongoing show at KLOMPCHING gallery of her Bird Watching series.

Bird Watching
KLOMPCHING Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 206
Brooklyn, NY 11201

2005 Spring Hot Shot Rachel Sussman is sharing the gallery wall with 31 Women in Art

31 Women in Art
Affirmation Arts
523 W. 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

And, to cap off your weekend—a show near and dear to our hearts: it's your last chance this weekend to catch our Hey Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition show at our very own Jen Bekman Gallery, on display through Saturday, March 20th. HHS! Second Edition features fifteen works by the five photographers newest to our Hot Shot roster: Marisa Aragona, Leah Tepper Byrne, Alejandro Cartagena, Jessica Eaton and Justin James King.

Girl coming home to suburb in Juarez from a night out in the city, 2009, Suburbia Mexicana Project by Alejandro Cartagena

Hey Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring street
New York, NY 10012

We also want to remind you that we're celebrating the fifth anniversary of Hey, Hot Shot! in 2010 and will officially open for entries on Monday, March 22nd. To be automatically notified of the competition's opening, sign up for the low-volume newsletter, keep your eye on the HHS! site and follow us on Twitter.

New York has already started to warm up and feel like spring, but the seasons don't officially change 'till March 20th. To celebrate the occasion (and lots more), Aperture is throwing a SNAP! OUT OF WINTER party on March 19th from 9:00 p.m. - Midnight.

Jen, joined by Christina Cahill and Alan Stoga are co-chairing the party, and lots of us from Team JBP will also be there for the evening in our going-out best. The night will sway to the tune of live jazz by The Cangelosi Cards, and there will also be giveaways, drinks, desserts, and instant photos from a Polaroid photo booth at your fingertips. And, of course, you'll be in the company of artists, the three co-chairs, and the many friends of Aperture.

So, get your ticket and meet us there! Party tickets are available at a range of prices, from $100 to $250, depending if you come solo, come in a pair, or purchase a ticket to include an exclusive limited-edition print by Dan Winters and an Aperture magazine subscription.

For more info about the party and to purchase tickets, check out the event website.

SNAP! OUT OF WINTER
Friday, March 19, 2919
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor (Between 10th + 11th Avenue)
New York, NY 10001

Today marks the official opening of the 2010 NYC Art Fairs! For starters, that means the gallery is open for the 2009 Second Edition Hot Shot Exhibition a full day early, so drop on by today from 12 - 6 p.m. to have a sneak peak before tomorrow evening's opening reception (from 6 - 8 p.m.). The gallery will also be open this Sunday, March 7th, from 12 - 6 p.m. so everyone who is in town has a chance to see the show.

For the art-fair unacquainted, this annual event draws galleries from around the world to exhibit their artists in NYC for the weekend. In celebration of the occasion, everyone at JBP HQ has been working extra hard to put together a special present for you: our Art Fair Survival Kit! The kits feature all kinds of goodies including postcards, stickers, special invites, Daily Candy's City Pocket Guide, a "Visual Palate Cleansing System" for the visually overstimulated, and all kinds of other snacks for both mind and body. We'll be at spots across the city distributing the bags, so keep your eye out for the green and orange totes sporting the 20x200 logo and our Live With Art It's Good For You slogan.

We also wanted to shine the spotlight on one particularly awesome piece of the package that we'll be giving out at the fairs this weekend: The Map.

None other than Jason Polan, who can be seen drawing while on the move in our great metropolis, is profiled in today's Los Angeles Times. And, for the survival kit, he has created a hand-drawn version of the Google Map of our opinionated guide to the NYC Art Fairs we posted to the web last week.

We're throwing a printed copy of the map into every Survival Kit, but we love it so much that we're also putting it online as a downloadable PDF so that everyone can print it, use it, share it, or put it in a frame!

Though putting all the art-fully amazing things happening this weekend onto one sheet of paper was no easy task, we hope that our guide will help you get the most out of your time at the fairs.

The Art Fairs and Other Useful Spots Map by Jason Polan, [download as a PDF]

2009 AIPAD show catalog; Movie Theater, Midland, Texas, March 25, 1995 by Dan Winters

While there might still be snow and slush on the ground, the spring arts calendar in NYC is beginning to fill up with great gallery shows and opportunities. Among the annual rites of spring in the city is one of the biggest international photographic events of the year, the AIPAD show at the Park Avenue Armory from March 18 through 21, 2010.

If you've never had a chance to make it out to AIPAD before, here's the skinny*:

AIPAD is short for the Association of International Photography Art Dealers. Every year for this long weekend at the beginning of spring, photographic galleries from all over the globe convene on the Armory site and set up shop. The idea is to give viewers and collectors a good sense of the kind of work that each gallery represents, as well as to provide face-to-face access with gallery owners and assistants that are on hand to field any questions or have a nice, casual conversation about art, the universe and everything. And if you're the sort with a nice cushion in your bank account you can even purchase work at the event.

It's an invaluably useful tool for photographers at all levels of their careers, as you can visit the show and in one weekend have compiled a list of galleries that might represent the kind of work you're doing, and whom it might be fortuitous for you to approach (but *after* the AIPAD event, not during!). And aside from personal gain, it's also an eye-popping experience of micro-gallery-going on an international scale. Will you be able to travel easily to Berlin in the near future and see the what's on the walls at Galerie august-fotokunst? Or have you been curious about the emerging scene in China and would like to see what's showing at Beijing Jade Jar Fine Art? At this once-a-year event, all the galleries of the world come to you (if you're in New York). And instead of wearing yourself out trying to cram in everything that's showing in Midtown, Chelsea and the Upper East Side—let alone in Argentina, France or the UK, you can do it all in one building one weekend in March. (View a full list of this year's exhibitors right here).

AIPAD 2008, © Susan Sermoneta

AIPAD will be on view from:
Thursday, March 18 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, March 19 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 20 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 21 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

For more information on ticket sales and special exhibition talks (want to hear Bruce Davidson speak?), visit the AIPAD website and download their education program (pdf).

And, if you know all about AIPAD but have never been able to make it, promising "next year, next year," at least pencil it in for now. Not just because it's also a Whitney Biennial year and you can cram both of those two venues into one action-packed-art-weekend, but also because our very own Jen Bekman is co-chairing the Aperture Snap! Out of Winter Party. We'll have much more info on this soon, but in short: the ticket to the party comes with a print giveaway of photographer Dan Winters' work, a subscription to Aperture magazine, fine champagne and a Polaroid photobooth—with all of the proceeds for the event going to the Aperture Fund for Emerging Artists. Sound good? You can buy tickets right here (and you'd get to meet Jen + team 20x200). What other motivation could you possibly need?

*I had the chance to visit in 2008 and left full of notable impressions of the fair.

Short notice, but if you happen to be in Richmond, VA tonight, Alec Soth is giving a lecture at the Singleton Center for the Performing Arts from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. hosted by the Photography department at the VCU School of the Arts.

After several years' hiatus, Alec has recently returned to blogging at Little Brown Mushroom, which is also an independent publishing venture most recently offering Alec's Las Vegas Birthday Book (and sculpture), a one-off publication that "comes with a unique, signed sculpture made out of Las Vegas prostitution advertisements (spoon and $100 bill are also included)." While you've missed your chance at that one of a kind work, you can see Alec and his work in person if you're down in Virginia. Details below:

Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
Sonya Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Monroe Park Campus
922 Park Ave, Richmond, VA
January 27, 2010
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

More images available at Alec's site and his Magnum portfolio.

Where will we be on February 28, 2010? At the annual powerHouse Books photography portfolio review!

The Sixth Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review event [is] a platform for all levels of aspiring and professional photographers to present their body of work to be reviewed and critiqued by leading experts in the fields of photography, art, media, and advertising and to receive guidance and mentoring for future artistic and commercial career development.

This year the panel of experts includes our own Jeffrey Teuton, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Gallery, and Sara Distin, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Projects. Each photographer who signs up will be assigned five one-on-one reviews of his or her portfolio. Reviews such as these are an extremely valuable way to develop your artistic practice, as well as get on the radar of experts like ours. We’ll make sure to keep reminding you about this awesome opportunity as it approaches, but for the early birds who do their research: the full list of reviewers, and much more information, is available on the powerHouse website.

The registration form (pdf) is available online, and we recommend that you sign up as early as possible because there is a 100 person cap on the event.

Slideluck Potshow XIV, the now regular meeting of photography community and a potluck dinner will be convening once again this Friday, November 13, 2009 at The Aperture Foundation. The event will be co-curated by one of our very own Hey, Hot Shot! panelists, Lesley Martin, book publisher at Aperture.

This edition will feature presentations by Hot Shot Birthe Piontek, 20x200 artists Kent Rogowski and Andrew Hetherington as well as Abelardo Morell, Alexander Gronsky, Amelie Escher, Andrew Dosunmu, Andrew Moore/Yancey Richardson, Chuck Close, Filippo Mutani, Francois Robert, Harri Kallio, James Worrell, Jeff Harris, Jon Feinstein, Jonathan Torgovnik/MediaStorm, Jowhara AlSaud, Lori Nix, Mathieu Laverdière, Mashid Mohadjerin, Narinda Reeders, Nora Herting, Paolo Woods, Richard Mosse, S. Billie Mandle, Sara Terry, Sarah Hughes, Sophia Wallace, Tiffany Walling & John McGarity, Tim Davis, Todd Fisher, Vincent Laforet, Yoav Galai/100 Eyes, Yvonne Venegas and Zack Seckler.

Tickets for the event are $10 and proceeds go to support SLPS and The Aperture Foundation. Beverages will be provided, but each attendee is asked to bring a dish to contribute to the table following the theme of Inside Out. Advises SLPS: "Make a pineapple upside-down cake, inside-out rolls, bring "outside" food in, or take an ingredient out and make the recipe differently."

Slideluck Potshow will also be accepting fresh produce and/or canned goods for a food drive to benefit the local Soup Kitchen on 9th Avenue and 28th Street, which provides 1,200 hot meals a day for the homeless.

Slideluck Potshow XIV
Friday, November 13th, 7–11 p.m.
The Aperture Foundation
547 W. 27th St, 4th Floor
New York, NY
Buy tickets here!

On Tuesday, October 20th, the gallery will host the Official Release Party for City Walks Architecture: New York by Alissa Walker, published by Chronicle Books.

Join us at 6 Spring Street for drinks and to view Hosang Park's exhibition, A Square. Once a group has gathered, Alissa will lead a walk through the ever-changing Lower East Side with special stops at the New Museum, the Storefront for Art & Architecture and more. The evening winds up back at the gallery for a tasting of four New York-inspired flavors of gelato from il laboratorio del gelato. You will be able to purchase a copy of the book, on-site, that evening, and Alissa will be in-house for signing.

Order of Events:
6 p.m. -- Meet at Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street
7-8:30 p.m. -- Walk through the LES
8:30 p.m. -- Gelato reception at Jen Bekman Gallery

From October 18–24th, Alissa will be leading a Week of Walks, taking six different urban adventures based on the twenty-five available in the book. Check out Alissa's blog,Gelatobaby, for a full list of the walks which include Greenwich Village, the Empire State Building, Central Park and the World Trade Center Site.

Whether you are a visitor or a New Yorker yourself, Alissa's walks point out idiosyncratic historical knowledge within the city's many neighborhoods and highlight buildings, parks and monuments that may have gone unnoticed before. All walks are free and open to the public; you can simply show up at the schedule time ready to stroll. All tours include a complimentary serving of gelato or ice cream, plus all attendees will receive a coupon good for a discount on City Walks Architecture: New York.

Last Friday, the International Center of Photography (ICP) opened its doors for the triennial exhibition of photography and video, Dress Codes. The show takes a look at projects that examine fashion and how it relates to art and cultural and social phenomena. Many international photographers are featured including Stan Douglas, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson and Milagros de la Torre.

The show concludes ICP's Year of Fashion, a series of exhibitions encompassing myriad angles on fashion including the manufacturing industry, impact on identity, relationship to age and gender, and consumption of clothing and fashion-related objects. The series has included Avedon Fashion 1944-2000, Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, The Condé Nast Years 1923-1937, and Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now. Dress Codes offers a critical new view on fashion's role from everyday dress to haute couture as a means of expression, statement, or self-identity.

Dress Codes remains on view through January 17, 2010 and ICP will host several events in relation to the exhibit. For more information, visit the exhibition page.

International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas (at 43rd St)
New York, NY 10036
Ph: 212.857.0000

Hours:
Tues-Thurs: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
Fri: 10:00 am-8:00 pm
Sat-Sun: 10:00 am-6:00 pm

A quick reminder to join us for the Hey, Hot Shot! Confab & Print Trade TOMORROW!

When: Tuesday, September 29th, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Where: White Rabbit, 145 E. Houston Street (between Eldridge + Forsythe) in New York City.
Why: Mingle with Hot Shots, esteemed panelists, contenders and fellow artists.

Participate in our Print Trade! Bring an 8.5" x 11" (or smaller) photographic print of your own and leave the party with another artist's work! Please email us a jpeg of the photograph (800 px across @ 72 dpi) you plan to bring to the Confab with your RSVP at RSVP@heyhotshot.com. Many of you have already RSVPed. Thank you! But, if you haven't, please remember that space is limited, so let us know if you plan to attend.

There will be drink specials, giveaways from our generous sponsors at Arlo/Artists and Crumpler—with a few surprises from JBP as well—and ample opportunities to meet fellow photographers and artists in the JBP community. Update: Representatives from Kickstarter—a new way to fund ideas and endeavors—will also be present to tell us a little bit about the project and answer any of your questions!

See you there!

Please join the Jen Bekman Projects community for our first Hey, Hot Shot! Confab and Print Trade on Tuesday, September 29th from 6:00 to 8:30 pm. Mingle with Hot Shots, esteemed panelists, contenders and fellow artists at White Rabbit, 145 E. Houston Street (between Eldridge + Forsythe) in New York City.

Space is limited, so please RSVP at RSVP@heyhotshot.com.

Participate in our Print Trade! Bring an 8.5" x 11" (or smaller) photographic print of your own and leave the party with another artist's work! Please email us a jpeg of the photograph (800 px across @ 72 dpi) you plan to bring to the Confab with your RSVP at RSVP@heyhotshot.com.

There will be drink specials, giveaways from our generous sponsors at Arlo/Artists and Crumpler—with a few surprises from JBP as well—and ample opportunities to meet fellow photographers and artists in the JBP community.

We'll see you there!

A stellar group of panelists will congregate this Thursday, September 17th at The New School in dialogue on contemporary photography issues that emerged in the making of the book project, Words Without Pictures. Moderated by Charlotte Cotton, curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA, panelists include Alex Klein (artist and LACMA curatorial fellow), Matt Keegan (artist and editor of North Drive Press), David Reinfurt (graphic designer) and Denise Wolff (Editor at Aperture). Fia Backström, Johanna Burton, Melissa Catanese, Sarah Charlesworth, Moyra Davey, Darius Himes (Hey, Hot Shot! panelist), John Lehr, Miranda Lichtenstein, Arthur Ou, Ed Panar and Laurel Ptak will also be participating.

The panel, Words Without Pictures, is the inaugural event of the Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context series coordinated by Aperture in conjunction with The New School, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and the Photography Department at Parsons.

Words Without Pictures
Thursday, September 17, 2009
7:00 pm

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

Copies of the book, Words Without Pictures will also be available at the event. Hope to see you there!

If you are lucky enough to be in Chicago this evening, Brian Ulrich is giving a public lecture at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago at 5 p.m.

He will be presenting images from several bodies of work including Copia, Dark Stores, Ghostboxes and Dead Malls. The gallery also has a related exhibition titled Project #12 on view by Michael Ruglio-Misurell, who has transformed the gallery into a shopping mall food court environment that has "endured an undetermined event, possibly a disaster, abandonment or human havoc."

Tuesday Sept 15, 5pm 

Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Art and Design Hall, First Floor
400 S. Peoria Street (@ Van Buren Street)
Chicago, IL

For more information about tonight's lecture and the ongoings at Gallery 400, head over to their blog.

For those of you in New York, please join us tonight, Wednesday, September 9th (9/9/09!), from 6-8 p.m., Jen Bekman Gallery for the opening of the Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 First Edition Group Exhibition!

Come see photographs by Michelle Arcila, Daniel Cheek, Mike Sinclair, Parsley Steinweiss and Kurt Tong.

Work by some of our Hot Shots is already on 20x200 including Mike Sinclair's Fourth of July #2, Independence, Missouri and forthcoming today, two new editions from Michelle Arcila.

We hope to see you at the gallery this evening! Please say hi, and the Hot Shots above will also be mingling about.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, New York 10012

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday | Noon - 6pm
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9th, 6pm - 8pm
On View: September 10 through September 19, 2009

Jen Bekman Projects is now accepting entries for the Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition Competition. The entry deadline is Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. EDT

Upload your photos today!

Love books? Love art? Love art books? Well, then you'll be just as excited as we are to head to the NY Art Book Fair which showcases over 150 independent artists and publishers, dealers of rare and antique books, as well as contemporary art publications from all over the world. This year's fair will be held at P.S.1 in Long Island City, Queens, from October 2-4th and is free and open to the public.

Hosted by Printed Matter, the fantastic Chelsea-based nonprofit dedicated to artists' publications, the fair will include a featured exhibition by Richard Prince titled Calling All Readers, an apt autumnal follow-up to Jen Bekman's Summer Reading. In addition, there will be screenings, book signings, and performances throughout the duration of the fair. Exhibitors include: Aperture, ARTFORUM, Eye Level Gallery, J&L Books, Red Fox Press, Texte Zur Kunst, Cabinet, and many, many more.

A benefit for Printed Matter hosted by Deitch Studios (LIC) will be held October 1st following the fair's preview (6-8 p.m.). Tickets are available at a range of prices starting at $20 and are accompanied by limited edition artworks, signed and numbered by the artists: Tom Sachs ($20/edition of 450), Jutta Koether ($150/edition of 150), Mungo Thomson ($150/edition of 150), and Elmgreen & Dragset ($3,000/edition of 1).

For a full list of events during the fair, a list of exhibitors, and more information, visit the site.

Slideluck Potshow XIII, the slideshow + potluck event brought to you by Spring 2006 Hot Shot Casey Kelbaugh, will host it's 8th gathering tomorrow evening—Thursday, August 6th at Canoe Studios (601 West 26th St., Suite 1465) in Chelsea.

This newest installment of Slideluck Potshow, which begins with the potluck component at 6:30 p.m., will feature 2009 First Edition Hot Shot Parsley Steinweiss, Spring 2007 Hot Shot and Summer Reading artist Kelly Shimoda, JBG favorite Brian Ulrich, and many others. Swing by with your best home-cooked specialty and see some great presentations featuring the following artists:

Myriam Abdelaziz, Kyohei Abe, Christopher Anderson/Magnum, Rob Ball, Yasmina Belkacem, Eric Cheng, Carlos Ciccelli , Gregory Crewdson/Luhring Augustine, Alinka Echeverria, Shepard Fairey, Tim Hetherington, Edith Maybin, Peter Mullaney, Christoph Niemann, Claudio Papapietro, Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum, Platon, Alex Prager/Yancey Richardson, Jing Quek/Josette Lata, Kim Reierson, Benjamin Rusnak, Jonah Samson, Emily Schiffer, Kelly Shimoda, Pete Souza, Parsley Steinweiss, Phillip Toledano, Brian Ulrich, D.A. Wagner, Erin Wigger, Robin F. Williams, Kristiina Wilson, Lisa Wiseman, Michael Wolf/Aperture, James Worrel, Robert Wright

We also want to congratulate Casey and the Slideluck Potshow team on receiving official non-profit status a few weeks ago, and for being named as one of the "most rule-breaking, model-changing ideas" in New York as featured on All Day Buffet.

Untitled by Winter 2007 Hot Shot Kirby Pilcher

Have you checked off any books on your Summer Reading list yet? If not, I have an easy solution--swing by the gallery and see (and read) our summer group show Summer Reading! Hold on to your excuses, because the show will remain securely on our walls through August 22nd. We'd love to see you soon!

Summer Reading
Group Exhibition
July 15th - August 22nd, 2009
6 Spring Street
New York City

If you're not in our neck of the woods, you can view the entire show here.

New York City-based jeweler, Nicole Gagne, was critically injured by a staircase that collapsed outside her Long Island City studio in April 2009. A postcard benefit event featuring dozens of work donated by artists will be held this Thursday, July 30th, at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art. Postcards will be sold for $40 apiece and all proceeds will go to Nicole to help cover the cost of medical care and aid in her recovery.

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
547 W. 27th St (between 10th & 11th Aves.), 2nd Floor
5:30 - 9:30 p.m.
New York, NY

Visit the benefit website for more information about Nicole, the postcard show, and the list of participating artists and sponsors. We encourage you to stop by Thursday night and offer support for Nicole, and hopefully pick up a beautiful artist-design postcard.

Neon by Kent Rogowski

Be sure to swing by Jen Bekman Gallery to see our summer group show, Summer Reading. You'll see paintings, drawings and photographs from a brilliant bunch, some of whom you might already know from their Hey, Hot Shot! or 20x200 fame.

Artists in the exhibition:

Thomas Allen, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Kotama Bouabane, Lizzie Buckmaster-Dove, Christine Callahan, Jorge Colombo, William Crump, Lauren DiCioccio, Nina Katchadourian, Gregory Krum, Steve Lambert, Michael Mandiberg, Carrie Marill, Mike Monteiro, Jane Mount, Kirby Pilcher, Jason Polan, Kent Rogowski, Ed Ruscha, Kelly Shimoda, Victor Schrager, Mickey Smith, Alec Soth, Zoe Strauss, Shaun Sundholm, Brian Ulrich, and Tim Walker.

The show opens tonight, Wednesday July 15th from 6-8pm.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, New York 10012

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday | Noon - 6pm
Opening Reception: July 15th, 6pm - 8pm
On View: July 15th - August 22nd, 2009

Our own Ms. Jen Bekman had the honor of being the juror for this year's Photo-Op, the 14th Annual Photographic Competition run by Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW). Located in downtown Seattle, PCNW serves as both art education center, gallery, and photographic facility for working artists.

This year's Photo-Op exhibit, which opens next Monday, July 13th and remains on view through September 4, 2009, features many artists familiar to JBP. Of the twenty-two artists featured in the show, HHS! contenders Mary Ellen Bartley, Magda Biernat, Lacey Terrell and Ian Whitmore each have pieces included, as well as 20x200 artists Katie Baum and Kevin Miyazaki, 20x200 artists and Hot Shots! Colin Blakely and Colleen Plumb, and Hot Shot! Shawn Records.

Also featured are: Jowhara Alsaud, Andrea Bakacs, Tim Carpenter, Onejoon Che, Thomas Holton, Stephanie Kirk, Brian Knappenberger, Alex Leme, James Luckett, Liz Obert, Tom Reese, Andy Reynolds and Rebecca Sittler.

We congratulate all photographers who were selected from a very competitive field of over 2500 submitted images.

In addition to the exhibition, Jen will be in Seattle, in person, for a lecture, reception and awards ceremony on July 17th. Come see Jen speak on the topic of Curating & Collecting Contemporary Photography at 7 p.m. next Friday evening at the Seattle Art Museum ($6, $4 PCNW & SAM members & students). The lecture will be followed by a reception at PCNW from 8:30 - 10 p.m. and is free and open to the public. More details about the artists, exhibit, lecture and reception are available on PCNW's website and if you are in Seattle next week, we hope you'll stop by to see this sure-to-be-great show.

The curated multimedia slideshow and potluck dinner known as Slideluck Potshow is back in New York for its thirteenth event at Canoe Studios at 7 p.m. on August 6th. Organized by Spring 2006 Hot Shot Casey Kelbaugh, the brand new Canoe Studios is located on the 14th floor of the historic Starrett-Lehigh building at 601 West 26th St., Suite 1462. Previous events have been held at renowned photo studios and events spaces all over New York, and all over the world.

Those selected present a maximum of 5 minutes with 15-40 images and an accompanying sound piece. All submissions are required to have accompanying sound, whether it be music, spoken word, or another form of noise. Submissions to Slideluck Potshow XIII will be accepted through next Monday, July 13th Tuesday, July 21st; there is a $15 handling fee for all entries.

Visit the website for more details regarding entry format and the schedule and organization of the night itself. The potluck dinner starts at 7 p.m. and is followed by the slideshow that starts at 9 p.m. We look forward to seeing you there!

Update!: The submission period has been extended to next Tuesday, July 21st.

Those who have attended the prestigious annual portfolio review, Review Santa Fe, know that the support for photographers in this part of the Southwest rivals that of any other town. We received word via email yesterday of the Santa Fe Workshops schedule for the remainder of the year and wanted to pass along note of the opportunities they offer for photographers of all levels. The courses range in time and price, from 3-day long weekend intensive to week-long sessions, and range in subject matter from commercial lighting techniques to photographic book-making.

Some of the classes that especially caught my eye are: Visual Storytelling with Audio, Lighting the Editorial Portrait (taught by the renowned Andrew Eccles), and Blurb Intensive: Publishing Your Photographic Book, which focuses on guiding you towards editing and creating your own photo publication using Blurb's software. Classes can be great incentive to motivate past projects that may have plateaued at some point, or a good place to finally work on a project idea that you've been thinking about for ages.

If you do venture out to Santa Fe for a workshop, make sure to also stop by at photo-eye bookstore and gallery to browse amongst their expertly selected collection of photo books.

See here for the workshop schedule in Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende, and around the world.

En Foco, a non-profit organization supporting documentary photographers of Latino, Native, African and Asian heritage primarily living in the United States will kick off their 35th Anniversary Benefit with a cocktail party tomorrow evening, June 24th from 6-9 p.m. at HP Gallery at Calumet Photo. Tickets for the evening, $35 (or $45 at the door), are available here; cocktails and snacks will be provided.

New Works #12, curated by Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photo & Imaging Department at NYU/Tisch, will be on view, featuring images by Morgan M. Ford, Karen Garrett de Luna, Isabelle Lutterodt, Wendy Phillips, Cybèle Clark-Mendes, Archy LaSalle and Viviane Moos. The exhibit will come down Thursday, June 25th, so don't miss the opportunity to see it and learn more about En Foco.

Jen Bekman Gallery artists, Joseph O. Holmes and Brad Moore feature work in the 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, Exposure, on view May 22nd - June 28, 2009. We are huge fans of Boston, a fine town for photography, and the PRC, or Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, offers fantastic classes and portfolio reviews, is home to the Aaron Siskind Library, and Curator, Leslie K. Brown oversees high-caliber exhibits showcasing the work of both emerging and established photographers in the PRC gallery. (It also happens to be where Hot Shot/Jen Bekman artist and current HHS panelist Christine Collins lives!)

This year's guest juror was Russell Hart, Executive Editor of American Photo magazine and Editor of American Photo On Campus who selected Holmes, Moore, and photographer, blogger, and twitter-friend, Elizabeth Fleming as three of the fourteen artists who will exhibit at the show. Holmes will feature a selection of images form his series LCD, where he has photographed the LCD screens of visitors to the Museum of Natural History. Past jurors of the show include Jen (2007), who also guest-lecturing at BU about how to break into the gallery world and self-market, and Lesley A. Martin (2008), also a HHS! panelist.

There will be an opening reception next Thursday, May 21st, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., and the show will remain on view through June 28, 2009. PRC is located at 832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.

We wish we were in Boston so we could drop by, but alas, we'll be manning HHS! HQ and preparing to announce our latest round of Hot Shots! If you do drop by, we'd love to hear what you think of this year's show.

Image by Hot Shot Rachel Hulin

Two distinguished Hot Shots, Rachel Hulin and Willamain Somma, along with Meagan Ziegler-Haynes and Marla Leigh Caplan, are members of LUCI, a new curatorial collective. The fab four have curated a satellite show, (super)natural, to correspond with this week's New York Photo Festival in Brooklyn. A reception for the artists will be held this Thursday, May 14, from 5:30 - 7 pm, at the Tobacco Warehouse.

From the press release:

(super)natural is a group show featuring artists whose work engages with and reimagines the idea of nature and natural phenomena. From large format landscape photography to site-specific installation, the work on view gives visible form to the trace of something just beyond - pointing to an excess of visual language and yet an ultimate failure to convey a precise meaning. The awesome and terrifying aspect of the sublime explains the darkness that pervades the show, evident in the depths of Victoria Sambunaris' cave; the threat of storm beneath Christopher Lamarca's rainbow; Theresa Ganz's delicately encroaching vines suddenly strangling. Chasing after the elusive spirit of the landscape, these images explore the expanse of history and possibility beneath a deceptively mundane surface.

(super)natural : May 14th-16th, 10 am to 7 pm
Curated by LUCI
Satellite Show @ The Tobacco Warehouse
Directions: The Tobacco Warehouse is on the corner of Water + Dock streets in Dumbo, F train to Jay st

More info? Click here.

20x200 and Jen Bekman Gallery artist, Carrie Marill, who you may know from her delightfully tiny paints of plants, birds, and color-fields of all kinds, donated Optical (2008) to BAMart's currently on-going Fifth Annual Silent Auction.

If you're already a fan of Carrie's work, you'll know her attention to detail is impeccable, so what may seem like a deceptively simple painting is all part of a subtle-but-impressive illusion. This particular piece has also been painted on stretched paper, which adds unique texture to the work, and something that makes seeing Optical in person really worthwhile.

Kent Rogowski, another JB artist and 20x200 edition-maker also has a stellar piece up for grabs at the auction. In fact, we love this piece so much we have an edition of Untitled #8 hanging into he 20x200 office. It's a brilliant piece to walk into and see every day at work, welcoming us into an infinitely more magical world that is always full of blooming flowers and cerulean blue skies.

If you'd like to see Carrie and Ken's pieces in person (as you should!), there will be a reception this Saturday, May 9th, from 5 - 7 p.m. in the Dorothy W. Levitt lobby of the Peter Jay Sharp Building at 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY and you can also bid online through May 11th!

We're psyched-beyond-words that 20x200 has been nominated for the 13th Annual Webby Awards in the Art category.

The last day to vote is this Thursday, April 30th, and we need your vote! 20x200 couldn't exist without The Web, great art, great design, and all the art lovers out there like you, so we hope you'll vote us to victory.

To submit your vote, click here, sign in (or create an account), scroll down to the "Art" category and look for 20x200!

Nymphoto: Conversations Volume I will open at Sasha Wolf Gallery on May 6th, 2009, from 6-8:00 p.m. and be on view until May 20th.

The show features work by Michele Abeles, Juliana Beasley (Fall 2006 Hot Shot), Rona Chang, Michal Chelbin, Nina Buesing Corvallo, Candace Gottschalk, Jessica M. Kaufman, Klea McKenna, Talia Greene, Maria Passarotti, Susana Raab, Emily Shur, Tema Stauffer (one of Jen Bekman Gallery's first exhibiting artists), Jane Tam (former HHS blogger and JB intern), Garie Waltzer & Jennifer Williams. The show accompanies the release of Nymphotos' first publication by the same name Nymphoto: Conversations Volume I.

COMING SOONER! Nymphoto's very first Call for Entries Deadline: April 3rd. From the entries, Nymphoto will cull and curate Nymphoto Presents @ Sasha Wolf Gallery, opening two weeks after Conversations. Upload 2-5 images to have your work considered for this exhibition. One note: as Nymphoto is a collection of women photographers, you must be female to participate. Sorry guys!

Here's something to consider after you submit your photographs to us humble folks at Hey, Hot Shot!
The Center for Photography at Woodstock is currently accepting entries for their Photography Now competition. The competition will be juried by Charlotte Cotton, Curator and Head of Photographs, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

All the information you need is located here. Winners will have their work published in the Center's publication, Photography Quarterly. Not so coincidentally, two Hot Shots have graced the cover of PQ in recent years, Mickey Smith (PQ#95 / 2006) and Brad Moore (PQ#97 / 2008).

Buona fortuna!

Spring 2006 Hot Shot Casey Kelbaugh is the brains behind Slideluck Potshow, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a slideshow + potluck. SLPS has been bringing people together to share good art and good food for a couple years now and has brought that same sense of community to the web. It be be a little bit of the chicken before the egg, or the egg before the chicken, maybe? SLPS made a name for itself by bringing people together the old fashioned way, in actual physical space, before really establishing their virtual community. Regardless, the SLPS network is in full swing and it's a good site to to browse for info on upcoming SLPS events as well as other opportunities and events for photographers and artists.

Upcoming Events:

Slideluck Youth Initiative Event | March 20 | 6:30pm | LES | Please bring food & drinks | RSVP: network.slideluckpotshow.com
SLPS Los Angeles VI | April 11 | 7 - 11:30 pm | Location TBA
SLPS Portland III | April 25 | 7 - 11:30 pm | Sandbox Studio

I am looking forward to seeing this exhibition, Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, at SFMOMA, in a few short weeks. Hopefully it will satiate my desire for salt, albumen, cyanotype, and silver gelatin prints until I can totally indulge/immerse myself in Richard Benson's The Printed Picture, which is hopefully enroute to my mailbox. Aside from offering some gorgeous examples of traditional printing methods, the show at SFMOMA, according to this interview with SFMOMA associate curator of photography Corey Keller, promises to agitate the old adage, "seeing is believing." Also agitating, in a good way, I think: SMOMA's interests in vernacular photography, and in particular, photography that isn't from the 20th century. Read the interview!

If you're in SF or also happen to be headed that way, hopefully you'll be around on Monday, April 6th. Ms. Jen Bekman and members from team 20x200 (myself included) will be hosting 20x200 collectors, some Cali-based 20x200 artists (maybe even a Hot Shot or two), and you, with our friends at Chronicle Books.

We hope it'll be as fun as the Collector's Confab we last hosted in NYC.

So see you, Monday, April 6th, from 6-8 p.m. at Chronicle Books, 680 Second Street, San Francisco. More details soon!

All week, Zoom-In online has been releasing new Viewfinders Challenge Photojournalism episodes. The short videos provide insightful interviews with photojournalists who covered the 2008 Presidential campaign trail, including Gerald Holubowicz, Jennifer Altman, Katie Orlinsky, Yana Paskova, and Keith Bedford.

While it's informative and interesting to hear and see what these professionals think and how they work, Zoom-In online also wants to hear from you. Starting next week, they'll publish one viewer submitted photo per day, relating to this month's theme — photojournalism.

Zoom-In is now accepting submissions that show how the current political and economic climate are affecting you and your community.

We want to remind you that Jen Bekman Gallery is showing Beth Dow's Fieldwork series at PULSE New York Art Fair on Pier 40 through Sunday, March 8th.

Friday, March 6, 12 - 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 7, 12 - 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 8, 12 - 5 p.m.

Also, join us for sweets and mimosas at the Jen Bekman Gallery tomorrow morning, March 7, 2009, from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. where painter Sarah McKenzie and Eva Hagberg, editor of the architecture and design blog Edificial, will be in conversation about the influences and practices behind McKenzie's current exhibition, Building Code.

Please RSVP to: info@jenbekman.com.

Hope to see you over the weekend!

Jen and Jeffrey will be manning the Jen Bekman Gallery booth at the PULSE New York Art Fair today, March 5th, through this Sunday, March 8th, 2009. Photographer Beth Dow's series Fieldwork will be featured alongside work by Ian Baguskas, Mara Bodis-Wollner, Christian Chaize, Gregory Krum, Holly Lynton, Carrie Marill, Brad Moore, Hosang Park, Jason Polan, Kent Rogowski, and Carlo Van de Roer. Stop by Booth I-12; we hope you'll say hello!

Booth I - 12
PULSE New York
Pier 40
353 West Street @ West Houston

Sad but true: I won't be attending the Palm Springs Photo Festival, what wise and witty Mary Virginia Swanson describes as, "our 'Arles' -- Arles, California style!"
Will you?
If you're doomed to remain snowbound, you at least have the opportunity to send your photographs to sunny Cali; the deadline for the Palm Springs Photo Festival Slideshow has been extended to Monday, March 9th. There is no entry fee, this is a free (!) opportunity to get your work in front of dozens of influential photography professionals, including HHS panelist Darius Himes from Radius Books (present pretty much everywhere these days) and Michelle Dunn Marsh from Chronicle Books, and artists Debbie Fleming Caffery, Todd Hido, Larry Fink, and Greg Gorman.
MVS says:

One of my favorite parts of the PSPF is the wonderful "evening slide shows" that show work from four finalists on the big screen at the Palm Springs Art Museum Theater prior to the evening's presentations. Last year, the bodies of work we were introduced to each evening was outstanding, and highly anticipated - no one is late for the start of the slide show, writing down website and looking on line later to see the work again and again.

Art Fair! opens at Michael Mazzeo Gallery tomorrow, March 4th, with a reception for the artists from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The gallery is at 526 West 26th Street.

Featured artists include:
Juliana Beasley
Alison Carey
F&D Cartier
Caleb Charland
John Chervinsky
Rachael Dunville
Lucas Foglia
Jefferson Hayman
Yong Hee Kim
Sebastian Lemm
Chris McCaw
Leah Oates
Cara Phillips
Josh Quigley
Christopher Rauschenberg
Robin Schwartz
Will Steacy
Lacey Terrell
Terry Towery

Join lovely and talented Hot Shots, Juliana Beasley, Rachael Dunville, and Cara Phillips and the rest of their cohorts for a celebration of contemporary photography from "a spectrum of accomplished, mid-career artists and rising young talent."

I know, it's hard to pry your eyes away from the screen and do some offline reading every once in awhile, but do it, and your eyes and your head will thank you. If you're not sure where to begin (often a problem online too...) start here, on HHS panelist Darius Himes' blog (I know! I know! I just suggested going offline, but here first, then to your couch! And then, back to the interwebs for some follow-up reading.)

Among other things, Mr. Himes manages to squeeze in some time to teach at the College of Santa Fe and has been posting his class' reading assignments on his blog. So, if you'd like, follow along and brush up your knowledge. Unfortunately, we've missed the reading aloud of The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore (in entirety) but next on the list is Charlotte Cotton's The Photograph as Contemporary Art. Cotton's book concisely but not too cleanly, divides contemporary photography into seven categories, leaving room for the overlap and blurring of definitions that are bound to happen.

Katarina, from Hot Shot Karolina Karlic's Dear Diary series

Spring '07 Hot Shot, Ne Plus Ultra, and 20x200 contributor Karolina Karlic is in a show. Work from Karlic's Dear Diary series is up now through November 8 at the Independent Feature Project in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The IFP notes:

The lush large scale prints of ... Karolina Karlic radiate a sensuality revealing everyday lives longing for meaning and connection.

...

Intrigued by the motivations of those that post Internet classifieds through "Missed Connections" on Craig's List, Karolina Karlic sought out the posters to create her images. Perhaps by helping to complete their need for connection she was able to draw them into collaboration to make photographs of vulnerability and longing in our contemporary world of impersonal Internet communication.

On the art-inspired-by Craigslist ads note, check out the songs of Gabriel Kahane's "Craigslistlieder." The music has been touted as, "His song cycle, Craigslistlieder, art-song settings of eight anonymous posts he found on the ubiquitous personals/classifieds website Craigslist, has won over fans and critics with its affiliation of raucous pop culture and deft high-art craft. " And it is true. Perhaps it's time for a music and photo show for Karlic and Kahane together.

P.S. Only one print is left from Karlic's 20x200 edition (pictured above)!

P.P.S. Full disclosure: I shot some photos for Kahane's recent album.

Are you planning to head to SXSW? Are you not going but simply super interested in all the awesome talk that will go on there? Then vote, now, for Jen Bekman's SXSW panel proposal:

Curating the Crowd-Sourced World Level: Beginner Type: Panel Category: Content Presenter: Jen Bekman, 20x200 | Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. Description: With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial. Who's best-suited to determine what's best - curators or the crowd? People have their religion about one or the other, however this panel will focus on the overlap, the grey areas and how curating and crowd-sourcing enrich each other.

With the curatorially-mediated online phenom of 20x200, Jen's a pretty good fit to head up this panel which is sure to be filled with other talents -- who can speak as both curators and "crowd" -- that she'll announce in the coming weeks.

Fall '05 Hot Shot Megan Cump has work featured in Working Space 08, currently on view at the Cuchifritos gallery inside the Essex Market. Go see Megan's work and stop in at Shopsin's and Saxelby Cheesemongers too.

Opening Tomorrow: Hey, Hot Shot! (volume IV, edition I)

Friday, August 8, 2008

Hey, Hot Shot! (volume IV, edition I) | five photographers to watch

Our first Hey, Hot Shot! showcase for 2008 opens tomorrow (Friday) at Jen Bekman Gallery on Friday August 8th.

The exhibition features photographs from:

Juliane Eirich | Derek Henderson | Kate Orne | Roc Herms Pont | Colleen Plumb

Please join us for the opening reception.

Opening Reception: Friday August 8th | 6pm-8pm
On view through Saturday, August 23rd.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York City 10012

Carrie Marill, A Dream World Glimmers In The Background Of The Soul (Detail)

Fall '07 Hot Shot Todd Forsgren has six photographs in the latest Jen Bekman show, Ornithology. The group show, which features a stellar array of artists working in various media, opens tonight, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the gallery, at 6 Spring Street.

Ornithology features bird-themed works by Echo Eggebrecht, Todd Forsgren, Laura Levine, Carrie Marill, Christina Muraczewski, Victoria Neel, Lamar Peterson, Jason Polan, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Keith Taylor, Bert Teunissen, and Luke Stephenson. Many of these artists will debut exclusive editions on 20x200 during the course of the exhibition.

In the spirit of summer, Ornithology takes its cues from the great outdoors. With their brightly colored plumage, sweet songs, and uncanny ability to fly, birds have captivated humans for centuries, making ornithologists out of even the most casual of observers. From Aristotle to Audubon, Darwin to the binocular-clad of Central Park, our feathered friends have proven to be a source of abundant inspiration.

Of his work, Todd writes:

Ornithologists now use mist nets instead of shotguns. These nearly invisible nets are set up like fences and function as huge spider webs, catching unsuspecting birds. The researcher carefully extracts the bird from the net. Each bird is measured, aged, sexed, and banded with an individually numbered anklet. Then the bird is released.

I photographed these birds while they are caught in mist nets, moments before the ornithologist extracts them. Here, the birds inhabit a fascinating space between our framework of the bush and the hand. It is a fragile and embarrassing moment before they disappear back into the woods, and into data.

Okay, so you like what you see here, and you've done some further investigating at the 20x200 and Jen Bekman sites. Hopefully you've visited the gallery and other galleries too. Now it is time to start shopping.

Join Jen Bekman, Michelle Dunn Marsh, and Amy Stein, and moderator Michael Foley for In Focus: Collecting Photography, a panel discussion, tonight, Thursday, June 12, at 7:00 p.m. at The Affordable Art Fair (135 W 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues).

The Affordable Art Fair is, "the place for new and established collectors to discover and buy paintings, drawings, sculptures, video, photography and limited edition prints from distinguished galleries, all priced from $100 - $10,000. This year the Fair will host more than 70 galleries from the US, Europe, Asia, Canada, and South America."

Kent Rogowski, from Love = Love

Hot Shots and would-be Hot Shots and regular people alike: go see Kent Rogowski's show, Love = Love, at Jen Bekman Gallery.

Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to present Love = Love, an exhibition by Kent Rogowski, comprised of six large-scale photographic prints based on altered puzzles, as well as a selection of the original objects. Love = Love will be on view until Saturday, June 14, 2008.

Rogowski’s collages are created with pieces of puzzles which are cut from the same die but depict different, unrelated images. Using these photographic fragments as his palette, Rogowski creates entirely new compositions by his careful mapping of their collisions. The intermixing of these glossy idealizations of flowers, bucolic scenery, and man-made wonders results in disorienting and wholly unique fractured fantastical landscapes. In photographing his completed objects, Rogowski transforms them yet again. Shifting the scale of the photographic image modulates the grid-like uniformity produced by the borders of the puzzle pieces, diminishing or increasing the order they exert over the chaos of the constructed image.

James Danziger, of Danziger Projects, thoughtfully wrote,

"Mixing flowers, blues skies, puffy clouds, and idyllic scenery, Rogowski creates his own alternate fractured universe, one that undergoes yet another transformation when he photographs the finished object. Humorous and cheery, they are not without their own sly commentary on the commodification of happiness and idealism.

Whether they’re photography or re-photography or collage (or a combination of all three) is beside the point. Kent Rogowski’s work demonstrates yet again that although it may be increasingly hard to come up with new ideas, where there’s a will there’s a way."

Marine Wedding, by Sping '07 Hot Shot Nina Berman, installation view.

Spring '07 Hot Shot, and all-around hot shot, Nina Berman will speak on an Aperture panel at this weekend's New York Photo Festival. As I've already implored, you MUST go to the festival, and when you're there, be sure to catch Nina talking with Vicki Goldberg and Claire Beckett at Aperture Presents: Picturing Iraq. There should be more public discussion of images of this war; I expect a great conversation with this trio.

I know where you should be this weekend: the New York Photo Festival.

Lesley A. Martin, a HHS panelist, is one of the curators, and it looks to be a tremendous affair. Jen Bekman gets in on the action too, sitting on a panel about curating tomorrow at 5:00 p.m.

The festival was created because "New York City, home to the most influential commercial and fine art photography community, has lacked—until now—a large-scale event dedicated to photography."

This year, powerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency launched the New York Photo Festival, which is the first international-level festival of photography to be based in the United States.

Visit the festival's site to see the great schedule and report back about what you go to see.

2006 Hey, Hot Shot! Ne Plus Ultra Kate Bingaman-Burt

Lesley Martin, Hey, Hot Shot! panelist and the publisher of Aperture's book program will speak tonight with Harper's Books art book dealer Harper Levine, and Daile Kaplan, V.P., Director of Photographs, Swann Galleries Inc., and others in an Introduction to Collecting Photography Books, a panel discussion. They will talk about what makes specific books valuable, and thoughts to consider in building a book collection. It should be a great night for photographers and collectors alike.

The details:
Introduction to Collecting Photography Books
Panel Discussion
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Untitled by Rebecca Smeyne

All you photobloggers and readers out there, the Apple store in SoHo will be hosting NYC Photobloggers 8 starting at 6:30pm tomorrow followed by an after party. Some of the speakers include Winter '06 Hot Shot, Rebecca Smeyne, and Summer '06 Hot Shot, Kara Canal. Many of our own Hot Shots have been invited to speak in past events at the Apple store. Get there early because I'm sure the place will be packed!

Untitled by Raul Gutierrez

Our Spring '06 Hot Shot, Raul Gutierrez, has an amazing solo show opening next week at the Nelson Hancock Gallery in Brooklyn. The show will display his series entitled Travels Without Maps and documents the people and places he encountered in the territories on both sides of China's Western borders. These photographs document worlds that are slowly being erased by modernity and Raul has spent years traveling into these regions to learn more about the people who live there.

Travels Without Maps: Images from China's Western Frontiers
The Nelson Hancock Gallery, September 14 - October 28, 2006

Reception for the Artist:
Thursday, September 14, 2006
6-8 p.m.

Go to this show, I'm sure it will be incredible!