Balloons (Midtown, Manhattan), by Youngna Park

+ Dawn Till Dusk, on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through July 30th, was recently reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, where photography critic William Meyers wrote about Summer 2005 Hot Shot (and HHS! VIP) Youngna Park and HHS! panelist Todd Hido.

+ HHS! 2010 Contender, Honorable Mention and 20x200 artist Marion Belanger is featured in Guernica, showcasing 14 photographs from her series Continental Drift: Iceland/California. It was one of the photographs from the series, Rift #26 (Heimaey Houses), which was first featured in the Contender post and was then made a limited-edition print on 20x200. Which reminds me...

+ We here at HHS! promised you'd see one of the 2011 First Edition photographers' works fast-tracked into a 20x200 edition. Well, we've made the preliminary phone calls and are excited to announce that you will, very soon, be seeing this print! Be sure to keep an eye on your inbox to learn more and sign up for the 20x200 newsletter to stay up to date.

MORE PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS

+ Photographer David LaChapelle is back in the spotlight. Not only does he have a new exhibition—From Darkness to Light—at the Lever House in NYC through September 2nd, but he also just won a pre-trial ruling in his case against pop singer Rihanna. LaChapelle filed a claim in February against the star, claiming her video for her single "S&M" copied his lighting, props, set and mood from past shoots. The case was not dismissed and can now go to trial if not settled out of court.

Texting, Crosby Street, 2011 by Joseph O. Holmes

+ HHS! Panelist Darius Himes is participating in a three-day photobook workshop in September. Photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb will be in attendance in this Radius Books-hosted event, which is open to anyone "who is passionate about a photography project that he or she has been working on—from serious amateurs to seasoned professionals, from documentary to art photographers, from those photographing a theme, place or issue to those working on a more personal series of photographs of family or friends." Head to the Magnum Photos site for more information.

+ Hot Shot and 20x200 MVP Joseph O. Holmes' latest series, Texters, has been making the blogosphere rounds, being picked up by several notable sites in the last week and touted on Twitter. For the full series, check out the prolific photographer's photostream on Flickr.

+ Photographers have been paying attention to Google+, and not for reasons you might think. Flak Photo's Andy Adams got a conversation started after Photofocus and the Washington Post's BlogPost called attention to Google's Terms of Service.

Falls 26, 2005; Surf Ballroom, 1999; and Charles, Vasa, Minnesota, 2002 by Alec Soth

Welcome back to our Week In Review, a short-and-sweet round-up of the week's best photo links and stories.

Photography News

• We just closed Tod Lippy's round of Curator's Choice (we'll be announcing the winner in a newsletter very soon).


• Our fifth and final Guest Curator is Alec Soth. Yes, Alec Soth. We couldn't be more excited to help you get your work in front of his eyes. (And be up for a sweet Little Brown Mushroom prize pack)


• Work by three HHS! contenders: Erica Allen, Amy Stevens, and Jordan Tate is featured in The New Skew on view at the Center for Photography at Woodstock til the end of August.


• Larissa Leclair has launched the Indie Photobook Library with HHS! Panelist Darius Himes, Andy Adams, Shane Lavalette and Gabrielle Reed on the advisory board.


• Fraction Mag Issue 17 is online, featuring the work of Curator's Choice winner Phil Underdown and a review of Little Brown Mushroom's adult storybook Bedknobs & Broomsticks by Trent Parke


• The newly created Photography Council at the Milwaukee Art Museum is hosting its first benefit, Exposure, a silent auction with works by photographers Colleen Plumb, Brian Ulrich, Jon Gitelson and many more on Wednesday, August 4th.

The Deadline Approaches!
We are trudging into August, the dog days of summer (and the fifth month of HHS! 2010), but things aren't slowing down around here at all. In fact, we ran the numbers to show you just how many contenders we've featured. Might you be next?

We sincerely hope that you're enjoying reading our contender posts as much as we all enjoy writing them. We've seen some fantastic work so far—and such breadth—and we can't wait to look at and write about what all of you send us in this final stretch. Remember, the competition ends on August 22nd so don't dally. Get those entries in!

Have a great rest of the week! Follow us on Twitter: @heyhotshot and Facebook for all the latest competition news.

Untitled, July 2010, by contender Thomas Prior

Welcome back to our Week In Review, a short-and-sweet round-up of the week's best photo links and stories.

Hey, Hot Shot! News

+ 4th Guest Curator, Esopus Editor-in-Chief Tod Lippy, has been reviewing incoming HHS! entries and will be looking at all submissions through July 29th. That means you've got 10 DAYS to get your best work in front of Tod and be entered to win a lifetime subscription to Esopus magazine!

+ Two more reasons to enter: you can apply multiple times with different bodies of work (like contender and Curator's Choice Award Recipient Kyoshi Becker McKizzie) and you can even win twice* (like double Hot Shot and Ultra Joe Holmes). So, apply today—we love looking at and writing about your work!
* Although we can't guarantee that this will happen again in the near future.

+ Which reminds me, have you seen our latest contenders? Check out Thomas Prior and Jaap E. Helder.

+ A beautiful print by photographer Eirik Johnson is available this week on 20x200.

+ Also check out this interview with Eirik and a slideshow of his work on The Morning News.

+ Brian Ulrich reports that the Milwaukee Art Museum is hosting its first auction, including works by Colleen Plumb, Anna Shteynshleyger, Sonja Thomsen, Shimon & Lindeman, Jason Reblando, Fred Marsh, Aron Gent, Ciurej & Lochman and Jon Gitelson.

+ Comparative photography shows receding glaciers in the Himalayas. Don't miss this interactive panorama made with a photograph taken in 1921!

+ Zoe Strauss has launched a dedicated blog for her On The Beach project, documenting the oil spill. She's also raising money for the next 12 days, contribute here!

Have a great rest of the week! You should follow us on Twitter: @heyhotshot and be our friend on Facebook.

Untitled, from the series Fairgrounds by Mike Sinclair

Happy hot and steamy July! And welcome back to our regularly-scheduled Week In Review, a short-and-sweet round-up of the week's best photo links and stories. We can hardly believe we're in month four of competition, which means you've got just a little time left—till July 29th—to submit your entry and be considered for our 4th Curator's Choice Award! Tod Lippy, editor-in-chief of the fabulous Esopus, will review all entries that come in by the 29th, and one photographer will receive a lifetime subscription to the magazine! Make sure to take a peek at their archives to see the tremendous range of essays, artifacts, portfolios and artist projects they've featured over the years.

Recent Contenders

Left to right: Kate Stone, Sarah Szwajkos, Kathleen R. Robbins, Mary Kathleen Shafer, Selena Salfen .

We're featuring one contender daily on our blog; read about the work of some of our entrants from the 2010 competition and apply today, for a chance to be featured.

Photography News

+ Jen Bekman has joined the Advisory Board for 25 for 25, AOL's new grant program, which will award $25,000 to 25 of "tomorrow's ground breakers and visionaries." Entries will be accepted from July 27th - September 1, 2010, and you can submit your information here to request application materials.

+ Speaking of great opportunities, the Aperture Portfolio Prize deadline is only a day away, on July 14th! They are looking specifically for work that hasn't been widely seen or published elsewhere, and for images that have been made within the last five years. The winner will receive a $5,000 prize and an exhibition in Aperture's gallery.

+ Interesting reading material: Now on Imprint: Why the photography book is thriving, in defiance of all available conventional wisdom.

+ Over on the 20x200 blog this week, we wrote about photographer Zoe Strauss's new project On the Beach, a documentary concerning the fallout of the BP Gulf oil disaster in affected coastal states. Take a look at her project and consider making a donation so that she can extend her time in the Gulf.

+ We recently released a beautiful, haunting edition on 20x200 by photographer Roger Ballen, to much enthusiasm and excitement. Collectors have begun to receive their editions, and photographer Matt Neibur had a moment of aesthetic communion with his postman (also a 20x200 fan) when he was delivered the print. We love these kinds of moments of synchronicity!

+ Congratulations to Mickey Smith, whose multi-paneled Collocation (Nature), a permanent glass installation she created for the University of Florida, was selected as one of the 40 best public artworks of 2009. An edition of two of the panels of the work (available as partner prints) is also available on 20x200.

Untitled by HHS! contender Jennifer Garza-Cuen

Welcome back from the holidays, photo lovers! And welcome back to our regularly-scheduled Week In Review, a short-and-sweet round-up of the week's best photo links and stories.

Photography News

+ 2007 HHS! winner Clint Baclawski has been selected by Conscientious author and photographer Joerg Colberg to appear in the Griffin Museum of Photography's 16th annual juried exhibition. Also chosen for the for the show are recent HHS! contenders Alex Arzt and HHS! 2009 honorable mention Rylan Steele. The exhibit will be on display through August 29th, 2010 and the Griffin Museum is in Winchester, MA.

+ The 16th edition of Fraction Magazine is now available online. This issue features photographers reviewed by editor David Bram at this year's Review Santa Fe. Featured in the 16th issue is recent contender Taylor R. Glenn, and his understated and stunning portfolio of images from his series Far Chang, which follows a family-run artificial flower making factory in Huidong, China.

+ Also of note in the Fraction realm, although this time from their rich blog site, is a round-table discussion on self-publishing with Andy Adams of FlakPhoto, David Bram of Fraction Magazine, Darius Himes of Radius Books and Melanie McWhorter of photo-eye books. Check out what they have to say!

+ And speaking of photo books, and important industry-types, a few major photo deadlines are coming up for those of you with vested interests in advancing your profiles and projects:

• The Aperture Portfolio Prize is accepting entries through July 14, 2010 (that is NEXT WEEK, folks!).
• Blurb's annual Photography Book Now competition has its deadline fast on the heels of Aperture's, and Darius Himes will be selecting a winner from all of the submissions received by July 15th, 2010.
• And lastly, just for the ladies: The Tracey Baran award is given to one emerging female photographer that is a U.S. citizen. The entry deadline is September 1, 2010. Read the full rules and submission guidelines here.

+ We were shocked to read about a publisher swiping Alec Soth's concept for a book cover, even after he denied them usage permission. In a follow-up post, Soth provided book covers to which he agreed to usage of his images.

+ Youngna Park and Yijun Liao have work included in Arario Gallery's Irrelevant show. Read all about it on the 20x200 blog and head over to Chelsea before August 6th.

+ Geoffrey Ellis' newly released zine, Get Off My Lawn, dedicated to photographers making work that are 34 years of age and older is going fast! Get oen before the edition of 222 sells out. (Having just celebrated my 35th this year, this zine's mission statement is one I can get behind!)

+ In case you missed it: did you read all about our 3rd Curator's Choice Award? Lesley A. Martin, publisher at Aperture books, selected Klea McKenna as the winner. Read what Martin had to say about her work and see McKenna's portfolio images in our post about it here.

+ Which also reminds us: Tod Lippy, HHS! Panelist and Editor-in-Chief of Esopus magazine, is currently our 4th Guest Curator. Tod will be reviewing all entries submitted before Thursday, July 29th, and the entrant he picks will receive a lifetime subscription to Esopus magazine, so submit your best work today!

Recent Contenders

Left to right: Taylor R. Glenn, Chuck Koosman, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Judith Stenneken and Ozant Kamaci.

And just a little meta that we loved: Contender Camila Pombo wrote recently on her blog responding to our post on a contender we wrote about last week, Gary Breece. It's just what we like to see: contenders making nice with contenders.

That's it for this week! If you see anything we missed drop us a line on Twitter @heyhotshot. Have a great weekend!

No. 7 (BLOOD), from the series Collocations, by Hot Shot Mickey Smith, featured in Esopus 13

Welcome back to the HHS! Week in Review, a handy roundup all the best photo links and news from the past week.

+ Tod Lippy, editor-in-chief of Esopus magazine, will be our 4th Guest Curator! He will be reviewing all entries through July 29th and his pick will receive a LIFETIME subscription to Esopus.

+ Speaking of which...we are impressed with the quality of entries we have received so far, and those that streamed in just in time for review by Lesley A. Martin's round of Curator's Choice (stay tuned for her announcement in the coming weeks)...now's a good time to check out our latest contenders, who we're blogging about daily: Johnathan Wong, Alex Arzt, Gary G. Breece and Ben Golik.

+ A linktastic MetaFilter post on photograms and all the various permutations of the technique.

+ I sing the body collaborative—a roundup of artists like Alec Soth, David Horvitz, and Jason Lazarus who need you to help complete their projects.

+ Alejandro Cartagena is showing work from Suburbia Mexicana alongside photographer Christine Osinski at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland.

+ The Women in Photography project grant is open for submissions through July 15th!

+ Alec Soth's publishing venture, Little Brown Mushroom, has announced they are releasing a series of photographic storybooks for grown-ups, beginning with Bedknobs & Broomsticks, by Australian photographer Trent Parke. There is a signing with the artist at Dashwood Books, this Thursday, June 24th from 6-8 p.m. The book is available in a numbered edition of 1,000 for $18.

+ Beth Dow + Curtis Mann are featured in the newest issue of PQ #99, published by The Center for Photography at Woodstock.

+ Gregory Krum's solo show ...Practice... at Jen Bekman Gallery closes this Sunday, June 27th! The New Yorker calls the show "allusive and alluring."

That's it for this week! If you see anything we missed drop us a line on Twitter @heyhotshot. Have a great weekend!

Happy Monday! If you've been keeping up with us over on our blog, Twitter and on Facebook, you're already well aware of the stellar entries we've had coming in this season. We're featuring one contender a day till the competition ends, which means: apply early and there's a good chance we'll feature you, too! You've also got just three days left to be considered for our 3rd Curator's Choice Prize. Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture's Books Program, will be reviewing all entries submitted by this Thursday, June 17th and will select one photographer to receive the incredible selection of books from Aperture's shelves, below.

Curator's Choice Prize
Words Without Pictures by Charlotte Cotton
Sawdust Mountain by Eirik Johnson
Winter Stories by Paolo Ventura
Photography After Frank by Philip Gefter
Legacy by Joel Meyerowitz
Explosions, Fires, and Public Order by Sarah Pickering
Kamaitachi (trade edition) by Eikoh Hosoe

Send us your best work, and put yourself in the running for this fantastic prize from Lesley and Aperture. And, don't forget about the Grand Prize: a $5,000 honorarium, 2 years of representation from Jen Bekman Gallery and a solo exhibition. After Thursday, the entry fee will increase, so if you've been sitting on the fence, don't delay any longer.

Recent Contenders

Top row: Alan Thomas, Catherine Vermeland, Kendall L. McMinimy, Andrew D. Musson, Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty
Bottom row: Katherine March Driscoll, Tom M. Johnson, Alex Leme, Mark Lyon, Monia Lippi

Read about all our contenders from the 2010 competition on the blog.

Photography News

+ Joerg Colberg wrote a great post about the number of photographs we take, and memory. Stay tuned to the HHS! blog for more on this soon.
+ A Photo Student is giving away 180 rolls of color 120 film. All you have to do is guess the photographers of 50 images which will be posted on the blog in the coming weeks. The person with the most correct answers gets the film.
+ Hot Shot Rachel Sussman is featured on Mrs. Deane for her project, Oldest Living Things in the World.
+ 2007 Hot Shot Gregory Krum's solo exhibition ...Practice... is on view for a few more short weeks at Jen Bekman Gallery till Sunday, June 27th. Don't miss it!
+ Last week we released a 20x200 edition by Greg Allen, appropriating Richard Prince, appropriating Sam Abell. The spectrum of reactions ranged from "brilliant" to "dangerous." Read responses from A Photo Editor, Dinosaurs and Robots, Blake Andrews, Art Fag City, Hyperallergic, C-Monster, and everyone on Twitter
+ The Photography Post points us to a crazy new pull-and-spin panoramic camera from Lomo, the Spinner 360.
+ Jonathan Blaustein writes for A Photo Editor on Review Santa Fe: "Overall, the event is both grueling and exhilarating."
+ Hot Shot Kurt Tong's work can be seen all around Europe this summer.
+ Don't Die is the title image of Hot Shot Justin James Reed's new artist book and series of images on view at Stockbridge Fine Art in Philadelphia.

See you in next week! In the meantime, poke around the profiles of Hot Shots past and present. See anything we missed? Let us know on Twitter @heyhotshot.

Welcome back to the HHS! Week in Review, a handy roundup all the best photo links from the past week.

October 6, 2009 by HHS! contender Cate Vermeland

Photography News
+ We're anxiously awaiting reviews and write-ups of Review Santa Fe, which should be popping up online any minute. A Photo Editor says that they will be filing their report next week. Let us know if you've seen anything about the event or written something yourself!

+ A new issue of Fraction Mag is out, featuring work by Geoffrey Ellis and Bryan Formhals.

+ Philip Gefter, author of Photography After Frank, will be speaking at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The book is one of seven in the gift bag being awarded as part of our 3rd Curator's Choice Prize, as judged by Lesley A. Martin.

+ Liz Kuball has written a review of Sarah Pickering's Explosions, Fires and Public Order (also part of our 3rd Curator's Choice Prize!) for the current issue of 1000 Words Magazine.

+ ...and on that note, in case you missed the announcement, Guest Curator Nion McEvoy has awarded Kyoshi Becker Mckizzie the 2nd Curator's Choice Prize, which you can read all about here.

+ With 13 days to go, Mark Marchesi is $18 past his funding goal for his project to document Portland's Working Waterfront. Congratulations, Mark! You can still kick in and be eligible for rewards like a quart of fresh lobster and haddock chowder..

Left to right: Alan Thomas, Catherine Vermeland, Kendall L. Mcminimy, Andrew D. Musson, Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty

Read about all our contenders from the 2010 competition on the blog.

That's it for this week! If you see anything we missed drop us a line on Twitter @heyhotshot. Have a great weekend!

Welcome back to the HHS! Week in Review, a handy roundup all the best photo links from the past week.

In case you missed our two big announcements this week: Todd Hido has joined the stellar HHS! Panel and Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture's Books Program, will be our 3rd Guest Curator. We'll be announcing Nion McEvoy's selection for the Second Curator's Choice Award early next week, so stay tuned!

Top row: Jeffrey Kinney, Kevin C. Moore, Janet C. Taylor, Sheri Manson, Jo Ann Walters
Bottom row: Stacia Prosser, Caroline J. Hancox, Joshua Dudley Greer, Alexander Shahmiri, Elizabeth Clark Libert

Read about all our contenders from the 2010 competition on the blog.

+ Gregory Krum's solo show ...Practice... is on view through June 27th at Jen Bekman Gallery.

+ The MoMA has great photography shows up at the moment: Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography and Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

+ If you missed our roundup of upcoming photo deadlines, you should give it a skim. There's literally something for everyone.

+ Communication Arts recently profiled Bob O'Connor for their series on "Fresh" artists.

+ The world's most expensive camera(!) has been found. The Daugerreotype fetched more than £615,000 (a.k.a. $900,667 USD) at an auction last week.

+ Rachel Sussman is raising money to fund her project, The Oldest Living Things in the World through Kickstarter, and she is so close to reaching her goal with 18 days left! Help her get to the Antarctic to photograph 5,000 year old moss by backing her in the next few weeks.

+ Mark Marchesi is also using Kickstarter to find backers for his project, Documenting Portland Maine, aimed at capturing the coastal fishing community of the city's waterfront as both the fish and the fisherman grow more scarce. Help Mark reach his goal of $2K—just 20 days to go!

+ Alejandro Cartagena's Suburbia Mexicana, Cause and Effect will be on view at Blue Sky Gallery / Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts from June 3rd to 27th. Tomorrow, June 2nd, Alejandro will be doing an artist talk with Christine Osinski who will also be exhibiting her series Staten Island Shoppers.

+ The Whitney Biennial has ended, but Nina Berman's work gets a shout out from Dan Nguyen.

+ Umbra Penumbra, a solo show of work by Jessica Eaton, is up at Gallery Push through June 13th.

See you in two weeks! In the meantime, poke around the profiles of Hot Shots past and present. See anything we missed? Let us know on Twitter @heyhotshot.

Steps by Thomas Prior

Welcome back to the HHS! Week in Review, a handy roundup all the best photo links from the past week.

+ This paset week we released 20x200 editions of two photographs by Thomas Prior, whose work we first discovered when he entered last year's HHS! competition. These editions are a new favorite around our office.

+ Oh noooo...the C-prints are fading!! Collectors of photographs printed in the 1990's—such as those by Andreas Gursky—are advised to keep their unstable prints out of strong light or risk erasure. Considering that a Gursky print sold for $3.3 million at Sotheby's in 2007, collectors will definitely want to heed this advice.

+ We just posted an exhaustive review of upcoming photo deadlines including: Daylight/CDS competition, Present Tense at PCNW, Aperture Portfolio Prize, Blurb's Photo Book Now, and 1000 Words' workshop in Morocco. There is literally something for everyone, so go read up and don't miss out.

+ A fond farewell to Nymphoto, one of our favorite photo blogs, who announced what may be a permanent hiatus on Friday. We've spent many hours perusing the sidebar of conversations. You will be missed!

+ Last week, we got a mention from @ElizaGregory who tweeted "@heyhotshot Your ratio of time spent on application to potential benefit to applicant is awesome." We're flattered! But it's true, we're really honored by each entry to HHS! and we love spending time reviewing the work. Have you seen the write-ups of our latest contenders? Stacia Prosser, Jo Ann Walters, Sheri Manson, Janet Taylor, Kevin C. Moore

+ It's Nina Berman's turn at the Whitney on May 28th! You're invited to My Turn, "a unique night of dialogue and interaction" that promises to bring the war home.

+ After a brief blip, Joe's NYC photoblog (by Joseph Holmes, for the unacquainted) is back.

+ Gregory Krum's solo show ...Practice... recently opened at Jen Bekman Gallery and we've got install shots up on the blog. Don't miss this great review on the NYT's T Magazine Blog. The show remains on view till Saturday, June 27th.

+ Rachel Sussman speaks about The Oldest Living Things in the World at GEL 2010.

+ Raul Gutierrez linked to this great edit of photos of Saturn on The Big Picture.

+ Kevin Cherry's Mull it Over interviews contender Greg E. Jones

+ Eirik Johnson's show Sawdust Mountain at the Aperture Gallery in NY is an ArtForum critic's pick. Aperture has also made a podcast of Eirik discussing the series available online, which you can listen to right here.

See anything we missed? Let us know on Facebook or on Twitter @heyhotshot.

New Work #43, 2010 by contender Jordan Tate

Apply by Thursday, May 20th, To Win 2nd Curator's Choice Award from Chronicle Books
We're now two months into Hey, Hot Shot! and have been thrilled to see fantastic submissions coming in from far and wide. The deadline for our second Curator's Choice Award is this Thursday, May 20th, 2010; all photographers who enter by this date are automatically considered to win a selection of five photography titles hand-picked for HHS! by Nion McEvoy. Nion, our second guest curator, is the chairman and CEO of Chronicle (and also a HHS! panelist), and will review all entries to date and select one contender to receive the award. The selected photographer will also be featured on the blog and in our next newsletter. After this deadline, the entry fee for the competition will increase to $70, so make sure to apply by Thursday!

Last month, Darius Himes selected Phil Underdown for the first Curator's Choice Award. Check out the announcement to see all five images from Phil's entry, Darius' statement about the work, and some great advice for photographers considering entering the competition. Dalton Rooney also posted a thoughtful entry about Phil's work on his blog that is not to be missed.

Left to Right: Michael Ten Pas, Carlo Gianferro, Jordan Tate, Miti Ruangkritya, David Axelbank

Read about all our contenders from the 2010 competition on the blog.

+ Gregory Krum's solo show, ...Practice..., opened on Friday at Jen Bekman Gallery. If we can say so ourselves: it's pretty stunning, so if you're in the neighborhood, do stop by!
+ We were so pleased to release an edition by Todd Hido on 20x200 last week. There are still a few editions in the larger sizes left if you hurry over to the site. If you're bummed you missed out on the smaller prints, make sure you're signed up for the 20x200 newsletter so you get first dibs next time.
+ A few JBP'ers were out on the LES on Thursday to check out new work by Penelope Umbrico, whose show As Is is now on view at LMAKprojects.
+ Birthe Piontek, Scott Eiden and Cara Phillips are featured in The Portrait as Allegory and Graphic Intersections, a joint show at Umbrage Gallery in Brooklyn on view through June 26th.
+ The annual Review Santa Fe at CENTER starts in just a few weeks on June 3rd! The Portfolio Viewing on Friday, June 4th is free and open to the public, so if you happen to be in town, stop by to see some great work.
+ The deadline to apply to the Daylight/CDS Photo Award has been extended to June 1st.
+ Jason Lazarus wants to archive your photos that are too hard to keep.
+ Landon Nordeman and Andrew Zuckerman have been selected for publication in American Photography 26. The slideshow is sorted alphabetically by last name, so make sure to scroll all the way down to the bottom. There's lots of great work and it's definitely worth a few minutes of your day!
+ Clicking around on Dalton Rooney's site we stumbled upon Photo Reads, a Tumblr he uses to bookmark long form articles about photography. Consider it Instapapered.

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Bedside (Anonymous), 2010 by Gregory Krum

Welcome back to the HHS! Week in Review. Every Monday, as an interlude between our bi-weekly Newsletter, we briefly roundup our the posts, links, and events from here and around the photo world. Here we go!

• Last Friday, 20x200 revealed this week's luminous photo edition by playing a game of twitter hangman. Some clever people guessed: T_DD H_D_ -- and they were right! Subscribers get the first grab, just sayin'.
• The NY Photo Festival opens this Thursday and there's a great lineup of exhibitions, lectures and events during the four-day event. Also, while you're in DUMBO, be sure to catch The Portrait As Allegory and Graphic Intersections at Umbrage Gallery, featuring works by Birthe Piontek, Cara Phillips and Scott Eiden.
• The photographer at work while the artist is present. A look at Marco Anelli's photographic documentation of Marina Abramović's ongoing performance at the MoMA.
• Darius Himes awards photographer Phil Underdown the first HHS! Curator's Choice Prize.
• All contenders who apply by May 20th are eligible for the second Curator's Choice Prize, a selection of five photography titles from Chronicle Books, selected by CEO of Chronicle, Nion McEvoy. Read all the details and get those entries in!
• A solo-show of work by Juliane Eirich opened on Saturday at Gallery Schuster Miami
• Joerg Colberg has posted his recap of Hyeres 2010. The only differences between the fashion crowd and photography crowd, he writes, is higher heels and bigger posses. (Also, note the work of Carlo Van de Roer hiding sneakily in the background of the second to last photo).
• Have you read our latest contender post? Michael Ten Pas's work is funny in a way that is neither irony nor LOLcats.
• Last but not least: Gregory Krum's ...Practice..., featuring thirty-seven photographs, opens at Jen Bekman Gallery this Friday, May 14th, from 6 - 8 p.m.

See anything we missed? Let us know on Twitter @heyhotshot.

We can hardly believe it, but we're already a month into Hey, Hot Shot! 2010. Today, Thursday, April 22nd, is the deadline to enter to be considered for the first Curator's Choice Award selected by Darius Himes. Darius is the founding editor of Radius Books, and will be picking one entrant who applies by 4/22 to receive a gift bag with three stunningly produced books: Transfigurations by Michael Lundgren, The Spirit and the Flesh by Debbie Fleming Caffery and Domestic Vacations by Julie Blackmon. After this deadline the entry fee of the competition will increase to $65, so apply by midnight tonight to save!

Twice a month we'll be sending a recap of recent contenders, Hot Shots on 20x200 and other photography news we want to share with you. We'll post it right here on the blog as you see below, but if you'd like it in your inbox too, make sure to sign up for our newsletter.

Top: Evi Lemberger, Maya Okland, Joyce P. Lopez, Jessica Auer, Maciek Jasik
Bottom: Bryan Solarski, Tim J. Veling, Vivan Chen, Camila Pombo, Gregory E. Jones

Read about all our contenders from the 2010 competition on the blog.

Maybe you've seen Bryan Schutmaat's Train Yard and Lumber Mill floating around the internet recently? We first came across Bryan's work through his submission to Hey, Hot Shot! (which garnered him an honorable mention). We recently released these two images as limited-edition prints on 20x200! The photographs are gorgeous and we couldn't be happier to have them all ready for you to hang in your home.

+ Alec Soth is out in California this week and asking for tips on where to find bats, hare krishnas, metal detector enthusiasts, and "anything else along this line of thinking." Any leads that result in a finished photograph are promised a nice prize!

+ 5B4 takes a closer look at the beautiful semi-annual Esopus magazine published by Tod Lippy, who is new to the HHS! panel this year.

+ There are just a few days left ('til May 1st) to apply for the New York Photo Awards. Win over $1,000 in prizes and be automatically considered for the New York Photo Awards 2010 Annual. (And don't forget: The New York Photo Festival '10 is fast-approaching on May 12-16th!)

+ Shoot the Moon, an exhibition of 500 Polaroids by Mikael Kennedy is currently on view at the Chelsea Hotel in Suite 524. The images, taken over the span of a decade, will remain on view through May 2nd. If you're curious to see more of Mikael's work, last year we wrote about his series The Odysseus over on the blog.

+ Transplants, a photography show in conjunction with MOPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) opens Friday, April 30th from 7 - 10 p.m. featuring the work of ten LA-based photographers originally raised elsewhere. See the work of Liz Kuball, Emily Shur and eight others at THIS Los Angeles.

+ Make sure you're signed up for a Gilt Groupe membership to get the scoop on an exquisite 20x200 edition put together with Andrew Zuckerman. Gilt offers stylish designer goods at deep discounts for short periods, and this time the proceeds of Andrew's edition will go to benefit The National Audubon Society.

See you in two weeks! In the meantime, poke around the profiles of Hot Shots past and present. See anything we missed? Let us know on Twitter @heyhotshot.

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.

Nathan Perkel	Anne Berry

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!

Hey, Hot Shot! 2010 opens next Monday
Later today we'll be giving you a sneak-peek at HHS! 2010, which will be headed by JBP's own Associate Producer, Summer 2005 Hot Shot, and 20x200 artist Youngna Park. Jen Bekman will be chiming in with a few thoughts on why Youngna is a great fit to lead the 2010 HHS! competition and why we're so excited for this year. The competition opens on Monday, March 22nd, so if you're not on the mailing list, sign up now!

A photo-full weekend in NYC

It's going to be an INSANELY PACKED weekend of photo events in NYC, so if you missed our roundup make sure to skim through and take some notes. Just to recap, we've got: AIPAD, tonight's SNAP! Out of Winter Aperture Party, two 20x200 edition-makers in gallery shows, two Hot Shots in gallery shows, and all this is in addition to the Hey, Hot Shot! Second Edition Showcase at Jen Bekman Gallery, which closes tomorrow, March 20th.

Foam TALENT Call For Entries Now Open!

Designed as a showcase for up-and-coming young talent from all reaches of the globe, the Foam editorial team will select portfolios to fill the double issue cover-to-cover. The 2009 TALENT issue featured 6 photographers, each with a sixteen-page spread and an additional twelve photographers, each with an 8-page spread. That's 250 pages of photography!

Happy 7th Birthday, Dear JBG

Monday, March 15th marked the seven (!) year anniversary of Jen Bekman Gallery, so we rounded up a few of the gorgeous works that have graced the gallery walls over the the last few years. There's lots more to look forward to, starting with the opening of Carrie Marill's Visual Aides next Friday, March 26th from 6 - 8 p.m.!

+ Noah Kalina is featured in a new book by Scott Belsky titled Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality.
+ A beautiful slideshow of work by Colin Blakely, along with 100 words about his work are featured on NPR's Picture Show blog.
+ Joe Holmes has a new edition on 20x200 this week titled Nethermead. Now that it's finally (approaching) warm and sunny status, pictures of winter suddenly look dreamy!

That's it for this week. We'll be back on Monday to kick off an AMAZING new round of HHS!

Last Friday we were on the front lines of Art Fair Survival Kit Handout and preparing to for the Hot Shot opening, so didn't get to check in here at the Week in Review. But, we're back today with two weeks in review, so read on to get the latest:

Hey, Hot Shot! at Jen Bekman Gallery

Last Friday marked the opening of the latest Hey, Hot Shot! Exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery. The opening was a hit, with all five of this round's Hot Shots in attendance. Elizabeth Leitzell took a set of great photos both of people at the opening and the show installation. With such a diverse group of work, we were biting our nails here at HQ about how all the different bodies of work would play off of each other in the tiny space that is our gallery, but are thrilled with how the exhibit looks!

Hot Shot News

• This week we had the joy of releasing a dreamy new 20x200 edition titled Paris by Summer 2007 Hot Shot Gregory Krum (right), who will be having a solo show this May at Jen Bekman Gallery.
• Nina Berman is lauded by TIME Magazine for her "tender but unflinching" work in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
• Aperture is having a party and you're invited! Jen Bekman is co-chairing this year's SNAP! OUT OF WINTER party, so you'll find many of us from Team JBP there on March 19th for drinks, desserts, and plenty of instant memories thanks to a Polaroid photo booth! Tickets are still available at a variety of price points.
• Lay Flat 02: Meta, featuring Jessica Eaton, Penelope Umbrico, and an essay by HHS! panelist Lesley A. Martin is now available to order.
• Tema Stauffer has curated online show titled Inside Out at culturehall, including Fall 2006 Hot Shot Juliana Beasley.
• EXPOSED: Critical Mass 2009, an exhibition juried by Andy Adams of Flak Photo opened last week in Seattle. The show features work by Hot Shots Alejandro Cartagena, Brad Moore, Kate Orne and Birthe Piontek.
• Getting published is one thing. Getting published with an introduction to your book written by William Eggleston is a whole other realm of awesome. Eggleston will be judging of this year's rigorous First Book Prize in Photography, opening for entries on June 15, 2010. Maybe you've got a shot?

That's all for now, photographer friends. See anything we missed? Reply to @heyhotshot on Twitter and let us know!

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

Untitled Lost River, San Nicolas 2007, Suburbia Mexicana Project by Alejandro Cartagena

Hey, Hot Shot! News

• + Ladies and gentlemen, it's the moment you've all been waiting for! The Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition Exhibition, featuring 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, opens Friday, March 5th (one week from today!) at Jen Bekman Gallery. Come check out the work and mingle with the artists in attendance at the reception from 6 - 8pm. We really hope to see you there!


• + The 2010 Whitney Biennial opened earlier this week, featuring work by Spring 2007 Hot Shot Nina Berman and Fall 2005 Hot Shot Curtis Mann. Check out reviews by Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine, Linda Yablonsky for Bloomberg, Todd Eberle for Vanity Fair, and Kelly Crow for The Wall Street Journal.


• + HHS! Founder and panelist Jen Bekman will be speaking about The Value of Building Community on March 7th at SMartCAMP in NYC alongside the likes of Kickstarter, Threadless, and Etsy. Check out our post on the 20x200 blog for more details on how to attend.


• + What You're Told, paintings by edition-maker Clare Grill at Jen Bekman Gallery, closes tomorrow. Those who brave the snowpocalypse will be rewarded with the warmth of Clare's paintings. Head over to 6 Spring St. and check it out, we promise it's worth it!


• + Hot Shot Yijun (Pixy) Liao, 20x200 edition-makers Emily Shur, and Tema Stauffer are auctioning prints to benefit Haiti through March 7th, coordinated by The Nymphoto Collective.


• + Spring 2006 Hot Shot Michael Itkoff's thesis exhibition Each + Every is on view this Saturday from 12 - 5pm in Long Island City, NY.


• + Work by HHS! honorable mention Magda Biernat is featured today on the NYT Lens Blog.

Photography on 20x200
+ We couldn't be happier to bring you a this sunny edition for a snowy day by Summer 2005 Hot Shot Youngna Park. In addition to being one of our very first Hot Shots and 20x200 edition-makers, Youngna is JBP's Associate Producer, working across the board to make JBP run smoothly.
Winter Flags (East Village, New York) by Youngna Park

Until next week!

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

Prospect Park by Joseph Holmes

Hot Shot News

• + A photograph by Spring 2007 Hot Shot Nina Berman was published in today's Wall Street Journal as part of an article about the 2010 Whitney Biennial, for which Nina was selected.
• + Summer 2007 Hot Shot Gregory Krum has curated, Quicktake: Rodarte at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a show surveying the work, process, and inspiration behind these avant-garde fashion designers.
• + SVA recently announced Photo Global, a new intensive residency program for international students chaired by Hey, Hot Shot! panelist Stephen Frailey. Check out our Q&A with Frailey for answers to questions like, "what does Photo Global offer that other programs do not?" and "who is your ideal student?"
• + The AIPAD—no, not that iPad—is coming to New York, and we just posted our write-up on what the event is all about, why it's valuable for photographers to attend, and what you can do to get the most out of it!
• + In the past few weeks, you might have noticed some great new posts by Stacy Oborn, who—it was officially announced this week—has joined the JBP crew and will be contributing daily to all of our beloved blogs. Welcome to the team, Stacy!

Photography on 20x200
And Still We Gather With Infinite Momentum 1 by Justin James King

+This week we were excited to release the first edition from our 2009 Second Edition Hot Shots on 20x200: Justin James King's And Still We Gather With Infinite Momentum 1, adding to a noteworthy collection of prints by Hot Shots now available on the site. You can read more about Justin's work here.

On that note, the 2009 Second Edition HHS! Showcase opens Friday, March 5th at Jen Bekman Gallery, so mark your calendars!

From the Web

• + Don't miss Pictory's newest collaborative photo story, The One Who Got Away, and also take a look at how to submit to their upcoming and ongoing themes.
• + The Hey, Hot Shot! Blog is one of the sources being aggregated by brand-new photo resource The Photography Post, edited by Spring 2005 Hot Shot Rachel Hulin. We're thrilled to be a tiny part of this exciting new site!
• + We're smitten with the photograph of dogs in Prospect Park by Joe Holmes (seen at the top of this post!) and—if the like-and-reblog count is any indication—so is the rest of the internet.
• + Bland desktop blues? Summer 2005 Hot Shot Noah Kalina has got you covered.
• + 20x200 edition-maker Kate Bingaman-Burt has been posting daily drawings for February on her Flickr, including an instant camera which we totally covet.

p.s. See anything that we missed? Reply to @heyhotshot on Twitter.

Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida by Daniel Cheek

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

Photography on 20x200
On Wednesday, we had the pleasure of bringing you 2009 First Edition Hot Shot Daniel Cheek's quiet Rookery Bay (above!), an image dealing with how we experience nature in a world inundated with boundaries and barriers.

Special Announcement!
Sara Distin, Associate Director of JBP, is running a marathon to raise $5k for young adults with cancer. As of this writing she has reached 43% of her goal. Please take a moment to learn more about her race and donate to First Descents. Thank you!

Hot Shot News
+ Hey, Hot Shot! Honorable Mention Liz Kuball is featured in the latest issue of Fraction Magazine.
+ We posted earlier this week about a series called After You Left, They Took it Away by Hey, Hot Shot! honorable mention Chris Mottalini, documenting demolished homes by architect Paul Rudolph.
+ The face of Hot Shot Noah Kalina flashed across millions of TVs during this Superbowl commercial.

Pony Express Trail, outside Austin, Nevada 2006, The West by Daniel Cheek

Openings, Events, and Deadlines
+ America Now is a star-studded photography exhibition that includes work from Hot Shot Daniel Cheek as well as Ben Huff, Shane Lavalette, Laura McPhee, Alec Soth and Zoe Strauss.

America Now
February 5 - April 10, 2010
Montserrat College of Art Gallery
23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA
+ Magnum Photo announces emerging photographer grant for 2010. Deadline: April 15th
+ 3rd Ward has an open call for their winter solo show. Deadline: March 1st.

From the Web
+ William Wegman popped up in a New York Times article about photographers who used Polaroids. One of his photos is published with the caption, "Polaroid provided great talents with equipment and film, and they gave it photographs."

Anything we missed? Reply to @heyhotshot on Twitter. Until next week!

Untitled from Sweet Water by Ian Baguskas

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we reminisce on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

20x200 Print Giveaway at the Brooklyn Museum THIS SATURDAY!

On Saturday, February 6th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., join some of us from 20x200, including Ms. Jen B. herself, at the Brooklyn Museum for a Target First Saturday event with 1stfans. We'll be giving away 10"x8" prints by artist Valerie Hegarty to new and renewing 1stfans members and Jen will be speaking to an intimate group of 1stfans at a meetup. Meetups are an opportunity for 1stfans to interact exclusively with the Museum's staff, its collections, artists, and other members every month at Target First Saturdays. Hope to see you there! Read More →

Photography on 20x200:

#52 by Kent Rogowski

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we reminisce on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet, and drop hints about what the future holds.

Openings + Events:
+ Photographer Brian Ulrich will be giving a talk tonight at Hous Projects Gallery, and is part of a two-person show opening tomorrow in Brooklyn. We've got all the details on that here.

Instruments of Empire: Brian Ulrich and Amy Stein
On View: January 28 – March 25, 2010
Caption Gallery
55 Washington Street, No. 802
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Brian Ulrich Signing + Lecture
Tonight: January 29, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Hous Projects
31 Howard St., 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013

Photography on 20x200:
In the 20x200 newsletter this week, Jen wrote that she has been "trying to get [Hey, Hot Shot! panelist] Kent Rogowski to edition a couple of his bears for years." Finally her persistence has paid off with this week's photo edition: a pair of Kent's inside out bear photographs. While lovebirds are sure to see the sweetness in these prints, misanthropes will also relate to the grotesque reminder of hearts turned inside out. It all depends on how you look at it!

#51 by Kent Rogowski	#52 by Kent Rogowski

HHS! News:
+ Work by Spring 2006 Hot Shot, Ian Baguskas, was featured on LA photography blog We Can Shoot Too.
+ Mikey Burton, the designer who created our logo, was featured on swissmiss this week. Woohoo!

From the Web
+ MagCloud has teamed up with photographers including iconic photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark, to create a photo-zine about Haiti, and will be donating all proceeds.
+ We're thrilled that photographer and 20x200 Edition-Maker Liz Kuball will be donating proceeds from a self-produced print to Haiti. Go, Liz!
+ It's not that we don't love New York, but we're dying to go to Philadelphia. Why, you ask? Well, Maira Kalman has a survey exhibition opening called Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World), which includes some of her rarely-seen photographs.
+ Were you able to stop by the Alec Soth lecture last night in Richmond, VA? Was it awesome? Let us know!

Untitled work image by Holly Lynton

Welcome back to the Week in Review, where we reminisce on the highlights of the week, point out all the great things we saw on the internet, and drop hints about what the future holds!

Hot Shot Q&As:
On Monday we posted our final Hot Shot Q&A, meaning all five are now available online. This is a great way to get to know this round of Hot Shots and future 20x200 edition-makers!
+ Jessica Eaton
+ Justin James King
+ Alejandro Cartagena
+ Leah Tepper Byrne
+ Marisa Aragona

HHS! News:
+Our photo edition this week on 20x200 was a beautiful-yet-sinister artificial landscape Rincon Artificial Island and Pipeline, Ventura, California by Ian Baguskas. Sara posted about it earlier this week, pairing it with an image and quote by Robert Adams.
+ 2008 Second Edition Hot Shot Yijun (Pixy) Liao was recently spotlighted on Feature Shoot for several series of her work.
+ Fall 2007 Hot Shot Ian van Coller's series The Garden Path is featured in Issue 10 of Fraction Magazine.
+ Hot Shot Jessica Eaton, Panelist Lesley A. Martin, and 20x200 Edition-Maker Penelope Umbrico are included in the upcoming Lay Flat 02: Meta. Pre-order a.s.a.p. to reserve your copy!
+ We rounded up the deadlines and information on submitting your work to a variety of competitions at the Santa Fe photography organization, Center. They currently have four open calls for entry with upcoming deadlines on January 27th.

On the Web:
+ Kevin Miyazaki posted a beautiful photo on his blog this week. If you haven't collected his two 20x200 editions yet you are seriously missing out.
+ Jeffrey posted about Holly Lynton's great new work-in-progress on the JBG Blog. Don't miss out on this post with more info on "The Turkey Madonna" (above)
+ Shane Lavalette's blog led us to the Robert Heineken Studies by Jason Lazarus, an intense series of colorful photograms made with human ashes.
+ Last week we posted a guide to Buying Art to Benefit Haiti and today we posted Even More Ways to Buy Art (& Design) to Benefit Haiti, an update including your suggestions and additions to the list. If you have contributions, please let us know!

Happy Friday and see you back here next week!

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes (via The Big Picture)

It's that time again for the Week in Review, where we reminisce on the week, point out things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

Haiti:
- We were shocked and quite somber this week around the HQ after hearing—and seeing—all the destruction from the earthquake in Haiti. The images we're seeing from Port-au-Prince are incredibly humbling, painful and emotional to process. We wanted to take a minute to recognize all the incredible photographers who are putting their lives on the line to show the rest of the world how this devastating story is unfolding and also offer sympathy to all the individuals, families and organizations that have been affected.

- The Big Picture has two posts (Earthquake in Haiti, Haiti 48 Hours Later) full of images from press photographers on location, and if you've seen other documentation, please let us know in the comments.

Google has a great list of ways you can help, and don't forget that you can easily donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting HAITI to 90999 and donate $5 to Yele's Earthquake Relief efforts by texting YELE to 501501. It's super easy and the donation will be added directly to your next cellphone bill.

Jen Bekman Gallery:
- Tonight from 6 - 8 p.m. you're cordially invited to the opening of Clare Grill's NYC debut solo exhibition, What You're Told, at Jen Bekman Gallery. The show features six paintings on canvas and eleven works on paper; you can see more images here and check out our Facebook invite for more info. Hope to see you there!

HHS! News:
- Our Hot Shot Q&A series is drawing to a close. Check back on Monday for our final Q&A with Hot Shot Marisa Aragona. So far we've heard from Jessica Eaton, Justin James King, Alejandro Cartagena, and Leah Tepper Byrne. If you missed any of these conversations, be sure to check them out.

- The first ever Too Much Chocolate + Kodak Film Grant was awarded to ten deserving photographers, including Hot Shots Leah Tepper Byrne, Molly Landreth and Honorable Mention Magda Biernat. They will get their choice of film from Kodak to complete a new or ongoing personal project in 2010. Congratulations!

- Panelist Lesley A. Martin met with photographer Joel Meyerowitz at the NY Public Library for a public discussion of photo books earlier this week.

On the web:
- Have you seen our Tumblr? Throughout the week we've been posting images that catch our eye, quips from our office, sneak-peeks of secret things, and photos of dogs and kittens. Head over there and subscribe to that nonsense!

- Prison Photography ran a photo feature on Hot Shot Leah Tepper Bryne with some nice images of her work!

- The Future of Photobooks conversation led by Miki Johnson of LiveBooks RESOLVE Blog and Andy Adams of Flak Photo also continues asking questions like, "How should photobook funding evolve in the next decade?" and "What are the best printers if you want to self-publish a photo book?" Head over to RESOLVE to join in on, or read the discussion.

- On the topic of photo books, photo-eye just published their list of the "Best Photobooks of 2009" as selected by a group of photographers, editors, publishers and bookmakers. You can also see a longer list of all the books that received at least one vote—the breadth and beauty of what was published in '09 is shocking!

- Did you catch our 20x200 photo release this week? It's a richly textural photograph called offSET #29, New York by Honorable Mention Lacey Terrell.

- Last but not least, we love how much art is hanging in the London flat of photographer (and friend of many-of-us here!) Rion Nakaya, who appeared on Design*Sponge earlier this week.

Did we miss anything worth seeing this week? Leave a comment or reply to @heyhotshot on Twitter and let us know!

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.