Portfolio course offered at the Light Factory

DEFINING YOUR VISION AND DEVELOPING YOUR PERSONAL STYLE
Many artists are defined by a signature style. This vision can be exemplified by subject matter, technique or other methods that make their work readily identifiable. This course will help guide you to a more mature vision of your work. Editing and critiques of existing work, and examinations of the signature styles of master photographers, will help bring your own personal vision into focus. Students will be asked to bring a selection of their best work and related outtakes (contact sheets, work prints, digital files). They will be encouraged (but not required) to create new work or print new discoveries that fit their theme. Our goal will be to create a 12-15 image portfolio of your signature style.
I am encouraging my past students to post/link to the work they created in my previous class. The next class starts soon, so visit http://www.light-factory.org/defining-your-vision for more details.

Hanging "Delugians" at Salomon Arts gallery

Installation of Delugians exhibition
Click on the link to view a time lapse slide show of the installation of the exhibition at the tribeca gallery.

Actual Deluge greets "Delugians" opening in NYC

It seemed somewhat appropriate that at the hour that the Delugians show was to open, NYC would be hit by a poltergeist/tempest/tornado. While the weather certainly curtailed some of the expected attendance, the turnout was steady. Universally the guests were impressed and moved by the exhibition. Stella Kramer has written a nice review of the show on her blog, Stellazine.

More on the tornado from the NY Times:

Most of the New York City subway system was back in service by this evening’s rush hour after a fierce morning storm disrupted transit service throughout much of the region and unleashed a rare and destructive tornado that whipped southwestern Brooklyn with winds of up to 135 miles an hour.

The storm dropped about 3 inches of rain on the New York metropolitan area in about an hour, flooding major thoroughfares, cutting off power to thousands of homes and causing confusion that lingered through a humid, sweaty day.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York o said this was the third time in seven months that a sudden downpour had brought the transit system to its knees. “The timing and intensity of the storm took us by surprise,” said Elliot G. Sander, the chief executive of the M.T.A. “The intensity of the storm brought torrential rainfall in a short period of time, overwhelming both our pumps and the sewer system that is needed to accept the pump water.”

As the storm knocked down power lines, more than 4,000 customers throughout the city lost power.

Pete Chiaramonte, 41, said he saw what he thought was the storm touching down at around 5.30 a.m. near the corner of 37th Street and 13th Avenue. “It was a funnel shape,” he said. “It looked kind of black and blue,” adding, “it was way up high and came right down on the roof of” a department store. “Pieces of the roof were all over the place. It was a big bang.”

New Orleans Photo-based artists take Manhattan

"Delugians" exhibit at Salomon Arts showcases the work of lens-based artists whose work was influenced by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

83 Leonard Street, 4th floor (Tribeca) , New York, NY-  September 16-October 16, 2010. Opening reception: Thursday, September 16, 6-9pm

Graphic images of a landscape of destruction…New Orleanians have seen enough of them. As the 5th anniversary of the Hurricanes and flooding that devastated New Orleans and the Gulf coast approaches, many of these images will, no doubt, resurface. The collection of art in "Delugians" focuses on a different aspect of the aftermath, how the emotional, social, and psychological effects of this catastrophe manifest themselves in the work of 4 lens-based artists. Curator, Bryce Lankard, has worked closely with many artists, particularly photographers, in the New Orleans post-Katrina environment, most notably through the foundation of the New Orleans Photo Alliance, a non-profit photographic arts organization that began shortly after the natural and man-made disaster.