f295: Exploring 21st Century Photography

The end of developing film

pollard71 — Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:09:57

Did my brief entanglement with camera apps on my phone somehow translate to the end of film processing at Chromatics (the local place I used in Nashville for developing 120 film)?

http://www.squarepegpinhole.com/2010/09/developing-love-loss.html

Entering the Tennessee State Fair

pollard71 — Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:31:58

A couple of blog posts about entering the photo competition at the Tennessee State Fair:

It Ain't All Midway, Ya Know
I'm a city boy. Forever I thought the State Fair was nothing more than rides, cotton candy, half dead goldfish and shady characters. I didn't know until recently that our great state fair held competitions for the best cows and pigs and flower arrangements (seriously?) and jarred beets. I thought that kinda stuff happened only...
http://www.squarepegpinhole.com/2010/08/it-aint-all-midway-ya-know.html

Get Thee to a Fair
Since I've never entered something at the fair, I wasn't certain where to take my stuff, what info needed to be on the mounting board, what to expect in general. For anyone who enters...
http://www.squarepegpinhole.com/2010/09/get-thee-to-fair.html

Please have a look. I'm just starting my blog and am interested in getting feedback on the writing, the photos, the content in general. It's hard to know whether to keep writing or not if you're not certain if people even care.

Thanks, Herschel

Mpls Photo Center - Keith Taylor, juror

Tom Miller — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:54:58

Here is a link to an all-alt-process (including pinhole and inkjet) call for entries. Mpls Photo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Keith Taylor, well-known to many folks on f295, will be the juror.

http://www.mplsphotocenter.com/exhibits/exhibit-competitions.php#alternatives

Collage and Photography Show opening this Saturday

beatricethecat — Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:05:18

Hello! This is not an alternative processes show, but I do use photography in an unconventional way + am an f295 member so I thought I'd post!

"[flo]#4 + stalled" consists of a large scale site specific collage which addresses the rapidly changing neighborhood of Long Island City, PLUS selected photographs from my "stalled" series which investigates construction site facades in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (shot with a 4x5 camera)

OPENING: 12-6 Saturday, August 7th, 2010 (come early for snacks and refreshments!!)

The Homefront Gallery
26-23 Jackson Avenue
Queens, NY 11101

Show is up August 7 – October 2, Gallery open 12-6 weekends or by appointment.
...
http://www.thehomefrontgallery.com/2010/exhibition-grand-opening/

http://www.jennifer-williams.com/

ALSO on display: hand blown art glass by James Corporan, personalized cards and journals by Milly Itzhak, zines and homemade buttons by Noah Lyon, soft sculptures by Simone Meltesen, and handmade ceramics by Michiko Shimada and Megumi Yoshida.

Pinhole exhibition in Paris

clicclac — Mon, 2 Aug 2010 06:43:28

I'm pleased to take part in a collective exhibition to the Center Iris in Paris !

for more information click here :

http://www.centre-iris.fr/spip.php?article158

Looking for a Fall or Winter Platinum class

erinMalone — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:18:42

Anyone know of any Platinum printing classes or workshops in the fall or winter this year?

I have done so much traveling I need to stay home during the rest of the summer which is when all the classes I have found seem to be happening. Also hoping the class would include making digital negatives.

Would very much like to find something in October or so. Preferrably in the west.

Any leads are welcome.

thanks

5th International Pinhole exhibition in France !

marinoel — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:04:21

Call for entry

Alive !

The Andre Malraux Cultural Center organize his Fifth International lensless (pinhole, zone-plate, sieve…) photography exhibition on the theme of the Human Being

The exhibition will stand up first in France as usually in the CCAM from March 11th to April 23th 2011 and then in Spain, en el Centro Civic Can Basté de Barcelona (http://www.canbaste.com/) during 3 consecutives weeks between May and July (the exact dates will be announced later)
The previous exhibitions were attached to show the environment in which humans evolved. This time, human being becomes the subject of images!
Portrait or representations in feet, legs or eyes, back or hands ... nude or with clothes, what visions our dear tiny holes can show us about this so complex human being ? Every images with pornographic or degrading caracters will be systematically rejected !

You have to present a coherent serie of 5 to 10 photographs.

The size, the support and the arrangement of the images are free.
The images going to be exhibited in two distant locations must be prepared
to be « ready to hang ».
If you choose to show them framed, don’t use glasses !

To participate, send before December 31st, 2010, by Internet only at the electronic address frenchpinholecenter@orange.fr, a file including the following details:
1- Reproductions of the images such as they will appear to the exhibition. The reproductions will be numbered. Every reproduction will have 15 cms /1800 pixels in its largest dimension in 300 dpi, .jpeg format maximal quality. The digitized images must be dusted off, in RGB format for the color, in grey levels for the Black and White.
2- A sketch presenting the arrangement with the number of each picture. You aren’t obliged to use frames, your pictures can be simply pasted on a rigid support or presented in the form of a roller…
3-  a note (format RTF) presenting (in French, English or Spanish) :
- Your Name, First name, Address, Country
- e-mail address.
- The URL of your website, Blog or Flickr gallery, and so on
- A short biography (5 lines max.)
- Characteristics of the pinhole-camera(s) used to create these photography (focal length, diaphragm, …)
4- A short text (in French, English or Spanish) presenting your work on this subject (5 lines max.).
5- A photography of each pinhole-cameras used, numbered in correspondence with the reproductions. This (these) image(s) will measure 7 cm / 850 pixels in its greatest dimension in 300 dpi, in JPEG maximum quality.
The files not corresponding to this request will be systematically rejected.

The selected authors will be informed by e-mail only during the last two weeks of January 2011. The selected authors will have to send in January (dead line for reception : February 15th) by the post office their photographies ready to be hung on the walls.
Authors have to take all the customary precautions for a safe travel of their works so that they won’t be damaged.

The curator of the exhibition and the CCAM reserve the right to not hang on the prints which quality is not in compliance with selected files.

During the exhibition, the authors will follow on http://capsule93.blogspot.com/  the events of the exhibition.
At the end of the exhibition in the CCAM Le Bourget, the pictures will go to Barcelona (Spain) to be exhibited during 3 weeks. At the end of this second part of exibition they will be returned to their authors at the Can Basté of Barcelona expense.

Memorandum
2010, December 31th : Dead line to send the files to the following address :
frenchpinholecenter@orange.fr
20011, January 15-20: The selected authors are informed by e-mail.
20011, January 15 – February 10th : Reception of the works ready to be hung.
   Centre culturel André Malraux
   10, avenue Francis de Pressensé
   93350 Le Bourget
   France
2011, March 11th to April 23th: Exhibition (Openning on march 11th at 7pm)
2011, May-June : Exhibition in Centro Civic Can Basté de Barcelona (Spain)
2011 July : The works come back to their authors.

Cafe Conversations

PhotoBob — Wed, 7 Jul 2010 00:39:15

Here is a digital image taken of the beginning section of the exhibition.
The conclusion of the exhibition will be preceeded by a talk on pinhole photography and Q-A session if possible.

Employee Art Show

Ric J — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:58:43

Today, I had to be at work at 6:30am (an hour earlier then normal) to sit in a very boring, snore, why am I here, snore, don't start sleeping, 2 hour meeting. The meeting was over and I was back to my desk to start reading emails and then the phone rang. Looked at the caller ID, I had no idea who the caller was, almost didn't answer but thought "why not, I can talk to anyone, after all I just bought a full cup a coffee with 2 shots of espresso". Picked up the phone and a boring morning began a great morning. The caller was somebody I barely know who works in a different department, different building, even a different city asking me why I didn't bring in any of my framed photographs for the upcoming employee art show. First I had to say "what employee art show are you talking about?", and secondly "what framed photographs?". She laughed and said "you know the Hennepin County Employee Art Show", I sent you an email about it two months ago. Well then I had to say "sorry, I must have missed it". So, she had to explain everything again, and ended with her saying "a couple of prints from the show you and your friends (aka the League of Upper Midwest Pinholers) had last year at the Edina Art Center". I didn't even know she saw the show. So I asked "when's the deadline to submit the entry form". Her answer? "You're late, it was 3 weeks ago. But don't worry, since I told the person who is putting the show together, that a friend of mine who is a pinhole photographer, is going to blow your mind when he brings in his photographs. So you have 3 hours to bring in your photographs. We are hanging the show tomorrow.

"Wait", I screamed, "3 hours? I have three hours to leave work, drive home, find a few framed photographs, drive to the Hennepin County Government Center, find a place to park downtown, and to find an office somewhere in a 24-story building where I can leave my prints?" "Oh sure" she said, "the office is on the 18th floor, and the office door will be locked at 1pm today.

What else could I do? I had to leave my desk and run, run, run. So that being said let me say that next month (July) three of my prints will be shown in the Hennepin County Government Center Gallery (Minneapolis, MN). There is not a opening or closing reception or anything fancy that most galleries have, just an employee group show in what is really store front windows (even though they call it a gallery) . Not sure that I'l even see the show, unless I have to go downtown for a real work related event. It was really nice to see her again, having an art discussion with her and the curator, explaining pinhole/lensless photography, and then back to work. The print's: <http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=160207> Lake Harriet Bandshell, <http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=166058> Lake Calhoun Walkway, and <http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=202765> Lakewood Cemetery Lake have been posted here but these links open my MN Artists page.

solo show in Edinburgh, july 2010

heyoka — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:24:15

hi

just to let you know, I have an exhibition opening on july 3rd, and running until jul 31 at Axolotl Gallery, 35 Dundas Street, Edinburgh. This is a show of seventeen silver prints of my pinhole work, mostly from a series called Balancing Act.

if you are anywhere close, and able to drop by, please do let me know--i live very close to the gallery! (and there are a couple of excellent pubs within a few minutes walk)

New issue of Without Lenses

erinMalone — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:38:56

Just wanted to let folks know, a new issue of Without Lenses has been posted. Includes the work of and an interview with Mabel Odessey who creates pinhole images in collaboration with musicians. Also featured is the recent zoneplate work of George Sheils, who posts here as Seoirse and an HTML translation of the Populist instructions of the popular 35mm camera designed by Nick Dvoraek.

Check it out, leave some comments or a new story idea.

http://www.withoutlenses.com

thanks

Erin

Low-Tech - call for entries at C4FAP

MarkB — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:01:40

Center for Fine Art Photography has a call for entries for their juried show "Low Tech." Pinhole, toy cameras, and alt processes. Info at link.

"The Center is currently celebrating the low-tech processes and is interested in exhibiting the best low-tech images that photographers are producing. This call is open to all subjects and styles of photography that include a low tech means of image making or printing. This includes, but is not limited to; toy, Holga and Diana cameras, Pinhole, Wet Plate Collodion, Photograms, Callotypes, Cyanotypes, Polaroid and other traditional processes."

http://c4fap.org/cfe/2010LowTech/index.asp

Pinhole Workshop - July 10th - Newport, Oregon

wolf391 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:23:47

Hello
A bit of shameless self promotion

Just to let everyone know about a upcoming pinhole workshop in Newport, Oregon on July 10th. Please pass the info along to anyone that might be interested. Thanks - Kurt

Check out the flyer and my pinhole gallery at - kurtnorlinphotography.com

If you have questions contact me at - norlink1@hotmail.com

Cafe Conversations

PhotoBob — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:42:49

Went down to the gallery today to help select what and how it will be exhibited. I also suggested to have an open pinhole camera on hand with a few of the items used to help the pinhole photographer make images. They're going for it. So there will be an educational component to the exhibtion as well.
Here is the poster for it.

Pinhole exhibition in Reunion Island

toniox — Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:59:23

Hi. In april 2010, during one week, there has been 4 young children with me taking pinhole pictures of their City. Here is one picture of the exhibition, printed directly in PVC in 3 huge format, 60x60cm, 60x90cm and 60x120cm.

There is a slideshow in youtube too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IAlNiZmWEU

Albumen Printing with France Scully Osterman

tpersin — Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:20:04

We have 2 spaces left in France Scully Osterman's Albumen Printing workshop in Pittsburgh at the F295 studio taking place July 10-11, 2010. More information here: http://www.f295.org/site/?page_id=573

Pinhole Photo Exhibition

PhotoBob — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:40:52

Between 9th June and the 11th July, 2010, PhotoBob is having an exhibition of 30 pinhole photographs at the Legacy Gallery downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The central theme of the exhibition is: Cafe Conversations. But there will be a few sweetners added to the mix.

Alternative Processes Competition

Margery Franklin — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:12:57

Soho Photo Gallery in New York City invites entries to its Sixth Alternative Processes Competition, November 2-27. Submission deadline: August 12, 2009. Open to photographs made through alternative processes that include (but are not limited to) albumen, cyanotype, platinum/palladium, Van Dyke, gum bichromate, tintypes, image transfers, liquid emulsions. Traditional silver gelatin prints, c-prints and digital prints are not eligible, but handmade prints created from digital negatives are welcome. The distinguished jurors, France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman, will select 30-40 photographers. First, second and third place prizes will be awarded. The entry fee is $40 for up to five photographs. Additional images may be submitted for $5 each. Download the prospectus and entry form at sohophoto.com/prospectus.

Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, New York, NY 10013, 212-226-8571
Contact: Joan Lemler at jlemler@nyc.rr.com.

Diffusion, Group Showcase, 2011 Call for Art

bluemitchell — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:07:40

Diffusion, Volume III, 2011 Group Showcase – Diffusion seeks images for an upcoming print annual in 2011. Winners will be published in a group show feature and receive a complimentary issue.

Theme: Ortus (Latin) — rise, become visible, appear, birth, origin. There are no restrictions to submit to this theme, just take into account we’re mostly interested in unconventional photography methods.

Submit up to 5 images. $10.00 entry fee. Deadline: June 30, 2010. Visit website for submission information. Questions? Please contact Blue Mitchell at info@diffusionmag.com.

http://www.diffusionmag.com

Wayne Martin Belger at Meta Gallery in Toronto!

boyofblue — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:37:21

Meta Gallery presents,
In Death I Bloom:
Photographic Journeys From Destruction Through Creation.
By Wayne Martin Belger

April 30 – May 30, 2010
Artist reception  May 30th  from  7-10 pm
Artist will be present.

  In Death I Bloom, will debut Wayne Belger's newest camera " Divine". Created to study mythology of creation and destruction by using X ray scatter from inside Partial accelerators to photograph Icons of creation and destruction.

Wayne Martin Belger will give a free artist talk at Meta Gallery on Sunday May 2, 2010 from 1-3 pm. Using his hand made pin hole cameras and photographs as reference, specific details will be explored regarding what inspired and went into creating these extraordinary works of art.

Attendance will be strictly limited to 45 people. Please call the gallery to RSVP @ 416.955.0500 or email Meiko Kanamoto mk@metagallery.com
We do expect this event to fill up so please RSVP!

Meta Gallery
124 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 3R6
Canada

t:   416 955 0500