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Contact Photographers Teaching at ICP

July 2008 | Sections: Photographers' News, Tidbits


Market in Kumasi, Ghana — 2000	© Frank Fournier

Two Contact photographers teaching courses on photography and journalism in New York at the International Center of Photography this summer:

Frank Fournier — Photojournalism in the Classical Tradition
July 12-13 & 19-20 | Saturdays & Sundays | 10:00 am-5:00 pm
These weekend workshops are for students who would like guidance on their photographic projects or story ideas.

Jane Evelyn Atwood — The In-Depth Photographic Essay
July 28-August 1st | Monday-Friday | 10:00am-5:00 pm
This class will cover all facets of the long-term photographic project, from the choice of a subject, to the completion of a book, exhibition, or visual projection.



De-mining buckets in Mocumbi, Mozambique — 2001	© Jane Evelyn Atwood

The Gang of Five at the Bruckner Gallery

July 2008 | Sections: Tidbits

This summer (July 2-August 6), in the Mott Haven section of New York City’s South Bronx, the Bruckner Gallery is presenting Departure, a group show by (from left to right in photograph below): Danny Ramon Peralta, Miguel Anaya, Mark Nevers, Bashira Webb, Lyric R. Cabral with images from their respective essays: “My Mexican-American Family, Texas”, “The Movement, Harlem”, “Elderly Addictions, a SRO hotel in Harlem”, “Ma (My Mother), Chelsea”, and “Afro-Punk, New York.” The gallery exhibition is curated by Chet Urban.*



© Robert Pledge

The five “concerned photographers” first met five years ago at The Point, a community arts organization in Hunts Point and coalesced as a group in 2005 when accepted into the Jocelyne Benzakin Fellowship. The program coordinated by Lacy Austin at the International Center of Photography gave them access to “mentors” — all respected members of the photojournalism community — including Frank Fournier, Alice Gabriner, James Nubile, Robert Pledge, Hillary Raskin, Fred Ritchin, and Joseph Rodriguez.

In 2007, they were the collective recipients of the Howard Chapnick Grant “for the advancement of photojournalism” for The Bridge — a project that replicates the model that they have formed together in order to serve young people in neighborhoods where photography is not generally practiced and photographic education is not available. The same year they also won a Lucie Award.

The group continues to work with “mentor” Fournier, in his South Bronx studio, as a loose collective of socially oriented photographers exploring their communities yet developing their own individual voices.

For more info, see Frank Fournier and JB Fellows, July 2007.

*Directions: 1 Bruckner Blvd (corner of 3rd Avenue.), Bronx , NY info@brucknerartgallery.com

Faster, Higher, Farther

June 2008 | Sections: Agency News, Exhibitions, Galleries & Portfolios, Photographers' News


Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art	All Photographs © David Burnett

This summer’s historic Olympic Games in Beijing (August 8-25) is the handy pretext for Faster, Higher, Farther, an exhibition that takes a fond look back over the last quarter century’s worth of indelible Olympic-related images made by four unique photographers associated with Contact Press Images: David Burnett, Kenneth Jarecke, Annie Leibovitz, Dilip Mehta. On the occasion of the selection in Eugene, OR, of the US track and field team attending the 2008 Summer Games in China, Lawrence Fong, the Curator of American and Regional Art at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, asked the Agency to assemble a show reflecting the spirit of the athletic disciplines present at these trials. Spanning the last six Olympiads — Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, and Athens 2004 — the selected pictures, shot in black and white and color and in diverse formats, all train their focus on the events that define the Olympics par excellence. Curated by Robert Pledge and produced by Jeffrey D. Smith, the exhibition runs through August 31st, 2008.

Rodrigo Salgado

June 2008 | Sections: Exhibitions, Tidbits

To great acclaim, Rodrigo Salgado presented for the first time the drawings and paintings he has been producing over the last several years. The complex mosaics bursting with color and stimulated by strong musical interests, mirror the prolific inner world of the twenty-eight year-old artist. The show was organized in Paris, in June, by book editor/designer and exhibition curator Lelia Wanick-Salgado who is the mother of the artist — whose father is the Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado.



	Photographs © Ronald Pledge

LEIBOVITZ IN PARIS

June 2008 | Sections: Agency News, Exhibitions, Photographers' News


Maison Européenne de la Photographie	© Ronald Pledge

“A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005″ opened on June 18th at the Maison Euopéenne de la Photographie in Paris, France. It is the first European stop for Annie Leibovitz’s exhibition, which has been touring the US for the past two years. Under the same name, Les Editions de La Martinière published the French Version of the original 2006 book published by Random House in the US.

On the occasion of the exhibition and in recognition of her career, the prestigious “Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres” was bestowed upon Annie in a formal ceremony at the Hotel de Ville — Paris’ city hall — followed by a reception at the US Ambassador’s residence.




The Exhibition is on view through September 14, 2008 and then will travel to The National Portrait gallery in London, UK.

James Hill Wins Environmental Award

June 2008 | Sections: Awards & Grants, Photographers' News

The first edition of the Planète Manche awards for international environmental reporting has selected James Hill in the photography section for his reporting on the Russian mining city of Norilsk. Considered to be one of the ten most polluted places in the world Norilsk is also the home of the worlds largest producer of nickel and palladium. This essay was originally produced for The New York Times. Planète Manche will be an annual award, based in the French region of La Manche, that seeks to recognize reporting on the environment in the written press, photojournalism, radio and television.



	(3) Photographs © James Hill