TPS Contact Sheet - Texas Photographic Society
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<strong>TPS</strong> EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS / MEMBERS’ NEWS / COMPETITIONS / WORKSHOPS / continued<br />
Competitions<br />
Deadline: June 18, 2008<br />
Eligibility: 18 and over<br />
Title: All Things Horses<br />
The Center for Fine Art Photography is seeking images<br />
of working horses, wild horses, dressage, tack, anything<br />
related to the life of our equine friends. Juried<br />
by Christiane Slawik, recognized for her dedication to<br />
horses and her international photography. For more<br />
information website at www.c4fap.org.<br />
Deadline: July 1<br />
Eligibility: Open to all<br />
Title: Glimpses In Time<br />
Enter up to two images for Glimpses in Time. The top<br />
award will receive a solo exhibition at the Joyce Gordon<br />
Gallery. Entry forms at: www.joycegordonphotographygallery.com.<br />
Steven Wirtz, owner of the prestigious<br />
Steven Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, will be<br />
the juror. Joyce Gordon Gallery. 406 14th. Oakland, CA<br />
94612. 510-465-8928. www.joycegordongallery.com.<br />
Deadline: July 14<br />
Eligibility: Open to all<br />
Title: Photography Book Now<br />
Prizes will be awarded based on a juried review of all<br />
submissions to the Photography Book Now. Seven top<br />
prize winners will be invited to attend the awards<br />
ceremony in San Francisco on Friday, Sept 12. Grand<br />
Prize: $25,000 to finish – or start – any project you<br />
want. For info: www.photographybooknow.com.<br />
Deadline: July 15<br />
Eligibility: Open to all<br />
Title: 2008 Int'l Exhibition of Fine Art Photography<br />
All subjects are eligible. With selection for this exhibition,<br />
artists and their work will be seen by an international<br />
audience of collectors, curators, art consultants<br />
and others who appreciate the fine art of photography.<br />
Visit: c4fap.org for more details.<br />
Deadline: July 17, 2008<br />
Eligibility: Emerging Photographers<br />
Title: Berenice Abbott Prize<br />
An emerging photographer means that you have an<br />
accomplished body of work that has not yet been<br />
exhibited or published widely. You are eligible if: you<br />
have never had a one person show in an established<br />
photo or art gallery, or you are not represented by<br />
a gallery outside of the state where you reside. For<br />
more info: http://www.juliadean.com/competitions/<br />
abbott2008.pdf or call 310-392-0909.<br />
Deadline: July 31, 2008<br />
Eligibility: Open to all <strong>Texas</strong> artists<br />
Title: Fall Art Hop<br />
Georgetown Art Works announces a call for artists<br />
for the Fall Art Hop, a juried art show and stroll, to<br />
be held October 3-31, 2008 in the historic district of<br />
Georgetown, <strong>Texas</strong>. Original works in painting, collage<br />
and photography accepted. Jurors are Jerry Seagle<br />
and Susan Kirchman. Download the form at: www.<br />
georgetownartworks.com/pdfs/entry_form.pdf.<br />
Deadline: August 1, 2008<br />
Eligibility: 18 years or older<br />
Title: 4th Alternative Processes Juried Competition<br />
SOHO Photo Gallery, New York City invites entries to<br />
its fourth alternative process juried competition, Nov.<br />
6-29, 2008. The prospectus, guidelines and entry form<br />
at, www.sohophoto.com, or by sending SASE to: Soho<br />
Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, New York, NY 10013.<br />
Workshops<br />
Scott Martin and Lance Keimig<br />
Digital Night Photography in Big Bend Nat'l Park<br />
October 11-14, 2008<br />
Lance Keimig [Pembroke, MA] and Scott Martin<br />
[San Antonio] team up to co-teach this workshop<br />
specifically for digital photographers who want to<br />
learn night photography techniques, from exposure to<br />
image processing and printmaking. Participants will<br />
leave this workshop with the knowledge they need to<br />
photograph at night by natural and artificial light, and<br />
how to process and to optimize their files for printing.<br />
www.texasphoto.org.<br />
Santa Fe Workshops<br />
Summer/Fall Catalog Release<br />
Santa Fe Workshops recently announced its Summer/<br />
Fall 2008 schedule with a full-color catalog. The Summer/Fall<br />
season offers 48 photography workshops,<br />
including more than 20 workshops in the state-of-theart<br />
digital facility, a variety of On-the-Road workshops,<br />
and week long workshops in Mexico. <strong>Contact</strong> Darcy<br />
Schwerin, 505 983.1400 or e-mail, darcy@santafeworkshops.com.<br />
For course info www.santafeworkshops.<br />
com or call the workshops at 505-983-1400.<br />
Karen Schulman Workshops<br />
Steamboat Springs, CO and Internationally<br />
Steamboat in the Summertime – Photography and the<br />
Creative Spirit, July 12-17. We will be leading a twoweek<br />
photo and cultural adventure entitled Magical<br />
Morocco, Oct. 18-Nov. 1. For more info www.focusadventures.com.<br />
Michael A. Smith and<br />
Paula Chamlee Workshops – Iceland<br />
Experience one of the most beautiful landscapes in<br />
the world. There are still a few spots remaining in<br />
Iceland Workshops at the beginning of July. See www.<br />
michaelandpaula.com for details.<br />
Dan Burkholder<br />
Digital Imaging Workshops<br />
June 22-29, 2008 The High Dynamic Range Image, Maine<br />
Media Workshops, Camden, Maine.<br />
July 10-11, 2008 HDR Workshop, Dan’s Studio,<br />
Planeville, New York. For more info: www.<br />
d a n b u r k h o l d e r. c o m / P a g e s / m i s c _ p a g e s /<br />
Dates_Workshop/Subject_Workshops.html.<br />
Members' News<br />
Aline Smithson [Los Angeles. CA] won first prize in<br />
Professional Portraiture, Other in the PX3 International<br />
Photography Awards in Paris, France.<br />
Faustinus Deraet [Austin] had 2 images selected for<br />
the Arte Sagrado XII exhibition held at Concordia University<br />
in Austin.<br />
Jane Paradise’s [San Francisco] work Smoking, Wellington<br />
NZ was selected as part of the Schoolhouse Gallery<br />
in Provincetown 2008 Spring Arts Competition.<br />
Tami Bone's [Austin] image, Birdman, was selected for<br />
the Critters exhibition, to be held at the New Orleans<br />
Photo Alliance Gallery this summer.<br />
Charles R. Corda [Coconut Grove, FL]: was awarded<br />
an Honorable Mention in Prix de la Photographie Paris<br />
PX3-2008, The Human Condition in Paris, France.<br />
Dave Hammaker [East Freedom, PA] was awarded<br />
First Place in the photography category at the Blair<br />
County Arts Festival Juried Fine Art Exhibit at Penn<br />
State Altoona in PA. The photograph was also selected<br />
for a Third Place in the photography category in the<br />
Art League of Hilton Head 2008 National Juried Show.<br />
Susan S. Bank’s [Philadelphia, PA] book: Cuba:<br />
Campo Adentro is a monograph of black and white<br />
photographs of daily life in the Cuban countryside.<br />
Published June 2008, in an edition of 750 copies by<br />
Sagamore Press, Philadelphia PA, ISBN 978-0-615-<br />
20595-3, this museum quality 10.50 x 10.25 bi-lingual<br />
cloth cover monograph consists of 84 pages, 48 black<br />
and white images printed in quad-tone, a preface written<br />
by Bank and an essay by esteemed Cuban art critic,<br />
Juan Antonio Molina, of Mexico City.<br />
Laura Pickett Calfee [Dirftwood] has been awarded<br />
a residency at Yaddo, the oldest artists' community<br />
in the country. (http://www.yaddo.org) Earlier this<br />
year, the Kohler Arts Center in Kohler, WI exhibited a<br />
solo show of her work entitled Whispering Walls. During<br />
Fotofest, her still lifes were featured at Rudolph<br />
Projects/Artscan in Houston.<br />
Steve Rood [Valley Village, CA] had 5 images from his<br />
Animalia series honored with an Award Of Excellence<br />
and selected to be in this year's Communication Arts<br />
Photography Annual.<br />
Susan Huber [Canada] won two Honourable Mentions<br />
in the 2008 Px3 Prix de la Photographie in Paris,<br />
in the Fine Art Architecture category for her Here We<br />
Pray series of photographs of rural Western Canadian<br />
churches and in the Fine Art Landscape category for<br />
her most recent series of foot journeys throughout Salt<br />
Spring Island titled My Land, My Home.<br />
Arthur Meyerson [Houston] won in the Photography<br />
category at the inaugural Stars of Design, 2008.<br />
Hannah Neal [Austin] had two images selected for<br />
the New Orleans Photo Alliance juried exhibition,<br />
Identity.<br />
Liza Weems-Sawyer [Boulder, CO] had several images<br />
chosen for the book, Uncontained: Writers and Photographers<br />
in the Garden and the Margins, edited by<br />
Jennifer Heath, Baksun Books, Boulder, CO, 2007.<br />
Gary W. Vann [Fresno, CA] received an Excellence<br />
Award from B&W Magazine for work submitted to<br />
their Portfolio Contest 2008, which will be featured in<br />
their Special Issue edition in June. Also, Gary's current<br />
California Waterscapes will be exhibited at the River<br />
Center Gallery, in Fresno.<br />
Tom Chambers [Richmond, VA] had his work featured<br />
in the Galeria Clave in Murcia, Spain at the Art<br />
Madrid Festival. The gallery represents him exclusively<br />
in Europe. During March and April, his work was<br />
included in a six-person show at FotoFest in Houston<br />
entitled, Mind Over Matter: Enigmatic Variations. Gary<br />
was included in a two-person exhibition at the Chase<br />
Gallery, in Boston.<br />
Jeff Curto [Geneva, IL] was part of The Artist Project<br />
independent exhibition and sale.<br />
Dennis DeHart’s [Prescott, AZ] show Travellers was on<br />
display in Buffalo, NY.<br />
Hiroshi Watanabe’s [West Hollywood, CA] won first<br />
place with Ideology in Paradise at the Project Competition<br />
& Singular Image Awards.<br />
www.texasphoto.org / <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Photographic</strong> <strong>Society</strong> / <strong>Contact</strong> <strong>Sheet</strong> / Vol 28 No 3 • 2008 5
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