Contact Sheet 2011-01 - Texas Photographic Society

TPS Contact Sheet
Member’s Images
Tom Chambers
Richmond, VA
Melinda Doster
Austin, TX
Fran Forman
Watertown, MA
Danielle Khory
Fort Worth, TX
Jane Paradise
San Francisco, CA
Ellen Jantzen
St. Louis, MO
The Bi-Monthly Publication of the Texas Photographic Society www.texasphoto.org Vol 31 No 1
2011 Print Program Artists Announced
Heidi Lender, Tami Bone, Sandra Freeman, David Johndrow, Blue Mitchell, and Gary Faye selected
Members joining at the Sponsor, or higher, level may
choose from an exclusive selection of fine prints by
prominent, contemporary photographers. Join or renew
your TPS membership at that level and you can select
one or more prints from our six artists for $195 or less
per print.
Since the program’s inception in 1994, over 1,280 images
have been purchased, raising over $246,000 for TPS programs,
most notably funding of traveling exhibitions
and the numerous programs that TPS sponsors. Note,
some of the prints are limited edition, you may want to
renew or join before the edition is sold out.
Heidi Lender • San Francisco, California
Untitled, from the series Once Upon
10"x 10"overmatted to 16" x 16" | Archival digital pigment
print | Special edition TPS print of 25.
What began as a selfimposed
weekly photo
assignment — “Stand on
a bench. Make sure it’s
Monday. Wear something
pretty.” — transformed
into a whimsical self-portrait
series, Once Upon, a
photo-tale that explores the
individual through various
© Heidi Lender environments and apparel.
Many, like this one, shot in my Northern California living
room, feature Bubba the dog.
Heidi came to the camera from the publishing world,
where she styled photo shoots and wrote features for
national fashion and interior magazines. To learn more
about Heidi, visit heidilender.com.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen to jury TPS 20: TIC
Tami Bone • Austin
La Nueva Vida
10"x 10" on 13"x 13" digital pigment print on cotton rag
paper | Signed, numbered, and dated on verso | Special edition
TPS print of 20.
Tami Bone grew up in the
rough-and-tumble of deep
South Texas, where she
spent a childhood blessedly
free and driven by her
imagination. Her new and
ongoing body of work,
Mythos, taken in part from
childhood memories, is
born of the awareness of
© Tami Bone the power in the stories we
tell ourselves and others. La Nueva Vida is one such tale.
Tami lives in Austin, close to the Texas Hill Country. To
learn more about Tami, visit tamibonephotographs.com.
Sandra Freeman • Dallas
White Tulips
8"x 11" digital pigment print on
11"x 14" paper, over-matted 12"x
16"| Limited edition of 30.
White Tulips is an image shot in
natural light. In January 2008,
my husband, Charlie Freeman,
began giving me lessons in photography.
I fell in love with the still life and
© Heidi Lender
natural light. The sepia tones just
seem to make the details of the flower more important
and added a quality of elegance.
Continued on page 8.
Amateur and professional photographers are invited
to enter digital files of their color and black and white
images to Texas Photographic Society by July 5, for TPS
20: The International Competition. The Exhibition will be
shown at the A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, TX, from
August 27 through September 25 and then tour the state
of Texas for one year. An artist’s reception will be held
August 27, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm with an Awards Presentation
at 6:30pm.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Professor of Art at the University
of Massachusetts Lowell is this year's juror. He has
conducted workshops in Maine, Tuscany, Colorado, New
Mexico, China, Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania and Norway.
Published and exhibited worldwide, Minkkinen’s
work can be found in the collections of the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,
the Addison Gallery
of American Art in Andover,
the Centre Pompidou
and Musée d’Art Moderne
in Paris, the Musée de
l’Élysée in Lausanne, the
Center for Creative Photography
in Arizona, and
the Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography
© Arno Rafael Minkkinen
among many others. Six
monographs have been published and his work is represented
in 10 galleries. He will award $1,500 in Cash prizes.
A color catalogue will available to purchase on blurb.com.
To download the Call for Entries in text format, go to the
TPS website, www.texasphoto.org. A Call for Entries has
been mailed to all TPS members.

Texas Photographic Society Officers – 2011
President, D. Clarke Evans, San Antonio
Fine art photographer
Vice President, Amy Holmes George, McKinney
Fine art photographer and educator
Treasurer, Amanda Smith, Johnson City
Certified Public Accountant
Secretary, Pat Brown, Austin
Fine art photographer
Member Of The Executive Committee
Jean Caslin, Houston
Partner, Caslin Gregory & Associates
Members Of The Board
E. Lynn Baldwin, Houston
Commercial & art photographer
Kenny Braun, Austin
Commercial photographer
Scott C. Campbell, Longview
Fine art & commercial photographer
Kay J. Denton, Austin
Fine art photographer
David H. Gibson, Dallas
Fine art photographer
Steve Goff, Odessa
Head of Photography Department,
Odessa College
Lem Johnson, Austin
Website developer
O. Rufus Lovett, Longview
Instructor of Photography, Kilgore College
Kenda North, Denton
Professor and Head of Photography
at the University of Texas, Arlington
Jody Richardson, Austin
Attorney, Partner, Brown McCarroll, LLP
Glynda Hatfield Rose, Austin
Fine art photographer
Luther Smith, Fort Worth
Professor of Art, T.C.U.
Victoria Smith, Austin
Fine art photographer
Lupita Murillo Tinnen, Plano
Chair of Photography Department, Collin College
ADvisory Council Members
Dan Burkholder, Palenville, NY
Author, fine art photographer & teacher
Reid Callanan, Santa Fe, NM
Director, Santa Fe Workshops
Keith Carter, Beaumont
Author, fine art photographer & teacher
Dennis Darling, Austin
Photography Sequence Director,
Department of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
Roy Flukinger, Austin
Research Curator of Photography,
University of Texas Humanities Research Center
Harris Fogel, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Professor of Photography,
The University of the Arts
Dave Hamrick, Austin
Assistant Director, Sales & Marketing Manager
University of Texas Press
Chip Hooper, Carmel Valley, CA
Fine art photographer
Christopher James, Boston, MA
Author, artist, photographer and Professor
and Chair, The Art Institute of Boston
Scott Martin, San Antonio
Owner, Onsight, a digital imaging consulting firm
& fine art photographer
Richard Newman, Pacific Grove, CA
National Education Coordinator, Calumet Photographic
Stephen Perloff, Langhorne, PA
Editor, The Photograph Collector & The Photo Review
Nancy Scanlan, Austin
Freelance photographer & teacher
Mary Virginia Swanson, Tucson, AZ/NYC
Marketing consultant & educator
Anne Tucker, Houston
Curator of Photography,
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Kathy Vargas, San Antonio
Assistant Professor of Art & Chair of Music
University of the Incarnate Word
Wendy Watriss, Houston
Co-founder & Curator,
Houston International FotoFest
Bill Wright, Abilene
Author, fine art photographer
TPS EVENTS/EXHIBITIONS/MEMBERS’ NEWS/COMPETITIONS/WORKSHOPS
TRACKS: Photography and the Railroad from the George
TPS Events
Eastman House Collection.
Jul 5 Entries due TPS 20: TIC
Aug 2 Notification of accepted entrants sent.
Competitions
Aug 27 Show opens at A Smith Gallery in Johnson TPS Contest
City, TX. Reception 5p-7p.
Deadline: July 5, 2011
open to all
For more info on these events: www.texasphoto.org. Title: TPS 20: The International Competition
Exhibitions
Austin
B. Hollyman Gallery. 1202 W. 6th Street, 78703. 512-694-
6544. Jo Ann Santangelo: Walking the Block, June 4 – July
2, Artist Talk: Sat., June 11, 1pm.
Dallas
AfterImage Gallery. 2828 Routh St. #115. 214-871-9140.
Mo -Sat, 10a-5:30p. Elliott McDowell [Santa Fe, NM]: A
Retrospective Exhibit, 1976 to 2011, thru July 19.
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery. 1202 Dragon Street,
Suite 103, 75207. 214-969-1852. Eyes of Texas: Peter Brown
[Houston], Keith Carter [Beaumont], Earlie Hudnall,
and George Krause {Wimberley}, thru July 2.
Houston
FotoFest Headquarters. 1113 Vine Street. 713-223-5522.
Contemporary Russian Photography, Post-war Avant-garde
to Today, thru April 29, 2012. Also, Allen Center One and
Two, 500 Dallas & 1200 Smith. Faces of History – Latin
America, thru Aug 5, 2011.
Houston Community College Art Gallery. 3517 Austin
St, 77004. 713-718-6600. Mo-Th 9-9, Fri 9-3. Evolutionaries:
Art & Healing. An all-media art exhibition juried by Jean
Caslin, Diane Griffin Gregory [both Houston] & Cindy
Wigglesworth includes work by TPS members: Lynn
Baldwin, Deborah Bay, Eleanor Brown, David J Kerr,
Gabriella Nissen, June Russell [all Houston] Steve
Goff, Beckwith Thompson [both Odessa], and Debra
Rueb [Webster], June 13–Aug 5.
San Marcos
The Wittliff Collections. Alkek
Library, 7th floor. Texas State
University–San Marcos. 512-245-
2313. Big Bend: Land of the Texas
Imagination, thru July 17. Revealing
Character: Texas Tintypes by
Robb Kendrick, thru July 31.
MA, Turners Falls
The Gallery at Hallmark. Hallmark Institute of Photography,
85 Avenue A. Paul Wainwright [Atkinson,
NH]: New England Meetinghouse, July 22–Sep 4. Opening
reception and book signing, July 23, 1p-5p.
NM, Santa Fe
Photo-Eye Gallery. 276 Garcia St Suite A. 87501. 505-988-
5152 x115. Tu-Sa 11a-5p. Stanko Abadic, Manuel Carrillo,
and Jacko Vassilev, thru June 16.
NY, Rochester
© Candace Guadiani, oic
© Robb Kendrick
George Eastman
House. 900 East Avenue.
585-271-3361.
Candace Plummer
Gaudiani’s [Menlo
Park, CA] Forty
Eight States is travelling
in the exhibition:
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Professor of Art at University of
Massachusetts Lowell is the juror. The exhibition catalog
of accepted entries will be available for entrants and
members to purchase through Blurb.com. $1,500 in
awards. www.texasphoto.org.
Deadline: June 10
open to all
Title: Focusing on the Edge
Focusing on the Edge is leaving it wide open to the artists
interpretation. If the photo is an abstract, the title then,
would help to describe the image edge. www.dragonflygallerytx.com/gallery.htm.
Deadline: June 15
open to all
Title: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s second
annual photography contest
Enter photographs of wildflowers and other plants from
North America in five categories: Botanical, Landscape,
People with Wildflowers, Black and White and Under
18. Two winners in each category, and cash prizes are
available. www.wildflower.org/photocontest_submit/.
Deadline: June 18 Open to all
Title: 7th Annual Juried Exhibition
Newspace Center for Photography invites you to enter
our 7th Annual Juried Exhibition. Selected images will
be exhibited at the Center during the month of August
2011. www.newspacephoto.org/.
Deadline: June 30
open to all
Title: 2011 Art Kudos Juried Online Competition
Finalists benefit from world-wide exposure in a yearlong
online exhibition beginning August 15th and compete
for $4,400 in cash awards. The 2011 Juror of awards
is Holly Koons McCullough, Director of Collections and
Exhibitions at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah,
Georgia. www.artkudos.com/callforentries.html.
Deadline: Various
open to all
Title: Photographers Dream in Images
Selected photographers will be prominently featured
on our homepage and have a chance at life-changing
awards, world-wide acclaim, a red-carpet New York
City reception and more than $75,000 in awards.
www.focusproject2011.com/.
Deadline: July 1
open to all
Title: Texas Highways Magazine Want List
Looking for fall color in these areas:
• Canadian River
• Winnsboro and Daingerfield State Park
• Elgin-Lexington-Giddings (Yegua Knobs)
• Copper Breaks
Anything close to these areas will be fine as well. Email
images to: J. Griffis Smith, Photo Editor, Texas Highways
Magazine, 512-486-5870 . jgsmith@texashighways.com.
Deadline: July 11, 2011
open to all
Title: 7th Annual Naturescapes Photo Contest
Photographs taken in greenspaces in Hays County,
TX. Accepted photographs will be exhibited in the San
Marcos Activity Center. Six cash prizes will be awarded.
www.hcphotoclub.org/naturescapes.html. Juror is
Amanda Smith, A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, TX.
Deadline: July 14
open to all
Title: Blurb – Photography Book Now
Cash prize of $25,000, as well as $5,000 for four category
winners: Fine Art, Documentary, Travel and Student.
Entries judged by a panel of photography experts. British
Journal of Photography is a media partner, and will
feature, in coming weeks, a series on the production of
photobooks. http://photographybooknow.blurb.com/.
Deadline: December 1 Open to all 18 and over
Title: 9th Annual Smithsonian Mag Photo Contest
Submitted photographs must have been taken since Jan
1, 2009. Digital photographs should be submitted at the
highest resolution possible. Upload images by Dec 1.
Deadline: January 1, 2012
open to all
Title: Texas Highways Magazine Want List
Featuring four drives next year, with three selected:
• Stephenville–Granbury–Glen Rose-Stephenville.
• Cross Plains–Rising Star– Comanche–Brownwood
• Del Rio past Devils River State Park up to Sonora
Ozona–Juno–Comstock–Del Rio.
If you have flower shots from these locations in your
archive, send those. Prefer DVD’s, include location info
in your metadata. Mail to: Griff Smith @ Texas Highways,
P.O. Box 141009, Austin, TX 78714-1009.
Workshops
Texas
Shooting West Texas Photography Symposium. Sep 15–18.
Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX.
A celebration of the photographer’s art. We provide
the scenery, the wildlife, and the characters for books,
magazines, postcards, and more. For a list of speakers,
workshops, photo contests, and more, visit www.shootingwesttexas.org.
Arizona
Slot Canyons and Landscape of the Colorado River & Vicinity,
Sep 30–Oct 4.
Join Dave Hammaker [East Freedom, PA] and Guillermo
Torres to explore and photograph in the Marble
Canyon, Page and Lake Powell area. http://davehammaker.com/workshops/.
Also, North Rim Grand Canyon
Photography Workshop, Sep 26–30. Fall landscape photography
at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon AZ.
Colorado
Photography and the Creative Spirit Workshop. Steamboat
Springs, CO, July 9–14. Leaders: Karen & Joel Schulman.
Some of the field trips will include the annual Steamboat
Hot Air Balloon Festival, visits to private ranches,
nearby lakes surrounded by wildflowers, the beautiful
botanic park and the Steamboat Spgs Pro Rodeo. For
info, www.focusadventures.com/steamboat.html or call
Focus Adventures at 970-879-2244.
New Mexico
Santa Fe Workshops.
The Workshops offers over 150 photographic programs
a year in lighting techniques, personal vision,
printmaking, storytelling, landscape, travel, nature,
and portraiture. Participants range from photography
enthusiasts to professionals, and learn from today’s
most influential photographers. Work One-on-One with
World-Renowned Photographers in the First Ever Mentorships
Program. Visit www.santafeworkshops.com.
Iceland
The Color of Iceland, Aug 14-20.
Join with Houston photographer, Arthur Meyerson,
on a once in a lifetime Iceland photo workshop experience.
This workshop/photo tour, is designed for
amateurs and professionals, focuses on documenting
this extraordinary country, it’s people and it’s culture.
www.focusonnature.is/page/Arthur_Meyerson.
India
Moods of India…A Journey, Oct 15–30.
Journey with Marti Belcher [Vienna, VA] to Rajasthan,
heart of the imagery that is India. Rajasthan has attracted
travelers, traders and explorers for centuries. Limited
to 8 and intended for those of all levels of interest and
accomplishment in photography. www.moodsofindiajourney.com.
For more info email: tours@martibelcher.
com or call Marti at 703-938-4515.
Ireland
Photographing Into Your Soul in Western Ireland, Sep 17-27
Karen Schulman [Steamboat Spgs, CO] has 30 years
experience as a photographic artist and over 35 years
of teaching experience in both photography and other
areas. Her expertise includes use of digital cameras
and alternative photographic processes. For all levels of
photographic skill. With Olcan Masterson. For more info
www.focusadventures.com/ireland.html.
Scotland
Scotland Photo Tour, Aug 10-23.
With Lance Keimig [Pembroke, MA]. The itinerary to
Scotland features the Isle of Skye, Lewis and Harris in
the Outer Hebrides, and a taste of the Highlands. Each
day will be filled to the brim, with plenty of time to photograph
the landscape and to discover the local history,
people, and culture. Join me for an exciting adventure
to some of the best Scotland has to offer. For more info:
www.phototc.com/tours/tour.php?tour=114.
Spain
Barcelona & the Costa Brava, Sep 28–Oct 7.
Travel with Karen Schulman [Steamboat Spgs, CO] on
this incredible adventure through the arts and natural
beauty of northeastern Spain -- land of Gaudi,
Picasso, Miró and Dali. Limited to 12 and intended
for all levels of interest and accomplishment in photography.
She will offer her inspiration and guidance
for those with all levels of photographic skill. For
more info: www.focusadventures.com/barcelona.html.
Members’ News
Sandra Chen Weinstein [Lake Forest, CA], was an
Award Recipient for PHOTOWORK 2011 at Barrett Art
Center, in Poughkeepsie, NY. Her Facets of Asia Solo
Exhibition, which depicts a series of portraits of China
and India, was at the Gallery of Contemporary Art –
Pacific Asian Museum, in Pasadena, CA. Sandra was
also awarded a Juror Award for Louisiana Purchased, at
Louisiana Tech University, in Ruston, LA.
Jon Edwards [South Freeport, ME] recently had an exhibition
of his photographs at the Susan Maasch Fine Art
Gallery in Portland, ME.
Harvey Stein [New York, NY] has a new, book Coney
Island 40 Years. It covers his shooting at Coney Island (in
Brooklyn) from 1970-2010. The book is, 9”x12” approximately,
240 pages, 214 images, and beautifully printed.
Continued on page 6.
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Texas Photographic Society
Partners
Davis Gallery, Austin
Santa Fe Workshops, Santa Fe NM
School of Journalism, UT at Austin
Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin
Benefactors
Gary Faye, Rancho Mirage CA
Accurate Printing & Litho, San Antonio Sandra Freeman, Dallas
Adobe, San Jose CA
Jim Geitgey, Midland
Caslin Gregory & Assoc, Houston David Gibson, Dallas
Odessa College, Odessa
Steve Goff, Odessa
Tami Bone, Austin
Chip Hooper, Carmel Valley CA
Kate Breakey, Tucson AZ
David Johndrow, Austin
Dan Burkholder, Palenville NY Heidi Lender, San Francisco CA
Keith Carter, Beaumont
Blue Mitchell, Portland OR
Richard Chepey, Corpus Christi Richard Newman, Pacific Grove CA
Jerry & Marilyn Comer, Richardson Phillip Periman, Amarillo
Bill Davis, Austin
John Scanlan, Santa Fe, NM
David Gibson, Dallas
University of Texas Press
Patrons
Calumet Inc, Chicago IL
River City Silver, San Antonio
Jean Caslin, Houston
Xavier Garza, Fair Oaks Ranch
Diane Griffin Gregory, Houston
Friends
Verve Fine Art, Santa Fe NM
Hank Auderer, San Antonio
Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Wichita Falls
E. Lynn Baldwin, Houston
Barry Banner, Houston
William Barber, Sugar Land
Ardis Bartle, Houston
E. A. Basse, III, San Antonio
Sheri Lynn Behr, Edgewater NJ
Tami Bone, Austin
Kenny Braun, Austin
Rose B. Briggs, White Oak
Albert Bronson, Austin
Christopher Broughton, Carpinteria CA
Pat Brown, Austin
Susan Burnstine, Los Angeles CA
Chris Burt, Plano
Laura Pickett Calfee, Driftwood
Reid Callanan, Santa Fe NM
Shelly Calton, Houston
Scott Campbell, Longview
Dave Cappello, Dallas
Tom Chambers, Richmond VA
Polly Chandler, Austin
Susan Cook, Houston
Dennis Darling, Smithville
Greg Davis, Austin
Danny Deen, Ft. Worth
Kay Denton, Austin
Faustinus Deraet, Austin
Gemma Desantos, Houston
Susan E. de Witt, Bainbridge Isl WA
Suzanne Ebner, Montrose CA
D. Clarke Evans, San Antonio
Polly Gailland, Greenville SC
Dorothy Gantenbein, Fremont CA
Joan Gentry, Santa Fe, NM
Amy Holmes George, McKinney
Ann George, Shreveport LA
Wright Gibson, Houston
Joy Goldkind, St. James NY
Daniel Grant, San Francisco CA
Paul A. Greenberg, Dallas
Kimberly Gremillion, Houston
Martha Grenon, Austin
Dave Hamrick, Austin
Clay Harmon, Kingwood
J. Darwin Harrison, Austin
Carol Hayman, Austin
Robert Howen, San Antonio
Craig Huber, Woodinville WA
Lola Huitt, Spring Branch
Caleb Jagger, Fort Davis
Todd Jagger, Fort Davis
Christopher James, Dublin NH
Jason Jilg, Harvard NE
Sonia Katchian, Chapel Hill NC
Lance Keimig, Pembroke MA
Max Kellenberger, San Francisco CA
Eleanor Owen Kerr, Baton Rouge LA
Andrew Kessler, Wellesley MA
Don Kirby, Santa Fe, NM
Sam Hurt, Abington VA
Lem Johnson, Austin
St. Clair Newbern III, Fort Worth
Jody Richardson, Austin
Beckwith Thompson, Odessa
Michael Kitei, Ft. Lauderdale FL
Wayne Lambert, Colorado Springs CO
Richard Lane, Arlington
Matt Lankes, Austin
Sandy Lankford, Houston
Jean Laughton, Interior SD
Laszlo Layton, Gold Canyon AZ
Isa Leshko, Salem MA
O. Rufus Lovett, Longview
Ann W. McDonald, Lubbock
Elliott McDowell, Santa Fe NM
Kevin McKinnon, Burlingame CA
Wyatt McSpadden, Austin
Scott Martin, San Antonio
Janet Matthews, Cheverly MD
Kenda North, Dallas
Robert L. Olson, Kennebunk ME
Charles Ondrej, San Antonio
Richard Orton, Austin
Lydia Panas, Kutztown PA
F. W. Pate, Greenville SC
Emma Powell, Middlebury VT
Michael Rigby, Austin
Barbara Riley, Corpus Christi
Mark Rogers, Dallas
Glynda Hatfield Rose, Austin
Paul Rose, Lakewood CA
David Ruderman, Sacramento CA
Victoria Ruderman, Sacramento CA
Patricia Sandler, Los Angeles CA
Nancy Scanlan, Austin
Wilson Scanlan, Santa Fe NM
Francis Schanberger, Dayton OH
Trish Simonite, San Antonio
Richard Skidmore The Sea Ranch, CA
Amanda Smith, Johnson City
Luther Smith, Fort Worth
Victoria Smith, Austin
Aline Smithson, Los Angeles CA
Bill Snypes, Houston
Terri St. Arnauld, Austin
Harvey Stein, New York NY
Stephen Strom, Sonoita AZ
Gail & Rodney Susholtz, Austin
Mary Virginia Swanson, Tucson AZ
Ann Texter, Georgetown
Clark Thomas, PhD, Dallas
Cole Thompson, Laporte CO
William R. Thompson, Phoenix AZ
Lupita Murillo Tinnen, Plano
Teresa Van Hatten-Granath, Nashville TN
Gary W. Vann, Fresno CA
Kathy Vargas, San Antonio
Paul Wainwright, Atkinson NH
Tav Walraven, Dallas
Hiroshi Watanabe, West Hollywood CA
Sandra Chen Weinstein, Lake Forrest CA
Gina Weston, Carmel CA
Kim Weston, Carmel CA
Nevada Wier, Santa Fe NM
Angilee Wilkerson, Denton
Bill Wright, Abilene
Frank Yezer, Austin
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Best Shot: A Members’ Online Gallery and Fraction Magazine Call for Entries
Juror and Fraction Magazine Editor and Cofounder, David Bram, selected 19 images for this online exhibition. First, Second, Third Place and Honorable Mentions were featured
in the January 2011 issue of Fraction magazine..
Portfolio Competition I: A Members’ Online Competition juried by Jean Caslin
Juror, Jean Caslin, a founding partner of Caslin Gregory & Associates, Consultants for Arts & Culture, selected the Emerging and Mid-career for July, August and September for
the Members’ Online Gallery Portfolio Competition I. Each accepted portfolio will also be included in a book published through Blurb.com.
First Place
Second Place
Third Place
July – Emerging
August – Emerging
September – Emerging
Muema
Pleasanton, CA
Meg Griffith
New York, NY
Stan Raucher
Seattle, WA
Honorable Mention
Barbara Ruffini
Kirkland, WA
Al Braden
Austin, TX
Chamizal mural and the
boundary at El Paso/Juarez
from the
Rio Grande/Rio Bravo/
Rio Conflict Series
Marti Belcher
Vienna, VA
Venerated Monk, 2008
from the Burma Monks
Series
Bob Levy
Houston, TX
Bill, 2010
from the Who Are the
Homeless? Series
July – Mid-career
August – Mid-career
September – Mid-career
Susan Berger
Elmhurst, NY
Charles Rozier
Roosevelt Island, NY
Chris Semel
Houston, TX
Honorable Mention
Kurney Ramsey
Austin, TX
April Pilley
Lubbock, TX
Happy Hearts, 2009
from the To The End,
Nature Remains Series
Louis Smith
Houston, TX
Bentlight 43
from the
Bentlight Series
Laura Noel
Atlanta, GA
Crewel Curtains,
Oakwood Drive, 2006
from the The Space
Between Series
Portfolio Competition II: A Members’ Online Competition juried by Kenda North
Juror, Kenda North, Head of Photography at the University of Texas at Arlington, selected the Emerging and Mid-career for October, November and December for the Members’
Online Gallery Portfolio Competition I. Each accepted portfolio will also be included in a book published through Blurb.com.
October – Emerging
November – Emerging
Len Speier
New York, NY
Carol Schiraldi
Tucson, AZ
Samantha Van Deman
San Francisco, CA
December – Mid-career
Susan Barnett
Spring Branch, TX
Susan Barnett
New York, NY
Tattoo, 2010
from the Not in
Your Face Series
Jenny Sampson
Berkeley, CA
Justin, Berkeley, 2010
from the Skateboarder
Tintype Portrait Series
Kathleen Robbins
Columbia, SC
Untitled
from the Into
the Flatland Series
Christian Suarez
Seattle, WA
Nancy Baron
Tucson, AZ
John Petro
San Francisco, CA
October – Mid-career
November – Mid-career
December – Emerging
Ellie Ivanova
Austin, TX
Eleanor Owen Kerr
Seattle, WA
Stan Banos
Centerville, MD
Kat Moser
Seattle, WA
Ellen Jantzen
St. Louis, MO
Dematerializing
from the Reality
of Place Series
Jean Laughton
Interior, SD
Lyle O’Bryan
Breaking Henry, 2007
from the My Ranching
Life Series
Robert Cassaway
Atlanta, GA
Abandoned Church,
Dorothy, Alberta, Canada
from the
Untitled Series
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Martha Grenon’s
[Austin] photos from
13 years of covering
the SXSW Music
& Media Conference
made up a large
part of Austin History
Center’s exhibit,
© Martha Grenon
5X5Y, celebrating the
25th anniversary of the event. Her photos were also seen
at Studio2 Gallery’s Eye for Music show in Austin.
Candace Gaudiani [Menlo Park, CA] had a solo exhibition,
Proscenium, at Electric Works in San Francisco.
Candace also had multiple photographs featured in the
January/February issue of Orion Magazine.
Five Years: The Photography of Greg Davis [Austin] was
exhibited at Westend Gallery in Austin. Greg is also
celebrating his recent signing as a National Geographic
Image Collection Photographer.
Sharon Shero’s [Dallas] work was at Artscape in the Dallas
Arboretum in March.
Jane Paradise [San Francisco] won a Gold in the Worldwide
Photography Gala Awards Portraits and People. Also,
Jane had a photograph in the Minneapolis Photo Center
exhibit Woman as Photographer: Documenting Life as a
Woman. She had the frontpiece photo in the The Magic
Tower and other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams.
She is in a group exhibit The Prime Years in Dublin Ireland
at the Gallery of Photography with photographs from
When I Was Young I Was Beautiful. Jane had a photograph
Empties in the Schoolhouse Gallery Spring Arts Competition
in Provincetown, MA.
Louis Smith’s [Houston] Bentlight was at the Jung Center
Gallery in Houston.
Lydia Panas [Kutztown, PA] and Natalie Young [El
Segundo, CA] were included in a group show, Bring the
Family, recently at the Light Factory in Charlotte, NC.
The Grace Museum,
in Abilene, acquired
22 of June Van Cleef’s
[Whitesboro] photographs
for their permanent
collection.
© June Van Cleef
Len Speier [New York, NY] was in the ONWARD
competition of Project Basho, along with, Sandra Chen
Weinstein [Lake Forest, CA]. And, Len had one print
in the OIA annual Member’s Salon Show, his VW Bug.
Angie Keller’s [Springfield, MO] work was in the
International Solo Exhibition, MILAGROS at Sala Miró
Quesada Garland in Miraflores (Lima), Peru.
Lori Pond [Los Angeles, CA] was accepted into The
Photographic Nude exhibit in Oregon.
John Bridges [Little Rock, AR]
was recently accepted into
the following exhibits: Soho
Gallery: 13th Annual Krappy
Kamera Exhibit, Rayko Photo
Center: 4th Annual Plastic Camera
Show, Center for Fine Art
Photography: Center Forward
© John Bridges Exhibit, and the PhotoPlace
Gallery’s: Language of Light Exhibit.
Nan Dickson [Temple] recently had a show, Shadows
Dancing at Twilight at the Upper Library Gallery at Central
Texas College in Killeen.
Natalie Young [El Segundo, CA] was just named one
of the Best of the Best Emerging Fine Art Photographers
of 2010 by the BWGallerist, they also did a feature on
Natalie.
Beckwith Thompson and Steve Goff [both Odessa]
were accepted into the Illuminance 2011 juried show in
Lubbock. Beckwith won Second Place.
Raymond St. Arnaud [Victoria, B.C.] has placed 3
images for sale through www.printedart.com.
Sean McCormick [Washington, DC] had a series of
photographs in the February 1st issue of American Way
Magazine to accompany the article Fierce Creature, a profile
of Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle.
Tom Chambers [Richmond, VA] had a show, Dreaming in
Reverse, at the Wall Space Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA.
Lydia Panas [Kutztown, PA] recently had a show, All My
Lovn’ at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland.
Jan Anderson-Paxson [Lufkin] had two photographs
in the juried exhibition, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates
Texas Art 2011, at the Williams Tower Gallery.
A solo show of Monica Denevan’s
[San Francisco, CA]:
Songs of the River: Portraits from
Burma and China was at the
Scott Nichols Gallery in San
Francisco, CA.
© Monica Denevan
Sam Reeves and Nelson Spencer [both Dallas] were in
a group show, North Texas Road Trip at the Bath House
Cultural Center in Dallas.
Raymond St Arnaud Victoria, BC, Canada] had two images
in NY, at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show.
Rhonda Lashley Lopez’s [Fredericksburg] Don’t Make
Me Go To Town, Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country
was published by UTPress in March. This is a documentary
project with platinum prints and oral histories
detailing the lives of eight ranching women.
Ansen Seale [San Antonio] was commissioned to create
a site-specific installation on the Land Heritage Institute,
a living land museum near San Antonio, TX. The Corn
Crib is located in south Bexar County on a 1200 acre plot
of land along the Medina River. His photography installation
is permanently mounted inside a small 100-year
old stacked-stone structure known as the Corn Crib.
The photos themselves are thin, self-luminous transparencies
hung from the rafters of the building. They
provide the only light in the structure. Solar-powered
LED technology yield “off the grid” illumination, day or
night. To capture the images of the corn, he used a digital
panoramic camera of his own invention. Other than the
glowing photos, the interior of the space is dark.
Isa Leshko’s [Houston] work will now be sold through
the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, NM. Prints
from her Thrills & Chills series was on exhibit at the gallery.
Over the last six months she has been traveling to animal
sanctuaries across the country
to photograph subjects for
her Elderly Animals series. The
series was recently featured in
PDN’s Photo of the Day blog.
© Isa Leshko
Martin Stupich’s [Albuquerque, NM] Red Desert Exhibition
in Santa Fe was named #4 in ART LTD’s Top Ten for 2010.
John N. Wall [Raleigh, NC]
has an image, 30% Off, in the 7th
Biennial Photographic Image Exhibition,
in the Wellington B. Gray
Gallery at East Carolina Univ, in
Greenville, NC. John has started
a blog devoted to Fine Art Photography
in the American South.
Readers, followers, and contributors
are welcome at http://
© John Wall, oic southphotography.blogspot.
com/. John had three photographs awarded First Place
in an exhibition OBJECTIFIED for the ArtSceneToday
online Gallery website.
The G2 Gallery in Venice, CA recently featured the work
of Robert Glenn Ketchum [Manhattan Beach, CA]:
Nature LA. The work consisted of a seldom-viewed
embroidery technique, and 18-panels of a repeating leaf
motif that is part of Robert’s new experimentation in the
digital darkroom.
Trish Simonite [San Antonio] recently exhibited her
work in the University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni
Exhibition, at the UTSA Art Gallery. Trish will also be
exhibiting her work at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool,
UK in a show called Honky Tonk, and will be doing a
short residency in Liverpool.
Karen and Steve Strom [Sonoita, AZ] had a joint show
at the Griffin Museum of Photography at the Stoneham
Theatre in Stoneham, MA. Steve had 10 images accepted
for the Future Forward, first annual juried members’
photography exhibition, at the Silver Eye Center for
Photography in Pittsburgh.
© Winifred Simon,
oic
Winifred Simon [Wimberley]
had four very large photographs
included in the Arte
en la Charrería special exhibit
at the Bob Bullock Texas State
History Museum. She also
had three Infrared landscapes
selected for the second annual
Short Exposure photography
show at the Longview Museum
of Art.
Carol Schiraldi [Cedar Park] had a one person show
at the Old Bakery Emporium in Austin. Carol has 18
pieces on display with the theme of Music for South by
Southwest. Carol also had work in the Eye for Music show
at Studio 2 Gallery in Austin. Carol also had work in the
Sketchbook Project as part of the Arthouse Coop. The work
was on display as part of South by Southwest at the Austin
Museum of Art Downtown on Congress and then at
Spiderhouse in Austin.
Two images from Susan Berger’s [Tuscon, AZ] project
Private Memories in Public Places are included in Beyond
the Lens at the Tubac Center of the Arts.
Richard Allen Ashmore [Orange] was
included in the Austin Detail Art + Photo
Gallery’s National Juried Exhibition for his
image The Poet, 2006.
© Richard Allen Ashmore, oic
Bill Franson [Boston, MA] is now represented by Panopticon
Gallery in Boston, MA. His work was included in
the up and coming group show, Storytellers,
Craig Barber [Woodstock, NY] announces his new
website www.craigbarber.com. The site features workshops
for Palladium Printing and Tintype & Ambrotype
Photography, which he will be teaching out his studio in
Woodstock, as well as in Pittsburgh for F295, www.F295.
org and CPW in Woodstock, www.cpw.org.
Troy Colby [Beloit, KS] had work
in a group show, Point of View
2011, at the RoHo Gallery in Cincinnati,
OH. Troy won a Merit
award.
© Troy Colby
Herb Smith’s [Wimberley] work has recently been at
Cappyccino’s Restaurant, San Antonio, Hill Country
Landscapes; the Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury,
Vermont, and at the Wimberley Arts Fest 2011.
Len Speier [New York, NY] has three images in the Animal
Kingdom show at New York School of Law in NYC.
Virginia Catherine Fairchild’s
[Houston] image Catching the
Breeze was recently chosen for
the Pose and Gesture exhibit at the
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury,
VT. Also, her photo Foster Care
won First Place for Cityscapes in
the 2010 St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Photo Contest in Houston.
© Virginia Catherine Fairchild, oic
20 images from Darkness Darkness a traveling group exhibition
shown at The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury,
MA, including images by Lance Keimig [Pembroke,
MA], Scott Martin [San Antonio], Ron Rosenstock
[Holden, MA] and many more.
Walter Horishnyk [Minneapolis, MN] was featured in
Street Scene: Incidents in Real Life at the Minneapolis Photo
Center in September 2010.
Herman Krieger [Eugene, OR] had a show, Along the
Riverbank Bike Path, at the PhotoZone Gallery in Eugene.
Leo Theinert [NYC] had a solo show, Exposure during
November/December 2010 in NYC at the Ceres Gallery.
Len Speier [New York City] was included in Personal
Visions: 10 Photographers, an annual exhibition at the
New York Law School for his images Nazare, Portugal,
Skateboarder, Riverside Pk, NYC, and D Train, NYC.
Linda Hirsch’s [Wayland, MA] Jewish Cuban Exhibit at
Hebrew College, www.hebrewcollege.edu, has just been
extended indefinitely. The 18 photographs and large
Prayerpoem-Humankindness montage were selected from
hundreds of Jewish Cuban other files.
Stella Johnson [Watertown, MA] was showed on NPR’s
Picture Showcase for her portfolio Philoxenia.
Martin Stupich’s [Albuquerque, NM] Red Desert Exhibition
in Santa Fe was Named #4 in ART LTD’s Top Ten for
2010. www.artltdmag.com.
Paul Greenberg [Dallas]
has been accepted
into several shows:
Center for fine art
Photography in Ft.
© Paul Greenberg Collins CO; PhotoSpiva
in Joplin, MO; and Short Exposure, Longview Museum of
Art where he was awarded 2nd prize.
© Adrienne Defendi
Adrienne Defendi [Palo
Alto, CA] was accepted into
the Krappy Kamera XIII International
Juried Competition,
SOHO Photo, NYC, and in
the 4th International Juried Plastic
Camera Show, RayKo Photo
Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Pia Greenberg [Friendswood] recently had a collection
of her work at The Galveston Art League Gallery. Her
image The Mail Will Get Thru was on display at HCP
for the Artist Dialogue Show, and Glasses was at The
Vermont Photography Workplace Photo Gallery exhibit
Direct Objects: Still Life as Subject along with Virginia
Catherine Fairchild’s [Houston] for her photo Jukebox
Saturday Night.
Carol Lyon [Cedar Creek] showed in Austin in the Best of
the Fests Group Show at Austin Details Gallery.
O. Rufus Lovett [Kilgore] and Jeff Wilson [Austin]
participated in Austin Center for Photography’s Intersections
in Photography No. 1, a series where influential
photographers will show their work as it relates to the
specific theme of growing up in Texas.
Kristin Ware’s [Austin] image, Branching Out, is included
in Photomedia Center’s Open 2010 Exhibition, juried
by David Bram, editor and founder of Fraction Magazine
and Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction,
Issue 34, features 12 of Kristin’s Holga images.
Her her image Flying Guitars was published by F-Stop
Magazine, in Issue 43.
Mark Paulda [El Paso]
released his 2011 Calendar,
a series of photos of
El Paso, TX. You may purchase
it thru Amazon.com
or email Mark: mark@
markpaulda.com. Mark
is a finalist for 2010 Travel Photographer of the Year.
http://www.tpoty.com.
Danielle Rene’ Khoury [Fort Worth] was included in the
Coexistence Show at the Student Center Art Gallery of the
Texas Woman’s University during October 2010 for her
image Judgement.
Fine Art photographer
Faustinus Deraet [Austin]
participated in a two-person
Dissimilar Illusions show at
the Davis Gallery, in Austin.
© Faustinus Deraet
Bill Franson [Boston, MA] is now represented by Panopticon
Gallery in Boston, MA. His work was included in
the up and coming group show, Storytellers,
Shawn Saumell [Las Cruces, NM] recently had work
exhibited in PhotoPlace Gallery’s Abstraction in Photography
show, October 2010.
Rania Matar [Brookline, MA] had a recent review of
Ordinary Lives in the Fall 2010 Issue of Exposure, SPE by
James Rajotte. Also, Rania had a photography show at
the Gallery of Photography in Poland.
Lucius T. Outlaw Jr [Nashville, TN] has completed a
new series of African American cancer survivors, Project
Crowning Glory, that is sponsored by the Nashville Parthenon
Chapter of The Links, Inc and was on display
at the Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center.
Ellen Jantzen [St. Louis, MO] was featured on Aline
Smithson’s [Los Angeles, CA] Lenscraft Blogpost for her
series Reality of Place that was also accepted into the TPS
Portfolio Competition II. In the On-Line Magazine Art, Information
& Entertainment Ellen had a photographic essay
Losing Reality; Reality of Loss, 2011. Ellen was the featured
photographer for the March/April 2011 issue of Ragazine.
The article includes work from
her latest series and from work
completed in 2010. She is happy
to announce that she is represented
by the Susan Spiritus Gallery.
Her Loosing Reality; Reality of Loss
series is up on the site.
© Ellen Jantzen oic
Susan Burnstine [Los Angeles, CA] was featured in
a 9 page spread in the November issue of Black and
White Photography Magazine. Susan was one of fifty
photographers featured in the upcoming book, Why
Photographs Work: 52 Great Images: Who Made Them,
What Makes Them Special And Why by George Barr
and published by Rocky Nook. She also had a portfolio
of images included in author/photographer Michelle
Bates’ newly released second edition of Plastic Cameras:
Toying With Creativity. Susan earned Second Place for her
image In The Midst and Third Place for Bridge To Nowhere
in the Fine Art Category for the WPGA’s 2010 Juliet
Margaret Cameron Award. Also, George Slade selected her
image In The Midst to be part of the group exhibit Black
& White And All points In Between at the Minneapolis
Photo Center.
Linda J. Hirsch [Wayland, MA] was recently interviewed
for her work on Jewish life in Cuba in the New
Vilna Review.
Susan de Witt [Bainbridge
Island, WA] was
accepted into New York
Photo Festival’s Human-
Kind Exhibition at The
PowerHouse Arena in
Brooklyn for her image
© Susan de Witt Katy.
Natalie Young [El Segundo, CA] was named one of the
Best of the Best Emerging Fine Art Photographers of 2010 by
the BWGallerist,
Walter Horishnyk [Minneapolis, MN] was featured in
Street Scene: Incidents in Real Life at the Minneapolis Photo
Center in Sept 2010.
Ann McDonald [Lubbock] was named as the Featured
Artist, for the 2011 Lubbock Arts Festival by the board. She
is the first photographer who has been given that designation.
Ann will design the official 2011 poster which she
will be signed and then sold, and she will have a large
booth at the Festival.
Tami Bone’s [Austin] image,
Natural Science, was chosen
for the Spherical Exhibition at A
Smith Gallery in Johnson City,
and won an Honorable Mention
in the National Photography ‘10
Exhibition at The Main Street
Gallery in Groton, NY for her
© Tami Bone image Birdman.
Leon Alesi [Austin] was a featured artist in Issue 24 of
Fraction Magazine. Twenty images from his Personal Space
project can be viewed at www.fractionmagazine.com. He
also won Best in Show in the New Directions 2011 show
exhibited at Wall Space Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA.
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of the moments and experiences that shape
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