We’re carrying this design into this year’s Festival Guide, and we’re excited that your photographs will really shine this year (on the Web, in print, and in the ACP iPhone app!). Here’s a sample listing below from last year’s Festival, presented with the new design.

As you prepare your event or exhibition for this year’s Festival, remember to prepare a great jpg that will make your listing shine. Your jpg will need to be at least 1000 pixels wide. Here’s an example.

Check out the press release below, and the examples of work from the students can be seen at Lens on Life.

© Reginald Carter

© Marquis Thomas

© Stephanie Roberts

NBC’s Brian Williams gives shout out to #Kodak for it’s invention of digital photography, citing role in identifying suspects in Boston.

— Will Mansfield (@WillMansfield) April 20, 2013

Or it could be comedians on their podcasts, discussing the allure of the analog print. Jeff Garlin, an actor and comedian known for his role on “Curb Your Enthusiasm“, is a producer of the forthcoming documentary on Vivian Maier, and hosts his own live podcast called “By the Way“.

In his podcast’s first episode, an onstage interview with Larry David, Jeff talks about his Leica M3, and how Larry apparently has never taken a photograph.
(Photography discussion starts at 5min 07sec elapsed.)

Steve Agee, an actor and comedian whose six-second constructions on Vine are as funny as they are photogenic, talked about photography on a recent “Professor Blastoff” podcast. “Instagram really ruined the joy of taking photos for me.”
(Photography discussion starts at 25min 50sec elapsed.)

“Dorothy O’Connor is a photo-based installation artist living in Atlanta. Her fantastical, life-sized installations, which include a live model performance in the style of a tableau vivant, have been featured during Atlanta Celebrates Photography and FLUX Night. Her latest tableau is currently installed at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum in Nashville, and her work is represented by Nashville’s Tinney Contemporary Gallery. She will be discussing the craft, inspiration, and history of her “Scenes” body of work.”

“Please join us for the opening reception of Safe, photographs by Sandra-Lee Phipps at whitespace. For Safe, Sandra-Lee Phipps’ first exhibition at whitespace gallery and in Atlanta, Phipps presents two series of photographs that deal with the quest for safety in our cultural environment of fear. These works are set in the untamed forests and rural farmlands of Maine, a place of personal reflection and security for Phipps. Interweaving archetypal images with a symbolic color of power, protection and danger – orange, Phipps explores the fragile sense of self, self-preservation and her role as an artist within this expansive landscape.

“[I]nside the word emergency is emerge; from an emergency new
things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.” – Rebecca Solnit

In the second set of works, two figures emerge and a tension is revealed between what is known and unknown in times of transition. Though identical, the young girls wear colors signifying their difference, but also their bond – orange and blue. Wearing complementary colors, though visual opposites, the figures are intrinsically bound together.

Sandra-Lee Phipps is an Atlanta-based artist whose work explores the representation of self in both documentary and fine art photography. She has shown her work in exhibitions along the east coast and is recognized for her archival prints of the band R.E.M. She received her BA in communication arts journalism/photography from University of Georgia and a MA in studio arts/photographic and computer arts from New York University. After completing her master’s program, Phipps taught at NYU and later Rockport College in Maine. She is currently a professor of photography at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. In addition to her work as an educator, Sandra-Lee Phipps was a contributing photographer for the Village Voice and published a bi-weekly column, “streetstyle.”"

Exhibition Dates: Friday, May 17th – Saturday, June 15th, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, May 17th | 7pm to 10 pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday | 11am to 5pm
Location: whitespace – 814 Edgewood Avenue NE | Inman Park

Vincent LaForet presents “Canon EOS Cinema Cameras”
May 13, 2013 7:00-9:00PM

Location: Mariott Century Center
2000 Century Blvd. NE
Atlanta, GA 30345

On Monday evening, May 13 from 7-9pm we will host one of the premier imagers working today. Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Vincent Laforet will speak at the Marriott Century Center in a program sponsored by Canon EOS Cinema and hosted by Showcase Photo & Video.

In 2008, Laforet directed “Reverie”, the first widely available short film shot with the Canon 5D Mark II camera. The video has been cited by proposers of the use of DSLR cameras in digital cinematography and has been heralded as one of the films that launched the HDSLR movement.

In 2011, he was chosen by Canon to be one of the first 4 filmmakers to shoot with their first cinema camera, the Canon C300, and he directed the film “Mobius” which premiered at Paramount Studios. The opening was attended by Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert Rodriguez, and JJ Abrams.

This will be unique opportunity to hear about the transition from still to cinema by this truly accomplished imager.

Seating is limited and registration is required. There is a charge of $25 for this event, and each attendee will receive a $25 Showcase Photo & Video Gift Card.

A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
Mike Brodie

Book Release & Signing at Get This! Gallery
Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 2-4 p.m.

Get This! Gallery
662 11th St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30318

The first edition of Brodie’s book is almost sold out. We have exclusive access to a limited number of first edition books through the publisher, Twin Palms. The pre-order price for the book is $65. We will have copies available for $75 the day of the event.

Download the PDF press release or view Casa Particular on Meg Griffiths’ site.

Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACPinfo.org) is pleased to announce that Meg Griffiths, the recipient of the 2012 Serenbe Exhibition Award as part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Portfolio Review, will unveil her exhibition May 3rd at Serenbe Photography Center (visit serenbephotographycenter.com for more information).

Selected by Atlanta’s Jennifer Schwartz of Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, from over fifty attendees at the ACP Portfolio Review, Ms. Griffiths’ work represents “a modest cross section of Cuban casas particulares.” The exhibition will run through May 31st.

In addition to her exhibition at Serenbe, Ms. Griffiths will be leading an Artist Book Workshop on May 4th. Please see serenbephotographycenter.com to register for this workshop. Space in limited.

Meg Griffiths was born in Bloomington, Indiana and raised in Houston, Texas. She received two B.A.’s at the University of Texas in Cultural Anthropology and English Literature and earned her Master of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design. She currently lives in Columbia, South Carolina where she is an adjunct professor of photography in the McMaster College of Art at the University of South Carolina. Her work has been shown in multiple venues around the United States including: the Carte Blanche Gallery and the Rayko Gallery in San Francisco, Houston Center for Photography, and the Ogelthorpe Gallery in Savannah, GA. She has also been published in PDN, South by Southeast Magazine, LPV Magazine, Lenscratch, Le Journal de la Photographie, Fraction Magazine, and Silver and Ink. Her work has been added to several private collections and is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo.

“I am frequently asked by people who have not seen my work why I spend my life documenting one simple place like Decatur County, Georgia. People confuse simple with small; they’re not the same thing. There are no simple places or simple lives. The problems Decatur Countians face may be different from the problems of urban life, but they are no less threatening and therefore exacting. Fulfillment and self-respect are as necessary but elusive in Decatur County as elsewhere.

Decatur County, like all places, was shaped by its history and geography. Real circumstances are richer than anything we can invent, and photographs made from them have unique credibility and economy. When one searches for a specific image, he blinds himself to everything else. He is apt to let a possible photograph pass unnoticed that is better than what he set out to find. For several years, I was fascinated by old photographs on gravestones. I carefully sifted through every cemetery I knew. On a dreary day I was walking through an isolated graveyard in a remote part of the county. Cows were grazing just outside. I passed a monument topped by a marble lamb quietly watching them. It was both droll and, because of the light and the misting rain, beautiful. I like the resulting photograph better than any of my pictures of pictures on gravestones.

As the project grew some problems became vexingly abstract. I discovered slowly over a long period of time that while I was making photographs of specific places and individuals, I was also getting from the series a collective sentiment, something stronger and more pointed than the individual images. It was an effect worth striving to enhance. It required an enormous amount of contemplation, both of the photographs in the series and of my affections and sympathies for the material. I tried to gain a sense of what was missing and the direction I should take to properly move forward.

To most people and by any objective appraisal Decatur County is aesthetically banal. The previous generation who created it could barely afford to be expedient, much less stylish. Most photographers would decide from a superficial assessment that there was little to photograph. But in important ways Decatur County is the perfect artifact and documents the quality and values of our predecessor’s sojourn.

The instinct to survive and understand something of life, to love and be loved, to maintain a certain dignity, self-respect, and attain some degree of success, at least in our own eyes, motivate us consciously and unconsciously. We have our work, our faith, our social and economic constraints to deal with, and it is on one or more of these fronts that our major battles are joined. Decatur County is neither simple nor insignificant. Life there is like life everywhere, and I cannot think of a higher goal than understanding what we can of it.”

APG Atlanta Photography Group
Concepts: the Post-Apocalyptic Photo Challenge
A Fresh Look at Photographic Ideas and Materials
 
Jurored by
Stuart Horodner, artistic director of Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
and Beth Lilly, artist and educator
 
For this year’s Concepts Show, APG is issuing a special challenge to photographers. In the past decade, digital technologies opened up new opportunities, while at the same time our dependence on it has become extensive. If disaster should strike and the power grid fail, how could you continue your work as a photographer? APG wants to see what you would do as an artist if you no longer had access to your digital files and could no longer plug into the grid.
 
We propose to start a dialogue by posing questions. Is our digital dependency causing us to overlook the image-making potential of new materials and knowledge that hasn’t yet been used in fine art photography? On the flip side, are there creative new ways to use vintage photographic methods? Is it even possible today to utilize chemical processes without electricity? 
 
We’d like to see work that experiments with installations and presentations that incorporate optics and visual phenomena.  Consider mining the remains of civilizations past by finding new uses for light sensitive materials.  Other options might include using existing prints as raw material for a new piece. 
 
For more information, entry form and FAQ’s, please visit the APG website. www.apgphoto.org
 
Entry deadline: May 18, 2013
Show Opens: June 28, 2013
Entry fee $35.00 members  $25 student members
One year membership $35/$25 students

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