SlowExposures

Jo Lynn Still

2011-12-21T05:31:00.000-08:00

Beautiful photograph by Jo Lynn Still, featured on La Lettre de le Photographie. Jo Lynn's work has been featured as part of John Bennette's Southern Memories shows in 2010 and 2011.

Jack Spencer Workshop

2011-09-21T10:30:00.000-07:00

PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP

OCTOBER 14 - 16 2011

IN STUDIO AND ON LOCATION NASHVILLE, TN.

CLASS LIMITED TO 10 STUDENTS.

TUITION: $1200.00

The Workshop

Jack Spencer has gained a reputation as one of the premier fine art photographers working today. His unique approach to making art is unparalleled and the wide range of his works is quite compelling. He has had over 100 solo exhibitions is some of the world's finest galleries and museums. His work has been collected in a great many private and museum collections worldwide.

In this workshop, Spencer will teach some of his techniques and methods of achieving photographs that have verve, poetry and the transference of creativity to paper. From the initial approach of taking a photograph, which Spencer considers to be the most important element of making an image, to making texture layers and coloring and also printing, glazing techniques and varnishing. There will be an emphasis on model photography, portraiture, landscape and flowers.

Jack would like to emphasize that he has no desire to turn others into versions of himself but to try and bring out the true artist that resides within each individual and their own means of self expression. He has no interest in being dogmatic in his lessons. To help students along in finding their own particular vision is his primary purpose.

Requirements:

Students are asked to bring along a laptop, preferably with Photoshop and Lightroom as well as a digital camera and a small hard drive as well as a good supply of cards and readers. All lab materials and models are included in the tuition.

Jack will be assisted by Jon Morgan, a Nashville photographer and artist of considerable skill.

Sylvia Plachy to Present at SlowExposures Lunch and Learn

2011-09-03T05:35:00.000-07:00

July 4, 2011 ©Sylvia Plachy

Don’t miss out on a wonderful opportunity to see Sylvia Plachy present “Dancing with Ghosts” at the first SlowExposures Lunch and Learn event. Ms. Plachy, a well-known and accomplished New York-based photographer, will exhibit and discuss a collection of her photographs. If you are interested in the art of photography and want to know what makes a good photograph, you do not want to miss this event!

Lunch and Learn follows the jurors' talk on Sunday September 18. Come hear the jurors discuss their selections and stay to hear Ms. Plachy. If you are interested in enjoying a delicious boxed lunch before the presentation, you must purchase a ticket by Monday, September 12. Tickets may be purchased at the door, but will not include lunch. Please visit the SlowExposures website for further information and to buy tickets.

Portfolio Review

2011-09-01T10:42:00.000-07:00

2011 SlowExposures Portfolio Review only two spots left!

Reviewers include Alex Novak, collector and photographer with 35 years of experience, Anna Walker-Skillman, an owner, director and curator of the Jackson Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, Kevin Miller, director of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida, Jerry Atnip, professional photographer and designer, and Brenda Massie, director of Hagedorn Foundation Gallery in Atlanta.

The event will be held in Concord United Methodist Church Parish Hall (across from Strickland’s) in Concord, Ga., on September 17th at 9am. The fee is $350 which includes a 20 minute review by each of the five reviewers, lunch, and a Soirée at the Split Oak Farm on Friday, September 16th.

Sign up at THIS LINK. For a little more information check THIS PAGE on our website.

Southern Memories: Part Two

2011-08-25T13:01:00.000-07:00

Reposted from The Barefoot Photographer Blog

About a year ago I wrote a blog about Southern Memories: Part One. Now I am knee deep in preparations for Southern Memories: Part Two. Part One was about places -- indoors and out. Southern Memories Part Two: The People is the second exhibition curated by John A. Bennette at The Whiskey Bonding Barn in Molena, Georgia as a part of SlowExposures 2011. The show will consist of a selection of portraits taken in the region by local and national artists. The community will also be invited to participate in this exhibition with a wall of historical images and snapshots provided by members of the community, with their notes and stories about life in the area and their families.

I am inviting all who read this blog -- if you live in the south -- to contribute to the wall of images. Please make an inexpensive copy of any old family photo. You may simply place a photo in a copy machine and create a copy for this show. I printed one on plain printer paper from a digital file. On the piece of paper you copy or print on, please write who is in the photo, where it was taken, and any other information about the family or photo. If you live in the area -- please drop off these family memories at A Novel Experience in Zebulon. If you do not live in the area -- email me for instructions on how to mail it in.

For a long time I have been restoring old family photos using Photoshop Elements -- this blog post showing the changes to a photo of my great grandfather is a good example of an old family portrait and what may be needed to help preserve it for future generations. I have given talks at The National Archives Southeast on this subject. The old photos I have are safely stored in protective sleeves in archival albums. The only old photos I use for display purposes are copies that I printed out myself. The digital files are also safe -- in case I, or someone else, would like a copy. As many long time readers know -- my Christmas tree is decorated with old family photos -- portraits of family and old homeplaces. I am hoping to put together a small handout for this exhibit with tips on how to preserve old photos. Time is precious these days -- I have a lot going on -- more about that on future blogs -- but preserving old family photos is important.

Artists participating in Southern Memories this year are:

Dave Anderson
Paul Conlan
Malgorzata Florkowska
Gary Gruby
Jessica Hines
Sarah Hoskins
Jane Robbins Kerr
Joanna Knox
Kendall Messick
Donna Rosser
Jerry Siegel
Marilyn Suriani
Jo Lynn Still
Hai Zhang

Opening reception is September 16 from 5pm to 7pm at the Whiskey Bonding Barn

Lunch and Learn with Sylvia Plachy

2011-08-23T09:31:00.000-07:00

Jane Rule in Mississippi, 2009 ©Sylvia Plachy

Sylvia Plachy, New York-based photographer and the recipient of numerous photography awards, will present a program entitled “Dancing with Ghosts” at our first Lunch and Learn event. SlowExposures is extremely proud to be able to host an event with such a well-respected and celebrated photographer. During the event, Ms. Plachy will exhibit and discuss photographs spanning her 40-year career. To find out more about Ms. Plachy, visit her website.

Join us for this ticketed event following the Jurors’ Talk on Sunday, September 18. For ticketing information, please click here.

Show Books

2011-08-15T11:43:00.000-07:00

The collective group is hard at work preparing the SlowExposures show and experience. There are many components that come together to create a wonderful event. This year the show has the Friday afternoon discussion with Alex Novak, John Bennette's show opening, the portfolio review, book workshop, Saturday night ball, juror talk, lunch and learn with Sylvia Plachy, and I know other events not to be missed -- for the complete run of events including times and locations see the website. To keep up to date you can also subscribe to this blog and like us on Facebook.

The show book is currently under production. If you would like to see the books from 2009 & 2010 -- please see the book tabs on the right side of this blog. The 2011 show book will be available for purchase at the show. Books preprinted for 2009 & 2010 have sold out -- but these can be ordered directly through the Blurb website. Simply click on the box of the year you are interested in and you will be led via the Blurb site through the ordering process.

2011 Photographers

2011-08-06T05:50:00.000-07:00

The following list is the 2011 photographers selected to show their work in SlowExposures.

D.B. Waltrip Pensacola, FL
Jerry Atnip Nashville, TN
Beate Sass Decatur, GA
Rowan James   Ten Mile, TN
Eliot Dudik   Savannah, GA
Eddie Booth Gray, GA
Felix Kirkland   Atlanta, GA
Joanna Knox   Rockville, MD
Margena Burnett Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Joe Cattoni   Roswell, GA
Paul Conlan Newnan, GA
Aaron Stecker   Atlanta, GA
Kathleen Robbins   Columbia, SC
Ann George   Shreveport, LA
Nell Dickerson   Memphis, TN
Terri Garland   Soquel, CA
Camille Wright Felton   Acworth, GA
Will Jacks   Cleveland, MS
Gary Gruby   Senoia, GA
Ricky Kammenga   Columbus, GA
David Simonton   Raleigh, NC
Cindy Hodnette Eufaula, AL
Don Norris    Hattiesburg, MS
Wendy Young   Cerillos, NM
Chad Baker   Griffin, GA
Owen Jones   Cumming, GA
Diane Kirkland   Atlanta, GA
Chip Millard   Pittsboro, NC
Kathryn Kolb Atlanta, GA
Wynne Ragland   Atlanta, GA
Rob Simmons Atlanta, GA
Jim Newbury   Decatur, GA
Diana Sheehan   Palo Alto, CA
Joe Pat Davis Waco, TX
Donna Rosser Fayetteville, GA
Vicki Hunt   Roswell, GA
Magdalena Sole   New York, NY
John Sumner Atlanta, GA
Anne Fields   Grayson, GA
Eric Etheridge   New York, NY
Angelina Bellebuono   Rutledge, GA
Roger Pavin   Atlanta, GA
Charlotte Weber   Barnesville, GA
Stan Greenberg   North Augusta, SC
Reginald Copeland   Peachtree City, GA
Shannon Herren   Griffin, GA
Dorothy Gray   Marietta, GA
Stephen Booth   Hoboken, GA
Hazel Berger Marietta, GA
Susan Perry   Fayetteville, GA
Joanne Green Atlanta, GA
Sue Henry   Nolansville, TN

Sylvia Plachy to present "Dancing with Ghosts"

2011-08-04T12:26:00.000-07:00

Fallen Worker, Budapest 1993 © Sylvia Plachy

SlowExposures is pleased to announce that Sylvia Plachy, the internationally honored photographer, will present a program entitled “Dancing with Ghosts” at its first Lunch and Learn event on Sunday, September 18. During the program, Ms. Plachy will exhibit and discuss a collection of her photographs taken over her 40-year career. If you are a photographer or someone who simply admires great photography, you do not want to miss this event! This is an excellent opportunity for interested parties in our community to learn more about the art of photography.

Join us for this ticketed event following the Jurors’ talk. Lunch will be provided. Please visit the SlowExposures website for further details.

Portfolio Review at SlowExposures 2011

2011-07-02T08:05:00.000-07:00

2011 SlowExposures Portfolio Review – only 7spaces left! The Portfolio review will be held on Saturday, September 17th, from 9 am until 3 pm at the First United Methodist Church in Concord, Georgia (across from Stricklands), in an intimate setting.

The fee is $350 which includes a 20 minute review by each of the five reviewers, lunch on Saturday and a Soiree on Friday night (Sept. 16). Participants are also invited to take part in the Portfolio Walk during the SlowExposures Ball (Saturday, Sept. 17th, $50 ticket to the Ball).

Reviewers will include Alex Novak, collector and photographer with 35 years of experience, Anna Walker-Skillman, an owner, director and curator of the Jackson Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, Kevin Miller, director of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida, Jerry Atnip, professional photographer and designer, and Brenda Massie, director of Hagedorn Foundation Gallery in Atlanta.

Participating in a Portfolio Review can be an eye opening experience. When fresh eyes look at your work, the threads that tie the work together (that you may not have seen) can become apparent. It is a great experience to meet with a reviewer in a one on one conversation over your body of work. During the down time and after the review there are opportunities to network and meet other photographers.

2011-05-29T19:42:00.001-07:00

Only 16 days left….
Calling All Photographers…

SlowExposures is the nationally-recognized juried photography exhibition that underscores the diversity, contradictions and complexity of the rural American South.

Now in its ninth year, SlowExposures invite photographers to submit their work.

The deadline to enter the annual photo exhibition in Georgia is midnight, Wednesday, June 15th. Professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit their work.

Each photographer may submit up to six (6) images electronically through the web site below. All work must be original to the artist and must have been photographed within the past four years. The fee of $50.00 must accompany the entry and may be paid through credit card or PayPal.

Photographs may be color or black and white; using traditional or digital processes or elements of both.

“SlowExposures 2011” is staged September 16 through September 25 at the historic R. F. Strickland Building in Concord, Georgia, 60 miles south of the Atlanta airport.

All entries must be submitted online at the new “SlowExposures” website --- www.slowexposures.org using the online registration form and payment by PayPal or credit card.

Contact Christine Curry at 770-567-3600 for more information.

Portfolio Review 2011

2011-05-20T06:03:00.000-07:00

2011 SlowExposures Portfolio Review is open to 10 photographers on first come first serve basis. The fee is $350 which includes a 20 minute review by each of the five reviewers. The Portfolio Review will be held September 17th, from 9 am until 3 pm at the First United Methodist Church in Concord, Georgia.

Reviewers will include Alex Novak, collector and photographer with 35 years of experience, Anna Walker-Skillman, an owner, director and curator of the Jackson Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, Kevin Miller, director of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida, Jerry Atnip, professional photographer and designer, and Brenda Massie , director of Hagedorn Foundation Gallery in Atlanta.

Photographers with a cohesive body of work, and those with work in progress will benefit from our distinguished reviewers’ creative guidance, insights and critiques. Photographers should consider our Portfolio Review as a next step in their careers, contributing to potential inclusion in future museum and gallery exhibits.

Visit the SlowExposures website for more information and to register for this event.

Tim Barnwell News

2011-05-06T06:07:00.000-07:00

House and Flowers, Cades Cove, Smokies

Tim Barnwell offers House and Flowers, Cades Cove, Smokies as his print of the month for May 2011. Follow this link to get more information and purchase the photo.

You can also find Tim on Facebook. Visit Tim's page to keep up with his latest workshop and exhibit information. Also, keeping up with Tim on Facebook is a great way to stay informed on his prints of the month. For new Facebook connections, Tim is offering a special price on his newest book, Hands in Harmony: Traditional Handcrafts and Music in Appalachia. Now just $30 (plus tax and shipping at cost) for the book and music CD. Just drop Tim and email at BarnwellPhoto@hotmail.com to let him know. If you prefer, you can pick up your signed book at the studio this month.

May 13 Tim has a new exhibit opening in Monganton, NC at MESH Gallery. Reception for this exhibit is May 13 from 6:00-8:30pm.

New Hebron

2011-04-04T06:11:00.000-07:00

New Hebron photo by Nancy McCrary

The Collector’s Afternoon on Friday, September 16th, and the Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop on September 17th will be held at New Hebron Baptist Church, 3 miles outside of Concord, Georgia.

The original Hebron Baptist Church was chartered in 1838. The New Hebron was chartered in 1907 and built in 1908. Its only bond with the modern age is when farm trucks and passenger cars pass by stirring up dust which quickly settles on the whitewashed facade and plain concrete porch and brick steps. It still uses the original hand-crafted pulpit and hand-hewn slat pews.

In its heyday of 1929 New Hebron had 99 members. The last member, Fred H. Johnson, Jr., died in 1998. New Hebron has been featured in two movies, Cold Sassy Tree and Mama Flora’s Family, and a feature film, The Wettest County, just completed filming in this beautiful old structure.

Dwain Penn, the Vicar of New Hebron, holds services every month on the third Sunday at 3 p.m. and has special speakers on alternate months during the year.

Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop

2011-03-26T05:28:00.000-07:00

jackal by anne berry

Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon
Saturday, September 17, 2011

9-3p, with lunch, R.F. Strickland Building, Concord, Georgia

There is a rich history of self-published authors including Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King and Mark Twain. Now that artists are able to produce their own hardcover and softcover books online at a relatively low cost, self-publishing has become a popular alternative for photographers.

Self-Publishing Your Photography Book will cover the basic principles of designing your own photography book. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Elizabeth will demonstrate the bones of a successful photography book including; interior design decisions, sequencing, typography (Serif vs Sans Serif) and cover design. We will explore what comprises good design from bad, creating a framework for the participant to build upon with their own book project, and briefly discuss the self-publishing companies available.

Each participant should bring 10, maximum of 12, related images for sequencing and discussion of design considerations. We will work together and as a group to evolve each of your individual projects and expression. Bring only inexpensive copies we can tack on the wall, no delicate final prints, 12 max and 1 photography book whose design or layout you admire (optional).

We will not cover technical questions (pdf-to-book workflow) or software questions.

Elizabeth Avedon has a rich, thirty-year history in photography and fine art. Collaborating with museums, publishing houses, advertising agencies, galleries and artists, she's received recognition for her curatorial work, exhibition design and publishing projects, including the retrospective exhibition and book, "Avedon: 1949 -1979" for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Avedon's, "In the American West", for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. In addition, she has also worked with the Menil Collection and the Estate of Diane Arbus. In conjunction with Random House she co-published the series, "Elizabeth Avedon Editions/Vintage Contemporary Artists", working with distinguished art critics Donald Kuspit, Peter Schjeldahl and artists Eric Fischl, Francesco Clemente, Louise Bourgeois, and Robert Rauschenberg. Former Director of Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe; Creative Director for The Gere Foundation; Art Director for Polo Ralph Lauren and Picture Editor for Polo.com Magazine; and a founder of Tibet House, New York; Elizabeth contributes regularly to the online magazine, La Lettre de la Photographie, as well as working as an independent curator and consultant, including the current exhibition "Return to the Roof of the World: Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland".

Workshop Only: $250

Book Workshop Package: $350*

Package for Two: (one ticket to Book Workshop included) $475*

*includes Friday evening Collector’s Soiree, Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop during the day Saturday, the SlowExposures Ball on Saturday evening, and the Lunch and Learn photo slide show on Sunday after the Juror’s Talk

Visit the SlowExposures website and click on the tab "Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop" tab to register for this event.

Digital Photography for Beginners Workshop

2011-03-21T10:46:00.000-07:00

Sunday April 17, 2011

2 - 4 p.m.

Fee: $50.00

Location: Whiskey Bonding Barn, Molena, Georgia

To sign up go to: Slowexposures.org and select the tab Midyear Event Schedule

Bring your camera and your camera’s manual and join photographer Brenda Fayard to learn how to take better photographs. Brenda is an experienced commercial and fine art photographer whose work has been chosen for several SlowExposures exhibitions, in addition to other juried shows. She is renowned for her ability to teach the essentials of digital photography in an informative, relaxed way to even the most digitally-challenged beginner!

For further information, or if you have questions, please contact Malgosia Florkowska at maflorko@gmail.com

Donna Black

Debbie Fleming Caffery to Receive Humanties Award

2011-03-18T09:36:00.000-07:00

Debbie Fleming Caffery, of Breaux Bridge, will receive the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities “Michael P. Smith Documentary Photography Award” on April 2 during special ceremonies at Houmas House in Darrow, La., just south of Baton Rouge. Each year, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, or LEH, honors Louisianians who have made outstanding contributions to the study and understanding of the humanities. The LEH is the Louisiana affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Debbie Fleming Caffery’s dedication to rural communities with strong agriculture and religious ties brought her to the sugarcane fields of Louisiana where she has photographed and documented the last generation of workers to harvest sugarcane by hand. Over the course of 30 years, Caffery has had more than 20 one-woman exhibitions at museums and galleries, including the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian, Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and Galerie Camera Obscura in Paris.

Caffery received a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society in 2006 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. In addition to numerous awards in Louisiana, Caffery has begun conducting a series of photography workshops on Cajun Mardi Gras, south Louisiana Cajun culture, and workshops in New Orleans. Debbie Fleming Caffery's images have earned her numerous awards including a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship awarded in 2005 to continue her photographic work in Mexico. She was the first recipient of the Lou Stomen prize for documentary photography given by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California. Caffery's work is in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institute, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

Call for Entries

2011-03-11T17:08:00.000-08:00

SlowExposures is the nationally-recognized juried photography exhibition that underscores the diversity, contradictions and complexity of the rural American South. Now in our ninth year, we invite photographers to submit their work.

SlowExposures is held during the last two weekends in September. Located an hour from Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson airport in the rural countryside of west central Georgia, the show is renowned for its intimate, relaxed environment where photographers and photography lovers from across the county gather to learn, share, and have fun. This year, our jurors Elisabeth Biondi and Peter Essick will join our 2011 faculty of professionals to offer cutting edge workshops, presentations, reviews and consultations.

Jurors:

Elisabeth Biondi has served as Visuals Director at The New Yorker magazine since 1996, helping to transform the look of the publication by collecting a group of impressive staff photographers and commissioning established masters as well as emerging talent, and utilizing portrait, fine art and documentary photography. Her earlier work at GEO, Stern and Vanity Fair has established her credentials as an accomplished, innovative professional in the field.

Peter Essick: For the past 25 years Peter has worked as a freelance photojournalist since studying photojournalism at the University of Missouri. Traveling to all seven continents in search of compelling pictures, he has produced 35 stories for National Geographic magazine. His story on story on nuclear waste (2002) won first prize at World Press Photos in Amsterdam.

Peter's images have been included in the Photography, Man and the Environment exhibit at Viterbo, Italy, the exhibit Thy Brothers’ Keeper at the Flint Institute of the Arts, Michigan and a one-man exhibit at Lumiere Gallery in Atlanta. In April 2005, Outdoor Photographer magazine featured his efforts to photograph the effects of global warming. These images were seen on The Oprah Show, This Morning with George Stephanopolis and in the movie, An Inconvenient Truth. His images have been in Time magazine’s Great Images of the 20th Century and the 100 Best Photographs of National Geographic. An exhibit of my landscape photographs was recently shown at Lumière Gallery in Atlanta.

How to Enter: Please visit our website SlowExposures for details. Deadline June 15th.

Tim Barnwell Workshops and Print of the Month

2011-03-02T10:07:00.000-08:00

First, due to strong demand, we are offering additional computer photo workshops for anyone interested in learning about how to work with photographs on the computer. A course description follows below.

We are continuing our Print-of-the-Month program with an image for March, to introduce new images to collectors and anyone interested in fine photography for the home. Details are listed below along with a web link to view this month's print on Flickr. The February print is available through the end of March as well.

Please give Tim Barnwell a call if you have any questions about either item.
Basic Image Management
First offering: Wednesday, March 23, 2-5:30pm (3.5 hours)
Second offering: Thursday, April 14, 2-5:30 pm (3.5 hours)
Cost $50
Participants need: PC laptop if available. Bring camera and memory card, some of your own images you might like to work with, notepad, a couple blank CDs to test burn.
Description: This workshop is designed for artist or anyone who needs an introduction to managing photographers on the home PC computer. It will cover basic computer operation and workflow related to image handling and photo manipulation starting with the captured image (from your camera or provided by a photographer). Topics include importing photographs into the computer, basic image manipulation in Photoshop Elements, converting Jpeg images to Tiff and uses of each type file, the digital imaging basics of file types, sizes, and resolution (dpi/ppi), sttoring, organizing, and archiving images on the computer, burning CDs, preparing files for email, web page, print output and for Internet sites like Zapp and Juried Art Services. We will use Photoshop Elements to improve images by cropping, resizing, color correcting, sharpening, correcting flaws, and much more. Class size is limited to four participants per workshop in order
to give maximum attention to the particular needs and skill level of each participant. We have three computers for use here, or you can bring your laptop running Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7, loaded with Photoshop Elements (version 8 preferable; available from local office supply stores or online at sites like B&H Photo in New York). A basic understanding of Microsoft Windows is needed, but no prior Photoshop knowledge is necessary.

Instructor: Tim Barnwell has been a professional photographer and photography instructor for thirty years. He has taught dozens of workshops and served as director of Appalachian Photographic Workshops from 1980-88. He has recently taught photography classes at AB Tech and UNC-Asheville. He is known for his photographic knowledge and expertise, ability to relate complex subjects, and for his patience and diligence as an instructor.

Print of the Month
Our "Print of the Month" Program is designed to introduce collectors to new, previously unpublished images. We are able to offer special initial pricing, as these images are not available through galleries until after they rotate out of the Print of the Month program.

Description:
· 11 x 14 Archival inkjet print, mounted & matted on museum quality 16 x 20 board. A new print will be offered each month
· Discounted initial offering price: $295 (plus 7.75% NC sales tax)
· No need to be enrolled in any program to receive this special pricing, but an additional 10% discount is offered on all of Mr. Barnwell’s regularly priced prints and books, for those enrolled in our Automatic Purchase Program (12 prints for 2011; credit card charged once print is delivered each month)

Limited Edition Photographs:
"Limited Edition” means that a maximum of thirty (30) photographic reproductions will be made of an image, per image size (11 x 14)
Each Limited Edition Photograph is mounted, matted, signed and numbered

Pricing Levels
· Price will stay at $295 for two months, including the initial month of offering
· After two months, the photograph is removed from Print of the Month status and goes to full retail price. Prints in this size are normally $600 for unpublished images; $1200 for images from his three books
· Prints may be ordered framed (black metal 16 x 20 frames, with Plexiglas) for an additional charge of $35

Print delivery:
· Prints may be ordered by calling Barnwell Photography 828-251-0040 or by email at barnwellphoto@hotmail.com
· Allow up to 2-3 weeks for delivery depending on inventory/demand
· Prints may be viewed and purchased at Barnwell Photography, 244 Coxe Ave., Asheville, NC 28801. Shipping available at additional charge

March offering (POM pricing good through April 30, 2011):
· "Tree Branches, Ice & Snow"
This month's selection, along with additional details can be viewed at this link

Vacation Motor Hotel

2011-02-08T05:53:00.000-08:00

Vacation Motor Hotel by David Boyd, Jr. is the 2011 SlowExposures show photo. David is a SCAD graduate in illustration and art history, painter, photographer, self syndicated editorial cartoonist, middle and upper school art instructor at the Heritage School in Newnan, Georgia. He is a member of dailypainters.com and Oil Painters of America. In addition to his regular website, David has a blog about his painting.

If you are into Googie Art, you seek out these old signs -- relics of the 50s and 60s. This sign is on an old highway in Clarksville, Tennessee. The highway -- 41 -- was a popular route but lost favor after the interstate system came to be. The sign is 3stories tall, two sided, beautifully hand painted, and had a lot of neon lighting it up in its prime. You can just see the family station wagon on a road trip pulling in to rest for the night.

Debbie Fleming Caffery Workshop

2011-01-24T05:49:00.000-08:00

Cajun Mardi Gras Workshop

March 4-9, 2011

Beau Bridge, Louisiana

more info http://www.debbieflemingcaffery.com/

2011 Jurors Announced

2010-11-18T16:16:00.000-08:00

SlowExposures is pleased to announce the jurors for 2011:

Elizabeth Biondi has served as the Visuals Editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1996, helping transform the look of the publication by collecting a group of impressive staff photographers and commissioning established masters as well as emerging talent, and utilizing portrait, fine art, and documentary photography. Her earlier work at GEO, Stern and Vanity Fair has established her credentials as an accomplished innovative professional in the field. In 2010, Ms. Biondi was a reviewer for the portfolio review during the show at Stricklands in Concord.

Peter Essick has worked as a freelance photographer for the past 25 years. His main client has been National Geographic magazine. Essick first started at the magazine as a summer intern while studying photojournalism at the University of Missouri. He has produced 35 stories for the magazine on a variety of topics.

SlowExposures Winning Photos

2010-10-21T05:08:00.000-07:00

Charlotte Weber, Train Station, Third Place

Joe Cattoni, Lonely Days, Second Place

A.E. Davidson, In the Quivering Forest, First Place

This is Not Thornton Wilder

2010-09-23T03:56:00.000-07:00

Sometimes photographs can be viewed as a component of language, each image contributing to a larger idea. Some would call this documentary but, as usual, there is a fluid quality that defies definition. With photographs we can reach across cultural gaps and speak a direct short hand, the difficult part is not to be too simplistic or to produce cliches. In Southern Memories, I wanted to be in the middle showing a world that was neither rich or poor. Small town America is seen as the place to be...there is that disconnect that says this is where only good things happen; you know your neighbor. I found photographs of a shrinking small town where the streets at night are overwhelmed by shadows and hopelessness in seeing another soul; light makes one feel vulnerable not safe and shadows add fear.

This is an Edward Hopper town when the last of the brave or unaware have made their way home to lock doors and hide. This is the town you want to drive through quickly. Using hi-contrast and German neo-expressionist lighting David Simonton has created images that reminded one of The Night of the Hunter and the stories my parents told. These are the small southern towns we hear about and dread.

John A Bennette

In the South

2010-09-15T17:42:00.000-07:00

As I work on Southern Memories, The South started out as a magical place like all places children inhabit absolute good and evil that change moment to moment, shadows could become creatures and even wall paper could move, shape shift if you had to stay in bed and look at it for a day or two. Home and church filled your life - that was a constant.

So there are a few of these images in the show, some of the most interesting are done by Ms Jane Robbins Kerr, a woman who took up photography later in life and burns with a passion to make pictures and to tell stories with them. I met this Georgia lady in New York when she came to see a show of Sylvia Plachy work, I heard that accent and turned around to see a ball of energy and, of course had to ask that question; where are you from? Since then I have become one of the people on her journey. Ms Kerr as four images in the exhibition the one that stands out are her groupings of churches and houses taken in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Small black and white photographs that make you aware of the basic language of structures. Simple, almost naive, as if a child had drew them. You recognize them; they reassure. If one was to look at grander building you would find these basics in some variantions it is a human thing.

Because all the pictures have the same viewpoint and central placement in the camera's frame, one feels that they fall into the tradition of Topography. This is a clean and intellectual approach to making photographs but by her arrangements of images Ms Kerr has created rhythm and magic.

Speaking of magic, when I was a child, Sunday was an all day event from Sunday school to evening service. This was not a delightful day for a child of serendipity. That is why Anderson Scott's image of an abandoned(?) church with the words "Thank God' scribbled on the back wall behind the altar brings a smile to me --makes me pause; is it a tribute to something happening, a soul saved, or the realization that church is over for the day? Photography allows you to question the moment and the details of life. Is this the interior of a church Jane R Kerr photograph on her travels through 3 southern states as she found her way home.

I hope once all the pictures of Southern Memories come together that people will try to read the stories created by these photographs being placed in a room together. To look backward to see the good and the bad of a time leaving us now as each moment we move forward.

John A. Bennette