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Photoville 2018 “Illuminated” by J. Sybylla Smith

October 24, 2018 by Andrea

Photoville specializes in throwing light where there is darkness. These five examples are beacons of creative curiosity paired with intelligent investigation. While diverse in subject matter, each exhibit shares a common intent – to reveal truth and clarify its relationship to power.

(l-r) Tomas Van Houtryve, Brian L. Frank, Sarah Blesener
Work by Catchlight fellow Thomas Houtryve, Nathan Alexander Steiner and Green River, 2017

The San Francisco-based non-profit, Catchlight, works to amplify visual story-telling to drive positive social change. Their exhibitions honored three inaugural Catchlight Fellows. Sarah Blesener in New Americanism highlights the intersection of youth, religion, nationalism and military-style training.  In Out of Bounds Brian L. Frank gives an intimate portrayal of targeted policing and criminalization of youth in marginalized communities. Tomas Van Houtryve looks at the weaponization of photography through the use of drones and other technology in Blue Sky Days. Each artist documents current U.S. activities which ask viewers to consider the complexity and validity of our national narrative. (This exhibition printed and sponsored in part by Digital Silver Imaging.)

The McFarthest Place - Mark Kauzlarich Emergicube curated by James Estrin and David Gonzalez Co-Editors of the NYTImes Lens Blog
The McFarthest Place EmergiCube by Mark Kauzlarich

The McFarthest Place is an EmergiCube based on the inspired idea of photographer Mark Kauzlarich, namely; how far away could one live from a McDonald’s restaurant? He discovers it to be a county in South Dakota and documents the social, economic and political landscape of this slice of rural Western life. EmergiCubes, scattered throughout Photoville, feature emerging photographers culled from the New York Times Portfolio Review. Co-Founders and Editors of the Lens Blog, James Estrin and David Gonzales, select participants and co-curate these exhibitions. Read about each of these talented artists here.

 

Maggie Steber, Men Born From Blossoms
Sara Terry, (Re) Thinking Dejeuner sur l' herbe

The Photo Agency VII is a powerhouse of international photographers known for their global social documentary coverage. Seven women photographers, photojournalists and filmmakers from this collective are featured in Her Take:(Re) Thinking Masculinity. Expanding on a conversation begun at their last annual meeting this exhibition provides a format to move forward an inclusive dialogue on gender, power and representation. Anush Babajanyan, Jessica Dimmock, Linda Bourname Engelberth, Ilvy Njiokiktjien, Nichole Sobecki, Maggie Steber and Sara Terry each reflect a unique and nuanced perspective to (re)consider.

64,000 Luceo

Luceo is a creative visual agency which builds transmedia platforms to inform public perception and move us towards a positive future. This year their exhibit sought to humanize drug use, to shift our public policy focus from a criminal lens to a public health one, and to decrease the stigma associated with injection drug use. Stemming from their collaboration with the Colorado-based, Harm Reduction Action Center, Luceo created the immersive experience, 72,306. It actualized in concrete forms the reality of our current overdose epidemic. A bell was sounded every seven minutes and 41 seconds (how often a death via overdose occurs) and a metal ball was released down a chute to add to last year’s total of 72,306 overdoses. Simultaneously, a wall of portraits simulating the individual drug users went from a black and white image to a red one. Visitors could not escape being emotionally moved by the reenactment of the facts.

Léon Hendrickx, Juno, Amsterdam, 2016
Léon Hendrickx, Sapphira Cristal, Philadelphia

Amsterdam-based photographer Léon Hendrickx explores drag queens’ identity beyond exhibitionism in Kings and Queens. The subject, as collaborator, staged the location, wardrobe and pose of these compilation portraits featuring themselves in and out of drag. Hendrickx’ exploration looks at identity, love, and gender. He unearthed more questions than answers within the entity he coined sexual transcendence. The exhibition was supported by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. A book of the work is expected to be released in October 2020 and is available for pre-order here.

J. Sybylla Smith

This post re-published with the permission of J. Sybylla Smith. Sybylla is available for consultation, teaching, curating and lectures @ https://jsybyllasmith.wordpress.com.

Filed Under: DSI-News, News, Reviews Tagged With: Catchlight, Photoville 2018

Tyson Robichaud: Inkjet vs Silver Gelatin

November 10, 2014 by Digital Silver Imaging

Inkjet and Silver Gelatin Prints
Inkjet vs Silver Gelatin Prints ©Tyson Robichaud

Tyson Robichaud’s blog reads like a chat with a good friend. He writes on a variety of topics from the theoretical,  A photographic study in color, Henri Matisse style, to the practical, Olympus 45mm f/1.8 vs the Contax G Zeiss 45mm f/2. Regardless of the subject, Tyson brings a fresh and personal approach to the photo blogosphere and especially to micro 4/3 and the mirrorless camera genre.

When Tyson proposed a print test comparing our silver gelatin prints to his own and our inkjet prints we thought, “why not!” Tyson was prompted to contact DSI by the team at Macphun software after he reviewed Tonality Pro software. His black & white conversions with Tonality Pro inspired him to take the next logical step, printing. We think the results of his test are worth reading. We’d like to add that we made no proof prints for Tyson in advance. He simply sent in the files and we sent back prints.

You can check out Tyson’s article, Digital Silver Imaging, a unique digital silver gelatin printing process., and his entire blog at, http://tysonrobichaudphotography.wordpress.com/

Filed Under: General News, News, Reviews Tagged With: inkjet|silver gelatin prints

Being There – Garry Winogrand at the Metropolitan Museum

July 16, 2014 by Digital Silver Imaging

 

©Gary Winogrand
©Garry Winogrand

It’s been two weeks since I saw the Garry Winogrand retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum. Random flashes of his luminous silver gelatin prints –delightful, intense, curious, intimate, madcap and improbable work visit me daily. He was a sheer force of nature for whom a Leica lens was an essential body part. This solid selection of 175 images, several printed posthumously, are a mere glimpse given that he developed 26,000 rolls of film over 34 years and died having not seen another 250,000 of his negatives. Winogrand’s compulsive drive to be there, shooting, is palpable.

“If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.” – Garry Winogrand

 

©Gary Winogrand
©Gary Winogrand

A voracious observer he relished capturing the life force of his hometown. He shot ferociously and framed off-kilter. The ordinary,anonymous and famous were treated as equals, exposed in his signature unfiltered style. Less interested in answers, or reflection, he urgently froze moments of the human landscape. Equal parts intrepid urban game hunter, curious behavioral scientist and zealous preacher, Winogrand’s images shout like headlines, entertain like punchlines or sing like a hymn. Take in this wonderland followed by the Coney Island Cyclone – you’ll want to ride both these roller coasters more than once.

Screen Shot 2014-07-16 at 11.07.31 AM
©Gary Winogrand

by J. Sybylla Smith

 

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