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Digital Silver Imaging was one of the sponsors at the 4th annual Griffin Focus Awards in Winchester, MA. The Focus awards honor those individuals who have been instrumental in increasing the awareness of the photographic arts among the general public.

Lifetime Achievement Award – Eliane Laffont, exec editor Hachette Filipacchi
Scribe Award – Russell Hart, Executive editor of American Photo
New England Beacon – Rosalind Smith, freelance photographic writer
Rising Star Award – Bob Haggart, founder of APhotoEditor.com
Spotlight Award – Steve Hoffman & Jim Toya-Brown of Modern Postcard

Paula Tognarelli, the executive direct at the Griffin, introduced Lou Jones as the MC for the evening. The event was well attended and people were commenting on the vibrancy and support within our photographic community. I look forward to working closely with the Griffin on the coming months as we open our Griffin satellite location at DSI.

For the second year DSI & Ava Art are proud to sponsor the Boston Photographic Resource Center’s annual portfolio review. We will be exhibiting work and have information about our silver gelatin prints. Visit us before or after your review!

We are please to invite everyone to the opening of Meg Birnbaum’s exhibit at our gallery on Friday, May 22, 6 – 8 PM. The Griffin Museum @ Digital Silver Imaging Gallery is located at 11 Brighton St in Belmont, MA.

DSI, in conjunction with the Griffin Museum, opens its new gallery space with Meg’s work from 14 regional fairs in New England, ranging from small 4H events to huge expositions.

Photographing the fairs using basic, plastic cameras and black and white film Meg says “I purposely wanted to lose sharp detail and instead capture a fleeting moment, a broad stroke, the distillation of the experience in the hope of capturing iconic imagery.”

Many of the fairs visited were more than 100 years old, yet she began to wonder about the future of farm animals and farm life. “The future of these summer fairs may rely on a shift away from agriculture to entertainment…mostly food, specifically fried food,” she says. “Fried Oreos, fried cheesecake. `We’ll fry anything’ one sign read.’’

  
         
Digital Silver Imaging sponsored Larry Fink at the CIPNE conference in Natick, MA on Sunday 4/5/09.  Larry shared some of his older work from his book, Social Graces and Boxing, along with other great images from his career.  He has a wry sense of humor and welcoming irreverence for what one would expect when photography the Clintons or high fashion.  His square images, (all shot with real film!) allow us to see these events from new angles and perspectives.  The backs of womans’ legs, trays of glasses, and Obama descending the jetway with a jet engine in the foreground give us a view into Larry’s way of seeing the world.  “I really like circles” he said at one point and I found myself looking at each image and searching for all those circles, like Hirshfeld and Nina.  I appreciated his sense of humor and the stories he shared with us, like being thrown back 10 feet by the secret service while trying to get a shot of Obama.  

   

…says George and Gail Lucozzi of ASA Photographics and DSI agrees Ted is a talented guy, knows his stuff and then some. ASA offers a class with Ted on Sunday May 17 2009 from 9 am to 1 pm. Take the class. Contact us to purchase Teds books.

Tonight at 7 pm the New England School of Photography rededicates its gallery space to our dear friend Lisa Garner. Her husband Ron Cowie says this about Lisa and the exhibit –

The images collected focus on her connection to friends and family. This is not a comprehensive show by any means. The volume of her images is overwhelming. Editing was difficult in order to stay within budget. Lisa never liked too much to be spent on her. The beauty of her images almost defeat the sting of her passing. Thank you all for the love, support and, interest this year. I am humbled and grateful.
Love survives. Ron

Eric and I knew Lisa as a student at NESOP, a customer at Campus Camera & Electronics, and as a friend & fellow photographer. She will always be missed.

— Jay Gaffney, NESOP Class of 1985