Dennis Kiel

 



Dennis Kiel is on the panel of reviewers for SlowExposures Portfolio Review 2013. Sign up today to secure your spot.

 

Kiel has been Chief Curator at Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film since 2007. As of January 2013, he is also serving as Interim Executive Director. Before joining TLF, Kiel served as the Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cincinnati Art Museum for 24 years. During that time, he curated numerous exhibitions, including The Hollywood Photographs of George Hurrell (later a traveling show for SITES); The Human Experience: Photographs by Nicholas Nixon; and Borrowed Time: The Photograph as Music Album Cover.

 

For five years he taught a class in the history of photography at Northern Kentucky University. At The Light Factory, the exhibitions Kiel has curated include Group f.64: Photographs by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, and Brett Weston; The Romance of the Road; Suspicious Minds: Surrealism in the 21st Century; Bring the Family; Body & Soul; The Calm Before The Storm; Out in the Streets: Democratic National Convention, Chicago 1968; Connected There but Not Always Here: Social Networking and the Power of Image.

 

Kiel served as a member of the National Endowment for the Arts panel titled "American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring" (2009) and has participated in portfolio reviews at Houston Fotofest (2008, 2010, 2012), "Our World" for Photo Alliance, San Francisco (2009-2013), Photolucida, Portland Oregon (2011), and Review Santa Fe (2012). He was also a juror for Photolucida's Critical Mass in 2011 and 2012.

 

This Saturday, June 1, at The Light Factory there is an opening reception for the sixth juried Annuale.

Deadline Approaching

The deadline for entries for the 11th Annual SlowExposures is June 16th!          We have heard from many of you already, but for those of you who love the extra-adrenaline push of that last 24 hours, don't forget that June 16th approaches sooner than you think! The 11th Annual is shaping up to be a great event and we are anticipating a great crowd of collectors, photography fans, and photographers to converge in Pike County during Opening Weekend (September 20-22). Come and join us--we guarantee a rewarding experience! If you enter, you are among the honored photographers--you're invited to the Friday evening Soiree at Split Oak Farm along with all the receptions and Juror's Talk during the weekend.       We are introducing our new Opening Saturday event: Dinner on the Grounds at the Whiskey Bonding Barn. We're going a bit more casual this year for our big shindig--leave the formal wear behind and join us at the Barn for great southern food, music, incredible scenery, and a do-able ticket price. Conversation, networking, and spontaneous inspiration will prevail!        SlowExposures is held every year during the last two weekends in September. Located in the rural countryside one hour from Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson International airport, the show has always been a "photographer's show"--it's an experience where photographers, collectors, teachers, and professionals mix and mingle in events, parties, receptions, workshops, and serendipitous meet-ups during Opening Weekend.        To access our electronic submission process, please visit www.slowexposures.org.    Sincerely, The SlowExposures Show Committee

SlowExposures Photography Exhibition                                                                         Show Dates: September 20 - 29, 2013 Main Exhibition: Concord, Georgia   Photographers may submit up to six images.  Successful work will capture those qualities that unmistakably call to mind the contemporary rural South's unique history, culture and relationship to the land. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by early August along with instructions for shipment and retrieval of artwork.  Every photographer who enters will be invited to attend our Opening Night Soiree on Friday, September 20, 2013. Entry deadline is midnight, June 16, 2013.  Please go to www.slowexposures.org for details on entering the 2013 show.

Rob McDonald

Rob McDonald is one of the jurors for SlowExposures this year. He will also be exhibiting his work at A Novel Experience in Zebulon during September. 

Home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Cross Creek, Florida

For twenty years, Rob McDonald has taught literature and writing at Virginia Military Institute, where he is currently Associate Dean of the Faculty and a professor of English and Fine Arts. In 1999, he began experimenting with photography as a creative extension of his academic interests in the literature and culture of the South, and since then his work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and in four books: BIRDHOUSES (Horse & Buggy, 2007), BIRTH PLACE (Nazraeli, 2008), POPLAR FOREST (Horse & Buggy, 2010), and—with Even Rogers and Sally Mann—CY’S ROLLEI (Nazraeli, 2011).
     Rob’s new series NATIVE GROUND explores the role of place in shaping literary imagination. Examining the notion that writers compose out of a peculiar understanding and depth of connection to physical space, the series focuses on the homes and personal landscapes of more than twenty writers from the American South. 
     The recipient of a 2013 fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Rob’s work is in the collection of numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. He is a native of rural Marion County, South Carolina, which he still considers home.

Portfolio Review -- Brie Castell

SlowExposures is once again offering portfolio reviews on Saturday, September 21.  Portfolio review during SlowExposures is a relaxed and casual, yet a very informative and unique experience. One of the reviewers is Brie Castell; owner and chief curator of Castell Photography Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina.

 

Ms. Castell works with both established and emerging artists from around the globe for exhibition and representation, and brings to Asheville leading authorities in the field of photography for educational programming. Ms. Castell has also been a working photo-based artist for over 13 years, has exhibited extensively around the country, and is in numerous public and private collections. She was a featured artist in the Fall 2009 issue of Eyemazing Magazine, an award winning Amsterdam-based photography publication. Ms. Castell received her MFA from East Carolina University, and currently is also Adjunct Professor of Photography at Virginia Intermont College.

 

Ms. Castell is interested in viewing cohesive bodies of works from both emerging and established artists which would be suitable for gallery setting, and potentially at Castell Photography Gallery. Primarily, Ms. Castell is interested in fine art conceptual photography (non=commercial and non-documentary) -- works, which are predominantly narrative, challenging, dynamic, and fresh. In addition to being a curator, Ms. Castell is also an artist and educator, and would be interested in reviewing bodies of work in progress, and discussing further development and realization of these images.