Portfolio Review at SlowExposures 2011

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.

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 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



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

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

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

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