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The Photographers' Exchange News
March 16th 2024 Update
Online Exhibition: Words & Pictures
This call for entry asks for work that incorporates both words and pictures. Wikipedia states that "Photo/text is a hybrid form of artistic expression that combines photography and textual elements to convey a message or create a narrative. This combination allows for a multi-dimensional experience for the viewer. Images can showcase words in pictures, on pictures, or accompanying pictures." Today, the idea of the photographer as a storyteller is ever present, and this exhibition will showcase work that celebrates the marriage of these two expressions. |
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JUROR | ALINE SMITHSON
Smithson is the founder and editor-in-chief of Lenscratch, a daily photography journal. She has been an educator at the Los Angeles Center of Photography since 2001, and her teaching spans the globe. In 2012, Smithson received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community, and she also received the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. In 2014 and 2019, Smithson’s work was selected for the Critical Mass Top 50. Her work is held in significant public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Santa Barbara Art Museum. |
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IMPORTANT DATES
Entries Due | April 21, 2024
Notice Of Acceptance | May 7, 2024
Online Exhibition Dates | May 7 – January 31, 2025
Virtual Reception and Artist Talks | TBD |
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ARTIST HONORS AND AWARDS:
All selected artists’ work is included in the online exhibition. The Center also provides event press releases and social media promotions with an audience of 180,000+ followers internationally.
JUROR AWARD $300
DIRECTOR’S AWARD $200
HONORABLE MENTIONS
VIRTUAL REVIEWS – Eight selected exhibitors will have virtual 20 min. reviews with the juror or executive director and curator. |
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Aline Smithson Lecture: Image and Text
The lecture examines the relationships between photographs and words and will give photographers a broad overview of using image and text in, on, and accompanying photographs. The photographer as storyteller is an important genre in photography as words create another layer of description, sometimes as a respite from images and sometimes as a way of elevating and complicating photographs.
Date and time: March 27th, 5 pm
Members: $25 (promo code here) / Non-Members: $35 |
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Paul Anderson and Diane Reeves have selected works on exibit at the Friends of Redondo Beach Arts Gallery.
PAIR, corresponding art of matched artists will be viewable from 1:00 - 7:00pm on April 6th, 7th, 12th, 13th and 14th 2024.
Opening Reception: Friday April 5th from 6:00 - 9:00pm
Address: 309 Esplanade, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Our very own Diane Reeves will have selected works on exibit at the Visions Museum of Textile Art - San Diego.
Her recent collection will be viewable from March 4th 2024 through April 27th 2024 in the Spotlight Gallery.
Museum Hours: Wednesday & Thursday 10am - 2pm / Friday & Saturday 10am - 4pm
Address: 2825 Dewey Road Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92106 Phone: (619) 546-4872
November 28th 2022 Update
Our very own John Montich will have selected images on exibit at Utopia - Long Beach.
His work will be viewable from November 26th 2022 through January 31st 2023.
Opening Reception: Saturday December 10th at 3:00-5:00pm
Utopia: Good Food & Fine Art
445 East 1st Street, Long Beach, CA
(562) 432-6888
September 25th 2022 Update
It is with sad regret to inform the Photo Exchange group of the passing of Stan Kuran's wife, Cindi.
Condolences can be sent to: 40825 Oregon TRL, Cherry Valley, CA 92223
Donations in her name please submit to Alzheimer's and Heart Research charities.
Los Angeles Time Obituary:
July 24th 2022 Update
CA 101 2022
Friends of Redondo Beach Arts (FRBA) present the 9th annual international juried art exhibition, CA 101 2022 taking place over three weekends at the Redondo Beach Historic Library.
This event opens on Friday September 2, 2022, 5-8pm.
The Exhibition Gallery will be open September 3-5, September 9-11, September 16-18.
Gallery Hours Noon -7pm. The exhibition is free to the public.
The empty iconic building on the Pacific Ocean overlooking the Redondo Beach Pier and Veterans Park will host 73 artists in all media and will include 13 site specific installations.
309 Esplanade, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Friends of Redondo Beach Arts
Nina Zak Laddon – Curator
(310) 720 4943
pchca101@hotmail.com
July 9th 2022 Update
Members should check out the following article on our very own Frank Cancian by Brian F. O'Neill.
To cite this article: Brian F. O’Neill (2022): Documentary photography as vocation:
reflecting on Frank Cancian’s contribution to visual studies, Visual Studies, DOI:
10.1080/1472586X.2021.2008815
Landscape: The Green Environment, Douglas Stockdale, Juror
For the call for The Green Environment, we are looking for work that explores a verdant landscape, be that in nature or in the midst of the city, visually expressing the concept of Green ecology or polices or addressing environment stewardship, such as visualizing the issues related to climate change and environmental concerns to keep the environment green.
Our juror for The Green Environment is Douglas Stockdale, a visual artist, book-nerd, science-geek and leads our popular photobook development workshops. In 2008, Stockdale founded and is currently the Senior Editor of PhotoBook Journal, a virtual magazine that provides reviews of contemporary photographic books.
35-40 Selected images will hang in the SE Center’s main gallery space for approximately one month with the opportunity to be invited for a solo show at a later date. In addition, selected images are featured in the SE Center social media accounts (FB, IG, Twitter) and an archived, online slide show. A video walkthrough of each exhibition is also featured and archived.
The submissions close 7/31/22 and then the Selections will be announced 8/17/22.
Link for the SEC4P Green Prospectus:
Cheers,
Doug
February 8th 2022 Update
Hello everyone, Thursday March 17th 2022 we will be returning to in person meetings. Same place, same time, Irvine Fine Arts Center at 6:30pm for those who cannot remember. Please remember masks are required at all times, no exceptions. If you are uncomfortable with this then please stay home. Those who are able to make it out, please remember that when you ask a question or respond to questions that you will need to speak up and talk to the audience because it may be harder than usual to here due to the masks muffling ones voice. This meeting will be a test once again to see how well returning to in person meetings work and for how many people actually attend. Hope to see you there.
Scott & Bill
November 22nd 2021 Update
Jim Ashcraft's funeral will be held on Friday November 26th at 11:00am. The funeral will be a webcasted via streamspot.com (link below). If you wish to attend, email Jake for the password for access. Again we wish wish to extend our deepest condolences to Jim's family.
A celebration of life service is also being planned for January. Jake will share those details when available.
November 15th 2021 Update
Hello everyone, this Thursday November 18th 2021 we will be having our first in person meeting in a nearly two years. Same place, same time, Irvine Fine Arts Center at 6:30pm for those who cannot remember. Please remember masks are required at all times, no exceptions. If you are uncomfortable with this then please stay home. Those who are able to make it out, please remember that when you ask a question or respond to questions that you will need to speak up and talk to the audience because it may be harder than usual to here due to the masks muffling ones voice. This meeting will be a test to see how well returning to in person meetings work and for how many people actually attend.
Hope to see you there, Scott
November 11th 2021 Update
Sadly I have to announce the passing of Jim Ashcraft today. Jake Junn, his good friend emailed me the news just a little while ago and he included the following information. We are deeply saddened by this news and wish to extend our condolences to Jim's family. He will be dearly missed.
The family is making funeral arrangements
which will be in a week or two. A celebration of life service is also
being planned for January. You can contact Jake for more info.
September 15th 2021 Update
Upcoming Meetings Details
Hello Exchange members, this coming Thursday (September 16th) is the next zoom meeting at 6:30pm. Please email Scott if you wish to show images. We have come to the conclusion with feedback from folks that due to the recent up turn in delta variant Covid-19 infection rates, it would be best to continue meeting via Zoom until circumstances improve. We will update when we feel it is safe to resume meetings in person a IFAC. Appreciate everyone's understanding and apologize for any inconveniences.
The recent Zoom meetings have proven to exhibit some really diverse as well as fantastic work. Please try to make it if you are able. The discussions are always engaging and enlightening.
~ Cheers, Scott & Bill
Call for Submissions, The Contemporary Landscape
The landscape, whether grand or personal, has been a subject of photography since the beginning and played an important role in establishing photography as a fine art medium. Early on, both in history and most photographers experience, the landscape was one of most accessible and familiar subjects available.
Our juror for the Contemporary Landscape is William Neill. William Neill, a resident of the Yosemite National Park area since 1977, is a landscape photographer concerned with conveying the deep, spiritual beauty he sees and feels in Nature. Neill's award-winning photography has been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters, and his limited-edition prints have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Vernon Collection, and The Polaroid Collection.
35-40 Selected images will hang in the SE Center’s main gallery space for approximately one month with the opportunity to be invited for a solo show at a later date. In addition, selected images are featured in the SE Center social media accounts (FB, IG, Twitter) and an archived, online slide show. A video walkthrough of each exhibition is also featured and archived.
Submissions Now Open
Submissions Close 8/29/21
Exhibition Opens 11/5/21
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March 18th 2021 Update
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IRVINE FINE ARTS CENTER
Call for Entries: ALL MEDIA 2021
Application Deadline
April 30, 10:30 p.m. PST
The Irvine Fine Arts Center is pleased to announce the annual juried All Media exhibition. The annual open call is an excellent opportunity for emerging, mid-career, and established artists to garner new patrons and expand their network of peers. This year's guest juror is Taylor Bythewood-Porter, assistant curator at the California African American Museum (CAAM).
All Media will be on display during its scheduled exhibition dates, July 12–September 18. Public in-person access to the galleries will be contingent on COVID-19 health and safety regulations set forth by state guidelines.
The exhibition will also be presented online.
Apply now at cityofirvine.org/allmedia2021.
ELIGIBILITY
The exhibition is open to all artists residing in Southern California. This opportunity is open to artists ages 18 and older. All entries must be original and not shown previously at the Irvine Fine Arts Center. Eligible media: painting, photography, printmaking, drawing, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, craft, installation, video, and digital art. Artwork must be made within the past two years.
IMPORTANT DATES
Application deadline: April 30, 10:30 p.m. PST
Notifications sent: Week of May 17
Exhibition dates: July 12–September 18
AWARDS
Awards will be selected by the juror from the accepted entries.
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First Place: $600
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Second Place: $400
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Third Place: $300
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Three Honorable Mentions: $150 each
ABOUT ALL MEDIA 2021 JUROR
Taylor Bythewood-Porter has served as assistant curator at the California African American Museum (CAAM) since 2017. Prior to her appointment at CAAM she served as president and a founding member of SIA Curates, a curatorial organization run through Sotheby’s Institute of Art at Claremont Graduate University that connects aspiring curators with Claremont's Master of Fine Arts students to develop yearly exhibitions. She holds a Master of Arts in art business with a concentration in contemporary art from Sotheby's Institute of Art at Claremont Graduate University. |
February 21st 2021 Update
It is with deep sadness that we have learned Bill Collins passed this last week.
Dear Photo Exchange folks, and especially those of you who carpooled with Bill down to our meetings, Bill fell recently and suffered a number of complications as a result. Bill's son, Dave, was down from the Bay Area, and Bill was in good hands at St. Mary’s hospital in Long Beach.
While there were many conversations about his prognosis and treatment, ultimately we were informed that he had passed. In the end he was allowed to be with his wife Carol and family. We will miss him dearly. His insightful reviews of all of our work as well as his unique perspective on all visual again will be missed.
For family contact information please contact either Scott Mathews or Ellen Butler.
February 15th 2021 Update
Further Memories of our good friend Frank
Frank Cancian, anthropology professor emeritus and documentary photographer, passed away Nov. 24, 2020. He was 86.
Cancian received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Wesleyan University in 1957, but his passion was in photography. He spent a year in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship taking photos and documenting life in the rural Italian community of Lacedonia. When he returned to the U.S., his skills behind the camera earned him his own art show and a position as a reporter and photographer with the Providence Journal in Rhode Island. He then went on to graduate school at Harvard, putting his photography aside and shifting his focus to research.
He spent 30 years of his academic career studying the Mayan people of Chiapas, Mexico. He enjoyed professorial posts as an anthropologist at Stanford (1964-66), Cornell (1966-69) and another stint at Stanford (1969-76) before joining the faculty at UCI in 1976. For 23 years, he taught undergraduates and graduates on the Irvine campus and conducted his anthropological research, totaling more than three years of fieldwork in Mexico and resulting in three books: The Decline of Community in Zinacantan: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960-1987; Economics & Prestige in a Maya Community: The Religious Cargo System in Zinacantan; and The Innovator's Situation: Upper-Middle-Class Conservatism in Agricultural Communities.
"Frank was a good friend from the moment I met him in 1964 at Stanford when I was a grad student and he an assistant professor," says Mike Burton, UCI anthropology professor emeritus. "He was a wonderful person and, in my view, one of the most important anthropologists of his generation. He played a key role in the development of our anthropology program and was an important leader in the School of Social Sciences, and on the UCI Campus."
He chaired the Department of Anthropology from 1991-94 and served in a variety of administrative roles where his calm, even demeanor helped elevate the department, school and campus, says Leo Chavez, UCI anthropology professor and department chair.
"It was Frank's grace, even temper, and collegiality that many of us remember, says Chavez who first met Cancian at Stanford 46 years ago. "He was great to talk to and share ideas with, and to look to for counsel. He was generous with his time to faculty and students alike. He was a mentor and friend, and I am truly saddened by his loss."
Cancian retired from official faculty duties in 1999, and with more time to pursue other passions, photography was once again at the top of his list. He published Orange County Housecleaners, a photo ethnography featuring the pictures and stories of seven women who make their livings cleaning houses close to the southern California campus.
He started a blog called Main Street UCI to capture and archive diverse, firsthand accounts of life at UCI from those living it - students, faculty, staff, and visitors. He filled galleries with pictures he'd taken during his lifetime of teaching and travels, featuring exhibits like While Waiting, a collection of photos he snapped when he found himself or others waiting for someone to arrive or something to happen - standing outside a restaurant opening, sitting before a church service, or stuck in a waiting room for a healthcare appointment that didn't start on time. He also mentored undergraduate students interested in ethnographic anthropological research - efforts which earned him an Outstanding Emeritus Award from the UCI Emeriti Association in 2012.
"In his photography as well as his ethnographic research, Frank found meaning where many would see the mundane, and elevated it to speak to who and how people really are, captured in those moments when they are just going through their day," says Bill Maurer, social sciences dean and anthropology and law professor. "Along the way, Frank helped us all to know better who we are, as scholars, as people, as a campus. Although he wrote that he had no particular vision behind his photography, from his evocative photographs of people waiting - for the bus, for the bank to open, for a friend - to his visual chronicle of the normal vibrancy of Ring Mall that has with regularity boomed with the collective voice of protest, Frank helped us to see ourselves and our society. Just like he was doing all the time, in the classroom, in the halls, at the lunch table with his colleagues and friends."
With his attention back on photography, the pictures of the small Italian commune he'd snapped a half century earlier were brought back to life via his website where they were discovered by a man who had grown up in Lacedonia. Ongoing conversations between the two led to a photo exhibit in Lacedonia in August of 2012, which Cancian attended. A year later, the photos were bound into a book, Lacedonia: Un Paese Italiano, 1957 (An Italian Town, 1957). And in August 2017, Cancian traveled back to the small town for the grand opening of a museum where his work remains on full display. He also personally published a second edition of the book that includes an addendum on the origins of the museum.
Before he passed, his final book - a collaborative project with the Museum of Civilizations and its manager, Francesco Aquilanti – was published. The work, Un paese del Mezzogiorno italiano, discusses his life and photography in Italy and was accompanied by an art exhibition at the museum in Rome which Cancian attended virtually.
Upon leaving for what would be his last trip to Italy in 2017, Cancian said that his Italian photos represented his most valued collection. "These photos mean so much to me because I know the people now and the photos are valuable to them," he said. When asked if he had any wise words for the next generation of anthropologists, Cancian's parting advice was: "Treat people respectfully. And you're not going to learn anything by talking about yourself."
Cancian is survived by his wife, Francesca; children Maria Cancian (Charles Kalish) and Steve Cancian (Hanne Rasussen); and grandchildren Emma and Rosa Kalish. He is remembered fondly by his extended family of friends and colleagues throughout higher education and the small Italian town which now cherishes his legacy as its own. |
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Solo Exhibition at The Photographer's Eye gallery & LACP book workshop |
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I am very honored to have my on-going series Memory Pods in a solo exhibition at The Photographer's Eye gallery opening this month.
Memory Pods is an investigation of aging, mortality, memory and loss. My anthropomorphic subject is the Aloe Vera plant. The progression of going to seed, where biological memory resides, is representative of youthful vibrancy, middle age muddling, and when the memories are gone. In the final stages I observe the ensnarled masses that mimics the tangles in the brain of those afflicted with Alzheimer’s Disease.
We take our ability to retain a memory for granted. With Alzheimer’s Disease, those memories will be prematurely lost creating hollow shells of once vibrant individuals, such as what occurred with members of my family. During this illness there are phases of intense sadness, anger, bewilderment, confusion and deepening depression. Individual’s family experience similar mental stress, experiencing bouts of self-doubt as to the potential consequences of this inheritable disease.
The elegant botanical portraits can be a pleasure to contemplate while considering how the evident beauty may only hint at the chaos that is concealed within.
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Fatigue
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Exhibition; February 20th - March 20th, 2021
Artist reception February 20th, 3 - 7pm (PST), sign-up required for the exhibition reception in order to accommodate social distancing during this pandemic, here
Artist virtual talk (Zoom): February 25th, 5:30 - 7pm (PST), sign-up here.
Gallery address is 326 E. Grand Ave, Escondido, California 92025.
Artwork: 24 x 30", archival pigment on Rag Metallic, Edition of 5 + 2AP
This is exhibit is being featured concurrently with Louise Russell’s botanical photographic studies.
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December 20th 2020 Update
Remembering Frank Cancian
Last month we lost a dear member of our group, Frank Cancian. We are all deeply saddened by his passing. Many of us have shared fond stories of Frank via email recently as well as some of his wonderful images. A memorial page has been established for Frank on the blog located in the link below:
If anybody has images they would like to share of Frank or Frank's work that you may have acquired at a Photo Exchange please send them to Scott, jamboman@sbcglobal.net and Gerry, gerhardclausing@hotmail.com so that we can put them up on Facebook and on the blog that would be wonderful. Thank you.
October 14th 2020 Update
***Meetings not held due to IFAC closure with Covid-19 regulations and precautions. In the meantime starting with the October 14th 2020 meeting we will have online Zoom Meetings. Thank you to Jan Brueckner for hosting our first online versions of the Photo Exchange (Irvine). Invitation meeting ID and passcode will be sent to registered member email prior to each meeting. If you are not receiving these emails, please contact Scott Mathews at jamboman@sbcglobal.net *** Please check us out on Facebook to connect with the group and the latest image sharing.
May 9th 2020 Update
Meetings for the upcoming months through the spring 2021 are cancelled by IFAC. This is a preventative measure to support social distancing during the novel Covad-19 virus outbreak. We will update regarding the status of returning to in person meetings at IFAC at a later time. This next meeting will likely be the print exchange, so you have some extra time to get your best image ready. Apologies for any inconveniences but we agree this precaution is best for all our members.
In the meantime check us out on Facebook to connect with the group and share themed based images as well as discussions. ~Cheers!
~Bill & Scott
December 26th 2019 Update (Happy New Years)
Photo LA 2020
Photo LA is back for its 28th edition. It is returning to its venue from 2019 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica.
Barker Hangar 3021 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405
info@photola.com
Parking $20
November 26th 2019 Update
Flux Art Space Group Show - Ellen Butler & John Montich
Both Ellen Butler and John Montich Flux group show in Long Beach. This is a diverse show of over sixty artists. Hope you all can head out and see their work. Exhibit will be up from December 7th - 21st. Please support our Photo Exchange artists.
Opening Reception is on Sunday December 8th 2019 from 2-6pm.
Gallery Address:
410 Termino Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90814
September 23rd 2019 Update
October 17th Special PX Meeting Tribute to Sandy Demlinger and Manny Martinez
Bring your images from Sandy and Manny as well as your memorable stories to share with everyone. We are working on a Wikipedia page for Sandy with the approval of his family, so bring in those exchanged images to documented. All are encouraged to join in this celebration of their lives and achievements. An abreviated regular meeting will follow. We will be bringing in pizza along with beverages for this special meeting. Hope to see all of you there.
~Bill & Scott
July 31st 2019 Update
Sandor "Sandy" Demlinger
It is with deep regret to inform all Photo Exchange members of the passing of Sandor "Sandy" Demlinger on July 26th. He was 91 years old. On behalf of The Photographer's Exchange we are all deeply saddened at the news. As our resident FSA photographer, we will all miss his wit, fantastic stories and encouragement to move things along...
A memorial page has been established on the PX blog for both Sandy and Manny at the link below:
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