See You at the ACP Portfolio Review!

The Southern Photographer has just accepted a gracious and very kind invitation from the folks at ACP to join the distinguished cast of reviewers at this year's Portfolio Review, in Atlanta, on October 11th, 2014, at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. 

I'm looking forward to seeing some fine photography, and also to meeting in person folks whom I've gotten to know through this blog. 

 I'm especially interested in seeing coherent and well-thought-out bodies of work that engage issues of the Southern experience (or the experience of being Southern) from a multitude of perspectives and viewpoints, whether aesthetically or technically considered. 

I am also perfectly agreeable to looking at work made elsewhere or with other agendas. 

Mainly, I'm looking forward to being part of ACP this year. 

Please come say hello!

I Have Work in the Pixel and Grain Show

My image "Fully Conditioned (Streets of London 2012)" has been accepted into the Pixel and Grain show at the Durham Art Center, opening October 3rd, and up through November 1st, 2014.

I Have Work on The Atlantic Monthly's Cities Blog

My photograph of basket maker Neal Thomas from my Farmers Market portfolio is featured today on the Atlantic Monthly's Atlantic Cities blog, here.

Cool! or, Brilliant! as they say in England.

I Have Work in the First Juried Show of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography

Motor City, here I come.

My image "30% Off" will be in the First Juried Show sponsored by the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, opening October 1, 2011 and up through October 15, 2011. 

The juror was Nancy Barr, Associate Curator, Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

I'm Now on the Faculty of the Raleigh Institute of Contemporary Art

I will be teaching classes in photography at the Raleigh Institute of Contemporary Art (RICA) this fall.

Go HERE to learn more about the RICA and go HERE to see my web page as a member of the faculty.

Yea!

I Just Made My First Color Fine Art Photograph

Lets call it for now "Love in the Rain (London, 2011)."

I mainly shoot B&W, even when the image starts off as a color image. I've struggled for years to figure out what a color fine art photograph in the street/documentary tradition would look like.

I think this is it. Made with a Panasonic LX-3. I love it.

My Work Wins First Prize in ArtScene Juried Show

Three of my pieces have been awarded First Prize in a juried show sponsored by ArtSceneToday.com, a website for emerging artists.

The image above, 30% Off, and More! (Bologna, 2010) is featured on the ArtScene website.

The entire show is here.

And includes Making a Man in Manhattan (NYC, 2010)

 
and The Embodiment of Desire

Part of winning is getting my own personal webpage, with a portfolio of all three pieces, including Making a Man in Manhattan (NYC, 2010) and The Embodiment of Desire (Bologna, 2010)

This was a multimedia competition. The juror was Adriano Buergo.

Needless to say, I'm thrilled at this news.