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.

Website Revamp -- 1/17/2011

I've completed reworking my website -- http://www.jnwallphoto.com/index.html -- to include recent portfolios and to update show information and other time-sensitive data.

Have a look and let me know what you think. JNW

Keith Carter Opens Biennial at ECU -- Faces in the Crowd

The 7th Biennial Photographic Image Exhibition opened last night at the Wellington B. Gray Gallery at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, with a talk by the juror, Keith Carter, followed by a reception in the Gray Gallery.

Carter spoke to a packed house at ECU's Speight Auditorium in the Jenkins Fine Art Center. He gave a gracious, informative, enlightening and challenging talk that included a review of his own work, from pieces familiar to us from his many books and exhibits to newer work, some of which from series still in process had not been shown widely before.  

Later, Keith stayed late in the gallery, meeting exhibitors, autographing his books, and talking photography with one and all. Here he is, talking with Raleigh photographer Allison Overton, who also has work in the show.

 

Here's yours truly, with the piece of my work that Carter chose for the show:

And here's evidence that at least some folks stopped to have a look at it.

The show itself is large -- over 80 pieces -- and very eclectic, with work representing a wide range of styles, subject matter, approaches, and techniques, from small prints to large, and from kallitypes and platnum prints to digital prints and multi-media constructions. It's a kind of snapshot of lots of things that are going on in photography today, and well worth a visit.

Congratulations to Carter for choosing the strong body of work, and to Tom Braswell and his colleagues at the Gray Gallery and ECU for for their fine work in organizing the competition and mounting the show. I'm honored to be in it.

The show is up through February 19th, so there's plenty of time to see for yourself.