Marine: 'We're Starting To Fall To The Wayside'

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137480613/marine-were-starting-to-fall-to-the-wayside

The City of Levallois - Epson Photography Award is now calling for entries for its 2011 edition

Palestinians return to the site where Al Damun once stood. The village was destroyed in 1948. The "event" is organised by the Israeli association Zochrot. © Virginie Terrasse/Hans Lucas 2007-2009.

Read more: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2040949/eur10-grabs-photographic-award#ixzz1IkTFcW3y
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The annual prize rewards the work of a photographer, regardless of nationality, aged 35 or under. "Photographers must present their own new work, which has not been previously published or exhibited," say the organisers. "The selection panel will pay particular attention to the consistency of the artistic approach in its form and content."

The winner receives a €10,000 cash prize, as well as a monographic exhibition at the Photo Levallois festival in France.
Last year, the award went to Virginie Terrase for her work Palestine how?, which addresses the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explores the territorial issue at its heart.
To enter the competition, photographers must send a selection of at least 15 photographs with a supporting letter of 1000 words and a resume. For more information on how to enter, visit www.photo-levallois.org.

Jennifer Karady, At Denver University Myhren Gallery

Jennifer Karady: Soldier’s Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
March 31 – May 1, 2011
Reception: Thursday, March 31, 5 – 8 pm
NEW TIME! Artist talk by Jennifer Karady in the gallery at 5 pm, at the beginning of the reception. Free

Inactive Duty Sergeant First Class Mike Sprouse, Virginia Army National Guard, veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, with wife Tammy and children, Peyton and Colin, Madison Heights, VA, August 2006
48”x 48” Chromogenic Color Print

Artist Jennifer Karady works with American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to create images that tell their individual stories and address their difficulties in adjusting to civilian life.
In Country consists of twelve large-scale 48 x 48 inch color photographs accompanied by a short synopsis of the veteran’s story written in his or her own words. Each work is initiated by an extensive interview process with the soldier, followed by a collaboration in which the veteran reenacts a chosen moment from war within the safe space of his or her everyday environment, often surrounded by family and friends.
Unlike some photographers who use actors to stage narratives, Karady works with real veterans to dramatize their stories through metaphorical, narrative, and allegorical techniques. Through this process the artist makes visible the psychological impact of war—the nightmares and memories that soldiers continue to experience after returning home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/arts/design/06veterans.html?ref=arts
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/07/02/128267052/jennifer-karady?print=1
http://jenniferkarady.com

REJECTED, at Wazee Union!

It’s official – there’s two Wazee Union locations open for this Second Saturday!
Wazee Union
3501 Wazee Street
Denver, CO 80216
Walnut Workshop
3525 Walnut Street
Denver CO 80205
Both locations will be filled with art, artists, music and good times! Check out the art of our new community members at the Walnut Workshop and the Month of Photography show, REJECTED, at Wazee Union!
Tons of free parking at both locations. No cover if you’re a student or if you’ve gotten your hands on one of the many free tix. If not, it’s $5 to get in and all proceeds go directly towards putting on bigger and better shows in the future!
The after party will be at Jake’s Food & Spirits with live music, awesome people and NO cover!
RSVP for the event on Facebook by clicking here.

“Double Diptych” Vertigo Art Space

Thursday, March 3, 6-9 pm: “Double Diptych” opens at Vertigo Art Space on Santa Fe Drive. The show, curated by yours truly, features eight of Denver’s very best artists, here working with photography in a diptych form. The show continues through April 15. Visit our blog or www.vertigoartspace.com for info.

SIGHT UNSEEN: International Photography by Blind Artists

SIGHT UNSEEN: International Photography by Blind Artists
March 3 – April 9, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, March 3
Members and special guests 6-8pm
Public reception: 7-9pm

Live music by Eric Woods (guitar, mandolin, banjo) with Jeff Hooton (bass) from 6:30-8pm
Blind Photography Workshop
with Cinthea Fiss, MSCD Visiting Assistant Professor
Wednesday, March 23, 6pm
$20 ($15 MSCD students and CVA members)
Space is limited. Registration required.
DARK LIGHT: The Art of Blind Photographers
HBO Documentary
To be screened every First and Third Fridays during the exhibition at 4 and 6pm.
Sight Unseen, the first major exhibition of work by the world?s most accomplished blind photographers. The exhibition explores the idea that blind photographers can see in ways that sighted people cannot.

Many of us, with sight leading as our dominant sense, use images to build our world. Visual information is practical to our survival and yet it has become pervasive in our world. We respond to visual overload by shuttering and narrowing our perception, a form of self inflicted blindness, so as to rebalance our senses. But for the sight-impaired artists in this exhibition, making a photograph has provided new ways of
seeing.

These artists employ diverse strategies in their work. Some use the camera to
present their own inner visions. Some capture the outside world unfiltered with
a non-retinal photography of chance. And a number of the artists, legally blind
but retaining a limited, highly attenuated sight, photograph to capture the
outside world and bring it into their realm.

In his novel Blindness, José Saramago writes, "Perhaps only in a world of the
blind will things be what they truly are." Beethoven composed music without
the ability to hear, blind Milton and Homer conjured the landscapes of the
heavens and the underworld, and the artists of Sight Unseen further explore
our definitions of blindness and challenge us to reevaluate what it means to
see.

Artists:
Ralph Baker, New York, NY; Evgen Bavcar, Paris, France; Henry
Butler, New Orleans, LA; Pete Eckert, Sacramento, CA; Bruce Hall, Irvine, CA;
Annie Hesse, Paris, France; Rosita McKenzie, Edinburgh, Scotland; Gerardo
Nigenda, Oaxaca, México; Michael Richard, Los Angeles, CA; Seeing With
Photography Collective, New York, NY; Kurt Weston, Huntington Beach, CA;
Alice Wingwall, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Douglas McCulloh.

The CVA will be open until 8pm every First and Third Friday during the exhibition.
Exhibition Sponsor: Interstate Kitchen and Bar

Metro Now 2011

Metro Now Student exhibition 2011, curated by Bobby Walker and Laura Merage. 

The opening reception is at Emmanuel Gallery Feb 24th from 4-7pm with the award ceremony at 5pm

Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria Campus Denver, CO 80217-3364

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