This is war - Robert Capa Video

A new exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London provides a chance to see the work of photographer Robert Capa, once described as the greatest war photographer in the world.

Three boxes of his work containing over 3,500 negatives previously thought to have been lost were recently unearthed, and here Cynthia Young, the curator of these pictures at the International Center of Photography in New York, speaks about these and some of his more famous pictures.
Click on the link to view the video.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7675484.stm

Anne Conway Jennings Thesis Exhibition

Anne Conway Jennings' thesis exhibition, "Now That You Left," opens this Friday, 10/24, at Alexander Hall gallery. The reception will be held from 6 - 8 pm.

DEADLINE for Entry Grants Extended!

CMYK magazine announces its call for aspiring creatives with several categories including photography. The contest is open to students and recent graduates. THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED to the 28th. You can submit up to 15 pieces for $45. If you would like to be considered for an entry-fee grant (the Photography Dept. will pay your entry fee) please submit 15 images on CD.

Image Sizing (jpg only)
Image Size: (W) 1200 Pixels (L) 1200 Pixels
Resolution: 300DPI

File Naming Example
01_Title.jpg
02_Title.jpg

Include a Word or .pdf Document with the Following:
Name
Address (Street, City, State, Zip)
Website url (if applicable)
Phone
email
Brief (25 word) Bio (Major, Year, School, Goals)

Savannah Students:
CDs can be left with Larry Murphy in room 201/Bergen between the hours of 8 am - 4pm.

Atlanta Students:
CDs can be left with Professor Steve Aishman.

THE DEADLINE FOR GRANT CONSIDERATION IS MONDAY 10/28 BY 4PM.
For more information, click HERE.

Bea Nettles Artist's Talk This Thursday!

Acclaimed photographer, mixed media artist, and book-maker, Bea Nettles will present a lecture, "Memory Theaters," this Thursday, October 23rd at 7:30 pm on the 2nd floor of the Student Center, 120 Montgomery St. She will be selling and signing books afterward. A SCAD ID is required. For more information about Bea, go to http://www.beanettles.com/

On printed promotional material

Here is a link to Conscientious - Jörg Colberg's weblog about fine-art photography (and more) This particular entry speaks about printed promotional material. This is interesting and helpful.

http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2008/10/on_promotional_materials_1.html

CMYK Student Contest/Photography Dept. Entry Fee Grants

CMYK magazine announces its call for aspiring creatives with several categories including photography. The contest is open to students and recent graduates. THE DEADLINE IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 20TH. You can submit up to 15 pieces for $45. If you would like to be considered for an entry-fee grant (the Photography Dept. will pay your entry fee) please submit 15 images on CD.

Image Sizing (jpg only)
Image Size: (W) 1200 Pixels (L) 1200 Pixels
Resolution: 300DPI

File Naming Example
01_Title.jpg
02_Title.jpg

Include a Word or .pdf Document with the Following:
Name
Address (Street, City, State, Zip)
Website url (if applicable)
Phone
email
Brief (25 word) Bio (Major, Year, School, Goals)

Savannah Students:
CDs can be left with Larry Murphy in room 201/Bergen between the hours of 8 am - 4pm.

Atlanta Students:
CDs can be left with Professor Steve Aishman.

THE DEADLINE FOR GRANT CONSIDERATION IS THURSDAY 10/16 BY 4PM.
For more information, click HERE.

New Savannah Exhibition Space

The following announcement from Bill Dawers:

Scot Hinson and I are going to begin managing a gallery space -- blankspace. It will be available for rent by the week, presumably to SCAD students for the most part but we hope others will also be interested. When the space is not being rented, we hope to launch a variety of group and solo shows. Inquiries welcome.

As many of you may know, Scot owned Mode on Broughton Street for many years and is still actively involved in design work, so we will introduce the space with a show of art, furniture and design on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. It's at 112 East 4oth St. in a building that Scot co-owns with a couple of other people. We obviously hope to get a wide variety of guests at that event, but are especially interested in making contact with those who may wish to use blankspace themselves or who would be in a position to spread the word about its availability to other artists, students in need of thesis shows, and the like.

For more about the space, check out www.blankspacesavannah.blogspot.com

If you'd like to receive an invitation via mail as well, send me your address and I'll put one in the mail.

PhotoGroup Meeting

This Tuesday, Oct. 14th is the next PhotoGroup meeting. We will be discussing upcoming events and activities happening this quarter. Please bring any ideas and all ideas you have for what you want to see happen this quarter, as well as this year! Hope to see you there!

Where/When: Bergen Hall, room 105 @ 7:30 pm

Guerrilla artist's fake Pet shot

Guerrilla artist Banksy has opened his first official exhibition in New York. The fake pet shop aims to question "our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming".
Click on link for the story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/in_pictures/7662797.stm

Anne Conway Jennings Theis Exhibition

Opening Friday October 24th Alexander Hall
On View:
October 17 -31 2008 Alexander Hall

M.F.A. photography candidate Anne Conway Jennings' photographic series explores her personal life, the past and places that surround her to express the intersection of truth and fiction as it appears in the imaginary realm of the photographic image. A reception is scheduled Oct. 24, 6-8 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to public.

SARAYAKU: RIVER OF CORN , Michelle Cornejo's Visual Documentation, October 24th

Documentary Photographer, Michelle Cornejo, will exhibit her newest work- a visual documentation of the people and lands of Sarayaku, a small town in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

The Kichwa town of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been struggling with illegal and unconstitutional acts of oil companies for years. However, this show illustrates neither their struggles with the military presence in their “block” nor the violence they experience from the oil companies and even their own neighboring communities who have been paid off by these oil giants. This show, rather, is about the people of Sarayaku, their lives and their beautiful lands. All proceeds from the sale of the images will go to the people of Sarayaku and their cause.

To prove to these oil companies that petroleum is no longer our #1 demand, the artist requests that gallery patrons ride their bikes, skateboards, scooters, rollerblades, etc to the event if possible.

SARAYAKU: RIVER OF CORN will run October 24-29 at Desotorow Gallery. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 24^th at 7pm.

About the Artist: Michelle Cornejo strives to explore and expose social issues in the world. She uses her images to change attitudes, behavior and policy. She is hopeful that her images will serve as a stepping-stone in the slow process of achieving change.

Desotorow Gallery is located in Savannah’s Starland Arts District at 2427 De Soto Avenue. For more information, please email info@desotorow.org, or visit the gallery’s website www.desotorow.org. Hours of operation are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 2pm-5pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.

Desotorow is an art gallery that provides affordable exhibition space for emerging artists and fosters awareness and appreciation of the arts through educational outreach programming open to artists and the community.

NOT TO BE MISSED!

"Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment" Lecture by Carrie Mae Weems

Oct. 9
Thursday, 7-8 p.m., Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St., Savannah, Ga.

Photographer Carrie Mae Weems will lecture in conjunction with her exhibition "Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment," Oct.1-Nov. 21. For more information, visit SCAD Exhibitions or e-mail exhibitions@scad.edu. Lecture is free and open to the public.

Internship with NYC Photographer

Alumnus Dan Saelinger is a successful, commercial photographer based in NYC. He is looking for an intern for Winter and/or Spring quarter. Remember that interships can be taken for credit on both the UG and GR level.

Seeking a winter and/or spring intern for 2009, start and end dates are completely flexible. Responsibilities will include assisting on shoots, production, retouching, billing, preparing promotions, and general studio work. In general it's an opportunity to be involved in all aspects with a busy NYC photo studio. Ideally candidates will have a basic understanding of digital photography and studio lighting. Photoshop skills are a plus. However an eagerness to learn and a positive attitude is what I'm looking for. You can view my work at www.dansaelinger.com.

Clients include:

Atlanta Magazine
Black Book
Field & Stream
Fortune
Fortune Small Business
Harper Collins
IEEE Spectrum
Inc
Inked
Lucky
Maxim
Men’s Journal
Money
More
NIKE
Portfolio
Popular Mechanics
Prevention
Ready Made
WIRED
Women’s Health

Please contact Dan at dan@dansaelinger.com

Rado Watch Design Call for Entries

Rado and SCAD announce a collaborative exhibition of works inspired by the Ceramica line of watches, to be showcased at the first annual Women in Design event hosted by Elle Décor Nov. 17 at the Pratt House. All female SCAD alumni and student artists from any department are welcome to submit work.

A panel of five leading designers as well as representatives from Rado and Elle Décor will judge the submissions; the winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to New York from Elle Décor and a Rado watch. The winner’s work will be featured in Elle Décor magazine (and perhaps online) as well as the Rado newsletter, which reaches 10,000 retailers worldwide. The work will also be viewed by 200 members of New York’s elite design community.

Submissions may be 2D or 3D representations of works in any medium and may include renderings. Designs may be, but do not have to be, related to time but must reflect the look, form, craft or technology of the Ceramica designs. Designs must be submitted in Photoshop or Illustrator files or as PDFs or JPEGs, although they may be created originally in any program. Artists may submit up to five designs. Send files to artprint@scad.edu. Submissions must be received by Oct. 16.

Files must be embedded with the following information within the File Info field: status at SCAD, full name, major/year of graduation, hometown, title of image, phone number and e-mail address. The following naming structure must be used: RADOSCAD08/Last name/first initial/brief title/year shot. Artists may showcase their designs in their portfolios or in appropriate exhibitions following the event, but may not use their designs commercially, as the inspiration begins with Rado product/intellectual property. For more information about Rado, visit the Web site.

Phase 1 Digi Back Demos

Due to the delicate nature and cost of the equipment, only qualified
students will be allowed to use this gear. Requirements are as follows: Currently enrolled
in any studio class or already completed a studio lighting class. The training session will
be held during most 2nd level studio classes but for those who are not currently enrolled in
that class and want to use this gear there will be one training session held this Friday.
(Listed below)

These digital set-ups are top of the line, expensive and an industry standard, with that
being said you do have to have proper training for the safety of the gear and the safety of
you bank account. Just like every other piece of gear in the building, you are responsible
for everything you checkout.

Phase One digital kit training session day
Friday: 10.10.08 : 2PM : room 308

* You must be currently enrolled or already completed a studio lighting class.

*If you want to use the kits this quarter you have to make it to this session if it is not offered in your class.

Shepard Fairey

The Work of Shepard Fairey
Heidi Schumann for The New York Times
Published: 20081001
Shepard Fairey, a star in the world of street art, has earned a new level of mainstream attention.


http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/01/arts/20081002_SHEP_SLIDESHOW_index.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Saatchi Online Student Art

The esteemed Saatchi gallery, London, supports the Saatchi Online Student Art program. All students are invited to upload their work. Work sold through the website is free from commission to either seller or buyer. This is a unique opportunity to showcase your work to an international audience and to connect with other student artists world wide. Students are frequently selected from the Online program to participate in leading art fairs such as Scope, Pulse, and Zoo Art.

Link to PhotoGroup Blog

PhotoGroup, SCAD's student-run photography organization has a new blog. The link will be added permanently to this blogs "Links". Check it out here: http://blog.scad.edu/photo

Adobe CS4 Rollout Event at Trustees

The Adobe CS4 Roll-out event SCAD is co-sponsoring with Adobe will be on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at Trustees Theater. This event coincides with the Adobe CS4 rollout and will provide students, faculty and staff a preview of CS4 presented by the top designers and programmers at Adobe. They will be highlighting new and enhanced features, and outlining ways these can be implemented within the daily use of the Adobe products and in the classroom environment.Th

This event begins at 8:30 a.m. and end at approx. 12:30. Refreshments will be served. Drawings and give-aways are planned. The event is free!

First Friday @ Starland Arts District

Photography Exhibition
American Byways
Rebecca Nolan
Starland Café 11 E. 41st Street 6-8pm.








DeSoto Row Gallery
2427 De Soto Ave
Ink, Oil, Film, Duct Tape, and Some Paper
Features work by 3 MFA Painting Candidates: Jim collins, Nathan Lewis, and Masumi Nyui. Open reception 7pm.

Imporant World Wide Event

Bloggers: Help Break James Nachtwey’s Story
Photographer James Nachtwey will be breaking a big story on October 3 — using his powerful photographs to share a vital story that the world needs to know about. You can be part of the breaking news by adding a badge to your site.
Let your readers know that — starting October 3 — these pictures will be shown on outdoor screens around the world and online. Seeing and sharing these pictures will truly make a difference in solving the crisis that James is photographing.

James Nachtwey was one of three recipients of The TED Prize in 2007.