win a lighting set-up worth $5000

Back-to-School is an exciting time of year for students and educators alike.  To celebrate, Profoto EDU wants to give students the opportunity to win a lighting set-up worth $5000. This gives one lucky student a head start in owning gear that many professional photographers use. As a thank you for helping to spread the word about this, if your student wins, YOU WIN $5000 in Profoto equipment too.

visit http://profoto.com/us/studentcontest

Call for Entry Deadline Oct 16

Port City Review Call for Entry
Submissions are open year-round on a rolling basis, though the deadline for consideration in the 2016 issue is Oct. 16, 2015.

There are several categories below from which to choose; please choose the correct category for the type of work you want to submit.

Visual submissions should be CMYK, 300 DPI or higher, and saved as preferably TIFF files, although JPG/JPEG and PNG files are also accepted.

Written submission submissions should be saved as Doc or DocX files. There is no word limit on submissions, but submissions may be edited for length for publication in the printed journal.

For audio submissions, MP3 and WAV files are accepted, and there is no time limit. For video and animation submissions, MOV, MP4 and AVI files are accepted, and there is no time limit.

Certain works deemed pornographic, violent or otherwise unacceptable for publication, may not be considered by the jury.

GALLERY SHOW: All pieces selected for publication are eligible for display a winter gallery show. Students may sell their works at this exhibition. If accepted into the journal, please submit your framed piece before Friday, November 19, 2015. Our office is located in D at the Hive, behind the computer lab.

For further information or if you have any questions, email acrisp@scad.edu.

PDN's Top 30 Emerging Photographers Panel

Wednesday, October 14, 5pm SCAD MOA
PDN's Top Emerging Photographers Panel

Exciting addition to the panel PHILIP MONTGOMERY

© Philip Montgomery

SCAD Museum of Art

     Exhibition: 'History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence'

   
Jacob Lawrence, "New York in Transit I," 1998, silkscreen, edition of 50 with 5 AP, © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society, New York.

The SCAD Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, presents "History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence." This exhibition explores three major themes of Lawrence's larger oeuvre and specifically focuses on his graphic work. Lawrence's recording and recollection of African American and larger African diasporic histories are featured, as well as his vivid observations of the dynamic city life in his native Harlem, New York City.

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015-Monday, Jan. 25, 2016
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, Georgia

Daily admission to the museum is free for SCAD students, faculty and staff with a SCAD Card and museum members.

Discover Jacob Lawrence
A scholarly daylong symposium centered on the influence, scope and cultural impact of Lawrence's life's work will take place Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, from 9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the SCAD Museum of Art theater.

Deadline Approaching

 

DEADLINE: October 15, 2015 @ 11:59 PM EST

THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION STUDENT AWARDS FOR INNOVATIONS IN IMAGING

All SPE student members are eligible to apply for a scholarship to offset the cost of attending SPE's 2016 national conference. Ten awards are offered based on merits of submitted portfolios and include a $550 travel stipend to attend the national conference, a 2016 national conference fee waiver, and a one-year membership to SPE.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must be current, matriculated undergraduate or graduate students enrolled at a post-secondary institution majoring/concentrating in photography and not graduating before the end of the academic year 2015-2016.
Applicants must be student members of SPE or become members before submitting their scholarship applications. Visit spenational.org to join or renew your membership.
Applicants are not eligible to receive scholarship awards for two consecutive years.
JURORS

This year's jurors are SPE national board members serving on the Awards and Recognition Committee: Bill Gaskins (Chair), Sonseree´ Gibson, Mark Malloy, and Arno Rafael Minkkinen.

ONLINE APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Submit online via spenational.slideroom.com. There is a $10 fee for submitting a portfolio. If you need technical support, please contact support@slideroom.com.

PREPARE TO SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING
A cohesive body of work with no more than FIVE images. Images around 1280 x 1280 px @ 72 ppi are ideal for good image quality and fast upload.
A clear and concise introductory statement that details the conceptual, technical, and aesthetic concerns, issues, influences or questions that your work explores (350 words maximum, approx. 2,100 characters).
A statement addressing how attendance at the conference will benefit you, as well as an overview of prior involvement with SPE or other arts organizations.
A brief resume, including name, address, phone number, email address and current institutional affiliation, and educational and professional experience.
Contact information for a current photography professor (include name, title, email, and phone number).
Applications that do not fulfill all requirements may be eliminated from the competition. Click here to view the official call for entries.

Deadline to apply is October 15, 2015, at 11:59 PM EST.

Direct inquiries to the SPE national office at membership@spenational.org.

Please visit spenational.org/conferences for additional conference information.

SCAD Small Works 2015 Call for work

SCAD invites SCAD students, alumni, professors and staff to submit entries for the annual "Small Works" juried exhibition on view at SCAD's Gutstein Gallery from November 16, 2015 through January 9, 2016. The submission deadline is midnight on October 18, 2015. Visit https://scadexhibitions.submittable.com/submit for requirements.

PDN's Top 30 Emerging Photographers Panel

Wednesday, October 14, 5pm SCAD MOA Theater

Photographers selected for PDN’s 30 2015: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch will share the most valuable lessons they learned as they launched their careers, and explain how they received recognition and support. They will discuss successful strategies for building a supportive network, gaining exposure, honing their artistic voices, getting practical help on business issues, and the challenges of starting a photography career in a competitive market. This panel will be moderated by Holly Stuart Hughes, editor, Photo District News. The panel is made up of Top 30 2015 Winners Jonno Rattman, Josh Wool and the Bloomsberg Businessweek Picture Editor, Diana Suryakusuma.

© Jonno Rattman

© Josh Wool

2015 Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Lecture

TOMORROW! Thursday, October 8 | 6pm
Jepson Center

Telfair Museums’ Friends of African American Arts is pleased to announce the 2015 Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Lecture by eminent photography scholar and artist Dr. Deborah Willis. The lecture will connect to the exhibition Mickalene Thomas at Giverny, and will focus on the work of Thomas and other contemporary artists restaging historical art scenes.

Deborah Willis, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a noted photographer, author, curator, and scholar. Dr. Willis was a 2014 Cohen Fellow at Harvard University, a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She received an NAACP Image Award in 2010 for her book with Emily Bernard, Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs, and again in 2014 for her book with Barbara Krauthamer, Envisioning Emancipation. Her numerous and influential books on African American photographic history also include Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present.

Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. A reception will follow the lecture, hosted by Telfair's Friends of African American Arts.

SCAD MOA Thursday, Oct 8

 
In Conversation with Dakota Jackson
Oct. 8, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Join a public dialogue between celebrated designer Dakota Jackson and Storm Janse van Rensburg, SCAD head curator of exhibitions. The event celebrates the opening of Jackson’s first retrospective exhibition, “The Making of Dakota Jackson,” at the SCAD Museum of Art. The evening provides a unique opportunity to learn about Jackson’s career through anecdotes and his insights into the relevance of design in contemporary times.

Free for museum members and SCAD students, faculty and staff with a SCAD Card.

Dakota Jackson, "Ke-Zu Chaise," designed 1988; manufactured 1989, laminated wood, steel and leather. Courtesy of Dakota Jackson.

Join us for a reception celebrating "The Making of Dakota Jackson," the first major museum exhibition and retrospective of furniture designer Dakota Jackson. The exhibition explores the life and career of the visionary American designer and includes iconic works from his oeuvre, taking viewers from his first New York City design studio established in 1974 to the present.

Jackson's trajectory as a leading furniture designer began in the bohemian art scene of the late 1960s and '70s in downtown New York. He entered the creative sphere as a professional magician, a family trade he learned from his father. From there, his collaborations as a dancer and performer led to an interest in making furniture. One of his early commissions came from Yoko Ono in 1974: a desk as a gift to her husband, John Lennon, for his 34th birthday. Jackson was asked by Ono to create some of the unique features of the desk — an intricate piece of furniture drawing on the designer's fascination with illusion — such as the hidden compartments similar to those of an old Japanese magic box.

As Jackson expanded his practice, his focus shifted toward creating sleeker, more industrial-inspired objects. The series "Deadly Weapons" includes furniture designed and produced as one-of-a-kind works that could be described as functional sculptures. In the late 1970s, he moved his design practice into larger facilities and began using production line manufacturing, increasing the number and reach of his furniture pieces. His seminal pieces epitomizing this philosophy, "Vik-ter Chair" (1991) and "Library Chair" (1991), are included in the exhibition.

Music, movement and choreography remain important aspects of Jackson's design work. His longtime collaborations with Steinway & Sons led to the commission of two limited-edition pianos and the "TriCentennial Commemorative Piano I" (2000) also featured in the exhibition. Various photographic records, drawings and archival material included in the show will provide in-depth insight into Jackson's process, design philosophy and creative influences.

In 2013 SCAD recognized Jackson for his contribution to the American design lexicon through an invitation to be the university's honorary chair of furniture design. SCAD head curator of exhibitions Storm Janse van Rensburg states that "the multiple unique influences that shape Jackson's work have given form to objects that meld the artisanal with the conceptual, whilst remaining true to principles of exquisite design and practicality. The exhibition provides an opportunity to SCAD Museum of Art visitors and SCAD students to engage with the practice of a leading contemporary American designer whose oeuvre is rooted in existential questions of our time."

Opening Receptions from 6:30-8:30

Manjunath Kamath, "Second Hand Car Goes to Heaven,” 2009, automotive paint on fiberglass, variable size. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India.

Reception for Manjunath Kamath exhibition: 'As Far as I Know'
Join us for a reception celebrating, “As Far as I Know,” the first museum exhibition in the U.S. by Manjunath Kamath. Based in New Delhi, India, Kamath subversively brings traditional idioms into the contemporary realm with a satirical, self-deprecating wit. Partly derived from miniature painting and other narrative forms and traditions, his work ironically layers personal stories and memories with political and religious references.

Kamath packs fantastical details in his visually arresting compositions, where the borders between the ordinary and the extraordinary, fantasy and lived experience are blurred. He also comments on mass consumer culture with his installation titled, “Second Hand Car Goes to Heaven,” and draws viewers into his idiosyncratic world with large-scale paintings and a series of miniature watercolors.

Shin il Kim, “Active Anesthesia — The Full of Square,” 2007. Video projector, DVD player, rear projection screen, aluminum structure. 60 minutes, looping. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Simon in Seoul.

John us for a reception celebrating “Active Anesthesia,” an exhibition featuring three seminal works by Seoul-based conceptual artist Shin il Kim.

Through an experimental approach using drawing, sculpture, video and sound, Kim creates sculptural installations that alter meaning through a shift in perception. In doing so, the artist seeks to shake viewers out of a passive, anesthetized state into one that inspires active engagement with their surroundings. Kim explains, “Sometimes ordinary acts of everyday life can acquire a different meaning through a new perception or relationship. This is what my works try to capture.” An example of this transformation may be seen in the sculptural light installation, “Active Anesthesia.” Commonplace American television commercials are projected onto one surface of the piece, while the light from the television is transformed via the aluminum grid into an interplay of abstracted light on the other side of the installation. Kim brilliantly converts the mundane “anesthetized” images of television into a dynamic, minimalist composition of light and movement.

The light installation, “Temporal Continuum Intuitively Known Élan vital Operates Emptiness,” which is Kim’s musing on the limitations of language to refer to things and emotions, can also be seen in the exhibition with the video “Persistency.”

Shin il Kim was honored last year with the Korea Artist Prize 2014 and an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Korea. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with SCAD.

Photography Offered in Lacoste Spring, Summer, Fall 2016

Study Photography in Lacoste this spring with Tom Fischer, tfischer@scad.edu.
For more information contact study in Lacoste.
912.525.4786    studyabroad@scad.edu
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