NEXT: Emerging Phildelaphia Photographers, June 26 Deadline for entry

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center will open this August with its inaugural exhibition NEXT: Emerging Phildelaphia Photographers. Juror: Ariel Shanberg, Center for Photography at Woodstock Selected entries will be exhibited in PPAC's new exhibition space in the Crane Arts Building from August 18 - November 29, 2009. First, second, and third prize winners will receive, $500, $300, and $200 gift certificates respectively for digital services at PPAC. The competition is open to all subject matter and photographic processes.

Future leader of the arts community...

Matthew Thomas Cianfrani participates in Nexus Selects 2009.

"EastWestSouthNorth" reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer!

Tetsugo Hyakutake participates in PhotoEspaña 2009.

PhotoEspaña 2009 is a Festival of Photography and Visual Arts that
will take place from 3 June to 26 July with Madrid, Lisbon, and Cuenca
as its host cities. The event will comprise of 72 exhibitions spread
across a total of 60 exhibition spaces, with 248 artists and creators
of 40 nationalities participating. As part of the festival, Tetsugo Hyakutake has been invited to participate in Descubrimienos PHE Madrid.

"Pathos and Irony: Industrial Still-Life in Japan #12"

Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Abroad Studio in Photography: BEIJING/CHINA/2009

Opening Reception and Book Release
Thursday, May 21st, 4-6pm
Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery
Exhibition Dates: May 21 to June 26, 2009

东西南北EastWestSouthNorth image: Matthew Thomas Cianfrani



Book Cover, image: Tetsugo Hyakutake

Micah Danges (MFA Photo Technician) in Group Exhibition at Gershman Y...

Invented: (un)Realities, In Two Parts.
Vox Populi Gallery at the Gershman Y

Exhibition Dates: Part 1 - April 23-June 6, 2009

The two-part exhibition Invented: (un)Realities, In Two Parts,
examines the duality of constructed landscapes and fabricated
architectural environments. The work selected for this exhibition
demonstrates the investigation into ‘artificial’ places and spaces,
which are found in the modification of the natural world or human
constructed/architectural surroundings. The artists in this
exhibition, in order to better suit their mission, rebuild, piece
together or manipulate these established constructs. These fictitious
environments, literally and figuratively, reflect our own experiences
and human interactions between real and illusionary surroundings.

The artists presented in Part 1 are particularly interested in
imaginary landscapes, constructing objects of flora and fauna and
creating images that depict an illusion between interior/exterior
spaces through installations, paintings and photography/video.

Artists Kate Stewart, Amy Adams, Kara Crombie, Micah Danges and Eva
Wylie all use the natural world (and the departure from the natural
world) as the genesis of their work.

Organized by Vox member and UArts Faculty, Julianna Foster
and Vox Member, Josh Rickards

Gershman Y
Borowsky Gallery
401 South Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Eileen Neff at Weatherspoon Art Museum...

Eileen Neff: Between Us
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
May 24–August 16, 2009

After originating at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and traveling to the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, "Eileen Neff: Between Us" makes its final stop at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, in Greensboro, NC. Eileen Neff
A Goat in the Field, 2009, c-print mounted on aluminum, 66 x 65 inches

Artforum, May 2009

Using free association to reinvigorate the world of photography...

Alex Remnick, DP Photo Editor

Alec Soth at UPenn: road trips, stories and cell phone snapshots...

ArtBlog Post by Libby Rosof.
check it out.

Soth & MONSTER...
image: Libby Rosof

Alec Soth critiquing undergraduate work...

Soth reviews Daniel Schwartz's photographs.

Alec Soth, Karen Rodewald and Undergraduate Photography Students.

A discussion between Clarence Din and Soth.

images: Brent Wahl.