SPE Northeast Pop-up Conference

I will be participating in a panel discussion on visual literacy at an SPE Northeast Pop-up Conference next Thursday, April 11, at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison are the keynote speakers. Please come if you can – it’s free!

EXHIBITION NEWS!

I will have NEW WORK in an exhibition at the New England College Art Gallery in Henniker, NH, March 28 - May 1, 2013. The reception will be on Thursday, April 4. Please attend if you can. More information to follow.

Excellent essay by Charlotte Cotton

Nine Years, A Million Conceptual Miles – By Charlotte Cotton

Contemporary art photographers are opening up new ways of thinking about the medium. Are institutions ready for this wave of photographic innovation?

Bike Peddlars in China

Dig this interesting work: Alain Delorme's "Totems"

Amazing Photo Exhibition at the Addison Gallery

Have you ever seen all 84 prints in sequence from Robert Frank's "The Americans?" That not enough? How about all of Bill Owen's "Suburbia?" Bruce Davidson's "Brooklyn Gang?" Aaron Siskind's "Harlem Document?" William Christenberry's "Alabama Pictures?" Go.

The Addison Gallery at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Robert Adams talking about his work on Art21

"An underlying tension in Adams’s body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera."

The return of Flickr

Flickr's popularity has declined in recent years. However, with a new app, a ToS gaffe by Instagram, and recurring privacy issues with Facebook, the OG photo-sharing site is poised for a healthy return to relevance. Moblie app, social network, storage, sharing - with multiple real privacy options, too - yes please.