Fort Mason. San Francisco, CA.
On board the Alameda-Oakland Ferry.
On board the Alameda-Oakland Ferry.
On board the Alameda-Oakland Ferry.
The Summer Show Project offers the unique chance for artists to work directly with the gallery, creating new work to be curated in a group exhibition.
This new initiative will provide an opportunity for emerging photographers to have their work seen, recognized and reviewed by fellow artists, gallery directors, book editors, as well as curators from museum and corporate collections.
Upon acceptance, you will work on your own and with the guidance of gallery owner Michael Foley to create new work dedicated to a theme that will be suggested by the curatorial panel. A total of 12 photographers will be selected by the panel to participate.
From January to April you will meet with Michael Foley either in the gallery or via iChat/Skype for two 30 minute sessions where you can discuss your progress and share what you have been working on.
In May, a final edit will be made and two photographs from each photographer will be curated into a group exhibition at FOLEY Gallery opening in June 2010. In addition to the work of these 12 photographers, additional selections will be curated into the show from some of the most well known contemporary photographers working today.
This is the first year for The summer Show Project. We invite you to submit your work to participate in this unique opportunity and share the experience of exposure, guidance, feedback, community, recognition and support.
We invite photographers from all disciplines to apply. The Summer Show Project is open to all photographers world wide.
At the Louvre on August 2, security guards wrestled a Russian visitor to the floor and subdued her after she hurled a cup of steaming-hot English Breakfast tea at the Mona Lisa. Flung over the heads of other tourists, the cup and its contents scored a direct hit -- or would have, were the famous painting not shielded by a sheet of bulletproof glass. The Russian woman had just bought the tea at a museum cafe. She was handed over to police and is now in their custody. Having undergone a psychological examination, she might be charged with a crime.
Doctors were trying to assess whether she was suffering from Stendhal Syndrome, a rare condition that causes dizziness, confusion or violent acts when an individual is exposed to art.
Aspiras' backyard. Fremont, CA.
Marianne Villanueva, Writer.to Eric Setiawan for featuring some of my images from the Wandering series in his blog.
Sometimes we choose to serve our country in uniform, in war. Sometimes in elected office. And those are the ways of serving our country that I think we are trained to easily call heroic. It’s also a service to your country, I think, to teach poetry in the prisons, to be an incredibly dedicated student of dance, to fight for funding music and arts education in the schools. A country without an expectation of minimal artistic literacy, without a basic structure by which the artists among us can be awakened and given the choice of following their talents and a way to get to be great at what they do, is a country that is not actually as a great as it could be. And a country without the capacity to nurture artistic greatness is not being a great country. It is a service to our country, and sometimes it is heroic service to our country, to fight for the United States of America to have the capacity to nurture artistic greatness….
Not just in wartime but especially in wartime, and not just in hard economic times but especially in hard economic times, the arts get dismissed as ‘sissy.’ Dance gets dismissed as craft, creativity gets dismissed as inessential, to the detriment of our country. And so when we fight for dance, when we buy art that’s made by living American artists, when we say that even when you cut education to the bone, you do not cut arts and music education, because arts and music education IS bone, it is structural, is it essential; you are, in [Jacob’s Pillow founder] Ted Shawn’s words, you are preserving the way of life that we are supposedly fighting for and it’s worth being proud of.
Source: Fractured Atlas Blog
Southbank. London, UK.A wonderful mention about one of my images from the Wandering series at Kevin Miyazaki's blog. Kevin is currently part of a group show at the Rayko Gallery in San Francisco called It's Still Life. The show runs through September 22. Thank you very much, Kevin!
Kevin Miyazaki website: My favorite series are Camp Home and Fast Food.
Also, I am sending my appreciation to Elizabeth Fleming. Thank you so much for the support! What a good year this has been to her, Congratulations!
Tethered, Elizabeth's blog. (Always a great read).
Hopefully, we'll have an opportunity to meet each other in the future.
Great America. Santa Clara, CA.
Market & Grant Street during a lunch break.
Taken near the kettle corn stall at the Alameda Point Antique and Collectibles Fair last Saturday.
Wandering is a collection of photographs from my occasional observations of everyday life. It is a means for me to reconnect to what drew me to the medium in the first place. And that's really all it is: my repeated attempts at recapturing that feeling which energizes me to continue taking pictures.
©Stella Kalaw
All photographs ©Sergei Maximishim
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