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There’s a nice article about the gallery in today’s Metro NY.
The photos above arefrom the Winter Edition of Hey, Hot Shot!. You can see Benoit Aquin’s photo on your lower left and photos from Claire Hester and Jessica Bruah on the upper right.
This is not a perfect representation of the logo since it’s a screengrab from a .pdf. (The posting of which is surely going to make its designer Frank Mikus a little crazy.) I think the new logo for jen@joe is so delicious, I couldn’t wait to get the proper file from him.
I’m super excited about the whole project overall – more wall space to hang gorgeous photos is always something I’m happy about, but also: I adore Joe, its friendly staff and its fabulous owner, Jonathan Rubinstein, who impresses me with his entrepreneurialism, his enthusiasm and his curiosity. I’m loving the jen@joe opportunity for a million reasons!
Intern Christine is loving it too, as she posted about over the weekend. Read her blogging debut Improving the Mood of NYC (One Cup O’ Joe at a Time).
Photographer Jeremy Charles is the first aspiring Hot Shot for the Spring Edition of Hey, Hot Shot!, that’s his “Iron Wings” photograph above. (Somehow he found his way to the Apply Now link before the official announcement!)
Here’s the lowdown:
Entry Deadline: Monday May 8, 2006 @ noon
Winners Announce: Tuesday May 23, 2006 @ noon
Spring Edition Showcase Opening Reception: Wednesday June 7, 2006 | 6pm – 8pm
Spring Edition Showcase Dates: Thursday June 8 – Sunday June 11, 2006
Read more about Hey, Hot Shot! or Apply now.
Antony Van Couvering was kind enough to take some installation shots of the Winter Edition showcase. Check out his photoset on Flickr.
We’re very excited to announce the finalists for the Winter ‘06 Edition of Hey, Hot Shot!. It was a very tough job for the panel to narrow it down to ten photographers – there were tons of great entries coming from excellent photographers all around the world.
The Winter Edition Showcase with open with a reception for the artists on the evening of Wednesday March 15, 2006, from 6-8pm. (A very special day, as it’s also the gallery’s three year anniversary!) The showcase will be on view Thursday March 16 from noon – 10pm and Friday March 17 – Sunday March 19 from noon – 6pm.
Without further ado, we present to you the Winter Hot Shots:
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You can also check out the Winter Edition Photoset on Flickr.
Special thanks go to the fabulous panel for their insight humor and hard work.
Finally, honorable mentions go to the following photographers:
Fiona Aboud, Ian Baguskas, Ava Berkofsky, Amanda Bernsohn, Lucas Blalock, Howard Henry Chen, Ben Fink, Bruce Grant, Catherine Krudy, Bryan Lear, Andrea Longacre-White, Simone Lueck, Tomomi Muramatsu, Lisa Reddig, Sasha Rudensky,Christopher Saah, Elisabeth Smolarz, John Snyder, Carlos Tarrats and Xia Tio.
air force base, 01:16 a.m.
noah addis
born: suburban New Jersey
Currently resides in New York, New York
website: www.noahaddis.com
work statement
My work deals with issues relating to mass consumption, the passage of time and the role of technology in our modern lives. We live in a society that consumes an ever-increasing amount of natural resources, and we are changing our Earth in ways we have yet to discover. These photographs explore the omnipresent creations of suburban life such as shopping malls, factories, airports and highways. Photographing the light that these installations emit into the night sky forms my images.
The images depict energy in a pure form. The energy interacts with the natural world as light reflects off of clouds and other atmospheric particles. Through long exposures, this artificial light is transformed into natural-looking scenes that are, in reality, anything but natural.
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Noah Addis was born and raised in suburban New Jersey. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drexel University in Philadelphia with a degree in Photography in 1997. Since then, he has worked as a staff photographer and more recently as photo editor for the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, NJ. He has covered such stories as the growth of Christianity in Africa and the war in Iraq. Noah has won the New Jersey Photographer of the Year award three times, and in 2001 he was the runner-up in the portfolio category of the National Press Photographer’s Association Photographer of the Year contest.
Noah has recently moved away from pure documentation to embark upon a new, more interpretive body of work. He lives in New York City. More of his work can be seen at www.noahaddis.com.
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benoit aquin
born: Montreal, Quebec
Currently resides in Montreal, Quebec
work statement
The “Hunting” project is about a feeling of what composes our DNA. I explore landscape as a predator and hunters as an initiation into different realms of reality. This project is a voyage that unfolds magical environments and instinctive behaviors. I have worked on “Hunting” for five years; it makes for a powerful body of work.
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Benoit Aquin grew up in Montreal and studied photography in Boston. He has always practiced documentary and editorial photography for a living. He has exhibited in major events for photography in Canada, and his work is part of the collection in the Canadian Contemporary Photography Museum. Benoit is 43 years old and resides in Montreal, Quebec.
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jessica bruah
born: Rockford, Illinois
Currently resides in Chicago, Illinois
website: www.jessicabruah.com
work statement
My body of work titled “Stories” began when I decided to merge my love for fiction with my interest in photography. I began to see each image as its own visual narrative. Because the scenarios depicted are vague and bizarre, the viewers have to interpret each story for themselves. Each photograph contains an anonymous character,
seemingly unaware of the lens, whose face is never shown. Although I am playing the dual role of photographer and subject, these self-portraits do not concern the notion of self but rather the idea of constructing reality. Every image is carefully assembled, aided by costumes, props, studio lighting, and posing. All these elements, along with the manipulation of a view camera, bring a surrealistic and often amusing quality to the images. In addition to fiction, I draw inspiration from film and any work that discusses gender, identity, and/or domesticity. Some of my current influences include Tina Barney, David Hilliard, Anna Gaskell, Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman. The pictures in this series are scanned from 4×5 in. negatives, cleaned up in Photoshop (without manipulating the images), and printed to 16×20 in. or 20×25 in. on archival digital paper.
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Jessica Bruah was born in Rockford, Illinois, in 1981 and grew up in the Chicago suburbs. She took a junior college photography course when she was 15 and became enamored with the darkroom. The first photograph she ever printed is coincidentally similar to her current work, albeit in black and white. The image is of a girl, face shielded from view, bending down to pick up pine needles from the floor. The classes led her to majoring in photography at Columbia College in Chicago where she quickly fell in love with color photography. She graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2004.
Since then she has been exhibiting around Chicago and on the Internet. Last November, she became a part of the Photo-eye’s Photographer’s Showcase Gallery (www.photo-eye.com). Jessica is currently the featured artist on www.fstopmagazine.com.
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claire hester
Currently resides in Savannah, Georgia.
work statement
Beyond literal photography, I believe in stories. I have always found it interesting how placing someone in a space in a certain way can inspire a narrative. My main interest lies in the relationship that is created between a figure and its surroundings, and I am particularly drawn to quiet moments when everything seems still.
I am mostly influenced by the stories of writers like Jim Harrison, Mary Gaitskill, Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Lorrie Moore and other contemporary fiction writers. I have a penchant for short fiction and personal descriptive narrative. I am also influenced by contemporary photography. Hellen Van Meene, Joel Sternfeld and Alec Soth are inspiring in the ways they represent people and places.
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Claire Hester was born in 1984 and grew up in South Florida. She will be receiving her BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in the spring.
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nicole jean hill
born: Toledo, Ohio
Currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska
work statement
My pet portraits address cultivation as a means by which we organize our relationship to the nonhuman. In “Towards a Philosophy of Nature”, Robert P. Harrison suggests that, “precisely at the moment when we have overcome the earth and become unearthly in our modes of dwelling […] we insist on our kinship with the animal world. We suffer these days from a new form of collective anxiety: species loneliness.” While our subjugation of the natural world appears to have irreversibly isolated the human from the nonhuman, my images represent hybrids of nature and culture and examine the ambiguous borders between reliance, interaction and imposition.
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Nicole Jean Hill was born in 1978 in Toledo, Ohio. She has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of North Carolina. Currently, she lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and teaches color photography at the Metropolitan Community College in Elkhorn.
website
http://www.nicolejeanhill.com/
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andrew long
born: Cohasset, Massachusetts
Currently resides in Brooklyn, New York
website:http://flickr.com/photos/a_long
work statement
Primary artists whose ways of seeing (and thinking) I have hoped to learn from are Robert Adams, Lee Friedlander, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, John Szarkowski, Richard Misrach, Joel Meyerowitz and Joel Sternfeld, among many others.
I spend a lot of time revisiting the houses, yards, boardwalks and other domestic spaces of the Atlantic coastal towns I grew up in. I travel there 6-8 times a year to continue an open-ended series of day and night views of these places, which for me are full of clues as to how our memories, dreams, and desires are shaped less by where we live now than by where we used to exist.
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Andrew Long was born in 1965 and grew up in Cohasset, Massachusetts, a village south of Boston. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Middlebury College, in Vermont. He was on the staff of The New Yorker from 1988 to 2000, writing and editing reviews on photography, painting and pop music in the Goings On About Town department. He is a freelance writer and editor living in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
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bob o’connor
born: around Boston, Massachusetts
Currently resides in Whitman, Massachusetts
website:http://www.boboconnor.net
work statement
I am interested in the contemporary landscape. I spend a lot of time wandering and driving around. I’m interested in the places where people live and work. Although I tend to photograph these spaces when they’re empty, the viewer still senses that people use them. I am influenced by contemporary German photography; I am especially fond of Candida Hofer’s work.
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Bob O’Connor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he currently resides. He graduated from Northeastern University in 2001 with a degree in Art and minors in Photography and Architecture. He was recently named by Photo District News as one of 30 emerging photographers to watch for 2006. His clients include Dwell, Fast Company, Inc., Technology Review, and several other magazines. Bob is 28 years old.
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erin siegal
born: Hebron, Connecticut
Currently resides in Brooklyn, New York
website:http://www.erinsiegal.com
work statement
When I first encountered Hangar B at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, I was overwhelmed with the haunting energy of the crumbling building. I wasn’t sure why: I had never been interested in decrepit urban buildings before or any photographer’s depictions of them. Departing from my traditional documentary work, I found myself helplessly infatuated with the abandoned airplane hangars. I began shooting there
religiously, several times each week. The weeks ran into one long stain of time.
In the beginning, I chose not to analyze my attraction and strange familiarity with the buildings. Instead, I simply submitted to a heartfelt kinship with the space. During my first few weeks there, I learned how to listen to the invisible stories that lay amidst the piles of rubble and fallen ceiling. The forgotten airport became a place of reclamation for me, personally as well as artistically. All around the looming spaces crept beautiful manifestations of the natural world, exerting a subtle yet all-powerful grip. The horrible crumples of the failed and forgotten airport had been reclaimed by the slow cycle of death, progressing at the congruous speed of rebirth.
This odd love affair is one I continue to have with Hangar B and her dying sister construction, Hangar A. I sneak in to photograph, regularly getting kicked out for being in the “unsafe” area inside the structures. The act of photographing the space gradually became a ritual and a tradition, as well as an urgent form of worshipful documentation. Each silent, staunch building is slated to be gutted in order to make way for basketball courts and ice skating rinks. Construction has already started on Hangar A, marking the start to the creation of a permanent absence. After their deaths, the buildings will remain only in photographs.
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Erin Siegal is a 23-year-old NYC photographer who has studied at the School of Visual Arts, Harvard University, and Parsons School of Design.
Before starting her own career as a freelance photographer this past fall, Erin worked as studio manager for James Nachtwey. She has also worked at the non-profit Boston Photo Collective, and is a photo editor for NYC Indymedia. During the summer of 2004, she was an Artist-in-Residency in photography at the School of Visual Arts.
Her work was featured in The Indypendent, American Photo on Campus, Time Out New York, CounterPunch, Courier News, Spread Magazine, Playgirl, What’s Up, Altar Magazine, Visual Opinion, Exquisite Corpse, nerve.com, Brooklyn Papers, and in the book, “Shut Them Down: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements,” published by Autonomedia. She shoots for Reuters in New York City and sells some stories through Redux Pictures.
Her latest project is about cowboys in Brooklyn. Check out her website, www.erinsiegal.com, for details
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rebecca smeyne
born: Lubbock, Texas
Currently resides in Brooklyn, New York
website:http://www.flickr.com/photos/97408022@N00/
work statement
My work is documentary in nature—an exploration of the points of interaction between people and nature that define a situation or environment. Contextually reductive, the compositions focus on serendipity of color and circumstance of pattern. I avoid abstraction, instead allowing the mundane, even vulgar, to become bizarre and beautiful objectifications of mood and representations of place, at once recognizable and mysterious.
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Born in St. Louis and raised in Texas, Smeyne moved to New York in 1996 to study social theory at Columbia University where she graduated early, with departmental honors for a thesis on the sociology of t-shirts. Since then, she has held positions as a fashion stylist, a party producer, a statistician, a casting agent, and a pr girl. Most recently, she became the editor, lead writer and photo director of the popular website myopenbar.com.
Inspired initially by fashion photographers like Mert and Marcus and Cedric Buchet, she began exploring contemporary photography beyond fashion—major inspirations include Lisa Kerezsi, Martin Parr, William Eggleston, Alec Soth and Tim Barber. In 2005, she received her first camera as a gift – an old Nikon FE bought on the day of her birth by her grandfather for her father. This is her first show.
stars waiting for main lights to come on (set of “rok sako to rok lo”)
rafil kroll-zaidi
born: New Delhi, India
Currently resides in New York, New York
work statement
I took four years of silver-process photography in high school in Austin, Texas; this was with minimal structure, and the approach I developed was unselfconscious, spontaneous, and intuitive—based on capturing decisive and ephemeral moments. At Princeton University, my technique grew more formal and deliberate. Under the guidance of the photographer Andrew Moore, I moved into color, aiming for painterly richness in my photographs.
In 2003 I was awarded Princeton’s Daniel M. Sachs Memorial Scholarship for my proposal to pursue a one-year independent project in the Bollywood film industry. I lived in Bombay for the year and worked on the sets of a number of different feature films. My aim was to create images that were enlivened by the color and iconography of mainstream Indian cinema while manipulating framing, juxtapositions and angles that removed the subjects from their contexts, rendered them ambiguous, and suggested alternate narratives that were sometimes drastically distinct from the original films in production.
During my final six weeks in India, I undertook an intensive large-format study of Bombay landscapes and scenes of daily life. I wanted to produce images that would resonate with and enrich the Bollywood material. Having already immersed myself in the bright, colorful fantasies of Bombay’s cinema, I sought to capture an equally strong and specifically cinematic sense of drama in the city itself. These scenes suggest a feeling of biographical time from which memory flows, whereas the photos from the film sets appear more spectral and insubstantial.
I am drawn to the work of Edward Burtynsky, Andrew Moore, Robert Polidori and Joel Sternfeld; all of them combine consummate technical skill with an ability to create evocative, sensuous images. My ideal subjects are landscapes composed of living people; both stylistically and in terms of my subject choice, I aim for that which possesses eeriness and austerity–-or which can be transformed into something eerie and austere.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi was born in New Delhi, and he lived in northern India until he was five. When his mother (who is American) and his father (who is Indian) separated, he moved to America with his mother and lived in Iowa from 1986 until 1989 and then in Austin, Texas from 1989 until 1999, when he finished high school. (He also used to spend about three months of every year in India.) He went to Princeton University, where he majored in Comparative Literature and extensively pursued the critical study and practice of the visual arts. After college, he spent fourteen months on a postgraduate fellowship in Bombay and London. He has also studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Camberwell School of the arts, both of which are in London, and at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He recently accepted a position as an assistant editor of Harper’s Magazine. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi resides in New York City.
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