Friday, September 25, 2009

Doug McCulloh Lecture in Burns 152 Monday, September 28 @ 4:30

Doug McCulloh is an artist based in Southern California. He is an honors graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and holds an MFA in photography and digital media from Claremont Graduate University. McCulloh’s work has been shown in museums, academic institutions, and galleries in the US, Europe, China and Mexico, including more than two dozen large-scale solo exhibitions. Exhibitions include: California Museum of Photography; KIT/Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; Asian Cultural Center, New York City; China San Jiangyuan Photography Festival and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

For more information: www.douglasmcculloh.com

"...after winning the right to name a street in a new tract housing development," writes Sheila Pinkel in AfterImage, the journal of the Visual Studies Workshop, "McCulloh spent seven years working on "Dream Street," shooting 12,891 photos and taping 47.5 hours of interviews, in order to accomplish a reflection of the tract house building trade as it exists in Southern California at the beginning of the 21st Century... What makes McCulloh's insightful work so unusual is that he is both photographer and writer and the intersection of these two voices are at times informative, moving and/or shocking."

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Magnum Expression Award


Magnum Photos is pleased to announce the first annual Expression Photography Award in association with HP. The award, established with the goal of inspiring change through photography, aims to discover compelling documentary photography employed to affect social awareness.

Magnum photographers Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Paolo Pellegrin, and Susan Meiselas and HP representative Louis Kim will judge on the panel and select one chosen winner to receive a $10,000 grant to support the continuation of his/her work, HP's large format Designjet Z3200 Photo printer for fine art printing, archival pigment inks, fine art paper and additional prizes from contributing partners Blurb and PhotoShelter.

Two honorable mentions and 17 finalists will also receive awards to support and encourage their photographic work. Participation is at no cost and photographers worldwide are encouraged to submit. http://expression.magnumphotos.com/expression_award/

Photo Philanthropy Awards for Sociallly Concerned Photographers

PhotoPhilanthropy—a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting photography for philanthropic purposes and activism in charitable organizations – is sponsoring the first-annual PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards.

Contest entrants are invited to submit a Photo Essay consisting of 7 – 10 digital images that tell the story of a non-profit organization and its work. Winning photographers will receive prize money and recognition while featured non-profit organizations and their causes will benefit from valuable exposure.

All Photo Essays that are accepted into the competition will be posted immediately to the www.photophilanthropy.org site, and will be considered for further recognition when awards submissions close October 31, 2009.

Call for Entries: Clara M Eagle Gallery: Magic Silver 2010

Call for Entries for group exhibition at the Clara M Eagle Gallery, Deadline 10/30/2009

$1000 in prizes will be awarded and a catalog will be produced featuring all works from the exhibition.


For more details: http://www.murraystate.edu/chfa/art/gallery/prospectus.html