A wanderlustagraphy post about youth? or perhaps it's about activity in midst of a landscape. I'm not sure... but I enjoy how playful they are.

Hope you enjoy.

-Amy

PS- The wanderlust bug has finally gotten the best of me. I won't be updating next week.
I'll be flying down South this Saturday to get into some trouble. It's Mardi Gras in Cajun Country. Aaaaeeeiiii.

Nina Hartmann
Shark Valley

Kristoffer Tripplaar, Washington DC
"North American Wife Carrying Championships" from the series "America: An Excessive Satire" Bethel, Maine

Jennifer Huxta, Philadelphia, PA / frequents Paris
Sologne, May 2005

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
William Shakespeare


Destruction of the land...
The great ones.. eat up (the land) of the little ones.
These photographers are exploring the altered landscape left behind.

Pablo Lopez, Mexico City
From the series "Terrazo: Views of Mexico City"

Daniel Shea, Baltimore
Untitled, From the project 'On Coal and Appalachia'

Andreas Fragel, Düsseldorf

Last night in the New York area it was forecasted to snow up to 6". I awoke excited to see the blanket of fresh snow over my dirty Brooklyn neighborhood and all I found was rain.

Today's post is in response to my disappointment.

It's forecasted to snow tonight. We'll see what happens.


ps- I finally updated my wanderlustagraphy link section. Sorry for such delay!

Timothy Briner, Booneville, USA
In Search of America, Part 3

Justin James Reed, PA
Idaho Springs, Colorado . 2004

Grant Ernhart b.St. Cloud, Minnesota / Currently San Francisco, CA.
From the series I Trust You'll Take Care

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
~Khalil Gibran (from Death XXVII)

A mini-curated update on death and dying... organic structures... and life cycles..
in a subtle or not so subtle combo.

I don't have a bold statement for why I wanted these three together and felt they were at home together..
but I just had that feeling in me and went with it.

KEVIN J. MIYAZAKI, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Coffee Mold

Michael Kwiecinski, currently NYC
Golden Tove, From the series Withinnan.

Tealia Ellis Ritter, Chicago
'My Dream Was About a Death' from the project "The Live Creature"

Brandon Holmes, Brooklyn, NY.
'Remains, Sonora County' from the project "Junction"

Open Call for Emerging Women Art Photographers Under 31

"31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography"

Entry Deadline: Friday, Jan 25th, 2008.
Exhibition Dates March 1, 2008 -March 29, 2008
No Submission Fee

On March 1, 2008, in honor of Women's History Month, Humble Arts
Foundation (www.hafny.org), in collaboration with Ladies Lotto, will present "31
Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography," a month-long exhibition
celebrating 31 of the most innovative young women in emerging art
photography under the age of 31. The Exhibition is co-curated by Lumi
Tan, Director of Zach Feuer Gallery in NYC, and Jon Feinstein,
Curatorial Director of Humble Arts Foundation, and will take place at
Brooklyn's finest "3rd Ward" ( www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org)

We are now accepting submissions from women photographers under the age of 31.

Submission deadline: Friday, January 25th, 2008

Submission guidelines: 5 – 10 Jpegs, 550 pixels wide @ 72dpi, RGB,
brief bio, CV and artist statement
Send submissions to: 31@hafny.org

We will not consider images sent in stuff'd or zipped files.

There is no submission fee.

Eligibility: Photographers must be female and born after March 1, 1977

Selected photographers will be notified by Friday, Feb 1st, 2008

Art MUST be received ready to hang by Monday, Feb 25th, 2008

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, March 1st, 2008 – Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Venue: 3rd Ward Brooklyn (www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org )


Image: Found Snapshot that seems on theme. Not associated with Humble... but I like it.

A holiday post on New Years Eve.
Hope all is well!

I'm looking forward to receiving a ton of new photography in my inbox in 2008!

Get that camera out and make some work.

Bill Owens, b. San Jose, California.
Ronald Reagan on TV, 1977

Sandy Carson, org- Scotland, now Texas.
Untitled

Ken Shung, NYC
Tony and Kim, Glen Cove Long Island.

Urban nature scenes and a quote about acid and trees. I love looking at work that has humor, quirk, awkwardness and/or more..

"I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.' -Harry Nilsson

Emiliano Granado, New York
From "Environments"

Joel Barhamand, Illinois, now Brooklyn
From "Un-Nature"

Asha Schechter, New York, NY
From "My Side of the Mountain"

Jon Feinstein, NYC
Decor

Passing along a challenge to you. Seems like a perfect fit for a wanderlustagrapher.

"36 Exposures Challenge -- brought to you by FILE and our friends at Coudal Partners and Flak Photo.... asking you to use a film camera to explore Shore's concept of "conscious intentionality." Broadly speaking, we are challenging you to do two things: articulate a concept, project, or theme and then use a film camera to photograph the images to accompany it. There are, then, two parts: creating the idea and then acting on it. Sound interesting? Well, there is a catch (or two), and if you are interested.... " read more here on File Magazine's site.

Sorry for the delay in posting...

I am still slowly recovering from the huge whirlwind of art fairs down in Miami. With over 20 fairs and events going on within 10 miles of one another, it was a tad overwhelming. It was, however, well worth the experience. While down there I was fortunate enough to spend some time with Michael Kwiecinski, a photographer friend of mine that also had work at the Aqua Wynwood fair, as well as Brian Ulrich, Shen Wei, Matt Siber, Jonathan Gitelson, Nathan Baker and many others that I'm spacing on at the moment.

Though I didn't run into Amy Stein or Alec Soth, I have been in touch with them. Today I'm posting my gratitude towards three photographers who are doing very well for themselves in the photo world, and are very generous with sharing what they've learned along the way.
** Ps- Shen Wei has also been tremendously generous with his time and knowledge (though I just posted his work a few weeks back)

Alec Soth, Minneapolis, Minnesota
From Fashion Magazine (Minnesota fashion portraits)

Amy Stein, New York
From her Stranded series

Brian Ulrich, Chicago
Untitled_Thrift, 2007 (0718)

Portrait kick rehashed..
After spending all day on the first day with snow outdoors yesterday, I'm exhausted and perhaps not up to speed. But... it's Monday.
Here are three portraits.. to me they feel transitory, exploratory and personal. I like that combo. Hope you do too.

Ethan Jones, Cushing, Maine
From the series "In Water"

Jacob Pritchard, former vagabond (Sweden, Brazil, Panama, Nicaragua, Colorado). Currently Brooklyn, NY.

Scott Eiden, Brooklyn, NY.
From the series "Looking Backward"

Traveling, gathering, touristing... there are some oddball moments to find out there if you have your camera at an arms length. Makes me wonder if there are times when my 35mm and some Agfa APX could do me good... that and some down time for wandering.

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Looking for more submissions... though I have quite a few to go through. I wanted to throw it out there that this site isn't about one thing or another. It's about a collective of creative folks from around the globe. I believe most photographers love to travel, wander and explore. This site's aim is to bring awareness to how big our photo sphere is.. and to connect one another. I encourage visitors (both previously and not previously posted before) to send work. Encouraging those who feel they have a unique project, perhaps a new perspective. Portraits, landscapes, personal work, still life, a new project, an old project.... a sketch of a new idea...

And once again I encourage people visiting and people previously posted to comment and give feedback... to make suggestions... to include links. Whatever you think helps enable the creative process and perhaps aid in inspiring others.

Cheers,
Amy

Herman Krieger, Eugene, OR.
"It's a Bird!...It's a Plane!...It's Fred Crafts!", Down Town Eugene.

Stan Banos, Oakland, CA
Pet Area taken at rest stop beside the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Timothy Briner, Booneville (s), USA.
Times Square, July, 2007

On Friday evening I was lucky enough to make it over to Timothy Briner's apartment for a party and get in some good conversation with him. He's been on the road a lot, working on his Booneville Project... and took a break while in town to have people over. It was a fantastic night.
One of the topics that came up was when photographers become voyeurs, using a camera as a means of looking into other people's lives...
To me, pretty much majority of the photographers I know, are voyeurs to some degree. We all get fascinated by lives that aren't ours...
sometimes we ask permission to enter and sometimes we just snap away unnoticed. He had taken a photograph of a salt and pepper porn channel while on his Booneville adventures... there's more that goes into it regarding the atmosphere.. but I'll leave that to Timothy.

Today's post involves wandering and lusting.... I strayed from the emails that have been piling up and started looking at old anonymous snapshots found on the web. Proof that throughout time... we photographers love being peeping toms (well at least I do). Enjoy. Have a great Thanksgiving and I'll be back to posting your entries next week.

voyeur (noun)
╚voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper
╚perceiver; observer; beholder
╚spectator; witness; viewer; watcher; looker
a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others.

Asleep

Odd embrace..

Cut out..
August, 1935

Photographs or fragmented memories...
or dreams that morph into a moment on film.
I'm not sure what it is about these three....
The word nostalgia comes to mind.

"A strange passion is moving in my head.
My heart has become a bird." -rumi