The second annual seminar for APAG members and non-members was held at our favourite venue, ICP, on September 12 and 13, 2015. It featured fascinating panelists and was packed full of information pertaining to archives, what to do with them, how to look after them, who might purchase them and how to otherwise leverage their value. Just a few majorly important points of business! Here I am on my … [read more]
Congratulations to my client Stan Raucher whose exhibition is running at Blue Sky Gallery this week. >Stan Raucher has spent most of his life traveling and photographing the people who reside in different areas around the world. In this particular work, Raucher seeks to point his viewer towards the natural human conditions and the interactions one has with their surroundings. Stan writes in his … [read more]
Thanks to my client David Mark Erickson for inviting me along to do a short presentation to his monthly meet-up of Lightroom lovers , which he co-hosts with Lightroom Guy , DA Wagner. They meet in the fabulous museum-like room in the basement of New York's legendary Tekserve. I'm always happy to meet photographers outside of my usual circle (no offense everyone!) and the audience seemed to enjoy … [read more]
Photoville is a pop-up photography event now in its fourth year. It is held at Brooklyn Bridge Park and features 60+ shipping containers with exhibitions inside and out; workshops; presentations, and this year they added curator's tours. Join me on Saturday, September 12th, at 3 pm. and visit six fascinating exhibits. Photoville is FREE and runs from September 11 - 20 (Thursdays to Sundays). [read more]
My pals at ASMP asked me for a few words of advice for photographers attending portfolio reviews . I squeezed my opinions into about 450 words... There is some great advice from the other writers so be sure to read those posts too. [read more]
With great pleasure, I recently accepted a position on the board of the American Photography Archives Group . I have been a member for a few years now in my capacity as representative of the Yousuf Karsh estate and have been attending the quarterly meetings at ICP to discuss the challenges of representing an archive. Our members are a growing, varied bunch, and I have engaged them to talk to them … [read more]
The North American representative for the Estate of Yousuf Karsh (me) presents images and stories from the Karsh archive, and talks about how she and the Estate keep his work in the public eye. [read more]
Sara Rosen and I sat down to talk about the origins of aCurator for the Click blog over at Glitterati Inc. “I got a job as a photography processor at a one-hour photo shop on a high street. Then I got into further education and had a great time doing a photo course for two years. I wasn’t particularly good but I knew I wanted to do something in photography professionally. It was 1989 and I ended … [read more]
In 2012 I was invited to present and review at what turned out to be a fabulous week-long celebration of photography in Kristiansund North, in Norway, called Nordic Light . Imagine my surprise when the other people flown in from the USA were Greg Gorman, Bruce Davidson, Mary Ellen Mark, and Abe Frajndlich. A good time was had by all and naturally I will never forget it. One of the highlights was … [read more]
I really enjoyed doing this interview with photo resource Shutterhub . "The award winning aCurator online magazine features high quality photographic projects from a diverse range of contributors, displayed in a full screen format. Its founder Julie Grahame has a long history of working with photographers as a consultant, online publisher, editor, portfolio reviewer and more. We took the … [read more]