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六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます Six New York Photographers in Japan Kirstie Carrizales, Melanie Chamberlain, Diana Iacono, Katie Mavrovitis, Teresa Salinas, and Rebecca Zoltowski; Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock 六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます (Six New York Photographers in Japan) is the final culmination of the course "Documentary Photography: Japan" offered by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock through the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts at Fordham University. The book is 202 pages, 10x8 inches (25x20 cm), with four-color printing and can be ordered in softcover, or hardback in a range of paper grades. Preview the entire book here . The course description is as follows: This intensive class is designed as a platform for intermediate and advanced level students to further develop their photographic production with an emphasis on generating documentary projects focusing on the people, culture, and architecture of Japan. The megacity of Tokyo will serve as the starting point for our investigatio...

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So this Saturday my best friend A married S. I was there as a friend and their event photographer. The formal wedding pictures were taken by the lady photographer, who also did my portrait shooting, she's great. Anyway, a June wedding called for a dress with a hat or a fascinator. Since I couldn't find a nice sunhat which left me abled to shoot at the same time while wearing it (I need to see and don't want the rim of my hat on every picture, now do I?), I looked for a fascinator and luckily I found the perfect Alice band. It looks fabulous, but isn't exactly comfy, I had to take it off halfway through the evening. The wedding party was fabulous and the shooting went quite well. I've had tons of fun using the Canon Rebel 450D. While before I only wanted it because of it's name, now I know for certain that it is the right camera for me. It has the right weight, it is beautifully balanced and just all around fun to shoot with. All in all I took about 600 pictures ...

APT (ed. Nicholas Laughlin) All I Can Say Is What I Can Say /  What I Can Say Is All I Can Say  (by Nicholas Laughlin) Neither Here Nor There (by Alicia Milne) Pinky & Emigrante (by Alicia Milne and Luis Vasquez La Roche) * THAT morning, I was not expecting it. An A4 envelope addressed to me: too large to be a bill or a simple letter, too small to be one of those unaddressed spam magazines. The return address is written in a familiar but not immediately recognisable handwriting (how little we see each other's handwriting in these days of emails, blogs, Facebook !) I do the usual hold up to the light and check test to ascertain if anything explosive is inside, then carefully open it. A small note: APT is a found journal. Its form is its content and its content is its form.    The October 2011 issue of APT is made of pages torn more or less at random from a 2009-2010 Trinidad and Tobago telephone directory.    It is titled REPUBLIC.     ...

Photo courtesy Letizia Gramaglia ANACONDA Water most closely resembles space, more so than our hard imagining of ideal nothings; water, sure as snakes are steady, pouring over every sit- uation * Trinidadian Poet Vahni Capildeo reads 'Anaconda' from Undraining Sea (2009) in this amazing new pod-cast at Spaces Between Words . She also reads from Utter,  another completed book,   and gives insight to her process of writing. * VAHNI CAPILDEO: When people say things like, 'what does this poem mean?' or 'how can you summarise this line?' I think well what is the point of writing a poem rather than writing a report? Because I want to be able to evoke contradictions and produce what could be called cognitive dissonance which, I think, is a very natural state and also sometimes to be able to grasp certain truths which are not, perhaps, theorisable. I mean obviously I am not a physicist but I think there are certain truths about the simultaneous perception of time and ...

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By Chris Ofili for the 2012 Olympics.  FIND out more, including a video by Tracy Assing about it, at ARC  here .

Wolkenburg castle Two days ago I had an epiphany. I realized that for the last weeks I had been falling back into my old behavior of being an observer instead of an doer. Since I've decided at the beginning of the year that I want to live an active life, I wasn't exactly amused by this observation (pun intended). So when I got an e-mail by my club yesterday morning, asking for last minute help with todays big scale event in Dresden, I jumped at the chance. During this event I will not only be the event photographer but also teach the attendees (from some CCIs and business promoting organizations) about Lomography and creativity (hence todays picture). Lomography was my restart in photography, without my Lomo Fisheye camera there wouldn't be this blog or San's Visual Art. Lomography to me means sheer creativity. What means creativity to you?

Entrance to the Karlsruhe Zoo (No, this is not my new work place!) As you might have realized this blog has been relatively quiet. However I have a very, very, very good reason for it: I will move to Karlsruhe at the end of June, because on July 2nd I will start in my new job, which is THE job at THE organization. Naturally I'm really excited about this opportunity, this change. So right now I'm quite busy with wrapping up projects here in Leipzig and preparing for the move. I still have to find a room for the first three months, but I don't consider it a challenge since the summer holidays come up and a lot of the students will sublet their rooms. Karlsruhe is a beautiful city in my opinion and has a good size. Throughout the last three years I've visited a lot of german cities and most of them I found pretty ugly and I wouldn't want to work or live there, like the Ruhrpott (Yes, it's more than one city, I know that.) or Berlin . My personal Top 5 of german ...

details of artwork produced in a range of NADC fine art courses. From left to right Cole Barrett, Jo McDonald, Julieanne Bartolo, Phillip Murray, Ali Hutton, student at work. In second semester 2012, NADC is offering the Certificate II in Visual Arts as a full-time introductory course in visual arts studio practice. The course is offered full-time (3 days per week) over the 18 weeks of Semester 2, with classes running from 9am-4pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The course is suitable for those who wish to commence full-time study in the visual arts, with an emphasis on hands-on studio practice. Subjects covered include painting, ceramics, drawing, photography, printmaking and painting. Many of our students use this as a stepping-stone to further study with in a following year. This course could assist you with entry in 2013 to Certificate IV in Visual Arts, or the Certificate IV in Ceramics. You can download a Certificate II Visual Arts course information leaflet here: htt...

FROM THE ORGANISERS: Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to The Search – La Busqueda an exhibition of drawings by Luis Vasquez La Roche OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday 14th June 2012,  6.30pm – 9.00pm at 37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain. RSVP 740 7597/medullaartgallery@gmail.com ARTIST TALK: Thursday 05th July, 6.30pm – 9.00pm Exhibition continues until Monday 09th July 2012 ABOUT THE SHOW: The use of different drawing mediums, from charcoal to graphite, reflects a transition in my concepts. The charcoal drawings explore a more emotional and confusing beginning of my search. The drawings with graphite on paper are more contained and logical, almost mathematical. Even though the figures seem to be geometrically accurate and proportioned, slight variations and adjustments have been made to make the drawing imperfect. These drawings explore more in depth questions like: which nationality represents me? which race do I feel more identified with? which culture I am most inf...

Congratulations to staff members Stephen Hall and Aiden Harris  who have  been selected for the fourth annual Hidden : Rookwood Sculpture Walk. The exhibition invites  audiences to explore the historic cemetery and find the sculptures  installed within  the grounds. All artworks selected into Hidden 2012 are short listed for the Rookwood Necropolis Sculpture Award -   a $5,000.00 non-acquisitive award.  'With views of the city on the horizon, this site offers artists a rare opportunity to showcase their work in an extremely thought provoking context'. "The Limner Loses" gouache on a photographic image on watercolour paper   Image from Stephens proposal for Hidden 2012

Camping table and chair were lent to me by a good friend Yesterday I attended my first market / street festival and I've learned a lot: - Little kids love stones (the stones were only on the table because of the windy conditions) - People like my ornaments/tribals - I need to present my cards differently, make the access and the foraging easier for the customers (a turnable postcard stand would probably be best) - Art fairs are preferable sales points for my stuff not normal street festivals and certainly not the Kö street festival. However the Westpaket on the Karl-Heine-Street might be a possible street festival, since it is kind of an art fair. So, essentially yesterday afternoon was an afternoon in market research. I learned a lot and I'm sure I will put my new knowledge to use. Now I'll enjoy a piece of strawberry cake, tonight I'll enjoy a concert and tomorrow I'll enjoy another Offline - Sunday at my coffee shop with an amazing mango milkshake and Caffé Latt...

Well sunshine is something that Leipzig's inhabitants could use today, instead it is pouring down. Not the best weather for the International Children's Day and the little street festival planned for this afternoon on Leipzig's Kö(nneritzstreet).  A street festival for which I have created postcards and planned a market stall. It is supposed to be my first market, the way it currently looks I can forget about it, since I don't have a gazebo. 20 € down metaphorically down the drain. On the other hand, the weather could still change a lot in the next 5 hours. (And my Tarot said so. ;-) Whatever.  Enjoy your Friday and then the weekend and June.