Photo Awesome

From what felt like a frenzied weekend of parties and cookouts, I found some time to shoot at Jason Kofke’s “Everything Will Be OK” at Arthouse and PhotoAwesome at Blue Tower. It’s not a bunch of photos but enough to laugh. Beware, I’m all over the pictures. Yes… Check them out before everyone graduates. Who’s gonna do the PhotoAwesome upkeep now?

www.whoiscarla.com

Just got this… fun was had by all. Go next year.

Yeah… I took shots at Lee’s opening, Ka-Chunk, on Saturday. I’m still working on the site but I get the few pictures I did take uploaded for him. Here’s the link:

Who Is Carla? Event Photography

Carla

It’s finished. With 27 participants, I think this year was a considerable success. Posters will actually be made this year, and the size is 13.5×20 inches. If you’re interested in purchasing an [inexpensive] copy, e-mail contact AT photoawesome.com.

However, it is with quite a bit of sadness that I must report the end of PhotoAwesome.com, at least for now. It seems that my host recently charged me an incredibly high amount for “overages”. Apparently we were hit by a hacker and an extremely high volume of spam was sent using our domain. As a result, my host has charged me (personally) over $1000, and locked the domain, keeping me from being able to transfer it to another host. So basically that means that PhotoAwesome.com will go offline one week from today. I’ll try and work it out with them, but they’re not budging. UPDATE: April Fools.

Normally I wouldn’t try to cram a ton of stuff into one post, but I really just don’t have the patience for covering all these things separately, and with the attention they deserve, so I’ll try to cover them in order of importance (roughly). Here goes:

1. Denise Lira’s show was recently profiled on a local blog. The review praised the show saying, “Through her installation, the space became activated in two ways: honored for its native raw utility and transformed into something utterly otherwordly. … [Her show] has so far been the best art event of the year.” Congrats, Denise!
2. Our own Rich Meade was also recently featured, this time in the form of an interview (and cover photo) on a new online art magazine called Liz Corday. Check out the interview in their first issue!
3. For those of you interested in the Sam Taylor-Wood video pieces we saw when she spoke at the High Museum this past fall, check out a decent selection of her full-length video pieces on Ubuweb.
4. Photos from the Spring 2008 Grad Pot Luck are now online. They are abundantly mediocre, thanks to myself.
5. Pause | to begin is a “photographically driven publication” which you should submit work to. They will conduct a studio visit if you are among the chosen, and you might be published. Charles Altshul, John Paul Caponigro and Joyce Tenneson are advisers for the project. Deadline for submissions is 4/1/08 and the fee is $35.
6. I’m going to submit work to the following two places, among others: Museum of Contemporary Photography (in Chicago) and Blue Sky Gallery (in Portland). Nothing coming up, just thought I’d mention them, since, you know, you’re totally wanting to get your work out there now. Yeah.
7. Oh, make some other suggestions for places to submit in the comments.

-Walker OUT

Check out THESE pictures from the tornado that came through downtown Atlanta this weekend at msnbc.

Hey everybody,

I posted some of my images from the time I spent on the set for the Carrie Mae Weems project.  Click here.

I found this website that just has photo pictures of historical photographers (i.e. Joel-Peter Witkin, Helmut Newton, Sebastiao Selgado, etc.) I thought it was pretty interesting. Check it out for yourselves. I might be alone on this one but I thought it was another way to remember photographers to reference while discussing contemporary works.

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Here are some (a lot) of photos from Miami.  Yet another example of PhotoAwesome being all awesome and stuff.

How did I/we miss this? Both our own Robert Gill (above) and Karen Williams (below) were featured on the Hey Hot Shot! blog this month.

Here they are.

And here are some overview shots if you don’t have time to look at the whole album:

Overview

PhotoAwesome

Painting & Printmaking

Sculpture

If you’d like the full size images, they’re here. You can figure out which file is which by hovering over the image in the album for the filename.

According to Dave, I made the mistake of not posting more than a single photo a couple of weeks back. So now I’m posting all I got… which isn’t much. I shot video the whole time. Check out the photos.

If you went on the trip in June, and you’d like your photos here, let me know and we’ll work it out.

Jeff is one of the undergrads on the NY Trip in June. I’ll be posting a few pictures of my own soon.

Our class at the Polaroid 20×24 studio in New York in June. Click to see it larger. The photo was taken by Karen Williams, a soon-to-be second-year grad student at the Atlanta campus.

Another photo from Karen features Steve Aishman and me, Steve Aishman. Which is which?!?

Just some pics from Rebecca’s opening in Bridgeport Ct
Video’s Coming sone!!!

Hey Everyone Just some photos from the NYC trip

I’m working on the videos from the NY Trip last week, but I’m still waiting on some footage. So in the mean time, I’ll post a couple of images from the trip here and there. And by “from the trip”, I mean the one day I shot color that I already have developed.

This just happens to be in Isidro Blasco’s studio in Brooklyn, where I just found out the other day that I will be interning. I’m still looking for a place to live (somewhere near the L train, if possible) so if you know of anything, please let me know.

Just found this image online… watch out ninjas.

Here are some of the images I shot with Douglas on one of his environmental service jobs.

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