We like to think of LensWork as a family of fellow artists, bonded together by our love of photography as a way of life. It’s our honor and pleasure to work with so many wonderful photographers, and to keep you informed of their creative paths. Here are some recent news items from our alumni. — The Editors

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May, 2016New Work • Exhibitions • Workshops • Publications • Folios

Alumni News

In This Issue

Exhibition Blog Post

Wayne Norton Frank Van Riper Alexandra de Steiguer

Group Exhibition

Brigitte Carnochan

Exhibition

A. Cemal Ekin

Workshops

Adam Jahiel

Curator & Workshops

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Alumni NewsBrigitte Carnochan — Portola Valley, California

Group Exhibitionwww.brigittecarnochan.com

Verve Gallery of Photography

Brigitte Carnochan Elizabeth Opalenik Josephine Sacabo

April 29, 2016 - June 11, 2016 Opening Reception: May 6, 2016 5-7pm Gallery Talk: Saturday, May 7, 2016, 2pm

“I will have two related bodies of work in the show: one platinum/palladium and one mixed media. Both use letters from the 1920’s from a bank clerk named George to his girlfriend Edna. The letters trace their relationship from its beginning to their marriage in 1932. In the photo series I use photos of my imagined Ednas

to respond to excerpts from the letters that I believe she might have singled out. In the mixed media, I use the actual letters. Edna was a modern woman. She smoked and wore make-up (which George worries about telling his mother), she loved to dance, she voiced her romantic expectations, she wanted a career. There is nothing momentous about their story – one of the reasons I found it so compelling."

Carnochan in LensWork and LensWork Extended #110Natural Beauty

“I have printed these photographs with one of the oldest photographic materials – platinum – for its extravagantly long tonal range, depth, and permanence. My subject matter, as always, comes mostly from my own garden.”

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Photo credit: Susan Friedman

Dearest Edna

Chasing Women

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ExhibitionTrees of the AegeanDates: April 21 – May 14, 2016 Peter Miller Fine Art Gallery - Providence, Rhode Island

Most trees have character, olive trees manifest the most visible and varied character of them all. Considered by many as eternal trees, they live centuries, even beyond millennia. Camel Ekin has captured the character and personality of the olive trees of Ayvalik, Turkey and created stunning “portraits,” capturing the spirit residing within. In his series of images, Ekin displays the uniqueness of the trees’ rotational growth into twisted shapes of trunks; the light show of leaves with a dark green side and a shimmering silvery side; and of course, the aged dignity they seem to preserve even after severe pruning. The “Trees of the Aegean” are like monuments, a gift to us in many ways by nature.

In this portfolio, Ekin explores the Earth in infrared: “What I see is not what the camera records. While the camera is a tool for me, I am a tool for the camera. The result of this symbiotic relationship is my photography. I call them ‘Earthscapes’ as they are too grand to be landscapes: results at once awe-inspiring and yet abstract; amazing detail, yet anonymous.”

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A. Cemal Ekin — Warwick, Rhode Islandwww.keptlight.com

Ekin in LensWork Extended #97 Infrared Earthscapes

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Alumni NewsAdam Jahiel — Story, Wyoming

Workshopswww.adamjahiel.com

Willow Creek Ranch at the Hole-In-The-Wall WorkshopsSpring 2016: June 2-8, 2016Fall 2016: September 20-25, 2016Location: Willow Creek Ranch, Kaycee, Wyoming

These workshop are open to all skill levels, from beginner to advanced. Emphasis is on seeing, developing a point of view, and gaining an appreciation and knowledge of light.

This country has some of the most beautiful landscape in Wyoming, including a 70-mile wall of red sandstone that hosts the actual hole-in-the-wall, where Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch once used to hide their stolen cattle.

More information

Past student work can be seen here.

Jahiel in LensWork Extended #119Querencia

“I wanted to see as much of Cuba as I could and knew that it wouldn’t be possible to get an in-depth look at the country and its people in such a short period of time; that would have been unrealistic and frustrating. Instead, I did what I always do, I walked and wandered, sat and observed, and had wonderful conversations with people, often without speaking a word.”

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Alumni NewsWayne Norton — Wickenburg, Arizona

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Exhibition

Desert RelationsTucson Desert Art MuseumTucson, ArizonaThrough June 2016

The exhibit includes 36 split-toned still life photos depicting various personal observations regarding the desert, including conflicting relations between man and nature, different cultures, and different ethical viewpoints.

Norton in LensWork and LensWork Extended #66Desert Relations

A Brooks Institute trained commercial photographer, Norton turns his attention to more personal and self-directed studio still life photography with this portfolio of objects he found in the desert.

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Curator of Exhibition & Workshops

Eighth "Mirror to the World" Exhibition Features Documentary Photography from China to Campobello

Exhibition Dates: April 22 – May 29, 2016Opening Reception: Friday, April 22, 6-8PM

Exhibition Artists: Dorte Verner, Brian Flynn, Mark Parascandola, Michele Egan, Ginger Werz-Petricka

Glen Echo Photoworks’ eighth annual “Mirror to the World” exhibition of documentary photography will feature work by five area photographers who have traveled the world to capture stories of people and their environments. As before, this year’s show was curated by Frank Van Riper, longtime Photoworks faculty member and author of five books, including the internationally bestselling Serenissima: Venice in Winter. More info

Also, every year Frank Van Riper and wife and partner Judith Goodman lead sold-out photography workshops in Maine, Umbria, and Venice. They invite you to join them for low-key, hands-on instruction in some of the world’s most beautiful settings. More info

“Make room for inspiration; make time for yourself. At the end of a career, that’s the work you will treasure – and the work that you will most likely be remembered by.”

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Frank Van Riper — Washington, D.C.www.talkingphotography.com • www.gvrphoto.com • veniceinwinter.com

Van Riper in LensWork #39, 41, 43, 45, 46, 49, 56Articles

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Alumni NewsAlexandra de Steiguer — York, Maine

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Blog Post

“Peabody Essex Museum requested that I write a blog post to coincide with some of my work supplementing the Exhibit of the painter Childe Hassam.“

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“With these images I honor the wildlife, the grasses and seaweed, the wind-torn bushes, low trees, the rocks and the sea. For these are the real, long-term denizens of this place. We come and go like brief storms, but they remain. Creating photographs is a way to briefly engage with all that is here; to feel a small part of this interdependent and self-sustaining natural community – the sea and rocky islands on which I live.”

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de Steiguer in LensWork and LensWork Extended #108Small Island, Big Picture

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LensWork Alumni NewsAnnouncements of new work, exhibitions, publications, folios, workshops, and other items of interest from LensWork alumni photographers and writers.

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As of issue #119, LensWork (magazine) now publishes both color and black-and-white work.

We always enjoy the opportunity to look at new work. In fact, about half of what we’ve published in LensWork and LensWork Extended comes from submissions that were originally unsolicited, that is to say, from readers and subscribers like you. We love giving exposure to photographers who are doing good work but are not plugged-in to the publicity machines that galleries and traditional publishers provide!

Our submission guidelines are available in the link below. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader version 9 or greater to open this file.) Please review these submis-sion guidelines and then feel free to send in your work for consideration.

Obviously, we can’t publish everything that is submitted, but we also can’t publish work that isn’t ever submitted! The best way to start is to send in the work and let us take a look. Thanks!

Note: As of August 2015, we no longer accept physical submissions (on disc, thumbdrive, or prints). Submissions are accepted only via digital delivery like Dropbox, Hightail, DropSend, WeTransfer, etc.

NEW! Portfolio Submission Guidelines for LensWork

How to Submit Your Work to LensWork Publishing (PDF, updated July 2015)

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