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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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July, 2019New Work • Exhibitions • Workshops • Publications • Folios
Alumni News
In This Issue
Fall Workshop Exhibitions
Adam Jahiel Paul Kenny Cheryl Medow
Exhibition
Gary Anthes
New Work
Jon Fishback
Exhibition & Juried Show
Daniel Jackson
New Book
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Exhibition
Snap ShotPhotographs and book
Studio GalleryWashington, DCJune 26 through July 20William Carroll, curator
Preview
Artists’ reception June 29 from 4 – 6 pmDupont Circle First Friday reception July 5 from 6 – 8 pmRSVP not required
“As a frequent visitor to museums and galleries, I often think about the viewers’ role in art. I try to imagine what the people around me are thinking and feeling. Why are they there? Why do they take snapshots of selected work? And what will they do with those images? Rarely do I get answers, and I depart knowing more about the (often dead) artists whose work I have seen than about the living people standing right next to me.”
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Gary Anthes — Washington, D.C. and Virginiagaryanthes.smugmug.com
Anthes in LensWork and LensWork Extended #136Art / Space: Points of View
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New WorkSome time ago, I took a photograph of some spring type clothes pins. The image ended up in a class I teach on image analysis. Looking at it one day I thought, what ever happened to the old-fashioned push-on clothes pins? I am not sure why I was interested in this – I just was – and went to eBay to see what I might find. Lo-and-behold there were many choices, and I ended up purchasing a large cloth bag – the type mom or grandma hung over the clothesline – full of all types of old push-on-pins. It turns out, over the years the style and the wood used to make them has changed, and I ended up with more than five different types.
This collection found its way, as many things I purchase, in the closet that holds all those things I probably will never use.A week or so ago I was reading a book about Man Ray by Roland Penrose – a cute little New York Graphic Society publication from 1975. This book is full of great illustrations and one of the groups was of some of Man Ray’s sculptures that he had photographed. Those antique clothes pins popped into my mind and this is the result. I guess this is the reason I bought them and didn’t even know it.
“I began collecting feathers while walking our two retired racing greyhounds. It began with a few gray, rather plain feathers. The project took on a life of its own, and I began to find feathers everywhere. I then found a local parrot breeder who had a wonderful collection. The work continued, only in color.”
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Jon Fishback — Vancouver, [email protected]
Fishback in LensWork and LensWork Extended #91 Feathers
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Exhibition & Juried ShowSeveral images from my series The Pond are appearing in a show called Summer Splash at the Panopticon Gallery in Boston from June 27 to Sept 4.
I also have an image from my Passing Through series in the Griffin Museum’s annual juried show this summer.
Here at LensWork we’ve long been advocates of photographing close to home, where one can have a more intimate relationship with one’s subject matter. Daniel Jackson has done just that in this portfolio of the building in which he works – the Stata Center, designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 2004. Two of the photographs were made from his office window!
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Daniel Jackson — Newton, Massachusettesdanieljackson.photo
Jackson in LensWork Extended #70 The Stata Center
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Fall WorkshopAdam Jahiel’s Willow Creek Ranch at the Hole-in-the-Wall fall Photography Workshop September 20-26, near Kaycee, Wyoming. Limited to 8 people.
The goal of this workshop is for people to learn and grow as photographers, and have the luxury of five days to learn, think, share, and experiment. I encourage people to push past their existing comfort zones. We have a modern meeting room, with a large, flat screen TV, and a digital projector system, and snacks. Plug in your laptop, and leave it there all week. The room is always accessible. Typically,
the cowboys wrangle horses early in the morning, eat breakfast, saddle up and head off to work in some of the most beautiful landscape you have ever seen. Between shooting opportunities, we meet, look at photos, share ideas, ask questions, and learn new things.
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www.adamjahiel.com • [email protected] • 307-751-8655
“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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Adam Jahiel — Story, Wyomingwww.adamjahiel.com
Jahiel in LensWork Extended #119Querencia
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New BookO Hanami - The Celebration Of Transient BeautyBy Paul Kenny - Foreword By Francis Hodgson
O Hanami - The Celebration Of Transient Beauty ties together several threads of Paul Kenny’s work from 1995 through to previously unseen images made in 2018.
The unifying core being work made with scraps of natural material from his garden and the hedgerows around his home.
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“Seaworks is a term I use to define an ongoing body of work made on or about shorelines. The work, building on themes developed over 40 years, seeks to find the awe-inspiring in that which is easily passed by and by looking at the macro, how we might gain insight into the macro.”
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Paul Kenny — Lowick, Berwick Upon Tweed, United Kingdomwww.paul-kenny.co.uk
Kenny in LensWork Extended #112Seaworks
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Alumni NewsCheryl Medow — Santa Monica, California
www.cherylmedow.com
ExhibitionsTen images from Cheryl’s Envisioning Habitat series will be on display at the Chicago Academy of Sciences - Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum July 2 - August 25. PDNB Gallery in Dallas, Texas has a few of her large-sized images (32x40”) through July 6th.
“In this series I gather visual assets, then blend multiple photographs to create real and idealized habitats for the birds. Of interest is that this work did not begin this way: there was a path of discovery that required creative problem-solving. Once I let go of reality I was free to create.”
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Medow in LensWork and LensWork Extended #131Envisioning Habitat
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