ERICA MCDONALD PHOTOGRAPHY

News

The British Journal of PhotographyMarch 2010Spotlight on the dark light of this nothing

The British Journal of Photography spotlighted my book project, the dark light of this nothing, in the March 2010 issue. Very exciting!

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Mother Jones published my Surf Manor Adult Home photos in the March 2010 issue - adult homes are institutions where the mentally ill are warehoused by NY state. You can see the images and read the article written by the wonderful Jennifer Gonnerman online.

The adult home residents had a victory on March 1, 2010. After seven years of legal action, a federal judge issued a decision ordering New York State to create 4,500 units of supportive housing for people currently living in adult homes.

And the Epoch Times ran a piece too, March 3, 2010, in print and online.

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Fun! A link to my Grateful Dead photos at a VW site.

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Rebecca and Alex Webb have a great blog

and they recently asked photographers to write about an image that has influenced them - my account of seeing the ever amazing Walker Evans photo for the first time is here.

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Andrew Sullivan and I are teaching a photo workshop May 23 - June 5 in NYC through the Italian Center for Photography Spazio Labo...molto bene! Also teaching are Massimo Sciacca and Aaron Lee Fineman.

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I had a small hand in this as one of the editors: The Photojournale Connections Across A Human Planet. In her forward to the book, Ami Vitale writes "Photojournale has collected work from residents of each country. These images give us a glimpse into lives we might not otherwise see and emphasize not how different we are but rather our similarities...Perhaps now, more than ever, we need to get beyond the stereotypes and dramatic images and instead allow people to tell their own stories in a humanistic way."

So there it is. And here it is.

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At long last, you can see a multimedia presentation of my new work 'the dark light of this nothing'. The piece is up at Burn Magazine . Soon I'll put up a still gallery here with a different edit. David Alan Harvey is helping me get this ready to show to publishers - if you are an editor and publisher and want to see the full body of work, please email me directly.

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Some news...I have work up at Foto Week D.C. in a show for Burn Magazine:

Magnum Photographer and Burn Magazine curator David Alan Harvey presents a show featuring the work of some of the freshest new talent on the photography scene, featuring Chris Bickford's "After the Storm", Michael Loyd Young's "Blues, Booze, and BBQ" and A. J. Wilhelm's "Kabul Opium." Also shown is the best of this year's Burn Magazine photography essays and singles, including photographs by Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Erica McDonald, Anton Kusters, James Delano, Bob and Marina Black, Panos Skoulidas, Medford Taylor, Michael Courvoisier, Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Kyunghee Lee, Yalda, Andrew Sullivan, Lassal, Victor Ben Tzvi, Marcin Luczkowski.

Fight Club

Washington, DC 20001

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Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey and Burn Magazine present a "unique showing of prints by Elliot Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas, Alex & Rebecca Webb and Chris Anderson, featuring an exquisite selection of prints by Burn emerging photographers" including yours truly. You can see my print on the wall at the opening on 10/9/2009 in the photo to the left (taken by Loft Workshop student Dominik Dunsch).

This just in - Burn Magazine won Photography Magazine of the Year 2009 from The Lucie Awards!

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NPPA's News Photographer Magazine interviewed me and ran a few photos from The Dark Light of This Nothing in the November 2009 issue for an article about Photojournalism and Spirituality, written by Devin Greaney.

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If you are wondering where my new work is..

I've been shooting almost daily for many months now for what will be my first book. It is a bit of a stylistic departure for me, shot mostly in 35 mm. It's has been a wonderful journey so far; the images are of a working class neighborhood in Brooklyn, and I should have some photos here by the end of 2009. In the photo on the left I am holding a temporary dummy. (photo by John Edwin Mason, altered by me)

If you are an editor or publisher and are curious, please email me and I'll send you a lightbox of the work to date.

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I've always tried to be Conscientous, and now I am.

See Jörg Colberg's weblog about fine-art photography .

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If you aren't familiar with Verve Photo, check it out. Geoffrey Hiller shows work from "A new breed of DocumentaryPhotographers" and he has chosen one of my images from Coney Island to feature. I am in very good company..the site is a fantastic way to learn about photographers whose work you know well, and to discover others that you had not yet heard about.

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I'm happy to announce that I am included in THE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO EMERGING ART PHOTOGRAPHY. (renamed The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography.)

The book is now available through D.A.P.

CURATED BY ALANA CELII, JON FEINSTEIN & GRANT WILLING

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY RUBEN NATAL–SAN MIGUEL AND JON FEINSTEIN

The Collector's Guide is an invite only, unique 180–page source book distributed to collectors, art dealers, gallery directors, photo editors, museum professionals, and independent curators. Published biennially, The Collector's Guide aims to further Humble's mission by bridging the gap between ambitious early-career photographers and often-unapproachable photography professionals and art institutions.

Ideally, the 163 photographers featured in this publication will move on to find their work in private collections, represented by reputable galleries and included in group exhibitions. The Collector's Guide will also serve as a resource for photo editors, helping to attract assignments to featured photographers.

The Collector's Guide is not a traditional consumer-based art photography book. Instead, this source book is a complimentary guide for collectors and photography industry professionals.