News
Very proud to report that I co-curated the exhibit Uncommon Intimacy: Juliana Beasley, Erica McDonald, Amy Stein, Amy Touchette at Spazio Labo' for Arte Fiera in Bologna, Italy.
In collaboration with Slideluck Potshow, Daylight Magazine, FlakPhoto.com, Prospekt, we also organized a Women in Multimedia night with an amazing line-up of multimedia pieces. I've posted a slideshow of a group of women photographers on DEVELOP Tube. Soon I'll post a selection of solo pieces that were featured.
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Two of my photos are in the Occupy Wall Street exhibit at the South Street Seaport Museum in NYC.
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Nina Berman has curated a slideshow of work about the Occupy Wall Street movement with images from photographers Jon Lowenstein, Nina Berman, Yuri Kozyrev, Alan Chin, Noah Addis, David Butow, Mark Ovaska, John Trotter, Erica McDonald, Todd Bigelow, Yunghi Kim and Andy Kropa.
January 18, 6 – 9pm in Dumbo - Hope to see you there.
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I am looking forward to this workshop - please join if you can!
Jason Eskenazi and Erica McDonald partner to teach The Documentary Essay photography workshop in NYC from June 18 to June 24. Students can be of any age and any nationality, a scholarship will be awarded...let me know if you have any questions.
The other 2012 Spazio Labo’ | Center of Photography NYC workshops will be taught by Amy Stein, and by Stefano De Luigi.
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Gomma magazine interviewed me <3
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Neat: the new downtown Brooklyn boutique hotel, Hotel 718, has aquired its art from NYC artists, including a piece by me.
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So happy to have been able to photograph the Nobel Peace Prize recipient Tawakul Karman for a feature in FT Weekend Magazine. Amazing woman!
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Kate Osba interviewed me for her fantastic blog This Is The What.
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Thank you so much Lung Liu for this photo of the projection of my series 'the dark light of this nothing' at Angkor Photo Festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Wish I could have been there!
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My thoughts on teaching an intensive weeklong workshop thru Roberto Alfano and Laura De Marco's Spazio Labo' Fotografia are over on their blog. If you don't have time to read the piece, the short answer is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Can't wait for next year's workshop. Also - it's not just for Italians anymore. Would love to see you in class, no matter where you are from.
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It's 10/28 and I'm still shooting Occupy Wall Street, and I have found a nice project to focus on within the larger story. But I am also photographing the general goings-on and will post some of these images soon. If you are an editor and want an a sneak peek - just drop me a line.
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I've been down at Zuccotti Park as much as time has allowed photographing the Occupy Wall Street protests, and hope to continue as long as they hold out. I'm working toward a narrative photo essay, but here is one image that ran online in the Wall Street Journal of Mayor Bloomberg's suprise visit on Wednesday October 12, 2011.
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On the NYT Lens blog: Announcing the Bursa Photofest in Turkey - with Turkish photography and international works by Maggie Steber, Carolyn Drake, Rena Effendi, Kate Brooks, Ken Schles, Xenia Nikolskaya, Ken Light, Vivian Maier, Randa Mirza & Kai Wiedenhoefer; international works curated by Jason Eskenazi.
I'm very happy to say that a new multimedia version of my project 'the dark light of this nothing' will be shown at the festival. I'll add it to my NNwebsite and put it on DEVELOP Tube after it is shown at the festival.
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It was with a great sadness that I learned of Wangari Maathai's passing. You can learn more about her life and the Green Belt Movement here. This photo is an outake from the time I spent with Wangari Maathai, photographing her for the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. I chose the above image because I think it reflects her beautiful purity of spirit.
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Jonathan Cherry chats with "innovative contemporary photographers from around the world" for his ever interesting Mull It Over series of web based interviews. This time he asked me what I had for breakfast :)
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On Sunday July 24, 2011, same sex marriage became legal in New York, and I had the good fortune to be at the Manhattan City Clerk's Office to photograph the day. I'm building a gallery of images available for publication, but if you are an editor please contact me if you'd like to see images for a sneak peek.
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In case you haven't seen it yet - I've also created a DEVELOP Tube for Vimeo - please check it out - it has very different content from the DEVELOP Tube on YouTube.
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The dark light of this nothing featured on Get Addicted To...Daily Mix of Creative Culture and an interview with me about photography and DEVELOP by Peter Nitsch: Perception of Photography
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My photo of the beautiful singer-songwriter Paula Cole is on her website's homepage.
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I've just finished teaching a week long intensive DEVELOP 'bootcamp' style workshop through Spazio labo'. All the students came from Italy to NYC for the week and they were truly wonderful. I'll miss them all. I photographed everyone on the last day before the celebration slideshow.
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Just launched! The DEVELOP Photo YouTube Channel is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures and films about photojournalism, fine art and documentary photography and photographers. I'll also be showingcasing projects from Emphas.is and select Kickstarter campaigns.The DEVELOP Photo YouTube Channel is a facet of DEVELOP Photo. (Coming soon!)
Follow DEVELOP Photo @DEVELOPphoto on Twitter.
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As part of An Evening to Support Human-Rights Journalism May 12, 25CPW Gallery, 6pm in NYC, I have donated a print from the dark light of this nothing that will be up for auction. The night is organized by the Dart Society and will be hosted Gloria Steinem. If you can't come in person, you can also bid by proxy.
A lot of great work will be auctioned, and some of the other photgraphers are Nina Berman, Robin Bowman, Samantha Box, David Burnett, Debbie Fleming Caffery, James Whitlow Delano, Jason Eskenazi, Donna Ferrato, Stanley Greenberg, Lori Grinker, David Alan Harvey, Ron Haviv, Todd Heisler, Ed Kashi, Andrew Lichtenstein, Jon Lowenstein, Erica McDonald, Susan Meiselas, John Moore, Kathryn Obermaier, Mark Peterson, Ken Schles, Amy Stein, John Trotter & Phil Toledano.
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May 22 - 28 I'll be teaching a NYC based week-long shooting and editing intensive workshop with Andrew Sullivan, through Spazio Labo' - this is the 2nd edition, and last year was great. It looks as if guest speakers will include Amy Stein and Juliana Beasley and possibly Amy Touchette and Spencer Platt. This year we will welcome students from the US and all countries, not just Italy.
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I had such a fun time photographing Marilyn Church and her art for the Financial Times Weekend Magazine 2/2011. She's a courtroom sketch artist - The Library of Congress is acquiring virtually her entire collection of more than 3,500 sketches. Marilyn has captured some of the most infamous trials in the past quarter-century, drawing portraits of Robert E. Chambers (the Preppy Killer), David Mark Chapman (John Lennon's killer), John Gotti, Bernard Goetz, Jacqueline Onassis, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, Tupac Shakur, David Berkowitz, Martha Stewart, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and Bernie Madoff. And I had the chance to see them firsthand!
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Come this May, I will be teaching a NYC based Workshop again with Andrew Sullivan through Spazio Labo' - Centro di Fotografia. Also teaching workshops are Donna Ferrato, Davide Monteleone and Maurizio Garofalo. I am so pleased to be teaching again this year - we had such wonderful class last year!
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Bingo In the Blood, My first story for The New York Times is online now, with terrific writing by N.R. Sonny Kleinfield. Click on the Multimedia link to see more photos. Should be in the printed paper tomorrow, on Sunday November 28 in the Metropoloitan section. Exciting!
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Magnum Photos is carrying burn.01 in their online bookstore...wonderful and humbling!
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Burn.01 featured on the New York Times Lens Blog: "(David Alan Harvey) has taken 25 photo essays that he had posted on the Web and created “Burn.01,” a beautifully printed 300-page book." I am grateful that my project the dark light of this nothing is included in the book, and on the NYT site - thanks David and Jim!
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I'll be reviewing portfolios October 30th for the Palm Springs Photo Festival at PDN's PhotoPlus in NYC at the Javits Center. You can still sign up and pick your reviewers (wink, wink) - hope to see you there!
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The Photography and Publishing exhibit at the FotoGrafia Festival in Rome runs through October 24, 2010 and features photographers across the globe including John Vink, Marcus Bleasdale, Wei Ying Ang, James Chance, Anton Kusters, Gareth Phillips and Erica McDonald :) If anyone reading this attends, I would love to hear a first hand account.
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i <3 dvafoto - images from the dark light of this nothing are up on their site, on this fine September day.
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Marc Prust has selected my book dummy of the dark light of this nothing for an exhibit of Photography and Publishing at the FotoGrafia Festival in Rome ! Here is a sneak peek of some of the spreads in the layout.
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dvafoto has a great section called The Talent where they list photographers, agencies, collectives, and magazines whose work they follow - and ericamcdonaldphoto.com has been added to their list. thanks guys :)
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British Journal of Photography has done a great redesign of their online site, with new additions making it a place you'll want to check in most days, and this week there is a photo from the dark light of this nothing on the homepage..nice!
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I have some work from dark light featured in the 2010 summer issue of 100eyes Magazine. Thank you to Andy Levin who runs the magazine, for giving me the cover! The issue is "devoted to the idea of home. Home is a place, home is a community, home is a state of mind." And sweet little Leaf Love girl is on their facebook page too...
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The NYC Workshop went really well and some fantastic creative leaps were made over the week. I took some quick portraits of our students...here are their lovely faces. I feel so thankful to have been able to work with all of them. Andrew and I are in there too; he took the shot of me, or tried too :)
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Andrew Sullivan and I will be teaching The Intuitive Document, a Workshop in NYC through the Italian photography center Spazio Labo', May 23 - 29, 2010. Also teaching another NYC workshop through the school is Massimo Sciacca. Ciao!
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The Bitish Journal of Photography piece about the dark light of this nothing is now online in a shortened version, read it here.
A longer piece with photos is spotlighted in the March 2010 issue in print. 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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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.