The Atlanta Photography Group (APG) is having an opening this Friday for a show called “In Your Dreams” that will run through June 20th. The selection has been juried by Naomi Silva, and the photographers include Anne Berry, Bob Burkhardt, Nicolas Dantona, Allison Evans, Ellen Jantzen, Jan Kapoor, Susan Lirakis, Ted Maloof, Ann E. Moller, Gittel Price, Brett Ryabik & David Swann. Also showing is Paul Conlan’s “Urban Landscapes” work.

For more info, please see APG.

Abby Banks “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now” at Get This! Gallery

Photographer Abby Banks has an exhibition of photographs called “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now” at Get This! Gallery in Castleberry. ACP visited Abby and gallery owner Lloyd Benjamin the afternoon of her show’s opening. The photographs in the show were selected from Abby’s cross-country journey photographing punk houses nationwide. Some of these photos were published last October in her first book, “Punk House”.

“If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now” is up through June 21st.

Get This! Gallery has been a participating venue in Atlanta Celebrate’s Photography’s monthlong festival, and we’re looking forward to including them again this year. Thanks again to Abby and Lloyd.

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Susan Todd-Raque sends word of Jerry Siegel’s Open Studio this Saturday, May 3rd, 10:00am-2:00pm. Jerry’s work can be seen on his own site and on Susan’s site. The studio’s located at 812 Lambert Drive, Suite B, in Atlanta. Send Susan an email for more info.

If you’re on ACP’s mailing list, you just received an email about Sheila Pree Bright’s “Young Americans” which opens this Saturday at the High Museum.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution has published a gallery of images from the exhibition (including this self-portrait from Sheila) and an article “Vivid photos of young America” by Kirsten Tagami.

(Please note: links to AJC content are subject to change, and may require log-in.)

ACP Announces 2008 Public Art with McCallum/Tarry from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

Please see the press release for more information.

We like to keep a local focus on the Atlanta photographic community, but seeing that ACP Now! is a “photoblog“, I thought I’d provide a few quick links to other photoblogs that create original content worth reading. Some are extremely popular, others are hidden gems.

• If you like vintage cameras and printing techniques, check out
  silverbased.org.
• Peer inside the mind of a magazine photo editor at aphotoeditor.com.
• Magnum Photos has their own blog and a lot of good subscribeable content, including this post, which points to many fine resources.
• Heading East is run by Raul Guttierez from Brooklyn and keeps a wide-eye on the global photography scene.
• Conscientious is “quite” the heavyweight fine art photography blog, run by physicist Jorg Colberg.
• Strobist is a resource for DIY lighting solutions.
• ACP 9 lecturer Alec Soth had a pre-eminent artist’s blog that’s grown dusty (victim of its own popularity?) but the archives are still worth a looksee.
• I Heart Photography features daily updates of work across a wide spectrum.
• Mary Virginia Swanson, who gave a presentation during ACP 9 at MOCA GA, runs “Marketing Photos with Mary Virginia Swanson“.
• Flakphoto posts new work from a variety of sources, nearly every day.
• 5B4 takes a dedicated look at photobooks and photobooks only.

Linked out? There are plenty of photographers (some emerging, some emerged) who run their own blogs as well. Have a look at Amy Stein, Peter Baker, Richard Renaldi, David Alan Harvey, Liz Kuball, Olivier Laude, Andrew Heatherington, Todd Deutsch, Brian Ulrich, Shane Lavalette, Will Steacy, and Zoe Strauss.

Links to local photoblogs (and blogs of ACP participants) can always be found in the “Friends and Neighbors” section of the sidebar on the right. Feel free to list yours in the comments!

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art has
an event this Friday, April 25th, to coincide with “Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Part II”. Click the image for more information.

Abby Banks has an opening at Get This Gallery this Friday, April 25th. We’re hoping to spend some time with Abby and bring you a video next week. The show is a gallery exhibition of the work found in her book, “Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy“. The show runs through June 21st. Get This Gallery is at 322 Peters St. [map]

Stephanie Dowda has an opening at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery tomorrow night. Stephanie was a participant in last year’s ACP Portfolio Review, and she runs the “Click Clique” collective, as well.

The exhibition is part of Hagedorn Foundation Gallery’s grand opening, and it’s an exciting new concept in the gallery business. It’s a non-profit gallery dedicated to emerging photographers. Dowda will be showing with Andrea Brown, of Charlotte. Charities benefiting from the sales of the exhibition include UNICEF, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Captain Planet Foundation, and the High Museum of Art.

Opening: April 24th, 7pm-10pm [map]

If you’re a photographer in Atlanta who’s interested in having your work hang during a Castleberry Art Stroll, you’ll want to get in touch with Atlanta Photography Exhibit, Inc. They’re a new non-profit that puts on 3-4 shows/year for beginning photographers. The shows aren’t juried. There’s an entry fee, but if you sell your work, you get to keep the cash.

There’s a flickr group with details, and their main site is here. It’s great to see folks from flickr getting out there and putting shows like this together.

If you’re working on a project that could use a $500 influx, please check out Idea Capital’s new initiative below:

In an innovative pilot project, Idea Capital will grant a Metropolitan Atlanta artist $500 to encourage an experimental and investigative art project. We seek to foster a new tone of experimentation and support in the Atlanta art world, as well as encourage a larger framework of support.

Idea Capital is investigating a support structure to encourage new ideas in art production across all genres of the arts; including visual, dance, literary, performance, new media, music, critical writing, film, and video. The grant is to encourage experimentation and investigation with funds designed to give artists permission to pursue new ideas.

As funding for individual artists from private and government sources has declined, Idea Capital seeks to reassert the role of the artist and to establish a new model for support outside of typical institutional models.

Emerging artists, as well as established artists and cultural workers, are encouraged to apply for these funds. We are seeking exciting ideas that foster a culture of change and create dialogue.

How does your idea need a small yet important boost?

Entries must be postmarked by Friday, May 9, 2008. For more information, please email atlartgrant@gmail.com.

For details, email Joeff Davis or photo-assistant Tara-Lynne Pixley for more information. And quickly! Apps are due before April 21st.

The photography intern works with Staff Photographer Joeff Davis and shoots weekly photography assignments that are published in Creative Loafing. Along with this responsibility, the intern works to organize and compile our image archive, assists the staff photographer on location, edits photos, and helps prepare images for publication. Experience using Adobe Photoshop and digital photography equipment is required. Personal SLR photo digital equipment and newsroom experience is a plus. Must have a reliable vehicle and be available to shoot assignments on most weekends. The photography internship is for students who are serious about photography and would like to learn how to work in a professional environment. This internship is unpaid.

ACP 8 Public Artist Matt Haffner was one of three artists selected this weekend as a recepient for MOCA GA’s “Working Artist” grant. Congratulations, Matt!

Pace Academy had a reception for their 17th Annual Pace Photography Competion yesterday, judged by Jane Jackson, which features photography from area high school students. There was a great turnout, and ACP’s happy to have been involved again this year. Here’s what the installation (over 200 photos!) looked like:

Pace Academy / ACP Photography Competition

Tonight (April 14th) marks the first night of Atlanta Tornado Relief at area restaurants. Have a bite and help Cabbagetown recover from the storm.

“Another Country” from McCallum/Tarry at Kiang Gallery has now been extended through June 7th.

For those of you interested in Public Art in Atlanta, the Beltline has their Quarterly Briefing this Thursday night.

For photographers here in the South, BECA Gallery in New Orleans has a call to artists for a show called “Hybrids and Other Sorts”. The winner will receive a solo show in New Orleans. More information here (pdf).

If you haven’t already subscribed to the ACP E-Newsletter, please do, and here’s the message that went out today: ACP 10: Festival Guide Submission In a Few Short Weeks.

Pace Academy, which has a fantastic photography program, has a reception for their 17th annual high school photography competition this Sunday. Jane Jackson judged the entries, and ACP spent some time hanging the show yesterday. The reception is open to the public, and there are more than 200 prints from local students on view.

Details:
Reception for Pace Academy / ACP Photography Show
Sunday, April 12th, 5 pm
966 W. Paces Ferry Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30327

MOCA GA is having their annual GALA Art Auction on Saturday, April 12th, at 6:30 pm. Their new space at 75 Bennett Street is spacious, and the evening starts with a silent auction, followed by the live auction and an after party with a live band. Tickets are $100. There’s plenty of info on the MOCA GA site.

The next installment of Art Papers Live! is next Wednesday, April 16th, at 7 pm, with Daniel Canogar over at the Paper Museum at Georgia Tech. More info on Art Papers’ site.

Dr. Mario DiGirolamo, who had a photograph in last year’s ACP Auction, and is Professor Emeritus at Emory’s School of Medicine, will be leading an evening of Italian music, photographs and conversation, next Monday, the 14th of April.

Emory University
Monday, April 14, 2008
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Miller-Ward Alumni House
815 Houston Mill Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30329