This Thursday, Feb. 26th, “Click” opens at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery.

“Click February 26 – March 5 Opening Reception February 26 7-10pm
The images in this exhibit are by residents of Covenant House Georgia and are the result of Youth Photography Project’s two week workshop with young people at risk, documenting their lives using donated cameras. The exhibit was curated by the staff of Youth Photography Project: SCAD graduate students Jason Riffe, Frazer Spowart and Jessica Little, in conjunction with Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum.

Youth Photography Project is an Atlanta non-profit organization designed to offer youth ages 16 to 21 an opportunity to experience the artistic value of photography. Covenant House is a crisis support and emergency shelter for homeless, runaway and at risk youth under the age of 21. Part of an international network founded in New York in 1973, Covenant House Georgia opened its doors in Atlanta in 2000. It provides crisis intervention and community-based services, shelter and independent living programs. Each image in the exhibit is priced at $100.

All proceeds will go directly to helping further the mission of Covenant House Georgia.”

We’re really happy to see this great event for Saturday — a unique collaboration from the burgeoning arts scene on the Westside, anchored by The Contemporary at the south end, and the recently relocated Get This! Gallery and Saltworks, on the north end.

On Saturday, there’ll be artist talks and gallery tours of all the participating spaces (The Contemporary, Bobbe Gillis Gallery, Emily Amy Gallery, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Kiang Gallery, Saltworks, Get This! Gallery) topped-off with a visit to Octane Coffee Bar, hosts of Atlanta Pecha Kucha, and makers of tasty macchiatos and Belgian beer(s) on tap!

Here’s all the details, over on Facebook.

A free, open-to-the-public lecture from Candice Breitz on Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., 4C Events Space, 1600 Peachtree St. See Breitz’ work on her site.

“Johannesburg-born artist Candice Breitz completes multichannel, theoretically-potent video installations that critique the increasingly “scripted lives” of celebrities and their admirers. The resulting, Pop-inspired portraits - built off of sampled performances by Madonna, Clint Eastwood and a Bob Marley fan, to name a few - investigate issues of individuality, communication and personal expression within a global consumer culture. Breitz is a professor of fine art at the Braunschweig University of Art in Germany.”

The Museum of Design Atlanta is hosting a special screening of Objectified, which might not be a movie about photography, but will definitely cover cameras. Yes, there’s a Leica in the trailer, below. For fans of last year’s Helvetica, for sure!

Richard Renaldi
Fall River Boys
Jackson Fine Art
Opens: February 13th, 6-8pm
Book Signing: February 14th, 11am
3115 E Shadowlawn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30305 [map]

The transatlantic online collaboration between Atlanta-based photographer William Boling and Switzerland-based photographer Corinne Vionnet, “Complete Desire” opens as an exhibition at Opal Gallery on Thursday night, February 12th, 6-9pm.

Complete Desire @ Opal Gallery
February 12th - April 4th
484 B-2 Moreland Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 [map]

On Saturday, February 14th, at 1pm, there will be a discussion about the unique nature of the collaboration between Boling and Vionnet, as well as how fine art photography bridges the online & offline world, at Showcase School of Photography. Michael David Murphy (Program Manager for ACP) will be moderating the discussion.

Mail Me JPGs: The Photographic Conversation in the Internet Era
Saturday, Feb. 14th, 1:00pm
The Showcase School of Photography
1135 Sheridan Rd, Atlanta, GA 30324 [map]

Amie Ledford has a show of her work “Silent Spaces” at Art House Gallery opening Friday, February 6, 2009, 7-10pm. The show will be open through the 17th.

© Amie Ledford

On Saturday, February 7th, at 3pm, join ARThouse[09] Chair and AGA President, Alan Avery for an exclusive personal tour of  ARThouse[09], as he speaks of the history of the Rhodes-Robinson Mansion, The ARThouse Collection, and The American Master Frederick Hart Sculpture Garden.

ARThouse Open To The Public
January 23 - February 8, 2009
Wednesday -Sunday, 10am -5pm
Tickets: $20/advance $22/door $12 youth (12-18), under 12 free
http://atlart.com

The Bogen program is as follows:
Bogen Café - Savannah College of Art and Design
1600 Peachtree St. NE | Atlanta, GA 30309
Event Agenda:

* Free and Open to the Public and All Students Attending SCAD
* Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2008
* Time: 6pm to 8pm
* Location: 1600 Peachtree St. NE | Atlanta, GA 30309
* Lecture followed by Q&A’s
* Topic: Wake Up and Smell the Pixels!
* Speaker: Will Crockett of Shootsmarter.com
* Mini trade Show with Elinchrom, Bogen, Gitzo, Avenger, and others
* Free Parking is Available in the Ramp Garage in the Rear of the Building, enter thru the lighted entrance on the 2nd floor of the parking deck.

The bidding’s begun for the Art Papers Auction which has an online preview here. The auction is a great event, and is this weekend, Saturday, February 7th, 7pm to 10pm at Mason Murer. It’s great to see the confluence of local work from Atlanta with international artists.

Here’s Sze Tsung Leong’s “Nebraska”, Corinne Adams’ “Collage 7: Garden of Eden”, and Jody Fausett’s “Broken Window”

© Sze Tsung Leong

© Corinne Adams

© Jody Fausett

Lumière is hosting a “Winter Film Fest” this February and March, featuring films about photographers.

“A new exhibition highlighting the contrasting styles and visual perspectives of over 30 master photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries; includes common themes such as abstractions, landscapes, portraiture and urban life.”

“Coffee and Biscotti before the film and then we will get the filmmakers on speaker phone after for discussion and to answer questions.  In addition we will have photographs by each photographer for viewing above what is already on the wall.”

ACP has a room of photography featuring a few local artists at ArtHouse09, which is at 541 West Paces Ferry Road. ArtHouse opened last night, and will be open on Wednesdays through Sundays (10-5) through February 8th.

Our friends over at Burnaway have a good list of openings and art events this weekend, which include a few photography shows, like Opal Gallery’s “Opal 1″.

“Richard Fleming is an inveterate traveler, photographer, amateur musicologist, sometime deejay, and self-described "rabid birdwatcher" long enamored of the music, culture, and wild places of the Greater Antilles. When not on the road, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Walking to Guantánamo is the title of his first book and the first solo exhibition of photographs taken during that journey.

Despite having a wonderful girlfriend, a downtown Manhattan apartment, and a thriving career, Richard Fleming is afraid that his life is spiraling into "nightmarish mediocrity." After obsessing over the notion for years, he finally decides that crossing the island of Cuba on foot might somehow rescue him from the fate he fears. Walking to Guantánamo is the chronicle of that journey. Rarely has a book about Cuba been so shorn of pretension, ideological blinders, or misplaced romanticism-and hardly ever has it been so genuinely funny. His text and photographs reveal a popular culture, particularly in music and spiritual life, of deep complexity. A discerning observer of daily life who rejects the clichés of Cuba’s enemies and friends alike, Richard Fleming ranges over the Cuban countryside with a rare ability to distinguish reality from façade and slogan from fact. A companion volume of photographs, The Road to Guantanamo: Images from a Journey through Cuba, is being published with Walking to Guantanamo.

For more on Richard Fleming’s book: www.walkingtoguantanamo.com“

Exhibition Dates: January 16 - February 18

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814 Edgewood Ave
Atlanta, GA 30307
404-688-1892
Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 11AM - 5PM, or by appointment

ACP co-founder Corinne Adams has a show in Chattanooga at Lookout Mountain Gallery that opens on January 30th. Mark your calendar if you’re up that way!