Atlanta’s Lumière Gallery and Bob Yellowlees are featured in “Eye On the Scene” by Joanna Lehan in Photograph Magazine for Jan/Feb ‘08.

Launched eight months ago, Lumière Gallery in Atlanta is going full steam. Lumiere’s owner, Bob Yellowlees, is a collector who’s served on the boards of several museums and non-profits. In addition to exhibiting and dealing in museum-quality prints by Kertesz, Edgerton, Lange, Siskind and Strand, he’s been inviting artists and scholars from all over the country to present their work in conjunction with other area cultural organizations.”

ACP will be collaborating with Lumière Gallery on January 24th at the Carter Center. Susbcribe (or refer to) the ACP Programs Calendar to keep up-to-date. We’re hoping to bring an interview with Ketchum to the ACP blog in late January.

William Boling, artist, lawyer, and friend of ACP, was profiled in the AJC last week.

On a metaphorical level, Boling marshals his compositional skills and eye for color to build a case for the poetry hidden in the mundane. Given his preference for the marginal and misbegotten, many of these poems seem like elegies. That goes for the eBay photos — temporary and meant to be discarded — in the online “peel.”

“It’s a digital reliquary for an evanescent photography,” he says.

Above image: © William Boling

ACP 9 Spotlight Speaker Shiela Pree Bright in “Wear This Flag & Talk to Me” by Tom Patterson:

“Josh Phifer, an 18-year-old Winston-Salem State freshman from Charlotte, posed for Pree on Monday afternoon. In talking about the session afterward, he said, “I took her idea a step further and tried to show how I feel as a black person about America. For one of my poses I had the flag enveloping my body, and I held my fist up. For another one I held out the flag and looked down at it, to represent the struggle of black people in the past and how much I’ve gained by that struggle.””

We’re upgrading the web server today, which means that some of the content at acpinfo.org is inaccessible. We will post again here, when everything’s up and working.

Update: Most everything is back up and working, but I need to work the kinks out of UTF-8 character issues in MySQL.