Today’s somewhat-related-to-photography link of the day has got to be the collection of photos: “The dog that hasn’t missed a single riot for years“. Really, you gotta check it out!

It’s getting to be the time of year when we’ll be accepting listings for the ACP 12 Festival Guide. Yay! We’re targeting late-May to go live with our online Festival Guide listing tool, and we’re putting the finishing touches on it now. Like every year, it’ll be easier to submit your listing than last year!

Here’s a quick FAQ for artists who are want to participate in ACP, and another FAQ for venues. We’ll be open for listings through June.

To find out when we’re ready, make sure you’re on our email list. We’ll let the list know first, and we look forward to hearing about what event(s) you’re planning for ACP 12 in October, 2010!

A quick reminder that our twitter account: ACPtweets, offers fresh photography links about Atlanta and beyond! ACPtweets is more active than this blog, with daily posts. Follow ACP there, too!

There are lots of new resources for photographers, via Facebook. New Orleans Photo Alliance reminded me about Photo Grant Opportunities group on Facebook.

Great to see this new, interactive portfolio of Civil Rights icons (including photos made in Atlanta) by Platon for the New Yorker. The selection includes historical photographs, as well. See “The Promise“.

Glad to hear that The Impossible Project is looking to begin shipping new Polaroid film in February! Here’s yesterday’s story on NPR.

Photographer and educator Larry Sultan was a guest lecturer for ACP in 2005 as part of our Lecture Series. We’re sad to see that Mr. Sultan passed away yesterday. Here’s his obituary in the New York Times.

For more than a decade beginning in the early 1980s, Mr. Sultan, who became a professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, worked on a project about his mother and his father, who had been forced into early retirement. Using stills from home movies along with lush, colored-saturated pictures he took of his parents, the resulting book, “Pictures From Home,” was a deeply personal document but one that continued Mr. Sultan’s lifelong mission of exploring photography’s fictions.

If you haven’t already, please take a minute and fill out the ACP 11 Survey. Your feedback helps us hone our programming; we thank you for sharing your ideas and opinions — your enthusiasm and participation has been fantastic during this year’s festival!

ACP Portfolio Review attendee Christopher Sims has been chosen as a “Book Award Finalist” in Photolucida’s Critical Mass. Congrats, Chris!

© Christopher Sims

Before this morning, I couldn’t have told you who invented the CCD sensor, which enabled the digital photography revolution. Cheers to Boyle and Smith, winners of the Nobel Prize!

Great to see the news from our friends SlowExposures about increasing interest in their annual juried photo exhibition in Pike County, Georgia.

“Photographers from New York to Florida, from Massachusetts to Oklahoma recently submitted their works for the 2009 edition of SlowExposures, the nationally recognized juried photo exhibition held annually in Pike County that captures the rural South’s character through fine art photography.

“One hundred thirty-three photographers, a dozen more entries than last year, submitted over 640 photos for this year’s exhibition,” reports Chris Curry, Director of the annual photo showcase headquartered in Pike County.

“This year we received entries from eighty-two “new” photographers who never before submitted to SlowExposures and are proud to welcome back fifty-one photographers returning from previous years,” says Curry.

“Photographers from eighteen states and thirty four cities in Georgia entered this year’s contest. Our judges will choose approximately eighty photos for the final show which takes place Friday, September 18th through Sunday, September 27th.

“Due to the renovation of its original home at The Strickland Building in Concord,” says Curry, “the seventh edition of the free photography showcase will move to the recently created Candler Field Museum in Williamson.”

The two-week celebration also includes cutting edge seminars, satellite shows and the traditional, black tie SlowExposures Ball on Saturday, September 26th at the new Barnstormer’s Grill. This year partygoers will dine and dance surrounded by the eighty-plus show images from all over the United States and the museum’s collection of meticulously restored antique autos and planes.

SlowExposures is the annual fundraiser of Pike Historic Preservation and is dedicated to supporting the historical and cultural heritage of the rural south through contemporary photography. All proceeds from the show and the dinner/dance go to the preservation of Pike County’s historic buildings and landscapes.”

Support ACP by voting for us in Creative Loafing’s yearly poll, okay? Voting closes tomorrow, July 31st. Here’s what you need to do. Go here. In the “Poets, Artists & Madmen” section, try this:
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ACP 10 at the Water Tower in the 4th Ward, Oct., 2008

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Thanks so much!

Judy Pishneri’s popular “Business of Photography” workshop on Aug. 15th & 16th is available to friends of ACP for a $25 discount, if you sign-up before August 1st. Discount code is ACP2009. Check out pisconeri.com for workshop details. Thanks, Judy!

Great to see notice of Atlanta-based artist Dorothy O’Connor’s work currently hanging at Umbrella Arts in NYC, from the New York Times Lens Blog. We’re also pleased that Dorothy is a participating artist in ACP 11!

“Another image (“Green,” by Dorothy O’Connor) is reminiscent of a Henri Rousseau painting, with a young dreamer on a bed of grass surrounded by growing vines.”

A few quick pics from recent events around Atlanta…

Ruth Dusseault @ Hagedorn Foundation Gallery

Ruth Dusseault @ Hagedorn Foundation Gallery

Rylan Steele at Spruill Gallery Emerging Artists Show

Harrison Haynes at Saltworks Gallery

Gather Atlanta @ Eyedrum, from Sarah Paulson

Gather Atlanta @ Eyedrum, from Sarah Paulson

ACP’s October Calendar Cop