It’s interesting to see the similarities across these four projects: Robin Rhode’s “Stone Flag” which was on the cover of “Art in America” in January, Jan Von Hollenben’s exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery in 2008, “Sorry I’m Late” which has been rocketing around youtube this past week, and Oren Lavie’s “Her Morning Elegance“.

© Robin Rhode

© Jan von Hollenben

Check out TIME’s presentation “Sight Unseen” of photos from blind photographers.

Judy Pishneri will be leading a group (or two!) taking part in the Worldwide Photowalk on July 18th. If you like shooting with other folks and meeting new people, head over to the photowalk site for more info. There are three walks currently organized for Atlanta (1, 2, 3). The Worldwide Photowalk is a creation of Photoshop guru Scott Kelby. Please let us know of other area walks in the comments!

Today’s New York Times has an article about the efforts to purchase Polaroid. Plus, there’s a great multimedia piece where five photographers talk about their affection for the format.

If you still shoot film, and occasionally need to calculate settings for your manual flash, all you have to do is reach for your iPhone. Reviewed in Macworld, PhotoCalc is an iPhone app that goes deep into f-stops and focal length the old fashioned way, including help with the Zone System. Yes, your iPhone can help you shoot like Ansel Adams.

“Photocalc is essentially a photographer’s toolbox, providing a group of widgets to do all the primary calculations for you as well as giving you additional information that could be crucial to getting just the right shot. After launching the app, choose your camera from PhotoCalc’s extensive list of options; these include not only every digital camera on the market (and many older models), but all film formats, including several cinema films.”

Atlanta-based photographer David Walter Banks is one of the Magenta Flash Forward Photographers for 2009, a groupshow and forthcoming book of emerging photographic talent from Canada, the US, and the UK. View the full winner’s list here.

Great new post over on PDN about a Nikon cake. Photo via Marcia Felton. More info here! (Is it only a matter of days before a Canon cake surfaces?)

Ellen Susan, who’s participated in ACP’s Portfolio Review in years past, is teaching a Wet Plate Collodion Workshop in Savannah in June. Click the image for details!

New York photographer Suzanne Opton, whose Soldier’s Face billboard graced Marietta St. last year via Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship last week.

If you’re looking to use Photoshop in the fields of medicine or science, Digital Imaging Institute has a one-day seminar at the Emory Eye Center on April 16th called “Photoshop for Medicine“.

“Using Photoshop creatively has little in common with using Photoshop to present a clinical image for publication or using images in patient or professional education.

Our goal at the Digital Imaging Institute is to provide the knowledge to work with digital images quickly and efficiently so you spend more time using the specific tools you need to get the job done and convey your ideas.”

Georgia Lawyers for the Arts has two great programs coming up that may be of interest to photographers:

Tuesday, April 14, 2009: “Legal Issues for the Visual Artist” 2:45pm, Georgia State University, Arts and Humanities Building, Room 152A GLA attorney will discuss important legal issues that regularly concern visual artists such as contract negotiation, the basics of copyright law, registration for works, public funding for the arts, censorship of the visual arts, work for hire arrangements, commission agreements and consignment of art with Georgia State students. For more information or to register (advance registration required), please call (404) 873-3911.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009: “Legal Issues for Photographers” 7:30pm, Atlanta Photography Group, Tula Art Center, 75 Bennett St. NW, Suite B-1, Atlanta. Presented in conjunction with the Atlanta Photography Group, a GLA attorney will discuss important legal issues that regularly affect photographers. Some of the topics will include general copyright matters, right of privacy and publicity concerns, First Amendment issues, location and model releases, and consent waivers to photograph minors. For more details, please call (404) 873-3911.

The Impossible Project is trying to breathe life into some old equipment for manufacturing Polaroid film.

We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid’s old equipment, factory and seek your support.

And in other news, two hedge funds are wrestling for control of Polaroid’s assets.

From a recent survey of 200 emerging photographers at PDN. 47% have shot an editorial or commercial job w/o charging a fee.

If you’re looking to get your hands involved in a black and white darkroom, Wonderroot has a free and open class (for its members) on March 21st. Instructor is Kevin Griggs. Membership at Wonderroot is inexpensive, and you can learn more about Wonderroot here.

We’re working hard at ACP to achieve our goals this year, and one of those goals is an overhaul of the process for submitting a listing for this year’s ACP Festival Guide. We’ll be working with a web developer to re-do the process from the ground up. If you’d like to help support ACP’s effort, you can donate directly to this project by clicking the image below. And thank you so much for contributing to ACP!

© Laura Noel

Have a look at this interview on Shutter Sisters with Atlanta-based photographer Laura Noel.

Last summer’s exhibition of Carrie Mae Weems at SCAD ACA gallery is now a book called “Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment”, available at Photoeye.

ACP was fortunate to have a room at ARTHOUSE[09] up on the third floor. Click the image to take a look at the space, which included work by Lucinda Bunnen, Corinne Adams, Dorothy O’Connor and Anne Berry.

From the artnews mailing list:

Anyone who knows of a Pro Photographer in Atlanta that had some Hasselblad Gear stolen, please contact me!!! I have a client who is a police officer and knew I had gear stolen, just called me to see if this was mine…Bummer it wasn’t, but this is definitely a Pro’s Gear who lives in ATL. Let’s get this stuff back to it’s rightful owner. Thanks!!!

Try contacting K. Alexander (via her linked-in profile, apparently)