Please see the embedded press release below, download the pdf, and take a quick look at a behind the scenes tour of the exhibition.

Thursday, June 7, 7 p.m., Rich Theatre; galleries open until 10 p.m.

Color photography pioneer Richard Misrach will discuss his enduring interest in the Mississippi River landscape and his monumental photographs that document the environmental challenges of this beautiful region. This program is free and seating is limited. Tickets are available through the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office at 404-733-5000. Please note: tickets are limited to two per person. Save your ticket stub for a special opportunity to view the works in the exhibition following this program.

Starting today, you can participate in Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2012 by listing your photo-related event, exhibition, workshop, book signing, artist’s talk (and more!) at festivalguide.acpinfo.org.

Each and every listing will be published in 15,000 printed Festival Guides distributed across the Metro area, and listings will be viewable (and downloadable, as a PDF) on the Festival Guide website in September. In the printed guide, listings will be arranged chronologically, and on the site we’ll have a calendar of events, a map of locations, and you’ll be able to view the Festival by date, artist, neighborhood or venue.

To be an official event in Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2012, list your event, upload your event’s photo, preview your listing and securely checkout at festivalguide.acpinfo.org. Base price for a Festival Guide listing is $150, and submissions for listings will be open until the end of June.

Please Note:

FAQ for photographers
FAQ for venues

ACP is primarily an October festival, and the Festival Guide will be distributed mid-September. Please keep this in mind when planning your events.

Each listing must have an image. The best way to draw attention to your event is to include an image that you have permission to publish. If you cannot select an image to use, please consider using a logo or a photo of the interior of your venue. See the 2011 Festival Guide for reference (pdf).

With our acclaimed blog ACP Now!, we’re able to promote you (ACP’s participating photographers and venues) and your events year-round. That alone is worth the price of a listing in the Festival Guide!

As always, you can find the latest on ACP Now!, follow our tweets on twitter, and like ACP on Facebook.

- ACP

“Judy Morris Lampert’s recent series of photographs documents unique structures – both old, decomposing buildings rich in history and newer structures ripe with personality. The artist’s attraction to these structures comes from their irresistible combinations of form, color and texture; what follows is a deeper connection, heavy with the nebulous sense of loneliness, isolation and the passage of time. The structures are, in fact, freestanding abstract sculptural forms and yet with Lampert’s subtle and personal approach they read as portraits, offering up an intimacy rarely captured on film.”

Here’s a quick look at some of the contributing photographers; keep your eyes out for it if you’re flying overseas! A big thank you to the airport and to all of the participating photographers!

Photo of Reis Birdwhistell by Marilyn Suriani

Photo of Lucinda Bunnen by Marilyn Suriani

Layflat publisher Shane Lavalette will be part of the High Museum’s “Picturing the South” exhibition this year, and he’s begun a kickstarter initiative to garner support to publish a photobook based on his project.

“Having grown up in the Northeast, it was primarily through traditional music—old time, blues, gospel, etc.—that I had formed a relationship with the South. With that in mind, the region’s rich musical history became the natural entry point for my work. I was not interested in making a documentary about Southern music today, but desired to explore the relationship between traditional music and the contemporary landscape through a more poetic lens. Moved by the themes and stories past down in songs, I let the music itself carry the pictures.”

In addition to unphotographable (pictures I did not take), and the newly-launched @picturelesspins (“the best of pinterest without having to look at pictures”), the Descriptive Camera reminds us of “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” from Caleb Larson, the self-selling machine that creates its own auction on eBay, and most recently sold for $7,500. (Perhaps all they have in common is an ethernet connection?)

Each October ACP transforms Atlanta through almost 200 photo-related events and exhibitions showcasing the work of almost 1000 photographers!

Through public art, exhibitions, lectures, film series, workshops, photo book fairs, portfolio reviews, and many more programs – most of which are free and open to the public – we strive to make an impact on metro Atlanta’s cultural landscape and in the lives of individuals.

We cannot succeed, or continue to offer so many diverse programs without the generous support of culturally minded people like yourself.

Some feedback we’ve received recently:

“ACP’s value goes beyond photography as all artists and art consumers are interested in good photography programs.”

“ACP does what it is supposed to be doing. It provides great support for photographers, collectors
and exhibitors. And students know there is a vibrant photography community here in Atlanta.”

ACP is the only organization that nationally and internationally promotes Atlanta’s photographic artists (from amateur to professional) as well as promoting the venues that exhibit their work. We strive for Atlanta to be a city where the creative-class lives and thrives. Your support in ANY amount makes a huge difference.

We know you share our vision for Atlanta to become a world-class cultural city! Make a positive impact on our cultural landscape by supporting ACP today!

With Warmest Regards,

- ACP

Andy Bloxham
Fictions
April 19 – May 15
Artist Reception & Talk: Thursday April 19, 6 – 8:30 pm

Peripatetic artist Andy Bloxham’ s love of photography, film, performance and prose combine to create fairy tale (or nightmare) sequences of events, always with a wink at our pop culture and media. His film still like images offer an absurd interplay of our hopes, dreams and ambitions. A pop culture figure himself, Bloxham, always appears somewhere in the art.

Please click here for press release.
For more information please visit www.hfgallery.org

2012 ACP High School Essay Contest

The time has come to think Outside the Frame. This May, the Atlanta Photography Group wants to fill its gallery with photoworks that amaze and amuse, astound and confound. So come up with something new and different, and let us see it. Mix media. Use light boxes. Make videos. Print on cloth, canvas, metal, plastic. Integrate text. Shoot in 3-D. Make photo-sculptures. Force Photoshop to do things it didn’t know it could do. Get conceptual. The sky’s the limit, so break the rules. (Yes, you can put it in a frame, and you can print on paper, but NO STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY ALLOWED.) Selected work will be on view in a seven-week-long exhibition in APG’s award-winning gallery space in Atlanta. $35 entry fee required. Deadline May 5. Download entry form at www.apgphoto.org. Jurored by William Boling, publisher of Fall Line Press.

Open to all photographers 18 years of age or older residing in the United States. You must be a current APG member or join at time of entry (membership fee $35; $25 for students).

Atlanta Photography Group Gallery
75 Bennett Street, Space B-1
Atlanta, GA 30309
404-605-0605