Dorothy O’Connor and Jenny Williamson have a show opening this Saturday a 7pm at Composition Gallery.

“Dorothy and Jenny share an affinity for producing dreamlike images. Dorothy’s photography is more intentionally dreamlike, whereas Jenny’s achieves a similar effect due principally to her use of Diana Cameras. They both, however, create their work from a deeply personal place; and the results are photographs which become personal experiences for viewers as well, leaving them the space to bring their own thoughts and emotions to the fore. Like dreams, these images can be interpreted in a variety of ways. To me, they call to mind a myriad of associations concerning dreams and reality, harmony and disharmony, memory, melancholy, and the passage of time. Another viewer, however, may come away with something completely different, which I think is the true value of artistic expression. An image should be an intimate and visceral experience for each viewer, independent of the artist’s intention or any imposed point of view. I would like to thank these two photographers for their time and effort, and for the opportunity to exhibit this bold and intuitive work.”

For more Open Calls & Opportunities for photographers, check out the Photography Grants Blog, a great resource for international grants and competitions.

If you’re a student in “higher education”, you’re eligible to enter
Google’s background photo competition for iGoogle. Entries are due by May 31st. Your entry needs to be W I D E: 1000px by 175px, to fit the iGoogle format. Martin Parr is a judge, and winners will be exhibited at Saatchi London.

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.”

Capture Integration’s hosting an event with Jeffrey Jacobs next week, Tuesday May 19, at 7pm.

Jeffrey will be sharing his images with open discussion of the creative and technical techniques used in his photography. He will also touch on the lessons he has learned switching from film to digital. Capture Integration events are always as informal as they informative, so expect a frank and open discussion. Whether you are a veteran in architecture or you’re looking to expand into new markets you are sure to learn something from Jeffrey and your fellow photographers.

Our friends in the Westside Arts District are holding their monthly artwalk this Saturday, May 16th. Fantastic to see venues in Atlanta combining their efforts to create a great new program in the arts community. Put your shoes on, and see you Saturday!

Naomi Silva Gallery will be showing work from Ayano Hisa and Shannon L. Clark starting May 22nd, through June 13th. There’ll be a reception on the 22nd from 7-9pm.

© Shannon L. Clark

© Ayano Hisa

You can exhibit your photograph(s) up north at the New York Photo Festival this weekend by becoming part of their “We’re All Photographers Now” exhibition.

A lecture about Eudora Welty’s photography will be held this Thursday, May 14th, at 7pm at Opal Gallery w/ A Cappella Books.

Welty Scholar Looks at Author as Photographer
Georgia State’s Pearl McHaney at A Cappella Books/Opal Gallery

With A Cappella Books and Opal Gallery door-to-door in Little 5 Points, the dual creative forces of literature and photography could hardly be more entwined. Except perhaps in the personage of Eudora Welty.

Welty, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist, short story writer and essayist who was born 100 years ago in Mississippi, is generally considered among the South’s greatest writers, along with William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. She was also a celebrated photographer whose depression-era work compares with the likes of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Margaret Bourke-White.

Dr. Pearl McHaney, a Welty scholar at Georgia State, whose two new books on the author/photographer were published earlier this year, will focus on Welty’s photography in a talk in Opal Gallery on Thursday, May 14 at 7 p.m. Opal Gallery and A Cappella Books are located at 4884 Moreland Ave. NE.

“Atlanta-based artist and SCAD professor of photography Angela West commemorates the people and places significant to her small-town upbringing through the medium of photography. The exhibition “being there” represents a cross section of West’s practice; in each series, seemingly unremarkable and familiar scenes - a backyard in rural Georgia, an aging corsage, a self-conscious 16-year-old girl - are rife with unique beauty and memories. Ultimately, the photographs inspire increased appreciation of the ephemeral in the everyday. West is a recipient of a 2009 Artadia award. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.”

Reception for “being there” Exhibition by Angela West
Tuesday, 6-8 p.m., Gallery See, SCAD-Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA.

(Ed note: Angela West is a member of the board of ACP.)

The deadline is June 1st for the Photo Review International Photography Competition, which will be judged this year by Lesley Martin, Publisher, Aperture Book Program.

Lens Culture has an audio recording of the World Press Photo Award Lecture from Stephen Mayes, on May 3rd, 2009. Mayes is the managing director of VII photo agency. And here’s a look at the 2009 World Press Photo Award Winners.

Matt Haffner, whose solo exhibition is currently up at MOCA GA, has posted installation views of the show over on his site. Have a look, and go see the show!

Have you responded to the Slow Exposures 2009 call for entries yet? Postmark deadline for this show is June 15th.

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.