As part of ACP 10, Atlanta Celebrates Photography will offer a day of portfolio reviews with a distinguished group of reviewers on Saturday, October 11th, 2008, at Grady High School in Atlanta. Space is available for fifty-two (52) photographers, and each photographer will receive four reviews. Confirmed photographers will be able to requests reviewers in July, and the final assignments will be done through a computerized matching program. ACP makes every effort to match photographers with their first choice of reviewers.
As of July 20th, here are our confirmed reviewers:
Sue Brisk - Curator, editor, publisher & consultant, NYC, NY
Anna Skillman - Owner, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Madeline Yale - Director of Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Sue Brisk is a curator, editor, publisher and consultant. She is the former editorial director at Magnum Photos. She has been working in the photography business since 1981. Brisk received a Master of Science in Journalism from Boston University and a BFA in Photography from San Francisco Art Institute. She worked for French based Sipa Press for 17 years, was Director of Photography for several issues of Gloria Steinam's MS magazine, then transitioned to Magnum Photos as U.S. Editorial Director where she held the position for over 6 years. Currently she is working in multimedia, teaching, and working as a freelance writer. Brisk is a board member with the Eugene Smith Fund and has judged numerous photographic competitions, such as The Eisenstadt Awards, Overseas Press Club, The Santa Fe Project Competition and Assignment Earth, Maine Photographic Workshop Golden Light Awards, and Texas Photographic Society's National Competition, and Women in Photography's HCB Award. She has participated in reviews for Santa Fe's Photography program, Houston Fotofest (2004; 2006; 2008); Photo Lucida in Portland Ore, 2005 and the summer Foto/Critical Mass sponsored by Photo Lucida. In 2007 judged the Lucie Awards, The Black & White Spider Awards, The Photo District News Self Promotion Awards, and was the Jury Chair for the Eugene Smith Grant. In 2008 Brisk has judged the 2007 Pictures of the Year (POYi) in Columbia Missouri, Swedens' Pictures of the Year, has reviewed portfolios of emerging and international photographers at Houston's Fotofest and The Santa Fe's Reviews 2008. [back to top]
Brian Paul Clamp is the owner and director of ClampArt, a gallery in Chelsea in New York City specializing in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on photography. ClampArt mounts twelve to fifteen exhibitions per year featuring the work of emerging and mid-career artists. For eight years prior to opening ClampArt in 2000, Brian Paul Clamp served as the director of Owen Gallery on Manhattan's Upper East Side specializing in late 19th- and early 20th-century American art. Aside from curating exhibitions at his own gallery space, Clamp has juried numerous photography shows at various venues throughout the United States (Griffin Museum of Photography, the New York Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers, the Shoreline Arts Alliance, 1212 Gallery, etc.); sat on numerous panels (Fotofest, PhotoPlus Expo, Affordable Art Fair, etc.); and and has reviewed photographers' work at numerous portfolio review events over the past several years (Fotofest, Center in Santa Fe, Photo Lucida, Rhubarb Rhubarb, etc.).
Brian Paul Clamp holds a Master of Arts degree in Critical Studies in Modern Art from Columbia University, and is the author of nearly twenty publications on American art to date. He also occasionally contributes written work to various art periodicals, including "Artforum," "Magenta Magazine," and "Art Fairs International," among others.
Mr. Clamp is most interested in reviewing developed and innovative bodies of work suitable for exhibition. All types of imagery are welcome--from documentary to landscape, still life to conceptual. However, Mr. Clamp is not interested in reviewing commercial work intended for stock or advertising.
Aside from offering criticism and critique of the photography itself, Mr. Clamp can also provide advice and direction in terms of promoting projects. In exceptional cases, ClampArt is able to offer opportunities to artists in group exhibitions and projects, and in the past has given artists met at portfolio review events solo shows in the gallery in New York City. [back to top]
Joerg Colberg is a writer, curator and photographer, known for his contemporary photography blog "Conscientious," one of the most widely read and popular of such blogs. His articles and interviews have been published in numerous magazines and on a large variety of websites, nationally and internationally, incl. American Photo, Chinese Photography Magazine, Yvi Magazine (NL), and Ojodepez (Spain). In 2007, he co-curated an exhibition with Jen Bekman, "A New American Portrait." Joerg has been a jury member of Critical Mass, Hey Hot Shot!, and the 2008 International Fashion and Photography Festival in Hyeres, France. He is most interested in reviewing contemporary photography, both finished projects and work in progress, offering very direct and honest feedback. In addition, he can provide advice on online portfolio presentation and online photography communities. He is not interested in commercial/editorial, stock, fashion/advertising, or street photography. [back to top]
Daniel Cooney is the owner and director of Daniel Cooney Fine Art, a contemporary art gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. We specialize in exhibiting the best emerging artists and under recognized work of more established artists. Daniel holds a BFA from SUNY New Paltz and a MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at the University of Illinois and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He began his gallery career at the James Danziger Gallery and continued as the Associate Director of the Julie Saul Gallery. He was also the Director of Online Photographs at Sotheby's.com.
Some of the artist's represented by the gallery include Dan Estabrook, Christoph Gielen, Carrie Levy, Stuart O'Sullivan and Sarah Pickering. Daniel is most interested in completed and cohesive bodies of work ready for exhibition. He is not interested in commercial or fashion work. To research the gallery please visit www.danielcooneyfineart.com . Previous portfolio reviews include Center for Photography at Woodstock, International Center for Photography, Parsons School for Design and Review Santa Fe. [back to top]
Sean Corcoran is the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York. There he is developing an exhibition program that strives to celebrate New York City's heritage of diversity, opportunity and perpetual transformation. Mr. Corcoran is currently developing exhibitions on the work of Eudora Welty and Andreas Feininger. He previously served as Assistant Curator of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY and as faculty of Ryerson University's Masters Program in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management (Toronto, Ontario) where he lectured on the history of photography and preservation issues of the photographic medium. Over the years he has organized a wide range of historical and contemporary photographic exhibitions including, Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism, Aftermath: In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, and Manhattan Noon: Photographs by Gus Powell. He has served as a juror for several internationally renowned exhibitions, including "Critical Mass" (PhotoLucida, Portland, Oregon) and has reviewed portfolios for various organizations including Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. [back to top]
Julian Cox joined the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as the Curator of Photography in June 2005. Cox came from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles where he served as associate curator in the department of photographs. He is a co-author of the critically acclaimed publication Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (2003), the first catalogue raisonne of her work. He has also worked at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, England, and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. He received a Master of Philosophy degree in the history of photography from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1990, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history from the University of Manchester, England, in 1987.
Cox is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, including Harry Callahan: Eleanor (2007), Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske (2004) and Timekeeper: The Photographs of Anthony Friedkin (2004). [back to top]
Natasha Egan is associate director and a member of the curatorial team of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Egan has organized dozens of international and national exhibitions such as Katarzyna Kozyra; Sophie Calle; Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Manufactured Self, Made in China; and Loaded Landscapes. Egan has contributed essays to art magazines and such publications as; Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Guetschow LS/S (Aperture, 2007); and Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008). Egan teaches at Columbia College Chicago in both the photography and liberal arts department and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian Studies. She is interested in conceptual work investigating current social and political issues. She is less interested in reviewing commercial, travel, and nature photography. [back to top]
Catherine Evans is Chief Curator at the Columbus Musuem of Art in Columbus, Ohio. She also serves as the museum's Photography Curator. In 2004 as Chief Curator Evans oversaw the second largest acquisition in the Museum's history, that of the Schiller Collection of American Social Commentary Art 1930-1970. She has directed the development of major international exhibitions such as Renoir's Women; Edgar Degas: the Last Landscapes; and the recent In Monet's Garden: The Lure of Giverny currently on view in Paris. As the Photography Curator Evans has been with the museum since 1996 and spearheaded the successful acquisition of the Photo League collection, which increased the Museum's photography holdings by 40 percent. She was the principal author and curator of the exhibition A View from Here: Recent Pictures from Central Europe and the American Midwest, which toured internationally and nationally. Evans has presented several artists with their first one person exhibition at a museum. She has been a portfolio reviewer in Santa Fe, Houston, and Portland. Prior to the Columbus Museum of Art, Evans worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and before that, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, in New York and Montreal, Canada. She received her degree from Williams College in Art History and German Literature.
Evans is interested in work that brings something new to the medium and is not derivative or gratuitous. She is not is not interested in viewing commercial, stock, fashion, studio nudes, travel or advertising work. [back to top]
Sylvie Fortin is Editor-in-Chief of ART PAPERS, the award-winning international contemporary art magazine published in Atlanta since 1977. She was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario, 1996--2001), Program Coordinator at la chambre blanche (Quebec City, Quebec, 1991-1994), and a long-term collaborator with OBORO (Montreal, Quebec, 1994-2001). Her critical essays have been published in Canadian, American and European catalogues, and her reviews have appeared in many periodicals including Art Press, C Magazine, Espace, Fuse, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art and Parachute. She has received numerous significant grants and awards as a critic and independent curator, as well as for her academic research. Fortin was named Lexus Leader of the Arts in December 2007. [back to top]
Brooks Jensen is a fine-art photographer, publisher, workshop teacher, and writer. In his personal work, he specializes in small prints as well as hand-made artist's books. He and his wife (Maureen Gallagher) are the owners, co-founders, editors, and publishers of the award winning LensWork, one of today's most respected and important periodicals in fine art photography. With subscribers in 62 countries, Brooks' impact on fine art photography is truly world-wide. His podcasts on art and photography are heard over the Internet by thousands every day. LensWork Publishing is also at the leading edge in multimedia and digital media publishing with LensWork Extended - a PDF based, media-rich expanded version of the magazine. Brooks is the author of the best selling Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life and Single Exposures: Random Observations on Art, Photography and Creativity. [back to top]
Debra Klomp Ching is the co-owner/co-director of the KLOMPCHING GALLERY, located in the district of DUMBO in Brooklyn, New York. The gallery exhibits and deals contemporary photography by emerging talent, as well as under-recognized work by established photographers. Mrs Ching's background includes positions as an educator on undergraduate photography programs, as a commissioner of new photographic work and as a curator of several exhibitions in the UK, Europe and the US. Her freelance writing has been published in Magenta Magazine, Aesthetica, photo-eye Booklist and PDN. She is one of the US Jurors for the 2008 Flash Forward Emerging Photographers Award and has reviewed portfolios at various photography events including Review Santa Fe, Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Houston Fotofest, Center for Photography at Woodstock and powerHouse. Mrs Ching is open to seeing cohesive bodies of work, as well as works in progress, that possess an integrity of intent, solid engagement with the medium, a high level of craftsmanship and a unique artistic vision suitable for exhibition. Mrs Ching can also offer general advice on portfolio presentation and why it does or does not work. However, she is not interested in viewing commercial, stock, fashion or advertising work. [back to top]
Carol McCusker is Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of photography and film history at the University of New Mexico. She has curated over 35 exhibitions at UNM and MoPA, including No Place of Grace: The Photographs of Clarence John Laughlin (1992), Andrea Modica: Treadwell/Fountain (2005), Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism (2006), and Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond's Surreptitious Cellphone (2007).
Ms. McCusker worked with Manfred Heiting on Paul Outerbridge (Taschen, 1999); Michael Gray, of Lacock Abbey, on First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and The Birth of Photography (powerHouse, 2002); and written essays for the following books: James Fee: The Peleliu Project (Seraphin, 2002), Phil Stern: A Life's Work (powerHouse, 2003), and Terry Falke: Observations in an Occupied Wilderness (Chronicle, 2006). Her freelance writing has been published in The Photo Review and Communication Arts.
In recent years, McCusker reviewed portfolios at Review Santa Fe, Photo Lucida, Houston Fotofest, and Review LA, and will be the Juror for the 2008 Berenice Abbott Award. She is open to seeing women landscape photographers as well as unified bodies of work and work in progress that show a consistent mastery of technique, an intelligent approach to subject matter, a developed vision, and clean presentation fitting a museum exhibition. [back to top]
Danielle Place has been involved in the photographic industry for over 17 years working as a photo editor at ELLE Magazine, Esquire Magazine and Cosmopolitan in addition to several other newsstand publications. Danielle also worked as photography director for Hachette Custom Publishing where she assigned and directed imagery for clients such as Mercedes, Rockport and Cisco Systems. Currently, Danielle is a Creative Director for Turner Broadcasting's photography division which assigns and produces imagery for all of Turner's properties including marketing and pr campaigns for TNT and TBS originals and series, CNN, Cartoon Network and TruTV.
Danielle's background makes her uniquely able to work with photographers at all different levels producing many different styles of photography. She has hired and acted as creative director for some of the best commercial and editorial photographers in the business as well as working with and helping to develop emerging photographers through portfolio reviews and contest judging for PDN as well as working with private clients through her portfolio consultation business, BOOKED. Ms. Place can offer consultation on editorial portrait and fashion photography, commercial photography and photojournalism portfolios. She has special interest in working with emerging photographers who are in the progress of developing their vision and portfolios. [back to top]
Erik Schneider is the owner of Quality Pictures, a contemporary art gallery located in the Pearl district in Portland, Oregon. Before moving to Portland in 2006, Schneider maintained a successful CPA practice in Atlanta, Georgia where he was deeply involved in the art community there as a collector, curator and lecturer.
Schneider has also performed portfolio reviews for Photo Lucida, a prestigious photography event based in Portland.
Schneider's gallery shows works in all media with an emphasis on contemporary photography. Quality Pictures mission is to exhibit works by nationally and internationally acclaimed artists while introducing the best the northwest has to offer to a wider audience. The gallery offers complete services to collectors and institutions to assist them in acquiring and maintaining art collections that are both personally enriching and will grow in value and importance over time.
Exhibiting artists include Roger Ballen, David Hilliard, Chris Verene, Jason Fulford, Elizabeth Huey, Eric White and others. [back to top]
Anna Walker Skillman is the owner and director of Jackson Fine Art located in the heart of Buckhead on East Shadowlawn Ave in Atlanta. Anna Walker Skillman has been a loyal and active participant in the arts community for the last 12 years. Graduated in Art History from the University of Georgia in 1991, she began her career working at the Haines Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery in San Francisco. In 1993, Anna moved to Atlanta to manage the studio of famed Atlanta artist Todd Murphy. After working with Mr. Murphy to help establish his career, Anna turned to photography and joined Jackson Fine Art in 1998. In March of 2003, she purchased Jackson Fine Art from Jane Jackson who became curator of the prestigious and renowned collection of Sir Elton John. As the gallery director and co-curator for the past five and half years, Ms. Walker Skillman is honored to have the opportunity to continue a reputation of excellence in exhibiting photography by both emerging and established artists. With a focus on a blend of 20th century and contemporary work, she promises to continue her commitment to Atlanta to educate collectors and art enthusiasts as well as exhibit and support leading photographers locally, nationally and internationally.
Ms. Skillman seeks to review complete bodies of work with no more than 25 photographs in the portfolio. Ms. Skillman is interested in innovative work with a strong knowledge of the medium, its diverse processes and history. She prefers to see finished prints presented in the size they are intended for exhibition. Ms. Skillman does not like to see scans, slides and print offs of the image for presentation. [back to top]
Madeline Yale is Houston Center for Photography's Executive Director and Curator. HCP's mission is to increase society's understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture. Founded in 1981, HCP strives to encourage artists, build audiences, stimulate dialogue, and promote inquiry about photography and related media through education, exhibitions, publications, fellowship programs, and community collaboration. HCP's recent exhibition projects include Txt Me L8r, a celebration of mobile technology in partnership with Aurora Picture Show, Reality Interrupted, featuring the work of the Sanchez Brothers, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao's Habitat 7 series, Susan Meiselas' project Mined in China, and Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman's Skylight Nocturnes. Madeline also serves on the editorial board of SPOT magazine, a biannual publication that includes portfolios, exhibition and book reviews, and articles on contemporary photography. Prior to joining HCP, she managed the photographic estate of Todd Webb (1905-2000), served as a photographic archivist, and organized exhibitions on photography and contemporary art in the US and Europe. Madeline is open to view a broad range of photography for exhibition and publication consideration. She is specifically interested in work that fits into one or several of the following contexts: artist as performer, humans' relationship to the environment, group dynamics, and cultural ethos and identity. She does not want to see work that she has previously reviewed or any commercial photography. [back to top]
