ARTICLES AND  REVIEWS

David Graham’s solo exhibition, In Search of America: Photographs by David Graham, at Silver Eye Center For Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, was covered by the Associated Press, and the AP story was carried in publications across the United States.

Justin Guariglia’s new book, Plant Shanghai, was reviewed in both The New Yorker and T: The New York Times Style Magazine.  For The New Yorker, John Krich wrote “Justin Guariglia, an American photographer who lived in Asia for nearly a decade, captures the city in its most informal moments...His search for street style uncovers moments of unexpected beauty:  a rainbow pile of scrap wire, a heart-shaped decoration on an anti-theft gate, a boarded-up door crisscrossed with lines as straight and true as a calligrapher’s best brushwork.”

EXHIBITIONS

Justyna Badach was selected by the reviewers at the 2008 CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival for inclusion  in the Portfolio Reviews Exhibition, May 5 -June 5, 2008.

Don Camp and Paul Cava are both included in When Photography and Printmaking Collide at the Free Library of Philadelphia, through June 27, 2008. The exhibition features artists who use a combination of the two mediums in their work.

To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Philadelphia’s Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), the Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting a show of works on paper by 25 artists and advisors of CFEVA, including Donald E. Camp, Serge J-F. Levy and Douglas Takeshi Wolfe.  Emerging to Established: Twenty -Five Years of the Center for Emerging Visual  Artists runs through July 6, 2008.

GUARIGLIA + CHEN’s Aperture Foundation traveling exhibition, Shaolin: Temple of Zen, is on view at the National Geographic Museum, Washington DC, through September 7, 2008.

Henry Horenstein exhibited work from his Creatures series at Fabrik der Künste in Hamburg, Germany.  The exhibition was on view from April 12-27 as of part of the Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2008.

Serge J-F. Levy is included in group show at Schroeder Romero / Winkleman Gallery Project Space, NY, NY. The Sparky Show presents over 100 portraits of Sparky the dog, and runs through June 28, 2008.

Amanda Means’ exhibition, Looking at Leaves, is featured at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Boston, MA, through February 8, 2009.  Using leaves as negatives, Means’ black and white photographs explore the diversity and beauty of natural forms.

Sarah Stolfa exhibited new work in Yale MFA Photography 2008, at Yale University School of Art, Green Gallery, New Haven, from May 17-May 26. The show was then on view at Danziger Projects, NY, NY,  from May 27-May 31, and will be exhibited by Gallery 339 from July 11-September 6, 2008.

AWARDS

Justyna Badach was selected to receive the Griffin Award as part of the Griffin Museum's Annual Juried Exhibition (June 5-Aug 31), juried by Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art. The photograph which won the award, “Kirk, 2007,” is part of a series of portraits of single men depicting the places where they withdraw from the world to think, meditate, and fantasize.

Henry Horenstein received the 2008 New England Beacon Award from the Griffin Museum. This award recognizes an individual whose work brings prominence to the local photographic scene.

Liz Rideal has been awarded the Wingate Rome Scholarship in the Fine Arts which provides a 5-month residency at The British School at Rome.  The residency will begin in September 2008.

COMMISSIONS/PROJECTS

Liz Rideal’s commission by the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, England, to create an installation in the main entrance hall to the new cancer wing, will be installed in July, 2008.  “Hawthorn, Hall of Mirrors, 454308E - 205690N”  is a set of four sandblasted and acid-etched mirrors, covering a wall area of 8x21 feet, the design of which is derived from photograms made of a local hawthorn tree.

PUBLICATIONS

David Graham’s new book, Almost Paradise, will be released in September 2008 by Pond Press.  Almost Paradise continues Graham’s 30-year exploration of the idiosyncrasies of America’s cultural and physical landscape.

Justin Guariglia’s book Planet Shanghai was released by Chronicle Books in May 2008.  Planet Shanghai looks at the day-to-day features that give this major city its distinct character.

Yuichi Hibi’s new monograph, Neco, will be released in June 2008 by Nazraeli Press. Neco brings together Hibi’s enigmatic and distinctly unsentimental photographs (and illustrations) of cats.

Henry Horenstein’s new book Animalia was released this spring by Pond Press.  The abstracted and mysterious images of Animalia present Horenstein’s distinct approach to animal portraiture.

LECTURES/PANELS/BOOKSIGNINGS

Donald Camp participated in an artist panel as part of the Gretchen Hupfel Symposium: Interrogating Beauty, at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts on April 12, 2008.

Justin Guariglia signed copies of Planet Shanghai at the International Center of Photography’s Museum Store, New York, NY on May 23.

Henry Horenstein will present a talk on his work, from the early 70s to the present, with an emphasis on book publishing at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, Thursday, June 12 at 6:00pm.

Amanda Means gave two gallery talks this spring in conjunction with her exhibition, Looking at Leaves, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA.