Photo Events: This Weekend and Beyond
Posted by Adam Hurly on 27 June 2008.
Suddenly, JPG is also your event-planning committee. Before long, we'll probably offer financial consulting and career counseling. OK, kidding. But if you're near New York, London, or San Francisco, here's a couple great opportunities to pass the time.
The Click! Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum runs from today through August 10 on the second floor. From the Click! home page:
"Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process.... Artists are asked to electronically submit a work of photography that responds to the exhibition’s theme, 'Changing Faces of Brooklyn,' along with an artist statement."
The results are quite impressive, too. Here's a photo from JPGer Eamonn Aiken which appears in the exhibit.
Terminal Market, Brooklyn (Greenpoint) by Eamonn Aiken
And, if you're in the London area, there's a photograph scavenger hunt this weekend, called Hide & Seek Festival, which is part of the Snap-Shot-City duel. It's a photography competition between NYC and London (New York's challenge, Come Out & Play, was held in early June). Hide & Seek takes place tomorrow from 2 to 7 p.m., and results will be shown at an after party at 8 p.m. at Cosmo Bar, 50/54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS. It's not too late to register a small group in the scavenger hunt!
And for the Bay area members, there are two ongoing exhibits to whet your appetite. The Big Picture Kids is an exhibit hosted by photography therapist Katherine Leonard, featuring photos taken by kids with special needs. It runs until September 7 at the Bay Area Discovery Museum.
Additionally, Pamela Gentile, staff photographer at San Francisco International Film Festival for 22 years, presents a portrait exhibition of silver gelatin prints. These photographs, shot simply and candidly, "form an extraordinary historical record of visits to the Festival by some of the greatest figures in world cinema". This SFiFF exhibit runs at the Gamma Black and White Photographic Lab until August 29.
