Mar

27

2006

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I just got back from the national SPE conference in Chicago. There were some great presentations, lectures, and displays, and some not so great ones as well. It was my first trip to Chicago and I was impressed by the city, very clean, well maintained, beautiful architecture, and lots and lots of art. It was kinda crazy being around hundreds and hundreds of other photographers and educators, I’ve never seen so many photographers in one room before! I saw some great work from several artists, including Jeffrey A. Wolin. Jeffrey presented a documentary on vietnam veterans. His stories that went along with his portraits of veterans were extremely powerful. He is a great example of how to effectively document during photographing. Another presentation that impressed me was a collaboration between photographer Sant Khalsa and the poetry of B.H. Fairchild. I couldn’t find any links online to the project, but it was a documentation of the death of small town America combined with the dramatic poetry of B.H. Fairchild. Sant presented her photographs and played audio files of B.H. Fairchild’s poetry that were written specifically for individual images. It had a very powerful and emotional effect. The presentation I enjoyed the most was a panel of Chicago photographers: Brian Ulrich, Matt Sibler, and Jonathan Gitelson. I have links to their sites on the sidebar. They all graduated with M.F.A.s from Columbia College in 2003 and 2002, and are now working and/or teaching in Chicago. They had some amazing work, you should really check it out. It was great to see photographers doing extremely relevant digital work that is still easily catagorized as photography rather than new media or media arts. Anyways, gotta get some sleep, big week ahead. We have Liz Wells visiting our program tomorrow, so that should be interesting. peace

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