REVIEWERS 2008

David Bram
Co-Founder
Fraction Magazine

David Bram is a fine art photographer and co-founder of Fraction Magazine, an online venue dedicated to fine art photography. Fraction was created to promote the work of established artists as well as emerging artists side by side. Fraction is published on a bi-monthly basis but in addition will produce a special edition issue to showcase five artists selected from PhotoNOLA. This special edition will be sent out in January 2009 and will be advertised and promoted in the same manner as the regular issues, with gallery, museum and publishing contacts all reviewing the work.

David is interested in seeing cohesive portfolios that are expertly produced and ready for promotion. Although not interested in seeing commercial work, David and Fraction Magazine maintain an open mind and have a true love of photography.

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Alejandro Castellanos, Founder & Director of Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico

Castellanos studied at the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. He has been a researcher and deputy director of the National Center of Investigation, Documentation and Information of Visual Arts (Cenidiap) of INBA (National Institute of Fine Arts). He was director of Fotozoom magazine, the photography critic of Unomásuno, and a professor at Universidad Veracruzana. He received the artistic research award of the National Institute of Fine Arts in 1993. He has coordinated several exhibitions of art and photography and has published numerous essays, articles and interviews in magazines and catalogs published in Mexico and abroad.

Castellanos is currently director of Centro de la Imagen (Center of the Image) in Mexico City. This pioneering photography center, housed in a former colonial tobacco processing plant, stages the city's most important photography exhibitions, as well as occasional shows of contemporary sculpture and other art or mixed media. Photography by international artists is often grouped thematically, drawing parallels between various cultures. The center also publishes books, catalogs, and a bilingual magazine.

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Jörg Colberg, Conscientious
Northampton, MA
www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/

Jörg Colberg is a writer 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 co-published in numerous magazines and on a large variety of websites, nationally and internationally. He is a contributor to American Photo's website, and in 2007 co-curated an exhibition with Jen Bekman, "A New American Portrait." Jörg has been a jury member of Critical
Mass, Hey Hot Shot!, and the International Fashion and Photography Festival in Hyères, France in 2008.

Jörg is most interested in reviewing contemporary photography. He is less interested in alternative processes or street photography, and he is going to offer very direct and honest feedback on work of all genres.

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Rose M. Courville
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Curator of Exhibitions
Lafayette, Louisiana
www.acadianacenterforthearts.org

The Acadiana Center for the Arts is a regional arts center with over 6,200 square feet of state of the art gallery space. The AcA produces three large-scale exhibitions per year in the Main Gallery with a national or regional perspective. The Side Gallery Series, established in 2008, hosts 12 solo exhibitions per year of regional artists. Rose Courville has been at the AcA since January 2006, prior to which she was at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA. Courville has produced critically acclaimed exhibitions as well as many exhibition catalogs. She is the curator for the Southern Open, an annual competitive juried exhibition. She is on the visual arts committee for Festival Internationale as well as on the steering committee for the Congrès mondial acadien-Louisiane 2014 Bid.

Mrs. Courville is interested in viewing work with strong southern content, in black and white or color, for possibility of inclusion of upcoming New Orleans/Lafayette project by emerging artists. She is also looking for possible Side Gallery Series exhibitors. Variety of work – both conservative and cutting edge. She does not wish to see traditional nudes, landscapes and flowers. No commercial or fashion, please.

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Crista Dix
Owner/Director, wall space gallery
Seattle, WA

Crista has had diverse careers as a scientist, artist and businesswoman. She has worked in the Pacific Northwest photographic community for the last 10 years as a photographer, teacher and advisor, working with artists to refine their creative vision. Crista has been a member of panels and discussions on topics as varied as Women in Photography, and the Future of Digital Photography and the Arts. She has juried the Washington State High School Photographic Competition, as well as the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival. In the last year Crista was invited to participate in the reviews in Portland, Santa Fe and Houston.

Wall space opened in 2004 focusing on and promoting new and emerging artists looking to incorporate photography into a larger creative vision. In addition to the gallery, The Studio, an online resource, is an additional showcase to give artists an opportunity for promotion and exposure. The Flat-File, the gallery’s blog, showcases singular images from new artists, or found images from the blogosphere that we find need an outlet.

Crista is interested in seeing cohesive and completed bodies of work that cross the lines of the traditional image, transcending process or technique. She is not interested in commercial or stock types of images.

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Roy Flukinger , Senior Research Curator, Harry Ransom Center Austin, TX
www.hrc.utexas.edu

ROY FLUKINGER is the Research Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds degrees from Tulane University, where he was recently named a Distinguished Alumni, and The University of Texas Austin. He has taught as an Adjunct Lecturer/Assistant Professor at UT and other institutions. He has published and lectured extensively in the fields of contemporary photography and the history of art and photography. To date he has produced or participated in nearly eighty exhibitions, including ''A Lewis Carroll Centenary'' and ''Visiones de Tejanos/Visions of Texans'', as well as such traveling shows as ''Eve Arnold: In Retrospect'' and ''The Formative Decades: Photography in Great Britain, 1839-1920''. Among his later publications are: ''Windows of Light'' and ''Photography: The First 150 Years''.

He has served on professional boards including the Texas Photographic Society, Houston Fotofest, photolucida, and the Houston Center of Photography. He is currently working on publications on the Gernsheim Collection and the photographer Fritz Henle, as well as presentations on photographic history, collection management, and contemporary and Texas photography. He consults photographic institutions and also assists in finding and developing acquisitions for the Photography Department of the Ransom Center.

He is interested in all forms of contemporary photography from black & white to color and digital, with an additional interest in modern work employing historical, alternative processes. He is most interested in seeing artistic and photojournalistic bodies of work, and less interested in purely commercial work, though he still remains pretty enthusiastic about all disciplines of photography.

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Pascale Giffard, Exhibitions Manager, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Paris, France
www.rencontres-arles.com www.rencontres-arles.com

Pascale Giffard has been Exhibitions Manager for the International Photofestival Les Rencontres d’Arles, France, for 3 years. She works on the programming and production of the festival’s exhibitions with the director François Hébel, and guest curators such as the French photographer Raymond Depardon in 2006 and Christian Lacroix in 2008. Every year the Rencontres d’Arles shows exceptional photographic works by known and unknown photographers from all over the world: India, China, United States, Europe, South America... Its aim is to reveal and present the contemporary photographic scene; what is to be known, discovered or rediscovered in the field of artistic photography and photojournalism, black and white or colour, printed and framed photos and also projected exhibitions. The festival will be celebrating it’s 40th anniversary in 2009.

Pascale Giffard often meets photographers to review portfolios for the programming of the festival or just to discuss and critique their images. She learned about photography while working in the cultural department of the Magnum Photo Agency in Paris, starting in 2000. During her 4 years there she met very talented photographers and managed their touring exhibitions, including career retrospectives by Josef Koudelka, Henri Cartier-bresson and René Burri.

Pascale is interested in reviewing all kinds of work, but specializes in photojournalism and photoreportage. She speaks French and English.

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MaryAnne Golon
Independent Photo Editor, NYC

MaryAnne Golon is an independent photography editor living in the greater New York City area.

She was Time magazine's director of photography until July 2007 and is now a contributing editor to the magazine. She was the onsite photography editor for Time and Life magazines during the first Gulf War, and has been directly involved in the production of scores of Time covers and special editions.

Golon led the photography team that produced the September 11, 2001 special black-bordered edition and the Hurricane Katrina special edition, which each won National Magazine Awards for single-issue topics. She coordinated Time's photographic coverage of the Olympic Games for 16 years.

Golon has received many individual picture-editing awards from the POYi (Pictures of the Year International) and the National Press Photographers' Association Best of Photojournalism competitions. She is a regular participant in the World Press Photo annual competition in Amsterdam and taught the Joop Swaart Masterclass for five years. She regularly teaches at the Missouri Photo Workshop, Photography at the Summit, and the Look3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Golon will review any type of portfolio; however, her expertise is in photojournalism and portraiture.

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Reuel Golden
Executive Editor, Photo District News
New York, NY

Reuel Golden is the executive editor of Photo District News where he is responsible for assigning, writing and editing stories on all aspects of professional photography both for the magazine and pdnonline.com. During his time at PDN, Reuel has played a key role in shaping the look and content of the magazine, helping maintain its status as the must read publication and web site for the photography industry. Most recently, Reuel played a vital part in PDN'S Fine Art Issue that won the magazine a prestigious Neal Award from the American Business Media in 2008. Prior to that, he was editor of the British Journal of Photography, the only weekly publication for the professional photographer. He is the author of two books 20th Century Photography and Witness: The World's Greatest News Photographers. (both published by Carlton Books). He has lectured on photography in London, New York and LA, and been a judge on numerous photography competitions.

Reuel is interested in seeing all types of photography, but is keen to see long term projects or completed stories whatever the genre or style.

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David Houston

David Houston is the Chief Curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Previously, he spent ten years he as a faculty member of the College of Art, Architecture and Humanities at Clemson University in South Carolina, and also served as the Acting Curator of the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans. He regularly organizes exhibitions of photography, including current one-person exhibitions with Elliott Erwitt and Stuart Klipper, and an upcoming project with Sally Mann. The Ogden’s mission is to broaden the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and culture of the American South.

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Russell Joslin
Owner, Editor and Publisher
Shots Magazine
www.shotsmag.com

Edited and published by photographer Russell Joslin, Shots Magazine is an independent, reader-supported, quarterly journal of fine art photography known for its democratic presentation of work by a variety of photographers from around the world. Often described as a “photographer’s photography magazine”, Shots reaches a wide audience that includes not only photographers, but also educators, gallery directors, museums, and others interested in photography. Joslin offers the opportunity of publication in Shots, and is interested in seeing developed bodies of work. Joslin is also interested in meeting with photographers who are open to honest dialogue/feedback and the discussion of ideas related to their work. Note: Shots does not publish stock or commercial photography.

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Stella Kramer
Photography Consultant
New York City

Stella Kramer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Photo Editor who worked in the New York publishing industry for more than 15 years. Stella is based in New York City and works as a consultant to photographers, helping them to strengthen their creative eye, put together the strongest portfolios and websites that reflect their work, and set a course to reach their professional goals. She also lectures and teaches classes in and around New York, and consults with architectural firms. She is a judge at the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame photo contest and has reviewed portfolios around the country.

Stella has worked on many of the major news events in recent history, serving as the photo editor for The New York Times series “Portraits of Grief” memorializing those who lost their lives in the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Her work as part of the that team won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2002 Infinity Award for Public Service from the International Center of Photography. She was also part of the team at The New York Times that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

Stella began her career at Vanity Fair, was a photo editor at Newsweek, the Director of Photography at Equity Magazine and later at Brill’s Content. She has worked as a Photo Editor at The New York Times, PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, MONEY, and other major consumer magazines. While at Newsweek, she received the 1995 Clarion Award for Feature Press Photography from the prestigious industry organization, Women In Communications, and an Award of Excellence from the American Association of Black Journalists.

Stella is interested in reviewing editorial, photojournalism, portrait, documentary, photo essays, food, fine art and sports. She is not interested in viewing nudes, fashion, photo-illustration, or advertising/commercial photography.

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Melanie McWhorter

Melanie McWhorter previously held the position of Director of the photo-eye’s online Galleries while concurrently acting as photo-eye’s Book Division Manager. She is educated in History and Art Gallery Management with some experience in Art Law, Grant writing and marketing. She also assists the Senior Appraiser at 20th Century West Art Appraisals in Santa Fe and contributes to Santa Fe arts magazine, THE, and the online magazine, Fraction. She is interested in looking at all types of work whether the artist is interested in photo-eye’s galleries or online bookstore or simply looking for advice.

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Charles Mégnin, owner
The Darkroom Photographic Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
gallery.neworleansdarkroom.com

Charles Mégnin is the owner of The New Orleans Darkroom, a multi-faceted photography center with a gallery and a studio that offers custom services to exhibiting photographers. Opened in 2004, the gallery presents four to six exhibitions annually which typically focus on the work of emerging artists. Having recently enhanced its online presence, the gallery is seeking to develop its activity and meet artists with fresh perspectives and approaches.
Charles is particularly interested in seeing coherent bodies of work in documentary and narrative photography, and arguments around social themes. He is not interested in reviewing commercial, fashion or wildlife work.

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Ann Pallesen, Gallery Director
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA

Ann Pallesen is the Gallery Director of the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA, a position she has held since 1996. The Photographic Center Northwest Gallery exhibits contemporary photography in a wide range of genres by emerging and established artists. We are interested in the dialog and exploration that comes from viewing, collecting and appreciating an artist's vision. As a fine art educational institution we curate exhibitions which challenge perceptions, tell stories and express a point of view. The work we exhibit includes traditional black and white, alternative processes, color and digital media of the highest quality. Pallesen has curated and installed over 150 exhibitions including the work of Julie Blackmon, Elliott Erwitt, Graciela Iturbide, Chris Jordan, Mary Ellen Mark, Ken Rosenthal, Camille Seaman & Hiroshi Watanabe. She has coordinated dozens of lectures with artists and curators, and regularly appears at portfolio review events, on panel discussions and has served as a juror for several non-PCNW exhibitions. She is an active photographer herself and is represented by Benham Gallery in Seattle. Pallesen is interested in reviewing comprehensive fine art bodies of work for exhibition.

Photographic Center Northwest
A leader in the education and promotion of art photography, the Photographic Center Northwest strives to enrich photographic artistry and appreciation through its quality courses and workshops, a gallery exhibiting internationally renowned artists, and outreach programs which serve photographers throughout the region.
We offer intensive ten-week courses, day and evening, and workshops, taught by faculty skilled as instructors and as photographers. Our students range from novice to seasoned professional. Students choose to take individual classes or enroll in a comprehensive program, which includes a year-long thesis project. Our fine art photography curriculum encompasses concept, theory, aesthetics, and technical proficiency.

Our Mission
The mission of the Photographic Center Northwest is to advance the study, practice, and appreciation of fine art and documentary photography through education, exhibitions, and public programs that convey our passion for photography.

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Doug Parker
Photo Editor, The Times Picayune

Doug Parker has been a photo editor at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans since 1990, and its photo director since 1994. During that time his editing projects have ranged from Fidel Castro’s Cuba to the New Orleans dysfunctional school system, from the U.S. Track and Field Olympic trials to LSU’s national football championships. He has planned coverage for Super Bowls; World Series and numerous national championship games played in New Orleans. Currently, he has been dedicated to planning and editing photo coverage of the destruction and recovery of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina.

Parker is a member of NPPA and APPM. During his tenure, the photo department has won more than 100 national and international awards in competitions such as POYi, BOP, SND, ASNE and APME. He was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and led the team that won the prestigious Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in Editing Award in 2005. Other projects he has helped edit have been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times, with the series, ‘Oceans of Trouble,’ winning the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In addition to his newspaper editing, he has edited five books.
Parker was born in San Francisco and holds a BA from San Jose State University and a MSJ from Ohio University. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and two daughters.

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Kira Pollack

Kira Pollack is the Deputy Photo Editor of The New York Times Magazine and the Photo Editor of Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine. In recent years, the photographs assigned by The New York Times Magazine have won numerous awards from the Pictures of the Year competition, Overseas Press Club, World Press Photo, and the Society of Publication Designers. Prior to The New York Times Magazine, Kira was associate photo editor at The New Yorker Magazine, under the leadership of Tina Brown, from 1994-1998. In addition to the picture editing, Kira participates in judging photographic competitions, reviewing student portfolios and teaching workshops.

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George Slade
Artistic Consultant, Minnesota Center for Photography
Minneapolis, Minnesota

George Slade is an historian of photography and a native Minnesotan. He became the artistic director of the Minnesota Center for Photography (MCP; www.mncp.org) in 2003 after serving as a curator, editor, writer, and advisor to the organization since 1992. He has also directed the MCP/McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowships for Photographers Program since 1998 (www. mcknightphoto.org). His most recent projects at MCP include Hand in Hand: Domestic and Creative Partnerships in the Digital Age, Jerome Liebling: Selected Photographs, Choreographic: Images of Movement, Downriver: New Orleans Before the Flood (all 2006), and Three Gorges (2007). Slade has served as a panelist and portfolio reviewer for the Ohio Arts Council, Minnesota State Arts Board, Minnesota State Fair, Fotofest Meeting Place (Houston), Coalition of Photographic Arts (Milwaukee), IRevelar (Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta), Society for Photographic Education, Critical Mass and Photolucida (both Portland, OR). He received a 2007 Fellowship from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program to support his book Looking Homeward: Notes on Photographic Minnesota (scheduled for publication in 2009 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press). He has contributed essays and reviews to the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography (Routledge, 2006), exposure, photoeye Booklist, Minnesota History, and other publications. He edited and co-wrote Minnesota In Our Time: A Photographic Portrait (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000). He lives in St. Paul with his two daughters, his partner, and her sons.

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Susan Spiritus

The Susan Spiritus Gallery has been operational in the field of fine art contemporary photography since 1976 when Susan Spiritus then embarked on a new career as a gallerist in Newport Beach, California.
She has been dedicated to showing and promoting the careers of emerging and mid-career photographers’ works for more than 32 years and continues as one of the earliest galleries in the country which is still active today in Newport Beach, California.

It was 1996, after the twenty years in the gallery business, that Susan Spiritus changed the focus of her gallery and chose to transition the gallery from a traditional gallery and begin working as a private dealer. Although she would no longer mount one person exhibitions for her artists, she would work with them and place the works into many corporate art collections.

Susan Spiritus continues to work along this path today. Some of the photographic artists represented by the Susan Spiritus Gallery include to Susan Burnstine, Hiroshi Watanabe, George Tice, Dave Anderson, Jeffrey Becom, Camille Seaman, David Burdeny, Roman Loranc, Larry Vogel, Robert Turner, Christopher Burkett, Dar Spain, William Scott and Gunnar Plake.

Susan Spiritus has reviewed portfolios for Review LA and Photo Lucida and participates each year in photo la, in Santa Monica. She was one of the original members of AIPAD in 1978.

She is interested in seeing beautifully crafted images – not “samples” or test prints, but work which is suitable for the corporate art setting including but not limited to landscapes, abstract work, color or black and white, and digital is ok……
Please no nude studies, stock photographs or commercial work.

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Mary Virginia Swanson, Creative Consultant
Mary Virginia Swanson & Associates
www.mvswanson.com
www.marketingphotos.wordpress.com

Mary Virginia Swanson makes it her goal to help photographers find the strengths in their work and identify appreciative audiences for their prints, exhibitions, editorial and licensing placement. Ms. Swanson has a diverse professional background, having coordinated educational, publication and exhibitions programs for a wide range of institutions and businesses in the field of photography and is considered an expert in the area of marketing and licensing fine art. It was during her tenure heading special projects at Magnum Photos that she recognized the opportunities for artists to develop second markets for their work, and in 1991 she founded SWANSTOCK, an innovative agency managing licensing rights for fine art photographers. Her workshops and lectures on the subjects of marketing opportunities and awareness have proven to aid photographers in moving their careers to the next level. She also consults with business and agencies in the photographic industry to aid in their awareness of contemporary photography.

Ms. Swanson currently works individually with photographers as a marketing consultant to guide artist in their careers. She maintains a popular blog about marketing is currently working on her second book, Finding Your Audience: A Guide To Marketing Your Creative Photography.

Ms. Swanson is happy to review portfolios of all kinds, be it work in progress or completed projects, and will offer artists advice on reaching their targeted audience.

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Hannah Watson

Gigi Gianuzzi & Hannah Watson
Trolley Books, London, England
www.trolleybooks.com

Gigi Giannuzzi has worked in publishing for over 15 years, setting up his first independent publishing house in 1997 'Westzone', and working with artists such as Richard Long, Richard Serra and Nan Goldin. He founded Trolley Books in 2001, whose publications are renowned for their commitment to issues germane to society in photography, current affairs and contemporary art, working with some of the best photojournalists in the world, among them Philip Jones Griffiths, Stanley Greene, Paolo Pellegrin and Jan Grarup, producing a diverse and unique list of photography and contemporary art books. Gigi can review in English, Italian, French, Spanish.

Hannah Watson comes from a background in art and journalism. Her particular interest in photography lead to her current position at Trolley. She has since been working for over two years both on the photography books published by Trolley, and the contemporary art exhibitions held at Trolley Gallery in London. Hannah also continues to write freelance about contemporary art and photography.

Since its inception in September 2001, Trolley has established itself as an innovative and exciting imprint recognized for its diverse and often daring range of photography and art books, its high quality of production and design, and most of all for its commitment to the integrity of its publications. Recognition has come in part from the numerous prestigious awards from such Institutions as the ICP in New York, Rencontres D’Arles, Pictures of the Year International, the American Photography Awards, PDN and Photo Eye, and also from a highly positive reception by the domestic and international media.

Hannah and Gigi will be reviewing as a team, and are most interested in seeing photojournalism, social documentary and reportage, as those genres are most relevant to the mission of Trolley Books.

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Clint Willour

Clint Willour, curator of the Galveston Arts Center (www.galvestonartscenter.org) for the past seventeen years, has been an art professional for thirty-five years. He is active on boards of numerous arts organizations in Texas and has served as a juror for over sixty competitions in his career. He curates 24 exhibitions per year in Galveston, and serves regularly as a guest curator for institutions throughout the state of Texas. He is known for the multi disciplinary focus of his taste. He is a past President of the Board of the Houston Center for Photography and a current member of their Programming Committee, Chair of the Photography Accessions Sub-committee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a member of the Art Committee of FotoFest, Houston, board member of Photo Forum at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has been a meeting place reviewer at every FotoFest, Houston, (and last year, Beijing, China) as well as reviewing portfolios for the Houston Center for Photography; the Texas Photographic Society; Photo Americas in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Photolucida in Portland, Oregon; Review Santa Fe, New Mexico; Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Quebec; Les Rencontres d’Arles, France; Photo Primavera in Barcelona, Spain and the Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He does not wish to view commercial photography or work he has previously reviewed.

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Jack Woody
Editor, Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM
www.twinpalms.com

For more than twenty years Twin Palms has been producing some of the most beautiful photography and art books available. Their books are recognized for high-quality papers and printing, and award winning design. Recently, Twin Palms has published monographs by William Eggleston, Lise Sarfati, Philip Lorca DiCorcia, Anthony Goicolea, and Jeff Burton. They have also published first monographs by artists George Platt Lynes, Joel-Peter Witkin, Robert Mapplethorpe, F. Holland Day, Duane Michals, Robert ParkeHarrison and many others.

Additionally, Twin Palms has presented important documentary work by Danny Lyon, Bruce Davidson, and Dennis Hopper. This focus on documentary work has resulted in publication of their most controversial and thought provoking books: The Killing Fields, and Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.

Jack Woody prefers to review thoughtful, mature and cohesive bodies of work.

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Del Zogg
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas www.mfah.org

Del Zogg has held the position of Manager of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Works on Paper Study Center since 2002. Prior to that he was employed (1981-2002) at the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film in Rochester, NY. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master’s degree from Syracuse University. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of several major museums.

He has participated in portfolio reviews for Fotofest, the Houston Center for Photography, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, and Photo Lucida. He has curated several exhibitions at both Eastman House and MFAH, and recently taught The Big Picture: An Illustrated History of Photography for Rice University’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. He also taught a photographic history workshop (The Physical Print: A Brief History of Photographic Processes) during the summer of 2008 for the Alfred C. Glassell School of Art of the MFAH.

Mr. Zogg is most interested in work that shows a mature vision no matter what the age of the artist. Antique or alternative photographic processes are of interest as are traditional imaging processes. Large format inkjet color images or digitally manipulated images are not of interest.

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