Robert Capa/ NYT article

New Works by Photography's Old Masters

By Randy Kennedy/ New York Times

A look inside Robert Capa's Mexican Suitcase, photography from the Spanish Civil War that was long thought to be lost.


A shot of a woman and child at a Spanish refugee camp in France, taken by Robert Capa in March 1939.

Lisa Wiltse's essay on Teenage Pregnancy

BURN MAGAZINE
Photographic Essay by Lisa Wiltse, AIB Alumna


Parola Tondo District, Manila, Philippines
© Lisa Wiltse

Pregnant teenagers pass the time in the alleyways and slum of Parola Tondo district, Manila, Philippines
© Lisa Wiltse

Teenage pregnancy is widespread in the Philippines, especially amongst the poor. In Manila, this contributes to overpopulation and the vicious cycle of poverty, another child borne into the ghettos and a teenage Mom bearing the burden of raising a child before her own maturity and adulthood. An estimated 70,000 adolescent mothers die each year in developing countries.
Young mothers face enormous health risks, obstructed labor is common and results in newborn deaths and deaths or disabilities in the mother.

Children are everywhere, tangible evidence of the city’s teenage pregnancy problem. Every year, 13 out of 100 girls aged between 15 and 19 of the Filipino population get pregnant. Health care for Manila’s urban poor is almost nonexistent, while opportunities to learn about contraception in this strictly Catholic country are rare. (excerpt from burn Magazine)

Lisa Wiltse graduated from the Photography Department at the Art Institute of Boston in 1999. Lisa currently works as a freelance photographer who has generated self-funded projects focusing on humanitarian issues in countries such as Australia, Uganda, Bangladesh, Romania and most recently the Philippines. A former staff photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald, her work has been awarded several honors including first prize at PX3 Prix de la Photographie, The Oxfam Humanitarian Award, and the Gordon Parks International Photography contest, among others. Lisa was announced as one of the 2008 Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographers and is represented by Aurora Photos.

Sophie Calle @ Paula Cooper Gallery

Sophie Calle Take Care of Yourself

April 9 - June 6, 2009

Art Review | 'The Pictures Generation'

At the Met, Baby Boomers Leap Onstage

By Holland Cotter/ New York Times

Blue Tile Reception Area, 1983
Laurie Simmons

alter ego @ Nave Gallery

Images Made with Toy Cameras and Alternative Photographic Processes

Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
155 Powderhouse Blvd., Somerville, MA

May 2-21, 2009
Reception May 7, 7-9 p.m



During times of change, there are always those who rebel. In the current era of digital media, many photographers are reaching for ways to create work that is relevant in the world today, but by using manual processes that have enriched photography since it's inception. Be it with taped up plastic toy cameras from the 1970s, to making their own pinhole cameras, to creating cyanotypes outside in the sun—these are not photographers who simply want to plug in their memory card and click away to create an image. There is a lot of trial and error, duct-tape and elbow grease in making each of these images.

Many alternative photographers live by the mantra “don’t think, just shoot”. There are minimal options and settings in the cameras, and much is is left to chance, intuition and happy accidents. The process takes on a life of its own--be it light leaks in the camera, one frame overlapping to the next, or variations in environment and chemistry-- the intentional loss of control over the medium gives the artist an ability to let go of what might be sacred, as what is being captured through these mediums many times is unknown until the film is processed. It is a balance of give and take between the artist and the medium.

These photographers portray work that is whimsical, nostalgic and engrossed in their respective mediums to create the work that has been chosen to display. With polaroid, cyantope and other analogue techniques falling to the wayside in this digital age, we hope to celebrate these artists and their unique processes at the Nave.

Artists include Leslie Bastress, Heather Blakney, Kayla Brenes, Mark Richard Brown, Derrick Burbel, Christina, Myriah Leshea Douglas, Erica Frisk, Alice Grossman, Mellisa Gruntkosky, Janisha, Theresa Kelliher, Ariel Kessler, Mary Kocol, Cassandra Martin, Karen Molloy, Natasha Moustache, Dana Mueller, Denyse Murphy, Eric Nichols, Cade Overton, O Gustavo Plascencia, Serrah Russell, Shayna, Erika Sidor, Annie Smidt, Roberta Stone, David Strasburger, Andy Takats, Tricia, Molly Van Nice, V VanSant, Ann Zelle and Lexie Zippin.

Wicked Local Somerville article

Visiting artist Alessandra Sanguinetti

The Art Institute of Boston
Friday, April 17, 2009


Left:
Untitled
From On the Sixth Day
Fujiflex Print
1996–2004
Right:
Time Flies
Cibachrome Print
2005
© Alessandra Sanguinetti


The twins Ahmed and Mahmoud, Heritage Center, Bethlehem, C-Print , 2003
© Alessandra Sanguinetti

Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York City in 1968 and currently lives and works in both Buenos Aires and New York City. Her work has been exhibited extensively abroad, including a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, and is part of several collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the International Center of Photography, New York. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award.

Ben Sloat in Taiwan/ Conference Interview

Temple Portraits, Ben Sloat

Art in Context will conduct a conference interview with Ben Sloat who is currently on a Fulbright Scholarship in Taiwan.




Photographs Ben Sloat, Taiwan 2009

Ben Sloat received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley (’99) and a MFA from the Museum School/Tufts University (’05). Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Front Gallery in Oakland, CA and Safe-T Gallery in Brooklyn NY - group shows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Gallery 1600 in Atlanta, GA. His photographic work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Oakland Tribune, and the Boston Globe, and he has guest lectured at UC Berkeley, RISD, UC Santa Cruz, UMass Boston, Boston University, and SCAD. Having taught at Tufts University, Mass Art, and the SMFA, he currently teaches photography, digital media, and photo history at the Art Institute of Boston.

He is represented by OH+T Gallery in Boston.