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APA SF would like to offer a heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended our annual Something Personal Exhibition Opening & Holiday Party on December 14th, 2012, at Leftspace.
More than 700 Creatives, Photographers, Production Professionals and friends showed up to enjoy 100 exceptional personal images on display from 62 talented photographers.
We want to extend our gratitude to everyone who participated by entering the contest, and especially to the Judges who selected the 100 finest images from a record number of entries this year.
Lastly, but certainly not least, we want to warmly thank those who volunteered to help behind the scenes, before, and on the night of the event to keep it all running smoothly.
Assisting our Executive Director, Jeff Kausch, with everything that goes into making the night successful were: Brian Mahany, Scott Hermanson, Benjie Galvez, Heidi Goverman, Elisabeth Fall, Margot Duane, Stani Georgieva, Chris Bjuland, Alana Hale, Edite Haberman, Attic Floc, Karla Varela-Huezo, Bladimir Carelamunoz, Cecilia Kim, Toni Zernik, Brian Molyneaux, Michelle Mendieta-Mitchell, Rob Clevenger, Allen Mort, Peter Samuels, Diana Chow, Tudor Stanley, Donna Davis, Christine Krieg, Ryan McClymont, Amanda Hibbert, Greg Crawford, Carola Hochst, Diana Burman, Kate Ming, Ben Gogna, Heidi Erick, Paige Griffin, and Barclay Keir. We genuinely appreciate all of your hard work and dedication.
APA SF would like to congratulate the 2012 Exhibitors and remind everyone to keep creating personal work throughout the coming year. There’s a good chance you could be recognized in 2013 for shooting Something Personal.
The impressive Exhibition Catalog, expertly designed by our dedicated Chapter Chairman, Christian Peacock, is available at our cost ($17.75 + shipping) from MagCloud, here. At 8" x 8" and 110 pages, it features the entire 100 print exhibition.
If you are interested in purchasing a print, please contact the photographer directly; all exhibitors’ websites are linked from their photo credit in the Online Gallery.
SOMETHING PERSONAL PARTY PHOTOS © 2012 RUDI DUNDAS
We are proud to update that fellow photographer Erik Almas's long-awaited and one-of-a-kind educational DVD "On Aspects of Image Making" has debuted to critical acclaim. In development over the last 2-years, Almås has compiled twenty years worth of career knowledge into nearly 9-hours of teachings. Largely influenced by his alumni and trade association lecture series “Evolution of an Intriguing Style” Erik further chronicles not only his journey in developing and marketing his award-winning body of work and his philosophies but shares further insights into how to stay inspired about shooting and promoting imagery. All the while woven throughout in his animated and affable style is his coaching to the viewer, that they commit to their own journey of finding, defining and promoting their true photographic self.
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In-depth coverage over five unique case studies from ideation through final art, the viewer will delve into the creative intent of an image, the necessity of preplanning, plus preparedness for the spontaneous technical and problem solving facets of a shoot. In the five-hour segment of Photoshop tutorials, Almås reveals his complete post-production process including elemental darkroom techniques and advanced compositing.
.... We are also pleased to announce that from December 14th - December 31st, APA members as well any Something Personal attendees can purchase this innovative and inspirational package for just $249.00, a $50.00 savings off the purchase price.
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Purchase details, reviews and informational details can be found here: www.erikalmas.com/acuities.2012
The Bay: Creators of Style: Photo Exhibition and Book Release
Award Winning Fashion Photographer Liz Caruana Exhibits Solo Portrait Show and Book Release at Gallery Carte Blanche
January 25, 2013 – February 13, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday January 25, 7 – 9:30 p.m. Artist Talk: 7:30 p.m. Book Signing: 7:45-8:15 p.m.
Gallery Carte Blanche will open a unique exhibition featuring new work by award winning fashion photographer Liz Caruana on January 25, 2013, on view until February 13, 2013. The Bay: Creators of Style is a solo portrait show and book release featuring intimate images of San Francisco Bay Area Fashion designers. A selection of images will be featured at the Gallery with the entire series of 61 images in the accompanying book. Gallery Carte Blanche will hold an opening reception with the artist Friday January 25, from 7-9:30 p.m and an Artist Talk will be held at 7:30 p.m. with a book signing from 7:45-8:15pm.
The Bay: Creators of Style is a photographic study of the independent clothing, jewelry, handbag, and hat designer community. This cross-section of 48 companies represent the best and most well known names in haute couture and ready to wear. Bay Area darlings like Christopher Collins, Camelia Skikos, Daniel Sudar, Joseph Domingo, Nooworks, and FluffyCo show their true personalities in these black and white portraits revealing the heart and soul behind their brands. While other cities tout themselves as capitals of fashion, Bay Area designers are so much more. They are committed to their community’s morals and standards and operate their businesses on principles of eco-friendly and “made in America.” These principles are what make them unique and position them opposite the flood of mass-produced, outsourced, and cheaply made products on the market. This ethic is the core of what Bay Area fashion design is all about.
About the photographer
Born in Canada, Liz Caruana studied Cinema at the University of Toronto, embracing the idea of creating images that tell stories. She went on to work on feature films until transitioning to photography upon her move to San Francisco in 2004. In 2010, Liz Caruana was awarded San Francisco’s Best Fashion Photographer. Regarding this art show Caruana stated “The Bay Area has such talented designers, I wanted to share who these creative forces were.”
An 8.5x6 boutique photo book titled The Bay: Creators of Style accompanies the exhibition. The publication includes 61 black and white images and personal stories from the designers. It is available for pre-order until Dec. 5, 2012 with limited copies available for sale at the reception.
Book Pre-Order until Dec. 5, 2012 [book]
For More Information, Interviews, or High-Res Images Contact: Gwen Lafage, Gallery Carte Blanche, 973 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110 [map] (415) 821-1055, info@gallerycarteblanche.com or Liz Caruana Phone: 415 318 9994 Email: liz@lizcaruana.com URL: www.lizcaruana.com
About Gallery Carte Blanche
Gallery Carte Blanche, founded by French native Gwen Lafage in 2011, is an innovative photography gallery based in San Francisco’s vibrant Mission District (973 Valencia Street), with a web-based sales component enabling collectors to browse, discover, and buy online. Gallery Carte Blanche exhibits emerging international artists working within the medium of photography and offers limited-edition prints and a unique selection of fine art photography publications. Gallery Carte Blanche is pleased to offer art collectors and enthusiasts a selection of exemplary photographic works, often by artists exhibiting for the first time in the United States.
For more information visit www.gallerycarteblanche.com or call 415.821.1055
Gallery Hours: Open everyday 11am-7pm, except Tuesdays Location: 973 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA, 94110
Check out this excellent Q&A session with last year's Something Personal winner, Shaun Fenn. He is one of the Bay Area's rising stars. Find out what makes him tick!
via POPFoto.net
About ABOUT FACE….. by Rudi Dundas, APA SF Fine Arts Committee Chair WHERE: Pier 24, San Francisco
WHEN: until February 28, 2013
HOW: make a free online reservation: http://www.pier24.org/visit/index.html
Christian Peacock and I had the privilege of attending Pier 24’s stellar portrait exhibition, About Face last week. The exhibition comprises nearly one thousand photographs drawn from the Pilara Foundation’s permanent Collection and the Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein Collection. Seen in Pier 24’s spacious galleries, the experience is not to be missed.
Augmenting the show is the beautiful catalog including images of all of the work, with a short essay by Sandra Philips and interesting commentary from Martin Parr, Nan Goldin, Hiorshi Sugimoto, Dan Cameron, Richard Avedon and Richard Learoyd among others. At ten dollars, this is a gift from Pier 24 Photography.
About Face chronicles the art of portraiture from the early twentieth century to the present moment. A large selection of August Sander’s Face of Our Time begin the timeline, portraying life in Germany from 1910-1929. Early mug shots from Washington State and Fulton County Prison in Atlanta Georgia fill one gallery and cause one to question, “is it really the photographer who makes a portrait?” Following through the galleries, a history of the human face arises in the mind’s eye. No one would mistake an August Sander portrait for a modern day character from Avedon’s portraits “In the American West.” Pier 24 offers an entire gallery to each of these, in which to peruse one’s favorites; a luxury that few museums can afford, much less galleries.
The images grow larger as time moves on in many cases. One gallery is devoted to the portraits of Henry the VIII and his six wives from the Wax likenesses at Madame Tussaud’s Museum, reinterpreted by Hiroshi Sugimoto in the Renaissance lighting of Hans Holbein the younger. One is transported in time by photographs that are exponentially larger than the figures they reference.
Another Gallery with larger than life images referencing painterly light holds the six images by Richard Learoyd. Learoyd’s photographs are single objects produced with a specially built “room camera,” based on the original camera obscura, which captures the image without an interposing negative. The resulting images are unsettlingly still - the blue light of Ingres, as one of the photographs is titled.
Other highlights are: The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin, an intriguing collection from South Africa, Japan and China, a whole wall of Lee Friedlander, The Family, Avedon’s collection of portraits from the election of 1976 for Rolling Stone and 100 Years by Hans-Peter Feldman.
Christian remarked that he felt like he was:
“attending a family reunion getting reacquainted with old photos that I have known through my life. I was also treated to seeing some new work that I was not familiar with.”
But the sheer size and disparity of the exhibition was daunting:
“I like the first part of the exhibition with the varied collection of images from different artists. This gave me a broader sense of the role of photographer as a portraitist. How their role in documenting our societies is interpreted. The middle of the show became a number of smaller exhibitions of select artists. All of them worthy of a SFMOMA solo show, but somehow felt added to this exhibition just to demonstrate that the collector has an expansive collection of wonderful work. There could have been a little more editing to the exhibition to help bring better focus to the show.”
How to find focus in such a large collection of masterpieces would be a challenge. But the exhibition at Pier 24 certainly gives room for one to wander through time and find one’s own focus for the myriad of forms that human beings have taken in this changing world.
Do not miss this exhibition!
Editorial Photographers (EP) Merges into American Photographic Artists (APA) to Build Combined Stronger Voice in Photography Industry
Entering this contest is totally quick & easy. One category.
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AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS • SAN FRANCISCO
SOMETHING PERSONAL EXHIBITION OPENING & HOLIDAY PARTY
Friday, December 14, 2012 5:00 - 10:00 PM By Invitation Only
LEFTSPACE, 2055 Bryant Street, San Francisco
CALL FOR ENTRIES FINAL DEADLINE
9:00 PM, PDT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012
Huge, spectacular, catered holiday party at LEFTSPACE with fine wines and festive ales. Widespread, multi-level winning-image promotion to thousands of Creatives. Proven career-improving benefits: hundreds of previous year Something Personal Exhibitors have connected with new clients, and landed lucrative photo assignments as a direct result of participating in this prestigious annual exhibition.
YOUR FINEST PERSONAL WORK
Creatives love to see pro photographers' personal work because it reveals your true photographic style, without anyone else's influence or input. The APA SF Something Personal Exhibit started about two decades ago with this unique core concept, and each time, we've significantly increased the benefits of participating. Don't miss this exceptional annual opportunity to exhibit your original personal photographic style, enhance your artistic reputation, and dramatically advance your career....
APA California Activism Committee Update: Payment of Talent Agency-represented Talent
For the last year and a half, Muse Law Group has filed a number of lawsuits against photographers, and advertising agencies, for labor code violations against both agency-represented models, and freelance models. The lawsuits claim the hired talent was an employee of the defendant, was fired at the end of the shoot, and ought to have been paid in full at the end of the shoot. Most of the models were paid within a net 30 day pay period, a standard industry practice, which Muse Law Group claims is a violation of California Labor Code 203 (a).
What you should do
With what we know now, the clearest way to avoid a lawsuit like this in the future, is to pay your talent, in full, at the end of the shoot.
As always, it’s prudent to be aware of the laws and regulations that govern your business activities; this situation is somewhat opaque, but let me try to shed a little light on it.
What has happened in the last 18 months
A number of claims have been settled out of court, and a few decisions have been made by the Labor Commission, in favor of the plaintiff. Decisions by the Labor Commissioner are typical in these types of cases – at this lowest level of judicial system, state bureaucrats review these cases, and the Labor Commission uses whatever justification they want to come to a decision. There is no deeper consideration of the claims, because there are no arguments from either party. Decisions by the Labor Commission cannot be relied upon by other courts as precedent, and, of course, neither can out-of-court settlements.
Either party can appeal the decision, at which point, the case moves to the next level: California Superior Court. Here, both parties can argue their case to a judge. If either party remains dissatisfied with the decision by the Superior Court judge, the case can move to the Court of Appeal, and, eventually, the State Supreme Court. Proceeding through these stages in the legal system can cost a considerable amount of money, and sometimes the cost for legal fees will exceed the claim, but only a decision from the Court of Appeal, or California Supreme Court, can be relied upon by other courts as precedent.
So far, no defendant has taken their case beyond the Labor Commissioner decision. The law firms filing these charges hope for this type of outcome - they want to settle or get a favorable decision from the Labor Commission - because beyond that, a case will become unprofitable. The Labor Commission seems likely to continue to decide in favor of the plaintiffs.
For a permanent resolution to these types of lawsuits, a defendant needs to see a case all the way through the court system, but, of course, there are no guarantees that the final decision, by the judge of the Court of Appeals, will be in favor of the defendant. There are always many unique circumstances to each case, but once a legal decision has been made, it will most likely become precedent. When that happens the outcome for other cases will follow suit.
What this means to APA photographers
I have heard of out-of-state clients avoiding the Los Angeles area, for fear of getting sued. This is a real concern, and one that hits the pocketbooks of photographers, talent agencies, producers and all the other people involved in a shoot. Being aware of this situation can protect you from litigious people, looking for a quick dollar, who have no regard to damage it does to the industry.
Again, the best practice, at the moment, is to pay the talent at the end of their booking.
Christian Peacock
APA San Francisco Chapter Chair
APA CA Activism Committee Member
August 31, 2012
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THERE WILL NOT BE ANOTHER DEADLINE EXTENSION
APA San Francisco brought Emily Shur to the Academy of Art Morgan Auditorium on April 20th of this year.
Recently, Alison from POPFoto did a tremendously thorough Q&A session with Emily regarding many aspects of her art, commercial work and insights into her career.
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and sit back---it's a lengthy and insightful read here.
Emily has a blog, too.
RANSOM & MITCHELL Director-photographer Jason Mitchell and set designer-photo illustrator Stacey Ransom create highly-detailed and visually-lush photographic portraits & scenarios. Their work is narrative in nature and draws upon the darker undercurrent that exists within all aspects of society. They aim to create worlds that cannot exist, through a unique combination of cinematic lighting, theatrically designed sets and an illustrative approach that is inspired by the Italian and Dutch Master painters. Their meticulous mind-set and skills were honed in their years of working on motion picture films and they still often create short films to accompany their photo works. Their debut solo show will be at Varnish Fine Art opening September 8th and running through October 27th, 2012. Check out http://purebredphoto.com/
APA SF is the San Francisco Chapter of American Photographic Artists, a national professional organization representing the best photographers in America.
