Remain in Light, Vol 1. Update: Photographers Announced, More Soon!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Untitled, 2007
© Kamden Vencill
After carefully going through nearly 500 portfolios, it’s with great pleasure that Karly and I pass on the official announcement of the final selection of photographers for Vol. 1 of Remain in Light:
Andreas Weinand
Anne Lass
Coley Brown
Debora Mittelstaedt
Ed Panar
Estelle Hanania
Gustav Almestål
Hiroyo Kaneko
Kamden Vencill
Mark McKnight
Michel Campeau
Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard
Nicola Kast
Nicholas Haggard
Shawn Records
Raimond Wouda
Richard Barnes
Thobias Fäldt
Whitney Hubbs
Yann Orhan
Congratulations to those who were selected!
Accompanying the 20 photographs will be “One Credo After Another” by Tim Davis, “A Telephone Conversation with Mike Mandel” by Shane Lavalette and more TBA.
To everyone who submitted and to those of you who have supported this project from the beginning: this would be impossible without you all. Thank you.
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April 17th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
You are clearly attracted to a very specific style of photography. Most of these photographers seem to repeating the sunshine and snapshot formula of Ryan McGinley and Melanie Schiff.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
The only photographer I might relate to McGinley is Coley Brown and, appropriately, Coley is McGinley’s assistant.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
It’s all very similar and lacks cohesion. Nicolai and Trine are great. Everything else seems like random derivative snaps of friends and travel. Is the mature photographic series dead?
April 17th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Yes, Douglas, it’s dead. Deadpan snapshots are cool, so everyone does it. Young photographers view work by Eggleston, Patterson, Soth, Lavalette, Wyse etc. and want to make cool photographs like them so they emulate to the best of their ability. Contemporary photography has no idea where to go next, hence the pervasive dominance of the deadpan aesthetic since the 1960s. As many have said before, we love it and we hate it, but it’s time for something new. Nevertheless, kudos to Shane & Karly for putting forth the time and energy required to publish this collection.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Douglas, let me know what you think when you see the selected images.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I think also the deadpan snapshot and the randomness of them is reflecting the younger generation and how we are brought up with images trough TV and media – they all passes by us quick and vacuous and we are much more restless when it comes to photographs. Maybe that is part of the reason that the mature photographic series are dead at the moment. We want to see something fast and easy, that stimulates us trough a visual rush, and then pass on to the next image like a ADHD Myspace addict. Magazines in the UK are picking up on this and most famous for adapting the (graphic) language of this is the magazine SuperSuper. It is not a photography based publication but I think together with the likes of Ryan McGinley and other new “McGinley’s” it is reflecting something that is happening in society or at least the young society – and I think this is interesting to see where this is going.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
That’s an interesting thought. Kim, which “mature” series’ are you referring to?
April 17th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Excellent collection of work Shane! I really liked the fact that you mixed it up but still managed to find a common cohesive structure to root this first edition of Remain in Light.
As for the individuals who perceive this selection as lack of mature consideration and content, I wish to ask them how Mark McKnight, Nicolai Howalt, Trine Søndergaard, Kamden Vencill, Andreas Weinand, Richard Barnes, and even Michel Campeau fit into this absence? If these photographers are not “mature” (a very silly and tremendously hollow conclusion) than I think you should define what eloquent and conceptually refined photography is.
Again, excellent selection Shane and I look forward to the final publication.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Noel, let me know what you think when you see the selected images.
April 18th, 2008 at 9:34 am
coley brown I love coley brown. I’ve seen so many shots that don’t seem to be on the internet at all that just totally blow me away. I’m really looking forward to his book.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:36 am
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