Untitled, 2009 [from "One to Nothing"]
© Irina Rozovsky

More new work to pass on: Irina Rozovsky’s project One to Nothing.

Untitled (The border between Albania and Macedonia), 2009 [from "Honey Blood"]
© Ryan Kellman

About a year ago I became acquainted with Ryan Kellman. At the time, he was photographing in and around the Balkans (Albania) on a Fulbright Fellowship. Well, Ryan got in touch with me the other day to let me know that he now has a website online with some of the work from his time abroad as well as a few older projects. I suggest starting with Honey Blood.

Top Gun, 2009 [from "Pontiac Dream"]
© Jake Stangel

Lots to see on the new website of Jake Stangel (a.k.a. the founder/editor of the ‘blogazine’ Too Much Chocolate). Don’t miss Jake’s latest: Pontiac Dream, a consideration of “America’s transitioning identity, as it drifts away from a local mom-and-pop, industry-proud culture and moves toward a more corporately maintained society.”

Christian, 2009 [from "Faint"]
© Erik Dalzen

Erik Dalzen updated his website with some new work – a nice series of portraits, appropriately titled Faint. Erik writes about the project:

Portraiture, whether articulated through paint, sculpture or photography, creates an enduring likeness of an individual. This series presents an alternate purport, highlighting mortality by negating the sitter. The physicality of the fog engulfs the figure, subdues the color, flattens the lighting and obscures resemblance – in effect it is an erasure of the subject. The resulting imagery is an antithetical representation of the portrait.

My favorite above.

offSET #20 (Canyon Country), offSET #21 (Ventura County), Offset #22 (Studio City), 2008
© Lacey Terrell

Lacey Terrell recently launched her online portfolio as well. The site includes images from her offSET project, which explores the intermingling of the ‘artifice’ and the ‘real’ on various film sets.

© Tim Barber

Tim Barber (also known as the brain behind Tiny Vices and TV Books) sent an e-mail to let me know that he now has a fully functional site for his own photographs up and running. There are some interesting shots mixed into his personal portfolio and of course a bunch of his fashion work to see.

Take a look around.

If you haven’t already seen it, you can watch William Eggleston in the Real World in its entirety right here. This documentary received mixed reviews when it was released in 2005. See what you think.

Eulogy, 2004
© Roger Ballen

A great selection of artist talks in Boston this fall:

Jem Southam
Monday, Sept. 21st at 3:30pm
Massachusetts College of Art
Kennedy Building, Room 406

Michael Collins
Thursday, Sept. 24th from 12:30-2pm
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Viz/Crit Room (B311)

Laura Letinsky
Monday, Oct. 5th at 2pm
Massachusetts College of Art
Kennedy Building, Room 406

Jason Fulford (Lay Flat 01 contributor!)
Monday, Oct. 19th at 2pm
Massachusetts College of Art
Kennedy Building, Room 406

Thomas Struth
Monday, Oct. 19th at 6pm
Timothy Hamill Lecture
BU Morse Auditorium
602 Commonwealth Ave.

Karl Baden
Thursday, Oct. 22nd from 12:30-2pm
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Viz/Crit Room (B311)

Alec Soth
Monday, Oct. 26th at 6pm
Massachusetts College of Art
Tower Building, 11th Floor, Trustees Room

Moyra Davey
Thursday, Nov. 5th from 12:30-2pm
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Viz/Crit Room (B311)

Keith Carter
Thursday, Nov. 5th at 7pm
Organized by the PRC
BU College of Communication (COM 101)

Emmet Gowin
Monday, Nov. 16 at 2pm
Massachusetts College of Art
Kennedy Building, Room 406

Roger Ballen
Wednesday, Nov. 18th at 7pm
Organized by the PRC
BU Photonics Center (PHO 206)

Laurel Nakadate
Thursday, Nov. 19th from 12:30-2pm
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Viz/Crit Room (B311)

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll have work in the inaugural PRC Juried Publication, juried this year by Dana Faconti (Publisher/Editor, Blindspot Magazine). The publication will be circulated this September along with their seasonal newsletter in the loupe, which you can receive in the mail simply by becoming a member of the Photographic Resource Center.

Included in the publication are photographs by a wonderful selection of photographers, a few of which are friends and many of which are living and working in the Boston area:

Ri Anderson, Clint Baclawski, Gideon Barnett, Chris Bentley, Deborah Bright, Christopher Churchill, Annie Claflin, Maureen Drennan, Jess T. Dugan, Matthew Gamber, Gigi Gatewood, Erik Gould, Phil Jung, Susan Lakin, Shane Lavalette, Rania Matar, Brad Moore, Blake D. Ogden, Lydia Panas, Jeremias Paul, Peter Riesett, Christopher Sims, Mickey Smith, Laura Swanson, Millee Tibbs, Phil Underdown and Johanna Warwick

More info about the PRC Juried Publication can be found here.

installation shot of “Simply the Best”, on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
© Shane Lavalette

A selection of photographs from my project Slí na Boirne are on display in the Courtyard Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through October 18th, 2009. Titled “Simply the Best,” the exhibition presents selected work by students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston who received special recognition during the last academic year. For my photographs in the show, I was awarded the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography back in February.

More info about the exhibition can be found here.