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“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.” —W. Eugene Smith

Dreams of La Belle Epoque, 2024. © Robert Bergstrom.

Three of Robert Bergstrom's AI created images are featured in the July special edition of FotoNostrum Magazines AI Visions Awards.

You can view Robert's images on pp. 33, 34, and 55.

AI Visions Awards

David Levingston

© Eric Smith

Eric Smith and David Levingston have both had images accepted by Praxis Gallery for the exhibit entitled "The Shadow Aspect."

The exhibit will go live on August 17 and be available for viewing until September 14, 2024.

© David Levingston

Praxis Gallery

The Shadow Aspect

Evening Prayer, © Richard Petronio

Five images from Richard Petronio's series "Architectural States Reimagined" have received Honorable Mention in the Best Photography Awards 2023-2024 open category.

To view more of Richard's work, visit his Instagram page: petronio_photography

Best Photography Awards

The Photography Nomad, Fritz Fenyvessy, sent these images from Bulgaria and Romania where he is currently wandering.

Susan Meiselas has spent her career recording conflicts and human rights abuses from South America, Africa, Kurdistan, and the U.S.

Her point of view has not always been the most popular. In the 1970s, when the policy of the United States was to support brutal dictatorships in Central and South America, Susan gave voice to the insurrectionists and freedom fighters in Nicaragua, Chile, El Salvador, and more. When the U.S. invaded Iraq, she photographed the mass migration of Kurds fleeing the conflict.

Her human rights documentaries range from Girls' Education in Mali to the United States/ Mexico Border, along with editorials on Women in the US Army.

This 8-minute video will provide you with insight into Susan. Her amazing work can be seen on her website.

Susan Meiselas

Graduation day at Taffari Community School. © Adriana Zehbrauskas

Brazilian documentary photographer Adriana Zehbrauskas is another photographer who has repeatedly shown a willingness to risk her life to give voice to tell the stories of seldom-heard people in diverse places, including Haiti, Sudan, and Mexico.

Journalist Daniela Cohen delves into Zehbrusas' life story and amazing journey.

ZEKE

Antique Car, Seligman, Ariz. 1986. © Steve Anchell

Diana Camera. Plastic lens. Exposure: "Click"

September 6 to 8, 2024

Registration is Closing for this Workshop

In September 2024, we will spend a weekend photographing in the streets of Rome with plastic low-tech film cameras. You will be amazed at how this will change your vision and how much fun you will have.

During the workshop, I will teach you how to develop your film without a darkroom using a Lab-Box daylight film developing tank.

I have reserved 6 rooms at a hotel within walking distance of the Vatican and our daily meeting location. three of them are already taken. If you would like to join me, don't wait to register.

Immediately following the workshop is the Rome Street Photography workshop, where you may use any camera, film, or digital.

The weekend workshop is sponsored by ars-imago International, a premier camera store in Rome and Zurich.

Holga Camera Workshop

If you are printing your work, analog or digital, and are looking for a way to store your prints, this is it. Crystal Clear Print Bags are the best archival storage bags you can find. Museums and galleries use them to protect and showcase valuable prints.

In August, they are having a sale on Crystal Clear Print Bags. Click below to take you to the sale page.

Crystal Clear Print Bag Sale

Canson Infinity is one of the world's premier suppliers of museum-grade papers for printing digital and archival processes. They are offering a two-sheet sample pack of 100% cotton Etching Rag paper to anyone living in the U.S., U.K., Belgium, Germany, France, and Italy. This covers about everyone who receives Nexus except for China, Greece, South Africa, and Cyprus ... and, oh yeah, Canada.

NOTE: The email I received includes the U.S., but the web page does not. Give it a try. If they so no you can always commiserate with the Canadians, eh?

Etching Rag Sample

© David Levingston

David Levingston made this image with a drug store magnifying glass taped to the front of his 4x5 Speed Graphic. He used a Polaroid back with 3000-speed peel-apart Polaroid film.

This was the first exposure he made with this rig. He guessed at the exposure and severely overexposed the image, making it high-key, which pleased him even more.

Don't be afraid to experiment and play. If it doesn't work, nobody gets hurt.

David Levingston

Fellowship Award

Deadline: August 11, 2024

New York City is looking for photographers to apply for the 2024-2025 Photo Urbanism Fellowship to contribute with their unique lenses about an equitable water future for New York.

The 2024-2025 Photo Urbanism Fellow will create a self-driven photography project related to an equitable water future for New York. The role of the Photo Urbanism Fellow is to use artistic and journalistic photography/videography to capture the human, personal narratives related to New York City’s water and public space.

The fellowship award includes a $15,000 stipend and a solo exhibition.

Fellowship Award

Deadline: August 29

Call for Entry: Broken Forms

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Visual Design, Video

Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. November 2024

FREE ENTRY Photographers, visual designers and video artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 works addressing the theme.

Fragments of matter or an idea, broken and interrupted, or inter-ruptured, forms, disintegrated by human behavior or by nature, an action-effect that makes the nature of its composition and its existence even more concrete, manifesting its fragility and its ephemeral utilitarian and/or meaningful function.

Selected works will display form and its loss of functional entity, forming new visual compositions and new meanings.

A further interpretation of this call sees the breaking of the form as the trace of a cause and effect that is a testament to a violent act: an act that represents the urgent need for change.

Broken Forms

Deadline: September 24

Call for Entry: Open

Artists working in all photographic mediums are invited to submit images to be considered for this exhibition.

Note: All artists who submit to this show will be accepted and have at least one of their submitted works posted and promoted on our website.

Las Laguna Gallery is a contemporary and fine art gallery that features art from a diverse group of artists, representing a variety of mediums.

Since 2013, the gallery has held open calls for art, calls for entry, and calls for art opportunities for artists to sell their art in its gallery in Laguna Beach, Calif.

Snapshot 2024

Adrienn and Eva, 2022. © Steve Anchell
Sony a6400, 1/500 sec @ f/3.5, 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6, 18mm, ISO 1600

Registration Closing Soon!