Some Great Show Opportunities

Call for Entries: International 2011 LUCEO Student Project Award for Student Photographers FRESH2010 - ALL AGES Student Photography Show Photo Center NW Atlanta Photography Group

For Sara-Lane: Martin Parr

Of course, not all of Martin Parr's work is cell-phone related, but he seems to often be drawn toward scenes of people in social situations who SHOULD be interacting with one another, but who are woefully alienated from each other. Here are a few of his photographs:

For Allison: Incorporating Photography Into Daily Life

I found this blog post by Mike Panic (a photographer I've never heard of): Check it out HERE.

For Caroline: Paul Pfeiffer

Click HERE and HERE for some of Paul Pfeiffer's videos.

For Caroline: Some Images Of My Own

Here are some images from the series I did back in 2006-07 that I was telling Caroline about--but it might possibly relate to Sara-Lane's ideas as well. First, here is the artist's statement that accompanied the series:

Erased Avatars

This series of images consists of digital self-portraits mined from Myspace.com. Each image originally exists as the online representation of a cyberspace socialite. The image acts as the Internet “body” of the self-symbol; the avatar-self. In the manipulated images, the supposed subject of the photograph, the human figure, is erased; it’s only evidence a rather ambiguous silhouette. Thereby, everything patently human in the image is removed, leaving only the objects, camera, and implied mirror that surround, inform, and signify the blank space of the figure, the perceived locus of the elusive “self”. The following is a sampling of images from my Erased Avatars series (all Untitled, digitally manipulated found images):