We like to think of LensWork as a family of fellow artists, bonded together by our love of photography as a way of life. It’s our honor and pleasure to work with so many wonderful photographers, and to keep you informed of their creative paths. Here are some recent news items from our alumni. — The Editors

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March, 2014New Work • Exhibitions • Workshops • Publications • Folios

Alumni News

In This Issue

New eBook Film Project

Guy Tal Huntington Witherill Natalie Young

Collaborative Project

Shelby Lee Adams

Award & Publication

Barbara Bender

Exhibition

E.E. McCollum

Exhibition

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Alumni NewsShelby Lee Adams — Pittsfield, Massachusetts

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Collaborative Music/Photo Presentationshelby-lee-adams.blogspot.com

“On February 18th in Brooklyn, New York, my work was featured in a collaborative music/photo presentation.

“After studying my photos, Composer Stephen Sherman composed a piece of music for a string quartet with the title, Appalachian Polaroids.

“The quartet and I are now working on two more pieces for this performance. Not every photographer is honored with a piece of music inspired.”

Here is a link to this music piece.

Here is a PDF giving details of the performance site and more.

Adams in LensWork and LensWork Extended #98Salt & Truth

“Throughout my life I have experienced cultural diversity, and continue to travel between two worlds: the ‘hollers’ and hills of Kentucky, and the cities. I was born in Hazard, Kentucky, and raised primarily in a holler called Johnson’s Fork in Letcher County, where only mountain people had lived for generations. With the locals, my work has strictly followed word-of-mouth and personal introductions.”

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Alumni NewsBarbara Bender — Maple, Ontario, Canada

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Spotlight Award & Publicationwww.barbarabenderphotoart.com

“I am pleased to announce that my portfolio has been granted a Spotlight Award by Black & White Magazine and will be featured in the March/April issue. The images in the portfolio explore black-and-white in the truest sense of the word. There is an extremely restricted tonal range, limited to either pure white or pure black. There are no grey or mid-tones at all. Although the identity of the original subjects may not be readily apparent, the mood or gesture often remains intact.

“I am also thrilled that another portfolio, Elemental Rhythms, will be featured in Lenswork Extended #111, March/April 2014.”

Bender in LensWork and LensWork Extended #104Finding Magic in the Mundane

“I committed to making one finished photograph specifically for this project, each week, for 52 weeks. I did not allow myself to ‘borrow’ images from one week to cover another. I limited the location to my home, or within one mile of it. If traveling, I would shoot on hotel property. Still life set-ups would be allowed, provided the items were already in place. These restrictions would ensure that I’d practice seeing in ordinary places, while making photographs on a regular basis.”

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Alumni NewsE.E. McCollum — Fairfax, Virginia

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Exhibitioneemccollum.com

McCollum in LensWork and LensWork Extended #106The Cocoon Series

“With so many layers surrounding it, I am always looking for ways to see the human figure with fresh eyes, recalling the challenge I learned from Beaumont Newhall in a class years ago to look to the deepest artistic expression of a photographic image. The body cocoon gave me such a new vision.”

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The Art League GalleryAlexandria, Virginia March 13 – April 7, 2014 Opening Reception & Meet the Artist: Thursday, March 13, 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm

In The Cocoon Series, photog-rapher E.E. McCollum artfully captures and transforms the human figure by using nylon tubing to encase the body. This series of black-and-white photographs, on display at The Art League Gallery is both mesmerizing and thought provoking.

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Alumni NewsGuy Tal — Torrey, Utah

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New eBookMore Than A Rock: Essays on Art, Landscape and PhotographyA selection of essays on the topic of Creative Landscape Photography by author, photographer and artist Guy Tal.

This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iPad, and with iTunes on your computer.

More information or download

“In almost every aspect, there is nothing benign in The Badlands. Everything is extreme – and the extremes manage to co-exist almost against the odds. Still, documenting the extremes would have been an easy and obvious task. Instead, I wanted to make a state-ment defying the ‘badness’ described by generations of settlers in the region for hundreds of years. For an artist, a naturalist, and for anyone seeking respite from the manufactured reality of cities, this is a place of immense inspiration – a very good place.”

Tal in LensWork Extended #103The Good Badlands

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Alumni NewsHuntington Witherill — Monterey, California

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www.huntingtonwitherill.com

Exhibition

Beyond the Ordinary: An Enduring Legacy of LightSolo ExhibitionMuseum of Monterey Monterey, California   February 17, 2014 – September 30, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 2014  •  5:00-8:00pm

On March 8, 2014 from 5pm to 7pm local photographer Huntington Witherill – a student of Ansel Adams in the1970s – will unveil Beyond the Ordinary, An Endur-ing Legacy of Light. Featuring beautiful black-and-white and color photography from his lifetime of travels, Witherill’s style is indicative of a diverse approach to the medium, and his subjects include everything from classic landscapes to botanical still-life, abstracts to digital imaging. His photographs have been the subject of

three award-winning hardcover monographs: Orchestrating Icons (2000), Botanical Dances (2002) and Photo Synthesis (2010). In 1999, Witherill was the recipient of the Artist of the Year award presented by the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California.

This portfolio is from Orchestrating Icons by Huntington Witherill, published August 2000 by LensWork Publishing.

Witherill in LensWork #31Orchestrating Icons

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Alumni NewsNatalie Young — Manhattan Beach, California

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Short Film Project

www.natalieyoung.com

RecollectionA short film about the long road home.

Follow the triumphs and travails of three wayward travelers as they chase the setting sun and journey West during the turbulent Dust Bowl days of ‘33, in search of a better life.

Join them on their adventure here (running time 10 minutes): https://vimeo.com/82797890

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Young in LensWork and LensWork Extended #88Georgia & Sabine

Pets undeniably share one characteristic with their humans – both have personalities! It is a delight to see these two family members caught in the act of being so expressive of their unique identities. It is an indication of the personality of the photographer, too.

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We always enjoy getting a chance to look at new work. In fact, about half of what we’ve published in LensWork comes from submissions that were originally unsolicited, that is to say, from readers and subscribers like you. We love giving exposure to people who are doing good work but are not plugged into the publicity machines that galleries and traditional publishers provide.

Our submission guidelines are available on our website. Please review these submission guidelines and then feel free to send in your work for consider-ation. Obviously, we can’t publish everything that is submitted, but we also can’t publish work that isn’t ever submitted! The best way to start is to send in the work and let us take a look. Thanks!

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