Robyn McCallum – Patrimony
© Robyn McCallum - Hylas And The Nymphs By John William Waterhouse
Robyn McCallum has a wild imagination. When thinking of the master painters from the late 1800s and early 1900s, one would probably not think of pin-up girls or debonair men in suits or for that matter cowboys, soldiers or mounties. But McCallum does.
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Daniel Cooney Emerging Artists Auction
© Alexander Binder - Traum #5, 2009
Daniel Cooney’s Emerging Artists Auction has been up for the past couple of weeks featuring some really interesting artists. But it’s not up for long, there’s exactly 1 day and 1 hour to go – finishing on February 4th. So get them while they’re there! Works that caught my eye were Alexander Binder, Brea Souders, M. Scott Brauer, Jake Stangel, Dalton Rooney and you can find one of my prints there as well. Get bidding!
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February Inspirations
Alec Soth has archived his last blog and has now moved on with Little Brown Mushroom Blog. This is definitely one to keep up with.
Marc Feustel’s blog Eye Curious covers everything photography. Feustel is an independent curator located in Paris and posts about photography books, exhibits and various photographers.
Jake Stangel showcases photographers on Too Much Chocolate. Recently Kodak teamed up with the blog to award a film grant to ten talented photographers.
Booooooom is nurtured in Vancouver by Jeff Hamada. This blog can satisfy all cravings of art categories: photography, design, music, painting and drawing. Easy to get lost on this blog since there is a ton to look at.
Auctions for Haiti Relief
© Anouk Kruithof
If you still haven’t donated for Haiti relief or would like to give more, here are a few auctions that are offering great photography from talented photographers. A good time to get some nice work on the walls while donating to people who desperately need the help. Montreal’s Kate Hutchinson is participating in the Haiti Relief Benefit Print Sale and you can find Anouk Kruithof and Helen Van Meene’s work at the Photo Q auction.
If you are in Montreal this Wednesday, February 3rd, stop by Shoot Studio to place a bid on some slick photography. There is a long list of Montreal talent to be picked up at Les Tremblements silent auction. There’s an array of styles including Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Benoit Aquin, Sara A. Tremblay, Sylvain Dumais, Simon Duhamel and myself. The money collected will go to the Center for International Studies and Cooperation a not-for-profit organization based in Montreal.
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Interview with Jessica Auer
© Jessica Auer - Bear Butte, South Dakota
I met Jessica Auer at Concordia University a few years ago. She was then a teachers assistant for my introductory black and white photography class. Since, she has been a very active artist, finishing up her MFA and producing several exhibitions, while at the same time teaching photography at college level and being one of the founding members of the artist run gallery Les Territoires. She has now been appointed as a photography instructor at Concordia University and her career seems to be well under way. I had the chance to see her work and to hear her talk about it and it’s with great pleasure to present this interview that we did at the beginning of the year. We have discussed some of the issues of her project “Re-creational Spaces” and she gives us a glimpse of her method, preoccupations and technical approach.
Louis Perreault: First of all, could you tell us what brought you to the subject matter of Re-creational Spaces?
Jessica Auer: I have always been interested in photographing landscape and architecture. Before beginning to photograph for that series, I was making projects that were about the history of places and the transformation of spaces. Then a few things started to happen at the same time. I was thinking about how the places I had traveled to as a child had changed dramatically in the past 20 years, for example, some of the tourist towns in the rocky mountains and the National parks in the United States. I was also becoming obsessed about photographing Niagara Falls. Eventually, I gave up trying to make a series about Niagara Falls and started to put photographs of different places together and I felt that these single images functioned like chapters of a book. I wanted to make more chapters so I traveled to other places to do more research and make more pictures. It felt natural for me to go to Mexico and South America as well, because my mother is Latin American and I wanted to know more about some of these cultural sites and how they were being managed. Finally one can say that the subject of Re-creational Spaces is a critique of tourism, but it is more about really looking at tourist sites.
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