CENTER has announced PhotoSummer, a new collaborative initiative celebrating the photographic arts in New Mexico. Now in its second year, PhotoSummer represents and actively promotes historical and contemporary photography, and features photo-based programming through exhibitions, talks and workshopse. The highlighted kick-off weekend is June 16-17-18, 2016, with many exhibitions and openings before and after. Click through / scroll down for the detailed programme.

CENTER Press Release

CENTER is pleased to announce PhotoSummer, a new collaborative initiative celebrating the photographic arts in New Mexico. The state has long been a destination that inspires photographic masters with its epic landscape, sublime quality of light and authentic culture. CENTER aims to provide the public with more robust programming under the umbrella of an exciting season of photography in New Mexico. The highlighted kick off weekend is June 16-17-18, 2016, with many exhibitions and openings before and after, to provide a season celebrating the photographic vanguard.

New Mexico's photographic legacy dates back to the early years of the medium. It includes one of the most purchased photographs of all time, Ansel Adams Moonrise over Hernandez, photo pioneer Timothy O’Sullivan’s images of the west, as well as the father of fine art photography, Alfred Steiglitz’s wife, Georgia O’Keefe, who drew many practitioners to this unique state.

ABOUT PHOTOSUMMER

Now in its second year PhotoSummer is gaining momentum as a collaborative initiative that represents and actively promotes historical and contemporary photography. Taking the rich legacy of photography in New Mexico as a point of departure, the exhibitions and public programs represent the continued energy and support of the photographic arts in the region. PhotoSummer features photo-based programming through exhibitions, talks, workshops and more to highlight the very best of photographic practice and scholarship.

PhotoSummer 2016 is organized by UNM Art Museum, CENTER, 516 ARTS, Axle Contemporary, and American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP-NM). It features public programs focusing on photography that span regional, national and international artists, curators and scholars. Thanks to the Santa Fe Arts commission and their support of PhotoSummer we received Collaborative Arts Marketing Grant helping us to expand our reach to visitor audiences.

ADRIFT JUNE 3-JULY 8, 2016
Opening June 3, 5-7pm
Photo-eye, 376 Garcia St, Santa Fe, NM
CENTER and Photo-eye Bookstore & Project Space present Magda Biernat’s work, Adrift. Recipient of the 2016 Director’s Choice Award, the body of work is a commentary on the parallel effects of global climate change at opposite ends of the Earth. Biernat pairs photographs of Ataractic icebergs and empty
Iñupiat Eskimo hunting huts she draws our attention to the effects of climate change and its impact on cultural identity.

DISPOSSESSED JUNE 17-AUGUST 26, 2016
Opening, June 17, 6-8pm
Santa Fe University of Art & Design (SFUAD)
1600 St. Michaels Drive, Santa Fe, NM

CENTER and SFUAD present the juried exhibition Dispossessed, revealing the internal and external experiences of marginality in a world where many feel on the fringes and also inside of systems. Illustrating the psychological and emotional expressions of marginality experienced universally and the ways we all experience feeling like an outsider. Handpicked from CENTER alum,
applicants and members from around the U.S.

FUTURE TENSE JUNE 18-SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
Opening June 18, 6-8pm
516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque, NM
Highlighting 14 of CENTER’s alumni, Future Tense is an exploration of the socially, politically and psychologically complex relationship we have with the places we inhabit. Moving within and beyond the physicality of here and now, the photographers in this exhibition trace the tensions between nature and artifice; isolation and interconnectedness; past and present; and the physical and psychological…all of which reveal the tenuous balance that defines the path of our collective future.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

CAREER REVIEWS: Sustainability Strategies in Today’s Market, Santa Fe, NM, June 16-17, 2016
CENTER presents a special two-day intensive examining successful strategies for developing and sustaining a photographic practice in today’s market. Presentation topics include fundraising for your project, outstanding marketing and promotional techniques, transmedia, and interdisciplinary collaborations. This workshop is geared toward serious mid-career photographers and educators. The reviewers include experts in book publishing, editorial and curatorial practices with extensive national and international networks.
NATASHA EGAN, Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography; JOANNA HURLEY, publishing expert and President of HurleyMedia; JUDY NATAL, artist and Professor at Columbia College Chicago; AMBER TERRANOVA, independent photo editor and educator based in New York.
Pre-registration is required, call 505-984-8353 or email [email protected]

ARTIST TALK – FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Blurring Lines & Crossing Disciplines: Collaborating to Expand Audience & Practice, with Judy Natal Thursday, June 16, 6:30 pm, Marion Center for Photographic Arts, 1600 St. Michaels Drive, Santa Fe Natal will share her collaborative strategies for expanding both audience and artistic practice through cross-disciplinary work. As her photography became more environmentally focused, Judy began to move beyond traditional art museum-commercial gallery systems to seek out surprising photographic opportunities within science, humanities and environmental communities. In doing so, she created diverse audiences across disciplines, and a more inclusive photographic practice.

ABOUT CENTER

CENTER is a Santa Fe based not-for-profit organization founded in 1994, that honors, supports and provides opportunity for gifted, committed photographers.
CENTER provides platforms where the creative impulse can be engaged and challenged. Characterized by a community of dedicated practitioners, CENTER has proven for over 20 years that it can be a bridge between meaningful visual stories and a broad audience. The annual programs include the Project Launch, Project Development, Choice Awards, Excellence in Teaching Award, and Review Santa Fe Photo Festival. Public exhibitions, educational presentations and expositions of the work are held in conjunction with the Awards and Portfolio Reviews.

For more information and high resolution files for PhotoSummer or CENTER, please go to VisitCenter.org or contact us at 505-984-8353.

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