More impressions from the front:
November 20th, 2008Your blog editor has been hitting up as many events as possible, and will concede it’s a whirlwind and a challenge to get to everything I’d like to.
Last night I went with some friends to the Sixth and I Synogogue to see Josh Cogan’s work. The room was packed with people (and lots of yummy treats), all to see a rather fantastic show. Cogan has traveled the world and focuses his eye on people in their elements, finding displays of cultural differences in often spectacular displays of color. He calls the exhibit Soul Cages, really grasping his use of a camera to reach into people’s souls. Highly recommended, even if you missed the cupcakes.
I also went to the artist panel at Hillyer for Known Unknowns, curated by Amanda Maddox from the Corcoran, in conjunction with the WPA. I saw this exhibit a couple weeks ago when it opened, but was fascinated to hear the four photographers, who ranged in backgrounds and styles, speak about their work, and hear why Maddox chose to put them together. I certainly left with some things to think about.
Paul Fetters chimes in again with his experiences from last night:
Arguably the event of the week. ASMP and FotoWeekDC collaborated Wednesday night to bring the living photographic legends Eugene Richards and David Burnett.Burnett wow’d the overflow crowd of 300 with images from his 40 years of covering the events of our lifetime. David started in Viet Nam and just recently came off the Obama campaign. Richards with 35 years of work to his credit had the crowd completely silenced while showing work from his 14 books that range in topics from his first wife’s struggle with breast cancer to Americans living in poverty.
What have you seen this week? Did it make you think about your own photography, or how to view photography any differently?




