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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June, 2016New Work • Exhibitions • Workshops • Publications • Folios

Alumni News

In This Issue

Exhibition New Book

Stan Raucher Camille Seaman Helen M. Stummer

Group Exhibition

Barbara Bender

New Book

Paul Hart

Exhibition, Articles & Film

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Kickstarter Campaign

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Group Exhibition

“As a member of The Toronto Focal Form, a photographic print maker’s group, I will be participating in a group exhibition called ‘A Matter of Perspective.’ This show will take place in Toronto as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, a month long celebration of contemporary photography. The festival, now in its 20th year, is one of the largest photography festivals in the world, with more than 200 exhibitions being held in different venues all over Toronto during the month of May.”

Markham House City Lab BuildingToronto, Ontario

May 14 – June 4, 2016

Opening reception: May 14 6-9 pm

“Working on this project felt a lot like playing to me. Children use building blocks to construct towers, castles, etc. I used visual blocks of buildings which already existed to build photographic compositions. Although the assembly process and materials differed, the creative process was identical.”

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Bender in LensWork and LensWork Extended #119Building Blocks

Barbara Bender — Maple, Ontario, Canadawww.barbarabenderphotoart.com

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New Book“FARMED is a self-initiated project made over the last six years photographing the landscape of the British Fens in the East of England. The project will be published as my second photobook with Dewi Lewis Publishing. The book and will be released this month at PHOTO-LONDON and has been supported by ILFORD-PHOTO.

“I work solely with the black-and-white analogue process, making handcrafted silver gelatin prints in a traditional darkroom. Prints are limited edition 20x16” and 20x 24”. In the UK I am represented by Print Sales at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.”

Click here for further details about the book.

Becoming one of the UK’s leading landscape photographers, we’re delighted to show images from Hart’s new book, Truncated – a study of the mysteries and rich tonalities in this “cathedral-like” woodland.

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Paul Hart — West Bridgford, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Hart in LensWork Extended #85Truncated

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Exhibition, Articles & Film

ExhibitionSmithsonianThe Virtual Immigrant at Crosslines: A culture lab on intersectionality May 28-29th, 2016, 10am-9pm

Articles“My solo exhibition at sepiaEYE,

nyc received a wonderful review in the New York Times. Other articles include: A review in L’oeil de la photographie and Better Photography - An Indian from India

was included in a nice spread highlighting 13 photographers working on self-portraits includ-ing work by Helmut Newton, Anthony Goicolea, Francesca Woodman, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Shen Wei, and others.”

Film“I was featured in a film produced by Holly Gaboriault through the RI Art Archive Project about women artists in Rhode Island. The movie premiered at the RISD Museum in April and there will be more screenings around Rhode Island later this year.”

“Born in Britain, raised in India and now living in America, my mixed or ‘masala’ – background continually shapes my photographs.”

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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew — Providence, Rhode Islandwww.annumatthew.com

Palakunnathu Matthew in LensWork #28Memories of India

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Exhibition

“Ten prints from my series Holy Week in Guatemala will be on display in the 2016 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers at the Blue Sky Gallery. The exhibition was juried by Katherine Ware, curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art. The exhibition will be on display through March 31, 2017. The Blue Sky Gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday from 12-5 PM and on First Thursdays 6-9 PM, and is located at located at 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209.

“This series was also featured in Slate Behold by David Rosenberg.”

“A lengthy journey down the Amazon River leads to a remarkable discovery that harkens back to Biblical times. Los Israelitas – an evangelical sect that blends early Christian beliefs with the pageantry of Hollywood cinema – live in small agricultural communities scattered along the banks of the river.”

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Stan Raucher — Seattle, Washington

Raucher in LensWork and LensWork Extended #117The New Promised Land

www.stanraucher.comPhoto credit: Diane Civic

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Alumni NewsCamille Seaman — Palo Alto, California

www.camilleseaman.com

Successful Kickstarter Campaign

All My Relations... A Native America Portrait Project“We did it! Thank you for supporting my road trip across Native America to make a record of the strong and resilient people we are today. I will travel to as many Native communities as possible to make portraits of the people and places while visiting Native populations and documenting that we are still here, strong, and beautiful in the 21st Century.”

www.kickstarter.com/projects/camille/all-my-relations-a-native-america-portrait-project

Also featured on Medium: medium.com/ted-fellows/we-are-still-here

“In my continuation of exploring subjects in nature that have an ability to illustrate the interconnection of all life on Earth I found myself stalking a type of single giant cloud called a supercell.”

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Seaman in LensWork Extended #108The Big Cloud

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Alumni NewsHelen M. Stummer — Metuchen, New Jersey

hmstummer.comPhoto By: Robert F. Lach, 2010New Book

Temple University Press will be publishing Helen M. Stummer’s new book in Jan/feb 2017: Risking Life and Lens: A photographic Memoir.

For 30 years Stummer has worked in the toughest neighborhoods in New York City and Newark. Her story is one of courage and caring that can encourage us all.

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Stummer in LensWork and LensWork Extended #60Anecdotes: Courage and the Camera

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LensWork Alumni NewsAnnouncements of new work, exhibitions, publications, folios, workshops, and other items of interest from LensWork alumni photographers and writers.

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As of issue #119, LensWork (magazine) now publishes both color and black-and-white work.

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

Our submission guidelines are available in the link below. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader version 9 or greater to open this file.) Please review these submis-sion guidelines and then feel free to send in your work for consideration.

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!

Note: As of August 2015, we no longer accept physical submissions (on disc, thumbdrive, or prints). Submissions are accepted only via digital delivery like Dropbox, Hightail, DropSend, WeTransfer, etc.

NEW! Portfolio Submission Guidelines for LensWork

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