Remain in Light

New print publication seeks submissions of recent photography work for first Volume. The final selection of sixteen photographs will each be printed on separate cards and presented unbound in a specially created slipcase.

Please submit 5-10 images (JPG, 72dpi) or an online portfolio along with your name, age and current city of residence to remaininlightphoto@gmail.com by March 1, 2008 to be considered for the first issue scheduled for release in late spring. The final images will be selected by co-editors Karly Wildenhaus (Chicago, IL) and Shane Lavalette (Boston, MA).

For more information, visit www.remaininlight.org

Timmy II

Timmy, Salisbury, VT 2008

© Tribble & Mancenido

Taken during our New Year's adventure with the Romps mentioned in an earlier post. He went from a Camo phase and is now into westerns. Timmy is also an avid young hunter who skins, tans, and cooks his own game.

AMOS II

© Tribble & Mancenido

AMOS is a portrait narrative of our friend Amy, now Amos. It is a celebration and documentation of physical change and an exploration of human sexuality. This ongoing project continues today and is taken within his bedroom apartments in Brooklyn.

We are beginning to explore the use of diptychs within our work, especially with this series. We are a married collaborative team that shoots in tandem, using both medium and large formats. What used to be a singular final image, we are now realizing the importance of separate images taken together and showing them side by side. As a man and woman, two separate individuals, the exchange of emotion between ourselves and our sitters vary between us. This is a beginning of one pairing...

Coney Island Days : Robert Polidori

© Robert Polidori

Numerous photographers rushed over to Coney Island to document its final days, now awaiting an overhaul to mimic its prime in the early 20th century before WWII. This week's New Yorker featured a great story on Coney Island with remarkable photographs by Robert Polidori. You can have a look at all the images here. Astroland will stay open for one more year, so if you never rode the Cyclone (best roller-coaster ever), now's your chance! It's final season begins March 16.

And of course we couldn't speak about Coney Island without including this Weegee image:


Crowd at Coney Island, 1940
© Weegee

Pillow Talk on Ball-Saal

Tony and Melissa

© Tribble & Mancenido

Our Pillow Talk series is currently featured on Ball-Saal

Todd Papageorge : American Sports

© Todd Papageorge

On Tuesday evening we had the pleasure of hearing Todd Papageorge speak at the Aperture Gallery. On the eve of a remarkable time in history, it was nice for once hear about an artist's personal experience rather than all that has been capturing the media attention these days. An old freind of his ended the discussion with a remarkably relevant question (paraphrased): Why do you think what used to be captured on little negatives to define big ideas is now captured on big negatives defining little ideas?"

A great question indeed!

What makes a great portrait?

Jörg Colberg of Conscientious and Miguel Garcia-Guzman of Exposure Compensation have teamed up to answer this difficult almost rhetorical question. Having gathered responses from a variety of photographers, curators, gallerists, and editors, we were humbled to contribute. Have a read here.

Silvio Wolf : Voyager

all images © Silvio Wolf

A great mentor to us, we took pleasure in seeing an old friend and attending his opening last night at Robert Mann. His Voyager installation is on view through 15March.

"Silvio Wolf leads gallery visitors on a metaphorical journey enveloping the full range of photographic capabilities, weaving in and out of representation and abstraction...Wolf's work is never purely about structural exercises, but is grounded by the human and the emotional. Each photograph rivals the scale of the body, and in the glassy reflection of each piece the viewer is brought into the unfolding drama of the image...Through the rhythms of appearance and disappearance, Wolf's theater of light investigates the epistemological potential of image-making, embracing the thresholds where the visible becomes manifest." -Robert Mann Gallery