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5/11/11 ISSUE
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May Speaking of Photography with Meg Dreyer
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Photographer's Choice
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   APG's primary goal is to promote and support contemporary photography as a significant art form. It seeks to challenge photographic conventions, stimulate new thinking and exploration of experimental forms of photographic expression.

 

These goals are supported through a wide range of activities that are overseen by a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board and a Curatorial Panel drawn from the Atlanta photographic community.

 

The Atlanta Photography Group (APG) is an artist-initiated 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization.

 

   

2011 - MAY CALENDAR OF EVENTS

5/20/11

Photographer's Choice closing

5/21/11

APG Annual Members Meeting

5/21/11 

In your Dreams entry deadline

 

Gallery Attendants Needed 

 
MAY  13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28 (Noon - 4:00PM)


Volunteer Needed  


A volunteer is needed to join the media team to help update the  

APG website. Working experience in Dreamweaver is necessary. Please contact Teresa Sims for more information, or to volunteer.

 


May Speaking of Photography with Meg Dreyer

 The Art of Omission: the role of the unspoken in engaging the viewer

Wednesday, May 18th, 7:30PM   

 

Otter Ponds Bedroom � Meg Dreyer 

"Otter Ponds Bedroom" © Meg Dreyer 

 

We live in a culture of oversharing, broadcasting our every thought and movement on Facebook or Twitter, taking enormous pride in being the first to post a great link or start a popular thread. Information is social currency, traded on countless blogs and on sites like YouTube and Yelp, and status can be won through disseminating information.
Read more here...  

 


 

 Meg Dreyer is a photographer, designer and teacher. She received her BA from Dartmouth College in English and Art History, then attended medical school at Columbia University before choosing a career in art and design. In 2008 she completed her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with honors. She has worked professionally as a graphic designer for companies that include Chermayeff & Geismar and Landor Associates in New York and the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

Currently she maintains an independent design and fine art photography practice in Atlanta and teaches design and art history at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. You can view her work at artifactsartifictions.com 

 

 


Deadline for Entries: May 21, 2011

Show Dates: June 24 - August 26, 2011
Juror: Dr. Jerry Cullum   

 

Art Invitation for 2009 "In Your Dreams"...  

 

    

This exhibition is a showcase for creative responses to the thought that our dreams are often at the center of creative inspiration and deep personal insight. We are seeking images that speak without fear to the creative subconscious and reveal the mysteries we all have hidden in our dreams.

 Entry form here... 

 

Juror Dr. Jerry Cullum has curated or co-curated art exhibitions for venues ranging from the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia to the Amerika Häuser in Germany, as well as other institutions in Europe. He  has also served as visiting critic in cities ranging from Shreveport, Louisiana to Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His essays on art and culture have appeared in scholarly and popular journals including Art in America, ARTnews, boundary 2: a journal of postmodern studies, and GSD Review, the professional journal of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Read more about Dr. Cullum here...  

    


In case you missed last month's "Speaking of Photography:  

A Conversation between Chip Simone & Kael Alford," you can find a recap by APG Member Richard Ediger on randomradiance.com...

 

An excerpt from Richard's article.... "Chip noted that recent photojournalism has a pictorial quality trending toward beauty rather than the raw nature of earlier work. He wondered if photojournalists think that this trend is perhaps dangerous in some way. Kael's response was,

"Maybe...You can't just put beautiful [war] photographs on the wall and ask people to come in, have a glass of wine, and send them away...Yes, I think it can be dangerous to show people beautiful pictures and not give them something else. But at the same time it is also dangerous, perhaps, to show them horrible pictures and turn them away."

So, an effective photojournalist is always walking the fine line between showing the camera's version of reality and showing something with the appeal to draw us in to see, hear, and feel the rest of the story."

Read more here.... 

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 "The Annamalaiyar Temple From Arunachala_October2008" © Debra Booth 

 

Show Dates: April 1 - May 20, 2011

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More information and list of participating photographers...