A HOliDay Present for U

Photo 612's Alternative to the Polly-anna! Who is Polly?
All are invited, but one must bring a photograph- unframed!- to get in. PHotos will be hung on the wall as Guests Arrive to view as a gallery show- then the Swap Begins! Refreshments & Merriment- (feel free to bring a refreshment to share ;) )

Ann Marie Casey

Hey Ann Marie Casey's Gladiator PHoto was spotlighted in the INLiquid weely! How awesome is that! Be sure to check out Ann's work until December 18th
Remember- get 'em a sweater next year! Fine art prints make great Holiday pressies :)

California

photo by Julia Blaukopf, 2008

Where else could this be, but California!

Photo 612 celebrates the Roadtrip -

Open Reception, Oct. 25th 1:00- 3:00

Photos by artist Julia Blaukopf documenting her days out West where she is working on a new photo project.

View http://www.juliablaukopf.com/ to learn more about Julia. Additional work will be on display by Christine Foster from the Mt. Shasta area.

Thanks :)

Thanks to all who participated in the 'Take Down' of the Erin Harper Vernon Take Down Sunday! :)
Photo 612 is Closed for the summer and is revamping for the fall- Look for more news in September.
Otherwise, Join us Sunday for a picnic and the PHillips Mill Photo Show.
Happy Summer :)

Come Celebrate Erin Harper Vernon

"My photographic work investigates the contemporary landscape of industrial America and examines our modern dependence on and destruction of the land. Hazardous waste sites, power plants, containment systems, and poisoned communities are connective themes in my photographs, reflecting a place of intersection between nature, industry, and community. I am interested in conveying through my images an aberrant relationship between humans and the land because we have changed our natural landscape through settlement, deforestation, and environmental pollution. Economic, population, and technological growth has fueled our modern dependence on and destruction of the land. Pollution has becomes synonymous to our cultures current demands for a quality of life while creating a waste-world in our very backyards that infringes on the quality of our health.
To experience these sites is like stepping back a hundred years, to witness America in the 21st century as it was in the 20th century during the industrial revolution, a place where man and machine dominate the land but with a modernized efficiency of new technology. Over the past year, I traveled cross-country visiting brown fields, EPA sites, strip mines, and poisoned communities. These images bear witness to the places I have visited and some of the people I have met. In these images I chose to hinder the horizon with man-made power lines, containment systems, smokestacks, power plants, and refineries. Visually obstructing, condensing, and flattening the horizon helps to provoke a sense of unease or quiet sickness. This repeated empty space of dead grass, pavement, or field in all of the photographs, serves as an intended metaphor for disconnect in my images as I pull the viewer’s eye back from the center of the image to evoke a feeling of abandonment, expanse space, or desolation.
At first glance many of these images appear as fakes, like constructed sets on a movie lot or digitally manipulated miniatures for the camera. Part of this illusion is emphasized by the lack of the human figures in the photograph; there is seldom a car or person in the foreground to reference scale of the buildings. The absence of people reinforces the presence of what people have constructed in the landscape. At first humans
may not seem to be present in the images; however, people are very much an integral part of the subject matter because the construction or destruction made by humans is the central topic of every photograph. I choose to omit people from Homelands to help separate the landscape from the human form or it’s belonging to an “other.” Deleting people from Homelands helps to make each space more general, as if the town could be anybody’s hometown.
Some of these sites are well known to the public, but many of them are not famous and are generally unknown to most people. . These lesser known towns and toxic spaces don’t share the same sense of disaster in the public eye usually equated with the more infamous sites such as Three Mile Island or Love Canal. However, these smaller and less familiar sites need the same public attention because these toxic places are equally devastating, costly, and dangerous to the ecosystem compared to other well-known disasters. These images are intended to empower and inform the viewer, while asking them to examine the impact of pollution in a familiar space being the landscape of our own hometowns and local communities.
The house becomes the factory in several of my images, or a foundation in the shadow of the power plant; searving, as a visual metaphor to reference the human body. Smoke stacks transform the building into a dangerous factory emitting chemical smoke, the type of pollution a person would want to protect themselves against by taking shelter inside their home. These images begin to investigate the border between civic space in the community and private place of the individual.
I want my viewer to have a sense that each town is not isolated but is part of a shared, very real and very human experience not unlike his or her own environment and the more critical eye that they may turn toward it. "

Erin Harper Vernon

Erin Harper Vernon

Images by Erin Harper Vernon from her series titled Homelands- Show is hanging until June 14, followed by a "take down" party on Sunday, June 15, 1:00- 3:00- All are Welcome

Homelands visits Hazardous waste sites, power plants, containment systems, and poisoned communities in Cheshire, OH, Moundsville, WV, Middleton PA, Monroe, MI + ++

We all know these places. Hey, it's showing here in NJ :)

The images evoke a feeling of abandonment, open space, and desolation

- a study of the natural landscape vs. Industrial America

View www.erinharpervernon.com to learn more

Erin is currently a visiting Artist and Instructor at the Heron School of Art & Design. Along with touring the country speaking about this collection, Erin is

expanding on this series by currently focusing her attention on oil consumption vs. wind power in Texas.

Coming Soon!

view http://www.erinharpervernon.com/

MULTIFARIOUS- the Churchville PHotography Member Show

Show Hangs til May 6th!

MULTIFARIOUS- Churchville Photography Club comes to PHoto 612

Open Reception- April 12, 1:00 - 3:00

Scroll down to hear more about the Churchville Photography Club and see more images

View www.churchvillephoto.net

Photo 612 Juried Winners- What's Up!?

Winner of Photo 612 2nd Annual Juried Show-

Sarah Bones was invited up to Chelsea- The Julie Saul Gallery to meet with Show Judge, Edna Cardinale. More to follow.....

I received a great email from Runner up Tony Wood telling me that he was taking his cash prize and going shopping ;)

People's Choice Winner, Sharon Harris, continues to be the people's favorite, winning People's Choice at NY's SOHO Gallery's Crappy Camera Show

Congratulations to all!

www.sarahbones.com

www.anthonywoodphotography.com

www.saulgallery.com

Coming April 12

MULTIFARIOUS

The Churchville PHotography Club

Open Reception Photo 612, Saturday, April 12

1:00 ~ 3:00 pm

View http://www.photo612.info/ for more information

Images by J. Hickey, R. Armstrong, & W. Holtzman

STUFF

March 28 - Photo West presents Out of the Blue ~ Look for work from Ted Adams, Eric & Cass Mencher, Rob Asman + a host of many others - Hangs thru April 20 ~ Photo West is located at 3625 Lancaster Ave., PHiladelphia - Be sure to stop into the Blue Art Grotto in your journey ;)

Coming April 11- May 2 ~ Duane Michals at the Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts ~ Open Reception May 1, 5-7 pm ~ Don't miss the Lecture & Book signing on April 30th, 2:00pm at the Elaine C. Levitt Auditorium, Gershman Hall

PHOTO REVIEW COMPETITION ONLINE :)

A shout of Congrats goes out to Sam Oberter and James Cooper who participated in Photo 612's Juried Show this past year - We all made it into the "other competition Entries"!

View our pictures & the results of the Photo Review Competition 2007 online-

Be sure to get your applications in for the 2008 Competition

Deadline is May 1 & May 15

View http://www.photoreview.org/compete.htm

And Great news ! Julie Saul will be the Judge ~

Be sure to view the stellar results of 2007

Christine :), Photo 612

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

Photo by Photo 612 Intern- Robert Todero

ROB'S GRADUATING FROM THE PHILADELPHIA ART INSTITUTE!!

Come view the graduating classes work: Thursday, March 20 from 6- 9:00 pm

Pageant Soloveev- 607 Bainbridge St., PHiladelphia, Pa

The Churchville Photography Club- MULTIFARIOUS

Join us in welcoming the Churchville PHotography Club to Photo 612.

The Churchville Photography Club started as an outgrowth of photography courses offered at the Churchville Nature Center in 1983. Students of those classes started to meet informally at the Churchville Nature Center in April 1985 to continue the learning process by sharing their experiences and bringing in guest lecturers.

From its modest beginnings of 10 members, the Club now counts over 100 members. For many years the club's emphasis was on nature photography but the current membership represents all styles of photography. As a source to inspire, the club hosts programs from a variety of practicing photographers, photo shooting trips, contests and critiques

View http://www.churchvillephoto.net/ to learn more.

Photo 612 will be hosting 21 Members of the group on April 12

Food by Chef Fred Kellermann, Elements Cafe and Wine Open Reception- 1:00- 3:00 pm

Photographer, Sarah Bones Wins Photo 612 Juried Show #2

Edna Cardinale was there to make the announcement herself :)
Sarah Bone's photo titled 'Grieving Women' was taken this past year in Sierra Leone. To see more of Sarah's work on Sierra Leone one can view http://www.sarahbones.com/ - Sarah's images were also in the Philadelphia Inquirer on February 11.
Tony Wood's Image, titled 'Bridget' came in second place. This image can also be seen hanging at the University of the ARts in Dorrance Hall for a limited time.

Photo 612 would like to give a special thanks to
Edna Cardinale for being present and available to speak to all of the participants in the show. She also took the time to research each of the participants viewing websites before coming down to the opening. She is absolutely Inspiring.
The selections for the show are to be applauded! Once again a great diversity. Holga photography by Lesley Krane, Pinhole photography by Sharon Harris, Silver Gelatin prints by Gerald Merna, Kelly Ryan & Michael Tolbert, Infrared Photography by Marilyn Canning & Richard Elkins, something very special by Richard Ryan. Great scenery from James Cooper, Amanda Stevenson, Dave Fonda, Elaine Walsh, James Morton, Joseph DeFay, John Doyle, Dave Simchock. Fun images from Denise Bush, Sam Oberter, Matthew Fegley, Warren Holtzman. Great People from Tony Wood, Bonnie Jacobs, Monika Merva, & Dana Horvath.
Photo 612 changed the prizes for 2008. There was to be only a First prize Chosen by Edna and then there was going to be a Director's prize (me) . The Director couldn't do it! Too hard- So left it to the Edna to choose both first and second prize. Something new tho' was introduced- the People's Choice Award! How fun was that! A chance to have your voice heard!
People's Choice was awarded to Sharon Harris for a Pinhole PHotograph- please come by the gallery to see it :)
Special thanks to Bing & Sharon for helping bring the show together by helping PUT IT ON THE WALL!!! Special thanks to Colleen for helping spread the word!! Friends of 612, it couldn't be without you :)

Full House - Open reception, feb. 10

The Results Are In- Photo 612 Juried Show #2

Approximately 150 Images were submitted from as far as Israel, California, Virginia, NY,Philadelphia!

Juror Edna Cardinale narrowed it down to only the very best- Thank YOu Edna!

Come Celebrate the results - February 10, Sunday from 1:00 - 3:00.

Prize Winner to Be Announced - First Prize- $500 Cash

Food from Elements Cafe- Haddon Heights