Monthly Newsletter, February 2024
Photography News from Studio MBK
News from StudioMBK!
This is a once a month (with rare exceptions) newsletter containing news about the art of photography, mine and others.
Monthly Photography Salon
I co-moderate two monthly photography Salons through the Center for Photography at Woodstock, which is now actually in Kingston, NY.
In Person Salon
Co-Moderator, Steven Parisi-Gentile
Every second Tuesday of the month there is an in person salon at 7 PM at CPW, 474 Broadway, Kingston, NY. Photographers are encouraged to bring prints of their work. We are especially interested in providing feedback to photographers working on a project or submission. The atmosphere is informal and supportive, with work being reacted to and discussed by the photographers present.
Virtual Salon
Co-moderator, Deena Feinberg
Every fourth Tuesday of the month there is a virtual salon. Photographers are encouraged to upload files of their work. We recommend a jpeg format of 2000 pixels on the longest side, and maximum of 144 pixels per inch. Use highest quality jpeg setting. Files should be named with the first and last name of the photographer and should be numbered in the order in which the photographer would like them to appear. So, First Name_Last Name_01, would be the preferred format. We are especially interested in providing feedback to photographers working on a project or submission. The atmosphere is informal and supportive, with work being reacted to and discussed by the photographers present.
Files can be uploaded here.
Join the Virtual Salon here.
Of Interest
If you are an artist and receiving this email, I am happy to share announcements of shows you are participating in. All you have to do is email me at mkriegh@gmail.com with the details before the end of the month prior to your happening.
Dan McCormack
Founding member of the CPW in person Salon is having a retrospective show at the Art Society of Kingston. Show opens this weekend and runs to the end of February.
Shooting Blind: How a Blind Photographer Takes Pictures Like a Sighted Person
I can't imagine what it is like loosing your sight in this way. Is it an inspiring story? I think it is more of a coping story. I admire the photographer for continuing to photograph. I wonder if I would do the same? I hope to never find out.
After school, I spent more than 30 years in the commercial and academic art worlds, settling ultimately on the roles of advisor and finally, curator. In the midst of the steady thrill this work provided, I began to lose my eyesight. I say “eyesight” rather than “vision” because there is a difference between “looking” (using one’s eyes to view the world) and “seeing” (using one’s brain to understand what has been sent to it by the eyes). Looking is the acquisition of information with the eyes; seeing is the thought process that brings to bear a set of intellectual tools comprised of inherited qualities and accumulated experience. We find guidance about this idea, at times bewilderingly complex, and at times self-evident, as long ago as in Plato’s Allegories of the Cave and the Sun from the 4th century BC and more recently in Temple Grandin’s work, including her 2022 Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions.
Opportunities
Lenscratch opportunities page: The most complete listing of opportunities for photographic artists I know of.
Studio MBK Links
Notes On Attention Paid - My short form blog with daily notes and photographs.
Notes On Attention Paid, Photographs - The photographs I make daily.
Essays On Attention Paid - My long form essay blog. A new post most weeks
“Just make the work, something will come of it.”
Attributed to John Cage