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About the photo book: THIS IS A STORY ABOUT TWO FRIENDS — a photographer and a writer in Portland, Maine, who tried an experiment. At the start of every week for 52 weeks Winky sent Susan a photograph, and by the end of that week Susan sent a tiny story back — a moment in time that talked to the photograph. The photographs were of their children, and the street where they all lived (only one house separated their two families), and of other green places in Maine.

The mothers saw each other sometimes dozens of times a day — exchanging kids and dogs and emergency cups of coffee, but they never spoke about their experiment. There wasn’t time. Their lives often felt like they were spinning just ever so slightly out of control — like maybe motherhood was just one big race with no visible finish line.

But what happened while they weren’t looking was that their experiment began to slow time down. All the little marriages of words and image said, Stop Here. Because motherhood flies by. The days are long, but the weeks are short. We know we’re marking time with our kids, but how exactly? And how is it that the changes in those little bodies are so invisible, even when they’re happening before our very eyes?

Stop Here, This is the Place tells the story of a year in motherland. The camera watches the children’s arms and legs grow longer until any trace of baby in their faces is gone. The camera reports how long one year can feel in the life of a ten-year-old. Children look ahead. But mothers. We can always go back and remember.

http://www.stopherethisistheplace.com
Music "Short one" by Lovira Available on the Free Music Archive freemusicarchive.org/music/Lovira/Experiments Under CC BY license creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

2015 LOOK3 Artist David Alan Harvey discusses his many projects during his photographic career including the books "Cuba" (National Geographic; 1999) and "Divided Soul" (Phaidon Press, 2003), and the unseen project from 1967, "Tell It Like It Is". Harvey is interviewed by Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography at The New York Times Magazine.

2015 LOOK3 Artist Larry Fink discusses his career as a professional photographer spanning 55 years at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. Fink is interviewed by Donald Antrim who teaches in the writing program at Columbia University.

Monica Haller, 2015 LOOK3 Artist, discusses her work exploring violent and non-violent activities in human and environmental systems at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. Recent projects include Rile and his story and the Veterans Book Project, both focused on the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Zanele Muholi, 2015 LOOK3 Artist, discusses her photographic work with interviewer Chris Boot at the Paramount Theater. Muholi has documented stories of hate crimes against the gay community in order to bring the realities of "corrective rape", assault, and HIV/AIDS to public attention. Interviewer Chris Boot is the Executive Director of Aperture Foundation.

Andrea Douglas, Executive Director for the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center presents, "The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story" at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Downtown Mall at the 2015 LOOK3 Festival.

The extended version of Andrea Douglas, Executive Director for the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center presents, "The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story" at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Downtown Mall at the 2015 LOOK3 Festival.

An extended version of 2015 LOOK3 Artist Larry Fink discussing his career as a professional photographer spanning 55 years at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. Fink is interviewed by Donald Antrim who teaches in the writing program at Columbia University.

An extended version of Zanele Muholi, 2015 LOOK3 Artist, discussing her photographic work with interviewer Chris Boot at the Paramount Theater. Muholi has documented stories of hate crimes against the gay community in order to bring the realities of "corrective rape", assault, and HIV/AIDS to public attention. Interviewer Chris Boot is the Executive Director of Aperture Foundation.

Sally Mann, a 2007 LOOK3 Featured Artist, returns in 2015 to LOOK3 to read from her memoir Hold Still at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall.

An extended version of Piotr Naskrecki, 2015 LOOK3 TREES Artist, discussing the importance of even the smallest organisms at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. Naskrecki is a photographer and entomologist based at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

An extended version of 2015 LOOK3 Artist Vincent J. Musi speaking about his experience and relationship with animals as a photographer at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. A photographer specializing in animal portraiture for National Geographic Magazine, Vincent's work takes a quirky look at our relationship to animals through the world of exotic pets, domestication, and cognition.

An extended version of 2015 LOOK3 Artist David Alan Harvey discussing his many projects during his photographic career including the books "Cuba" (National Geographic; 1999) and "Divided Soul" (Phaidon Press, 2003), and the unseen project from 1967, "Tell It Like It Is". Harvey is interviewed by Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography at The New York Times Magazine.

Piotr Naskrecki, 2015 LOOK3 TREES Artist, discussing the importance of even the smallest organisms at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. Naskrecki is a photographer and entomologist based at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

photo-eye's Photobook Series #2: A Panel Discussion on Photobook Publishing with Director of Twin Palms Publishers Maggie Blanchard, photo-eye Book Division Manager Melanie McWhorter and photographer Alexandra Huddleston. The discussions was moderated by Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

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It is rarely spoken of, shrouded in stigma and secrecy.
I speak of suicide, and the fractured lives it leaves behind.
They are the suicide survivors.
These are their stories.
Their stories are mine.

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In this episode of Out of the Darkroom, Ruth Medjber chats with London-based photographer Laura Pannack. An award-winning social, documentary, and portrait photographer, Laura elaborates on her unique imaging style and technique, inspirational subjects, and how she captures the raw emotional messages she creates through her medium. Stay tuned for the second part of Ruth's interview with Laura coming up next week!


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In this episode of Out of the Darkroom, Ruth Medjber continues her interview with Laura Pannack, an award-winning London-based photographer specializing in documentary, portrait, and social imagery. Here, Laura discusses the motivations and inspirations behind her craft and how she got her start in photography. Don't miss Part 1 of Laura's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5W5mHkoU8


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What can we learn by examining only the first and final shot of a film? This video plays the opening and closing shots of 55 films side-by-side. Some of the opening shots are strikingly similar to the final shots, while others are vastly different--both serving a purpose in communicating various themes. Some show progress, some show decline, and some are simply impactful images used to begin and end a film.
View Part 2 here: https://vimeo.com/140600860
MUSIC: "Any Other Name" by Thomas Newman
Films used (in order of appearance):
The Tree of Life 00:00
The Master 00:09
Brokeback Mountain 00:15
No Country for Old Men 00:23
Her 00:27
Blue Valentine 00:30
Birdman 00:34
Black Swan 00:41
Gone Girl 00:47
Kill Bill Vol. 2 00:53
Punch-Drunk Love 00:59
Silver Linings Playbook 01:06
Taxi Driver 01:11
Shutter Island 01:20
Children of Men 01:27
We Need to Talk About Kevin 01:33
Funny Games (2007) 01:41
Fight Club 01:47
12 Years a Slave 01:54
There Will be Blood 01:59
The Godfather Part II 02:05
Shame 02:10
Never Let Me Go 02:17
The Road 02:21
Hunger 02:27
Raging Bull 02:31
Cabaret 02:36
Before Sunrise 02:42
Nebraska 02:47
Frank 02:54
Cast Away 03:01
Somewhere 03:06
Melancholia 03:11
Morvern Callar 03:18
Take this Waltz 03:21
Buried 03:25
Lord of War 03:32
Cape Fear 03:38
12 Monkeys 03:45
The World According to Garp 03:50
Saving Private Ryan 03:57
Poetry 04:02
Solaris (1972) 04:05
Dr. Strangelove 04:11
The Astronaut Farmer 04:16
The Piano 04:21
Inception 04:26
Boyhood 04:31
Whiplash 04:37
Cloud Atlas 04:43
Under the Skin 04:47
2001: A Space Odyssey 04:51
Gravity 04:57
The Searchers 05:03
The Usual Suspects 05:23

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In conjunction with the release of Aperture's "Queer" issue, Richard Meyer, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, moderates a panel discussion that explores how contemporary photographers have cast their attention backward to draw upon and engage the visual record of gay, lesbian, trans, and non-normative sexualities. Panelists include writer and critic Vince Aletti; associate curator of photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario Sophie Hackett; and artists K8 Hardy and Lyle Ashton Harris.

Queer Genealogies is presented by Aperture Foundation in partnership with the Photography Department at Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the board and Members of Aperture Foundation.

[Vince Aletti was not able to attend.]

Participant Bios

Vince Aletti reviews photography exhibitions for the New Yorker's Goings on About Town section and writes a regular column about photo books for Photograph. He also contributes reviews and features to Aperture, Artforum, W, and Document. He is the winner of the 2005 Infinity Award in writing from the International Center of Photography, where he co-curated Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now with Carol Squiers and was the curator of This Is Not a Fashion Photograph; he and Squiers worked together on Avedon: Fashion 1944-2000, the museum's summer 2009 exhibition, as well as on its Abrams catalog Male, a book of photographs and other artwork from Aletti's collection, was published by Andrew Roth's PPP Editions at the end of 2008. In 2013, Acne published Rodeo, a book of 1950s photographs of rodeo cowboys by Bruce of Los Angeles from Aletti's collection.

Sophie Hackett is the Associate Curator, Photography, at the Art Gallery of Ontario and adjunct faculty in Ryerson University's master's program in Film and Photographic Preservation and Collections Management. She has contributed to several Canadian art magazines, international journals and monographs, and she has curated or co-curated several exhibitions and public projects at the AGO, including Barbara Kruger: Untitled (It) (2010); Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today (2011); Max Dean: Album, A Public Project (2012); Light My Fire: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography (2013-2014); What It Means To be Seen: Photography and Queer Visibility and Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography (2014); and most recently Introducing Suzy Lake (2014). Hackett was the lead juror for the 2014 AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize, a role she also held in 2010 and 2012.

K8 Hardy was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and now lives and works in New York. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1 in New York, Dallas Contemporary, Tate Modern in London, and at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien in Graz, Austria. She is a founding member of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR and the New York-based activist group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy). Hardy holds degrees from Smith College and the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Studies Program.

For more than two decades Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, installation, and performance. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Known for his self-portraits and use of Pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases the viewers' perceptions and expectations, resignifying cultural cursors and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Venice Biennale. His work has been acquired by major international museums, most recently by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His commissioned work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. In 2014 Harris joined the board of trustees at the American Academy in Rome and was named the tenth recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Born in New York City, Harris spent his formative years in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He received his bachelor of arts with honors from Wesleyan University, in 1988, and a master's in fine arts from the California Institute of the Arts, in 1990. He currently lives and works in New York City