Images of Change,Greater Portland Landmarks juried exhibit

Two of my images will be in the “Images of Change” exhibit, organized by Greater Portland Landmarks, curated by Suzan Danly , Bruce Brown and Earle Shettleworth.

Here shown is the image of the big old tree (Beech?) in the yard of St Luke’s Cathedral in Portland. The exhibit will open in January at the Lewis Gallery located in the Portland Library.

Street photogaphy?

Happy to report that the shot in the Buddhist temple in Shanghai that was featured in the last blog announcing my “travel gallery” will be shown in the 2013 Competition Issue of the “Photo Review” magazine. This issue is expected to come out in the beginning of 2014.

In my mind, the word “Street Photography” is about more than stuff you shoot on the street. It has to do with spontaneity, the spur of the moment, shooting the way life is, unaltered, unposed. A lot of my work falls into this style of photography, a bit documentary but very much dependent on the decisive moment. In the color gallery I added a shot taken on the beach. My feeling is that it’s a “street shot”, (One might disagree) not posed, quick, the girl was just there, at the right moment, unrehearsed and natural. The other one is in the B&W gallery, it’s called “Mermaid in a Taxicab”.  A street shot? Maybe, make up your own mind!

New Gallery :” Travel”

A new gallery was just added to the website. Is is called: ” Travel” and it will be dedicated to recent photographs just brought back from certain trips. This way there will not be any need to split up a group of photos into categories such as “Color”, “B&W”, “Landscape” etc. The story can now be told in one cohesive gallery.

The first series featured in this gallery will be recent photography from a trip to China. It will contain both documentary, street and landscape photography.

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August 2013: New exhibit Addison Woolley @ 3fish!

The second exhibit by Addison Woolley artists will be opening at 3fish gallery on Friday August 2nd.

It is a group show with 13 artists, mostly photography but also some oil paintings and woodcuts.

I will be showing four photographs in the “street/documentary” style, as always documenting the stuff going on around us.

Upcoming Exhibit !! Portland in Black & White!

Upcoming exhibit in Pownal Maine. Opening on Saturday April 28th at the Art Gallery in Mallett Hall in Pownal Ctr. I will be showing  the Black & White photographs from my book “Portland in B&W” that came out several years ago. Andrea will be showing oil paintings and etchings. The exhibit will be in conjunction with the “Keep me Warm” concert series, organized by Bradbury Mountain Arts and benefiting  folks needing assistance paying their heating bills. (20% of the art sales will go to the benefit as well.) It will be up during the month of May. The gallery reception will be held an hour before the start of the concert. The concert will start at 7.30 P.M and will feature the group Meteora as well as British singer Jamie Pearson.

Tickets for the concert will be $10. The reception is free.

New Work on Website & Addison Woolley @ 3Fish

Some new work was just added to some of the galleries on the website!. Check out the “New Work” Gallery to see some new 2 1/4  B&W landscape work done mostly at the beaches at Old Orchard Beach and Ocean Park. It is all Gelatin Silver work, it is good to get away from the digital printing and get into the dark room. It still puzzles me why and I can’t define the reason but there still is a definite beauty of a gelatine silver print.

On the other hand I feel that the act of taking a digital photograph and now having both  color and B&W properties in one “negative” brings color and B&W thinking closer together and even creates possibilities to blend the two, both in series of photographs as well in single images. At 3Fish I show 4 (Street) photographs  of Brooklyn, all digital captures, two of them are color, one B&W and one where a piece of color has been reintroduced into the image. It’s strange how the divide between Color and Black & White seems to disappear. These are now not just B&W or Color photographs anymore. They are just photographic images. Of course the ” Subway Portrait, 2011″,  had to be B&W and pays tribute to Walker Evans.

And finally I got to put in some of the Black and White street work that I shot in Europe last year. These shots below were shot in Budapest. In the Color Gallery some older images were replaced by newer work.

Some work now represented by VOX Photographs.

Since the beginning of the year some of my work is now represented by Vox Photographs. I print some of my Polaroid Transfer work, (see the “Alternative Processes”  gallery)  in large sizes which are then released in limited editions. Some of this work can be seen  on the Vox Photography website,  http://www.voxphotographs.com

If you would like more info on this please contact Heather Frederick  (The Director at Vox) at info@voxphotographs.com or at 207-323-1214

Maine, The way life should be. A photo portrait of Maine

Maine, The way life should be.  A photo portrait of the pine tree state

is a wonderful book with great photography of Maine by Maine photographers. We were waiting for it for a while but now in October it is out. Maine Biz did a fine job with it.

Congratulations. For more information check: www.TheMaineBook.com

The Maine Book

Maine Biz is publishing a new book of Maine photographs which probably comes out in August. The book will contain about 160 photographs edited from over 2000 entries. The contents was curated by Bruce Brown and by Maine Biz’ Greta Rybus.

I am fortunate to have two images selected for the publication.

Website finally ready!

So now its time to finally open it up and see what happens. We”ll upload a picture for the occasion. Please feel free to leave your comments to tell me what you think!