Coming up: Photoville 2014

This year’s edition of a new classic promises to bring photo buffs of all stripes together on Brooklyn’s sunny shores, starting next week. This crowd-pleasing photo destination is a pop-up, modular venue built from shipping containers re-purposed into galleries exhibiting a wide array of cutting-edge photography.

The event epitomizes the work of United Photo Industries, which seeks to identify, harness, and conjure unexpected exhibition opportunities, champion new directions in photography and cultivate ties within an ever- expanding, globetrotting community of photographers.

Photoville, a village of 74,000 sq. ft. in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, will feature a mix of photo exhibitions, outdoor photo installations, artist lectures, professional development seminars, hands- on workshops, night-time multimedia projections, and a summer beer garden complete with food vendors, thus creating a photography destination like no other that is completely free for the public to attend.

Whether you’re a casual Instagrammer, a working pro, or an aspiring photographer about to select an art school, Photoville has programs and exhibitions to inspire and advance your work. Plus good eats, fun events, and thousands of like-minded people to join at Brooklyn Bridge State Park.

While you’re there, don’t miss the AI-AP Latin American Fotografía & Ilustración 2 exhibition, featuring work by Patricia Ackerman, Marcela Angeles Macedo, Toto Cullen, Douglas Cushine, Brunel Galhego,Lianne Milton, Gabriel Rinaldi, Cesar Rodriguez, Roberto Rosa, Ana Maria Trujillo, LAI2: Tony Aguero (TOMO77), Carlos Araujo, Ronny Barrera, Eduardo-TLaloC-Corral,Kako, Camilo Moreno Suárez, Diego Peñuela, Gabriela Thiery, Walter Vasconcelos, Yue Wang.

Photoville returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park, September 18, 19, 25, 26 from 4pm–10pm; September 20, 27 from 12 pm–10pm; and September 21, 28 from 12pm – 8pm.

Camera Club of New York will host the fifth annual Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair, Saturday-Sunday, September 13-14, 12-6pm, with an opening reception Friday, September 12, 6-8pm.

Four artist curators have chosen books on the theme of “destruction, violence, reconstruction,” and there will be a special performance by the artist collaborative NOWORK. The work of photographers David Brandon Geeting, Denise Schatz, and Grant Willing will also be shown. 

The curators include Lindsey Castillo, Fryd Frydendahl, Jesse Hlebo, and Jason John Würm, with special assistance from Kara Hayden. The theme “destruction, violence, reconstruction” pertains to the sense of unrelenting political, economic, and social distress in the world and the instability that the distress causes in people”s lives, directly or indirectly. NOWORK will make zines related to breaking news, as a performance. Photo, above: 2013 CCNY Zine Fair.

Opening night, Friday September 12, 6-8 pm:  Destruction / Violence / Reconstruction - the fifth annual Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair. Foley Gallery, 97 Allen Street (between Delancey & Grand), NY, NY. Information.

And the winner is…..

For the last DART Book Prize Contest of Summer 2014, the question was, “Where in France Am I?” Thanks to everyone who entered—everyone had the correct answer [Claude Monet’s garden at Giverney] but the prize goes to James Wight of San Francisco, the first to enter with geo-location points and a nice description. A copy of AI32, designed by Richard Turley with cover art by Jon Han, will be sent.