We like to think of LensWork as a family of fellow artists, bonded together by our love of photography as a way of life. It’s our honor and pleasure to work with so many wonderful photographers, and to keep you informed of their creative paths. Here are some recent news items from our alumni. — The Editors

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June, 2015New Work • Exhibitions • Workshops • Publications • Folios

Alumni News

In This Issue

New Book Curated Exhibition

Jerry Grasso Larry Monczka Frank Van Riper

New Book

Barbara Bender

Exhibition & Interview

Alexandra de Steiguer

The Artist Odyssey

David Fokos

Publication

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Alumni NewsBarbara Bender — Maple, Ontario, Canada

www.barbarabenderphotoart.com

New Book

Barbara Bender is pleased to announce the publication of her latest book, Mindworks.

Using the multiple exposure feature on her camera to make this collection of abstract photographs, she visually expressed her moods and emotions during a year-long period, as she progressed from health through illness and finally to healing. Many of the images from this portfolio were published in Lenswork Extended #115.

Mindworks is available in both hardcover and as an ebook. Click here for more information or to purchase.

“This portfolio explores the rhythmic patterns and designs which can be found among the seemingly erratic configurations of rock, sand, clouds, and water. Although they are inanimate, these materials are anything but static. Periodic forces of nature – such as weather, erosion, earthquakes, et cetera – cause changes that are manifested by patterns, lines, and shapes which develop and shift over time.”

Bender in LensWork Extended #111 Elemental Rhythms

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Alumni NewsAlexandra de Steiguer — York, Maine

Exhibition & Interviewwww.alexdesteiguer.com

Sea & Sky & SolitudePhotographs by Alexandra de Steiguer and the ceramic art of the Hamada family.

Pucker Gallery Boston, Massachusetts

16 May - 12 July, 2015, with an opening reception on May 16, 3 - 6pm.

The Winter Caretaker Of Star IslandInterview with Alexandra on NHPR.

Listen to the interview here.

de Steiguer in LensWork and LensWork Extended #108Small Island, Big Picture

“With these images I honor the wildlife, the grasses and seaweed, the wind-torn bushes, low trees, the rocks and the sea. For these are the real, long-term denizens of this place. We come and go like brief storms, but they remain. Creating photographs is a way to briefly engage with all that is here; to feel a small part of this interdependent and self-sustaining natural community – the sea and rocky islands on which I live.”

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Alumni NewsDavid Fokos — San Diego, California

The Artist Odysseywww.davidfokos.net

“Do you enjoy art? Are you entertained and inspired by paintings, sculptures, music, dance, photography, literature, poetry, film, and more? Wouldn’t it be great to go behind the scenes and inside artists’ studios to hear, in their own words, what it is that

compels them to create? If you’re nodding and your eyes are lighting up, then I invite you to come join The Artist Odyssey.

“If you know me, chances are that you may also know my lovely,

talented wife (award-winning columnist, humorist, journalist, executive producer, and professional neurotic, Barbarella). Together, we have joined a team of other artists – photographers, musicians, writers, designers, parents, teachers, inventors and more – all with the same goal in mind: to connect artists with a broader audience and provide our viewers with a substantial and ever-growing archive of gorgeous, interesting, and inspiring video content.

“The Artist Odyssey is a global arts network that brings artists’ stories directly to YOU, in the most entertaining and engaging way. In our long and short form documentaries,

we take you behind the scenes of the art world, giving you unprecedented access to the fascinating private and personal worlds of the artists we fea-ture, from emerging artists to Masters leading their field.

“TAO will be an ad-free subscription site where, for $5/mo. or $50/yr., (just $35 through our KickstARTer campaign) subscribers will have full access to all our content, and also have the opportunity to nominate a classroom to receive our arts curriculumn content for FREE.

“Our Kickstarter campaign is NOW LIVE. If you subscribe now through our Kick-starter page, you’ll be entitled to special discounts and rewards. Thanks for all your help and support. We look forward to doing great things to benefit us all!”

“I enjoy distilling an image to its basic elements. It appeals to the engineer in me, and to my personal interests in perception, and how we each see our world.”

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Fokos in LensWork #51 Basic Elements

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Alumni NewsJerry Grasso — Bristol, Connecticut

New Bookjerrygrasso.com

“My Moorish Influences series, featured in LensWork #115, is now available as a hardcover book here, or as a downloadable ebook here.

“My additional bodies of work, as well as my blog, can be explored at your leisure on my website.

About the book:“My project is a simple attempt to depict the progression of the Moorish architectural influences from the Great Mosque at Córdoba to the final grandeur of Islamic art in the Alhambra. I hope you enjoy the ordered repetition, radiating structures, and rhythmic, metric patterns that form the basis of the architectural influences of Moorish history in southern Spain.”

Grasso in LensWork and LensWork Extended #115Moorish Influences

“In 1970 I spent six weeks studying and traveling throughout Spain. I couldn’t remember the details of each of the locations and structures I visited – only the impressions. Fast-forward nearly 45 years, with the attendant (and significant) changes in the world – I wanted to re-experience the grandeur of these loca-tions with a new artistic toolset.”

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Alumni NewsLarry Monczka — Simcoe, Ontario, Canada

Publication

“My wife, Kathleen Pickard, and myself have been profiled in the current issue of the online photo magazine On Landscape based out of the UK.”

Monczka in LensWork Extended #116Tobacco Kilns of Norfolk County

“Since my retirement three years ago, I have been working almost exclusively on nature-oriented projects in Norfolk County where I live. While working on these projects I often drive by tobacco kilns, but for a long time I failed to recognize their photographic potential.”

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Photo by Kathleen Pickard

www.raraavisphotos.com

Kathleen Pickard

Kathleen Pickard

Larry Monczka

Larry Monczka

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Alumni NewsFrank Van Riper — Washington, D.C.

www.talkingphotography.com • www.gvrphoto.com • veniceinwinter.com

Curated Exhibition

Mirror To The World 2015A Documentary Photography ExhibitionFrank Van Riper, Curator Photoworks GalleryGlen Echo, Maryland

Through June 1, 2015

Exhibiting Artists:David Myers, Erica Wissolik, Alain Durand, Barbara Tyroler, Rik Michaud, Diana Wanamaker, Steve Silverman, Sheryl Denbo, Ginger Werz-Petricka, Ron Petricka, Gana Browning

Van Riper in LensWork #39, 41, 43, 45, 46, 49, 56Articles

“Make room for inspiration; make time for yourself. At the end of a career, that’s the work you will treasure – and the work that you will most likely be remembered by.”

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© Erica Wissolik

© David Myers © Diana Wanamaker

We always enjoy getting a chance to look at new work. In fact, about half of what we’ve published in LensWork comes from submissions that were originally unsolicited, that is to say, from readers and subscribers like you. We love giving exposure to people who are doing good work but are not plugged into the publicity machines that galleries and traditional publishers provide.

Our submission guidelines are available on our website. Please review these submission guidelines and then feel free to send in your work for consider-ation. Obviously, we can’t publish everything that is submitted, but we also can’t publish work that isn’t ever submitted! The best way to start is to send in the work and let us take a look. Thanks!

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