Artist Gerald Slota and Work Scholars, Photo by Elina Ruka

Anders Petersen install at Marvelli gallery, Photo by Elina Ruka

It is a great privlege to hear about a great photograph from the photographer himself. This past week Aperture Work Scholars had the opportunity to meet artists and gallerists at several new exhibitions in Chelsea.

The tour began with an artist led walkthrough of Gerald Slota’s recent collaboration with playwright Neil LaBute at Ricco Maresca gallery before continuing on to artist Marco Breuer’s show at Von Lintel gallery, concluding with a sneak-peak of Anders Petersen’s new exhibition at Marvelli gallery.

A new exhibit of works by artist Gerald Slota, who was featured in Aperture issue 196 , Home Sweet Home was created through correspondence with celebrated playwright, screenwriter and movie director Neil LaBute. The series, on view at Ricco Maresca gallery, explores ‘the sordid family secret’ at times verging on black humor. Slota’s charasmatic story-telling brought the exhibit to life. During a Q&A session we discovered the importance of experimentation in Gerald’s image making process.

At Von Lintel gallery we met the gallery co-director Dana Greenidge who gave us a detailed tour of Marco Breuer’s exhibit. Marco Breuer’s monograph Early Recordings was published by Aperture and showcased a survey of the artist’s conceptually driven work. His new exhibit Nature of the Pencil combines photographic elements with performative writings and drawings.

A sneak-peak of City Diary by Anders Petersen, who was featured on the cover of Aperture issue 198, on view at Marvelli gallery which had yet to open to the public at the time of our tour, revealed a marvelous black-and-white photographic journey through the honest and passionate human relations depicted in Petersen’s work. The photographer himself greeted us briefly before rushing away to finish installing the show.

This Work Scholar post is by Elina Ruka who currently interns for both the Sales and Limited-Edition Photographs Departments.

Elina is a recent graduate of Ecoles de Conde in France where she studied photography. Her favorite Aperture books are Kamaitachi and Winter Stories among others. Elina, coming from Latvia, loves to discover New York, lives in the moment, and documents her experiences in photographs and words on her blog.

One of the treats of being an Aperture Work Scholar is the opportunity to meet and work with the many celebrated photographers, artists and writers going in and out of the Aperture office to look at proofs, review portfolios as well as discuss and propose projects. Most recently photographer Richard Misrach whose book Destroy this Memory was recently released by Aperture, stopped by for a quick visit!

Earlier in the week the photographer was honored at Aperture’s Benefit and Auction, gave a talk and book signing at The Strand to promote Destroy this Memory, and spent some time signing more books for Aperture Bookstore’s stock. To move things along, Richard, a few Aperture staff and I formed an assembly line and were able to quickly get through 100 or so books. Thank you Richard!

Just as Richard was getting ready to leave Hank Willis Thomas, author of Pitch Blackness, made a special appearance at the office, and the two esteemed Aperture photographers got to meet each other for the first time. Each of them signed their books for each other and got to share a brief but momentous occasion.

This Work Scholar post is by Communications intern Avril Kuo.

Avril is a recent graduate of Wellesley College where she studied art history and economics. Her favorite Aperture books are New York Rises and Black Passport. Avril enjoys figuring out how to use her Mamiya medium format camera and raiding her mother’s closet for vintage finds.

From the Work Scholar’s Desk is a new series on the Exposures blog presenting a behind the scenes look at Aperture’s many events, projects, the book making process, the Aperture Portfolio Prize and more from the perspective of Aperture’s Work Scholars. The Work Scholar program at Aperture places individuals of promise in the midst of Aperture’s various departments, engaging interns in the day to day activities of the institution.

Upcoming Events with these two Artists:

Lecture and Book Signing with Richard Misrach at SF Camerawork
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:00 pm

SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street 2nd floor
San Francisco, California

Conversations Among Friends with artists Hank Willis Thomas and Leslie Hewitt in conversation with curator Eva Respini at MoMA
Tuesday, November 30th, 7:00pm

MoMA
11 West 53 Street, Theater 2
New York, New York

Kayla Lindquist from Sony, guest, & Peter Berberian from Gotham Imaging

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Thanks to everyone who attended Tuesday night’s opening of the Raymond Weil International Photography Prize Exhibition at Aperture Foundation, featuring Carlo Gianferro and Nicolas Delaroche. It was a wonderful evening with special thanks to Fujifilm USA for providing Instax cameras for the guests to record the all fun. See the party pics above taken with the Instax Mini camera.

Raymond Weil International Photography Prize Exhibition
Featuring Carlo Gianferro and Nicolas Delaroche
On view: Tuesday, October 26 -Tuesday, November 2, 2010
FREE admission

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

The deadline for applications to the Spring 2011 Work Scholar program has been extended to Monday, October 4th. The Work Scholar program at Aperture is a unique opportunity to be introduced to the many facets of the photography, non-profit and publishing fields. Following placement in each of Aperture’s departments, Work Scholars are involved in a range of tasks in the areas of design, editing, circulation, development, sales and marketing. The program also includes a number of special events, curator-led tours of exhibits, special studio visits with Aperture artists and a chance to get involved in the arts and photo world in New York. In the 2010 Spring session Work Scholars visited Mary Ellen Mark’s studio and were given a tour of Guggenheim show Haunted by the exhibition’s curator among other behind the scenes tours.

Click here for more information on Aperture’s Work Scholar program including how to apply

Photo by Yseult Chehata

Recently Aperture Work Scholar’s visited the infamous arts space The Clocktower which was founded by innovator of the alternative space movement Alanna Heiss. The Clocktower, which is situated in downtown Manhattan on the top of a government municipal building is an art space situated inside a literal clock tower. It is the home to Art International Radio as well as a gallery and residency program. Most recently the Clocktower exhibited The Dangerous Book Four Boys the solo show debut of James Franco. Aperture Work Scholars were treated to a curator led tour of Franco’s exhibit and of this exceptional arts space by co-curator of the exhibit and manager of programming for The Clocktower space, Beatrice Johnson.

The October 1st deadline for Aperture’s Spring 2011 session is approaching! Aperture’s work scholar program is a six month opportunity to work closely with the staff of Aperture Foundation. Work scholars contribute to the day to day work flow of the office engaging in Aperture’s many programs and contributing to the editing, design, production, circulation, sales, and marketing of photography’s most significant publications; the development of major traveling exhibitions; the creation of web content; and all other business operations essential to a non-profit organization.

Click here for more information about The Clocktower and ArtonAir Radio as well as James Franco’s The Dangerous Book Four Boys

Click here for more information about Aperture’s Work Scholar program and for more details on how to apply

Click here to view the past Work Scholar trip to the Center for Photography at Woodstock

This past weekend Aperture work-scholar’s made the trip up to Woodstock, New York to visit The Center for Photography at Woodstock as well as to see the Slideluck Potshow (a traveling photography slide show and potluck celebration) which was hosted at the Center that evening. CPW Executive director Ariel Shanberg gave work-scholars a tour of the center and discussed the different kinds of resources the Center provides for the international photography community, including residencies, juried publications and exhibitions, workshops with master photographers and darkroom and digital labs.

The Center for Photography at Woodstock’s gallery space is open to the public and this Saturday the second part of a two part exhibition curated by Aperture’s Lesley A. Martin goes on view. The show is called Either/And and it considers our contemporary moment in photography in two installments: The New Skew (June 12 – July 18) and The New Docugraphics (July 26 – August 29).

The New Docugraphics
Opening reception 5:00 – 7:00 PM Saturday, July 24
On view July 26 – August 29

The Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street,
Woodstock, NY, 12498
(845)-679-9957

Click here to learn more about Aperture’s work-scholar program

Click here to read more about the exhibition Either/And at CPW

Last week, Aperture’s work scholars had the profound pleasure of touring Mary Ellen Mark’s studio and getting a chance to view prints from her extensive archive. Mark’s Studio Manager (and former Aperture Workscholar) Meredith Lue, took out prints from many of Mary Ellen’s major projects including some made with analog printing processes such as Cibachrome prints and Dye transfer prints. The group looked at images from Mark’s Streetwise series, the now infamous portrait of the Damm family, Falkland Road and portraits from her ongoing High School prom portraits. Mark answered questions about her career, the current state of photography and the ways things have changed since she started out.

To learn more about the Aperture Work Scholar Program click here.

Read past posts on Exposures about work scholar experiences from exhibition tours with Humble Curator Jon Feinstein, artist Hank Willis Thomas to a visit at the Starn Brothers Beacon Studio.

Curator and co-founder of Humble Arts Foundation, Jon Feinstein recently gave Aperture’s interns a special tour of the exhibition 31 Women in Art Photography presented by Humble Arts and Affirmation Arts. Humble Arts Foundation is an organization devoted to emerging artists of all ages and backgrounds that are making interesting and innovative work. 31 Women in Art Photography, which was recently on view at Affirmation Arts until April 10th, was Humble Arts Foundation’s second annual exhibition of women’s work and in part addresses disparities between the number of women in the field of photography compared to the number of women photographers given opportunities to exhibit.

Feinstein co-curated the show with curator and editor of Aperture’s Words Without Pictures, Charlotte Cotton. The show features work by women photographers at different stages in their careers including Aperture published photographer Robin Schwartz as well as Sarah Palmer, Emily Shur, Ann Woo and more.

Click here to find out more about Aperture’s Work Scholar Program

Click here to view Charlotte Cotton’s Words Without Pictures

Click here to view Robin Shwartz’s Amelia’s World

The deadline to apply to the next 6 month session of  Aperture’s Work Scholar program is this Thursday, April 1st. The session begins in July and we are happy to announce the opportunity of two new positions added to the growing program:

EDITORIAL (LIBRARY)
Commitment: 3 days/week
Work Scholars accepted per season: 1

The library intern will assist in organizing and maintaining Aperture’s multiple in-house libraries. Responsibilities include: integrating books into Aperture’s libraries, adding books to the database; working with supervisor to assess the overall organizational system applied to the library; adding all books previously published by Aperture to the database and doing the research necessary to achieve this goal; working with off-site warehouse staff to stock any books missing from our library; synthesizing several overlapping libraries into a cohesive whole.

Requirements: Preference will be given to candidates with a background in library management or study. Required: interest in the photographic and publishing fields, high level of attention to detail, proficiency with basic database tools (e.g. Delicious Library), strong organizational skills, willingness to do light physical labor.

EDITORIAL (COPYEDITING/PROOFREADING)
Commitment: Full-time
Work Scholars accepted per season: 1

The copyediting/proofreading intern will work with supervisors to copyedit, proofread, and fact check all requested materials, mostly pertaining to ephemera, marketing materials, and website, liaising with almost every department in the process. The intern will also help check round-to-round corrections and bluelines.

Requirements: A working grasp of the publishing field, excellent grammar and communication skills, as well as prior text-related experience will enhance a candidate’s application. Some training will be available. Because of the nature of this position, applicants should be native English speakers.

Click here for more information about other internship opportunities at Aperture and how to apply

Click here to view pictures of current Aperture Work Scholar’s at work!

The April 1st deadline to apply to Aperture Foundation’s Work Scholar program is approaching.

For over twenty years Aperture’s intern program has provided recent college graduates the opportunity to gain experience in Aperture Foundation’s various departments including editing, design, production, exhibitions, circulation, sales, marketing, development and the creation of web content. Interns learn valuable skills in photo-book publishing and media as well as make connections within the arts community.

There are weekly opportunities to engage in Aperture’s events-programming including gallery openings, lectures and dialogues between renowned photographers, curators, critics and scholars hosted in Aperture’s gallery and bookstore.  Aperture’s loft space is located in Chelsea in the heart of New York City’s art district. The typically six-month long program includes special tours of galleries and museums and other intern outings.


Plus there are office cats!

Click here for more information about Aperture Foundation’s Work Scholar program.

Click here to view a past Work Scholar outing to the Museum of the City of New York with museum curator Sean Corcoran

Click here to view a past Work Scholar outing to Jack Shainman gallery with artist Hank Willis Thomas