Copyright by artist, clockwise from top-left: Sarah Palmer, Louie Palu, Lisa Lindvay, Andrew McConnell, Thibault Brunet

Thanks to all the photographers who took part in our annual Aperture Portfolio Prize contest this past year. Judges have gone through the submissions and after much deliberation, we’re pleased to announce the five finalists:

Lisa Lindvay

Andrew McConnell

Sarah Palmer

Louie Palu

Thibault Brunet

For almost a decade now, our contest has helped to identify trends in contemporary photography and bring the work of innovative and emerging artists to a wider audience.  This year, first prize is $3000 and an exhibition at Aperture Foundation.

Check back with us in the coming weeks as we get ready to announce the winner via email newsletter and our website and showcase their work. Don’t forget to check out the winning images from years past here. And remember, it’s never too early to start thinking about submitting for next year’s prize.

Patrick (Bed) from the series He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore , photo by Jason Hanasik, courtesy the artist

Emerging artist and 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner Up, Jason Hanasik has been gaining acclaim for his body of work He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore. Recently featured on FlakPhoto.com and in Andy Adams and Larissa Leclair‘s 100 Portraits exhibition, Hanasik will also be lecturing about his work and offering a workshop: Contemporary Photographic Practices & Portfolio Development at the Photo Center NW in Seattle.

Hanasik has said of the series, that he utilizes image-making as a wedge to intervene inside Western culture’s traditions and expectations related to masculinity, class, and heroism. This project opens up a space for a counter-narrative to exist, one that focuses on individual experience, vulnerability, and intimacy rather than that which is enforced by the State: an impenetrable unit.

Patrick (Bed), 2007, from the series He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore is available from Aperture as a limited edition photograph.

Artist Lecture:
Friday, February 4, 7:00 pm

Workshop: Contemporary Photographic Practices and Portfolio Development:
Saturday, February 5, 10:00-2:00 pm

Photo Center NW
900 12th Avenue
Seattle WA 98122

Click here to purchase a limited edition of Jason Hanasik work.

Souvenier de ma grand-mère, © David Favrod

We are thrilled to present David Favrod, winner of the 2010 Aperture Portfolio Prize. View the portfolio from Favrod and the four runners-up—Kathryn Parker Almanas, Anne Golaz, Julian Röder, and Jordan Tate—online now.

Congratulations to David, Kathryn, Ann, Julian, and Jordan!

2010 Aperture Portfolio Prize

Check back soon for details on how to enter the 2011 Aperture Portfolio Prize.

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All of us at Aperture Foundation would like to thank everyone who submitted work to the 2010 Aperture Portfolio Prize. This year, Aperture’s editorial and limited-edition print departments—five staff members and five work scholars in all—reviewed over nine hundred portfolios. Our challenge was to select one top prize and four honorable mentions from this overwhelming response. Thus, we are pleased to present the following five finalists Kathryn Parker Almanas, Pre-Exisiting Condition; David Favrod, Gaijin; Anne Golaz, The Hunting Game / Chasses; Julian Röder, Lagos Transformation; and Jordan Tate, New Work.

The winner of the Aperture Portfolio Prize will be announced in December 2010, at which time finalists’ portfolios and statements will be presented on-line. An exhibition will be planned in conjunction with the final winner, and take place in spring 2011.

Hansons’ Tent at the The Common Ground Fair, Unity Maine, 2008 by Keliy Anderson-Staley

2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner Keliy Anderson – Staley’s ongoing body of work Off the Grid provides a close look at the daily lives of families living in Maine without electricity, plumbing or phones. Anderson – Staley’s subject’s have rejected these technologies for a range of reasons, from political and environmental concerns to economic necessity, but the lifestyles depicted are all resourceful and inspiring takes on “green” living.

Aperture is pleased to present a new limited edition print from the Off the Grid series entitled Hansons’ Tent at the The Common Ground Fair, Unity Maine, 2008. The print, a photograph of a  tent belonging to a family of “off-gridders” is a poignant example of the charm and character of the creative measures taken by Anderson – Staley’s subjects to achieve their minimal environmental impact.

Click here to learn more about Limited Edition Keliy Anderson-Staley’s print Hansons’ Tent at the The Common Ground Fair, Unity Maine, 2008

Click here to learn more about the Aperture Portfolio Prize

The deadline for Aperture’s Portfolio Prize is noon tomorrow, Wednesday, July 14th! This annual open call for submissions provides a great opportunity for photographers to have their work seen by Aperture’s editors. One first prize winner will receive a $5000 cash prize, an exhibition at Aperture Gallery and more! First prize winner as well as runners up will be featured on Aperture’s website and will be announced in Aperture’s widely read newsletter.

Submit today!

Click here for more information on submitting to Aperture’s Portfolio Prize

Click here to view past winners and runners up of the Aperture Portfolio Prize

Untitled by Michael Corridore

The summer issue of 1000 Words Magazine is now available online and it features several in-depth profiles of recent Aperture projects. Natalie Belayche reviews 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner Michael Corridore’s exhibition  Angry Black Snake which was on view at the Aperture gallery and bookstore this past Spring. Liz Kuball writes of Sarah Pickering’s Explosions, Fires and Public Order and a book review for Gerry Badger’s just released The Pleasures of Good Photographs is also featured.

Click here to view the Summer issue of 1000 Words Magazine.

Click here for information on Gerry Badger and John Gossage talk at Aperture Tuesday, June 8th.

Click here to purchase Sarah Pickering’s Explosions, Fires and Public Order.

In our interview with 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner, photographer Michael Corridore says of his work “The constant theme in the way I approach work is creating fiction from reality.” This is especially true of the minimalist and surreal images from his Angry Black Snake series currently exhibited at Aperture, which captures fleeting “real moments” at auto races and the like when spectators and landscape collide obscuring context.

In the interview below Michael Corridore takes us through his exhibit at Aperture, providing personal insight into his process and glimpses into some of the challenges of capturing these particular occurrences that would last “a couple of seconds at most.”

The Angry Black Snake exhibition is one of the latest realizations of Aperture’s ongoing mission to support the work of emerging photographers. Proceeds from the exhibit will go in part to Aperture’s Fund for Emerging Artists which goes towards developing projects that showcase new and visionary photographers and includes a range of significant projects both completed and ongoing.

Be sure to stop by Aperture Gallery & Bookstore and experience Corridore’s ambiguous scenes in person as the exhibition has been extended to Saturday, April 17!

Angry Black Snake
Photographs by Michael Corridore
Exhibition on view through April 17

Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27th street
New York, New York

Following Art Week, Exposures presents a short listing of exhibitions now on view in New York.

copyright Robin Schwartz

In honor of Women’s History Month, Humble Arts foundation in association with Affirmation Arts will present its second edition of 31 Women in Art Photography, a five-week exhibition with 31 of the most innovative women in new art photography. The exhibition, curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein, will present an eclectic mix of new talent, culled from open submissions. The show features Robin Schwartz, whose publication Amelias World was published in Aperture’s Tinyvices-curated book series, Sarah Palmer, Emily Shur, Paula McCartney among others.

31 Women in Art Photography
On view through April 10, 2010

Affirmation Arts
523 W. 37th Street
New York, NY, 10018

Buy Robin Shwartz’s Amelias World

copyright Ruben Natal-San Miguel

Photographer and curator Ruben Natal – San Miguel will be exhibiting his series Concrete Jungle at the gallery Kris Graves Project, presenting five years of street photography that celebrates inner city life in New York.

NY, NY: Concrete Jungle
On view through April 10, 2010

Kris Graves Projects
111 Front Street, Suite 224
Brooklyn, NY, 11201

copyright Michael Corridore

Aperture Foundation is proud to present the series Angry Black Snake, photographs by 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner Michael Corridore, please join us for artist reception at the Aperture Foundation this Thursday, March 11th.

In the words of Aperture books publisher Lesley A. Martin, “Corridore’s project, Angry Black Snake, is an exercise in minimalism. Each image has been pared down to the barest of elements—urgent gestures and barely traceable figures cloaked in smoke and dust. Yet each image pulses with palpable emotional tension, telegraphed by these barest of representational sketches and the subtle shifting colors of the clouds that descend upon each scene like a flimsy curtain.”

Angry Black Snake
Opening reception Thursday, March 11, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Aperture Foundation
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

Thanks to all for applying to the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize! Judging is set to begin shortly and we are excited to see the wonderful work submitted this year.  Due to the large volume of submissions, you will be notified by email as to the winners and runners-up by October 31, 2009.  Those portfolios will be posted online by January 1, 2010.

See past winners here.