Submit to Hey, Hot Shot! A Jen Bekman Project, Photography Competition by Thursday, June 17th and win a collection of Aperture Books. This year’s guest curator, Aperture’s own Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture’s Book Program, and a HHS! panelist will be reviewing all entries submitted and will select one photographer to receive an incredible selection of books. View more information here!

Featured books included are: Words Without Pictures by Charlotte Cotton, Sawdust Mountain by Eirik Johnson, Winter Stories by Paolo Ventura, Photography After Frank by Philip Gefter, Legacy by Joel Meyerowitz, Explosions, Fires, and Public Order by Sarah Pickering and the trade edition of  Kamaitachi by Eikoh Hosoe

Since its inception in 2005, Hey, Hot Shot!, an international photography competition, has provided one hundred and twenty-nine photographers from all over the world with unrivaled exposure, support and recognition. This year marks the 5th anniversary of the competition and the 7th anniversary of Jen Bekman Gallery. Prizes include a $5,000 honorarium, inclusion in a two-week exhibition and five Curator’s Choice Awards.

See past winners here including Nina Berman, Aperture Portfolio Prize runner-up Alejandro Cartagena, and Cara Philips, to name a few.

Apply Here. Good Luck!

SNAP! Aperture’s young patrons program provides an opportunity for photography enthusiasts and collectors to support and participate in the arts. The affordable membership fee includes meet-the-artists events, informal educational activities, invitations to Aperture exclusive parties and salon events at collector’s homes, all to foster the growth of an exciting, vibrant community of like-minded photo enthusiasts.

Aperture’s SNAP! Out of Winter Party this past March was the latest SNAP! fiesta and it was a great success. The party was co-chaired by Jen Bekman, Christina Cahill, and Alan Stoga, and ticket proceeds helped to support the Aperture Fund for Emerging Artists. Established patrons, curators, dealers and photographers as well as newcomers to the photography community all enjoyed a night of live music by The Cangelosi Cards, tastings of fine scotch by Dewar’s and Chandon bubbly while enjoying delicious signature cakes. The event was sponsored by Polaroid and several lucky raffle winners posed for instant large format portraits shot with a rare 20×24 Polaroid Camera.

In the short clip below, view excerpts from the event:

Click here to view images from the event

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Click here to join SNAP! Aperture’s Young Patrons Program

Next Tuesday, August 11, Aperture book publisher Lesley A. Martin will be the featured guest curator on 20×200. She culled their archives to find her personal favorites (in addition to all of her favorite Aperture limited-edition photographs, of course!) including Shaun Sundholm’s Untitled (Let’s Get Lost), seen above. She and Jen Bekman will discuss her selections, and the resulting conversation will be featured in Jen’s newsletter and on the 20×200 blog next week. Also, not-to-be-missed, in the same newsletter 20×200 will offer an exclusive special for collectors. So, if you want the inside scoop, sign up now for 20×200’s mailing list!

Take advantage of a rare sale at 20×200, going on through Tuesday, June 16 at midnight. The entire inventory is 20% off with coupon code RIDONK at checkout. Included in this sale is work from photographer Penelope Umbrico whose work is currently on display as part of The Edge of Vision at Aperture Gallery. These beautiful prints are perfect for collectors of all ages.

Click here for full details on this incredible deal!

79 Moons From Flickr – 51 Visible, 87 Suns From Flickr – 29 Visible © Penelope Umbrico

In collaboration with 20×200, A Jen Bekman Project, Aperture Foundation is pleased to present two exclusive images from Penelope Umbrico, from the series Suns from Flickr, now available starting as low as $50 for a 11″x14″ print.

Penelope Umbrico combines multiple “sunset” and “moonrise” photographs found on Flickr, and superimposes them in Photoshop. Each photograph is visible to a greater or lesser degree depending on the amount of opacity she gives each, which is indicated in the titles of the images: 79 Moons From Flickr – 51 Visible and 87 Suns From Flickr – 29 Visible.

About the Aperture/20×200 project, Lesley A. Martin, Aperture’s Book Publisher, who curated a show of Umbrico’s work notes:

“It’s pretty much one year ago today that Penelope Umbrico first premiered her now nearly ubiquitous Suns from Flickr as part of the show I curated for the 1st annual NYPH. This piece in particular received much-deserved critical response — Ken Johnson called it ‘spectacular’ in his review for the New York Times. The piece will also now appear in the forthcoming Aperture publication The Edge Of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography by Lyle Rexer. So I’m super excited that for this, Aperture’s first collaboration with Jen Bekman’s 20×200 project, Penelope has generously agreed to create two brand new images — each of which is related to the Suns installation, but in classic Umbrico fashion, are totally new and creative re-renderings of her ideas for the specific purpose of the 20×200 format.

“So we’re all super excited about it here at Aperture. Special thanks to Penelope Umbrico and the folks at 20×200! We’re looking forward to hearing people’s comments about the prints now that they’re available … ”

20×200’s mission is to make art easily accessible for everyone, and offers extremely affordable exhibition-quality prints, available exclusively online. So buy one of these brilliant images today and support Aperture in the process.