Tema Stauffer, Artist, Portrait Competition 2013

Photography Sampler at Ramapo College

Photography Sampler, a group exhibition of work by four photographers, opens tonight at the Pascal Gallery in the Berrie Center from Performing and Visual Arts at Ramapo College. Participating photographers are Eva Fazarri, Jose Hernandez, Dina Kantor and Tema Stauffer.  The exhibition is on view through October 18th.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

An installation shot courtesy of Andy Adams of portrait exhibitions MAKING PICTURES OF PEOPLE and ABOUT FACE at The Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art.

Face to Face Portrait of an Artist Series

As part of a continuing series of interviews with the forty-eight artists whose work was selected for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Portrait of an Artist: Tema Stauffer was recently published on the National Portrait Gallery's Face to Face blog.

MAKING PICTURES OF PEOPLE

MAKING PICTURES OF PEOPLE: Recent Perspectives on Photographic Portraiture presented by Flakphoto association with the Nelsen-Atkins Museum of Art went live this past week. Along with work by and interviews with 26 other photographers, my Paterson series and interview can be found at: TEMA STAUFFER

MAKING PICTURES OF PEOPLE - Recent Perspectives on Photographic Portraiture

Contributing photographers were announced yesterday for the upcoming digital exhibition, MAKING PICTURES OF PEOPLE, curated by Andy Adams for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in conjunction with About Face, a traditional exhibition of current portraiture opening in August 2013.

I'm honored that selections from my Paterson series will be included in this digital show along with work by a group of remarkable photographers: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Yolanda del Amo, Christopher Churchill, Paul D'Amato, Jess T. Dugan, Doug DuBois, Matt Eich, Jason Florio, Jessica Todd Harper, Dave Jordano, Dina Kantor, Stacy Kranitz, Molly Landreth, Graham Miller, Jim Mortram, Lydia Panas, Laura Pannack, Deborah Parkin, Cara Phillips, Richard Renaldi, Simon Roberts, Marjorie Salvaterra, Betsy Schneider, Shen Wie, Carrie Will, and Susan Worsham.

Andrew

Andrew
Straight Street
Paterson, NJ
May 2013

Somene I Know

Tawny in Mary's studio, March 2013 

Someone I Know for SOMEONE I KNOW curated by Stuart Pilkington bringing together portraits by photographers from around the world. A few of my favorites by Alison Malone, Benjamin McMahon, Daniel Traub, Dave Jordano, Irina Rozovsky, Juliana Beasley, Justin James Reed, Olivier Despicht, Susan Worsham, and Susana Raab.

Sasha Wolf at AIPAD

Two of my Paterson portraits, Akeem and Nikia, are on display in Sasha Wolf's booth at AIPAD this week along with work by Peter Kayafas, Paul McDonough, Elinor Carucci, Christine Osinski, Katherine Wolkoff, and David Nadel.

Booth #437
April 4 - 7
Park Avenue Armory
Thursday - Saturday, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, 11am - 6pm

Opening weekend of OBPC exhibition at NPG

Meeting the Boochevers

Showing Truth with a Camera

My Project X article for PDNedu's Spring 2013 issue covers Truth with a Camera Workshops connecting photo students with NGOs and nonprofits.  Please see: Showing Truth with a Camera 

ten at Jen Bekman

Gas Station, Tampa, Florida, 2007 is included in the current group exhibition, ten, at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York celebrating the tenth anniversary of the gallery and the artists who were influential its story. The exhibition features work by Mara Bodis Wollner, Peter Haakon Thompson, Dana Miller, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, and many others.  American Stills was exhibited in a solo show with Jen Bekman Gallery in 2004, and this is my eighth group show with the gallery since it opened a decade ago.  There is a reception on Friday, March 15 from 6-8pm. 

Exhibition and Artist Talk in Montreal

Four images from American Stills are included in an upcoming group show at Galerie Lilian Rodriguez in Montreal opening Saturday, March 2nd.  Curated by Marisa Portolese, The Body and the Landscape is a contemporary photographic exhibition that brings together the work of an eclectic group of women artists that explore different permutations of the figure in the landscape and whose practices revolve around the genre of portraiture, the romanticized landscape and gendered space.  Exhibiting artists are Jessica Auer (Canada), Jasmine Bakalarz (Argentine), Margaret Haines (Canada/USA), Jinyoung Kim (Canada/Korea), Celia Perrin Sidarous (Canada), and Tema Stauffer (USA).

In conjunction with the exhibition, I will present an artist talk at Concordia University on Thursday, February 28th at 1:30pm.  Many thanks to Fine Arts faculty members Marisa Portolese and Genevieve Cadieux for making this possible.

The Body and the Landscape
Galerie Lilian Rodriguez
372, St. Catherine Street West
The Belgo Building, 4th Floor
March 2nd - April 3rd
Opening reception on Saturday, March 2nd from 2-5pm

Tema Stauffer / Artist Talk
Concordia University Fine Arts
1515 St. Catherine W.  
EV. 3-655
Thursday, February 28th, 1:30pm

PAUSE at Foley Gallery

Eva Fazarri from All That Remains 

Foley Gallery presents a week-long group exhibition of photographs by six artists who graduated from Pratt: Eva Fazzari, Peter Riesett, Rachel Longosch, Austin Nelson, I-Hsuen Chen, and Liang-pin Tsao. According to Allen Frame, these six photographers "stalk the space of nowhere, anywhere, and somewhere and arrive 'here' in the eerie calm of Pause, their exhibition of photographs depicting lives and landscapes on hold, barren, bleak, forgotten, anonymous, abandoned, and random.  Their views of the world are rooted in memory and marked by transience.  They are travelers poking into voids, looking at emptiness, examining the anxiety of unresolved questions.  The artists are melancholic progeny, gazing at the family tree after it's been chopped down, and unfolding maps to forgotten places."

The exhibition includes selections from I-Hsuen Chen's Nowhere in Taiwan series that was featured in Culturehall's New Artists Feature, Winter 2012.

Pause
Foley Galley
97 Allen Street, New York, NY
February 26 - March 3rd
Reception on Wednesday, February 27th, 6-8pm

Laumont News

Thank you to Laumont Photographics for mentioning some news about my work on their blog: Laumont News.  I've had the pleasure of working with an outstanding printer, Keith Thomas, on all of my exhibition digital c-prints since 2008.  I'm happy to recommend his work and Laumont's services to photographers who are interested in more information.

NEW YEAR / NEW WEB SITE

Happy new year to all!  Please find my photographs, essays about my work, press and interviews, curation and writing, and news at: temastauffer.com

White Horse at Sasha Wolf

I'm just getting home from a trip to Sasha Wolf Gallery where White Horse is currently on view in a group exhibition of gallery artists and friends celebrating the opening of Sasha's gorgeous new space. Please stop by the gallery at 70 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side to see work by Elinor Carucci, Peter Kayafas, Tribble & Macenido, Paul McDonough, Greg Miller, David Nadel, Matthew Pillsbury, Katherine Wolkoff, and myself through January 13th, 2013.

The Photographer Discloses: Tema and The Silk City

Photographer Abigail Smithson and I recently met at Atlas Cafe in Brooklyn to discuss my Paterson project.  The interview is included in a series of interviews with photographers on her blog, The Photographer Discloses.  Please see: Tema Stauffer and The Silk City 

Ramapo College Artist Talk, Tuesday, Dec. 4th

Looking at the Land on NPR's The Picture Show

NPR's photo blog (the picture show) highlights Looking at the Land, a Web exhibit curated by Andy Adams for the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design featuring work by contemporary photographers depicting the American landscape.  Looking at the Land has also been reviewed on PHOTO/arts Magazine, American Photo Magazine, New Landscape Photography, n j w v, Time Magazine's Lightbox, and Fototazo, among other sites.

Visionarios Magazine

Selections from American Stills are featured in Visionarios Magazine Issue I - a digital arts, culture, and fashion magazine edited by Jacopo Manfren from Milan celebrating analog photography.

The Photo Review: Best of Show

A large print of my portrait of Cathy in Paterson is exhibited for the first time in an exhibition opening this week at the University of the Arts Gallery 1401 in Philadelphia and on view through December 7th.

According to the gallery's site: "Best in Show" is the annual collaborative effort between the Photography department at the University of the Arts and The Photo Review, an independent journal of photography founded it 1976.  This annual exhibition gives the public the opportunity to view the juried work featured in The Photo Review's 2012 competition issue.

This year's show features a diverse collection of prize-winning work by 16 photographers, including Lesley Krane (First Prize), Soohyun Kim (Second Prize), Tema Stauffer (Third Prize), Willard Pate (Fourth Prize), Andrew Frost (Fifth Prize), Justin Fiset (Sixth Prize) Andrew Zimmermann (Seventh Prize), Catherine Hennessy (Eighth Prize), Yoko Ikeda (Ninth Prize), Horacio Devoto (Tenth Prize), Richard K. Kent (Honorable Mention), Rylan Steele (Honorable Mention) and Adam Wiseman (Honorable Mention).

The 2012 competition was juried by Peter Barberie, the Brodsky Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and curator of recent exhibitions on Zoe Strauss and Mark Cohen.

Girls Who Smoke Fall 2012 Screenings

Tawny Foskett's short film, Girls Who Smoke, will screen this weekend in the Bluestocking Film Series at the St. Lawrence Arts Center in Portland, Maine. The film series features 5 shorts directed by women, and Tawny and I are driving to Maine for the screening on Sunday, October 28th.

After another screening in the Sandpoint Film Festival in Idaho on Saturday, November 3rd, Girls Who Smoke will premiere in NYC in the Big Apple Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas on Wednesday, November 14th.  Advance tickets for the 9:50 - 11pm program can be purchased from the Big Apple Film Fest Program Guide.

Collarbones Magazine Issue 1

The first issue of Collarbones Magazine is live and includes my collaboration with Allison Browning, a poet based in Melbourne. Curated and edited by Xesfigi Maria, this online issue contains photographs and writing by international artists reflecting on the subject of intimacy. Allison's poems are shown in relation to photographs from my American Stills series on pages 150 - 153 of the magazine - the first collaboration to come from nearly three years of exchanging images, stories, and personal thoughts between the United States and Australia.

2012 WIP - LTI/Lightside Individual Project Grant Recipient

I recently received the 2012 WIP - LTI/Lightside Individual Project Grant for my project, Paterson, a series of documentary portraits depicting residents of Paterson, NJ during the years following the economic crisis in 2008.  Many thanks to those who have supported the project thus far.

Thank you to Humble Arts Foundation and Women in Photography for creating and promoting this platform and opportunity for women working in photography.  In March 2008, I participated in a panel discussion on women in photography with Cara Phillips and others facilitated by Humble Arts Foundation.  It's been amazing to witness the evolution of a website inspired by that discussion and how significantly it has contributed to increasing exposure and recognition for women working in photography.  As someone who also curates and writes for an arts site, I appreciate the commitment it takes to keep these projects alive, so thank you to these two talented photographers and WIP's co-founders, Cara Phillips and Amy Elkins, for their dedication.

Thank you to Jeffrey Kane and LTI-Lightside Photographic Services for sponsoring four years of this unique grant.

Thank you to this year's juror Sasha Wolf - the owner and director of an exceptional gallery - and a great supporter of women working in photography.  I met Sasha at her gallery in the spring of 2009 when she hosted two exhibitions curated by Nymphoto, a collective of women photographers. I've deeply felt Sasha's encouragement of my own work and gained enormous respect for her vision and her relationships with artists and the arts community.  I'm truly honored that Sasha has recognized the Paterson series for this grant.

Thank you to my family, always, for their love and their support of my creative life and bearing with me through the ups and downs. Thank you also to my friends and to Tawny for sharing stories and images and for inspiring me with her creativity and passion.

My deepest thanks to the many people in Paterson who have shared part of themselves and their experiences to make this project exist. I began taking pictures in Paterson on a fall afternoon in November 2009, and have made since more than fifty trips to the city and walked countless miles through its downtown streets looking for people with whom I might create a connection.  I have photographed over a hundred subjects and, in some cases, listened to stories about financial hardship, unemployment, homelessness, addiction, and depression. And, in other cases, their stories have been less fraught with these struggles. In every encounter, I've appreciated the willingness of these subjects to make the human connection that is the essence of these portraits.

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013

I'm honored to share the incredible news that my portrait of Cathy on Market Street in Paterson was chosen for inclusion in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 exhibition on view at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery from March 23, 2013 through February 23, 2014.  My deep thanks to the competition jurors - Brandon Fortune, Peter Frank, Hung Liu, Richard J. Powell, Alec Soth, Wendy Wick Reaves, and Dorothy Moss - for recognizing this work.  Thank you to Cathy and all of those in Paterson who have participated in this street portrait series during the past three years.

TEDx / Ideas Worth Spreading in Your Classroom

PDNedu's Fall 2012 issue is now live, including my article covering TEDx events at universities and highlighting TED talks by contemporary photographers with information about creating TEDx events in your own communities.

Please see: TEDx / Ideas Worth Spreading in Your Classroom 

Trois x Trois = 9 Inspirations

My cross-continental kindred spirit, photographer Pauline Magnenat, who recently curated Culturehall Feature Issue 88: TOGETHER, ALWAYS, has created a new web project. Trois x Trois asks artists to share 9 things that have recently inspired their creative lives, and I was happy to be invited by Pauline to mention some books, films, and an organization that have made an impression on me.

A short list of inspirations:  Trois x Troix / Tema Stauffer

Beasts of the Southern Wild, a feature-length film directed by Behn Zeitlin
Girls Who Smoke, a short film directed and co-produced by Tawny Foskett
Bill Cunningham, New York, a documentary directed by Richard Press and produced by Philip Gefter
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a novel by Junot Diaz
The Chronology of Water, a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, a biography by Linda Gordon
The Ongoing Moment, writing on photography by Geoff Dyer
Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photography, a book edited by Tate exhibition curators Emma Dexter and Thomas Weksi
The Duke Center for Documentary Studies, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to documentary arts

culturehall feature 90: NEW ARTISTS FEATURE, SUMMER 2012

Congratulations to the artists whose work was selected for culturehall's New Artists Feature, Summer 2012: Casey James Wilson, Heather M. O'Brien, Sarah J. Tortora, and Goseong Choi.

The next call for applications opens mid-September.

The Photo Review Competition 2012

Cathy, Market Street, Paterson, NJ, 2011

I'm happy to announce that my portrait of Cathy on Market Street in Paterson received Third Prize in The Photo Review Competition 2012 juried by Peter Barberie, Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The portrait will be included in an exhibition this fall along with the other prize-winning photographs at Philadelphia's University of the Arts Gallery 1401. Thank you to Peter Barberie, Photo Review Editor Stephen Perloff, and Richard Newman at Calumet Photographs for supporting the competition and contributing prizes.

This same portrait is also currently a semi-finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 through the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, decision pending later this fall.

Both the portrait of Cathy and another subject in the Paterson series, Jorge, will be published in The Photo Review Competition issue this winter.


Jorge, Main Street, Paterson, NJ, 2011

The White Album

Album, Magazine für Fotografie, a bi-annual publication curated and produced by photographers, recently released an intriguing third issue in print, The White Album. The issue presents work by international photographers who approach ideas of disappearance.

The white, the erased, the disap­pearing, the disin­te­gra­ting, the scat­tered, the neboulsly shape­less, the dissol­ving, the outs­hined, the invi­sible, the not yet visible, the minimal, the rudi­men­tary, the dimi­nished, the disguised, the inde­pic­table, the long forgotten, the lost.

Works by:
Ben Alper, Viktoria Binschtok, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Ezio D’Agostino, Goekhan Erdogan, Altan Eskin, Nicolai Howalt, Daniel Müller-Jansen, Jim Reed, Simone Schulz, Eva Stenram and Stephan Tillmans

Essays by:
Jon Feinstein, Sandra Groll, Kristina Lykke Hansen, Jule Hillgärtner, Christian Janecke, Christof Maul, Lars Mextorf, Walter Benn Michaels, Marc Ries and Philippa Snow

Album is published by Victor Balko, Oliver Dignal, Stefan Stark, and the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design.

Size: 40 × 57 cm, 32 pages
Print: Web offset, 4 colors on newsprint
Edition: 1500 copies English / 1500 copies German

Today's Flak Photo

Car Skeletons, Highway 163, Arizona, 2008 is featured today in Flak Photo's Collection thanks to editor and publisher Andy Adams. Andy is currently producing a digital exhibition of 21st Century American landscape views in conjunction with a show curated by Jan Howard at The RISD Museum of Art opening on September 20th, America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 - Now.

For more information about Flak Photo's project and submitting images for consideration, please see: Looking at the Land - 21st Century American Views: A Collaboration with The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.

Brandi

Brandi
Straight Street
Paterson, NJ
June 2012

Chris

Chris
Washington Street
Paterson, NJ
May 2012

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT curated by David Andrew Frey

June 28 – August 3, 2012

Opening Reception Thursday, June 28, 6 – 8pm — numberthirtyfive gallery
141 Attorney Street (between Stanton and Rivington), New York

Culturehall 4th birthday after party — 151
151 Rivington Street, (between Suffolk and Clinton), New York

This summer, Culturehall is pleased to join numberthirtyfive gallery in New York to present Hidden in Plain Sight, an exhibition presenting the work of Jon Bocksel, Joy Drury Cox, Stephanie Prussin, and Elliott Wright. Curated by David Andrew Frey, the selected artworks explore foundational systems that shape the everyday but which largely remain invisible through ubiquitousness.

Artists participating in the exhibition are featured members of Culturehall, an online resource for contemporary art. Additional images and information regarding the artists are available online through their Culturehall portfolios.

Numberthirtyfive is located at 141 Attorney Street between Stanton and Rivington on the Lower East Side in New York City. Summer gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 12 - 6 pm and by appointment. Please contact Brad Silk or Cindy Rucker at 212.388.9311 or info@numberthirtyfive.com for more information.