Portfolio Reviews: A couple places to look

Want to show your work? All About photo references for you the best places to find portfolio reviews in the United States.

L'oeil de la photographie                                                                             Every weekend, The Eye of Photography dedicates itself to the portfolios of its readers. By publishing the best portfolios, the magazine enables photographers around the world to show case their photographs.

To participate, please, send to lecteurs@loeildelaphotographie.com :- A series of 12 to 15 photographs (jpg, 72dpi 1024 pixels) - A Text about the series (English and French would be appreciated)- A Short Biography - Your portrait ou self-portrait.You will be notified by email of the publication of your portfolio.

 

 

 

Monthly Portfolio reviews at the PRC

Monthly portfolio reviews at the PRC are one way that we find new talented photographers to invite to exhibit in NEO, Loupe, and our new Members Gallery at the PRC.Registration: To reserve your slot, please call the PRC at 617-975-0600 on the specified registration day. This opportunity is only available for PRC Members. A benefit of PRC membership is one portfolio review per year of membership. Reviews are offered on a first come, first serve basis.Preparing for your review Photographers who have already signed up for a review slot are required to send 4-6 jpg images (under 1mb each), a resume, and an artist statement to reviews@prcboston.org no later than the Monday prior to the review. The images should reflect the work that will be presented.Check out the website for specific dates
 

 

All About Photo

All About PhotoOpen to everyone, All year long!Send us your best images and you might have a chance to see your portfolio on All about photo.Please send us between 8 and 20 images and a link to your website at info@all-about-photo.com.
Due to the high demand it sometimes takes us a very long time to get back to you. Please be patient and good luck!






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Festival Voies Off: Portfolio Reviews

If you are in France this Summer and a photographer, do not miss a chance to show your portfolio to agents, galleries etc all gathered at Arles for the famous festival.

Between July 8 and July 11, from 3pm to 7 pm in the Cour de l'Archevêché you can show your portfolio BUT you need to register first.

Register here


Where: Cour de l'Archevêché, 
Place de la République, 
13200 Arles
When:  Du mardi 8 au vendredi 11 juillet, de 15h à 19h.
Contact : Hoelle Le Bahers – portfolios@voies-off.com - +33 4 90 96 93 82

Portfolio: Vee Speers

Vee Speers, an Australian artist, has lived and worked in Paris since 1990. After moving to Paris from Sydney, she began exhibiting her first series Bordello , followed by Parisians, The Birthday Party, Immortal, Thirteen and most recently Bulletproof, engaging viewers with the dramatic tension of her portraits and her unique pallet of colour.

 

All about photo asked her a few questions:

AAP: When did you realize you wanted to be a photographer?
I’ve always thought photography was magical as my father had his own darkroom. When I went to art school, I realized that the instant way of capturing an image suited my impatient personality.

AAP: What or who inspires you?
The cinema is a constant source of inspiration. A story is told, and the way it is filmed can transport you to another time or place. Still images can be the same.

AAP: Your best memory as a photographer?
There are so many. Every time I take a great image, I feel so excited, like everything has lined up perfectly. These are the best memories.

If you want to discover Vee Speer 's full portfolio and interview: Click Here

Portfolio: Gustavo Lacerda

Gustavo Lacerda is an incredible Brazilian photographer. His latest project "Albinos" is at Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Illinois until January 4, 2014. A monograph on Albinos should be ready soon  and we can't wait to see it!

All about photo asked him a few questions:

AAP: Where did you study photography?
I did not study photography in a formal way, at an art college. While in college I studied humanities and philosophy, studing journalism I attended several courses of photography and fine arts from the fine arts department of my university (UFMG) and I also did some workshops with great artists like Luis Gonzales Palma and Joachim Schmidt for example. But my true learning at the beginning was when I worked with a teacher's aide in the fine arts department. At this time I had free access to all photographic collection of the college. I remember that I spent my afternoons seeing all slide collection... Robert Frank, Atget, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, etcetera, etcetera... I'm also so grateful to the photographers that teached me a lot when I was an assistant.  

AAP: What or who inspires you?
Art and people in general... I appreciate diversity, I especially like Antoon Van Dyck, Vermeer, Degas, Edward Hopper, Julia Margaret Cameron, Baudelaire, Fernando Pessoa, João Guimarães Rosa, Sergei Eisenstein, Mario Peixoto, Frida Kalo, Berenice Abott, Robert Frank, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, Diane Arbus, Win Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, and so many others... 

AAP: Favorite(s) photographer(s)?
Ow, there are a lot! From the current days, Mary Ellen Mark, Stefan Ruiz, Stephan Shore, Sally Mann, Rineke Dijkstra, Alec Soth, Hiroshi Sugimoto and so many others. 

If you want to discover Eugenio Recuendo 's full portfolio and interview: Click here

Portfolio: Nicolas Dhervillers

Nicolas Dhervillers is a French photographer who is inspired by painting, theater and cinema and it shows in his work!

All about photo asked him a few questions:

How long have you been a photographer?
10 years, but not a Photographer, maybe an artist is more correct, in a way. 

What or who inspires you?
History of art in general

How could you describe your style?
It is a mix between the painting spirit (about the white page), the cinematographic light and the pose of theater.

What are your projects?
Retrospective exhibition in Netherlands.

If you want to discover Nicolas Dhervillers's full portfolio: Click here

And if you are in Paris France don't miss his solo show "Hommages" at School Gallery 81 rue du Temple 75003 Paris which starts today! More info

Retrospective: Klavdij Sluban in Paris, France

If you are in Paris don't miss the exhibition "After the darkness: Klavdij Sluban, a retrospective (1992-2012)" October 12, 2013 - January 12, 2014 at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce

Musée Nicéphore Niépce
28 quai des messageries
71100 Chalon sur Saône

Can't go? Check out his work: All about Klavdij Sluban

Portfolio: Tim Franco

Tim Franco is French-Polish photographer who lives and works in Shanghai since 2005.

His projects Vertical Communism, Spaces and Billion show the mutation of Chinese cities and the consequences of massive constructions. All about photo asked him a few questions:

When did you realize you wanted to be a photographer?
There is not a precise moment. When I was young, I loved writing stories, then my passion became music. I always wanted to share my ideas and vision of things through some mediums at the end it became photography.

How could you describe your style?
Photographers tend to be classified, put into boxes, commercial photographer, photojournalists, artists etc…. I never really know how to classify my work. What I love is telling stories, document facts with an artistic esthetic to it. I also enjoy working on creative commercial assignments. I always try to stay simple in the esthetic and subtle about the story.

An idea, a sentence, a project you would like to share?
One of the main project I worked on for the past year is about one particular city in China called Chongqing. Since 2009, I am going there quite frequently, at the beginning for some press assignments since the city have seen lot of interesting political stories and turmoils but also because it fascinates me. Both from an esthetic point of view and from its stories. This giant megapolis has been forcly populated with countryside people and has now a very hard time to deal its urbanization.

"I personally see Chongqing as a macro representation of the whole China. With its tumultuous political history and its growing social pressure for managing farmers coming into urban areas for a better life, all of it pushed by a constant need of investments and fast modernization, I wanted to portray this view of a growing china, far away from the common views of eastern cities such as shanghai or beijing. From a photographic point of view, I have decided to shoot the people in their environment. But I have decided to take a step back, using medium format film camera, I want to transmit the feeling of scales that the city and china in general is facing. Urban Scales, Social Scales, the country's biggest problem is now to find a way to link some extremes the highly rich to the very poor, the extravagant to the meaningful. Vertical Communism is a portrait of chinese a megapolis full of contradiction, trying to keep up with its unpredictable modernization."

 

Want to read more? Check out the full interview and portfolio: All about Tim Franco

Photo Contests

There are so many photo contests and portfolio reviews that it is really difficult for a photographer to find the competition that is right for him/her. We have created a listing of contests (but only the interesting ones!) on our website All about photo. If you are a professional or an amateur it is really easy to find the contests that are right for you. Furthmore, we have decided to launch a Facebook page called Photo Contests so that you can receive the latest information on your wall.

We hope it helps!

Registration for the PhotoNOLA 2013 Portfolio Reviews opens tomorrow!

Don't miss this opportunity to show your work!
All you have to do is to register online and be ready to go to New Orleans Friday, December 13 & Saturday, December 14.

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