One of my entries for this year's BLUE exhibit was juried into the show! BLUE is Cambridge Art Association's annual open competition (it rotates with RED every other year).
The accepted piece is Windshield and Hillside in Infrared Light, Cleator, AZ.
It's a view from within an abandoned pick-up truck looking out onto a ghost town in one of my favorite parts of the world, the American Southwest.
There's something wonderful about the Southwest. The climate preserves old, discarded objects. The light has a delicate, beautiful quality that makes just about everything look better. And, of course, there are the bullet holes.
I don't know if someone just wanted to make sure that this pickup was really dead or what, but I'm glad they did.
I hope you'll join me at the BLUE reception. Details are available on the FaceBook page for Andrew Child Photography. You don't need a FaceBook account to view the invitation. If you do have one, though, send me a friend request!
The annual ArtSpace Open Studios are October 4th and 5th this year. I hope you'll drop by my basement studio (20-S) and check-out some of the pieces from my recent exhibition of infrared photography. I may also have a few new prints, including shots of a shipwreck at Newcombe Hollow on Cape Cod.
Here are the details:
Date / Time: October 4 & 5, 12 pm - 5 pm Location:ArtSpace Maynard, 63 Summer Street, Maynard, MA Directions:Available on Google Maps
The MS Challenge Walk was last weekend. Beautiful - but rainy - Cape Cod for fifty miles over three days. I photographed the event for the sixth consecutive year and, as always, had a wonderful time. I've tried something new this year and posted three albums to my Facebook page:
Friday - Hyannis to the Cape Cod Sea Camps in Brewster Saturday - Cape Cod Rail Trail Sunday - Sea Camps to Nathanial Wixon School
You don't need a Facebook account to view the albums. If you have one, though, send me a friend invite!
So if I was a kid again and had one of those what-I-did-during-my-Summer essays, it would go something like this...
I spent a week in Rockport, ME at the Maine Media Workshops taking Joyce Tenneson's workshop on creating photographic books.
Joyce Tenneson is one of my all-time favorite photographers. She describes her work as beauty photography, but that's sort of like describing what Michael Phelps does as swimming quickly. I've been interested in taking one of her workshops for years and jumped at the chance this summer when a workshop came along at a time that fit into my schedule.
Joyce Tenneson, courtesy of Enid Bloch
The workshop was a hands-on week of learning, doing, eating and trying to sleep a little. Here's a photograph of me in front of my laptop by fellow student Enid Bloch.
the author by Enid Bloch
Enid caught me in a rare moment when I wasn't staring into the screen bleary-eyed. I credit three travel mugs worth of coffee and Enid's photographic expertise with my apparent alertness.
crit session courtesy of Don Albrecht
The week culminated in crit sessions of book mock-ups that we created in class. I'll probably have more to say more about that in a future post.
Friends have asked me what I thought of scenic Rockport, Maine. I'm guessing it's pretty nice but, to be honest, didn't see much of it except the classroom where we met every day. I did manage to sneak out for a couple of early-morning walks, though, and saw...
I am delighted to announce a solo exhibition of my color infrared photography now hanging at the Acton Memorial Library through August 28th.
Spanish Horse Farm
This exhibition includes several full-color, infrared panoramas on display to the public for the first time as well as a number of photographs taken locally (Acton, Stow, Concord, Harvard and Boston).
A reception will be held at the library in two weeks:
Date: Wednesday, July 30 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Location: Acton Memorial Library, 486 Main St. (Rte. 27) in Acton, MA
The floor is littered with scraps of foam board, mat board, and bits of canvas strips. The safety goggles are out, sectional frames are – well – sectional still, and the music's cranked to loud.
The Faces and Voices of Autism traveling exhibition is on the road – somewhere in California, last I heard.
Portrait of Rossi from Faces and Voices of Autism
Meanwhile, it's been recognized a little closer to home. The New England Society for Healthcare Communications (NESHCo, for the acronymly inclined) awarded Faces and Voices a best-in-category (Public Relations Projects) Gold award during its annual Lamplighter awards last month.
The Lamplighters are especially notable because they evaluate not just communication, but also outcome. When we (May Institute, the National Autism Center, and Andrew Child Photography) set-out to turn a body of work into an exhibition two years ago we approached it with a communication strategy. Rather than pulling together a group of attractive photographs, we identified the target audience groups and key messages we wanted to address. Among the groups were legislators, professionals who work in special needs fields, and the general public. One of the key goals was simply to make autism personal – to move people in a deeper and more meaningful way than facts and statistics can alone.
Faces and Voices of Autism at Boston's Prudential Center
What makes the Lamplighter Gold award especially gratifying is the peer acknowledgement that we hit our mark, scoring 98 out of a possible 100.
One of my photographs has been accepted into Cambridge Art Association's annual Northeast Prize Show. Whitney Heavy, who also has a studio in my building, describes it well in her blog.
The reception is Friday, May 30th, 6-8 pm. I'll be there!
I'd embed an image of the photograph but... it's the same one I wrote about (and embedded) in this blog just last week. So scroll down.
I'm sitting in a portfolio review yesterday morning, chatting with James Hull, when I pull out an infrared panorama of a cabin in Harvard, MA. He pauses then excitedly says, "Wait, I've seen that photo before!"
Turns-out that he almost accepted it into the CAA Interiors/Exteriors show that he juried last month. Ummm, small world.
It was one of those moments that could have slipped into awkward silence. Instead, we just eased into a conversation about the merits of saturation, printing on canvas, and explaining how I make my infrared photographs.
And, as much as I'd like to be resentful about not having a piece accepted for exhibition, I found James to be both charming and very helpful. Guess I'll have to find another chip to put on my shoulder. :-)
A water crock, actually, and it's the newest addition to my studio.
I've been looking for an alternative to all the bottled water I drink but didn't want a full-blown water cooler. I eventually came across this crock on the web and ordered it. When it arrived, I became more than a little enamored with its shape. There's something I like about all the intersecting curves that seem to echo one another.
Faces and Voices of Autism is now in its last couple of days on Capitol Hill. I've returned to my studio in Massachusetts (a team from May Institute will break down the exhibition tomorrow afternoon) and thought I'd post a few photos from the venue.
This corner of the Russell Senate Office Building houses the rotunda – and the exhibition.
Senator Kennedy toured the exhibition Tuesday afternoon and spoke with us for a few minutes. Shown here (left to right) are Juanita Class, Heidi Howard and Abbey Maney of May Institute meeting the Senator.
We were also joined by Karen Driscoll (center) who is a Marine Corps spouse and mother of a child with autism.
Karen and Heidi chatting with members of Senator Kennedy's staff.
The Russell Rotunda viewed from a third-floor balcony.
The Faces and Voices of Autism Photo Exhibition made its way to the US Senate Russell Rotunda today and will be on display through Friday. I was awake at 4:30 this morning to clear security and start setting the display up. I'm running on adrenalin at the moment but will post a few photos before nodding-off...
Juanita Class (left) and Abbey Maney (right) from May Institute met me at the security check and did much of the work. Special thanks to Nathanial and Evan from Senator Kerry's office for their help, as well.
I will be working with staff members of May Institute and the National Autism Center to set-up the exhibition Monday morning and plan to remain in Washington for a couple of days.
If you are in the area and would like to see the show, I hope you can schedule your visit for a time when I am around. I will be attending the show during the following hours:
Monday, April 21, 12pm - 4pm Tuesday, April 22, 12pm - 4pm
Dates: April 21-25, 2008 Viewing Hours: 7am - 7pm Location: Russell Rotunda, Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
I expect there will be some sort of reception or event surrounding the exhibition. If you'd like an update then subscribe to this blog or just send me an email <AC@AndrewChildPhotography.com>.
I am a freelance photographer based in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. My specialty is environmental portraiture – small windows that I open into the lives of my subjects. I work primarily with natural light, unadorned settings, and a genuine, direct approach.
The result is photography that conveys a sense of authenticity for the corporate, healthcare and educational clients I serve. Much of my work involves individuals with special needs. Among my subjects are children with autism, children with brain and spinal injuries, and adults with persistent mental illness. I have a low-key, unobtrusive approach combined with a sense of respect for every person I photograph. The body of work which has emerged includes a traveling exhibit, Faces and Voices of Autism.
I also have a unique niche in color, infrared photography. Oriented toward fine art display, these pictures have been described in the Boston Globe as vivid and energetic with "an attitude about acceptance of change that's actually rather Zen – Technicolor Zen."
I hope you'll look around my site and contact me the next time you need a photographer.
I am a freelance photographer based in suburban Boston. My specialty is environmental portraiture – small windows that I open into the lives of my subjects.
Much of my work involves individuals with special needs. I have a low-key, unobtrusive approach combined with a sense of respect for every person I photograph. The body of work that has emerged includes a traveling exhibit, Faces and Voices of Autism.
I also have a fine art niche in color, infrared photography and panoramas.
