STIRRING THE FIRE, MULTI MEDIA PRESENTATION EMPOWERS WOMEN

Friday Harbor, WA: On March 6, photographer and human rights activist Phil Borges will give a multimedia presentation and book signing at the San Juan Community Theatre.

IMA, the Islands Museum of Art is hosting Phil Borges’ lecture/ multimedia presentation, Stirring the Fire: a global movement to empower women and girls, as part of its Art as a Voice series at the San Juan Community Theatre.

Borges’ photography serves as a call to action and celebration of the women and girls—mostly in developing countries—who have broken through barriers of tradition and oppression to become catalysts for change in their communities. Their stories shed light on specific gender issues worldwide while revealing practical pathways for women and girls to achieve gender equality.

Empowering women has been found to be the most effective strategy for addressing poverty and building stability in the developing world. In July 2010, the UN showed its support of this concept by creating the first UN entity dedicated exclusively to gender equality and women’s empowerment. Phil Borges was selected to photograph and document the projects of UN Women Worldwide. This achievement only further legitimizes a growing conviction that the world’s women deserve the world’s attention, and investing in women is a key to solving some of the greatest global challenges we face.

For more information on the Stirring the Fire project go to www.stirringthefire.org

Adonna Khare – Jan-March 2012
Opening reception Saturday, Jan 21st 5-8pm at the new IMA location on 235 A street #5 in Friday Harbor
Adonna Khare has created a life-size, surreal animal world in a 35 foot drawing using carbon pencil and paper. The Islands Museum of Art has shipped six pieces of Adonna Khare’s artwork from Santa Monica, California to the San Juan Islands with the help of sponsors Vern Howard (King’s Market), Lang Simon (Friday Harbor House), Ned Goldsmith and Judith Dubbell.

During the winter months of January to April; the IMA will focus on school tours and education outreach coordinated with this playful art exhibit. A children’s book illustrated by Adonna will be presented along with a coloring book including drawing lessons that the IMA has created for the school tours of the exhibition.

THE ANNENBERG SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY PRESENTS DIGITAL DARKROOM, AN EXPLORATION OF ALTERED REALITIES
OPENING DECEMBER 17, 2011

EXHIBIT INCLUDES THE PHOTOGRAPHY SPACE’S FIRST 3D INSTALLATION

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 17, 2011)–The Annenberg Space for Photography is pleased to announce its next exhibit – Digital Darkroom, a group show featuring the work of 17 artists from the U.S., France and the U.K. that explores the intersection of art and technology. Digital Darkroom opens to the public in Los Angeles on December 17, 2011 and runs through May 30, 2012.

http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/future-exhibitions.asp

The exhibit features the work of: Josef Astor, Pierre Beteille, Joel Grimes, Ted Grudowski, Claudia Kunin, Chris Levine, Bonny Pierce Lhotka, Khuong Nguyen, Mike Pucher, Jean-Franc?ois Rauzier,
Martine Roch, Christopher Schneberger, Brooke Shaden, Stanley Smith, Maggie Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann and Jean-Marie Vives.

Bruce Springsteen in 3D by Ted Grudowski http://newmediaphoto.com

Their work presents altered realities using photography and digital or darkroom manipulation. Each artist is a master of different types of digital techniques: compositing highly layered imagery, working in 3D and lenticular imaging, meticulously stitching together images, using lighting in highly inventive ways, and so many others. These artists and the techniques they use are representative of a generation
of artists that are changing the way we view the world around us.

Serving as curatorial advisor is Russell Brown, a Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated and an Emmy award-winning instructor. He was instrumental in the introduction of
Adobe Photoshop in 1990, which transformed the techniques used to manipulate images. Renowned for his creative artistry and his entertaining style as a Photoshop teacher, he has helped the world’s leading photographers, publishers, art directors and artists to master techniques that enable their digital creations.

The show will present an interesting juxtaposition of young artists immersed in digital work against Jerry Uelsmann, a master of darkroom compositing techniques. The artists come from a range of backgrounds, each specializing in fine art, commercial art, portraiture, still life, fashion, architectural, or other types of photographic and illustrative expression. However, many of the artists cross genres and create their work using multiple techniques.

Wallis Annenberg, Chairman, CEO and President of the Annenberg Foundation said, ‘‘I am pleased that the Annenberg Space for Photography is showcasing the work of artists who use technology to take us to new worlds and pique our imagination.’’

Russell Brown said, ‘‘The Annenberg Space for Photography is as an exhibition space on the leading edge of technology. It is the perfect venue for this show which illustrates technology’s advancements in photography today. Collaborating on Digital Darkroom has enabled me to bring together some of my favorite artists who express the range of ways you can harness technology for art.’’

Digital Darkroom is comprised of an 80-image print show with 2-6 images contributed by each of the featured photographers. Hundreds of additional images from Digital Darkroom’s photographers will also be showcased in vivid detail on the two 14’ by 7’ high-resolution screens in the Photography Space’s Digital Gallery. The Digital Gallery will also present a 20 to 25-minute short film featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of select photographers discussing their craft, their objectives
and image-making in the 21st century. The film will include comments from Russell Brown.

The exhibition includes a 3D film shot in 5K resolution using RED EPIC cameras, presented in a specially created screening room. This film includes interviews with 3D experts and historians Ray Zone and David Kuntz, 3D artists Ted Grudowski and Christopher Schneberger, and explores how 3D artists Claudia Kunin and Mike Pucher, photograph their subjects and alter them digitally to create 3D results. Key elements of the history of stereoscopic photography are also in the 3D film.

The IRIS Nights lecture series will continue offering lectures by other photographers and notables who work in photo manipulation.

About the Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography is a cultural destination dedicated to exhibiting compelling photography.
The Space conveys a range of human experiences and serves as an expression of the philanthropic work of the
Annenberg Foundation and its Directors. The intimate environment features state-of-the-art, high-definition digital technology as well as traditional prints by some of the world’s most renowned and emerging photographers. The exhibits change twice a year. It is the first solely photographic cultural destination in the
Los Angeles area.

Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, CA 90067
Tel: 213.403.3000
www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org
Wednesday through Friday: 11 am — 6 pm, Saturday: 11 am — 7:30 pm, Sunday: 11 am — 6 pm,
closed Monday and Tuesday.
Admission is free.

Phil Borges will speak at the Photo Center Northwest in Seattle at 900 12th ave., on Friday, Oct 7th at 7 PM about his newest book: TIBET: Culture on the Edge http://philborges.com/press/Tibet-CultureOnTheEdge/

Fine art photographer, Phil Borges, uses stunning full color portraits to bring us face to face with some of the people who live in one of the most fragile environments on earth and face a rapid induction into the twenty-first century while trying to retain that which they hold most dear – their Tibetan Buddhist practice and culture. Breathtaking images of the landscape, children, farmers, monks and nomads fill the pages, along with stories of how they live, work, eat, and pray.

After fifteen years, photographer Phil Borges has returned to Tibet and discovered a land and a culture on the edge of disappearing. As Borges states in his introduction, “I couldn’t believe so much had been built so fast.” But the changes aren’t just in development, Borges also notes “…the effects of climate change are accelerating on the Tibetan Plateau. Tibet’s glaciers, which feed Asia’s major rivers and supply nearly 2 billion people with their life-giving water, are disappearing at an alarming rate. Large areas of the once-fertile land are turning to desert and the Tibetan nomads and farmers are finding it harder than ever to subsist.”

Tickets: $10, $8 members