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Happy Holidays

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:14:00 +0000

Wonderful holidays and a fantastic new year 2010 to all of you.

I"m in Australia at the moment, enjoying the summer, the sun and the surf.

I will be back home middle of January. Sorry for not being able to respond to emails at the moment. I will get in touch with you when I"m back at home.

Have a great time and see you in 2010.

Two Way Lens and Scott Pasfield

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:47:00 +0000

Two Way Lens proudly presents Scott Pasfield

I am very happy and excited that I could add another wonderful photographer to my project.

I really love Scott's work. His current project Gay America is made with so much love and passion and is one of the best I've seen in the last year.

He is not only a great photographer but also a very nice guy.

Read Scott's answers to my questions here.

Make sure to visit also his website. You will find lots of other fantastic projects there.

John Waters, Director, NYC

from the series Adscapes

from the series Adscapes

from the series Moonlapse

Gerry Ginsberg, Poet and Composer, New York

copyright all images, Scott Pasfield

Daylight Magazine

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:56:00 +0000

Daylight Magazine is a New York State based Photography Magazine dedicated to publishing in-depth photographic essays on important issues of the day.

There are free monthly multimedia podcasts and a print edition and they also run a blog with exhibition and book reviews and opportunities for emerging photographers.

Please check it out. It's really a fantastic resource for everyone interested in photography.

Yaakov Israel

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:56:00 +0000

Yaakov Israel is a photographer from Israel.

He just finished his newest project "The Quest For The Man On The White Donkey" which deals with the Israeli social-political landscape

It was done between 2002 and 2009, mainly with a 8 x 10 camera.

I like his project a lot. Here is an excerpt from his statement:

The “Quest” is an attempt to relay a personal take to the Israeli reality with a broader sense of belonging to the global human collectivity.

Because here the evidences of the past are so strongly intertwined with the marks of the present and the questions about our future: sometimes it is possible to see all this revealed in front of one’s eye, and all at the same time.
Part of my identity as Israeli is to question everything, not to leave anything for granted: to show the tensions that constantly exist, to convey the truth behind the construction of the reality.

Religious, social aspects filter into everyday life and their meanings are exposed as the journey moves on. Jewish missionaries, lost souls and individuals living in the fringes of the society: all blends in to form this landscape of humanity.

all images below are from the series The Quest For The Man On The White Donkey

Michael Werner Plus

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Michael Werner Plus, my second website, where I show work which does not really fit so well to my main website, has been totally redesigned and updated with some projects who were originally on my main site. So I shifted some things over and added some other things new to it.

Please check it out and as always, comments are welcome!

Paris Photo

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:36:00 +0000

Paris Photo, the world's leading event for photography is about to start on November 19.

There is so much great photography to see and discover.

Robert Morat Gallery from Hamburg, booth No. A 15 will show a selection of photographs from Jessica Backhaus' project What Still Remains. If you are lucky, you can meet Jessica at Robert Morat's booth.

At the same booth Andrew Phelps will sign his new book Not Niigata on Saturday, November 21 at 4 p.m.

Paris Photo, 19 - 22 November, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

World Identity Lab

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:11:00 +0000

Albert Handler, Anouk Rehorek and Christian Schlager are the founders of the Austrian network World Identity Lab.

It's an interesting project and worth the visit. So please check it out.

Their current project "identity sucks" is very captivating. Teenagers from around the world are talking about their live goals.

What is the world identity lab?

The world identity lab is a non-commercial experimental platform, created by moodley brand identity, that looks into different levels of what we call “identity” on a worldwide basis.
The main focus is identity as an overall theme, in its exuberant varieties. The wants and needs of people and the resulting patterns of behaviour within their specific social and cultural environment is the main area of interest. Micro- and macro identities, identity as a social role, identity as identification with a social group, identity as a summary of attributes that differentiate people from each other.

What does the world identity lab want?

The world identity lab wants to
- discover
- capture
- cross-link
- uncover and visualize

Corey Presha Print Sale

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Corey Presha has a print sale up on his new website to fund the production of new work and other projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity to do something good, for Corey to continue the production of new work and for yourself to have some great photography for your wall.

So get your credit card out and order your print today!

More info on his blog Eyes Of Artists

Dog and Bus, Blackshear, Georgia, 2008
from Simple Comforts
Archival Inkjet Print
11 x 14 in. / 27.9 x 35.6 cm
Edition of 15, Signed and numbered
$55 ppd

Untitled (California Landscape #3), 2008
from Observations I
Archival Inkjet Print
16 x 20 in. / 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 10, Signed and numbered
$85 ppd

Masters Mystery Art Show

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:43:00 +0000

And here is another great opportunity to get your work out and seen by many, many people and being included in a fantastic project.

The Masters Mystery Art Show 2009 is open for submissions now. So, do something good and donate your work and support the Florida International University MFA program.

What is the Masters Mystery Art Show:

The Masters’ Mystery Art Show taking place at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach is truly an exhibition not be missed. MMAS’s purpose is to contribute to the further development of the Florida International University MFA program. All proceeds will go the Master's program for scholarships, visiting artists, exhibitions and other projects. The MMAS is already supported by such important sponsors as Lionstone Development, The Ritz Carlton, South Beach and Regalia Vodka with key galleries, media and artists committed to its success through a high-visibility publicity campaign. Artists, Celebrities, Designers and FIU Master’s Art Students will create masterpieces on 6x9 canvas’s, signed only on the back by the artist whose name is revealed only after its $50 sale. The mystery creates an artistic “whodunit.”

PARTICIPATING CELEBRITY ARTIST:

- 2008: John Legend, Gloria Estefan , Emilio Estefan, Belkys Nerey, Lynn Martinez, NY Yankee,

Bernie Williams, Jon Secada, Jose Feliciano, Andy Garcia, The Grand Diva, Patti Labelle, and Carlos

Santana

- Past Years: Whoopi Goldberg, Rachel Ray, Rosie O’Donnell, Jose Carreras, Bernadette Peters,

Quincy Jones, Alejandro Sanz, Carlos Vives, Romero Britto, Carlos Betancourt, and Madonna’s

daughter, Lola.

The details:

The Masters Mystery Art Show takes place on Thursday December 3, from 12 p. m. to 7 p.m. at the Ritz Carlton Miami Beach, during Art Basel Miami Beach.

There could not be a better place and venue to show your work.

More details and the submission form, just click here

Two Way Lens and Tierney Gearon

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Two Way Lens proudly presents Tierney Gearon

I am excited to let you know that another outstanding photographer is added to the Two Way Lens project.

I'm a big fan of Tierney Gearon's work and when she agreed to be part of the project, I was really thrilled.

Read Tierney's answers to my questions here

Make also sure to visit Tierney's website where you will find more exciting photography and news about herself.

Untitled, from the series Mother Project

Untitled

Postcards from the Edge 2010

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:37:00 +0000

It's time to donate your work!!!

The fabulous Postcards from the Edge Benefit is open for submissions now!!!

Do something good and support Visual AIDS and your work could hang on the wall next to Nan Goldin or Jack Pierson or Jeff Koons.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
The 12th Annual Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS
Hosted by ZieherSmith in their new space at 516 West 20th Street, NYC

PREVIEW PARTY
Friday, January 8 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

BENEFIT SALE
Saturday, January 9 from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, January 10 from 12 noon – 4 p.m.

Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of over 1500 original, postcard-sized works of art by established and emerging artists. All artworks are sold for $75 each, on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until purchased. All proceeds support the work of Visual AIDS. Click HERE for more information.

If you are an Artist interested in participating, please click HERE for details and submission forms. Deadline is Thursday, December 10, 2009.

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving the legacy, because AIDS is not over. www.visualAIDS.org

New Family Trees

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:12:00 +0000

Three new Family Trees have been added to the portfolio on my website.

Bruce wrote three new wonderful poems for my images.

Check it out here

© Michael Werner and Bruce Long

in-Public

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:00:00 +0000

in-Public is a collective of photographers from around the world dedicated to Street Photography.

On their website is a lot of good work to find. For everyone interested in Street Photography a fantastic resource.

This is what they say about in-Public:

in-Public was set up in 2000 to provide a home for Street Photographers.

Our aim is to promote Street Photography and to continue to explore its possibilities, we are a non commercial collective. All the photographers featured here have been invited to show their work because they have the ability to see the unusual in the everyday and to capture the moment. The pictures remind us that, if we let it, over-familiarity can make us blind to what’s really going on in the world around us.

Check it out and browse through all the portfolios on their site.

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:46:00 +0000

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization devoted to the study, practice, and appreciation of photography in the Philadelphia region.

The organization fulfills this mission by offering educational programs, photographic exhibitions, lectures by practicing artists, and affordable access to high-end digital equipment for the creation of photographs. PPAC is a resource for both practicing artists as well as individuals interested in learning about all aspects of contemporary photography. PPAC provides needed technical services and instruction and promotes the relationships and connections that will lead to a more vibrant photography community.

The center is a great place in the greater Philadelphia area, with exhibitions, book signings, lectures and much more.

On November 5, from 7 p.m. is a lecture and book signing by Mitch Epstein , His newest book American Power will be the subject. Don't miss such a superb event!!!!

There is so much more to discover and read on their website.

Unseen - A Photographers Salon

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:28:00 +0000

Don't miss one of the best shows in New York this Fall

UNSEEN - A Photographers Salon

Unseen is an introduction to some of New York’s most promising, hard working, and creative minds in the photography field whose bold ideas, themes, and techniques work to transcend the history of photographic art.

Ruben Natal - San Miguel curated an extraordinary show with an amazing line up of fantastic photographers.

If you are in New York, make sure to see the show. The opening is October 22, 6p.m. - 8.30 p.m. at Randall Scott Gallery, 111 Front Street #204, Brooklyn

The show runs from October 22 through November 21

Scott Pasfield

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:55:00 +0000

Scott Pasfield does a lot of fantastic work, Fine Art, Assignments, Portraits and more.

His project Gay America is extraordinary. Scott traveled all over America and made portraits of out and proud gay men happily living their lives in the state they call home. To every photo belongs a short story written by the man in the photo.

I was fascinated by the project and the wonderful photos when I saw them the first time.

This project has to be a book and I would be one of the first ones to buy it.

Visit Scott's website and make sure to see also his other projects.

Alex, Seward, AK

Brent & Charlie, Loranger, LA

Ted, Peaks Island, ME

Kris, Danny & Jonathan, Quincy, MA

© all images Scott Pasfield

Good Morning America IV

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:53:00 +0000

I Love My Family, Cardwell Housing Hanau

No Smoking Cardwell Housing Hanau

Metal Cans, Cardwell Housing Hanau

© all images Michael Werner

Good Morning America III

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:40:00 +0000

Good Morning America II

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:49:00 +0000

Chi Chi's Mexican Restaurant at the former Skyline Club, Hanau

Sign Cardwell Housing

Cardwell Housing

© all images Michael Werner

Good Morning America

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:32:00 +0000

Last week I added my new series Goodnight America to my website. Goodnight America shows the former American army and housing bases in my hometown Hanau. After the last Americans left Hanau in 2008 the places once full of life are now empty and deserted.

The last few days I scanned old slides I took when the Americans were still here. They show a totally different world to now. Many memories come back when I look at the images.

Maybe it will be a short series called Good Morning America and is an introduction to the other series.

The images below are from the old slides. I will post more in the next days.

car in front of Yorkhof Kaserne, Hanau

François Kaserne Hanau

Sign Cardwell Housing Hanau

© all images Michael Werner

Two Way Lens and David Hilliard

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:39:00 +0000

Two Way Lens proudly presents David Hilliard

I am very happy and excited that I can add another wonderful photographer to my project. I am a big fan of David Hilliard's work since I saw it the first time many years ago. After I emailed David and asked him if he could imagine being part of the project, and he emailed back and said yes he would like to do it, I was really thrilled.

And here it is, the interview with David Hilliard on Two Way Lens.

Please make sure to visit David's website where you can find more fantastic work.

A must have in every photography lovers bookshelf is David's book:
David Hilliard.
Photographs by David Hilliard.
Aperture, New York, 2005. 96 pp., 50 four-color illustrations, 15x9"

you can order it here

Hulk, 2003

Looker, 2005

Ransom Turned Around, 2008

Rising, 1999

Rock Bottom, 2008

5 Cords, 2004

© all images David Hilliard

Black Sheep Pen

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:14:00 +0000

Bruce Long just launched a wonderful new project called Black Sheep Pen

He asks creative people about their creativity. What they write is just fantastic and inspiring for everyone. This is such a great project with so much wisdom and love. He started with the wonderful Jan Harrison. When I first read what Jan wrote I had tears in my eyes, because I was really touched by it.

So, make sure to read Black Sheep Pen and subscribe to it, every month you will find another creative person who writes something interesting.

Oliver Weber - La Matanza

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Oliver Weber just added a new series to his website. The series is called La Matanza and this is what Oliver writes about it:

The ritual of slaughtering a pig (Matanza) was once of great importance for the rural populations of Spain. This annual event would ensure the larder was stocked with meat for the coming year, and that the calories needed to carry out all that hard manual farm work were at hand ............. read more here

from the series La Matanza

© Oliver Weber

Two Way Lens and Tony Mendoza

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Two Way Lens proudly presents Tony Mendoza.

I am very excited to add another wonderful photographer to the Two Way Lens project.

Tony Mendoza is a Cuban-American photographer. He was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to Miami, Florida with his family in 1960. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Engineering and Harvard with a Master of Architecture, before becoming a full time photographic artist in 1973.

Mendoza has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Photography Fellowship as well as two Creative Writing fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council. His photographs have featured in many major museums.

His most famous book, Ernie, is a photographic memoir centered around a cat he encountered when he moved in to an apartment in New York City.

Mendoza is currently an instructor of photography at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Please make sure to visit Tony's website where you will find more fantastic work and projects.

His book Flowers has been published by Nazraeli Press, you can buy it here or here

all images are from Tony Mendoza's series Flowers

© all images Tony Mendoza

RIP Sparky

mail@michael-werner.com (michael werner) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:53:00 +0000

Sparky we will miss you and we will never forget you.

You are in heaven now and are looking down to us.

You were an exceptional dog and an art star and you will always be in our hearts.

SPARKY WE LOVE YOU

© Michael Werner

Please visit Sparky's Blog

and Sparky's website