Photomedia Center

Photomedia Center is a resource for photographers and photo appreciators. They provide support in the form of exhibition opportunities, grant resources and project coordination as well as their brand new photo magazine INSIGHT. The pilot issue of INSIGHT features work by four documentary photographers including Susana Raab. Also check out her post on our blog! Check out all their offerings at www.photomediacenter.org

Care to make a difference?

Care 2 is a global network for organizations and people that want to make a difference. With over 5 million members and rapidly growing, it encompasses all things from Green shopping to political petitions and photo sharing. Have a look at www.care2.com

The Price of Oil

Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. They are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. The Price of Oil is a project of Oil Change International which aims to raise awarness about the effects of oil dependency in various arenas of life, such as human rights, global warming and debt and poverty. Check their website for upcoming events and efforts.

PLANETWORK

Planetwork is a values based network of people and projects focused on the role that information technology can play to create an ecologically sane, socially just and truly democratic future.
Among other things, Planetwork currently hosts monthly networking forums for conscious techies and social change agents in ten cities throughout North America. Check their website for upcoming events.

New work by Susana Raab

We at Fifty Crows want to say congratulations to Susana Raab on her recent successes! Her ongoing project, "Consumed: Fast Food in the US", partially funded through a grant from the White House News Photographer's Association, the Puffin Foundation, and FujiFilm USA, was recently awarded publication in Photo District News' 2006 Photo Annual and the Photo Review's Competition issue. Susana also recently spent some time photographing day laborers in Immokalee, Florida, the center of the US tomato industry. You can see both stories on her website.

Germán Herrera, Photographic Exhibition

Center for Photographic Art
Sunset Cultural Center, suite 1
Carmel, CA 93921


T 831.625.5181




Germán Herrera's exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art is already well underway, but it continues through mid June, so there is still a chance to see it. Germán was born in mexico and has had a long career as a photographer, working in both the tradition of the street photographer and as a constructor of symbolic images. This current show is a collection of dream-like images drawing from historical fantasy, shadowed mysteries and past memory. He writes that he has discovered in his work "a self-portrait, a document and a map; myself understood as part of a whole."

BEYOND BURMA, photographs by Richard Evans

We recently were contacted by Richard Evans, a documentary photographer based in England. He wanted us to know what he had been working on, and in turn, we want you to know:
His 2005 project "Beyond Burma" is a look into the lives of Burmese refugees living in Thailand as a result of the ongoing conflict and human rights abuses in their home country. Richard worked with Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Free Burma Rangers and several other NGOs to gain access to key locations and communities. He primarily photographed the Mae La refugee camp, which is the largest of the refugee camps in Thailand. His images seek to record the lives of Burmese people as they struggle to survive without legal status, in a foreign land.

CIRCUS, photographic exhibition by Norma I. Quintana

CIRCUS

Photographs by Norma I. Qintana

May 26 - June 22, 2006

Smith Andersen North
2240A Fourth Street
San Rafael, CA 94901

T 415 455 9733

Norma I. Quintana is a photographer and educator working in the tradition of social documentary. Quintana has two extensive and ongoing pictorial bodies of work: the first, CIRCUS, chronicles the life of a traveling one-ring circus; and the second, FORGET ME NOT, is a series of portraits that artfully displays the layered complexities of her California community.

For CIRCUS, Quintana has spent over 8 years following and photographing the circus, earning the trust and respect of her subjects. Her photographs are not flash-frozen images but a loving history of an extended family, of another way of living in the world. The San Jose Mercury News said that Quintana’s photography of CIRCUS “demonstrates an unflinching eye for humanity’s imperfections, an awed respect for the strength to be an outsider and an appreciation of the vulnerability that joins all humanity”

Quintana works solely in black-and-white and uses only available light. She creates dark, rich, masterful photographs with an ageless, classic purity. Collaboration is essential to her process. The images, Quintana insists, would not be possible without her subjects’ willingness to reveal themselves. She has exhibited widely including Penn State University, American University Museum. She is in demand for exhibitions, lectures and artist residencies around the country.