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Returning Swallows...
 This summer, Napa based photographer Norma I. Quintana is embarking on an interesting project: she will accompany a group of students who were adopted from China by families in California on a trip to their homeland. During the trip Quintana will teach a black and white photography workshop as a way for these young adults to explore their identities, communities and relationship to the country they were born in. Quintana hopes to exhibit and publish some of the resulting work.
Please visit the website to learn more about this project and journey.
"Swallows are famous for their daring speed and unpredictable paths they will take in flight. Yet no matter how far they fly, they always circle back to their nests."
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Djerassi Open House This Sunday
Open Studios / Open Spaces
Sunday, July 30, 2006
1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Artist's Events Begin at 1:30 p.m.
Admission $25, Reservationsrecommendedd
(650)747-1250
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California, is having an open house and afternoon of performances and exhibits. You can see details, directions, and the list of artists on their website.
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Gaza Life - new photo essay
 Photojournalist Zoriah, has a new Photo essay featured on Warshooter. This series was shot just recently, this spring in the Gaza strip.
Here is an excerpt Zoriah's writeup:
To get as close to the people and their lives as possible, I spent one month living in an apartment, on a local's budget in the Gaza Strips most dangerous area, the Shajaiyeh neighborhood.... I believe I was able to capture certain aspects of life in Gaza that the media has missed in the past, namely the daily life of Palestinians and the destruction that surrounds them. ...To show the struggles of the people who search daily for food, medicine, education, housing and safety. The destruction shown in these photos was caused by Israeli Defense Forces. Retaliation for suicide bombings often wipe out entire neighborhoods and destroy infrastructure that thousands rely on. The mental torment of the people by Israeli Defense Forces has taken its toll and recent sanctions have created a large scale humanitarian crisis. These photos represent only a fraction of those taken during my one month stay...
Click here to see the essay www.warshooter.com.
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Photo San Francisco is coming up!
 July 21st - 23rd, 2006
Fort Mason Center
Festival Pavilion San Francisco, CA 94123 The annual Photography expo Photo San Francisco is coming up next weekend. This is a great collection of exhibits, lectures and events for Bay Area folks to take advantage of. You can find a full schedule of events and ticket prices on the Photo SF website. There will be lots to see, but here are some of the highlights:
- Magnum Photo will have an exhibit in project space D3 with a selection of vintage and contemporary prints.
- PhotoAlliance will be there with an exhibit.
- Our favorite photography bookstore Foto-grafix Books will be there.
- There will be several lectures including Steve McCurry on Saturday, and Ken Light on Sunday.
- There will be a special Seminar on Publishing the Photographic Book, put on by the Santa Fe Center for Photography.
Enjoy!
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Both Sides Now: Robert Buelteman Exhibition
 Robert Buelteman in Black and White
July 19th - August 5th, 2006
Spur Projects
888 Portola Road
Portola Valley, California 94028 650.529.2040 Info@SpurProjects.com
This exhibition is of Robert's new cameraless works executed on Black-and-White film, as well as unpublished landscapes of the American West. You can see more of Robert's work on his website.
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VU! Exhibition - 20 years of Agence VU in photos
 Retrospective exhibition of the VU photo agency,
Curated by Robert Delpire.
July 22 - September 3, 2006
Noorderlicht Photogallery
Akerhof 12 Groningen,
The Netherlands
Tues. - Sun. 11am - 6pm
Free admission
www.noorderlicht.com
The exhibition VU! is an overview of the work that 66 different photographers from the VU Agency have produced over the past twenty years. Since it was established in 1986 the renowned Paris photo agency VU has operated with an eccentric credo: it is not the photo that is central, but the photographer. This places Agence VU squarely in the tradition of the magazine from which it takes its name. VU was the first photo-illustrated magazine in France to publish work by illustrious photographers such as Man Ray, André Kertész, Robert Capa and Brassai. Follow these links to find out more about VU and this exhibition.
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Child Brides - New York Times Article
 FiftyCrows had some great news this past weekend. FiftyCrows IFDP Award Winner, Stephanie Sinclair, had her stunning new work on Child Brides in Afghanistan published in the prestigious New York Times Magazine (July 10, page 45). We are very proud of her. You can view the NY Times article and NPR coverage of the project here.
Here's what Stephanie told us: "This weekend a project very near and dear to my heart will finally be in print in the New York Times Magazine. The story is on child marriages in Afghanistan and I have been working on this more than a year. It was a grueling story to get access to. You should know that this is what I did with the grant money FiftyCrows gave me! I am not sure I would have had the courage or funds to pursue a project like this without your support. And it was so difficult and time consuming to do that there was no way I was going to get a magazine to assign me to shoot this on the idea alone..."
This is the kind of long-term support that our grants and mentoring can provide to documentary photographers who are working in the field. These important essays take dedication and perseverance to bring into public awareness. This is not spot journalism, but a sustained relationship to a story and subject that can only be told through the personal commitment that photographers, like Stephanie and so many others, are willing to make.
Most of the stories we have supported are risky, politically charged and as Stephanie notes above, not even picked up by magazines until AFTER the photographer has invested weeks, if not years, into the story.
Without your support, we in turn, cannot support these dedicated and courageous photographers. We encourage you to pledge your tax-deductible donation to help us continue this important work.
Many thanks!
Lillian Sizemore Program Director International Fund for Documentary Photography
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Rena Effendi - Newsweek Article
 Rena Effendi of Azerbaijan, was a 2004 winner of the FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography. She recently contacted us with some good news: some of her photos of St. Petersburg, Russia are featured in the current issue of Newsweek magazine in an article related to the upcoming G-8 summit. Click on this link to see the Newsweek article. You can also view her winning photo essay on our website. Congratulations Rena!
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DESERT TO DREAM - Burning Man Photo Book
 A Decade of Burning Man Photography by Barbara Traub Book Signing and Launch Party
July 14, 6-9pm, free
111 Minna Gallery 111 Minna St. @ 2nd in SF
http://111minnagallery.com
This New book is a photographic record of a decade of Burning Man celebrations - from its infancy as a performance art exhibition in the late 80's to its growth as a global, community-driven phenomenon today. Photographer Barb Traub captures the sacred and profane through photos of otherworldly artifacts, structures, and costumes that defy description. Contributions from filmmaker Les Blank, Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, Star Trek's Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy, and beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti help to illuminate Traub's unique perspective on this dynamically evolving event.
There is a book launch party tomorrow evening in San Francisco that is bound to be colorful. Images from the book are on view at www.desert2dream.com.
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Helen M. Stummer - Congratulations!
 Helen M. Stummer has been working as a social documentary photographer for over thirty years. She has worked to document the lives of minorities, particularly of the urban poor in the US and abroad.
We'd like to congratulate her on three honors she recently received for her photography:
A channel 12 television profile of Stummer's urban photography recently received the Gracie Allen Award from American Women in the Media. Stummer was also selected in the Photo Review competition and received an Honorable Mention. Finally two of Stummer's photographs were awarded Honorable mentions in the Women In Photography International "Silver Anniversary" competition, visible at the WIPI website.
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The Visionary State - Book Release Party
 THE VISIONARY STATE:
A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape
By Erik Davis, Photographs By Michael Rauner
Book release party:
Friday, July 7: 7-9:30 PM,
Pete's Cafe @ SFAI, 800 Chestnut St
readings, performance, refreshments
and music by DJ Neil Martinson.
Books will be available care of PhotoGrafix Books.
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