Where to begin? It’s easiest to do in chronological order.
So…
I’m happy to report that this past fall I started teaching again in SVA’s Graphic Design and Advertising Department. The class is called Digital Photography For Designers and it’s an interesting, fun class. Although design students work with photographs all the time, they don’t know a whole lot about photography. So I’m there to teach them.
Then what? I now have a new and different connection to Asia. I was recently a judge for the Clebus Photo Contest in Korea and will also be on judging panel in April for the 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia Awards for Editorial Excellence. These are equivalents to the Pulitzers the highest accolade for the publishing industry in the region, honoring the very best journalism that it has to offer. 
. Cool.
Next up, SVA and I are busy recruiting participants for the three-week Digital Photography Residency in Shanghai that I’m leading from June 26th to July 17th. An extra-added attraction is that Shanghai Expo will be going on while we’re there. The program will be a fantastic opportunity for participants, with lots of networking options and portfolio reviews with prominent members of Shanghai's photography community, as well as many chances to explore this amazing city. The residency is open to those who have had at least two years of photography education and we are setting the bar high in terms of the quality of work residents will be expected to produce.
While the workshop is run by SVA, the program is not just geared to students or alumni of the school but also to participants of varying ages, areas of expertise and nationalities. If you know of anyone who’d be interested, please pass this information on. There’s more information on line at
There’s a good possibility that I’ll be doing new installations of Home/Body Imaging, the installation/performance/photography piece I did for HomeBase IV last spring. They’ll be in Beijing and/or Shanghai. More information once dates and venues are decided.
And there’s more. I’ll be doing a 3-day photo workshop at Sabanci University in Istanbul this March.
Sabanci is one of the top rated private universities in Turkey and I’ll be working with the Visual Art and Communication Design program. Since Turkey is a place I’ve long wanted to visit, I happily adding a week on to my trip to poke around. I always view it as a good thing when someone pays you to travel.
And more still. On March 18th (and a few days after I get back from Turkey) I’ll be giving a talk on my work for the New York Camera Club. It will be at 7pm
At the SVA Amphitheatre (209 E. 23rd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues on the 3rd Floor). For more information: . Please come if you’re in town.
Last but not least, I’m going to have an article in the premier edition of the new Trans-Asian Photography Review . The journal’s
Mission is to offer “a forum in which a nuanced, detailed history of Asian photography can be articulated, and in which contemporary works can be assessed in historical and cultural context.” My piece on Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing comes out of my residency there in the summer of 2008. And there you have it. If you have any questions or comments, I would, of course, welcome hearing from you.
