HONORABLE MENTIONS: ALLAN PEACH 'A TIP OF THE HAT FROM FANTOMAS', AMELIA BORJA 'CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT', J.J.L'HEUREUX 'SHACKELTON'S STOVE, LAURA NOEL 'GIRLHOOD DIARY' & MARTIN HOERNING 'MADEMOISELLE POISSON'
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' HONORABLE MENTIONS: ALLAN PEACH 'A TIP OF THE HAT FROM FANTOMAS',  AMELIA BORJA 'CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT', J.J.L'HEUREUX 'SHACKELTON'S STOVE, LAURA NOEL 'GIRLHOOD DIARY' & MARTIN HOERNING 'MADEMOISELLE POISSON'
A TIP OF THE HAT FROM FANTOMAS by Allan Peach
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Review by curator SameSource:
"There is much in the work of Allan Peach that captures the flavor of No Happy Accidents. 

He finds well-trodden spaces that have been oft photographed by others and creates a completely fresh, often surreal take on them.  His 
Fantômas series is well known to anyone who frequents galleries in the Los Angeles fine art world.  

This collaboration with model Kristen Sperberg never disappoints, offering cinematic vignettes that often are set within iconic architecture.  A master of exposure, Peach is careful to provide a full dynamic range within every photo he takes.  
A Tip of the Hat From Fantômas is a classical sepia-toned delight."

Allan Peach says, "I was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but moved to Lynwood, a suburb of Los Angeles, at the age of five.  I fell in love Los Angeles, when my family and I rode the Pacific Electric cars, past the Watts Towers, to downtown L.A. There, I discovered motion pictures on the screens of Broadway’s magnificent movie palaces.  These theaters were more spectacular than a five year old from Omaha could ever have imagined.

At the tender age of twelve, I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, in a first run theater in Compton, California. The audience screamed in terror at every sequence, and I bnthgbvcfleft the theater in pure emotional exhaustion. The experience changed my life. I realized that Art could send emotional shock waves through the spectator, and I was giddy. 

A few years later, I listened to a recording of Marcel Duchamp, in which he spoke of how the audience, not the artist finishes a work of Art.

An Artwork can create the deepest emotions in an Audience, and the Audience can in turn finish the work through the emotions it experiences - these ideas exploded in my mind.

I encourage audience reaction in my work, and use elements of noir, pulp illustration, silent film expressionism, and Hollywood glamour photography as a shared launching pad for what I create."

Education-

Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Loyola Marymount University

Bachelor’s Degree, Motion Picture Production, U.C.L.A.

Allan Peach Consulting, Independent Consultant, Photographer, Writer and Producer 1980-Present

Clients have included: American Society of Cinematographers, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Moving Pictures Expert Group, Apple, Inc., Henson and Associates,  ONEHope Foundation, The Sam Francis Foundation, Netune Communications, Cannon Films, Advanced Media Networks, MGM Studios, The Boeing Company, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Hamilton Galleries, Fresh Paint Gallery, actors Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams, Blum and Poe Gallery, The Brentwood Art Center, DemoGraFX and the peakPRgroup.


Career Highlights

Storytellers Las Laguna Gallery Laguna Beach 2017

Day Dreamers bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery Bergamot Station 2017

bG Anniversary Salon Exhibit bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery Bergamot Station 2017

LA Art Fair, bg Bleicher/Gorman booth, Los Angeles 2018

Gray Scale Wonderland 3, FM Gallery with bg Gallery, Hollywood 2018

Women in Music, The Fab Factory, North Hollywood 2018

Spectrum Gestalt 5 bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery Santa Monica 2018

Summer Exhibition, Duncan Miller Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica 2018

Open Source #1, Los Angleles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles 2018

Your Daily Photograph, Aug 25, 2018,www.yourdailyphotograph.com

Open Source #2, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles 2018

Open Source #3, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, 2018

Italy in Hollywood, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence, Italy, 2018-2019

Spectrum Gestalt 8 bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2019

Your Daily Photograph, June 8, 2019, www.yourdailyphotograph.com

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CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT by Amelia Borja
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Review by curator SameSource:
"Natural light and the warm reflections it offers is the unheralded star of Amelia Borja’s Curiosity Killed the Cat.  

Her doppelgänger models are positioned to take full advantage of natural lighting that underscores the contrast between them.

The prim conservative model is bathed in warm soft sunlight with a gentle gradation while the provocative temptress at her opposite is reinforced with harsh shadows with sharp edges.  All of this is accomplished without a hint of overexposure, and we are able to see just enough detail in the side/backlit faces of each character.  A bounce board was probably used for the character on the left, but if it was, it was applied in a seamless fashion."
 
Amelia Vercauteren Borja says, "My work considers the fragmented experience: the fractured relationships between body and mind, the performed self and the internal (non-performed) self- expressed through integrated mediums of photography, painting and sculpture. The photographs are performances of my-self, using the abject sculpture and painting as a symbolic object in my practice of rethinking self-portraiture. I create hyperreal parts of the body or abstract them to express the ways in which emotional experience is mediated by physical experience; and interpret trauma. Both mediums are my tools for displaying outcomes of my performances: reenacting moments where there’s dissonance between the physical and emotional, or the performed and the internal self; to underscore how the self is generally being performed to others."

Amelia Vercauteren Borja is an Queer American artist. Originally from Laramie Wyoming she now lives and works in Los Angeles California. She has created a portrait-based multidisciplinary body of work. Her drawings, photographs and sculptures are concerned with the fragmented experience, personal narrative, trauma and the body.

EDUCATION

MFA, Multidisciplinary Art ­­– Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA),

Baltimore, MD | Concentration in Critical Studies, Certificate in College Teaching of Art

BFA – University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

HONORS, AWARDS

2019

Finalist, MANIFEST Grand Jury Prize, Manifest Gallery Cincinnati,OH

2017

Best In Show, Captured Beauty Photography Exhibit
Alexandria,VA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018, Aug.: Virtual - Divided, Chameleon Gallery, virtual

2017, Oct.: The Ball and the Cross, Great White Wall Gallery, MICA, Baltimore MD

2015: Sept.: False Information, THAT Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie WY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019, March: Birthday Suit, SITE: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

2019, May: Compact Assembly, Walter Otero Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2019, June: Liberation, FX One, New York, NY

2018, Nov.: Better Luck Next Time, Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2018, May: GradShow2018, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2018, July: Master Pieces, MANIFEST Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2017: Feb.: What To Do? Resistance Art for 2017, Re-Creative Spaces, Mt. Rainier, Washington D.C.

2017: Oct.: Captured Beauty Photography Exhibition, Del Ray Artisans Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2016, Oct.: Spitting Distance, Riggs & Leidy Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2016: Feb.: Laramie Art and Music Thing, The Gryphon Theater, Laramie, WY

2015: July: Beyond Borders; Laramie Independent artists, The Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO

2015: Sept.: Tarot Project (Wands), The Mercantile, Laramie, WY

2015: Oct.: New Horizons; Laramie Independent Artists, The Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO

2014: Aug.: Pop-Up Gallery, Harts Alley, Laramie WY

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

A Gate
2018, July - Sept.: DE Connector Landside International Art Gallery - Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Airport, Baltimore, MD (Co-curator)

Laramie Independent Artists Collective

2015 - 2016: various venues, Laramie, WY (Co-Curator)

Laramie Art and Music Thing
2015 - 2016: The Gryphon Theater, Laramie WY (Art Director)

Laramie Independent Artists Collective
2015: various venues, Laramie WY (Co-Curator)

Laramie Art and Music Thing
2015: The Gryphon Theater, Laramie WY (Director)

“Pop-Up” Gallery
2014: Harts Alley, Laramie WY (Director)

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

2017: Hold You Foundation Auction, The Loft at Liz’s Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2016: Laramie Independent Artists Collective, various venues, Laramie WY

2015: Le Retour de Jacques LaRamie, (Performance of artist Wayne White), University of Wyoming, Laramie WY

2015: Laramie Tarot Project, various venues, Laramie WY

2015: Laramie Independent Artists Collective, various venues, Laramie WY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

“INPHA 7,” MANIFEST DRAWING CENTER, Cincinnati, OH, Nov. 2019.

“Commotion” Maryland Institute College of Art , Baltimore, MD, March 2017

“INPHA 5” MANIFEST DRAWING CENTER, Cincinnati, OH, Jan. 2018.


https://www.ameliavercauterenborja.com/
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SHACKTON'S STOVE by J.J. Heureux
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Review by curator SameSource:
"J.J. L’Heureux has built a name for herself internationally by photographing various aspects of life in Antarctica.  

Here she offers a theatrical, almost stage-like view of Shackelton’s Stove, the stove used by explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackelton during his multiple expeditions to the Antarctic in the early years of the twentieth century.  

This is a photo she had to go a long distance to get.  Instead of simply documenting her target, she offers us a composition shaped by natural light, immediately making a sterile subject warmer and more personal, as if we are in the moment in time when the stove was in use.  

The 17mm focal length compresses space, reinforcing the notion that any living accommodations at the end of the earth must have been quite tight, underscored by what looks to be a privacy curtain in front of a tiny sleeping area."
 
J.J. L'Heureux says, "My Sir Ernest Shackleton Hut photographs are intended to illuminate and celebrate Shackleton’s time at Cape Royds. This project is an unfinished chapter in a eighteen-year odyssey in Antarctica that contains 18 different expeditions. Like Frank Hurley, Shackleton’s expedition photographer, my first purpose was to photograph the rich environment of ice, the diversity of surprising colors, shapes and monumental sizes. Along the way a larger insight into Antarctica and its history developed. To succeed in getting to such places as Cape Royds in the Ross Sea involves a long and difficult sea voyage as well as the high probability that one will not be able to land due to conditions such as sea ice or terrible weather. Once having landed there is a long, uphill climb in icy and windy conditions past a huge Adelie Penguin colony. The small, unpainted hut is at the end of this struggle as it was for Shackleton and the men who lived there for more than a year.

Entering the hut and getting out of the constant wind and cold brought for me a sense of accomplishment. Then there is the interior of the hut itself, stacked with the supplies and equipment necessary for the original expedition to survive. They left their supplies, clothing, coffee pot on the stove and other direct statements of what was going on physically at the moment of their departure. I was immediately struck by the focal point of the hut…the stove. The stove was the sole generator of warmth and also the center of social as well as physical survival for the men. This Shackleton series is my homage and celebration to the spirit of the place."

Photographer, painter, adventurer and naturalist – these are the words that describe the artist J.J. L’Heureux. Ms. L’Heureux made her first trip to Antarctica in 2000 where she collected digital images of ice and snow for a white-on-white color field series of “landscape” paintings. During this expedition she became fascinated by the pristine environment, history and animals she discovered there. The Southern Ocean and its environs became living models for her in the wind-swept setting of the vast, fragile, icy wilderness that is Antarctica. Ms. L’Heureux would like these photos to connect the viewer to a distant region of the world they might never have the opportunity to visit. Her inspiration comes from her curiosity of the Southern Ocean and ways to engage people around the world in caring for this precious resource. Ms. L’Heureux’s goal is to convey her attraction to this fragile environment, its stark beauty and the spirit of Antarctica.

-CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut. (Catalogue)
Sun Lake Hotel Gallery, Pinghu, China.
Ferris State University, Rankin Art Gallery, Big Rapids, Michigan. (Catalogue)
2018 Jiao Tong University, University of Michigan Campus, Shanghai, China.
Museum of Art & History-Cedar, Lancaster, California. (Catalogue)
Mayborn Museum, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. (Catalogue)
Henggang International Art Gallery, Wuzhen, China.
2017 Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas. (Catalogue)
New York Hall of Science, New York, New York. (Catalogue)
Explorium, Lexington, Kentucky. (Catalogue)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 “Crocker Kingsley Exhibition,” Blue Line Arts, Roseville, California.
“Janson’s History of Art Collaborative Book Project,” Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
“What’s In Your World,” Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, California.
“All Media Exhibition 2019,” Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, California.
2018 “Memory and Perception,” Marin MOCA, Novato, California.
“Bunk,” Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, California.
“Odyssey II,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California.
“A Sense of Place,” Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
2017 “at the Museum 2017,” Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California.
“2017 At The Walker,” Walker Art Gallery, Garnett, Kansas.
“Personal Narratives,” Annenberg Beach House, Santa Monica, California.
“Wage On! Women, Art, and Money,” Ceres Gallery, New York, New York. (Catalogue)

Attended: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.
Academy of Art, San Francisco, California.
Parsons School of Design, New York, New York.
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Selected Talks & Presentations:
2019 Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
MOAH Museum:Cedar, Lancaster, California.
Sun Lake Hotel Gallery, Pinghu, China.
2018 Moorpark College, Moorpark, California.
Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles, California.
2017 Annenberg Beach House, Santa Monica, California.
2017 World Internet Conference, Wuzhen, China.
Henggang International Art Gallery, Wuzhen, China.

http://www.jjlheureux.com/

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GIRLHOOD DIARY by Laura Noel
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Review by curator SameSource:
"There is a lot about this photo that is fun and clearly was not a happy accident.  

The base layer of beads is echoed in the wraparound book cover and the blurred waterfall of additional beads.  I’ll leave it to the viewer to determine the narrative here, but the technical application is strong.

White Balance is manually set to emphasize a color shift between the foreground and the darker areas above the book, suggesting a progression that gets darker over time.  Using Canon’s veritable EF 100mm F2.8 L IS USM Macro lens, Noel gives us an image ramped all the way to f/32—an extremely unconventional use of this prime macro lens, but fully utilizing the image stabilization to give us crisp tiny beads countering the motion blur of the falling beads that is still evident at the perfectly selected 1/80s shutter."


Laura Noel says, "I am disturbed by the transient nature of life. Experience is fleeting; memory alone is not enough.
All these passing sights cry out for examination.

Making photographs is like waking up in the middle of the night from a fantastical dream and trying to write it all down before the experience fades. The complexity and beauty of the dream diminishes even as the words hit the pages of the little notebook on the nightstand. I am motivated by the inherent failure in this task. The glances keep coming and there is always too much to get down on paper before the light slips away.

Working in the studio is one small way to commit these sights to paper. Taking pictures is my nod to time’s supremacy and also a peace offering that I might elude its ravages."


Laura Noel is a photographer, bookmaker and installation artist based in Atlanta. Noel’s work often explores different ways photography can be expressed as a transformational form of language, as well as aspects of her personal history.

She was a 2015-2016 Walthall Fellow at the WonderRoot Arts Center and recipient of a 2016 Idea Capital Grant. Her work is in the collection of The High Museum of Art, The George Eastman Museum, The Ogden Museum in New Orleans, North Carolina State’s Gregg Museum of Art and Design, MOCA GA and a number of private and public collections. She received a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and a MFA in Photography with Distinction from the University of Georgia. Her prints been featured in exhibitions at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, the Contemporary American Photography exhibition at the Internationale Fototage Festival in Mannheim, Germany, Gallery 24 in Berlin, United Photo Industries in New York City, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Davis Orton Gallery in upstate New York and Gallery 1401 in Philadelphia. Her photographs have appeared on-line and in print in Photography Now, Hot Shoe (United Kingdom), Photography Quarterly, PHOTONEWS (Germany), Slate Magazine’s Behold Photo Blog, CNN Photo Blog, Lens Culture, Planet, Art News Daily, The Humble Arts Foundation, F-Stop Magazine, One One Thousand, South X Southeast, La Lettre de la Photographie, Conscientious, aCurator, Fraction Magazine and many others. In 2012, her All’s Fair series inaugurated Fall Line Press’ Free Fall series of quarterly magazines featuring the work of one photographer. Recently, Scotland’s Aglu Books published Withdrawn, a study of discarded library books. Her artist books are in the collections of the International Center of Photography library in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Savannah College of Art Design’s ACA Library of artist books, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Cleveland Art Institute, The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas and many private collections.

Recent installations include a commission, called Kaleidoscope, from Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority to convert a subway car into an art gallery, To Do at the Spruill Gallery, The Enchanted Forest of Books on the Atlanta Beltline, Give/Swap/Receive at Emory University, and The Empathy Experiment at ArtFields in the summer of 2017.

Career Highlights:
Curating a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in late 2018 called called Far From Home: Stories of Refugee Girls , which was in honor of International Day of the Girl. The exhibition included still photographs and video by several artists and two large installations, Will Tomorrow Never Come and Lost Locked that I created for the space. Other highlights include having my work chosen for inclusion in the permanent collections of the Eastman House Museum, The High Museum of Art Atlanta, The Ogden Museum, and many others.


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MADEMOISELLE POISSON by Martin Hoerning
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Review by curator SameSource:
"As circumstances would have it, the stylistically oldest photo I’m writing about is actually the youngest in the group, captured after submissions for this contest already began.  

Taking full advantage of the classic Leica look, Martin Hoerning gives us the cheeky-titled 
Mademoiselle Poisson (Miss Fish in English).  The shot is a staged moment that evokes a Parisian slice of life from Cartier-Bresson, but is taken in late 2019 while painstakingly assuring that we see something from the early-mid twentieth century, with the discontinuity of sensual nudity more appropriate to our time.  To top it off, photoshop processing was aimed at creating the flavor of a monochromatic silver halide analog print."

Dr. Martin Hoerning says, "Photopraphy is an essential part of my daily life.

I think, simplicity is key to my photographic approach.

I love black and white images.

I do not use lighting gear. I only use two lenses. 35 and 75 mm."

Hightlight in 2019: Honorable Mention Winner in  PX3 - Prix de la
Photographie Paris