Last weekend was the 621 Gallery Board retreat. Not only did I get sunburned at the beach but I also became the Vice President of the not-for-profit gallery. Fantastic!

I also heard that one of my images made it into the Southern Places, Southern Faces juried exhibition put on by SlowExposures in Concord, GA. It may sound like some little town’s show but I want you to check out the jurors. Julian Cox and Debbie Fleming Caffery! It all clicked in my head tonight and I must confess to some jumping up and down ecstatically. By the way, this is the image that got in.

“untitled” no. 3301
16×24 digital C-print

You can hardly tell online that there’s a few tiles beginning to fall off the wall. What you don’t notice until you are face to face with the print is that the photo on the newspaper is of the Twin Towers and states ‘Unhappy Anniversary.’

The current show at the High, ‘New Photography,’ is phenomenal! Really fantastic! Angela West has Cibachrome prints of her hometown in north GA. And, dear lord, are they beautiful! They have a mirror like finish and feel as though there’s a light glowing within them. Pretty much you stand in front of a massive one and drool. Taryn Simon‘s work was fascinating as usual. The artist photographs wrongly imprisoned but now free men in the spot of their alleged crime. Theatrical and clever with stunning quality. Julian Cox, the curator for this show, is obviously a force to be reckoned with. He’s been at The High as the Curator of Photography for a bit over a year. This exhibition of these 4 artists took up the entire second story floor of the new wing. It honestly felt as if each person had their own solo show. The 4 (2 from Atlanta and 2 from New York, all famed) bodies worked together amazingly well. If you’d like to read more then click here. If you’re in the area then you should stop by. And you should also check out Nan Goldin’s Cookie Mueller portfolio which was donated to the High earlier this year.