Congrats to Arden

Arden is in the NOLA exhibition in New Orleans

078-01 Pics from New York in November

052-02.Fall 09. Class pic finally

MVP of Fall2009: Yugean Park

To see her work

FOTO FLO . Friday 12/11. 7-10pm

Please come and check out our end of the semester celebration.
FOTO FLO is affiliated with the Studio Art's ART WALK
7-10PM. ART BUILD

saturday in cleveland.

Photos from the seminar outing in Cleveland yesterday:






The rest of the photos are over at Yujean's blog.

Happy B Day to Skylar and Cubby

The kids made Birthday cards at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Polaroid coming back!!!!

Polaroid will re-launch the legendary Polaroid One Step Camera and is therefore commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a limited edition of Polaroid^® branded Instant Films in the middle of 2010.

Dear Polapremium Customer,

we can not wait another day to proudly bring you some very important news which was presented by Polaroid itself at a press conference on October 13th in Hongkong.

THE IMPOSSIBLE POLAROID

After all the difficulties and changes of ownership during the last years, the new management of Polaroid now understands the source of the brand's attraction - which is surprisingly not based in digital cameras but in Dr. Edwin Land's groundbreaking 1948 invention of Instant Photography, which he ingeniously devised and passionately developed with a lot of care and devotion.

Since 2005, it has been our honour and pleasure to celebrate and evoke the sensational and almost mysterious power of Instant Photography in memoriam of Dr. Land. Doing everything in our power to keep this beloved and unique photographic medium alive, we grabbed the chance to take over the last factory producing Instant films from the old Polaroid management and to start The Impossible Project in 2008. Re-inventing a new analog integral film, we are now preparing, supporting and managing the comeback of Instant Photography.

Accomplishing this mission and proudly owning the former Polaroid plant in Enschede (NL), as well as already holding the first working hand-coated samples in our trembling hands, we are pleased to herewith announce a history-making cooperation between The Impossible Project and Polaroid:

From Polapremium

Personae. Anthony Goicolea

Fraternal
The Recital
Dawn


Using digital , Anthony Goicolea makes spectacles of himself in different roles. Images courtesy of Arden's blog

Sam-o Draisin Rideline Photography Studio

Sam-o invited you to "Sam-o Draisin Rideline Photography Studio" today.

Event: Sam-o Draisin Rideline Photography Studio
      "Help me out with an ongoing photo project!"
What: Preview
Start Time: Today, October 11 at 9:00pm
End Time: Tomorrow, October 12 at 12:00am
Where: The Rideline Van

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=151735412686&mid=13c5adbG269b8566G2c8208cG7

Remembering Irvin Penn

Joshua Dudley Greer

While at UGA, I met Josh who is an up and coming photographer whose work entails revisiting sites where legends both real and imagined ( movies) took place. He is prolific and has done many great projects. Check out his website
Apology for the missing texts since they did not fit

Student filmmakers Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard disappeared somewhere in these woods near Burkittsville, Maryland in October 1994. The students had set out to make a documentary about a local legend known to haunt the surrounding area. One year later, badly deteriorated video and sound equipment was found belonging to the three students. The fragmented footage showed the team getting lost and growing despondent over a period of days. Mysterious events were partially recorded including the sounds of strange screaming, a collection of stick figures hanging from trees and the appearance of partial human remains outside their tent. The last frames of footage show the basement of an abandoned house located deep within the woods. Screams can be heard and the camera appears to fall to the ground. The three students are still considered missing, but are presumed dead. Seneca Creek State Park, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2009

On October 25, 1994, Susan Smith allowed her car to drift into this lake with her two sons trapped inside. The case received national attention when Smith claimed to have been carjacked by an African-American man before ultimately confessing nine days later. In 1996, two families drove to this spot to pay their respects and visit a nearby memorial that had been erected. Without warning, one of the vehicles began to drift into the lake with five passengers trapped inside. Two adults jumped in to save their children but drowned along with everyone in the car. John D. Long Lake, Near Union, South Carolina, 2006

On the night of June 23, 1993, John Wayne Bobbitt came home late after a night of drinking. John's wife Lorena was awoken by his attempts to initiate sexual intercourse but she complained about his unwillingness to allow her to orgasm and refused his advances. Falling in and out of consciousness, John then allegedly forced her to have sex. Afterwards, John passed out on the bed while Lorena went to the kitchen to get a drink of water. She noticed a large kitchen knife on the counter and with thoughts of previous abuse in her head, Lorena grabbed the knife and proceeded to the bedroom where she violently cut off more than half of John's penis.

Lorena immediately drove off with John's penis, which she threw out of her car window into this grassy area less than a mile from their home. She later gathered herself and called 911, informing authorities of the situation and the location of the penis. John, who was severely injured and bleeding, was helped by a friend to a nearby hospital. Teams of police and fire department personnel were dispatched to the scene to recover the penis and after a nine-hour surgery, John's penis was successfully reattached.

Lorena Bobbitt was tried for malicious wounding in 1994 but was found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. After his surgery, John Wayne Bobbitt made a brief living as a porn star, appearing in such films as Frankenpenis and John Wayne Bobbitt - Uncut.

Maplewood Drive and Old Centreville Rd, Manassas, Virginia, 2008

New family member

IMACON FLEXTIGHT 848 FILM SCANNER

It will be coming soon!!!! Finally a great scanner for the lab.

Class Pics

Crit days

078/01
052/01

Helen Stuhr-Romereim in Siberia

Dear friends and family,

This is my blog about Krasnoyarsk and my life here:

krasnoyarskhelen.blogspot.com

I've already got it started, but there aren't any pictures yet. I promise they are coming soon. I hope it will be interesting and you will decide to come visit me.

Love,
Helen

Color Field Trip to the State Fair in Canfeld

Fall 2009 Lab Monitors

Alex Voight

Skylar

Amina

Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light

www.richardnicholson.com

Summer 2006. Durst announces that it will no longer manufacture photographic enlargers. Sales have plummeted from a peak of 107,000 units in 1979 to just a few hundred units in recent years.

1979 was the year my father constructed a darkroom and introduced me to photography. I was immediately entranced by the printing process, and I cherished the long hours spent in this dark, silent, private space. Ever since the darkroom has been integral to my work as a photographer. But for how much longer?

Labs are closing their doors - Joe's Basement, Primary, Metro Clerkenwell, Metro Soho have all gone. Polaroid has stopped making instant film. Clients are demanding the immediate feedback of digital photography.

This project, shot on 4"x5" film, documents London's remaining professional darkrooms. It is based on my nostalgia for a dying craft (there are no young printers). It is in these rooms that printers have worked their magic, distilling the works of photographers such as David Bailey, Anton Corbijn and Nick Knight into a recognisable 'look'.

I have lit these often-gloomy spaces to reveal the beauty of the machinery; enlargers are masterpieces of industrial design. And I have sought to shed light on the surrounding personal workspaces (snapshots of family members, souvenirs from globetrotting photographers, guidebooks to Photoshop, out-takes from glamour shoots, lists of unpaid invoices).

Several of the darkrooms featured have since closed down. Others will surely follow. (The darkroom with the slogan pinned to the wall, 'I want to stay here forever', was dismantled shortly after I photographed it and is now being converted into luxury apartments.)

Since starting this project, I've become a late and reluctant convert to digital photography. I now spend less time in the darkroom and more time in front of the computer. With film I had a network of contacts across London and I felt embedded in the city. In comparison, digital feels disembodied.

I miss the darkroom's ambience, the physicality of dodging and burning, the shaping of the light.

Richard Nicholson, May 2008

I would like to thank all the printers who kindly invited me to photograph their darkrooms

Parting Shot by John Choi

A pleasant and friendly game of racketball with John

I could go on about the chairs I've seen

Senior Exhibition, 04/10/09
8pm to 10 pm. Fisher Gallery
Helen Stuhr-Rommereim & Cara Turrett

A selection of work

Kate Reeder, 2004


Rebeca Fuchs, 2004

Sam-o's Pics of the Lab , Fall 2008

From the album:
"Photo kidz and other art related things" by Sam-o Draisin

Rachel likes walking in my shot

In this photo: Gregory Wikstrom (photos), Rachel Saudek (photos), Helen Stuhr-Rommereim (photos), Yujean Park (photos)

The gang likes waiting for the color processor to finish processing their test strips so they can see what adjustments to the filters and aperture they have to make in order for their final prints to come out as aesthetically pleasing as possible (based on the quality of the negative, the age of the paper, and several other variables)!

In this photo: John Choi (photos), Caroline Casey, Skylar Sweetman (photos), Yujean Park (photos)

Fall 054 reunion

Welcome back Yujean, the Geisha Punk sitting amongst the other members of the Doctor Confucius ( Caroline, Skylar).
Taken at Saturday Brunch.

Dave Maisel Library Of Dust

Library of Dust
2005 — 2006

“. . . these canisters hold the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital. Oddly reminiscent of bullet casings, the canisters are literal gravesites. Reacting with their ash inhabitants, the canisters are now blooming with secondary minerals, articulating new metallic landscapes.”

— Geoff Manaugh, Contemporary