As part of SAJA‘s annual convention to be held from June 17-20th, 2004, we invite you to submit your best photography for our annual photo exhibit. The exhibit will be displayed during the gala dinner on June 19th at Columbia University's Lerner Hall. The slide show this year will be 10 minutes long with a special soundtrack arranged and composed by Sagar Jethani of Blue Screen Music.

Click the PDF you see to the right, for the entry form and a gist of our policies. Please adhere to these rules as it will make it easier for us to showcase your work. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2004.

If you are curious about the breadth and scope of the work submitted last year, check out this short movie:

Become a member of SAJA. Click here to see how you can quickly sign up. If you are interested in attending the conference and the various workshops, register by May 7 for the early-bird discount.

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One of my favorite documentary photographers – Eugene Richards – has an exhibit now through May 8 at the Leica Gallery in New York City. Read Vicki Goldberg's article in today's New York Times.

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Late as this post may be, it's an exhibit not to be missed (click on the link below for the NYT article). The NYTimes review mostly pans the Magnum (a premier photo agency) photo exhibit but it is nonetheless an important collection to peruse should you find yourself in NYC.

Since the exhibit runs through September 6, perhaps we could arrange a trip during the SAJA Convention. Registration for the convention is now open. Discounted (Early Bird) registration is from April 15 to May 7. Advanced registration is from May 8 to June 11. While on-site registrations may be possible, save the disappointment and register early because the SAJA convention almost always sells out!

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Twenty years ago Weston Naef, the curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum‘s photo collection in Los Angeles, established a permanent home for some very important photographs. Today, not only does he overlook the work of social documentary photographers Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange, he is also responsible for the abstract imagery that made avant-garde photographer Maholy-Nagy famous.

Now through July 25, these images and more can be seen in a show called Photographs of Genius At the Getty.

“Presenting the work of innovative photographers who profoundly influenced their contemporaries and succeeding generations of artists, this exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Museum's department of photographs. It includes selected prints by 38 major photographers whose work is held in depth by the Getty, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, and Diane Arbus. “

If you are in LA, check it out!

It has been a busy couple of weeks and my posts here on TIFFINBOX have really trickled to a few drops. I hope to change that as soon as I get a few things sorted out at work and home.

Meanwhile, I missed posting this note about IDENTITY, a photo exhibit in NYC. David Wells, a photojournalist who has spent a great deal of time in India, told me about the show. His wife Annu is one of the artists showcased.

Sepia International and The Alkazi Collection in New York presented Identity, three concurrent exhibits by photographers. Two of the three photographers have Indian roots.

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew examines “the ‘staged' photographic document and its power to reinforce cultural stereotypes.” She combines images by Edward S. Curtis and digitally altered facsimiles using her own image. According to the press release, Matthew creates fabricated pairings that explore both the notion of originality and that of identity.

Sunil Gupta‘s work represents his journeys as a gay man with HIV from his homeland in India to his adopted homes in England and Canada. Known for his diptychs, Gupta's “narrative juxtapositions explore the inherent tensions which have shaped his experience of being a gay Indian man living in the West.”

The show ran from the end of January to the middle of March this year.