Last Chance

to apply for CPW's Photography Now exhibition and Artist In Residence program.

to apply for the Joy of Giving Something's Forward Thinking Museum contest

and in the event that you're in Europe, it's your last day to get that book proposal over to your closest participating publisher for the European Publishers Award.

Here in my neck of the woods, today is also the day that you should remember to mark your calendar for the opening and talk at Newspace this Friday night and Saturday afternoon: Elizabeth Fleming (one of our esteeemed photographers) and Bryan Wolf (one of our esteemed Board Members). I'll definitely be there.

your reading list

Larissa Leclair interviews Joni Sternbach


Winning the Critical Mass book award had a huge impact on me, and really changed my life as a photographer.
- Joni Sternbach


Part two of my interviews about photographers turned publishers: this time with Richard Renaldi


after reading those, you should also take advantage of free cone day at Ben & Jerry's.

THE FUTURE / PAST OF PHOTOBOOKS

© Alec Soth

Remember back when RESOLVE and Andy Adams brought together that month long series of cross-blog discussion on THE FUTURE OF PHOTOBOOKS? Well, good discussion shouldn't die out because of an arbitrary timeline. To keep that conversation flowing, I interviewed three photographers I admire: Jason Fulford, Alec Soth, and Richard Renaldi, about the forays each of them have taken into publishing. Part one is right here on Too Much Chocolate.

PDN30

Congratulations to everyone selected for the annual Photo District News PDN30, but a super congratulations to our book award winners ALEJANDRO CARTAGENA and PETER VAN AGTMAEL and former Critical Mass Finalists MATT EICH and DEBORAH HAMON!

© Alejandro Cartagena

© Matt Eich

© Deborah Hamon

© Peter Van Agtmael

and one more...

I bet a few more will trickle in as well. busy month...

Susan Burnstine at Newspace

opening reception Friday March 5th 6-9
Artist talk Saturday March 6th at noon

And of course, one more for the To-Do list

EXPOSED: CRITICAL MASS 2009

© Dorothee Deiss

FEATURING THE WORK OF:

Jenn Ackerman, Jody Ake, Leslie Alsheimer, Jane Fulton Alt, Carl Bower, Andrea Camuto, Manuel Capurso, Alejandro Cartagena, Pelle Cass, Edmund Clark, Victor Cobo, Caleb Cole, Scott Dalton, Dorothee Deiss, Mitch Dobrowner, Jade Doskow, Ed Freeman, Lucia Ganieva, Judy Gelles, N.W. Gibbons, Toni Greaves, Jessica Todd Harper, Jessica Ingram, Mary Shannon Johnstone, Jimmy Lam, Laurie Lambrecht, David Leventi, Larry Louie, Benjamin Lowy, Simone Lueck, Sarah Malakoff, Rania Matar, Tim Matsui, Mark Menjivar, Brad Moore, Kate Orne, Ara Oshagan, Rachel Papo, Bradley Peters, Alexis Pike, Birthe Piontek, Ellen Rennard, Betsy Schneider, Peter Sibbald, Christopher Sims, Will Steacy, Serkan Taycan, David Taylor, Phillip Toledano

Guest Juror: Andy Adams , Editor/Publisher Flak Photo

Artists' Reception & Juror Lecture
Friday, March 5, 6:00-9:00 PM

593 artists entered Photolucida's Critical Mass Competition. 175 were selected after a pre-screening and voted on by 200 professional reviewers. The top fifty finalists are showcased at PCNW. Andy Adams, Editor / Publisher of FlakPhoto.com selected one intriguing image from each artist.

Lecture 7 PM: The Internet, Social Media & Photography Online, Andy Adams, FlakPhoto.com
Tickets: $6 regular, $4 PCNW members

Lecture Description: The Internet is influencing photography culture around the world: connecting international audiences to art experiences, enabling the discovery of new work and presenting never-before-seen channels of expression. The result is a collaborative community of photographers that interacts and shares their work more spontaneously than ever before.

Your To-Do List: March

Welcome to a fresh month with so much to do:

• For those of you among the low-fi photo community, our good friend Mary Ann Lynch is editing the next issue of Light Leaks magazine, "Ebb & Flow: The cycle of change." The deadline is March 13th.


• The Center for Fine Art Photography has two calls for juried shows open right now: Animalia, juried by Karen Irvine and Consumption, juried by Brian Paul Clamp. The deadline for Animalia is March 16th. Consumption is April 13th.

• Enter CPW's Photography Now 2010 Exhibition, juried this time around by Lesley A. Martin from Aperture. Deadline is March 31st.

• check out the new issue of Fraction magazine. Many of our friends are included: Jonathan Blaustein, Mary Goodwin, Liz Kuball and more...

• oh, and also check out the new issue of LensWork, featuring Loli Kantor's "There Was a Forest." Loli originally showed her work to Brooks and Maureen at our Reviews last Spring.

• for those of you in New York, Paula McCartney's Birdwatching opens this week at Klompching. Also, everyone's favorite photographer/collector/blogger/and generator of enthusiasm for all things photographic, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, has a show of his own work, Concrete Jungle, at Kris Graves Projects. Congrats Ruben! Both of these shows open Thursday night. Go ahead and call in sick for Friday now.

• check out Verve photo. Good stuff there.

• Our friend Alexa Dilworth at the Center for Documentary Studies has sure been busy. But she's about to get busier. CDS just announced that William Eggleston is going to be this year's juror for the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize. Submissions will be accepted from June 15th to September 8th.

• CDS has also partnered up with Daylight Magazine and they've both announced the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, to honor and promote talented and committed photographers, both emerging and established. The result will be a project prize, a work in project prize, and six jurors' pick prize winners, and ten honorable mentions. The jurors are folks you want to have look at your work: Vince Aletti, Darius Himes, Julie Saul, Alec Soth, Hank Willis Thomas, Jamie Wellford, Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff, Alexa Dilworth, and Courtney Reid-Eaton. Submissions will be accepted from March 15th through May 15th.