LAST CALL!

to get to EXPOSED: CRITICAL MASS, the exhibition of the CM2010 Top50, curated by Flak photo's Andy Adams at PCNW. If you're not able to make it to Seattle before the close of business today, you can check out Andy's installation shots here.



Thanks to Andy, Ann, and all of you who've participated. The show is exceptionally handsome and had a great turnout. Well done...

so much to share!

• if you're in NYC: the New York Photo Festival begins today!

• if you're in L.A.: Erik Boker at New Puppy gallery (in collaboration with Drkrm/gallery- I hope that stands for "darkroom")

• if you're anywhere else:

- Culturehall's 43rd issue: FACT, FICTION, FILM AND FANTASY, curated by Tema Stauffer, is out online now!

-Fraction's 14th issue is available now and features work by Brad Temkin, Hollis Bennett, and Nate Larson + Marni Shindelman, among others.

- Visura Magazine's 9th issue is now available online.

- Lens Culture's new issue is now available online.

- Jeffrey Aaronson's "Borderland" won the first quarter of the Forward Thinking Museum's JGS Photography Contest. Congratulations Jeffrey! Check it out here!


• if you're in the market: SF Camerawork's just announced their 2010 Fine Print Editions and this year's photographers include previous photolucida participants Christopher Sims and David Maisel.

• if you're in the mood: The deadline for Newspace Center for Photography's Annual Juried exhibition is coming up soon- May 22nd. The juror this year is Darren Ching!

• if you're a concerned photographer: the deadline for FFF's International Award for Concerned Photography is May 31st. Previous winners include Jessica Dimmock and Mikhael Subotzky.

• if you're a female photographer: the WIP-Lightside Individual Project Grant is opening up for entries as of June 1st. Keep checking wipnyc.org for details.

Tim Wride in Seattle

wall space and pcnw are joining forces to bring Tim Wride, former curator at LACMA, and Executive Director of No Strings Foundation to Seattle for a weekend of events celebrating photography, its artists and ideas from May 20-23rd, 2010.

Mexico in Portland, Israel in Zurich

© Livia Corona

If you're in Portland, Oregon today, avoid the Fremont Bridge (nasty traffic this morning), but get over to Blue Sky tonight for a sneak peek at Suk Kuhn Oh's "The Text Book (Chulsco & Younghee) and Livia Corona's "Enanitos Toreros." Livia, one of our Critical Mass 2008 Top 50, will be on hand to speak about her work at 6:30. First Thursday opening and book signing tomorrow from 6 to 9.

© Gabriel Benaim

If you're in Zurich, get thee to Walter Keller for Gabriel Benaim's solo exhibition "Tel Aviv at 100." Select photographs from this series are also in the current Portfolio Showcase 4: Book and online exhibition through the Center for Fine Art Photography. Juried by Kate Ware, this exhibition and physical book that you can hold in your hands, features quite a few other CM and Review participants, including Rita Maas, Jon Edwards, Nan Brown, and Ellen Rennard. Congrats all.

If you're anywhere else and can't attend these events, you should really quit wasting your time on the internet and work on your application for the Siskind Foundation's Individual Photographer's Fellowship. Deadline is May 17th.