The Sixth Annual “Art of Photography Show” Features a Total of Nine Series

Aug. 12, 2010 - PRLog -- San Diego, CA, August 12, 2010 -- Acclaimed judge of the Art of Photography Show, Natasha Egan, the Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, selected nine series to be featured in the exhibition. These cohesive bodies of work will be represented in this major exhibition, which features the top 111 images chosen out of 14,000 entries from 67 countries. It is expected that the show will be viewed by over 30,000 people from August 28 to November 7, 2010.

“Serving as the sole juror for the Art of Photography Show was both an immense pleasure and a daunting experience.” said Ms. Egan. “The works submitted astonished me with their range in photographic style, technique, subject matter, and ideas, and the photographs chosen for this exhibition reveal this diversity.”

Cynthia Bittenfield is among the photographers that will feature a series in the exhibition. Her series "Rowing for Shore with Sinking Ships All Around" puts a human face on the subject of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the difficulties so many US soldiers face readjusting to civilian life after returning home from a combat zone. “Rowing for Shore with Sinking Ships All Around” tells the story of Sergeant Jacob B who joined the army at age 18, was honorably discharged, then later was reactivated and deployed to Iraq. Two weeks before he was scheduled to return home, two of his best friends were killed when a roadside bomb exploded. He suffered from PTSD. After failing to receive adequate care and treatment, Jacob committed suicide at the age of 26. To view Bittenfield’s images which will be exhibited in the Show, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com/2010_series.html.

Bittenfield’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues, namely the School of Visual Arts Gallery and Broadway Gallery, both in New York City, The Print Center in Philadelphia and in the upcoming show Photography NOW 2010 at The Center for Photography at Woodstock. Bittenfield is a grant recipient from the School of Visual Arts, New York, where she received her MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media. She lives in New York City.

Another featured photographer is Tomoe Murakami for his series “Approach to Invisible”. Murakami wrote: “I want to see what is ‘further on,’ what is ‘ahead’ – hidden and invisible. But when I approach there, it disappears like a mirage. For, the moment I arrived there, that ‘ahead’ was no longer ‘ahead.’ Further, I keep looking for what is farther on, looking for what, I think, I am able to see someday.” To view Murakami’s images which will be exhibited in the Show, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com/2010_series.html.

Murakami was born in Chiba, Japan in 1980 and received a BA in Art and Literature from Waseda University in 2004. Currently, he is a research associate at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Photography Center and resides in Tokyo.

Other photographers with series in the exhibition include: Francesca Bontempi, Marcus Buck, Maury Gortemiller, Jukka Male, Kirk McKoy, Chris Sisarich, and Michael Ten Pas.

The Art of Photography Show is an international competition and exhibition of photographic art based in San Diego. Entries for this year’s competition came from 67 countries with at total of 25 countries being represented in the ten week exhibition. The Opening Reception Gala is scheduled for Saturday, August 28 from 6pm to 10pm. An estimated 1,500 people from all over the world will be in attendance, including most of the exhibiting artists. A total of $10,000 in cash awards will be presented that night to the top 15 artists chosen by Ms. Egan.

The fact that the Art of Photography Show is judged by a major museum curator each year is what differentiates the competition from other competitions. Photographers rarely have the opportunity to reach these respected and influential people, which is why the show receives so many entries from world-renowned photographers.

To read other testimonials from artists and patrons from around the world, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com/testimonials.html.

For more information about the Art of Photography Show, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com.

About the Art of Photography Show
The mission is to provide a truly "artist oriented" show and to create a world-class presentation of photographic art. This is the sixth year of this annual photographic exhibition. The Lyceum Theatre Gallery is located in San Diego's historic Gaslamp Quarter and is open and free to the public seven days a week. Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 6:00 p.m. on the weekends. For more information about the exhibition, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com.

Natasha Egan is Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Egan has organized numerous international and national exhibitions such as Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Consuming Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama, Dan Holdsworth, Mark Ruwedel and Toshio Shibata; Manufactured Self, photographs about how we identify ourselves through what we consume with international artists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States; Made in China, visually focusing on the global impact of manufacturing in China through photography, video and installation; Loaded Landscapes looking at historical and contemporary sites of trauma and conflict; The Edge of Intent examining the utopian aspirations of urban planners and how their visions adapt to changing environments; Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture; and The Road to Nowhere? for Fotofest 2010 Contemporary US Photograph with eighteen US artists. Egan has contributed essays to such publications as Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Photography Plugged and Unplugged (Contemporary Magazine, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Gütschow LS / S (Aperture, 2007); Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008); Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008); and Stacia Yeapanis (Aperture 2009). In addition, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, an MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian studies.

The images at the top of this document are shown here courtesy of Marie Cecile Thijs, Frank Meyl, Michael Ten Pas, Julia Cybularz and Marcus Buck.

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