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Ronald McDonald Needs You!

Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images

Somehow I missed this, but photographers and other creative types are suppose to use blogs as a means of self-promotion. No, I'm not kidding. I read an article somewhere. Evidently, one shouldn't spend their blog time criticizing the people or the industry that one hopes to continue working in.

Live and learn.

That said, I'd like to use this space to promote an upcoming (as in this Friday) event that I'm doing in Omaha, in the evening of March 26.

Yeah, kinda short notice. Like I said, I'm still getting the hang of this whole self-promotion thing.

Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images

The event is a fundraiser for Omaha's Ronald McDonald House. You know what it is, and the essential work that they're doing. Enough said.

Here's a blurb on the event.

Tickets are $50 each. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Contact Suzanne Rogert at (402) 346-9377 for tickets, reservations, information or what-have-you. She works (personally) for Ronald McDonald. I just met her last night and she's a real firecracker. She's even got me on the TV tomorrow.

Really, the team she's put together for this event is amazing. She's amazing. The facility is amazing. I couldn't be happier. I'm honored to be a part of this.

"This", by the way, is a huge deal. Huge in that it's a silent auction, which consists completely of my work. Something like 130 prints in about 80 bidding "lots".

The three images (printed at 17" x 22") shown here from the Beijing Opera, are one lot. There's going to be a huge amount of work available Friday night, from all over the world. Some of it will be pretty like these three, some will be a bit more "street", as in Cartier-Bresson style. There are even a few landscapes, nudes, all sorts of stuff.

130 prints is a lot of fricken prints.

Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images

Yeah, I said "nudes".

Henri did nudes too btw.

Details...

Nomad Lounge (a great, dare I say "hip" space)

1013 Jones St.

Omaha

6pm until 9pm (so bid like you're voting in Chicago...early and often)

Tickets will (of course) be available at the door.

Ronald McDonald House - Omaha

Many thanks to the event chairmen (people, persons?)...

Brian and Debbie Wood

Fred and Melanie Clark

Aaron and Karen Carlson

And yes, I'm originally from Omaha, and in the interest of full disclosure and giving proper credit and thanks, it is important to mention that my mother, Melissa Jarecke has been working tirelessly behind the scene on this project.

Hope to see you there, and of course please feel free to pass this along to any friends or family in the area.

It should be a cool night.

 

Foreign Tongue Exhibit

The Foreign Tongue Exhibit, curated by Andrea Serbonich is opening tonight and running through January 16 at the Central Utah Art Center in Ephraim, Utah.

I have to apologize, I should have posted this a few days ago. I'm not such a good public relations type of guy.

I've seen most of the work and it is a very impressive. I'll post a few images from the opening when I get them. Here's the info...

Foreign Tongue

Foreign Tongue: David Burnett An Exhibition curated by Andrea Serbonich.  December 12 -  January 16, 2010 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 12 from 6-8pm Central Utah Art Center  86 South Main  Ephraim, UT 84627  435-283-5110  www.cuartcenter.org Foreign Tongue situates a photojournalistic approach in a fine art context. Most of the photographers in this exhibition have renown for their arresting and captivating imagery in traditional media such as Time Magazine, The New York Times and Life Magazine. For others, they are fine art photographers using a documentary style to evoke visceral feelings. Using a narrative approach, a story of an outsider unfolds; intimate and familiar emotions are provoked and juxtaposed with feelings of the strange and unfamiliar. Media surrounds us with images of conflicted countries and corrupt states that it is hard to imagine this discord exists in our own backyards and that in some war –torn countries, peace and unity exist side by side with terror. Foreign Tongue challenges preconceived ideas of boundary, intimacy, community and what is deemed foreign and exotic today. In a series of photographs by David Butow entitled China Youth, the growing pains of China and their large and youthful population are documented and explored. In David Burnett’s series of Cuba, the viewer takes part in a world that is forbidden to the United States. Egypt, a biblical land known for some of the world’s most incredible wonders becomes updated and modernized in Kenneth Jarecke’s photographs. Also included, are vibrant photographs of Mexico City by Alexander Pincus and a side of New York City that most have not seen before by Juozas Cernius. Andrea Serbonich currently coordinates exhibitions for Gagosian Gallery and is an independent curator. She lives and works in New York City. This exhibition is one of many at the CUAC that features highly acclaimed artists from around the world.  A review of our programming has recently been included in the highly influential international Flash Art magazine published in Milan, Italy.  Artists who have shown at the CUAC over the last four years have been included in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennial, collected by Charles Saatchi; they have been exhibited in the Getty Museum, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Saatchi Gallery, major museums in Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Korea, and Spain;  They have shown in Deitch Projects, Mary Boone Gallery, Freight and Volume Gallery, the Drawing Center, and many other important New York, Los Angeles, and international venues.

Foreign Tongue: David Butow

Printing for this exhibition was generously donated by Replicolor.

Photomonth '09 in East London

Photomonth is the largest photo festival in the United Kingdom, though somehow it hasn't quite hit the international photo-scene radar yet. Well, at least not the international photo scene that's based in the high plains of rural Montana.

It's young, I think this is only the seventh or eighth one. Still with something like 150 events and an all star line-up (click here, but be warned the list is huge) including Tom Stoddart, Gideon Mendel, and Martin Parr (actually you aren't allowed to have any photography related events in London without him, it's a law), you'd think the youth hostels would already be filled with the Keffiyeh crowd.

I'm thinking of showing up myself.

I've got a job booked around there next month, so we'll see how that goes.