Larissa Leclair

Statement from Gallery:
“Photography is an art of the instant, of Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment.” But it is also an art of past moments – records of slices of time that no longer exist. In this juried exhibition, NOSTALGIA, we are interested in photographs that investigate aspects of past time, memory, and public or personal histories. For example, photographs can allude to the past through process, by using antiquated technologies such as the tintype; through subject, by focusing on objects or people with the aura of long ago; through place, by picturing places that have private or well-known memory associations.”

Information on how to submit work can be found on the the Vermont Photography Workplace / PhotoPlace Gallery website. Deadline is March 1, 2010.

Thoughts on Juried Exhibitions by Kirsten Hoving, Co-Director of the Vermont Photography Workplace /PhotoPlace Gallery

CHRISTOPHER COLVILLE
curated by Larissa Leclair
November 4 – December 11, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday November 12, 2009, 6-9pm

In his first solo show in Washington, D.C., Christopher Colville, an Arizona-based photographer, explores the themes of time as manifested in death and memory in a selection of work curated by Larissa Leclair from his series Emanations, Iceland Trilogy, and Sonoran Project.

Christopher Colville is a photographer who pushes the boundaries of the medium. He embraces traditional and experimental processes, such as photograms, ambrotypes, and decay-generated images in his contemporary photographic work.

©Christopher Colville

This selection of work, seen together for FotoWeek DC, explores the cycle of life, the passage of time, history, and the landscape that embodies us all.

Christopher Colville is a photographer and teacher at Arizona State University. He has been awarded a 2008 Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and a 2008 Public Art Commission from the Phoenix Commission on the Arts as well as an American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship in 2006 to photograph in Iceland. Colville was also awarded the Van Daren Coke/Beaumont Newhall Fellowship in 2003. He holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico and a BFA in Anthropology and Photography from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. UPDATED: Recently he received the 2009 NPG from the Humble Arts Foundation for his series Instar.

Hosted by Insomniac Design, a web design and development firm in DC, in conjunction with FotoWeek DC, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2008 whose mission is to celebrate the power of photography and to unite and strengthen the Washington DC photography community.

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