Dot Editions is happy to support an art exhibition that documents the effects of the BP oil spill on one small town dependent on the gulf: Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The prints will be shown in an exhibition that opens this Friday, October 15: Mired in the Bayou, presented by Inhabitat with 99% Gallery.

This exhibition features four artists who examine the Gulf region in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, and includes photography by Reed Young and Michael De Pasquale. These two young photographers delved into the lives of individuals whose livelihoods depend on the Gulf, and how these people have been affected by the disaster. The photographers traveled with journalist Erin Sheehy, who provides audio and text for their photographs. Also featured in this show is an installation by artist Graham Holly, who collected crude oil samples, which became part of his artwork.

The exhibition opens at 99% Gallery, 99 North 10th Street, Brooklyn, this Friday October 15, 7-10pm. For a sneak preview of Mired in the Bayou, and the photography by Reed and Michael, click here.

© Julienne Schaer, from Documenting the Build of the new Brooklyn Bridge Park

This Wednesday kicks off the New York Photo Festival in DUMBO.

Dot Editions just completed printing a solo exhibition by Julienne Schaer that opens in conjunction with the  opening of  NYPH10.

Julienne Schaer began as a forensic photographer for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, and now specializes in editorial and event photographer. The work she is showing is from an ongoing project documenting the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge Park, from an abandoned industrial area, into a lush waterfront park.

Julienne Schaer: Documenting the Build of the new Brooklyn Bridge

55 Washington Street, Suite 319

Opening Wednesday, May 12 (6pm-9pm)

Since the beginning demolition of the Port Authority Piers on March 13, 2008 Julienne Schaer has documented the transformation of Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront into a world-class park. As the site transformed from a civil engineering project to a scenic park, the images showcase the park’s sustainable infrastructure and construction methods, as well as showing the dramatic panoramas of the park

Adam Schreiber: Anachronic – Color and Black and White Photographs, at Sasha Wolfe (10 Leonard Street, Tribeca, 6-8pm)

© Adam Schreiber, MULTEK, 2007

Michael Corridore: Angry Black Snake, at Aperture Foundation. Austrailian photographer Michael Corridore was the Aperture Portfolio Prize winner in 2008. (Aperture Foundation: 547 W 27th Street, 4th Floor, 6-8pm)

© Michael Corridore, Untitled 16, 2008, from Angry Black Snake

Cedric Delsaux: Nous Resterons Sur Terre, at Bonni Benrubi (41 East 57th Street)

© Cedric Delsaux, Xing Hut, Amazonian Forest, Brazil, 2008.

Issei Suda, Vintage Photographs 1970’s and 80’s at Higher Pictures (764 Madison Avenue)

© Issei Suda, Untitled (Girl singing)

If you would still like to RSVP, it looks like space will be limited, but come on by! Directions to the studio can be found here. This is a free event, so please bring a snack or drink to share! Doors open at 6pm, the talks will begin promptly at 6:30.

Here’s a bit about the four guest artist speakers, who will each give a 20 minute talk, followed by questions from the audience.

Josh Gosfield will share images from his series Gigi Gaston: The Black Flower, which recently showed at Steven Kasher Gallery.

From the press release:

“Josh Gosfield has assembled the definitive archive devoted to the 1960s French pop star Gigi Gaston. Gigi’s music and the spectacle of her tragic life riveted the public through the 60s and 70s. The exhibition documents her life and loves with archival photographs, posters, record covers, magazine and newspaper articles, a music video shot by Jean Luc Godard, documentary footage, and assorted ephemera. We see her Gypsy family’s escape from Bulgaria, her affair with her stepbrother, her first guitar, her rise up (and fall down) the charts,  the car crashes, funerals, love triangles and the murder trial. All this played out in a garish media spotlight before the insatiable eyes of her public.”…”In fact Gigi Gaston did not exist. Her persona and all her documents are the fictional creation of Josh Gosfield working with the aid of actors, stylists, make up artists, and Photoshop. This exhibition can leave you wondering if Madonna exists. How do you know?”

Mike Peters:

“I wander neighborhoods similar to the one I was raised in, an industrial working class suburb in New Jersey. In the faces and facades that I encounter along the way, I find a patina that can only be derived from a life lived hard. There exists an unpretentiousness for which I feel a close affinity, and in which I see much that is familiar yet want to know better. I find beauty in these faces and facades, especially when they give a hint to the inner complexities that lie beneath the surface.” … “There is a sense of ordinariness to these people and places that lie in stark contrast to life as portrayed in the media. There is nothing at all sensational going on here, just life being lived by ordinary people who do not regularly demand our attention. These are the people and places I am interested in; these are the people and places my work is all about.”

Joao Carlos:

Joao was recently awarded one The Hasselblad Masters Award in 2009 for wedding/social photography. From the website: “Joao is especially inspired by 18th century and combines influences from this era with fantasy driven ideas from novels, lyrics, and poems that together can form the foundation for a strong image. Joao envisions his photography as an opportunity to create inspiring pieces of artwork, to go beyond the conventionality and impermanence of fashion and commercial photography, and to take his images to a lasting fine-art level. His appreciation for the arts in all aspects is what continues to inspire and drive him while capturing the stories in his lens.”

Marc Dimov:

“Marc Dimov’s imagery spans landscape, still life and portraiture, rendering the limitless possibilities in which the photographic medium can be transformed. In his “Storm Basins” series, the artist creates surreal images of dramatically lit suburban environments, and as with all his work, continues to question the visual language of photography. … Dimov was born in The Berkshires, Massachusetts in 1980. He received his BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited in various locations throughout New York City and New England including: powerHouse Arena (Brooklyn), James Cohen Gallery (Chelsea), Cue Art Foundation (Chelsea), Artist’s Space (Soho), and South Shore Art Center (Cohassett, MA) to name a few.”

Myriam Babin: Arctic Recent Photographs

Dot Editions worked with Myriam Babin to produce work that opens in  her photo exhibition tonight at Heskin Contemporary (443 West 37th, 6-9pm)

“Myriam Babin’s recent nine-day journey up the coast of Norway to the Svalbard Island deep into the Arctic circle, the photographer found herself captivated by the 24 hours of sunlight, and the constant evolving scenery.  Initially the waters among the fjords were silky and reflective.  Heading north, the weather worsened, the sea took on a darker, more menacing character.  Upon first encountering sea ice, the shipped slowed in order to navigate around the large pieces that could be icebergs in disguise.  Other then the sound of sea ice brushing past the hull, there was an incredible stillness.  In these photographs, Babin sought to capture the meditative quality of the endless, austere landscape.  She found solace in being at the ends of the earth.the earth.”

Eric Hairabedian, Kris Graves “A Queens Affair” at Farmani Gallery, 111 Front street, suite 212, 6-8pm

A Queens Affair is a culmination of eight years of photographing the development, fixed characteristics and spirited nature of Queens, New York. Both Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian were born and raised in and around Queens and through their photographic partnership share a visual history of their beloved borough.  A special selection of images from the book will be on exhibit and available for purchase for the duration of the show. After which these images will be available in small editions at the Farmani Gallery web site.

In Soho, Madga Biernat opens at Clic Gallery

© Madga Biernat opens at Clic Gallery

Magda Biernat “Continental Bounce” at Clic Bookstore & Gallery, Soho: 424 Broome street, 6-9pm

MAGDA BIERNAT’s graceful, color-saturated photographs of architectural structures recently won her first place in the Architecture/Interiors category at the 2009 International Photography Awards. CONTINENTAL BOUNCE showcases the photographs taken during the year she spent traveling the world, photographing the built environment and living spaces in 17 countries. Her vibrant, minutely detailed shots are deliberately void of any known geographic or cultural identifiers, and the viewer is left to search out any possible clues of location as they look at an arid South African township, a futuristic Taiwanese diving resort, or the interior of a yurt in Mongolia.

In Chelsea, the Foley Gallery has Lydia Panas opening

© Lydia Panas

Lydia Panas “The Mark of Abel” at Foley Gallery,  27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

Lydia Panas is an observer of the family dynamic.  In her photographs, she manages to capture subtle hints of those complex relationships that tend to exist within the extended family or circles of friends.  Her photographs examine the way in which these relationships are simultaneously a product of and an influence upon the identity of each member of the family group.  The subjects are arranged similarly in each image; in some verdant setting, they openly face the camera through a narrowly selective depth of field.

And at Gladstone Gallery, Jan Dibbets

© Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets at Gladstone Gallery,  24 street: 515 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Born in the Netherlands in 1941, Dibbets trained to be a painter, but turned to the photographic medium in the late 1960s. Harnessing the potential of photography to elucidate the conceptual variables of optics, his witty yet rigorous investigations of the elastic synthesis between object and space resulted in acute queries of vision and reality. Dibbets’ practice often resulted in richly paradoxical photographs such as his “Perspective Correction” series in which trapezoids drawn on his studio wall became perfect squares through the camera’s transformation of three-dimensional space into two-dimensional images.

© Helen Maurene Cooper, Trying Them On at the Hendershot Gallery

Trying Them On – Curated by Jon Feinstein
Presented by Humble Arts Foundation and Hendershot Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 504 (6-8 pm)

“This group exhibition includes five photographers whose work explores fascination with “the other” through gendered, sexual, racial and subcultural costuming. The exhibiting photographers depict white Europeans and westerners who glamorize and vilify other cultures, at times presenting them as the enemy, while at others declaring them a cultural muse. On the surface, the latter appears to be an attempt to understand or elevate them, but in many cases this actually leads to further complication by turning their identities into caricatures. This exhibition also explores the motivations for this role-play: is it an act of mere flattery? What does it mean to try on the skin or cultural signifiers of another?”

© David Maisel, "Library of Dust 28"

David Maisel, Library of Dust
Von Lintel Gallery 520 West 23rd Street, Ground Floor (6-8 pm)

“David Maisel’s Library of Dust features copper canisters in varying states of metamorphosis.”…”The canisters, once stored in a dilapidated outbuilding of a state-run psychiatric hospital, hold the cremated remains of people—more specifically, the unclaimed ashes of the asylum’s patients. The Oregon State Hospital, inaugurated as the Oregon State Insane Asylum in 1883, interred the canisters in an underground vault in the mid-1970s. As the vault flooded repeatedly, the canisters—some containing remains more than a century old—underwent potent transformations. The chemical composition of each cremated body’s ashes has caused unique and colorful mineralogical blooms to form on its individual copper surface.”

© Anne Collier

Anne Collier at Anton Kern Gallery, 532 West 20th Street (6-8pm)

“It takes more than a first glance at Anne Collier’s photographs to understand what you’re looking at. Books, magazines, and other media sit upon neutral, boldly geometric backgrounds, setting up an uneasy contrast between the found image and the composition. A book open to a close-up of a woman’s eye rests on a black background; nearby, two German photography mags from the ’70s betray the prurient undertones of early amateur photography.”– H.G. Masters

© Joe Pflieger at Monya Rowe Gallery

Joe Phlieger, Photographs
Monya Rowe Gallery, 504 West 22nd St, 2nd Floor  (6-8 pm)

“Pflieger presents a series of photographs mostly taken in museums in cities such as St. Petersburg, Venice, Milan, Copenhagen and New York depicting historically accurate reconstructions of interiors. The surface, a vital part of the work itself, of each photograph is approached with a strong kinship to painting and organically captured, without the aid of computer manipulation, with a digital camera.”

© Mandy Corrado, from The Year In Pictures

The Year in Pictures – from the blog pictureyear.blogspot.com
Danziger Projects,  534 West 24th Street, NYC (6-8pm)

Featuring the work of: Jowhara AlSaud, Chan-Hyo Bae, Thomas Bangsted, Mandy Corrado, Stephen Gill, Joseph Holmes, Alejandra Laviada, Greg Miller, David Schoerner, Patrick Smith, Tommy Ton, Scout Tufankjian, Oliver Warden, Katherine Wolkoff, Tsukasa Yokozawa

And in remembrance of: Evelyn Hofer, Helen Levitt, Irving Penn, Julius Shulman, Bettie Page, and Charis Wilson

“The exhibition “The Year in Pictures” presents a selection of photographs featured in the blog “The Year in Pictures” (pictureyear.blogspot.com). Begun in 2007, the blog has been a platform for my personal enthusiasm about the medium – a place to share good and new work that is sent to me or that I see on my travels; alert readers to new exhibitions, books, and other photography events; and reflect on ideas and issues. Since it’s inception, the blog has posted over 500 stories, received over a million visits, and is viewed an average of 50,000 times a month.”

© Kelsey Bennet

Kelsey Bennet “Hypnagogia” at Christopher Henry Gallery 127 Elizabeth street, 6-9pm

Contemporary daydreams, Bennett’s narrative constructions combine a strong sense of color with an eye for the graphical gesture. Her characters, variations on autobiography, peer out at the viewer from within the cathedrals of their private illusions like children caught at an ambivalent game. Archetypes of the everyday, Bennett’s subjects seem to hover in a liminal world poised between reality and fantasy. Her photos vibrate with a subversive formality reminiscent of Cindy Sherman ‘s film stills or William Eggleston’s documents of Americana.

© Yola Monakhov

Yola Monakhov “Photography After Dante” Sasha Wolf Gallery, 10 Leonard Street, 6-8 pm

For this body of work, Monakhov used Dante’s Divine Comedy as a source and framework for creating photographs in contemporary Italy. Her approach intended to bring together a canonical text and contemporary life, using the poem to investigate conventions of the photographic medium.

© Alex Prager

Alex Prager “Week-end” at Yancey Richardson Gallery 535 W 22 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Focusing on female archetypes - ranging from the temptress to the tempted – Prager manufactures meticulously staged shots of women both disguised and exposed – using synthetic wigs, heavy make-up and polyester costumes to capture, as she puts it, ‘women on the edge.’

© Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna “Venezia” at Robert Mann Gallery 210 11 avenue, b/w 24 & 25 street, floor 10, 6-8pm

Michael Kenna’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, Venezia, marks the premiere presentation of Kenna’s photographs of Venice, Italy. The exhibition coincides with the publication of Michael Kenna: Venezia, available March 2010 from Nazraeli Press. With photographs spanning nearly 30 years, the exhibition reflects the quintessentially patient, quiet method of looking for which Kenna has become legendary.

© Jacob Aue Sobol

Jacob Aue Sobol “Sabine and I, Tokyo” at Yossi Milo Gallery 525 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Jacob Aue Sobol’s series Sabine (1999-2001) chronicles three years the artist spent in the settlement of Tiniteqilaaq in Greenland, his life as a fisherman and hunter, and his intimate relationship with Sabine and her family. The series of black-and-white photographs is a visual diary of a love story and daily survival, capturing private moments with Sabine contrasted with the harsh arctic environment of the east Greenlandic coast.

© Denis Darzacq

Denis Darzacq “Hyper” at Laurence Miller Gallery 20 W 57 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

HYPER refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements.

Photo from Maya Suess’s fun and interactive exhibition, It It and the Gimme Box. Read a review here.