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WIP LTI / LIGHTSIDE

June 18th, 2010

Woman with Camera © Anne Collier

Yipee yeah to sources of funding for photography. For all the ladies this one is well worth applying to.

Women in Photography is pleased to announce the 2010 WIP- LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant, funded by LTI / Lightside Photographic Services with guest judge Karen Irvine. The $3,000 grant award will provide funding to one female photographer to support project costs. In addition WIPNYC is excited to announce the 2010 WIP- LTI / Lightside Materials Grant, funded by Kodak. This grant provides $1000 in artists choice of Kodak materials and will be awarded to one female photographer.

For more details check out the Women in Photography site.

Giant kudos going out to LTI / Lightside Photographic services. I had the opportunity to work with the lab this year to make five exhibition prints. It is not likely I would have produced the prints in NYC, but through LTI’s ongoing relationship with the also great Humble Arts Foundation. I was directed there when LTI decided to donate a print and scan towards work exhibiting in the 31 Women in Art Photography exhibit. Donations of that sort are god sent - as any emerging photographer I am sure will tell you - and not having to deal with shipping another bonus, so I took them up on it and had them print my work for the HHS ShowcaseJen Bekman as well. (currently taking submissions!!) at

Going into a lab you have never worked with is terrifying. I have no shortage of being less than satisfied with labs - and the more I exhibit and make certain kinds of work the more weight I am putting on the quality of final prints and my expectations. Printing my photographs causes me more stress and anxiety then any ideas of the better part of making the work, the parts about making the work. Ideas and exposures are easy. Perfect prints are not. It is here that LTI really impressed me. They were fantastic to work with and did an excellent job. I came to proof and stayed the entire day, every change I asked for was done without once making me feel panic and obsessive or that I was taking up too much of their time. One of the things I appreciated the most spending the day in there was that I also learned a thing or two. I expect whoever is doing my exhibition prints to know more about printing and file management than I do but despise anything happening to my images I might not understand or be aware of, I am starting to demand things of labs but at LTI I didn’t have to. Thanks to everyone at the lab, extra special thanks to Jeffrey Kane who facillitated everything and to Andrej Tur for printing. I eagerly wait for the day I am able to afford to have a single constant relationship with a lab. In the future I will be doing my exhibition printing on visits to NYC.

Jennifer Karady at SF Camerawork

Quick Link Jennifer Karady SF Camerawork LTI more about Lightside Hello everyone, This month we're featuring Jennifer Karady's new work: In Country: Soldier's Stories from Irag and Afghanistan, currently on view at SF Camerawork in San Francisco. The project reflects upon a widely under-publicized consequence of the ongoing war on terror; the post-battle physical and psychological burden of war zone trauma borne by enlisted individuals. Photographed near their homes in the United States after an extensive interview process, Karady encourages the subject's immediate family and close friends to help bring their wartime memories into focus against the backdrop of our everyday landscape. This collaborative effort creates a visual experience for the viewer that while still quite abstract, offers a far more personalized window into their stories than an evening newscast ever could. In Country has been well received in the press with a feature article in the New York Times and an interview on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Jeffrey Kane LTI / lightside photographic services Jennifer Karady: In Country: Soldier's Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan SF Camerawork, May 6 - August 7, 2010 Jennifer Karady: Former Sergeant Jose Adames, US Marine Corps Recon, Stinger Gunner, 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Brooklyn, NY, February 2009. From In Country: Soldier's Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan 48 x 48 Fujiflex Super Glossy optical c-print In Country corrals the often incomprehensibly distant issue of America's wars in the Middle East by focusing on the intensely personal post tour-of-duty experiences of individual soldiers - conveyed visually through the fabrication of highly conceptualized domestic scenes that are at once familiar and yet jarring. A mix of styles and influences, Karady's images reflect elements of photojournalism and narrative tableau painting and through this she manages to create a positive experience for the soldiers to aid in their adjustment back to civilian life. Use the Quick Links above to visit Karady's website and see the entire ongoing project. Click here to order the 40 page exhibition catalog with an introduction by SF Camerawork curator Chuck Mobley and a detailed account of each soldier's story, plus an interview with Jennifer Karady and an essay by Carol McCusker. Click here to read the New York Timesreview of the exhibition. Click here to listen to the National Public Radio interview. LTI / Lightside worked closely with Karady to print ten 48" x 48" optically enlarged Fujiflex Super-Glossy prints from her original negatives and produced the master digital files for the exhibition catalog.