Exhibit dates: August 9-September 3
| | The juror for our portrait exhibit will be looking for portraits that "bring the viewer into a visual dialogue with the sitter". It's a challenge to have such rapport with your subject that they let down their guard and suddenly you know that you have an extraordinary Portrait - with a capital "P"! Have you got portrait shots that draw out your subjects in ways that reveals personality, character, emotions? How does this happen? This is what earned early photographers the title of "spirit catchers"!
Our Juror, Graham Gordon Ramsay , has had his photography published in Atlantic Monthly, Time Magazine, Science magazine, La Figaro (France), Die Weltwoche (Switzerland). Technology Review, and many others. When not photographing around the world, he is a photography instructor at MIT. |
Exhibit Catalog Available at VioVio:
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portrait captures a moment in the life of the sitter. If the portrait
speaks to us clearly, we come to understand something new about the
person represented, and through the process of seeing the portrait we
learn something new about ourselves. We see these pictures and have our
own personal reactions to them--feelings, emotions, memories. We
create narratives in our minds about who these people are, what they
feel, where they come from, and how they see their world. I made the selections for this exhibition based on the premise that an intimate portrait is a revelation. I chose a first round of images that were well executed from a technical and compositional standpoint. From that subset of images, I looked for portraits that draw the viewer into the stories of the people being photographed. I favored images that evoked an element of the personal and the truthful about their subjects. GGR |
| Glass Barriers Juror's Choice  Maria Elena Gioka Athens, Attica Greece | Annie, packing People's Choice  Nicholas Shepard Brooklyn, NY USA | Self portrait: the faces of a personality Adriano Castelli Milan, Lombardy ITALY |
Curtis "Thunder" Bert Halstead Belmont, MA USA | Chris Blake Dieters Fort Collins, CO USA | The Painter's Brother Brent Harrewyn South Burlington, VT USA |
The Painter Brent Harrewyn South Burlington, VT USA | Chloe Brook Hewitt / Rose Riot Photography Roswell, GA USA | George, morning (2008) Charles Rozier Westport, CT USA |
Black Angeles #15, Los Angeles 2009 Dick Sanders La Quinta, CA USA | Faces On The Street #24, Los Angeles 2007 Dick Sanders La Quinta, CA USA | Inquietude SOLD  Drew Hoffman Blacksburg, VA USA |
Katie's Dad Elspeth Maxwell Brooklyn, New York USA | Brant Erica Brown Burlington, VT USA | from the series My Ethiopian-American Portraits Eyakem Gulilat norman, OK USA |
Nicole & Diana Hila Vugman rehovot, israel Israel | People of Hoi An Vietnam 1 Hugh Jones Arlington, VA USA | Self-Portrait, Chemo 4th Cycle, 03.2006 (Aftermath series) Kerry Mansfield San Francisco, CA USA |
Homeless Mike Leroy Allen Skalstad milwaukee, WI USA | Kenny, 15 year old American Catcher from the All Star Series Lisa Levine Alameda, CA USA | Jeffrey Lisa M Jones Jefferson Township, PA USA |
Pete Knows Lorin Duckman Burlington, VT USA | Helena Maria Elena Gioka Athens, Attica Greece | Unique Luisito Maria Elena Gioka Athens, Attica Greece |
The Young Man and the Sea Maria Elena Gioka Athens, Attica Greece | Daniel Mary Economidy Chicago, Illinois USA | The Regular Mica McCann New York, NY USA |
Bye-Bye Baby michelle sank Exeter, Devon United Kingdom | Birds of a Feather Monica April West Coopersville, MI USA | At The Races With Jim Nick Roberts Louisville, KY USA |
Draining Love Pere Ibanez Barcelona, SPAIN | A Man Selling Fox Skins, Huntsville, TX Rebecca Finley The Woodlands, TX USA | Chris in a Hotel Room, Queens, NY Rebecca Finley The Woodlands, TX USA |
Tearing with Joy robert c. anderson chicago, IL USA | Sissy and Pup Sarah Balch Shaker Hts, oh USA | The Space Between Sarah Balch Shaker Hts, oh USA |
Megan Sita Mae Edwards Wyoming, MI USA | Jessalyn Sita Mae Edwards Wyoming, MI USA | My Father at 78 Years Old sue lezon chazy, ny USA |
Cluj, Romania Wendy Simmons Brooklyn, NY USA |
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Interactive Portraits
Slide show for Interactive Portraits Exhibit at the Vermont Photo Space Gallery 8/9/2010 - 9/3/2010
Glass Barriers
Maria Elena Gioka Athens, Attica Greece A Cuban girl posing for a foreigner : a glass in between. A whole country has been behind "glass" for more than 50 controversial years…
Tearing with Joy
robert c. anderson chicago, IL USA Lily was ecstatic when I gave her a photo of herself. She stood up from her wheelchair to hug me.
Homeless Mike
Leroy Allen Skalstad milwaukee, WI USA
Pete Knows
Lorin Duckman Burlington, VT USA
Annie, packing
Nicholas Shepard Brooklyn, NY USA
Jessalyn
Sita Mae Edwards Wyoming, MI USA
Megan
Sita Mae Edwards Wyoming, MI USA
The Young Man and the Sea
Maria Elena Gioka Athens, Attica Greece In a remote cuban village, this fisherman's son, who most likely will become a fisherman himself, asked to be photographed and gifted seashells in return.
Unique Luisito
Maria Elena Gioka Athens, Attica Greece "Unique Luisito" is part of a series about human diversity which pretends to show how physically intriguing people incorporate and function (or not) in society.
Helena
Maria Elena Gioka Athens, Attica Greece Learning to swim...
At The Races With Jim
Nick Roberts Louisville, KY USA Jim Benson at the All Harley Drag Races in Bowling Green Kentucky. Jim is an avid race fan and motorcyclist from Owensboro, Kentucky.
Self portrait: the faces of a personality
Adriano Castelli Milan, Lombardy ITALY
Draining Love
Pere Ibanez Barcelona, Barcelona SPAIN "Draining Love" is part of my new project called “EneME” which consists of a series of art photography, representing the dark and self-destructive side of the human being.
Nicole & Diana
Hila Vugman rehovot, israel Israel This is a part from a documentary revealing the world of young Russian gymnasts in Israel. Nicole & Diana, age 12, are training for the Olympics.
Bye-Bye Baby
michelle sank Exeter, Devon United Kingdom Leaving the purity of their childhood worlds, the girls in Bye-Bye Baby appear to assume trappings attributed to the grown -ups they mimic
Self-Portrait, Chemo 4th Cycle, 03.2006 (Aftermath series)
Kerry Mansfield San Francisco, CA USA Photographer Kerry Mansfield was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 31. These self-portraits were taken alone to document the loss of body and mind.
Katie's Dad
Elspeth Maxwell Brooklyn, New York USA
Cluj, Romania
Wendy Simmons Brooklyn, NY USA
Daniel
Mary Economidy Chicago, Illinois USA A chance encounter on the beach in Matzatlan, Mexico led to an hour spent with Daniel, whose stories were almost as fascinating as his face.
A Man Selling Fox Skins, Huntsville, TX
Rebecca Finley The Woodlands, TX USA
Chris in a Hotel Room, Queens, NY
Rebecca Finley The Woodlands, TX USA
Chris
Blake Dieters Sarasota, FL USA
Chloe
Brook Hewitt / Rose Riot Photography Roswell, GA USA Chloe is a girl wise beyond her years, seeing the world with "old" eyes. She has a mature cynicism and sharp wit.
Curtis "Thunder"
Bert Halstead Belmont, MA USA
Kenny, 15 year old American Catcher from the All Star Series
Lisa Levine Alameda, CA USA These portraits attempt to grasp the moment of delicate transition from childhood to manhood in each of the players as they reach eagerly toward adulthood.
The Regular
Mica McCann New York, NY USA
The Painter's Brother
Brent Harrewyn South Burlington, VT USA
The Painter
Brent Harrewyn South Burlington, VT USA Havana, Cuba. His art is commissioned and leaves the country to be sold for thousands of dollars. He struggles to feed himself and his little brother.
from the series My Ethiopian-American Portraits
Eyakem Gulilat norman, OK USA This project deals with American identity and Ethiopian immigrant culture consisting of portraits of second and “1.5” generation Ethiopian immigrants living in the United States.
George, morning (2008)
Charles Rozier Westport, CT USA
Sissy and Pup
Sarah Balch Shaker Hts, oh USA Each photograph is a pause: The pause that occurs between two points in time, the briefest moment recorded concretely, into something tangible. A psychological connection transformed into physical record solidifying the existing relationship betw
The Space Between
Sarah Balch Shaker Hts, oh USA
Black Angeles #15, Los Angeles 2009
Dick Sanders La Quinta, CA USA
Faces On The Street #24, Los Angeles 2007
Dick Sanders La Quinta, CA USA
Jeffrey
Lisa M Jones Jefferson Township, PA USA
Birds of a Feather
Monica April West Coopersville, MI USA
My Father at 78 Years Old
sue lezon chazy, ny USA
Brant
Erica Brown Burlington, VT USA My husband, on the Lake Champlain ferry last October. We'd just moved to Vermont from Hawaii.
Inquietude
Drew Hoffman Blacksburg, VA USA We started on a series about addiction. She paused to gaze out the window, trying to reconcile past tribulations, current duties, and what comes next.
People of Hoi An Vietnam 1
Hugh Jones Arlington, VA USA I discovered the soul of Vietnam in the warm and decent people of Hoi An, a town dating back to the 16th century. Infrared image.
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