New Hassla Book: Takashi Homma

First, jay comes. by Takashi Homma
Published by Hassla Books

The deer hunter shoots its prey and immediately opens the deer with a cleaver. Jays fly down first to consume the remains of the deer.
First, jay comes. by Takashi Homma features new photographs and drawings that capture these traces of hunting.

5.5 x 8 in., saddle-stitched, 24 pages, self cover, color offset
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9800935-8-2
Publication date: June 2009
12 USD

Food, Inc. Trailer

Nan Golden Lecture

Giro d'Italia Time Trials near Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Clown near Pantheon at Night

Great Bookshop and Gallery in Rome

Chris Rain

While in Italy, I visited the photography bookstore and gallery S.T. Foto Libreria Galleria. It was one of the nicest experiences that I had while in Rome. The ladies from terterzi.org were hanging the work of Fabio Barile and they also published a new catalogue titled Things that Do Not Happen (available for 10 Euros, email them) and Mattheo from S.T. was curating the exhibition of anonymous photographers, An Occasional Dream. The shop is near the Vatican so if in Rome, make sure you take time to make a visit or call to check on hours. They also occasionally make lunch there too.

If in Rome: FotoGrafia. Rome’s International Festival, May 29 through August 2

In addition to the exhibitions, at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, from May 29th to May 31st, it will be possible to enjoy a rich programme of encounters and screenings for a photographic non-stop event lasting from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The artists present include Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi, for the second time in Italy after the exhibition in Milan in 2006. Don McCullin returns presenting a preview of his most recent work entitled "Roman Frontiers", dedicated to testimonies of the Roman empire at its most extreme boundaries. Nan Goldin, winner of the 2007 Hasselblad Award, who in addition to meeting viewers will present "Heartbeat", a video installation in which four synchronised screens show photographs of friends, lovers and borderline scenes from life, accompanied by an original soundtrack by the English composer Sir Jon Tavener, entitled "Prayer of the Heart".
Furthermore, a series of documentaries on the maestros of Italian photography, including Ferdinando Scianna who will be present to attend an encounter with the public. The foreign Academies present slideshows by the best contemporary photographers in their respective countries. A meeting with Euvgen Bavcar, a sightless artist, who will talk to journalist Emanuela Audisio about the subject "Photography, the joy of a hostage of the shadows", preceded by a documentary and a selection of his images. This is the artist's first visit to Italy and this event will include an exhibition within the framework of the ‘Circuit', at the B>Gallery, (a project curated by Obiettivo Granieri).
Finally the programme includes a series of meetings with curators, photo-editors and photographers, among them Davide Monteleone and Alessandra Mauro, Eva Frapiccini, Eric Kessel, Bruno di Marino, Christian Sinibaldi, Juliana Beasley and Melanie McWhorter from Photoeye.

Thanks to Letture Portfolio (May 29th - 30th - Open Colonna, curated by Officine Fotografiche), which this year will also include an award, there is an opportunity for new photographers to present their work to the most important Italian and international operators, among them Alessandra Mauro (curator, Contrasto), Laura Serani (curator, Rencontres de Bamako), Mario Peliti (publisher, Peliti Associati), Francesco Zanot (critic and curator); Erik Kessel (publisher, Kesselskramer); Martino Marangoni and Alessandra Capodacqua (Fondazione Marangoni).

FotoGrafia - Rome's International Festival; May 29th - August 2nd 2009 Palazzo delle Esposizioni: Top Floor - Admission € 10, reduced € 7,50; Sala della Fontana - Admission free of charge; Events at Sala Auditorium - Admission free of charge
Letture Portfolio - Enrolement € 10 euro for each participation with a maximum of 6 readings.
Info line 06.70473525
www.fotografiafestival.it

For more info, visit Palazzo Delle Esposizioni‎.

My Picks for PhotoLucida at PDN Online

Alejandro Cartagena

Angela Bacon-Kidwell

Conor Risch emailed a few questions to Ann Pallesen, Brian Clamp and myself about photographers at PhotoLucida. I elected to discuss the work of Alejandro Cartagena and Angela Bacon-Kidwell. Here is the final feature at PDN online.

Newly Designed Fraction Magazine

From The Unknown Portraitist, a group show curated by Joerg Colberg

Tim Hyde

Michael Itkoff

The new issue of Fraction, number 7, is in celebration of its one-year anniversary. Included in this issue is the work of Nadia Sablin, James Friedman, Michael Itkoff, Tim Hyde, John Brinton Hogan and Michael Sebastian; a group show by Joerg Colberg and three new short, but sweet book reviews by David Bram.