Frank Meo's The Photo Closer

I am now on The Photo Closer for any commercial interest in my work.

Three from Boreum Hill, Brooklyn

Dinner at Cafe Luluc on Smith Street last night.

Spring is already here.

Brooklyn Creative Photo Workshop

I'll be teaching a series of intensive personal vision photography workshops at Brooklyn Creative in DUMBO over the winter months. Just two three hour sessions to get you motivated and to help figure out why you feel compelled to photograph.

Richard Prince Interview

An interesting interview with Richard Prince at his upstate New York compound. I got to sit in on a critique with him a month back at Yale.

W. Eugene Smith Awards

The crowd at the reception following last night's W. Eugene Smith Awards where Krisanne Johnson won for her project "I love You Real Fast". Check it out at The Half King if you haven't already. Sebastian Junger made a poignant keynote speech which paid tribute to his friend and colleague Tim Hetherington and many other fine folk were in abundance including New Yorker Magazine Director of Photography Whitney Johnson, Anthony Suau, David Burnett, Donna Ferrato, Paul Moakely, Katie Orlinsky, Naomi Harris and Ron Haviv and Stephen Mayes of VII.

Back in New York

Outside my mother's house. Alford, Massachusetts.

Rouge Restaurant. West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The Wingdale Diner. Wingdale, New York.

Across from Byrant Park. Manhattan.

Outside The International Center of Photography. Manhattan.

Back at the apartment in Boreum Hill, Brooklyn.

The Half King and Bushwick

I had a great night out at the Half King last night on the occasion of Krisanne Johnson's excellent slideshow and exhibition "I Love You Real Fast". Susan Meiselas moderated the event and asked some great questions of Krisanne. This is very powerful and important work of the first order.

Afterwards, I headed to Bushwick, Brooklyn. . .

At El Maguey, my favorite Mexican/El Salvadoran cafe for a beer or two.

A Smart car tucked away near the Morgan L metro stop, the area that is fast becoming the new Williamsburg.

Outside ICP

Outside The International Center of Photography yesterday in midtown Manhattan.

Are We There Yet?

Last night I headed out to SVA to hear a panel discussion on the topic of women in photography.  Former New Yorker Magazine visuals editor Elisabeth Biondi moderated the discussion which included writer Lyle Rexer, photographers Martine Fougeron, Lisa Kereszi and Sarah Silver as well as New Yorker photography critic Vince Aletti.

It was interesting to hear how there are many more female photo students and yet there seem to be many more well known male photographers working in the world. It definitely has been my experience that most photo editors are women for example. There are many women gallery and art museum directors as well. As I mentioned earlier in the week, at my first critique class with gallerist Michael Foley, there were eight women and three men.

It was agreed that women have made great progress in the world of photography in recent years but that there is still ground to cover. Many of the panelists mentioned how when they view photography they do not think about gender, it is the quality of the work that matters. In a closing comment in response to an audience member's question, Lisa cautioned against women using their beauty to get ahead in the art world as it will backfire at one point or another she said.

All in all it was a good talk and I sat next to photographer and professor Joseph Maida who answered many of my questions regarding the SVA and Yale MFA programs. Below are a few quick images from the trip back to Brooklyn.

Michael Foley Crit #1

At the Sasha Wolf and Foley galleries this evening during the first of three critiques with Michael (on the right). Apparently many male photographers do not do critiques because the women out number us four to one here.

New York, September 19

Enroute to B&H today to pick up some Ilford Fibre Silk Gold Paper in preparation for making new prints before heading to The Exhibition Lab with gallerist Michael Foley. While editing this evening, I found the following four new images from the Bucharest project that I quite like.

121 images from the Bucharest project

A small part of my output from Bucharest lies as 4x6 prints on the kitchen table in the apartment in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.

Autumn in NYC Part I

I'm in New York to meet with friends, editors, galleries, art buyers and to get help editing and producing maquettes of my Maramures and ongoing Bucharest work. ETA Bucharest is 26 September.

In New York for a week

I am in the US in order to take care of a number of things including the processing and scanning of the panoramics I've been shooting the last few weeks in northern Romania. After this brief hiatus I will return directly to Maramures to photograph the spring plowing and Orthodox Easter. Above is a picture from my row on the Air France Bucharest to Paris flight the other day.