Project Basho Newsletter: December '07

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Project Basho Newsletter: December '07

ONWARD Exhibition in January '08

ONWARD '08, our first competition was very well received. 282 emerging photographers submitted 1162 photographs from across the US and as far as Europe and Asia.

Andrea Modica selected 59 photographs by 57 photographers to be part of the exhibition which will take place at Project Basho Gallery in January. The selected photographers are:

Noah Addis (Philadelphia, PA), Kate Anderson (Minneapolis, MN), Sarah Barr (Wynnewood, PA), Meg Birnbaum (Somerville, MA), Polly Chandler (Austin, TX), Julian Crooks (Wynnewood, PA), Adam Davies (Pittsburgh, PA), Mary Doherty (Raleigh, NC), Manuel Dominguez, Jr. (Philadelphia, PA), Shawn Dougherty (Pulaski, PA), Carol Dragon (New York City, NY), Jon Edwards (South Freeport, ME), Lisa Elmaleh (Brooklyn, NY), Josh Fields (Tuscon, AZ), Marta Fodor (Corona, NY), Fran Forman (Watertown, MA), Peg Fredi (Brentwood, TN), Andrew Frost (TN), Wendy Goldberg (Philadelphia, PA), Laura Graham (Gladwyne, PA), Noa Griffel (Cranbury, NJ), Frank Hegewald (Ansbach, Germany), Keiko Hiromi (Dorchester, MA), Christy Karpinski (Chicago, IL), Richard Kent (Lancaster, PA), Dennis Kleiman (New York City, NY), Dana Krengel (Chestnut Ridge, NY), Adi Lavy (New York City, NY), Jai Lennard (Brooklyn, NY), Tracy Longley-Cooke (Tallahassee, FL), David Lykes Keenan (Austin, TX), Jan Makowski (Philadelphia, PA), Van Marcu (Flagstaff, AZ), Michael Matsil (Takoma PK, MD), Monika Merva (Brooklyn, NY), Tamaki Obuchi (Kitakyushu, Japan), Megan O'Hearn (Brookline, MA), Alison Overton (Raleigh, NC), Danielle Picard (Newton, PA), Justin Reed (Philadelphia, PA), Benjamin Riley (Bryn Mawr, PA), Jessica Roberts (Philadelphia, PA), Patricia Sandler (Los Angeles, CA), Brian Shumway (New York City, NY), Kimberly Sikora (Warwick, NY), David Simonton (Raleigh, NC), Brea Souders (New York City, NY), Cole Thompson (Laporte, CO), Kevin Thrasher (Gray, TN), Christine Tran (Baltimore, MD), Les Tyler (Atco, NJ), Chris Vivier (Brighton, MA), Kara Vuong (Hillsborough, NJ), Andrew Warren (Roslindale, MA), Paul Weiner (Sommerville, MA), Carrie Will (Syracuse, NY), Sebastian Zimmerman (New York City, NY)

The works by these 57 photographers will be displayed in the Project Basho Gallery January 10th through February 24th. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 12th, from 2-5 pm. Also, to coincide with the show at the gallery, the selected images will be featured in an online gallery on the Project Basho site.

Related Links:
ONWARD '08
Project Basho Gallery
In the Space: News from Project Basho

New Schedule for Spring '08
The Spring 2008 schedule has been posted. In addition to our regular classes, we have a few new offerings this time including workshops that focus on form and content, portfolio and bookmaking, as well as neighborhood shooting projects, and the opportunity to work with master printer Chuck Kelton. Please take a look at the spring class and workshop schedule.

Related Links:
Photography Classes&Workshops

Introducing Early Registration Discount
We are now offering a 10% early registration discount for workshops. To qualify for the discount, you must register and pay in full six weeks in advance of the workshop. Please contact us directly for early registration.

Unique Gift Certificates from Project Basho
Project Basho offers unique handmade cyanotype gift certificates. Gift certificates can be purchased for specific classes, workshops, or darkroom times or just by amounts which can be applied to any of our programs. If you are interested in buying a gift certificate for this holiday season, please contact us by December 21st as the office will be closing soon for a short winter break.

More New Programs
We hope to offer many interesting programs in 2008 and continue to expand our areas of interests. We will focus on the lecture series and other ways for photographers to get together to share work. We also hope to begin showing photography related movies in the new gallery space. Furthermore, shooting trips with national and international destinations are in the planning stages. We will keep you up to date as the plans come together.

Winter Break
Please note Project Basho will be closed December 22nd - January 5th. We wish you all a Happy New Year. Thank you for your continued interest in Project Basho and we look forward to seeing you in the studio in 2008.

Project Basho
"Re-introducing Photoraphy to Philadelphia"
215-238-0928
1305 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
http://www.projectbasho.org