Stephanie Cinelli girlandagun

Yes. Look-Look Magazine is a great publication, and former Hot Shot, Stephanie Cinelli, is having her work published in issue #6. It’s due to hit stands in early June. Yes.

Rebecca Smeyne, Winter Hot Shot and lead writer and photo director for myopenbar.com, was at a wild party in Manhattan called Happy Valley a few weeks ago . . . she took some photos for her own site, and one of them was included in Anthem Magazine on April 19th.

I’ve included two photos from Rebecca’s Flikr site. They’re “Black Face Jesus” and “Hedda Lettuce”, respectively.

This excerpt from Anthem Magazine does its best to describe the scene:

“So this club Happy Valley has been getting mad NYC media love lately, and after last night’s Joanna’s Angels release shindig, I can certainly see why. It’s like some weird amalgam of crass Eurotrash excess and a cocaine-fueled 1980s I never lived through; transvestites with big fake boobs; a DJ booth set in a gaudy disco ball; various people taking their clothes off; various people smoking inside and not getting yelled at; $11 plastic cups of Jack Daniels; a really flamboyant dude who was, I swear, wearing a jacket made out of an oven mitt; a 20-minute trailer of the Angels’ porn, the plot of which was a bit hard to follow (presidential meetings and secret missions punctuated by bouts of tender, tender lovemaking); trying to sit next to various transvestites with fake boobs and/or wearing nurse’s costumes in the hopes of procuring some of their Grey Goose bottle service overflow (which never happened); arriving home at 5 a.m. still wired and waking up feeling like somebody chewed on a vital corner of my brain. As a former college classmate of the lady in question, I can still remember when Ms. Angel was a saucy co-ed with a Web site and a dream. After last night, all I can say is–these kids sure grow up fast.”

Paaarty.

Tema Stauffer

Jen recently began a kind of collaboration with Jonathan Rubinstein, owner of Joe–a pair of New York coffee shops. Jen shows photographs from the gallery’s inventory at Joe on 13th Street, and will be showing work at Joe on Waverly Place shortly. The name of the collaboration is jen@joe. Awww.

Dylan Chatain Little Blue House

Jen’s currently showing work from previous Hot Shot winners (and former Hot Shot panelist Tema Stauffer), and there will be a reception to officially launch jen@joe on Sunday, April 30th, between 2 and 4 PM at 9 East 13th Street. The featured Hot Shots are:

Martin Amis
Dylan Chatain
Kelli Anderson
James Deavin
Joseph Holmes
Florianne de Lassee
Diane Meyer(her website, www.dianemeyer.net, is coming soon)
Youngna Park
Tema Stauffer
Matthew Tischler

Jen, Joe, and a number of the Hot Shots will be there. Come by. Ask questions. Ogle.

Joe
9 East 13th Street
between University Place and 5th Ave.
(That’s *this* Sunday (4/30) 2pm-4pm)

Shawn Records, a Fall ‘05 Hot Shot, is certainly leaving his mark! He’s been up to so much that I’m just going to make a bulleted list of his accomplishments.

SHAWN:

-has been selected for inclusion in the 2006 Oregon Biennial to be
held in July.
-currently has work up in a show called “Contrasting Objectives:
Fifteen Pacific Northwest Photographers” at the Whatcom Museum of
History and Art in Bellingham, Washington.
-has been selected for inclusion in the Portland Modern, a juried
publication and exhibition.
-has done three editorial assignments for W magazine and one for Res
magazine.
-had two images of his personal work included in Ripe magazine.
-has been selected for the “Photography Now” issue of the Photography Quarterly magazine, a publication of the Center for
Photography at Woodstock. This time around, the competition was juried by Dana Faconti, editor of Blind Spot.
-has been teaching at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington.

Wow. Keep up the good work, Shawn!

Martin Amis, a Summer ‘05 Hot Shot, was chosen as one of Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographers in 2006 for his “Racing Seen” series. More photos, such as the one below from “Racing Seen”, can be viewed on Martin’s website: www.lifeshots.co.uk

Martin will have his work printed in a delightful art book along with photographs by other selected artists from the US, UK, and Canada, which will be published in November of this year. In September, the emerging photographers will have an exhibition in Toronto at the Lennox Contemporary.

Congrats, Martin!

Nicole Jean Hill will have her hands full over the next few months!

This summer her photo of Lou, formerly exhibited in the Hey, Hot Shot! Winter edition, will be shown at the Print Center’s 80th annual photography exhibtion in Philadelphia.

Nicole Jean Hill Lou

She will also be in the BemisUNDERGROUND:Terrain show with two other artists(Lydia Moyer and Mark Bradley-Shoup) at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, where whe will exhibit a new series of landscape photographs from May 5 to June 10.

Bemis Center writes:

“Omaha artist Nicole Jean Hill utilizes large-format color photography to explore both the social and physical aspects inherent in Midwestern landscape. Through the process of photographing ordinary spaces such as baseball diamonds, Hill seeks to create metaphors for land and our use of it. In so doing, she addresses global issues of land use through very local reference points. In her recent body of work, Hill has been creating several “picturesque” images of a single capped landfill in eastern Nebraska.”

Furthermore, Nicole’s first European exhibition will be at Gallery Sottoportego, Venice, in July. In August, she will begin her residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah. She’ll be documenting drag racing in the salt flats. Nicole also received a scholarship to take a digital bookmaking course at the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, which she will be attending at the very end of the summer.

This is one of the portraits from Noah’s latest project…

Noah Addis untitled #8 (plasma television)

Noah Addis air force base: 01:16 am

2006 Winter Hot Shot, Noah Addis , has moved away from “Night Skies” to a new series of portraits.

Of these portraits, Noah writes,

“This new body of work explores the connection between modern society and mass media technology. As people spend more and more time glued to their televisions and interacting on the internet, they retreat somewhat from society and become anonymous consumers of electronic information.”

He uses either computer screens or televisions as the unique light source in each portrait. They’re very, very cool, so have a look! He has designed a new website with the same URL: “www.noahaddis.com”.

Since the inception of the Hey, Hot Shot! blog, I’ve heard from a number of the former winners about their current endeavors. They’re all contributing to the world of photography, keeping busy and doing great things. I’ll be posting updates as they are received, so stay tuned!

Robert Knight will be in back-to-back (literally) shows at the end of this month! The first will be his MFA thesis exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art’s Bakalar Gallery. It will be up from April 26th to May 6th. The second will be “Spaces: Process Revealed” in Brooklyn at the Pearl Street Gallery from May 6th to May 28th.

Visit his website to view photos from two of his series, “Dwelling: Domestic as Portrait” and “The Harry Project”, and, if you’re in the neighborhood(s), go see his work in the upcoming shows. Support your fellow Hot Shots!