Announcing the Fall HHS! Winners
Untitled (Three) by Fall Hot Shot Patrick Smith
It keeps getting harder and harder, but somehow we have managed to narrow it down to a final ten! Drum roll please… The winners for the Fall 2006 Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! are:
Juliana Beasley
Joe Fornabaio
Hans Gindlesberger
Joseph O. Holmes
Mette Maersk
Chad Muthard
Victoria Rich
Sasha Rudensky
Patrick Smith
Shen Wei
Write it in––the Showcase Soiree in honor of our new Hot Shots is Wednesday, December 13 from 6–8pm. The show will be up from December 14–17, 2006 and what a show it promises to be! And Fall Hot Shots are also going to be included in the first of its kind HHS! Yearbook—out this December!
Special thanks to our fantastic group of panelists, to Jeff Kirsch and Jesse Chan-Norris for all their hard work and commitment to the jb, and, of course, a big thank you out to all of the participants!
It indeed was a difficult round for decision making—so much great stuff to see, some Honorable Mentions are in order.
Joslin Van Arsdale, Alain Astruc, Meg Birnbaum, Karin Bubas, Alana Celii, Larissa Cleveland, Cary Conover, Rachel Herman, Alexandra Huddleston, Siri Kaur, Drew Kelly, Orrie King, Daniel Kopton, Suzette Lee, Nick Meyer, Stephen Miller, Graeme Mitchell, Mark Rubenstein, Lissa Rivera, Angie Smith, Sam Sweezy, Grant Willing, Christopher Young
There’s some good work in those links…spend some time, take a look. And stay tuned for more excitement in the week to come!
November 20th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Ms. Beasley’s portrait of the man with the wig on his head is very intriguing. I am curious to see the other work after reading her statement about the project. It’s great to see work relative to the documentary genre. Cool!
November 21st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
[...] I was a guest judge again in this season’s Hey, Hot Shot! photo competition at the Jen Bekman gallery along with Founder/CEO of Blurb.com, Eileen Gittins. Congrats to the winners! Looking forward to meeting you all next month. (Photo above by Patrick Smith, one of the winners.) [...]
November 26th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
[...] Hey Hot Shot, a photography competition that Jen Bekman Gallery runs through flickr, announced their photo competition winners yesterday. It’s noteworthy not because the competition has much to do with flickr (although I will get to this in a minute), but because the winners are make such strong work. One of the reasons I’m interested in this competition is because it is the first example of a commercial gallery using Internet tools successfully as part of their business practice (as opposed to some cute gimmick that shows how cool the web is.) To be clear, it’s not that I think galleries should all be trying to run their businesses on the web, but rather, that the Internet is an incredibly efficient means of sussing out talent, so it’s important to start using it that way. UPDATE VIA JEN BEKMAN: “One little thing - I don’t actually run the competition through Flickr. I use Flickr extensively to post and get feedback on artists work both for HHS and for other gallery shows, but the whole competition is actually administered via a backend database thingy that JCN built for me, and we don’t actually use Flickr to review entries.” [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 7:06 pm
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January 26th, 2007 at 11:13 am
[...] p.s. Tonight is the Hey Hot Shot! fall edition opening reception, 6 - 8 p.m. Check out the winners here and stop by tonight: 6 Spring St. between Elizabeth & Bowery. [...]
January 26th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
[...] 4. Also, check out “Project 1″ by photographer (and Fall Hey! Hot Shot winner) Patrick Smith. Nice work, really reminiscent of one of my favorite Italian photographers, Massimo Vitali. [...]
February 5th, 2007 at 12:01 am
[...] You can enter online at http://www.heyhotshot.com. Check out the fall 2006 winners here. [...]
February 5th, 2007 at 8:29 am
[...] Hey Hot Shot, a photography competition that Jen Bekman Gallery runs through flickr, announced their photo competition winners yesterday. It’s noteworthy not because the competition has much to do with flickr (although I will get to this in a minute), but because the winners are make such strong work. One of the reasons I’m interested in this competition is because it is the first example of a commercial gallery using Internet tools successfully as part of their business practice (as opposed to some cute gimmick that shows how cool the web is.) To be clear, it’s not that I think galleries should all be trying to run their businesses on the web, but rather, that the Internet is an incredibly efficient means of sussing out talent, so it’s important to start using it that way. UPDATE VIA JEN BEKMAN: “One little thing - I don’t actually run the competition through Flickr. I use Flickr extensively to post and get feedback on artists work both for HHS and for other gallery shows, but the whole competition is actually administered via a backend database thingy that JCN built for me, and we don’t actually use Flickr to review entries.” [...]
April 6th, 2007 at 3:48 am
[...] Jen Bekman Gallery has announced the winners of the Hey, Hot Shot competition for fall 2006. I won. No, not really. I didn’t even get [...]