Last Friday we were on the front lines of Art Fair Survival Kit Handout and preparing to for the Hot Shot opening, so didn't get to check in here at the Week in Review. But, we're back today with two weeks in review, so read on to get the latest:

Hey, Hot Shot! at Jen Bekman Gallery

Last Friday marked the opening of the latest Hey, Hot Shot! Exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery. The opening was a hit, with all five of this round's Hot Shots in attendance. Elizabeth Leitzell took a set of great photos both of people at the opening and the show installation. With such a diverse group of work, we were biting our nails here at HQ about how all the different bodies of work would play off of each other in the tiny space that is our gallery, but are thrilled with how the exhibit looks!

Hot Shot News

• This week we had the joy of releasing a dreamy new 20x200 edition titled Paris by Summer 2007 Hot Shot Gregory Krum (right), who will be having a solo show this May at Jen Bekman Gallery.
• Nina Berman is lauded by TIME Magazine for her "tender but unflinching" work in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
• Aperture is having a party and you're invited! Jen Bekman is co-chairing this year's SNAP! OUT OF WINTER party, so you'll find many of us from Team JBP there on March 19th for drinks, desserts, and plenty of instant memories thanks to a Polaroid photo booth! Tickets are still available at a variety of price points.
• Lay Flat 02: Meta, featuring Jessica Eaton, Penelope Umbrico, and an essay by HHS! panelist Lesley A. Martin is now available to order.
• Tema Stauffer has curated online show titled Inside Out at culturehall, including Fall 2006 Hot Shot Juliana Beasley.
• EXPOSED: Critical Mass 2009, an exhibition juried by Andy Adams of Flak Photo opened last week in Seattle. The show features work by Hot Shots Alejandro Cartagena, Brad Moore, Kate Orne and Birthe Piontek.
• Getting published is one thing. Getting published with an introduction to your book written by William Eggleston is a whole other realm of awesome. Eggleston will be judging of this year's rigorous First Book Prize in Photography, opening for entries on June 15, 2010. Maybe you've got a shot?

That's all for now, photographer friends. See anything we missed? Reply to @heyhotshot on Twitter and let us know!

As we mentioned on the gallery blog a few weeks ago two of our Hot Shots and JBG artists, Ian Baguskas and Colleen Plumb, along with painter Sarah McKenzie, have donated works for the upcoming Sixth Annual BAMart Silent Auction, which opens for bidding on March 18th! There are over 160 artworks with opening bids starting around $100, all of which can be viewed online before the bidding even starts.

But, all the fun, and the art, aren't just in Brooklyn. BAM is also bridging boroughs, installing a handful of the donated artworks at Bergdorf Goodman. A number of pieces—including photographs by Plumb and Baguskas will be featured in their Fifth Avenue window for all passerby to see (and bid on!).

Bergdorf Goodman
Artwork by Artists participating in the BAMart Silent Auction
58th Street & 5th Avenue
On view: March 18 - 28, 2010

BAM Silent Auction Cocktail Reception
March 27th, 2010
3 - 6 p.m.
Free to enter with an RSVP

The auction will officially end on March 28th at 8 p.m., so bid online, or head to BAM or Bergdorf to see the works in-person before raising your paddle.

We were lucky enough to celebrate the opening of the 2009 Second Edition Exhibition last Friday with all five Hot Shots there in-person, who traveled from both near and far to be there. Elizabeth Leitzell snapped some gorgeous shots of the artists, the JBP team, and many of the panelists who stopped by, including Lesley A. Martin, Stefan Ruiz and Kent Rogowski.

Head over to Flickr to see the full set of installation shots and opening reception photos, and head to Jen Bekman Gallery to see the show, on view through March 20th!

New York has already started to warm up and feel like spring, but the seasons don't officially change 'till March 20th. To celebrate the occasion (and lots more), Aperture is throwing a SNAP! OUT OF WINTER party on March 19th from 9:00 p.m. - Midnight.

Jen, joined by Christina Cahill and Alan Stoga are co-chairing the party, and lots of us from Team JBP will also be there for the evening in our going-out best. The night will sway to the tune of live jazz by The Cangelosi Cards, and there will also be giveaways, drinks, desserts, and instant photos from a Polaroid photo booth at your fingertips. And, of course, you'll be in the company of artists, the three co-chairs, and the many friends of Aperture.

So, get your ticket and meet us there! Party tickets are available at a range of prices, from $100 to $250, depending if you come solo, come in a pair, or purchase a ticket to include an exclusive limited-edition print by Dan Winters and an Aperture magazine subscription.

For more info about the party and to purchase tickets, check out the event website.

SNAP! OUT OF WINTER
Friday, March 19, 2919
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor (Between 10th + 11th Avenue)
New York, NY 10001

Today we had the pleasure of releasing Paris, our fourth edition from photographer Gregory Krum on 20x200 and are also excited to announce that he'll have an upcoming solo show at the JBG opening in May 2010. Mr. Krum first exhibited at the gallery as a Summer 2007 Hot Shot, and since then his work has been included in Mixtape, Summer Reading and X Marks the Art.

Sara wrote of Paris in today's newsletter:

It's easy to give this image a minute to study the tangled coils of ropes and hose and foliage, alive and dead, scattered and floating, and the next thing you know, you too are scattered and floating, a glance having gleaned a full ten minutes of your time. For me, ten minutes turned to a half hour as I scoured the web for houseboat rentals on the Seine.

So many of Mr. Krum's photographs share the same dreamy stillness of this very image. It is as though he ambles to faraway places on his tip toes, looking for serene and beautiful moments to enjoy and capture without anyone knowing he was ever there to begin with. Paris comes from the series Sailors' Valentine, a quiet and anticipatory set of photographs of house boats in Paris.

Although Gregory's first two editions, Chateau Pool and Nymphenberg are completely sold out, his two most recent photographs, New York (Peony) and today's Paris are available in three sizes. Pick them up now, and plan to stop by the JBG in May to see Gregory's images up on the walls.

Spreads from Lay Flat 02: Meta

Back in January we wrote about photography journal Lay Flat taking pre-orders for their second issue Meta. Fast-forward two months and it's now available to order! The sample spreads from the website (above) look fantastic.

The issue's theme encompasses photographic works that deal with the medium of photography itself. Included is work by our own 2009 Second Edition Hot Shot Jessica Eaton and 20x200 artist Penelope Umbrico as well as an essay by HHS! panelist Lesley A. Martin.

Issue 02 was produced in an edition of just 2000, some of which are already being shipped out as pre-orders. You can visit their website to learn more about Lay Flat and order your copy.

la llareta, from Oldest Living Things by Rachel Sussman

One of our very first Hot Shots ever, Rachel Sussman, will be representing in the Humble Arts Foundation show 31 Women in Art Photography, opening on Saturday, March 6th.

The image above will be on display in the exhibition, and is part of Sussman's ongoing series Oldest Living Things, a lush and elegiac project documenting, well, the earth's oldest living things. In her artist statement of the work, Sussman writes:

In my ambitious interdisciplinary project "The Oldest Living Things in the World," I find myself researching far outside my field in areas such as mycology, dendrochronology and microbiology in order to travel around the world to make photographs of the oldest continuously living organisms on the planet. This process involves corresponding and working in the field with scientists in plant and planetary biology in order to identify and locate these organisms. My subjects, living in nearly 20 different countries, include over 30 different organisms ranging from trees to predatory fungus to ancient bacteria. This contemporary, interdisciplinary approach has the potential to shed light on the intersection of science with philosophy and belief via an artistic framework. Further, the work is generating a dialogue amongst scientists whose research is otherwise too specialized to provide a comprehensive picture of global species longevity. These themes of longevity, sustainability, the natural sublime and mortality are inherent to the subject matter, which the viewer is encouraged to explore along with implicit sociological and philosophical constructs.

The project has a very cool interactive google location map as well as its own blog.

From the Humble Arts Foundation press release:

January 18, 2010 - In March 2010, in honor of Women's History Month, Humble Arts Foundation in association with Affirmation Arts will present its second edition of 31 Women in Art Photography, a five-week exhibition celebrating 31 of the most innovative women in new art photography. The exhibition, curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein, will present an eclectic mix of new talent, culled from open submissions. 31 opens at Affirmation Arts in New York City on Saturday, March 6 during The Armory Show 2010.

There will be an opening reception for the artist's on Saturday, March 6th from 6–9 p.m. The exhibition will be on view Saturday, March 6 - Saturday, April 10, 2010.

31 Women in Art
Affirmation Arts
523 W. 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 925.0092

For more information and to RSVP for the reception, please visit the exhibition page.

The well-deserved accolades for Alejandro Cartagena are stacking up of late, and this morning, PDN named him to their highly lauded annual list—PDN's 30—of new and emerging photographers to watch in 2010. Two of the three images featured in the PDN slideshow will be on view in tonight's Hey, Hot Shot! Second Edition Exhibition at JBG. Alejandro will also be in attendance, so if you're in New York, come on by and offer your congratulations and greetings to the photographer himself.

David Walker of PDN writes a brief profile about Cartagena:

Alejandro Cartagena's work reflects a rigorous effort to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings--namely, his adopted city of Monterrey, but more generally, a country that is rapidly re-inventing itself economically, socially and politically....

His large-format landscapes reflect Mexico's economic stratification, its urban disintegration, and the cultural homogenization and depersonalization of its spreading suburbs. Similarly, Cartagena has explored portraiture as a way to examine culture and its "construction," he says.

We too were attracted to the ever-morphing urban landscapes that surround Cartagena: In Fragmented Cities, a disarmingly homogenized presentation of personal homes become lost as a field of indistinguishable shapes when observed from a distance. The landscape of mountains and billowing clouds in a blue sky contradicts the robotic geometry of the structures in the foreground. His Lost Rivers series also speaks to the deep ironies of "progress," and are a mournful study into nature, interrupted and exploited.

Earlier this year we had a chance to do a Q&A with Alejandro, and if you're neither in New York or in Seattle, where one of his photos will be on view at EXPOSURE: Critical Mass 2009 starting tonight, be sure to look at his portfolio online.

Here in New York we're in the middle of art-crazed Armory Week, handing out our Survival Kits and trying to cover at least a few of the 2,000 exhibits and fairs currently on view. But, for those of you not on this coast (and who happen to be in Seattle), be sure to head over to EXPOSED: Critical Mass 2009 at PCNW (Pacific Center Northwest), which opens tonight with a reception for the artists from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Of the 593 artists who entered Photolucida's Critical Mass Competition, these fifty were selected as finalists. One image from each photographer was selected by juror Andy Adams, the Editor and Publisher of FlakPhoto.com for the exhibition, on view through May 18th.

Andy will also be on-site giving a lecture about how The Internet is influencing photography culture around the world at 7 p.m., discussing how the medium connects audiences, allows for discovery of new work, and creates a collaborative community.

The exhibit features work by one of our newest Hot Shots, Alejandro Cartagena, and the work of previous HHS! competition winners Brad Moore, Kate Orne and Birthe Piontek. Mark Menjivar will exhibit Bartender | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Goes to sleep at 8AM, available as a 20x200 edition, and Rachel Papo will exhibit an image titled Three 2nd Class Girls Backstage, St. Petersburg, Russia, which comes from the same series, Desperately Perfect, as her 20x200 print, Nastya Before Class, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Other artists on view include: Jenn Ackerman, Jody Ake, Leslie Alsheimer, Jane Fulton Alt, Carl Bower, Andrea Camuto, Manuel Capurso, Pelle Cass, Edmund Clark, Victor Cobo, Caleb Cole, Scott Dalton, Dorothee Deiss, Mitch Dobrowner, Jade Doskow, Ed Freeman, Lucia Ganieva, Judy Gelles, N.W. Gibbons, Toni Greaves, Jessica Todd Harper, Jessica Ingram, Mary Shannon Johnstone, Jimmy Lam, Laurie Lambrecht, David Leventi, Larry Louie, Benjamin Lowy, Simone Lueck, Sarah Malakoff, Rania Matar, Tim Matsui, Ara Oshagan, Bradley Peters, Alexis Pike, Ellen Rennard, Betsy Schneider, Peter Sibbald, Christopher Sims, Will Steacy, Serkan Taycan, David Taylor and Phillip Toledano.

Photographic Center Northwest
EXPOSED: Critical Mass 2009
Opening reception: Friday, March 5, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
On view: March 5 - May 18, 2010
900 Twelfth Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122

The Internet, Social Media & Photography Online, a lecture with Juror Andy Adams
Tickets: $6 regular, $4 PCNW members
7:00 p.m.

Today marks the official opening of the 2010 NYC Art Fairs! For starters, that means the gallery is open for the 2009 Second Edition Hot Shot Exhibition a full day early, so drop on by today from 12 - 6 p.m. to have a sneak peak before tomorrow evening's opening reception (from 6 - 8 p.m.). The gallery will also be open this Sunday, March 7th, from 12 - 6 p.m. so everyone who is in town has a chance to see the show.

For the art-fair unacquainted, this annual event draws galleries from around the world to exhibit their artists in NYC for the weekend. In celebration of the occasion, everyone at JBP HQ has been working extra hard to put together a special present for you: our Art Fair Survival Kit! The kits feature all kinds of goodies including postcards, stickers, special invites, Daily Candy's City Pocket Guide, a "Visual Palate Cleansing System" for the visually overstimulated, and all kinds of other snacks for both mind and body. We'll be at spots across the city distributing the bags, so keep your eye out for the green and orange totes sporting the 20x200 logo and our Live With Art It's Good For You slogan.

We also wanted to shine the spotlight on one particularly awesome piece of the package that we'll be giving out at the fairs this weekend: The Map.

None other than Jason Polan, who can be seen drawing while on the move in our great metropolis, is profiled in today's Los Angeles Times. And, for the survival kit, he has created a hand-drawn version of the Google Map of our opinionated guide to the NYC Art Fairs we posted to the web last week.

We're throwing a printed copy of the map into every Survival Kit, but we love it so much that we're also putting it online as a downloadable PDF so that everyone can print it, use it, share it, or put it in a frame!

Though putting all the art-fully amazing things happening this weekend onto one sheet of paper was no easy task, we hope that our guide will help you get the most out of your time at the fairs.

The Art Fairs and Other Useful Spots Map by Jason Polan, [download as a PDF]

Inside Out, Feature Issue 38, a curated selection of artwork from Culturehall by Tema Stauffer

Not enough hours in the day to see all the gallery shows in the NYC art fairs this week? We're more than happy to help you get your fix after the lights have dimmed and the doors have locked from the art spaces you find yourselves visiting in the daylight hours. In this day and age, curating has gone digital: 20x200 artist Tema Stauffer has curated the current featured exhibition Inside Out, featured in Culturehall, an online resource for contemporary art. Culturehall describes itself as a place...

...where selected artists can share their work with curators, gallerists, collectors and other artists. We provide free artist portfolios with an easy to use set of web-based tools to make presenting art online simple and efficient. Our community of artists consists primarily of MFA graduates, arts professionals and teaching artists.

Inside Out presents four photographers that are coming out of the raw documentary traditions of contemporary titans like Robert Frank, Larry Clark, Diane Arbus and Richard Billingham. From the exhibition page:

In this highly personal and subjective tradition, Culturehall presents four contemporary photographers with a similar sensitivity to the struggles, fantasies and realities of diverse groups of people whose lives have resonated with the photographers' psychologies, personal histories, cultural backgrounds or social concerns.

Fishbowl, 2010 by Julianna Beasley

The featured photographers in Inside Out are Juliana Beasley, Wayne Liu, Heather Musto and Dave Jordano. Juliana Beasley is a Fall 2006 Hot Shot, whose haunting portraits of societally marginalized denizens of the Rockaways definitely harken the same conflicted care seen in the work of Richard Billingham.

The Inside Out online exhibition will be on view through March 9th.

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and The Honickman Foundation have announced that the one and the only William Eggleston will judge this year's CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition. Eggleston follows a line of renowned photographers who have judge the prize in the past including Robert Adams, Robert Frank and Mary Ellen Mark.

The winning photographer receives a $3,000 grant, publication of a book of photography, and inclusion in a website presenting the work of the award winning artists. Eggleston will also write the introduction for the book, which will be published by Duke University Press in association with CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies.

The competition is open to U.S. citizens of all ages who have not yet published a book-length work (described as: a publication which contains more than thirty of the photographer's images, and is sold through conventional book distribution channels). Each applicant must submit forty images from a larger body of work that, if he or she wins, would be the body of work from which the images for the book are selected. There is a $50 fee for entry and images should be submitted in digital form, on a CD.

In addition to Eggleston, all entries will be reviewed by a panel of photographers and editors, who will select 12 to 25 finalists by November 15, 2010. Finalists will be asked to submit ten sample prints from the body of their submitted work for the judge's review. The final winner will be publicly announced in January 2011.

Though Eggleston's groundbreaking work was in his use of color photography, this competition is open to both color and black and white submissions. Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies says of the addition of Eggleston as a judge, "William Eggleston brings to the First Book Prize his singular vision on the ordinary, his democratic view of the everyday...We could have no one better to locate the next great American photography book than him, no one more acute in seeing the brilliant fibers of the ever-present."

I had the opportunity to meet Eggleston in-person a few years ago at the unveiling of his monograph, 5"x7". Wearing a baby blue suit, jade cufflinks and a kerchief in his pocket, he'd lost none of his Nashville charm over the years. Most would agree that Eggleston's influence on the photography of the everyday is ineffably great, and that however common it has become to take photos of milk cartons and living rooms and women's hair, that perhaps there is something in the eye of one of the original beholders, that still sees something more than the rest of us.

Submissions for the 2010 competition will be accepted from June 15 to September 8, 2010. For guidelines on how to apply, FAQs and details about the award, visit the competition website.

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

Untitled Lost River, San Nicolas 2007, Suburbia Mexicana Project by Alejandro Cartagena

Hey, Hot Shot! News

• + Ladies and gentlemen, it's the moment you've all been waiting for! The Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition Exhibition, featuring fifteen works by the five photographers newest to our Hot Shot roster: Marisa Aragona, Leah Tepper Byrne, Alejandro Cartagena, Jessica Eaton and Justin James King, opens Friday, March 5th (one week from today!) at Jen Bekman Gallery. Come check out the work and mingle with the artists in attendance at the reception from 6 - 8pm. We really hope to see you there!


• + The 2010 Whitney Biennial opened earlier this week, featuring work by Spring 2007 Hot Shot Nina Berman and Fall 2005 Hot Shot Curtis Mann. Check out reviews by Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine, Linda Yablonsky for Bloomberg, Todd Eberle for Vanity Fair, and Kelly Crow for The Wall Street Journal.


• + HHS! Founder and panelist Jen Bekman will be speaking about The Value of Building Community on March 7th at SMartCAMP in NYC alongside the likes of Kickstarter, Threadless, and Etsy. Check out our post on the 20x200 blog for more details on how to attend.


• + What You're Told, paintings by edition-maker Clare Grill at Jen Bekman Gallery, closes tomorrow. Those who brave the snowpocalypse will be rewarded with the warmth of Clare's paintings. Head over to 6 Spring St. and check it out, we promise it's worth it!


• + Hot Shot Yijun (Pixy) Liao, 20x200 edition-makers Emily Shur, and Tema Stauffer are auctioning prints to benefit Haiti through March 7th, coordinated by The Nymphoto Collective.


• + Spring 2006 Hot Shot Michael Itkoff's thesis exhibition Each + Every is on view this Saturday from 12 - 5pm in Long Island City, NY.


• + Work by HHS! honorable mention Magda Biernat is featured today on the NYT Lens Blog.

Photography on 20x200
+ We couldn't be happier to bring you a this sunny edition for a snowy day by Summer 2005 Hot Shot Youngna Park. In addition to being one of our very first Hot Shots and 20x200 edition-makers, Youngna is JBP's Associate Producer, working across the board to make JBP run smoothly.
Winter Flags (East Village, New York) by Youngna Park

Until next week!

Work from Honorable Mention Magda Biernat's series Continental Bounce is featured in the New York Times' Lens Blog today. The images center around a loose architectural framework, concentrating on interiors and exteriors captured during her travels around the world in 2007 - 2008.

Biernat observes spaces from a deliberate distance suggesting that despite being nearly always devoid of people, she's become intimate with the rooms and their dwellers beforehand. She captures the mundane objects of everyday: photographs, pillows, kitchen utensils and curtains as though a tip-toeing anthropologist, present to document but not to disturb.

The series emphasizes the universality in how we create spaces—when reduced to the most basic of elements they are comprised of walls and windows and a place to eat and sleep. Aside, we choose to personalize to create comfort, warmth and a feeling of welcome, and also to remind ourselves that the built environment is simply the framework from which to grow.

The images from Continental Bounce are also currently on view at Clic Gallery at 423 Broome Street through next Tuesday, March 2nd.

Continental Bounce
Clic Gallery
On view through March 2, 2010
423 Broome Street
New York, NY

Each + Every MFA Thesis Show Invite

It's an arguable assertion that there are two kinds of people who go to grad school: those who aspire to find out who they are and what they want to do, and those that already know the answers to those questions and instead are charting a finessed roadmap for what they want to be doing and how they want to do it. Michael Itkoff definitely appears to be in the latter camp: his resume is an exhaustive catalog of someone who has already accomplished so very much, and I can only imagine he'll double his accolades in the coming years.

Untitled from the Each + Every series by Michael Itkoff

Looking at the breadth and sophistication of the various bodies of work on Itkoff's website, I am struck by his photographic sensibilities and capacity to identify and follow through a series of aesthetic questions. Often in art programs one is taught to settle on a particular project from the outset, and to let this define most of the work that you will ever come to do. Itkoff shows us that he can command many different project hats, as it were, without ever separating us from the particularities of his eye, or his probing and substantive mode of investigation with the camera. Whether it's his completely engaging and full-frontal-context Street Portraits series, or the much lauded work from Overgrowth, Itkoff's work is carefully edited and pretty fully realized stuff. It's unlikely you would hear anyone complaining about "student work" while standing in front of his prints.

Perch on ice, Lake Wallenpaupak, Pennsylvania from Between Two Lakes by Michael Itkoff

A Spring 2006 Hot Shot, and co-founder of the print and online photographic publishing venture Daylight Magazine, Itkoff is graduating from the ICP/Bard MFA program this spring. You'd be an enterprising collector to show up and familiarize yourself with his prints.

Michael Itkoff: Each + Every
Opening Reception Friday Feb. 26th, 6-10 p.m.
On View Saturday Feb. 27th 12-5 p.m.
24-20 Jackson Avenue, 3rd Floor
Long Island CIty, Queens, NYC

We hope you'll join us at JB Gallery next Friday, March 5, 2010 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the opening reception for the Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition Exhibition, featuring fifteen works by the five photographers newest to our Hot Shot roster: Marisa Aragona, Leah Tepper Byrne, Alejandro Cartagena, Jessica Eaton and Justin James King. It's been exciting to work with these five photographers in the planning stages of this exhibition—and we're thrilled to share the breadth of their work with you at the gallery.

The exhibition will be on view from March 6 through March 20, 2010, so stop on by!

We had the chance to do Q&As with each of the 2009 Second Edition Hot Shots a few months ago, but in case you missed them, read our conversations to learn a bit more about the artists:
+ Marisa Aragona
+ Leah Tepper Byrne
+ Alejandro Cartagena
+ Jessica Eaton
+ Justin James King

In 2010, we're also celebrating the fifth anniversary (can you believe it?!) of the competition and offering photographers more opportunities than ever before. Stay tuned for details here on the blog and on the site about what's new this year.

HHS! 2010 will open for submissions on March 15, 2010. To be automatically notified of the competition's opening, sign up for the newsletter, follow us on Twitter, and become our friend on Facebook.

We've been keeping an eye on ways the art world has been supporting earthquake relief in Haiti over on the 20x200 blog for the last month. A few days ago, The Nymphoto Collective announced that they too are coordinating an online auction and print sale to benefit the relief effort.

Artworks will be available for sale February 27 through March 7, 2010, with 100% of the proceeds going to Partners in Health.

Nymphoto writes,

It has been only a month since the earthquake in Haiti, but the press is already beginning to slow down its coverage, which is why the Nymphoto Collective has organized this online auction. The Haitian people have a very long road ahead to recovery. The artists participating in this fundraiser want to show their solidarity and let the Haitian people know that they will continue to support them in the months and years ahead. Some of the participating artists have family and friends in Haiti, and some have built relationships with the Haitian people and culture through photography.

The auction features work by Hot Shot Yijun (Pixy) Liao, and 20x200 artists Emily Shur and Tema Stauffer along with Keliy Anderson-Staley, Nina Büsing Corvallo, Jeff Cate, Rona Chang, Cameron Goodyear, Candace Gottschalk, Laura Heyman, Geoffrey Hutchinson, Hee Jin Kang, Michelle Kloehn, Minette Lee Managhas, Tiana Markova-Gold, Stephen Meierding, Maria Passarotti, Suzanne Révy, Jon Shireman, Brea Souders, Julianna Swaney, Jane Tam, Hidemi Takagi and Jennifer Williams.

You can preview the artwork available for sale at The Nymphoto Collective.

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

Prospect Park by Joseph Holmes

Hot Shot News

• + A photograph by Spring 2007 Hot Shot Nina Berman was published in today's Wall Street Journal as part of an article about the 2010 Whitney Biennial, for which Nina was selected.
• + Summer 2007 Hot Shot Gregory Krum has curated, Quicktake: Rodarte at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a show surveying the work, process, and inspiration behind these avant-garde fashion designers.
• + SVA recently announced Photo Global, a new intensive residency program for international students chaired by Hey, Hot Shot! panelist Stephen Frailey. Check out our Q&A with Frailey for answers to questions like, "what does Photo Global offer that other programs do not?" and "who is your ideal student?"
• + The AIPAD—no, not that iPad—is coming to New York, and we just posted our write-up on what the event is all about, why it's valuable for photographers to attend, and what you can do to get the most out of it!
• + In the past few weeks, you might have noticed some great new posts by Stacy Oborn, who—it was officially announced this week—has joined the JBP crew and will be contributing daily to all of our beloved blogs. Welcome to the team, Stacy!

Photography on 20x200
And Still We Gather With Infinite Momentum 1 by Justin James King

+This week we were excited to release the first edition from our 2009 Second Edition Hot Shots on 20x200: Justin James King's And Still We Gather With Infinite Momentum 1, adding to a noteworthy collection of prints by Hot Shots now available on the site. You can read more about Justin's work here.

On that note, the 2009 Second Edition HHS! Showcase opens Friday, March 5th at Jen Bekman Gallery, so mark your calendars!

From the Web

• + Don't miss Pictory's newest collaborative photo story, The One Who Got Away, and also take a look at how to submit to their upcoming and ongoing themes.
• + The Hey, Hot Shot! Blog is one of the sources being aggregated by brand-new photo resource The Photography Post, edited by Spring 2005 Hot Shot Rachel Hulin. We're thrilled to be a tiny part of this exciting new site!
• + We're smitten with the photograph of dogs in Prospect Park by Joe Holmes (seen at the top of this post!) and—if the like-and-reblog count is any indication—so is the rest of the internet.
• + Bland desktop blues? Summer 2005 Hot Shot Noah Kalina has got you covered.
• + 20x200 edition-maker Kate Bingaman-Burt has been posting daily drawings for February on her Flickr, including an instant camera which we totally covet.

p.s. See anything that we missed? Reply to @heyhotshot on Twitter.

2009 AIPAD show catalog; Movie Theater, Midland, Texas, March 25, 1995 by Dan Winters

While there might still be snow and slush on the ground, the spring arts calendar in NYC is beginning to fill up with great gallery shows and opportunities. Among the annual rites of spring in the city is one of the biggest international photographic events of the year, the AIPAD show at the Park Avenue Armory from March 18 through 21, 2010.

If you've never had a chance to make it out to AIPAD before, here's the skinny*:

AIPAD is short for the Association of International Photography Art Dealers. Every year for this long weekend at the beginning of spring, photographic galleries from all over the globe convene on the Armory site and set up shop. The idea is to give viewers and collectors a good sense of the kind of work that each gallery represents, as well as to provide face-to-face access with gallery owners and assistants that are on hand to field any questions or have a nice, casual conversation about art, the universe and everything. And if you're the sort with a nice cushion in your bank account you can even purchase work at the event.

It's an invaluably useful tool for photographers at all levels of their careers, as you can visit the show and in one weekend have compiled a list of galleries that might represent the kind of work you're doing, and whom it might be fortuitous for you to approach (but *after* the AIPAD event, not during!). And aside from personal gain, it's also an eye-popping experience of micro-gallery-going on an international scale. Will you be able to travel easily to Berlin in the near future and see the what's on the walls at Galerie august-fotokunst? Or have you been curious about the emerging scene in China and would like to see what's showing at Beijing Jade Jar Fine Art? At this once-a-year event, all the galleries of the world come to you (if you're in New York). And instead of wearing yourself out trying to cram in everything that's showing in Midtown, Chelsea and the Upper East Side—let alone in Argentina, France or the UK, you can do it all in one building one weekend in March. (View a full list of this year's exhibitors right here).

AIPAD 2008, © Susan Sermoneta

AIPAD will be on view from:
Thursday, March 18 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, March 19 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 20 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 21 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

For more information on ticket sales and special exhibition talks (want to hear Bruce Davidson speak?), visit the AIPAD website and download their education program (pdf).

And, if you know all about AIPAD but have never been able to make it, promising "next year, next year," at least pencil it in for now. Not just because it's also a Whitney Biennial year and you can cram both of those two venues into one action-packed-art-weekend, but also because our very own Jen Bekman is co-chairing the Aperture Snap! Out of Winter Party. We'll have much more info on this soon, but in short: the ticket to the party comes with a print giveaway of photographer Dan Winters' work, a subscription to Aperture magazine, fine champagne and a Polaroid photobooth—with all of the proceeds for the event going to the Aperture Fund for Emerging Artists. Sound good? You can buy tickets right here (and you'd get to meet Jen + team 20x200). What other motivation could you possibly need?

*I had the chance to visit in 2008 and left full of notable impressions of the fair.

I'll admit it: I'm a sucker for stories without discrete endings—tales of lost loves, notes written into the ether, missed connections and stories of profound relationships that dissolved for reasons beyond one's control.

Pictory Magazine's newest project, The One Who Got Away, collects photographs and anecdotes about lost friends and loves from contributors around the globe. Magazine editor, Laura Brunow Miner created Pictory as a way for people to share the stories that accompany their photographs. For each issue, Miner selects an editorial theme, ranging from the conceptual (danger) to the much more specific (Portrait of London), then accepts submissions of captioned photographs. At any given time, several themes are open for entries, then 20-40 images and captions are published as collaborative picture stories.

In the introduction to The One Who Got Away, Miner writes:

Think about the people missing from your life, and how you feel about them. What we remember -- and what we forget -- may reveal more about ourselves than about them. We have photos, letters, souvenirs, and fragments of memory, but our powerful imagination takes over from there: We color in the blanks. And that's OK. Retouching old loves is a way of understanding what we want. It helps us find our way to new ones.

It's impossible to know whether the experiences below are about infatuation, true love, lust, or something else entirely. But we can be sure that each of these contributors learned about life and themselves in the process.

See Pictory's theme page for topics currently open for submission, and make sure to take the time to read through the captions of The One Who Got Away; they'll tug on your heartstrings.