©Rebecca Norris Webb, After Hurricane Sandy, Brooklyn, 2012
Glad to hear all our workshop students made it out of the city safely before Hurricane Sandy. Thanks for all the calls, texts, and emails — and we apologize because our cell phone and email coverage has been pretty spotty the last couple of days.
How does one start to make sense of this devastation to the city we live in? One way is to try to photograph it.
As you probably know, I still use film, but because of the lack of electricity throughout lower Manhattan where I process film, it made sense to try my first attempts at digital, which you are seeing here on the blog today. Early this morning, Alex road his bike into Manhattan to photograph lower Manhattan for New York Magazine. We’ll post the link next week to his work, and perhaps more of mine, that is if I can figure out what I’m doing with a digital camera.
Be safe everyone.–Rebecca Norris Webb
EXHIBITIONS
——NOV. 8 2012-JAN. 27, 2012, LONDON, “CARTIER-BRESSON: A QUESTION OF COLOR,” group exhibition with Alex Webb, Trent Parke, Joel Meyerwitz, Harry Gruyaert, Helen Levitt, Saul Leiter and others, an exhibition curated by William Ewing.
——SEPT.21, 2-12 – JANUARY 13, 2012, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, “Looking at the Land: 21st Century American Views,” A Collaboration with Flak Photo and RISD Museum of Art, group projection and online exhibition, curated by Andy Adams, with photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb, Brian Ulrich, Todd Hido, Joshua Dudley Greer, Christine Carr, and others.
——SATURDAY, OCT. 13-NOV. 4: “CONTATTI @ the Fucecchio Foto Festival,” which includes contact sheet and prints from Rebecca Norris Webb, Larry Fink, Mark Steinmetz, Albert Watson, Callie Shell, Vince Muesi, and other photographers from the book, “Contatti,” by the publisher, Postcart. Fucecchio, Italy.
Streets of Havana 2013 Workshop with Nordic Light, Jan. 12-19, 2013
UPCOMING 2012 WORKSHOPS WITH ALEX AND REBECCA
—SUNDAY, DEC. 9TH, 10-5PM, MASTER CLASS: MIAMI: A ONE-DAY STREET PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP WITH ALEX WEBB AND REBECCA NORRIS WEBB. A one-day street photography workshop in conjunction with the first Miami Street Photography Festival, which also coincides with Miami Basel Art Fair. (If you wish, you can join a street photography group the day before (Sat., Dec. 8th) and photograph Little Havana, an assignment which the Webb will edit with you on Sunday.) To register and learn more, click here. Only one place left, according the Miami Street Photography Facebook page.
——JANUARY 12-19, 2013, STREETS OF HAVANA 2013 with Nordic Light, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb workshop with optional side trip and final edit Jan. 19-25, 2013. For more information click here or visit the TO CUBA WITH ALEX WEBB AND REBECCA NORRIS WEBB Facebook page.
©Rebecca Norris Webb, After Hurricane Sandy, Brooklyn, 2012
UPCOMING EVENTS FOR ALEX AND REBECCA: 2012
——SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 12:30-4pm: “Slideluck London: Retrospective of Last Five Years,” with includes “Violet Isle” by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, and work by Carolyn Drake, Phil Toledano, Sebastian Liste, Laura El-Tantawy, and others, Brighton, UK. Free to public. See details below.
——SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 9:30: “An Evening with Magnum Photographer Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb: Street Photography from Florida, Cuba, and Around the World.” Slide talk followed by Q&A, Kike San Martin Studios, 2045 NW 1st Ave., Miami, Florida. This free event is part of the Miami Street Photography Festival 2012, which coincides with Art/Miami Basel the second weekend in December. Space is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible to reserve a seat.
OTHER RECENT LINKS FOR ALEX AND REBECCA:
LINK TO THE NEW YORK TIMES LENS BLOG Q&A WITH REBECCA ABOUT “MY DAKOTA”
LINK TO NOTES ON “THE SUFFERING OF LIGHT’ BY ALEX WEBB ON TIME LIGHTBOX.
LINK TO “MY DAKOTA” ON TIME LIGHTBOX.
LINK TO ALEX’S EAST LONDON PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE AUGUST 2012 ISSUE OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
TO READ THE FRACTION MAGAZINE REVIEW of MY DAKOTA CLICK HERE.
“LOOKING AT THE LAND” IN AMERICAN PHOTO MAGAZINE.
Slideluck London 5th Anniversary Show on Nov. 11th, Brighton, UK
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