Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium & Portfolio Reviews

CENTER's premier juried portfolio review event, the Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium, is a conference for photographers and lens-based artists seeking audience expansion, critical discussion, and community connection. One of the oldest portfolio review events in the U.S., Review Santa Fe, enters its 21st year in 2022. The conference programs include portfolio reviews with esteemed reviewers, Project Presentations, The Democratic Lens: Photography & Civic Engagement Scholar Lectures, and more. View the 2022 event schedule.

2022 EVENT
The portfolio review events and photo symposium is scheduled to take place Nov 17-20, 2022, in Santa Fe, NM. We are planning on hosting in-person events as well as offering some online components. However, the in-person programming is subject to change as CENTER reserves the right to make the necessary changes based on the latest studies and updates regarding the COVID-19 virus and its variants to ensure the safety of its staff, event participants, and the public. Stay up to date with our COVID-19 updates and restrictions for the event.

PROGRAM ACCESSIBILITY
Sign-language interpretation, program guides, assistive listening devices, and other guest facilitation are all available upon request. Please contact us to inform us of your needs.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT> We acknowledge that Santa Fe, NM, is located in the ancestral and unceded traditional territories of the Tewa people, who continue to maintain connections to this land. O'ghe P'oghe - the original Tewa name for Santa Fe, which means White Shell, Water Place - thousands of years ago, was a center place for Northern and Southern Tewa communities. We honor these people of the past, present, and future who inhabited, held sacred, and stewarded this land.

Each year CENTER highlights excellence and innovative contributions to the field with the annual awards and project grants seen at the Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium. By providing the select lens-based artists with financial support, publications, exhibitions, networking, and presentation opportunities, we can ensure these important stories extend to diverse and expansive audiences.

The free and open-to-the-public events are held both online and in-person to ensure audiences from around the world can participate. Join us this year in October and November to hear from and see the 2022 Award and Grant winning projects, vetted lens-based projects, and scholars representing key voices in the field.

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OCTOBER 25 - 28 PROJECT PRESENTATIONS | 12 - 2pm MT | online
For 4 days, join the 8 CENTER Award + Grant-winning artists for an intimate view of their projects and processes in conversation with Holly Stuart Hughes, Independent Editor, Writer, & Grant Consultant: Sequencing & Editing Multimedia for Clarity with Esha Chiocchio • Environmental Award The Value of Feedback on Text & Images with Luis Corzo • Social Award Finding Your Personal Voice with Dan Fenstermacher • Multimedia Storytelling Award Writing & Images with Arista Slater-Sandoval • Personal Award Finding an Audience for Personal Projects with Heather Evans Smith • Me&Eve Grant Editing a Long-Form Photo Project & Grant Proposal with Maximilian Thuemler • Development Grant Inspiring & Teaching Conscientious Creativity with Uche Okpa-Iroha • Teaching Award Balancing Assignments & Self-Assignments with David Walter Banks • Launch Grant

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NOVEMBER 18 PORTFOLIO WALK + BOOK FAIR | 5:30 - 8pm MT | in-person
Santa Fe Farmers' Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501 For 1 night only, join us for an extraordinary opportunity to network with the invited lens-based professionals along with the local Santa Fe community, and view the compelling documentary and fine art projects. Don't miss the opportunity to purchase outstanding photographic books and zines from the following publishers: ARTBOOK / Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P), Blurb, Dear Dave Magazine, Gnomic Books, Grenade in a Jar, HurleyMedia, photo-eye Bookstore, Radius Books, and SKYLARK, among others.

NOVEMBER 20 SCHOLAR LECTURES | 10am - 1:30pm MT | in-person + livestream
La Fonda on the Plaza, 100 E, San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 Join Will Wilson, Photography Department Head at the Santa Fe Community College, in conversation with three scholars as they discuss the role of photography in civic engagement: Photography & Restitution: The Civil Potential of the Image with Laura Wexler, Professor of American & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Empathy As A Perspective with Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator Emerita, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX What Can't Be Unseen: Photography & Activism with Kymberly Pinder, Ph.D., Dean, Yale School of Art, Yale University

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

With texts from Richie Blink, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jessica Dandridge, Rebecca Elliott, Michael Esealuka, T. Mayheart Dardar, Billy Fleming, Andy Horowitz, Arthur Johnson, Louis Michot, Nini Nguyen, Kate Orff, Jessi Parfait, Amy Stelly, Jonathan Tate, Aaron Turner, and John Verdin.

Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

2024 | 252 pages

Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

Taken across Europe and Africa, Akinbiyi’s images of everyday city life muse on the sociopolitical labyrinths of urban society

Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm―Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artist’s book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.” Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner―Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner’s own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

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