Ki Smith Gallery benefit auction for Boyd's Station

Witness: Beauty in the Truth March 7-9, 2019

FORTY AWARD-WINNING PHOTOJOURNALISTS WORK BENEFITTING THE NONPROFIT BOYD'S STATION

Captured by some of today's most acclaimed photojournalists, this impressive collection of photographs depicts some of the most famous moments in recent history. These iconic images have circulated the globe in internationally-respected publications, but are rarely available to the public as authenticated, museum quality prints.

The Ki Smith Gallery Benefit Print Auction for Boyd's Station opens with a public reception on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 6PM-10PM showcasing over 70 large prints displayed and made available for this special silent auction benefit.

Ki Smith Gallery
712 W 125th St
New York, NY 10027

Special Guest Photographer Presentations and Talks at Ki Smith Gallery - Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9

Friday, March 8, 2019
Michael E. Keating, Hoosier Hardwood Photo Documentary Project at 6PM
Gary Hershorn, Chasing the Moon NYC at 8PM

Saturday, March 9, 2019
Astrid Riecken, Reportage and Collage at 6PM
Jeff Swensen, American Reportage at 8PM

This Ki Smith Gallery benefit will support the Boyd's Station Project 306.36 and the mentoring and training of tomorrow's documentary photographers and journalists through the innovative Boyd's Station Reinke Grants for Visual Storytelling and the Mary Withers Rural Writing Fellowship located in the beautiful Bluegrass Region of Harrison County, Kentucky. www.boydsstation.org

ALL PROCEEDS from each print auctioned during this event will FULLY BENEFIT the visual documentary programs sponsored by the arts and journalism nonprofit Boyd's Station.

All horizontal prints are Digital C-Prints printed on 24 x 20 Kodak Endura photographic paper with 2 white borders on top and sides. All vertical prints are Digital C-Prints printed on 24x 16 Kodak Endura photographic paper with 2 white borders on top and sides. Each print is signed by the photographer on front (recto) at bottom right of each image with archival black signing pen.

If you cannot attend the events at the Ki Smith Gallery in NYC, you can view the entire collection and bid on these benefit images here. www.boydsstation.org

Contact info: Jack Gruber, Executive Director, Boyd's Station, 210 Boyd's Station Road, Berry, KY 41003 (703-901-1810)
www.boydsstation.org

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

An incredible book that we highly recommend! All About Photo

All About Michael Joseph

Nick Brandt: Sink / Rise, The Day May Break: Chapter Three

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2024 | 120 pages

Through his widely acclaimed work, English photographer Nick Brandt (1964) addresses pressing environmental issues, consistently highlighting mankind’s impact upon the natural world. His work is truly a fusion of artistry and activism, and he is best known for capturing the majestic landscapes of Africa as well as intimate portraits of its wildlife. Sink / Rise is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying ecological degradation and destruction. This chapter adopts a slightly different approach than its predecessors: taking humans, rather than animals or landscapes, as his subjects. Sink / Rise focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are local representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises. In Brandt’s images, the Islanders sit down at tables, stand on chairs and embrace―all the while, their pinched expressions reveal the desperation of their asphyxiating condition.

All About Nick Brandt

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord:

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

Christer Strömholm

By Christer Strömholm

Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing

2024 | 296 pages

Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black‐and‐white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him “as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher.”

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