is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?

the exhibition closes this sunday, so this week is your last ever chance to see it. thursday night will be a closing reception/panel discussion (the google aesthetic: art, technology, and the internet) which i can promise will be great. full info about the event here, general exhibition info here, and directions to the gallery right here. see you on thursday.

[all photos from the exhibition is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world? top to bottom: kelci mcintosh. asha schechter. jessica westbrook. daniel shea.]

is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?

installation views from i heart photograph's latest exhibition at the pierro gallery on view through may 25th. take a peek at a nice blog post about the opening by one of the artists in the show, daniel shea. and get full info about the show including directions to the gallery and a list of events here.

[top to bottom: front room, featuring 500 5-x-7 inch prints by all 189 artists in the show. detail of front room. side room, featuring a wall of new jersey pizzas by asha schechter. exhibition catalogues designed by konst & teknik. back room, including work by (left to right) christophe maout, chris coy, barry w. hughes, sergei sviatchenko, daniel shea, eke kriek, pelle cass, antje peters. front room. details of photos atop viewing pedestal which the audience can touch, hold, and look through.]

is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?

hair metal inspired work from i heart photograph's latest exhibition opening this sunday in new jersey. the show features more than 1,000 images by 189 artists from 18 countries. full details, directions to the gallery, and a list of exhibition-related events can be found here.

top: from paterson, usa. "about the classic stereotype 'jersey girl'.” karenann sinocchi is a fine arts photographer and a new jersey native.

middle: from santa monica, usa. "two distinctly new jersey phenomena: diners and glam rock." diane meyer is an artist and professor living in los angeles, but a new jersey native.

bottom: from los angeles, usa. "the underlying photo is actually of the pacific, but i’m working with cultural knowledge of new jersey, and the two things that leapt to mind were the industrialized jersey shore and bon jovi." nicholas grider is in the art and writing mfa programs at calarts, and is a contributing writer to iheartphotograph and artslant.

[from the exhibition: "is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?"]

is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?

a sneak peak from i heart photograph's latest "real world" exhibition opening this sunday in new jersey. the show features more than 1,000 images by 189 artists from 18 countries. full details, directions to the gallery, and a list of exhibition-related events can be found here.

top: from rotterdam, netherlands. "i have never been to new jersey, to get an
impression, i googled it, i was looking for something that stood for the state and could represent nj in a picture but i couldn’t really get a grip on this place, what came up again and again was the shape of the map." antje peters was born in berlin, germany in 1979 and currently lives in the netherlands.

middle: from chicago, usa. "i tried to make an outline of new jersey from memory, using a stereo cord and blue masking tape while the cd player played bruce springsteen’s “born to run” on repeat." daniel everett is getting his mfa at the art institute in chicago and his work is about erasure of identity, transitory places, and video games.

bottom: from philadelphia, usa. "some cutting and some retouching." dominic episcopo is a photographer living and working in philadelphia, born and raised in verona, new jersey.

[from the exhibition: "is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?"]

is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?

i spent most of yesterday aghast and elated. new jersey's leading newspaper, the star-ledger, featured i heart photograph's latest exhibition 'is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?' as their lead front page story!

the show opens on april 6th at the pierro gallery and features over 1,000 photographs by 189 artists hailing from argentina, australia, cambodia, canada, denmark, france, germany, ireland, lithuania, netherlands, portugal, slovakia, sweden, thailand, turkey, united states, vietnam, and wales.

more teasers for the exhibition will be featured on i heart photograph next week. in the meantime you can read the full star-ledger article here. and mark your calenders to join us for the opening next sunday april 6th from 3-5 pm.

just one week left...

remember the deadline for submitting your work is just one week away: friday february 22nd.

so far the response has been amazing. we've gotten great work from almost 100 photographers from cambodia, argentina, lithuania, the netherlands, canada, sweden, thailand, germany, ireland, slovakia, france, india, and all across the united states.

what are you waiting for? upload your work and get full details here.

submit your work

i heart photograph is excited to announce its latest exhibition...and you are all invited to participate in this open call for work. february 22, 2008 is the deadline for submissions. get all the details and submit your work at: aphotographofnewjersey.com

to get you thinking: "are ideas about place dramatically different since the internet has allowed us to participate in culture on such a global scale? despite the endless stream of information and images available through mass media, are there limits to how we perceive, imagine, and understand the world? exactly how do you picture new jersey? what would you say about it in a photograph?"

responses will be included in the exhibition "is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?" curated by i heart photograph for the municipally supported non-profit pierro gallery and made possible by funds from new jersey state council of the arts, a partner agency of the national endowment of the arts.

full details here.