PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography Schedule (click here)

HATCH Photography will inspire new and established photographers through an interactive combination of mentorship, panel discussions, and photographic experiences such as workshops and exhibitions. By showcasing two of the most significant artists working in their field, HATCH Photography promises to expose Asheville and the community to all that photography is and can be, as well as creating a challenging and exciting dialog between Mentor and Groundbreaker.

Photo Events:

• Gallery – Castell Photography, a fine art photography gallery, will exhibit photography by Gerald Slota and Sylvia Plachy as well as other artists. Both Gerald and Sylvia will give a gallery talk on Friday April 15th (12pm and 2pm respectively).
• HATCHLab - An exhibit of inkjet Canon prints that will be printed at the HATCHLab from images submitted by the community. The theme will be “Unrehearsed” - submission guidelines are at the bottom of this page. Send in your images asap so we can start printing them for display. This exhibit is open to the public to participate in and view. Hours will be 12-5 daily at 43 Rankin Avenue. Submission and your print  is FREE.
  
• “Light Entertainment” Friday night event includes the viewing of the juried photography exhibition of “Up Close” in Pack Square Park Friday, April 15th from 8-9:30. This event will include music, a “Gypsy Cirque Art Mob” brought to us by the Asheville Arts Council, and light and laser tag shows by artists Heather Lewis and Gene Felice (more below). Don’t miss this exciting free event! In case of rain, the Up Close slide show will move to the YMI on Eagle St. before the networking event.
• “Truth and Its Lookalike: Photography and Narrative” – Photography Panel will be at the Innovators Lounge at Jubilee! on Wall Street at 11:00 on Saturday, April 16th. Diana Stoll, senior editor of Aperture Magazine, will moderate the panel which includes photographers Gerald Slota, Sylvia Plachy, Eric Baden and Mike Smith. $5 or free with Hatch pass and/or student ID.
• Reception for Hatch Photo mentors Sylvia Plachy and Gerald Slota from 6-8 at Castell Photography in downtown Asheville. Free event.
• Keynote with Gerald Slota will be at 12pm on Friday April 15th at Castell Photography. $5 or free with Hatch pass and/or student ID.
• Keynote with Sylvia Plachy will be at 2pm on Friday April 15th at Castell Photography. $5 or free with Hatch pass and/or student ID.
• “What Remains – the Life and Work of Sally Mann” - a fascinating look at the work and life of one of photographic heroes – the legendary and sometimes notorious Sally Mann. Two viewings during HATCH: Thursday at 1pm, Friday at 4pm.
• Panel Discussion at the Asheville Museum on the Lee Friedlander Photography exhibit with Diana Stoll, Bill Alexander and George Briggs. 3pm Sunday.
  

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  ©Michael Phillips, Hatch Photo 2010

HATCH Photography presents the first large-scale public showing of Heather Lewis’ Pay-per-view, a coin-operated light installation. Pay-per-view is not a new idea in itself, but here one person will pay for a few minutes of viewing time that will be shared with the rest of the audience, and each purchaser of minutes will get to contribute to the experience by choosing and arranging objects within their own projected image. The resulting artwork could be seen as a series of contemporary fine art products conceived by an artist but produced in the public sphere by a hired operator and some of the consumers themselves.

Gene Felice will be creating a world of projected, architectural adornment.  The buildings will come alive through light and texture, becoming an interactive palette of atmospheric photons.  With an assortment of digital tools including: a super bright projector, a laser writing system, live camera’s and various interactive systems, we will paint downtown Asheville with color & light that will dissipate at the flip of a switch.

HATCHLab submission guidelines:

Theme: Image should fit within the theme of “Unrehearsed”.

File Size: Image should be close to 11×14 ” at 150 dpi. Put another way, the long side of the image should be approximately 2100 pixels.

File Format: Jpg

File Name: Author’s name should be the file name

Limit: One image per person

The Hatch Lab will be open 12-5 Wednesday April 13th – Saturday April 16th. Bring the image on a disc or thumb drive.

Images will be reviewed for file size and content to assure that they work within the theme of “Unrehearsed” and are high enough quality files to be printed as large as 11×14. All images will be taken first come, first serve – up to the first 200 images will be printed and exhibited at the Hatch Lab in Parker J. Photography studio at 43 Rankin Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801. Images may be picked up after April 18th from Castell Photography. Generally, cell phone images will not be high enough quality to be blown up to 11×14″.

Mentors
SYLVIA PLACHY

• Born in Budapest lives in New York.
• She has had her own column at the Village Voice, called Unguided Tour, at  Metropolis Magazine called Signs & Relics, and started the Lens column, at the New York Times. Staff photographer at The Village Voice until 2004 and later at the New Yorker Magazine, she is contributing photographer at the New Yorker. Her photographs and photo essays appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Art Forum, Granta, Grand Street.
• One person shows at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, in the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris in New York, at the Queens Museum, and in galleries in Homer, Lubljana, Budapest, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Manchester, Arles, Madrid, Perpingnon and Pingyau. She was one of three featured photographers at the Look3 Festival in the summer of 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
• Her photographs are in private collections and also in the MOMA in NY, Houston Museum, SF Museum and the High Museum in Atlanta.
• She has had six books published: DE REOJO/OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE, 2007, GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN, 2007. SELF PORTRAIT WITH COWS GOING HOME, 2004 won the Golden Light Award for best book, SIGNS AND RELICS, 2000, RED LIGHT, 1996. Her first book, UNGUIDED TOUR includes music by Tom Waits and won the Infinity award for best publication, 1990.
• She is a Guggenheim fellow and the recipient of a Lucie Award and CAPS grant and in February 2010 the Dr. Erich Salomon Award in Berlin.

sylviaplachy.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GERALD SLOTA

GERALD SLOTA is a fine artist and photographer who has been widely exhibited across the US and abroad. He has had solo shows at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, and Langhans Galerie in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as been shown at Recontres D’ Arles in Arles, France. Slota is represented by Ricco/Maresca Gallery in NYC and the Robert Berman Gallery in LA, and his images have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Discover, and Scientific America, as well as in BOMB, Blindspot, ARTNEWS, Art in America, and Aperture. He currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and has lectured at many institutions such as the International Center for Photography (ICP). Gerald Slota has garnered many awards including a Polaroid 20”x24” Grant, a MacDowell Artist Residency, and a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship Grant in 2001 and 2009. www.geraldslota.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hatch Photography 2011 Groundbreakers:

Alex Palmour, Ashley Florence, Matt Brown and Liz Wells. Below are samples of these talented photographer’s work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discipline Leaders // Lynne Harty & Brie Castell

LYNNE HARTY
Asheville-based commercial and art photographer Lynne Harty’s specialty lies in her capturing images of people and objects from a unique point of view. Her commercial clients include the Biltmore Estate, Lark Books, Beverly-Hanks & Associates, and Delta Airlines. In addition to her commercial work, she has developed a following in the Asheville region, where her colorful and unusual depictions of city icons are purchased and collected both for display and for branding by groups like the Chamber of Commerce. In 2009, Lynne became a licensed artist of the historic Biltmore Estate with her contemporary take on that very traditional subject.

Lynne also teaches photography workshops to students at all levels, both at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico and in workshops in the Southeast.  Most recently, she has been concentrating on stop motion animation and just completed a music video for the Crash Test Dummies. In 2010, Lynne spearheaded the photography program at Hatch, and is excited to combine forces with Brie Castell to raise the bar on Hatch Photography in 2011 by bringing in internationally known mentors, relevant workshops and panels, and by forming a program for “groundbreakers” to have access to all of these amazing resources.

BRIE CASTELL
Brie Castell is the owner of Castell Photography Salon and Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina (Asheville’s only fine art photography gallery), a professional photographer and artist, and adjunct professor of photography at Brevard College. She has an extensive exhibition record, and has exhibited around the country. In April of 2008, Brie was an exhibitor in The Artist Project at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, an exhibition of undiscovered artists which attracted more than 50,000 visitors. She is a featured artist in the Fall 2009 issue of Eyemazing Magazine, an award winning Amsterdam-based photography publication. Castell’s photographs are widely collected all over the world, and are in many public and private collections.

Photography Schedule

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