Location:	Dwyer Cultural Center 258 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York 10027 (Entrance on 123rd Street between St. Nicholas Ave & Fredrick Douglass Blvd) New York, NY 10027
Date:	Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 6–8pm
Cost:	$20 for En Foco members $70 for non–members (includes a $50 level Photographers Membership) Need to check out the membership benefits? CLICK HERE Options: Current Members $20.00 USD Non-Members (includes Membership) $70.00 USD
Cancellation Policy/Refunds:	Reimbursements (minus a $5 processing fee) can be provided up to 10 days before event.

Location:	Location: Aperture Building 547 West 27th Street, Suite 309 New York, NY 10001
Date:	Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Cost:	$10 for advance registration online $20 at the door on the day of event
Cancellation Policy/Refunds:	Reimbursements (minus a $5 processing fee) can be provided up to 10 days before event.

Location:	Calumet Photographic's HP Gallery 22 West 22nd Street, between 5th & 6th Ave New York, NY
Date:	Thursday, July 7, 2011, from 6-7:30pm
Cost:	$20 for En Foco members $70 for non–members (includes a $50 level Photographers Membership) Options: Current Members $20.00 Non-Members (includes Membership) $70.00
Cancellation Policy/Refunds:	Reimbursements (minus a $5 processing fee) can be provided up to 10 days before event.

This En Foco program offers one-on-one reviews with several arts professionals on the same day, in a supportive, nurturing and affordable environment. Reviewers can advise about opportunities and/or provide guidance on career development. This is an outstanding opportunity for ALL photographers to have their work critiqued by curators, editors, educators and other arts organizations.

Whether you're ready for Chelsea galleries, or just looking for feedback and advice, we have reviewers to suit all needs - you just have to be serious about your craft (call if you have questions). In between sessions, you'll be able to relax in the photographer's creative lounge and share your work with peers.

This workshop is only available to current En Foco Members (ALL are welcome to join). Each review session lasts for 20 minutes; photographers are guaranteed a minimum of three reviews and receive a 'gift bag.' Upon registration, participants will receive an article written by photo marketing expert Mary Virginia Swanson, on how to best prepare themselves for the Review. Read her new blog article, Assessing the Value of Attending Portfolio Review Sessions.


Reviewer´s will be added on a daily basis. Those confirmed to date (8/14/10) are:

Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Curator, Jersey City Museum
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado received her Ph.D. in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2001. Her dissertation was a study of modernist movements in Harlem and Havana between 1925 and 1945. She is the curator at Jersey City Museum, where she organizes exhibitions of contemporary art featuring work by both established and emerging artists in the New Jersey and New York region. She also organizes exhibitions drawn from the Museum's eclectic permanent collection of American art including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and material culture from the 18th to the 20th centuries. She recently organized The Feminine Mystique, based on Betty Friedan's book of the same title from 1963. She has been invited to speak at the Smithsonian Institution, the Whitney Museum, the Americas Society, the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture and has taught art history at local universities. Her writing has appeared in various publications including catalogue essays for the Museum of Modern Art and El Museo del Barrio, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Nexus, Review, the journal of the Americas Society, En Foco's Nueva Luz, NYFA Quarterly, Small Axe, BOMB and American Art. She is most interested in seeing poetic documentary photography, those that don't feel like documentary. Also interested in stark photos of architecture, general imagery, and photographic collage. Least interested in experimental works.

Elizabeth Avedon
Photography Book Designer, Independent Curator and Consultant
Elizabeth Avedon has a rich history in photography. Collaborating with museums, publishing houses, advertising agencies, galleries and artists, she's received recognition for her curatorial work, exhibition design and publishing projects, including the retrospective exhibition and book: Avedon: 1949 -1979 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Avedon: In the American West for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. In addition, she has also worked with the Menil Collection and the Estate of Diane Arbus. She was formerly the Creative Director for The Gere Foundation, the Art Director for Polo Ralph Lauren national advertising, Director of Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, and is a co-founder of Tibet House, NYC. Elizabeth recently curated the ASMPNY fundraiser DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS, Haiti at the Verge Art Fair. She's been a reviewer at the Santa Fe Center of Photography's "Review Santa Fe" several times and is interested in looking at editorial and fine art photography. Elizabeth can also be followed on her blog.

Florian Bachleda
Creative Director, Latina Magazine and FB Design
Florian Bachleda is the Creative Director of FB Design, a graphic-design studio in New York City. He is also the Creative Director of Latina magazine. Previously, he was the Design Director for Vibe magazine (which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2002), Vibe Vixen, Maximum Golf and P.O.V. (Point of View). He has also worked at New York magazine, Entertainment Weekly and the Village Voice. Bachleda has won awards and medals from the Society of Publication Designers, American Illustration, American Photography, Print magazine and Communication Arts, among others. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts and has chaired and juried numerous design and illustration competitions. He has served as President of the Society of Publication Designers, and was on their Board of Directors for five years. He is most interested in portraits, fashion, beauty and also "conceptual still-lifes" (photos that can illustrate a story using just objects and still-lifes).

Kalia Brooks
Arts Consultant and Curator
Kalia Brooks is an arts consultant and curator. Formerly the Public Programs Coordinator, Studio Museum in Harlem, she is currently pursuing a doctorate in Aesthetics and Art Theory with the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Brooks is a graduate of the California College of the Arts with a Master of Arts degree in Curatorial Practice. Her recent exhibitions include Off Color (Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Rush Arts, and Corridor Gallery); Static: Temporary Collective/Temporary Spaces; Preserving America's Cultural Heritage; In the Heart of Dixie (collaboration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation); The Missing Peace: The Dalai Lama Portrait
Project (sponsored by The Dalai Lama Foundation); and Tomorrow Minus Five (in association with Arts Initiative Tokyo) in Tokyo, Japan. Brooks is a contributor to the Studio magazine, Light Work Annual, Exposure magazine and Curating Now '05 and '06

Song Chong
Advertising & Creative Development, Magnum Photos
Song Chong is a native Angeleno who has made NYC her home for the last 10 years. She received her MA in Arts and Humanities Education from NYU and went on to commence her doctoral work in the highly regarded Visual Culture and Theory program at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication where she works as an adjunct professor. She is currently writing her dissertation on the role of the subject and absence in contemporary photojournalism. Song began her professional photographic life representing top fashion and beauty photographers. Joining Magnum in 2006, she developed the Magnum Educational platform, producing the international Magnum Workshops, Magnum Masterclasses and First Impressions portfolio review programming. In her free time, she is the curator of the Half King’s Photography series, a monthly slideshow and artist talk. Song is interested in the intersection between postcolonial studies and photography and is an avid collector of photographic ephemera and books. She is least interested in corporate or commercial photography.

Mary Ann Fahey
Curator/Owner, Umbrella Arts Gallery
The long time owner of E3 Gallery, Fahey now has a gallery and project space in partnership with Margaret Bodell. Umbrella Arts: located in the heart of New York's East Village. Since 1994 Mary Ann Fahey has curated over 90 exhibitions from more than 200 artists, including many artists who have gone on to exhibits at major museums and galleries. These exhibits have included a wide range of medium - pinhole photography, plastic camera imagery, collages, large color portraiture, photographic construction and Americana to name a few - and an equally diverse range of content.

Elizabeth Ferrer
Director of Visual Arts Programs, Rotunda Gallery and BRIC Arts| Brooklyn
Ferrer is a curator and writer who specializes in Mexican and Latino photography. Her most recent book is Lola Alvarez Bravo (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2006), a monographic study of the pioneering modernist photographer in Mexico, with an accompanying exhibit presented at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and other venues in the U.S. She is part of a team of international curators contributing to a major retrospective of the Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer to be presented in over 60 museums around the world in the fall of 2008. Other projects include a retrospective of photographs, prints and books by Mariana Yampolsky (1925-2002) exhibited at the UBS Gallery, NY and the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., in 2007; a traveling exhibition of the Sprint Corporation Latino and Latin American collection; Still Life: The Body as Object in Contemporary Photography at the Americas Society, New York in 1995, the book A Shadow Born of Earth: New Photography in Mexico (New York: American Federation of Arts, Universe Books/Rizzoli, 1993), and her essay "Mariana Yampolsky: Una Mirada Apasionada/An Impassioned Eye," in the book Mariana Yampolsky: Imagen Memoria/Image-Memory (Mexico City: Centro de la Imagen, 1999). In 1998 she received the International Association of Art Critics curatorial award for the exhibition, The True Poetry: The Art of María Izquierdo at the Americas Society, NY. Ferrer is former director of the Austin Museum of Art and of the Art Gallery at the Americas Society.

Hannah Frieser
Director, Light Work
Light Work is a non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY, dedicated to the support of emerging and underrepresented artists working in photography and related media. Hannah has curated exhibitions with photographers such as Don Gregorio Antón, William Earle Williams, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Rik Pinkcombe, Ben Gest, Kanako Sasaki, and Suzanne Opton. She also oversees Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program. Prior to coming to Light Work, Hannah worked with the Society for Photographic Education for over ten years. Having held many responsibilities within SPE, including onsite conference coordinator at SPE’s national conferences and membership registrar, she was recently elected to SPE's national board of directors. She has been chosen to co-chair an SPE national conference with Miriam Romais, executive director of En Foco. The conference, tentatively scheduled for 2010, will focus on diversity and multiculturalism. Hannah is a photographer and book artist, born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany. She has lived in the United States for over 19 years. Her work can be found on her website at www.hannahfrieser.com

Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Director, Curator, Diaspora Vibe Gallery
Rosie Gordon-Wallace is the Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator in Miami, FL. She specializes in Caribbean and Latin American Art with an emphasis on emerging artists. The gallery supports the development of new work by resident artists by offering exhibition space, artist talks, workshops and other skill-building opportunities for young artists. Since 1996, Gordon-Wallace has initiated and produced transnational creative programs that redefine concepts of “diaspora” including the International Cultural Exchange program, the Caribbean Crossroads Series, the Artist-In-Residence program, an ongoing contemporary exhibitions program, and numerous community-based outreach projects. Rosie Gordon- Wallace has been awarded The Red Cross Spectrum Award for Culture, the Miami Beach Black Advisory Board Award for Arts and Culture and the Arts and Business Council's Culture Award for Shining Stars. Rosie loves photography, although is much less inclined to view still life images or seascapes. She prefers politically charged images, also images that create a tension between the viewer and the image, or when the light source is not obvious.

Stella Kramer
Photography Consultant
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Photo Editor, Stella Kramer worked at The New York Times, PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, and Newsweek. She is based in New York City and works as a private consultant to photographers, helping them to strengthen their creative eye, put together the strongest portfolios and websites that reflect their work, and set a course to reach their professional goals. She also lectures, teaches classes in and around New York, and writes for Sharpen and Stellazine, her own blog. Stella has worked on many of the major news events in recent history, serving as the photo editor for The New York Times series “Portraits of Grief” memorializing those who lost their lives in the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Her work as part of the that team won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2002 Infinity Award for Public Service from the International Center of Photography. She was also part of the team at The New York Times that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. Stella is most interested in reviewing editorial, photojournalism, portrait, documentary, photo essays, food, fine art and sports imagery. She is least interested in viewing nudes, fashion, photo-illustration, or advertising/commercial photography.

Renée Mussai
Autograph: ABP (London)
Renée Mussai has been involved with Autograph ABP since 2001, where she currently oversees the establishment of the new Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography at Rivington Place, London. In addition to curating the archive collection, she is guest curator at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and recently co-curated for Autograph ABP the retrospective exhibitions James Barnor: Ever Young and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Paris Albums 1900, at Rivington Place (17 September - 27 November 2010). Twice recipient of the Sofie and Emanuel Fohn Fellowship, she holds under- and postgraduate degrees in Photography from the University of the Arts London, and previously studied history of art at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is based in London, and regularly lectures and writes on photographic history and cultural identity. Established in 1988, Autograph ABP is an international photographic arts charity that addresses issues of cultural identity and human rights. It develops, exhibits and publishes the work of photographers from culturally diverse backgrounds and advocates for their inclusion in all areas of exhibition, publishing, education, and commerce in the visual arts. http://www.autograph-abp.co.uk Renée is most interested in reviewing engaged and long-term personal projects that address politics of cultural identity, gender, difference and human rights etc - works that reflect Autograph's mission- particularly portraiture-based, critical fine art practice. Also, in-depth social documentary projects. She is least interested in reviewing landscape, still lifes and editorial fashion / commercial practice.

Ruben Natal San-Miguel
Blogger, Architect, Writer, Art Collector, Consultant, Curator and Photographer
Ruben Natal San-Miguel received his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Architecture from Boston Architectural College and a Finance and Business Administration degree from Boston University. Ruben is very involved with art non for profit organizations like ACRIA, Printed Matter, Aperture Foundation, AIDS Chicago, Humble Arts Foundation, Photolucida, and most recently, with Visual AIDS for which he has been volunteer, consultant, panelist and juror. He has also collaborated in projects with several artists including Magnum Photographer Susan Meiselas. Ruben is also the creator of ARTmostfierce, an Arts Blog, committed to promoting emerging art, artists, photography and to benefit non for profit art organizations. As an artist, Ruben mostly specializes in the Art of Emerging Photography. His work had been shown at Aqua Art Fair during the Miami Art Basel 2009, Photo LA 2010, Scope NY 2010, Zona Maco 2010 International Art Fair in Mexico City, Madrid Photo 2010, and was also a finalist in the Picture Black Friday 2009 Competition. Ruben is most interested in viewing portraiture, figurative, documentary, and street photography.

Saul Robbins
Curator, Teacher, and Fine Art Photographer
Saul Robbins teaches photography at ICP and Pratt Institute in New York City and consults privately with numerous photographers and visual artists on everything from editing images and statements to marketing. He is interested in many genres of photography, especially those that propose unique ideas and vantage points about perceptions of place and intimacy, are technically strong, well executed, and about which the artist is interested in discussion and feedback. Robbins can offer editorial and critical feedback, and may be able to propose suggestions for exhibition opportunities. Robbins is best known for the series Initial Intake, which examines the inherent relationship dynamics between psychotherapy practitioners and their clients. Curatorial projects include Projecting Freedom: Cinematic Interpretations of the Haggadah (2010), Regarding Intimacy (2007), and No Live Girls (2002), an installation of artist’s videos at The Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle. Robbins’s work has been exhibited, collected, and published internationally at Da Gallery, Union Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, Ost Gallery, Moscow, and Portland Art Museum, and in Berlin Tagesspiegel, CPW Photography Quarterly, The New York Times, Real Simple, and Wired, among others.



Foot in the Door: Tips for Submitting your Work - April 27, 2010

Getting your "Foot in the Door," is a two-hour seminar for emerging photographers and photo-based artists looking to prepare themselves for new opportunities, and take their marketing to the next level. This session is facilitated by Miriam Romais, Executive Director of En Foco & Editor of Nueva Luz; and Saul Robbins, Board Member Emeritus of The Camera Club of New York (CCNY).

Topics include: the importance of submission requirements and image quality; building and presenting a cohesive body of work; artist statements, bios, and resumes; creating eye-catching support and marketing materials; following up effectively; and reviewers do's and don'ts (from an informal survey).

Participants will receive En Foco’s Photographer’s Resources list***, and plenty of inspiration to begin registering for any number of upcoming portfolio reviews and exhibition opportunities. Survey respondents will also be eligible for door prizes at the end of the workshop (Nueva Luz subscriptions, En Foco Totebags, and a Camera Club of NY membership)!

*** DOWNLOAD PHOTOGRAPHER'S RESOURCE LIST HERE (PDF).

This seminar is offered in partnership with CCNY (Camera Club of New York) and is funded in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, memberships and contributions.

This En Foco program offers one-on-one reviews with several arts professionals on the same day, in a supportive, nurturing and affordable environment. Reviewers can advise about opportunities and/or provide guidance on career development. This is an outstanding opportunity for ALL photographers to have their work critiqued by curators, editors, educators and other arts organizations.

Whether you're ready for Chelsea galleries, or just looking for feedback and advice, we have reviewers to suit all needs - you just have to be serious about your craft (call if you have questions). In between sessions, you'll be able to relax in the photographer's creative lounge and share your work with peers.

This workshop is only available to current En Foco Members (ALL are welcome to join). Each review session lasts for 20 minutes; photographers are guaranteed a minimum of three reviews and receive a 'gift bag.' Upon registration, participants will receive an article written by photo marketing expert Mary Virginia Swanson, on how to best prepare themselves for the Review. Read her new blog article, Assessing the Value of Attending Portfolio Review Sessions.


Reviewer´s will be added on a daily basis. Those confirmed to date (4/27/09) are:

• Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Jersey City Museum
• Florian Bachleda, Latina Magazine
• Don Burmeister, Safe-T-Gallery
• Song Chong, Magnum Photos
• Elizabeth Ferrer, Rotunda Gallery (am session only)
• Hannah Frieser, Light Work
• Elvis Fuentes, El Museo del Barrio
• Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Diaspora Vibe Gallery
• Charles Guice, Charles Guice Contemporary
• Stephanie Heimann, Fovea Exhibitions
• Lisa Henry, Independent Curator, Writer (pm session only)
• Julia Herzberg, Art Historian and Curator
• Jessica Ingram, Adjunct Professor at Tisch, NYU
• Michael Itkoff, Daylight Magazine
• Stella Kramer, Photography Consultant
• Erin Riley-Lopez, Bronx Museum of the Arts
• Rita Rivera, Corbis
• Ariel Shanberg, Center for Photography at Woodstock
• Jill Waterman, PDNedu and ASMP Bulletin (pm session only)
• Denise Wolff, Aperture

Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Curator, Jersey City Museum
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado received her Ph.D. in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2001. Her dissertation was a study of modernist movements in Harlem and Havana between 1925 and 1945. She is the curator at Jersey City Museum, where she organizes exhibitions of contemporary art featuring work by both established and emerging artists in the New Jersey and New York region. She also organizes exhibitions drawn from the Museum's eclectic permanent collection of American art including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and material culture from the 18th to the 20th centuries. She recently organized The Feminine Mystique, based on Betty Friedan's book of the same title from 1963. She has been invited to speak at the Smithsonian Institution, the Whitney Museum, the Americas Society, the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture and has taught art history at local universities. Her writing has appeared in various publications including catalogue essays for the Museum of Modern Art and El Museo del Barrio, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Nexus, Review, the journal of the Americas Society, En Foco's Nueva Luz, NYFA Quarterly, Small Axe, BOMB and American Art. She is most interested in seeing poetic documentary photography, those that don't feel like documentary. Also interested in stark photos of architecture, general imagery, and photographic collage. Least interested in experimental works.

Florian Bachleda
Creative Director, Latina Magazine and FB Design
Florian Bachleda is the Creative Director of FB Design, a graphic-design studio in New York City. He is also the Creative Director of Latina magazine. Previously, he was the Design Director for Vibe magazine (which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2002), Vibe Vixen, Maximum Golf and P.O.V. (Point of View). He has also worked at New York magazine, Entertainment Weekly and the Village Voice. Bachleda has won awards and medals from the Society of Publication Designers, American Illustration, American Photography, Print magazine and Communication Arts, among others. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts and has chaired and juried numerous design and illustration competitions. He has served as President of the Society of Publication Designers, and was on their Board of Directors for five years. He is most interested in portraits, fashion, beauty and also "conceptual still-lifes" (photos that can illustrate a story using just objects and still-lifes).

Don Burmeister
Photographer, Owner and Director Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Safe-T-Gallery has had an intense interest in photography since 2002 and has shown the work of more that 40 photographers in that time. My interests center on several contemporary photographic problems: the uses and accommodations of digital photography to personal expression; the need for several billions more photographs in the next few years; and the purposes and rewards of obsessive photographic cataloging. In practice I am interested in photographers with an acute awareness of the qualities of photographs as objects (or not) and with a devotion to the craft of showing. I am not particularly interested in artists who use photography as a conceptual strategy, but anything else is fine.

Song Chong
Advertising & Creative Development, Magnum Photos
Song Chong is a native Angeleno who has made NYC her home for the last 10 years. She received her MA in Arts and Humanities Education from NYU and went on to commence her doctoral work in the highly regarded Visual Culture and Theory program at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication where she works as an adjunct professor. She is currently writing her dissertation on the role of the subject and absence in contemporary photojournalism. Song began her professional photographic life representing top fashion and beauty photographers. Joining Magnum in 2006, she developed the Magnum Educational platform, producing the international Magnum Workshops, Magnum Masterclasses and First Impressions portfolio review programming. In her free time, she is the curator of the Half King’s Photography series, a monthly slideshow and artist talk. Song is interested in the intersection between postcolonial studies and photography and is an avid collector of photographic ephemera and books. Least interested in corporate or commercial photography.


Elizabeth Ferrer
Director of Visual Arts, Rotunda Gallery/BRIC
Ferrer is a New York-based curator and writer specializing in Mexican and Latino art and photography. She is the author of Lola Alvarez Bravo (Aperture, 2006), as well as curator of the accompanying traveling exhibition. She co-edited the landmark Museum of Modern Art publication Latin American Artists of the 20th Century; A Shadow Born of Earth: New Photography in Mexico (1993); and has written for journals such as Art Nexus, Nueva Luz, and Art News. Ferrer has been director of the Austin Museum of Art and director of the Art Gallery of the Americas Society in New York. She studied art history at Wellesley College and Columbia University.


Hannah Frieser
Director, Light Work
Light Work is a non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY, dedicated to the support of emerging and underrepresented artists working in photography and related media. Hannah has curated exhibitions with photographers such as Don Gregorio Antón, William Earle Williams, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Kanako Sasaki, and Suzanne Opton. She also oversees Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program. Prior to Light Work, Hannah worked with the Society for Photographic Education for over ten years, and is co-chair of their 2010 national conference, Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts along with Miriam Romais, Executive Director of En Foco. Hannah is a photographer and book artist, and her work can be found at www.hannahfrieser.com. She is especially interested in reviewing the work of emerging and underrepresented photographers who understand their intentions as artists. She is also interested in seeing the work of artists with diverse backgrounds. As a reviewer, she offers professional feedback and opportunities within Light Work’s programs. She does not wish to see commercial portfolios, traditional nudes or travel work.


Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Director, Curator, Diaspora Vibe Gallery
Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator in Miami, FL, specializes in Caribbean and Latin American Art with an emphasis on emerging artist. The gallery supports the development of new work by resident artists by offering exhibitions space, artist talks, workshops and other skill- building opportunities for young artists. Since 1996, Gordon-Wallace has initiated and produced transnational creative programs that redefine concepts of “diaspora” including the International Cultural Exchange program, the Caribbean Crossroads Series, the Artist-In-Residence program, an ongoing contemporary exhibitions program, and numerous community-based outreach projects. Rosie Gordon- Wallace has been awarded The Red Cross Spectrum Award for Culture, the Miami Beach Black Advisory Board Award for Arts and Culture and the Arts and Business Council's Culture Award for Shining Stars. Rosie loves photography, although is much less inclined to view still life images or seascapes. She prefers politically charged images, also when a tension is created between the viewer and the image or when the light source is not obvious.

Charles Guice
Director, Charles Guice Contemporary
Charles Guice is an art dealer and director of Charles Guice Contemporary, specializing in modern and contemporary art by nationally and internationally recognized visual artists. A former healthcare executive, Guice serves on the Board of Trustees for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco and Oakland, and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. He also serves as a member of the nominating committee for the Aperture West Book Prize. Guice is a frequent lecturer and writer, and recently spoke at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and in conversation with Carrie Mae Weems at the Museum of the African Diaspora. He has written articles and essays about Roy DeCarava, James VanDerZee, and Carrie Mae Weems.


Stephanie Heimann
Executive Director, Fovea Exhibitions
Heimann is also a founder of Fovea. By day she is a photography editor and consultant. She has worked on various publications in New York, including Newsweek, Fortune Small Business, Luxury SpaFinder Magazine, New York Magazine, Scientific American Magazine and more; in Hong Kong for Discovery (Cathay Pacific's inflight magazine) Time Magazine's Asia Edtition, and Next Magazine, a Chinese language newsweekly; and in Moscow, at Vitrina and The Moscow Guardian magazines. She spent 8 years living as an expatriate in Hong Kong, Paris and in Russia, where she began her career as a photojournalist covering post-Soviet culture and the first war in Chechnya. Stephanie is interested to see any photographer working in any photographic genre that involves a narrative--not just photojournalism.


Lisa Henry
Independent Curator, Writer
An independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles, Lisa has written profiles on documentary and conceptual photographers such as Ingrid Pollard, Laura Aguillar, Glynnis Reed and Gerald Cyrus. Lisa was formally Assistant Curator for American Art at the Newark Museum, where she oversaw the rotation of prints and photographs on display in the permanent collection galleries. She also increased the museum's holdings of contemporary photographs by working closely with their collectors group, The Friends of American Art. Since 2004 she has worked as a guest curator for The Amistad Center at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT. She is one of the curators of the exhibition Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright, which premiered at The High Museum of Art in 2008 and is currently touring the country. Since relocating back to Los Angeles, she has worked as a consultant for The Japanese American National Museum, The California African American Museum and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Past exhibitions include Connections at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco & New York, Double Exposure, MoAD, San Francisco, CA, and I'm Thinking of a Place, UCLA Hammer Museum, CA. She is interested in artists who use photography as a conceptual strategy, photographers exploring landscape, land-use and architecture, and extended projects that are intended to be completed as photographic books. She is not interested in nudes, fashion, advertising or commercial photography.


Julia P. Herzberg, PhD
Art Historian and Curator
Herzberg is a Fulbright Senior Specialist, an art historian and curator who specializes in Latin American, Latino, and multicultural contemporary art. She is a consulting curator at the Patricia and David Frost Museum at Florida International University. Dr. Herzberg has taught, lectured, published, and curated extensively in the United States and abroad, and was a visiting professor in the School of Art's Master’s Program, at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago in Chile (2007). Her most recent publications include: “Ritual in Performance,” in NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith (Houston: The Menil Collection, 2008); “Monica Bengoa: From Santiago to Venice,” Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular, 52nd Venice Biennal, (Santago: Cultural Affairs Ministry of Foreign Relations, 2007); “A Dialogue with Life and Death,” Carlos Alfonzo: Extreme Expression, 1980-1991 (Miami: Bridge House Publishing, Inc., 2006); “Four Ways: A Room of Her Own,” A Room of One’s Own: Teresita Fernández, María Elena González, Quisqueya Henríquez, María Martínez-Cañas (Frost Museum, Florida International University, 2006). She has organized more than twenty-five exhibitions with artists including Sandra Bermudez, Wifredo Lam, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Leandro Katz, Pepón Osorio, Ernesto Pujol, and Monika Weiss.

Jessica Ingram
Jessica Ingram was born and raised in Tennessee. She received degrees in Photography and Political Science from New York University and her MFA from California College of the Arts. She was included in 25 Under 25, (PowerHouse Books 2003) and American Photography 20. She contributed to What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (SUNY Press 2004). Along the Way, a video she completed with the Cause Collective was a 2008 Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival. Jessica’s work is motivated by her desire to understand how people relate, what they long for, and what motivates the choices they make. Along with her art practice, Jessica develops and leads community based arts programs, most recently Fostering Art, a photography and writing program for foster youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jessica has been living in New York, where she has been teaching at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parsons New School, and working with PixelPress Magazine, and is heading back to the Bay Area this Fall to be an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Jessica’s work is shown internationally.


Michael Itkoff
Founding Editor, Daylight Magazine
Michael Itkoff is a recipient of the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism (2006), a Creative Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council (2007), and a Puffin Foundation Grant (2008). His monograph Street Portraits was published by Charta Editions (February 2009) and his personal work can be viewed here. Michael is most interested in seeing work that is in some way grounded in the documentary mode, ie. the depiction of real events or people. In general, he is not interested in: constructed scenarios, fashion, advertising, romanticized subjects, and material which is exploitive in any way or does not take into account the perspective of the subjects.


Stella Kramer
Photography Consultant
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Photo Editor, Stella worked at The New York Times, PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, and Newsweek. She is based in New York City and works as a private consultant to photographers, helping them to strengthen their creative eye, put together the strongest portfolios and websites that reflect their work, and set a course to reach their professional goals.  She also lectures and teaches classes in and around New York. Stella has worked on many of the major news events in recent history, serving as the photo editor for The New York Times series “Portraits of Grief” memorializing those who lost their lives in the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Her work as part of the that team won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2002 Infinity Award for Public Service from the International Center of Photography.  She was also part of the team at The New York Times that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.  Stella is most interested in reviewing editorial, photojournalism, portrait, documentary, photo essays, food, fine art and sports imagery.  She is least interested in viewing nudes, fashion, photo-illustration, or  advertising/commercial photography.


Lesley A. Martin
Publisher, Aperture Foundation
The editor of over forty books on photography, including Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer; and Model American: Katy Grannan. Her writing has been published in Aperture, American Photo, DoubleTake, and Interiors magazine, among other publications, and she also served as Senior Editor and Production Director at Umbrage Editions. Aperture was founded in 1952 as a not-for-profit arts organization and publisher dedicated to promoting photography as a unique form of artistic expression. Reaching a worldwide audience, Aperture's programs include Aperture magazine, book publishing, traveling exhibitions, education and outreach programming. Ms. Martin is interested in looking at strong, well-developed work that pushes the boundaries of photography, combines genres in interesting ways, and otherwise defies expectations. Most of all, she is interested in meeting with photographers who are open to honest feedback and discussion of ideas. She can help with shaping book projects toward potential publication, whether or not they are projects that would be appropriate for Aperture.


Erin Riley-Lopez
Associate Curator, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Erin has been a curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts since 2005, where she curated collection-based and annual Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) exhibitions. In the fall of 2009 Erin will curate an exhibition at The Center for Book Arts. In addition to writing for Bronx Museum publications, her articles and reviews have appeared in might be good…, a project of fluent ~ collaborative inAustin, Texas and Bootprint a publication of Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, Missouri. She received her M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (2005) and her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College (2002). Erin prefers to review fine art photography.


Rita Rivera
Photo Editor Corbis, Corbis
Corbis  is an international stock photography agency, 2009 marks its 20th  anniversary.   Corbis is a creative resource for advertising,  marketing and media professionals, providing a comprehensive selection of  photography, illustration, footage, typefaces and rights clearance services.  Through its branded web sites Corbis, Corbis Motion, Veer, and GreenLight, the  company helps the creative community make distinctive advertising and  publishing for the Internet, magazines, newspapers, books, television and  films. Corbis is based in Seattle, with offices in North America, Europe, Asia  and Australia that serve more than 50 countries.

Rita Rivera has been a Photo Editor in  the News division for 3 years working with individual photographers and wires,  before that she was a freelance photographer and photo editor. Rita is  interested in reviewing photojournalism, documentary work, and photo essays.   I am not interesting in looking at nudes or  landscapes.


Ariel Shanberg
Executive Director, Center for Photography at Woodstock
With year-round program offerings that include solo and curated group exhibitions, workshops, lectures, the publication Photography Quarterly (PQ), residencies, workspace access, regional fellowship awards, and internships, CPW helps advance the development and careers of artists working in photography and related media. In addition to his work at CPW, Mr. Shanberg has contributed essays to many publications, including Nueva Luz (volume 12#3). He has served on various panels and nominating committees and has been an invited juror and portfolio reviewer to FotoFest, SPE Conferences, Rhubarb Rhubarb, and Critical Mass. As a reviewer, Ariel offers participants professional development, guidance, and curatorial insight, as well as the rich and diverse opportunities available to artists at CPW. He is most interested in viewing cohesive bodies of work centered around conceptually driven theme(s) that have been or are near completion. He welcomes reviewing image-based work produced in a wide range of processes including video and new media. As CPW does not present traditional nudes, landscapes, floral, photojournalism, fashion, or stock photography, Ariel would prefer not to review such work.


Jill Waterman
Editor, PDNedu and ASMP Bulletin
A photographer and writer based in New York City, Jill Waterman is the editor of PDNedu, the ASMP Bulletin, as well as a contributing editor for many other projects with PDN Custom Media & Events. Her professional background includes the recently published how-to book on night and low light photography (Night and Low-Light Photography: Professional Techniques from Experts for Artistic and Commercial Success, Amphoto Books, 2008), and a career in stock photography as a photo editor, art director and producer. An experienced portfolio reviewer for events such as Houston FotoFest, PhotoLucida and SPE, Waterman is open to viewing all types of images, with a preference for work that has a consistent vision. Jill can offer feedback and career advice.



Member’s Portfolio Review

Looking for feedback on your work? Come in for an hour-long, one-on-one portfolio review with En Foco’s experienced staff. This service is ideal for all emerging photographers looking for guidance and suggestions during pivotal times in their careers.

This En Foco program offers one-on-one reviews with several arts professionals on the same day, in a supportive, nurturing and affordable environment. Reviewers can advise about opportunities and/or provide guidance on career development. This is an outstanding opportunity for ALL photographers to have their work critiqued by curators, editors, educators and other arts organizations.

Whether you're ready for Chelsea galleries, or just looking for feedback and advice, we have reviewers to suit all needs - you just have to be serious about your craft (call if you have questions!). In between sessions, you'll be able to relax in the photographer's creative lounge and share your work with peers.

This workshop is only available to current En Foco Members (ALL are welcome to join). Each review session lasts for 20 minutes; photographers are guaranteed a minimum of three reviews and receive a 'gift bag.' Upon registration, participants will receive an article written by photo marketing expert Mary Virginia Swanson, on how to best prepare themselves for the Review.

**BREAKING NEWS:
The first 40 to register will receive a Bundle photo bag from Crumpler!
Fuji Film for all (35mm, 120mm, and instant FP100), a chance to win a Fuji Finepix Z100fd digital camera (to qualify, must be a FujiFilm product user... whether it's paper, film or camera), and sample paper from Museo Digital Fine Art Paper!!!

Reviewer´s confirmed to date (9/5/08) include:

• Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Jersey City Museum
• Kalia Brooks, Arts Consultant and Curator
• Terry Boddie, NYU/Tisch and Independent Curator
• Mary Ann Fahey, Umbrella Arts Gallery
• Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation (pm session only)
• Elizabeth Ferrer, Rotunda Gallery (am session only)
• Hannah Frieser, Light Work
• Elvis Fuentes, El Museo del Barrio
• Michelle Graham, Getty Images
• Charles Guice, Charles Guice Contemporary
• Lisa Henry, Independent Curator
• Stella Kramer, Photography Consultant
• Joanna Lehan, Aperture
• Vincent Nelson, The Black Book
• Edwin Ramoran, ALJIRA Center for Contemporary Art
• Elizabeth Shank, Silverstein Gallery (am session only)
• Jill Waterman, PDNedu and ASMP Bulletin

Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Curator, Jersey City Museum
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado received her Ph.D. in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2001. Her dissertation was a study of modernist movements in Harlem and Havana between 1925 and 1945. She is the curator at Jersey City Museum, where she organizes exhibitions of contemporary art featuring work by both established and emerging artists in the New Jersey and New York region. She also organizes exhibitions drawn from the Museum's eclectic permanent collection of American art including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and material culture from the 18th to the 20th centuries. She recently organized The Feminine Mystique, based on Betty Friedan's book of the same title from 1963. She has been invited to speak at the Smithsonian Institution, the Whitney Museum, the Americas Society, the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture and has taught art history at local universities. Her writing has appeared in various publications including catalogue essays for the Museum of Modern Art and El Museo del Barrio, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Nexus, Review, the journal of the Americas Society, En Foco's Nueva Luz, NYFA Quarterly, Small Axe, BOMB and American Art. She is most interested in seeing poetic documentary photography, those that don't feel like documentary. Also interested in stark photos of architecture, general imagery, and photographic collage. Least interested in experimental works.

Terry Boddie
Mixed Media Artist, Photographer, Independent Curator and Educator
received his BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1989 and an MFA from Hunter College in 1997. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum, and Bronx Museum of the Arts, Reginald Lewis Museum in Baltimore, among other venues. His work is part of the Schomburg Center For Research in Black History and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as various private collections. Awards and honors include the Studio Museum of Harlem Artist In Residence, Woodstock Center for the Arts Artist in Residence, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and Marie Sharpe Walsh Artist in Residence. He is on the Artist Advisory Committee of the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Artist Advisory Board of En Foco, and regularly serves on grant panels. He teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Boddie is especially interested in seeing fine art and documentary work that pushes the technical and conceptual boundaries of photography, for an upcoming exhibition. He can also provide advice from a grant panelist's point of view, and approaching museum curators.

Kalia Brooks
Arts Consultant and Curator
Kalia Brooks is an arts consultant and curator. Formerly the Public Programs Coordinator, Studio Museum in Harlem, she is currently pursuing a doctorate in Aesthetics and Art Theory with the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Brooks is a graduate of the California College of the Arts with a Master of Arts degree in Curatorial Practice. Her recent exhibitions include Off Color (Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Rush Arts, and Corridor Gallery); Static: Temporary Collective/Temporary Spaces; Preserving America's Cultural Heritage; In the Heart of Dixie (collaboration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation); The Missing Peace: The Dalai Lama Portrait
Project (sponsored by The Dalai Lama Foundation); and Tomorrow Minus Five (in association with Arts Initiative Tokyo) in Tokyo, Japan. Brooks is a contributor to the Studio magazine, Light Work Annual, Exposure magazine and Curating Now '05 and '06.

Mary Ann Fahey
Curator/Owner, Umbrella Arts Gallery
The long time owner of E3 Gallery, Fahey now has a gallery and project space in partnership with Margaret Bodell. Umbrella Arts: located in the heart of New York's East Village. Since 1994 Mary Ann Fahey has curated over 90 exhibitions from more than 200 artists, including many artists who have gone on to exhibits at major museums and galleries. These exhibits have included a wide range of medium - pinhole photography, plastic camera imagery, collages, large color portraiture, photographic construction and Americana to name a few - and an equally diverse range of content.

Elizabeth Ferrer
Director of Visual Arts Programs, Rotunda Gallery and BRIC Arts| Brooklyn
Ferrer is a curator and writer who specializes in Mexican and Latino photography. Her most recent book is Lola Alvarez Bravo (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2006), a monographic study of the pioneering modernist photographer in Mexico, with an accompanying exhibit presented at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and other venues in the U.S. She is part of a team of international curators contributing to a major retrospective of the Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer to be presented in over 60 museums around the world in the fall of 2008. Other projects include a retrospective of photographs, prints and books by Mariana Yampolsky (1925-2002) exhibited at the UBS Gallery, NY and the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., in 2007; a traveling exhibition of the Sprint Corporation Latino and Latin American collection; Still Life: The Body as Object in Contemporary Photography at the Americas Society, New York in 1995, the book A Shadow Born of Earth: New Photography in Mexico (New York: American Federation of Arts, Universe Books/Rizzoli, 1993), and her essay "Mariana Yampolsky: Una Mirada Apasionada/An Impassioned Eye," in the book Mariana Yampolsky: Imagen Memoria/Image-Memory (Mexico City: Centro de la Imagen, 1999). In 1998 she received the International Association of Art Critics curatorial award for the exhibition, The True Poetry: The Art of María Izquierdo at the Americas Society, NY. Ferrer is former director of the Austin Museum of Art and of the Art Gallery at the Americas Society.

Jon Feinstein
Curatorial Director, Humble Arts Foundation
Jon Feinstein is the Curatorial Director of Humble Arts Foundation. He has curated photography exhibitions throughout NYC, and was recently invited to curate a section of "Young Curators, New Ideas" at Bond Street Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. He has also collaborated on curatorial projects with Spin Magazine, and Mark Batty Publishers. From 2003-2006 Feinstein worked at Heeb magazine, first as Photo Editor and later as Creative Director. He has served on several portfolio review boards, including the ASMP fine art photography review, The International Center for Photography's annual student portfolio review, and Photolucida's Critical Mass. His own work has been published in Gotham, Nylon, Time Out New York, DIW, Mass Appeal, New York Press, and Vice and has appeared in group shows in NYC, Detroit, Chicago and Miami. Jon holds a BA in photography from Bard College and lives in Brooklyn. Jon is most interested in large format and conceptual work, but is open to everything!

Hannah Frieser
Director, Light Work
Light Work is a non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY, dedicated to the support of emerging and underrepresented artists working in photography and related media. Hannah has curated exhibitions with photographers such as Don Gregorio Antón, William Earle Williams, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Rik Pinkcombe, Ben Gest, Kanako Sasaki, and Suzanne Opton. She also oversees Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program. Prior to coming to Light Work, Hannah worked with the Society for Photographic Education for over ten years. Having held many responsibilities within SPE, including onsite conference coordinator at SPE’s national conferences and membership registrar, she was recently elected to SPE's national board of directors. She has been chosen to co-chair an SPE national conference with Miriam Romais, executive director of En Foco. The conference, tentatively scheduled for 2010, will focus on diversity and multiculturalism. Hannah is a photographer and book artist, born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany. She has lived in the United States for over 19 years. Her work can be found on her website at www.hannahfrieser.com

Elvis Fuentes
Curator, El Museo del Barrio
Elvis joined the staff of El Museo in 2006 following the success of his exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Early Impressions presented at the Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe in 2004 and subsequently presented at El Museo (2006). Since joining El Museo, he has co-curated El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 007. Other curatorial projects include Killing Time: An exhibition of Cuban artists from 1980s to the present (Exit Art, New York, NY, 2007), Rewind… Rewind… Three decades of video art in Puerto Rico (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2005-2006) and Print as Metaphor (Grand Prix, International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana 2005). A member of IKT, Fuentes graduated from the University of Havana (Art History, 1999), and completed studies in museums of Europe and the U.S. He also worked as Curator at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana (1999-2002), organizing over 20 exhibitions and worshops. Elvis is interested in viewing any type of work.

Michelle Graham
Photo Research Manager, Getty Images
Graham has 18 years of experience in the stock photography industry.  Her roles have included Photo Researcher, Textbook Sales Manager, Creative Researcher, independent photo consultant and her current position as Photo Research Manager. She has also been studio manager for two successful photographers. Throughout her career she facilitated hundreds of shoots with dozens of photographers, reviewed collections of stock agencies and individual photographers for commercial value and edited visual content for the spectrum of Getty Images customers which include advertising agencies, corporations and publishers. Getty Images creates and distributes the world's best and broadest imagery collections, making them available in the most accessible and usable way -- 24 hours a day, every day. From contemporary creative imagery to news, sports, entertainment and archival imagery, Getty Images products are found each day in the full range of traditional and digital media worldwide. Graham is interested in seeing all photography genres.

Charles Guice
Director, Charles Guice Contemporary
Charles Guice is an art dealer and director of Charles Guice Contemporary, specializing in modern and contemporary art by nationally and internationally recognized visual artists.  A former healthcare executive, Guice serves on the Board of Trustees for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco and Oakland, and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco.  He also serves as a member of the nominating committee for the Aperture West Book Prize.  Guice is a frequent lecturer and writer, and recently spoke at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and in conversation with Carrie Mae Weems at the Museum of the African Diaspora.  He has written articles and essays about Roy DeCarava, James VanDerZee, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Lisa Henry
Independent Curator, Writer
An independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles, Lisa is a columnist for Fotophile magazine and has written profiles on documentary and conceptual photographers such as Ingrid Pollard, Laura Aguillar, Ming Smith and Gerald Cyrus. Lisa was formally Assistant Curator for American Art at the Newark Museum, where she oversaw the rotation of prints and photographs on display in the permanent collection galleries. She also increased the museum's holdings of contemporary photographs by working closely with their collectors group, The Friends of American Art. Since 2004 she has worked as a guest curator for The Amistad Center at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT. She is one of the curators of the traveling exhibition Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright, which premiered at The High Museum of Art this spring, and will open at The Wadsworth Atheneum in September 2008. Since relocating back to Los Angeles, she has worked as a consultant for The Japanese American National Museum, The California African American Museum and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Past exhibitions include Double Exposure, MoAD, San Francisco, CA, and I'm Thinking of a Place, UCLA Hammer Museum, CA. She is interested in artists who use photography as a conceptual strategy, photographers exploring landscape, land-use and architecture, collage, and extended projects that are intended to be completed as photographic books. She is not interested in nudes, fashion, advertising or commercial photography.

Stella Kramer
Photography Consultant
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Photo Editor, Stella worked at The New York Times, PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, and Newsweek. She is based in New York City and works as a private consultant to photographers, helping them to strengthen their creative eye, put together the strongest portfolios and websites that reflect their work, and set a course to reach their professional goals.  She also lectures and teaches classes in and around New York. Stella has worked on many of the major news events in recent history, serving as the photo editor for The New York Times series “Portraits of Grief” memorializing those who lost their lives in the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Her work as part of the that team won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2002 Infinity Award for Public Service from the International Center of Photography.  She was also part of the team at The New York Times that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.  Stella is most interested in reviewing editorial, photojournalism, portrait, documentary, photo essays, food, fine art and sports imagery.  She is least interested in viewing nudes, fashion, photo-illustration, or  advertising/commercial photography.

Joanna Lehan
Associate Editor of Books, Aperture Foundation
Joanna was formally Assistant Curator at ICP, where she worked on the first and second ICP Triennials, Strangers and Ecotopia. Her writing has appeared regularly in PDN and Photograph, and she has also worked as a freelance photo editor at magazines such as Newsweek and The New Yorker. She is most interested in reviewing work developed by artists over a sustained period. She is particularly interested in work that has a story to tell, whether directly or elliptically.

Vincent Nelson
Advertising Director/ AR100 Awards Show Director, Black Book Vincent has over 10 years of experience working in the magazine and book publishing industry. He has worked at several national magazines, which include Interview Magazine, Paper Magazine and The Source Magazine. Within these very diverse halls he developed a love and savvy for photography and the impact it has on the viewer. This would lead him to begin working for The Black Book Photography Inc. Since 2005 Vincent started as a Marketing Consultant and has been promoted to both Advertising Director and AR100 Awards Show Director. This enables him to be in constant contact with Art Buyers, Directors and artists internationally.. His responsibilities include connecting large and small agency buyers to the right photographers and artists. He has been asked to serve on many panel discussions geared towards artists and photographers specifically with (Advertising Photographers of America DC and Atlanta), and ASMP South Florida/Miami. Vincent uses these daily activities and relationships to aid established and new photographers. Vincent is interested helping artists learn how to effectively present and market their work. Mr. Nelson evaluates the look and feel of their art and finding the right fit be it client, agency or representation. Mr. Nelson is interested in looking at smart, creative commercial photography to include Beauty, Editorial, Fashion, Commercial, Conceptual, Corporate and Food.

Edwin Ramoran
Director of Exhibitions & Programs, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art
In 2007, Ramoran received the apextart Outbound Residency to Athens, Greece. Ramoran is currently working on a major group exhibition The B Sides that will focus on house music culture and contemporary art; and developing the group exhibition Me Love You Long Time on Asian and Pacific Islander sexuality and gender expression. From 2002-2007, he was director and curator for Longwood Arts Project, the contemporary art center of the Bronx Council on the Arts, where he organized the following exhibitions: Do You Think I’m Disco, Post Plátano/Ante Formalism: Abstraction in the Bronx, BX1: The First Bronx Artist Biennial, DL: The “Down Low” in Contemporary Art, and No More Drama: New Projects after Novelas. Previously, he was Assistant Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts (1994 to 2002). He has also been a guest curator in New York at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, PERFROMA 05 at Artists Space, Center for Book Arts, Dieu Donné Papermill and Gallery, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, South Asian Women's Creative Collective, and Visual AIDS. He is also former program director for Arkipelago, the New York City-based Filipino cultural organization. Ramoran received a BA in Art History with minors in Ethnic Studies and Journalism from the University of California, Riverside, and is currently an MA candidate in Art History at Hunter College.

Elizabeth Shank
Director, Silverstein Gallery
At the gallery, Shank works closely with both living photographers and photographers' estates, including Leonard Freed, Andre Kertesz, Nathan Lyons, Marvin Newman, Rosalind Solomon, Zoe Strauss, and Joel-Peter Witkin on developing exhibitions, creating book projects, and managing archives. She also works with young photographers at the gallery's new 20th Street location, which showcases emerging artists, as well as during the Silverstein Photography Annual exhibition. Ms. Shank began her career at Magnum Photos in New York promoting its comprehensive archive. At Magnum, she worked with such luminary photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, and Elliot Erwitt. Ms. Shank is interested in reviewing fine art photography, creative photography, and conceptual photography. She can offer portfolio critique, advice on how to approach fine art galleries, and provide potential contacts at other galleries.

Jill Waterman
Editor, PDNedu and ASMP Bulletin
A photographer and writer based in New York City, Jill Waterman is the editor of PDNedu, the ASMP Bulletin, as well as a contributing editor for many other projects with PDN Custom Media & Events. Her professional background includes the recently published how-to book on night and low light photography (Night and Low-Light Photography: Professional Techniques from Experts for Artistic and Commercial Success, Amphoto Books, 2008), and a career in stock photography as a photo editor, art director and producer. An experienced portfolio reviewer for events such as Houston FotoFest, PhotoLucida and SPE, Waterman is open to viewing all types of images, with a preference for work that has a consistent vision. Jill can offer feedback and career advice.



Foot in the Door: Tips for Submitting your Work - June 13, 2008

This workshop is a one-hour, FREE seminar open to the public. It is facilitated by En Foco staff, in collaboration with other NY curators, reviewers or artists.

Topics covered include: the importance of understanding submission requirements; technical quality of imagery; what constitutes a cohesive series; artist statements; support materials; reviewer’s pet peeves (from an informal survey).  Participants will receive En Foco’s Photographer’s Resources list.

This workshop is offered in partnership with El Taller Boricua Galleries, and is sponsored in part with funding by the NY State Council on the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

These events have been offered at the Latin Collector Gallery in midtown in collaboration with the Center for Photography at Woodstock; the Association of Hispanic Arts in El Barrio; Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos; and Wilmer Jennings Gallery/Kenkeleba, in Manhattan.

• How do I get my work published?
• How can I get funding for my projects?
• What does a good portfolio look like?
  

• IMPORTANT: Participants MUST bring two 16x20” matboards, and a print to mat.
• Archival Methods offers En Foco Members a 15% Discount (phone orders only; call En Foco for Membership Code)
• Have an upcoming exhibit? Members will have access to equipment on Thursdays (by appointment only)