#stella kramer

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor Stella Kramer helps photographers sharpen their vision and put together their strongest portfolios and websites. She gives photographers creative direction to help them achieve their goals.

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There are incredibly talented people in the world who no one knows about because they don’t have the ability to put themselves out there. And there are many people, all over the world, who are not talented and yet successful because they do have that ability.

Stella Kramer Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor and freelance consultant 

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor and creative consultant Stella Kramer has worked with such top publications as The New York Times, Newsweek, People, Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly.

"I’ve received some wonderful things in the mail lately-some I purchased, and some came as a surprise. I thought I’d show them to you, because they are impressive, and I’ve been enjoying them over and over. I always appreciate it when people think of me, and when people put such creativity into their work." SK

Including two prints by Jason Florio - from the River Gambia Expedition

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Jade Doskow shares an affinity for ABC No Rio along with surely many New Yorkers. In its final hours, this project documenting its demolition needs a boost. "ABC No Rio is a collectively-run arts center located on New York's Lower East Side. Established in 1980, it has gone through quite a few manifestations, from alternative art gallery to punk squathouse to community center. It now houses a gallery space, screen-printing studio, black and white darkroom, free bike workshops with Times Up!, computer lab, zine library, and has provided space to Food Not Bombs and Books Through Bars." Head to Kickstarter to help.

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Projects WE Love: Picture Black Friday

Picture Black Friday: Best In Show, 2010 © Sandy Carson

Every year, Black Friday rings in the yearly holiday shopping season, with hundreds of thousands of people getting up before sunrise to queue for bargains and deals; when the doors are unlocked, the stores being besieged by their own customers. During Black Friday 2008, security guard Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death by crazed shoppers as he tried to hold back bargain seekers at a Walmart in Long Island. Unfortunately, the uproar in the media was mostly over by the end of the initial weekend.

Picture Black Friday is a photojournalism project that aims to revisit and analyze a combination of forces- a worsening economy, financial desperation, excitement, fear, and a distinctly American cultural tradition- that culminate the morning after Thanksgiving. More specifically, Picture Black Friday is an open call for photographers throughout the U.S. to go out and produce images that document Black Friday- how you see it, on your terms. Imagine this project as an open assignment: you have freedom to approach this event from any angle you wish, returning with single images or even a mini-project that documents Black Friday like no other media outlet will.

Picture Black Friday project will be accepting submissions for one week, beginning on Saturday, November 26th through December 5th via their website. Artists can submit up to 5 of their best photographs of and about Black Friday. Photographers may submit a short statement to go along with their images.

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It is officially the beginning of insanity, I mean Armory week! With so many events to choose from it takes a sophisticated and practiced eye to pick out the great ones, and and lucky for us the fabulous Stella Kramer of StellaZine has done our homework for us. Below is her fantastic and thorough itinerary with a few additions from us here at Finch & Ada sprinkled in:

WEDNESDAY MARCH 2: The Art Show Park Avenue Armory Park Avenue at 67th Street $20 admission noon - 8pm

Scope New York 355 West 36th Street - 3rd Floor $20 noon - 8pm (Our fabulous artist C. Finley, and performances by Jason Somma beginning at 3:30 are not to be missed!) The Photographic Universe A 2-day, free conference to discuss the state of photography, featuring panels with important figures in the business Theresa Lang Center The New School 55 W 13th Street 9am - 5pm  

THURSDAY MARCH 3 Terri Gold--"Still Points in a Turning World" Keyes Art 551 W. 21st 4th fl 6pm - 8pm The Armory Show Piers 92 & 94 Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street $30 admission Noon - 8pm Nutropolitan Museum of Art PB&J art exhibit celebrating National Peanut Month Openhouse Gallery 201 Mulberry (Bet. Spring & Kenmare) 6:30pm - 9:30pm Come get a free jar of peanut butter, and donate one to those in need. Pulse Contemporary Art Fair The Metroploitan Pavilion 125 W. 18th St. noon - 5pm $20 (Be sure to check out L.A. based gallery M+B for a peek at some gorgeous Prager prints among others!)

Sandi Haber Fifield "Between Planting & Picking" Rick Wester Fine Art 511 W. 25th Suite 205 6pm - 8pm

Verge Art Fair in Brooklyn all events are free (Stop by to see F&A and B. Creative artist Dolly Faibyshev and get one of her beautiful books signed!)

Suzanne Opton--"Vermont" and Geoff Winningham--"Texas, 1970" Robert Anderson Gallery 24 West 57th Street, Suite 503 6pm - 8pm Red Dot Art Fair 82 Mercer (bet. Spring & Broome) 11am - 6pm $10 The Volta Show 7W 7 West 34th Street (bet 5th & 6th Ave.) 11th floor 2pm - 7pm $15 Independent 548 W. 22nd 4pm - 9pm free  

FRIDAY MARCH 4

SUSTAIN Featuring the work of Charlie Grosso housprojects 31 Howard St New York, NYOpening 7-10pm

(Do not miss this! Charlie and her work are amazing so please stop by to check out the work and say hello to housprojects director and F&A co-founder Elizabeth Barragan!)

FPS Fest This 2-day showing of photographer films has expanded this year and will include panels as well. Root Brooklyn 131 No. 14th Williamsburg, Brooklyn $7 Friday $10 Saturday Fountain Art Fair Pier 66 26th Street & 12th Avenue in Hudson River Park noon - 7pm $10 (Stop by Temporary states to view our artist Jon Levitt) Daylight Books Launch 25CPW 25 Central Park West @ 62nd St. 9pm - 11pm F.L.O.A.T Gallery--"Art of Attraction" group show 300 W 22nd St (@ 8th Ave) 6pm - 8pm POOL Art Fair Gershwin Hotel 7 E 27th Street 3pm - 10pm $10 suggested donation

(Do not miss the sensational Savannah Spirit who will be presenting DUAL [find Frantic Femme friday night at the Vernissage])

The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2 100 images by all 100 artists included in the book Chelsea Art Museum 556 West 22nd St. 8pm

(A beautiful book with a fabulous party to go with it thanks to the boys at HUMBLE arts)  

SATURDAY MARCH 5 Armory Lunch Aperture Foundation 547 W. 27th 10am - 1pm Dual—party for the artists @Pool Art Fair The Gershwin Hotel 7 E 27th St Rooms 639 and 640- take the elevator up to the sweet sounds of people enjoying themselves.... 8pm - 11pm

Hope to see you out and about!