I am proud to announce the City of Longview is hosting A World Class Event, The US Nationals Hot Air Balloon Championships from 2012 – 2015, so we thought it only fitting to cast a National Call for Entry for Hot Air Balloons photographs that will be on display while the Hot Air Balloonists are in Longview. The exhibit will be on display from July 23 – September 14, 2012.

According to Wikapedia: “The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered[1] manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes in a hot air balloon created on December 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers.[2] Hot air balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than just being pushed along by the wind are known as airships or, more specifically, thermal airships.”

Send us your best shot of the oldest human-carrying flight technology, the hot air balloon. The hot air balloon does not have to be in the air, but the photograph has to have an element of the hot air balloon in the image. Get creative.

Entry Fees
The entry fee of $35 for up to 5 images. Photographers may enter up to 10 images only at $5 each additional.

When Emailing Digital Files
1. Files should be 1080 pixels in the longest dimension saved in the JPEG format on high quality setting (not maximum). Images should be sa.pled at 72ppi and saved in the sRGB color space.

2. Label each file with consecutive numbers followed by your name .ie JaneDoe_01.jpg – no spaces and only alpha-numeric characters.

The show opens July 20 through September 14 at TCC PHOTO | GALLERY. We are the only fine art photography gallery in North East Texas, specifically in Longview, TX. TCC was first a commercial studio, then in 2006 we opened the gallery with the inaugural exhibit of Muhammad Ali, photographs by Sonia Katchian. We were the first US gallery to host the Holga Inspire exhibit in 2009. We have also shown, Dennis Fagan, O. Rufus Lovett, Scott C. Campbell, Polly Chandler, Mary Ann Lynch, Laura Pickett Calfee, Pat Brown, Danea Males, Texas Photographic Society, Susan Burnstine, Orville Robertson, Tami Bone, and Blue Earth Alliance photographers Camille Seaman, TCC, Rebecca Norris Web, Phil Borges, Perry Dilbert, Janis Miglav, John Trotter, and Benjamin Drummon.

Prizes
The Hot Air Balloon exhibit will consist of 75 prints in the physical gallery and online.
Best of Show – $500
2nd Place – $250
3rd Place – $150

All accepted photographs are for sale. The commission charged will be 50% of the sales price. Print your name, address, telephone numbers (work and home), and sales amount on the back of each print accepted.

Juror:
HARVEY STEIN is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography. Stein is a frequent lecturer on photography both in the United States and abroad. He is the Director of Photography at Umbrella Arts Gallery, located in the East Village of Manhattan. He has also been a member of the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New School University, Drew University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Bridgeport. A recipient of a Creative Arts Public Service (CAPS) fellowship and numerous artist in residency grants, Stein’s latest book, his fifth, Coney Island 40 Years, was published in June of 2011 (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd). Stein’s photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe—73 one-person and over 140 group shows to date. He has also curated 22 exhibits since 2007. His photographs are in more than 55 permanent collections, including the George Eastman House, Bibliotheque Nationale, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, etc. Stein’s photographs and portfolios have been published in such periodicals as The New Yorker, Time, Life, Esquire, American Heritage, Smithsonian, etc and all the major photography magazines.His work is represented by the Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Throckmorton Fine Art and June Bateman Fine Art, New York City. Stein’s work can be seen on his web sites, www.harveysteinphoto.com and www.coneyisland40years.com.

Liability
TCC will exercise all due care in handling prints, but will not be responsible for loss or damage or replacement.

Reproduction
TCC retains the right to display, project and reproduce work accepted for this exhibition for publicity and promotional purposes only. Individual photographers retain Copyrights to their individual works.

Eligibility
The exhibition is open to amateur and professional photographers that live in the United States of America. The photograph has to have an element of the hot air balloon in the image.

If Your Work is Accepted
1. Send one exhibition print for each accepted photograph.
2. Prints must be mounted and overmatted using white matte board with 2″ borders – exceptions are permitted, but must be approved.
3. Include return postage for prints to be shipped back to you after the exhibition or include a check for $15 which would include shipping and $300 insurance. Prints WITHOUT postage will not be returned. Prints will be returned in the container in which they were received. Do NOT use peanuts when shipping.

Important Dates
June 4, 2012, Deadline for entry submissions
July 9 Hot Air Balloon framed prints due
July 23 Hot Air Balloon Opens
July 27 Hot Air Balloon Artist’s reception and Downtown Artwalk

To find out more go to http://www.tccphotogallery.com

Download entry form here: http://www.tccphoto.com/HotAirBalloonCallForENtries.pdf

April 11, 2012                                        903.2364686 tammy@tccphoto.com

ArtWalk and Downtown Live !!!

Lots to do DOWNTOWN 

 Downtown is the place to be April 13 from 5 – 8pm with ArtWalk and Downtown Live at  Heritage Plaza! Artwalk has vendors exhibiting art or hosting a band. Maps will be available at the Downtown Live event.

TCC PHOTO | GALLERY exhibits Mythos – photographs by Tami Bone

Forbes and Butler exhibits Sam Smead

Longview Museum of Fine Arts shows 52nd Student Invitational and

James Hayes blown glass pieces

Gregg County Historical Museum will be open

Brothers Sandwiches will exhibit local artists

Shannon’s Beading Basket new location at 207 North Horaney Street hosts their artists

Judge T Smith Sculpture Garden exhibits: Kevin Box and Warren Cullar’s “rock, paper, scissors”

Osaka’s

Decorating etc with live music by David Smith

Antiques on Fredonia

Downtown Live – Heritage Plaza

Interstate Battery is ArtWalk Sponsor

BellaMia located at 812 Methvin is new to ArtWalk and Longview

BellaMia is a Gallery that can be rented for events. They exhibit artist from Nashville and Austin. The Gallery has art sculptures and fine art paintings for sale. Space is available for rent.

April, 2012                                                          903.236.4686 tammy@tccphoto.com

MYTHOS Photographs by Tami Bone

April 13 – June 8, 2012

 Join us April 13th from 5 – 8pm for the artist reception for Tami Bone’s Mythos exhibit and Artwalk. Mythos will be up through June 8, 2012. TCC PHOTO | GALLERY is located at 207 N. Center St., Longview, TX and on the web at http://www.tccphotogallery.com. Downtown LIVE will be happening at Heritage Plaza that same night from 5 – 7pm.  Look for ArtWalk maps at the Plaza.

Hamidah Glasgow, Director of The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, said this of her work. “The tag line on Texas based photographer Tami Bone’s website reads “ordinary beauty, everyday humanity” but what you will quickly realize is that there is nothing quite ordinary about Tami Bone’s images. Her softly focused two tone visions inject the ordinary with dream-like surreality. She writes that her current project …pulls fragments of memory and figments of imagination from a childhood spent growing up in the rough and tumble of deep South Texas.”

Crista Dix of Wallspace Gallery in Santa Barbara,CA said this, “Tami Bone’s work is magical… Her images tell mythical stories, black and white memory driven tales that have no beginning or no end. You can fall into her poetic narratives, bring your own mysteries, and travel off into her swirling light and deep shadow.

Her work starts as written notes, that merge into ideas, that become a group of images, that blossom as illustrative stories. These are images I can look at all day and find something new each time I walk by them.”

Artist Statement:

Tami Bone grew up in the rough and tumble of deep South Texas where she spent a childhood blessedly free and driven by her imagination. Her photographic work today pulls from these early beginnings, calling forth yearnings, hopes, fears and dreams that make their way into her narrative images.

Today Tami lives in Austin, Texas and engages photography as a means of story telling and self-expression, recognizing that the stories we tell form our personal truths and modern day folklore. She believes that our stories, in essence, the way that we choose to interpret ourselves and our world, are significant and have the power to shape our lives, before finally, they become our lives. Her most recent body of work, Mythos, is her ongoing story.

Bio:

She attended The University of Texas, and later in life discovered her interest in photography. Her work has been shown nationally in both invitational group exhibitions and juried exhibitions, and in 2012 will be shown in several solo exhibitions. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including being listed by BWGallerist as one of the Best of the Best Emerging Fine Art Photographers of 2011; selection as a 2011 Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist, a Photo Review 2010 Competition Winner, a 2009 Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist and a 2008 Review Santa Fe participant.

###

ArtWalk and Downtown Live !!!

Lots to do DOWNTOWN 

ArtWalk

Downtown is the place to be April 13 from 5 – 8pm with ArtWalk and Downtown Live at  Heritage Plaza! Artwalk has vendors exhibiting art or hosting a band. Maps will be available at the Downtown Live event.

TCC PHOTO | GALLERY exhibits Mythos – photographs by Tami Bone

Forbes and Butler exhibits Sam Smead

Longview Museum of Fine Arts shows 52nd Student Invitational and

James Hayes blown glass pieces

Gregg County Historical Museum will be open

Brothers Sandwiches will exhibit local artists

Shannon’s Beading Basket new location at 207 North Horaney Street hosts their artists

Judge T Smith Sculpture Garden exhibits: Kevin Box and Warren Cullar’s “rock, paper, scissors”

Osaka’s

Decorating etc with live music by David Smith

Antiques on Fredonia

Downtown Live – Heritage Plaza

Art World - 1434 McCann Rd

Interstate Battery is ArtWalk Sponsor

BellaMia located at 812 Methvin is new to ArtWalk and Longview

BellaMia is a Gallery that can be rented for events. They exhibit artist from Nashville and Austin. The Gallery has art sculptures and fine art paintings for sale. Space is available for rent.

Saturday March 10, 2012 from 9am -1pm

Soho Photo Gallery
15 White Street, New York, NY 10013, 212.226.8571

Jamesia and cousins from Fruit of the Orchard © Tammy Cromer-Campbell

WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS
• Learn the peculiarities, eccentricities, operation and special characteristics of the Holga.
• Convert a Holga from its 120mm format to 35mm format and attach a cable release.
• Learn 3 different ways to make the Holga do closer focusing.
• Opportunity to exhibit your images on the official Holga website.
• Receive a Holga 120N model camera (a $30 value) as part of the workshop.

In the high tech world of digital imaging, why in the world would anyone want to photograph with a Holga camera that uses “archaic” film? Perhaps because of the plastic lens which provides soft focus, ethereal effects. Maybe for the vignetted edges that add darkness and intrigue to many images, and perhaps for the light streaks which add surprise and serendipity. The randomness of the camera’s effects keep you wanting to make more images to see what the camera gives you. Yes, sometimes the images feel like gifts. This workshop, held in conjunction with the exhibit Holga Inspire, is unique: it will clearly show you how to use the Holga, and also show you how to modify it to get results that you want it to do.

Holga Limited, a company of the Universal Electronics Industries Group, which makes the Holga, is providing a Holga 120N camera for each student and the opportunity to exhibit images taken during the workshop on the Holga Inspire web page. After discussing the basics of camera operation, the camera’s unique characteristics, film loading, and exposure control (limited, part of Holga’s charm), Tammy will show you how to modify and test a Holga for closer focusing, how to adapt the Holga to 35mm use, and how to attach a cable release. Tammy will show some of her work, including images from her Holga book Fruit of the Orchard.

Bio:
Tammy Cromer-Campbell is an award winning American photographer best known for her work as a social documentary photographer and speaker. Cromer-Campbell received her Associates of Applied Arts degree in commercial photography from Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas under the direction of O. Rufus Lovett. She continued her education by taking workshops from the masters in photography, such as Arnold Newman, Ruth Bernhard, Michael Kenna, Keith Carter, John Sexton, and others. The University of North Texas Press published, Fruit of the Orchard/Environmental Justice in East Texas in 2006. She’s received many honors and awards including Blue Earth Alliances first ever cash grant, in 1999, for Fruit of the Orchard. Her work’s included in public and private collections internationally such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museet for Fotocunst, Belgium, and others. Fruit of the Orchard won a 1st Place under entertainment and culture in the Green Dot Awards and Cromer-Campbell is a 2009 National Women’s History Project Honoree for the Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet. Her work is one of the 10 masters featured on the Holga Inspire website http://www.holgainspire.com

COST: $100, which includes a Holga 120N camera.
Pay by check and mail to TCC PHOTO |GALLERY OR online safely and securely at http://www.king-cart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=tccphoto and click on Hack Your Holga
Enrollment is limited to 15 students.

Sign Up:
Name:________________________________________________________________

Address:______________________________________________________________

State:_________________________________________Zip:_____________________

Email:_________________________________________________________________

Please send this form and your check to:

TCC PHOTO | GALLERY
207 N. Center St.
Longview, TX 75601

903.236.4686

For Immediate Release: Contact: 903.236.4686
November 28, 2011 Tammy Cromer-Campbell

Join us Friday December 2, from 5 – 8:30 for an artist reception of local photographers Bryan Boyd, Michael Cavazos, and Glenda Derveloy. All three photographers studied under O. Rufus Lovett at Kilgore College. The same evening, Discover Downtown Christmas, Downtown Market, and ArtWalk – they are all happening at the same time. Lots of fun for the entire family.
Bryan Boyd will be displaying “House of LeRoy”, Boyd said, “This series captures the unique way that one man creates what I first imagined to be “yard decor.”
Michael Cavazos is showing a series of images of birds and hi-line wires. Cavazos said, “This group of images are the result of challenging myself to make something interesting of what is overlooked by many every day, as well as my falling in love with the simple complexities of photographing wildlife in its man made habitat.”
Glenda Derveloy is showing a series of images she photographed using High Dynamic Range method or HDR. Derveloy said, ” These images are my attempts at turning both everyday scenes that may not seem remarkable as you drive past them, as well as well-known historical sites and already breathtaking landmarks, into works of art that surprise the onlooker with details or beauty they would not have noticed otherwise.”
Brief Biographies:
Bryan Boyd went to Oklahoma State Technical College and graduated with a degree in Commercial Art in 1979. Boyd’s passions are in the areas of painting, archeology and photography. Since high school, photography has been another of Bryan’s many interests. His unique photography has been critiqued and awarded numerous accolades by such accomplished photographers as True Redd, O.Rufus Lovett, and Scott Campbell. His work has exhibited at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts and at P’s Gallery.
Michael Cavazos studied photography under the direction of O. Rufus Lovett at Kilgore College and Christopher Talbot at Stephen F. Austin State University. Michael now works at the Longview News-Journal where he provides photography/videography for feature stories, news, sports and much more.
Glenda Derveloy’s work has been exhibited in several galleries and exhibits including Childhood: An International Exhibit, “Short Exposure” exhibits at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, and several Kilgore College student shows. Among her honors and awards are being published as a finalist in Photographer’s Forum Best of College Photography 2010 and Photographer’s Forum Spring 2010 Annual, numerous awards in the Fine Art, Landscape, and Human Interest categories of the Texas Bank & Trust Calendar Contest from 2008 through 2011, and being named Who’s Who in Photography for 2007 at Kilgore College.
To find out more about these bodies of work and the photographers go to http://www.tccphotogallery.com

#####

5th Avenue and 65th Street, NYC 1985              © Orville Robertson

Join us for the opening reception of New York Noir, Street Photography by Orville Robertson and curated by Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator at the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX. Thursday October 6 from 4-8pm – during ArtWalk. The exhibit will be up through November 19. The gallery is located at 207 N. Center St. in downtown Longview, TX and on the web at http://www.tccphotogallery.com (the web-page will be ready by October 6th – maybe sooner.)

We conducted a Skype interview between the photographer and curator to better understand the scope of the work. Here is the interview.

TCC

Today we have Orville Robertson, New York photographer and Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

OR

My name is Orville Robertson I am a New York City street photographer. I’ve been s street photography for about 33 years or so, and I love what I do. Walking around and only photographing what I find interesting. I usually take anywhere from 5 to 10 shots and then go home.

I shoot very slowly. Like 20 to 25 rolls of film a year slowly. When I first started photographing street I shot a lot more than I do now. Most street photographers take more pictures in a day than I do in a year. I just never felt comfortable doing that. Part of what has kept me fresh is my love for what I dot. The fact that i shoot very deliberately and then quickly take a picture. When I first started photographing I shot as much as I could because I followed what was expected. One day I was introduced to Marcia Sheer, who was a pinhole photographer, and asked to assist her with managing her equipment for outdoor shooting sessions. Her methodical approach and one-hour exposures drove me nuts at first. But it made me understand that if you concentrated and used kind of a large format mentality, where each frame meant something rather than just burning through roll after roll, you would actually get a higher percentage of what I felt were good photographs. You have a lot of street photographers who disagree philosophically, and that is their method that works best for them. I certainly respect that. But if I shot 36 exposures and did not find at least 10 interesting, and perhaps 5 quality, images I would probably cut my throat.

TCC

While you may say that you only expose 5 to 10 images on a given journey, it appears that you very prolific. Your slow approach seems to work for you. It is really great to see you post new images on Facebook all the time.

RF

Number one, I love the title, New York Noir. I think it is very onomatopoeic. It’s got a wonderful ring to it and sounds like the images look.

Number two is the fact that I have seen work by lots of night photography by other photographers. I think most of them have said that it has forced them to come to terms with things like lighting and structures which is addressed differently from the daytime work. But what was interesting to me was that you said it forced you to become a better daytime photographer too. Which I think is quite remarkable. Quite nice and the evidence is clearly there. With night photography, of course what is obvious is the light is entirely different. The light is more directed by other sources not by a general overall sunshine, and with that you have to compensate and take that advantage. And I think that is one of the things that you sir do particularly well. Because you are aware of  what’s going on there and you still have that great fascination with the street. Not just for it’s overall theatrical look and broad face , but to also come in close and see things , see in details, see things structurally that were there that contribute to each photograph’s power. That power lies within the body of work and in I think it will be evident in the show that you can deal with it on many different levels at once.

What fascinates me is the fact that one picture can step back and present a broad sort of documentary awareness of the street and everything in it, while the next one can be up close and possess a vibrant intensity. It can be a character study;  it can take advantage of the blur of the figure . It can take advantage of the out of focus figure . I can give us fascinating juxtaposition because of what is going in front and what is going on way back of you – and behind you – and it all ties together in a complex structure. And I love that sort of work when it is done well by a photographer like Orville, either during the day or at night. You happen to do it eloquently . And you address that the challenge even more in the nightime.  Plus the fact that your compositions are always right on and they embody such fascinating structures in and of themselves. That complexity on the one hand looks very simple but on the other hand grows very fascinating the more you dig into and see it. I love the pure experience of looking at your work.

Finally, I should note that the intuition you follow throughout your career remains very sound and you continually come up with the imagery that supports that intuition and invigorates the feeling that lies behind it very much. Orville’s imagery is deeply felt, and always has been. Many photographers look at the street and can find something that is interesting or ironic or cute.  But you go further.  You get in there and make us feel what it is like to pound the pavement and feel the air and smell the scents of the city.  And THAT feeling, THAT emotive force, is truly tremendous.

RF

Do you find that particular technique has made you miss some opportunities or not?

OR

I am always thinking of the next. the next, the next. If you get aggravated because you missed a really good shot, you are going to miss the next one as well. The concentration required to consistently shoot street photography at a high level is enormous and totally mesmerizing. You must have deep passion for the whole thing; the streets, the people, your camera in your hands, pressing that shutter down hard.

I have an expression I love saying: There are pictures everywhere. On a great day it consumes your vision corner to corner. You could not possibly grab everything. That, even if possible, is never my intention. I slam my shutter down when that internal voice screams at me to take the picture now. In truth the only true technique I use is to guess focus and snap the shot. I hate to fidget with the focus so use tabbed wide-angle lenses so I know by feel how to set my distance.

Thank you very much ! i am not used to people talking about my work, so this is greatly appreciated.

#####

Here is the latest video that I did for the Greater Longview United Way Stronger Together campaign.

More New Work

Quick & Easy Crochet

Editorial

Corporate

Identites Now: Contemporary Portrait Photography
Image Selections

Identities Now organized by Peter Hay Halpert
Here is a link to the list of selected artist. I am honored to be selected.

Lost Love

           When Larry met Lucy © John Wrather

Join us July 28th from 4-7pm for the artist reception/artwalk of  Equine Art, photographs by John Wrather. The show opens July 7 - September 10, 2011. You may see the work in the gallery located at 207 N. Center St., Longview, TX or on the web at http://www.tccphotogallery.com. Support the Arts ! Buy photographs from TCC PHOTO | GALLERY.

John said this about the horse:
“The horse is a unique athlete. We have owned and shown many American Saddlebred horses and Hackney ponies through the years. For the most part, these horses and ponies have been show horses. They are very unique with exceptional ability to perform, a high level of intelligence, and show tremendous athleticism. For their size it is amazing to watch the stamina and performance ability these horses have. Many of these photographs are either horses or ponies we own or have owned or horses our friends have exhibited. To capture the performance and ability of these horses in a photograph is a true challenge. I try to capture their spirit and honesty as I relate to each individual. I want the viewer to feel their strength, sometimes playful, sometimes willful behavior and finally, their tolerance.

The horse represents a fierce determined survivor. Throughout its history it has been a friend, employee, beast of burden, object of beauty, a pet and sometimes a soul mate. Through the years I have shared many moments of sadness and many moments glorious happiness with my horses. Horses are very honest individuals and expect a lot of us humans.

To read his statement, click here.

John Wrather Bio:
Born Longview, Texas and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Is an oil and gas producer in Longview, Texas.

Always had a passion for photography but was particularly intrigued by the depth and scope of Fine Arts Photography.

Began his photography education at Kilgore College under the direction of O. Rufus Lovett. He continued his photographic education with workshops from Ruth Burnhard, Michael Kenna, Mark Nohl, Alan Ross, Joyce Tenneson, Keith Carter, and Raul Touzon.

He has exhibited locally in numerous locations and won a Best of Show for the Texas Bank and Trust 1999 exhibit.