Carolyn Drake
PORTFOLIO REVIEW The Humid Goes West
Charlotte Cotton, Carolyn Drake, Paul Schiek of TBW Books
June 27-28, 2020 via Zoom
We are delighted to present our third virtual portfolio review, this time with a west coast twist. Our inimitable reviewers—all based in California (but looking eastward in their headshots)—have a wealth of experience in photography book making and publishing, exhibiting, and deep understanding photography as an art form. Charlotte, Carolyn, and Paul will help participants refine their artistic direction and offer professional guidance in three one-on-one conversations over a shared computer screen. They are eager to consider your developing projects, as well as those ready for exhibition and publication. Photographers of all levels are invited to participate but will most benefit from showing a body of work.
A few days after the reviews, you are invited to your show work in a group slideshow led by The Humid’s Irina Rozovsky and Mark Steinmetz. This is an additional opportunity to get feedback on your work, debrief, and meet other participants.
3 individual 25 minute reviews Fee: $190; $150 for students
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Please note: your reviews will either be the 27rd or 28th and once registered, we will be in touch re: your scheduling preference.
About the Reviewers
Charlotte Cotton (Los Angeles, CA)
Charlotte is a curator, writer and creative consultant who has explored photographic culture for over twenty years. She has held positions including curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, head of programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, and curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her book, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, is published in ten languages and has been a key text in charting the rise of photography as an art form in the 21st century. The fourth edition will be published in September 2020.
Carolyn Drake (Vallejo, CA)
Carolyn has worked on collaborative and photo-based projects around the world. She spent many years working with Uyghurs in western China on a body of work called Wild Pigeon, which was presented in a solo exhibition at SFMOMA in 2018. In 2020, TBW Books will publish a new body of called Knit Club which she made in collaboration with an enigmatic group of women in Mississippi. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship and the Anamorphosis book prize, among other awards. She is a member of Magnum Photos.
Paul Schiek (Oakland, CA)
Paul Schiek is the founder of TBW Books, an independent photography book publisher. Since 2006, the company has been producing beautifully printed and designed books by some of the world's most renowned and acclaimed artists working in the field of photography, past and present. Among celebrated titles are monographs by Curran Hatleberg, Kristine Potter, and Peter Funch, as well as Carolyn Drake’s upcoming book Knit Club.