Allyson Ely’s project, A Place Out of Time, is one of 4 winners in Soho Photo Gallery’s 2025 International Portfolio Competition. The winners will each have a solo show in the Gallery during 2025, and Allyson’s will be August 20th-Sept. 14th at Soho Photo Gallery. Allyson will also be joining the gallery.
Allyson’s portfolio, A Place Out of Time, was selected for a Merit Award in Black & White Magazine’s 2025 Portfolio contest. Selected images will be published in the August issue.
Soho Photo Gallery has selected A Place Out of Time as one of nine finalists in their International Portfolio Competition 2025. Three winners will be announced in June.
BAPC is well represented in Gray Loft Gallery’s 7th annual color themed photography exhibit, Purple.
Presented in conjunction with PhotoCarmel. Selected by Ann Jastrab and Jan Watten.
Show dates: Saturday, April 12 – Sunday, May 11, 2025
Opening Reception, Saturday, April 12, 5:00 – 7:30 pm
Closing Reception, Sunday, May 11, 500 – 7:30 pm
Work in the show includes Allyson Ely’s photograph, Purple
Maria Budner’s lumen print, Untitled
Neo Serafimidis’s image, Each Night, I Die #2
Nick Winworth’s photograph, Slipping In
Alumni members Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband image, Pyramid
The photography of Anastasia Shubina and Timofey Glinin (Glish Group) are on exhibit in Berlin at the “Parallel Realities” exhibition (details here) at Kommunale Galerie Berlin during EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography.
Originally conceived as a tool to represent reality, photography ultimately gives a fragmented vision of it. Its dynamic ability to both reflect and shape reality places it in an ambiguous position that the exhibition will explore through multiple angles: the role of the photographer as an artist and its freedom to represent and recreate reality, the fabricated narratives embedded in the editing, omitting and selecting processes of image making, the influence of the viewer and the context in which pictures are received, the impact of new visual technologies partly fueled by AI learning, etc.
Jury and curators: Bénédicte Blondeau and Norbert Wiesneth
Exhibition dates: 22 February – 27 April 2025 (More info here)
Opening reception: 21 February 2025 at 6 PM
We are pleased to report that several BAPC members will have work in the Center for Photographic Art’s 2025 Members’ Juried Exhibition in either the gallery or the online portions of the exhibition.
Juror: Allie Haeusslein, Director, Pier 24 Photography
Exhibition Dates: March 29 – May 4, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, March 29, 4:00 – 6:00pm
Reception, walk-through, and awards with Juror Allie Haeusslein
Alison Taggart-Barone’s photograph, Bohol Circle Immigrant Park, Alameda, Ca. 2024, is included in the online portion of the show. See catalog.
Allyson Eli’s photograph Serpentine will be in the online portion of the show.
Ari Salomon’s image 6 Feet Apart: X Sampler Grid is included in the online portion of the show.
Finally, alumni member Gene Dominique has two photographs in the show. The Rev. Lovely Moore portrait will be in the gallery and the still-life, Obsolete and Discontinued will be in the online exhibition.
Ari Salomon will present a solo exhibit of his 6 Feet Apart series at Birdhouse Gallery in the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco.
Birdhouse Gallery
2548 Judah Street, San Francisco, CA 94122 (map)
(415) 359-5187
@birdhousegallerysf
The exhibition includes new installations that leverage his large archive (from around the world) of the ubiquitous marks that told us all to stand apart during the pandemic. Works include concrete sculptures, murals, framed and unframed photos on the walls, windows and floors, publications and more. The groupings delve into a wide variety of metaphors, encompassing themes of transformation, the fragility of health, the rigorous yet uncertain nature of scientific exploration, and the visceral, often overwhelming experience of emotional panic. Through these layered associations, they invite the viewer to reflect on the interconnectedness of personal and collective responses to uncertainty and upheaval.
Photographs from Chris’s City Angels portfolio will be in the January/February 2025 issue of The Hand magazine. This is a print and digital issue and will be released the second week of January.
An image from Ari’s Six Feet Apart series appears in the current show, Leftovers, on the Curated Fridge. The show is viewable online.
The Curated Fridge is an Art gallery in Somerville, Massachusetts – well not a full gallery but literally one fridge in one apartment! it’s a fun idea and has grown into a bigger project over the last 10 years with a wide range of influential curators involved and remote exhibits in a variety of other galleries.
Leftovers features prints from previous submissions that were given a second chance to shine. Curated by Yorgos Efthymiadis @yorgosphoto, founder of TCF, the exhibition consists of 93 photographs.
An opening party is scheduled for January 18th (3-5pm)
Location: 281 Medford St, Somerville, MA 02143
Chris’s image Leader of the Pack is on the cover of Shadow & Light Magazine’s a special horse issue. Pre-orders are currently being accepted. Link is https://shadowandlightmagazine.com/the-horse-pdf/
Chris Stevens-Yu had two images selected for inclusion in the Black & White Magazine 2024 Special Issue (#170) which features winners of its annual Single Image Contest:
The Accordionist and Break Free, which also won People’s Choice for the city/street category.
Gene Dominique has three photographs published in the Black & White Magazine 2024 Special Issue (#170) which feature winners of its annual Single Image Contest. Gene has winners in these categories:
Fractured Portrait
Rev Lovely Moore
You’re Just Too Good To Be True
Allyson Elly has been invited to join an exclusive cohort of artists for “Reservoir,” a new photographic generator created by the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP). The program, designed as a shared repository of responses to the global crisis of loneliness, is an invite-only initiative.
Elly was personally selected by renowned artist Rodrigo Valenzuela to participate in his cohort, which will explore the theme of “strangers in a strange land,” addressing issues of alienation and dislocation from homeland, family, or beliefs.
From January to September 2025, Elly and her fellow cohort members will engage in talks, critiques, creative circles, and collaborative explorations. The project will culminate in a book and an exhibition at LACP’s gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.
