American Photo Image of the Year 2008

© Steven Meisel won the Commercial Work category.
How can you go wrong with Madonna?

Just received American Photo magazine Image of the Year 2008 issue. I was surprised to see my work won Honorable Mention in the Personal Work category. This is the second time I have been included in this category (last time was in 2006 for my portraits from Almost Naked). This year, I send in some work from my on-going project Chinese Sentiment.

A nice spark in a cold and rainy weekend.

Other, Other...

© InJoo Whang

I have received a 2008 New York City/Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship and will be included in OTHER, OTHER... an exhibition features works by 18 artists and represent a sampling of 2007 and 2008 UAI/NYC recipients visual arts and media. The exhibition will be open on June 4, 2008 and will be view through August 7th at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos.

Magenta Foundation - Flash Forward 2007

Lindsay, 2007. ©Shen Wei

Canada’s Magenta Foundation (Magenta Publishing for the Arts) has announced the list of winners for Flash Forward 2007 – an exhibition and a book of emerging photographers from US, Canada and UK.

I am very excited to be recognized as one of the 25 winning photographers from United States. The exhibition and book release are scheduled for early October at Lennox Contemporary In Toronto.

The Griffin Award

The Griffin Museum of Photography announced a list of the artists selected for the 13th Annual Griffin Juried Show by juror Brian Clamp of ClampArt, New York. I am honored for The Griffin Award.

The artists included in the list are also my good friend Amy Stein who won a two-person show, my HHS fellow Joseph Holmes, my SVA mate Dina Kantor, a Review Santa Fe ‘06 fellow Gregory Scott, and Shanghai-based photographer Daniel Traub. I think this is going to be a very interesting show.

The exhibition will be run from August 23 through October 28, 2007 at the The Griffin Museum of Photography, 67 Shore Road
Winchester, MA 01890

PDN Annual 2007

My on-going documentary series Concubines of New York has won a spot on the PDN Annual 2007, in the Personal Work category. The work is published in the May issue of the PDN Magazine.

Conscientious Photographers of the Year 2006

Conscientious has named me as one of the three Photographers of the Year 2006. I am extremely flattered. The other two photographers of the year are Amy Elkins and Richard Renaldi, I personally admire their work tremendously as well.

Joerg Colberg, the man behind Conscientious, has been honored as American Photo Magazine’s 2006 Innovators for Top Photography Blogs, his blog has been described as “one of the most reliable and contemporary windows into the creative side of photography”. Beloved Jen Bekman is also honored as 2006 innovators for gallery.

American Photo

American Photo Magazine's Jan/Feb issue is the Images of the Year 2007 issue. I am Honorable Mention-ed in Person Work category.

Pick up a copy of the magazine or check the winners’ gallery here.

TPS:TNC

Texas Photographic Society National Competition exhibition has started its one-year tour this month which features my Second-Place winning image "Joey" from Almost Naked series. The next two exhibition will be at:

Dougherty Art Center
110 Barton Springs Road
Austin, TX, 78704
September 1 to September 30, 2006

The Center for Contemporary Art
220 Cypress Street
Abilene, TX 79601
December 1 to December 30, 2006