Rachel and David, by I-Hsuen Chen "For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates." So wrote French philosopher Gaston Bach...
Lemon Shake Up, Strong City, Kansas, 2003 by Mike Sinclair Public Assembly, featuring photographs by 2009 Hot Shot and Ultra Mike Sinclair, is currently on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through June 24t...
Posing for a portrait can be, for many (including, sometimes, the photographer), an unnerving situation. Seemingly wary of the photographer, the subjects in Contender Horatio Baltzs submission appear...
The Holderness coast, on the East Coast of England, suffers continual erosion, with nearly seven feet of land per year being eroded. It is estimated that, since Roman times, 32 villages in the area h...
Using her 35mm camera and the installations she creates, Contender Emma Gluckman aims to capture moments resembling hypnagogia, the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep. band aid, 2010 by...
Fourth of July #2, Independence, Missouri, by Mike Sinclair Photographers, mark your calendars! 2009 Ne Plus Ultra Mike Sinclairs debut solo show in NYC, at Jen Bekman Gallery, is but mere days away....
Taking us from Brazil to Sri Lanka and back to New York, Contender Kevin Tachmans documentary photography captured the frenetic, energetic moments along his journey. His ability to bring viewers into...
In the series Still Life with Book, Contender Juliette Tang bridges the gap between being a bibliophile and also an image-maker, creating still lifes from some of the most beloved literary novels. Wh...
Let the music play. Contender Ken Brown draws from his cinematic influences and love of photographing cars to create these stylized, sleek shots of jukeboxes. "I was hired by a museum to photogra...
Qendrim, Trepça, 2011 by Andrew Querner Documentary photographers have to get close enough to their subjects to almost become one of them, but also stay just far enough to have a perspective. The int...
Amish Horses, by Colleen Plumb Were inching closer and closer to selecting the next five Hot Shots, photographers! Next week, our HHS! panelists will convene at JBP headquarters to review the submiss...
Untitled, from the series New Work, by Jordan Tate In photography, new subjects are found everyday; techniques and technologies are updated more frequently than one can keep up with: the rise of digi...
Red No. 1, U.S. Vintage Grand Prix, Watkins Glen, 2010 by Daniel Handal "Auto racing, bull fighting and mountain climbing are the only real sports... All others are games," Ernest Hemingway o...
Catharsis, 2010 by Domenica de la Torre Hot on the heels of the closing of HHS! First Edition 2012, we found ourselves in the grand portfolio review room at the FotoFest Meeting Place, where our expo...
Contender Patrick Allens aerial imagery seeks to capture "those patterns that stand out as a real representation of the feeling of flying, and the manipulation of scale and depth that is differen...
Its been a little over a year since the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated villages, towns and major cities in Japan. And while before-and-after pictures show that the country continue...
The First Edition 2012 round of competition is over, but opportunities still abound for photographers. In fact, the City of New York is hosting a free Facebook photo contest called #loveNYC that, you...
Photographers, what are you doing this weekend? If youre in New York City, make your way to Jen Bekman Gallery, at 6 Spring Street, to catch the Hey, Hot Shot! Second Edition 2011 Showcase before it ...
Sleeping Mask, 2010 by Phil Jung Photographers, today is your last full day to get your portfolios in order. All entries must be submitted by tomorrow, March 21st, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Enter now! At sta...
Contender Maja Daniels often approaches her photography from a journalistic and sociological stand point; in several of her series, particularly Into Oblivion and todays featured Monette and Mady, th...
Brenna & Javan, October 2011 by Hana Pesut (click on image to enlarge) Pioneered by long time New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham in the late 70s, street fashion photography has now become a ...
Contender Stephen Tamiesies submission, Promised Land, was influenced by "the relationship Americans hold with the Western landscape and its continual development." The resulting landscapes&m...
Contender Noah David Bau has created a series of portraits of orphaned Thai young males, whose meager livelihoods depend on intensive training and competing in Muay Thai, a combat sport similar to In...
El Teide, view #02, 2011 by Meike Nixdorf Its Armory week here in NYC, with dozens of galleries and museums participating and exhibiting leading contemporary art and photography. Just in time for the...
Our final Q&A with the Second Edition 2011 Hot Shots is with Brendan George Ko, who we first wrote about as a Contender. His eerily stunning photos could easily be images you see when you close your ...
When we first wrote about Hot Shot Phil Jung in a Contender post, we remarked that "the modern personal automobile moved the boundary between public and private outward. Your mobile personal bubb...
Second Edition 2011 Hot Shot Meike Nixdorf impressed the panel with her landscapes, taken as she "orbited" around her subject—the mountain El Teide, in the Canary Islands—explorin...
Next up in our installment of Q&As with Second Edition 2011 Hot Shots is with Cristina De Middel. Her imaginative, muted-color series The Afronauts caught our attention with its part story-telling, p...
On Friday, March 9th, the Second Edition 2011 Showcase kicked off at Jen Bekman Gallery, located at 6, Spring Street, New York. Ahead of the opening reception, we introduced each Hot Shot via an inte...
Wadi Fuqin, on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, is known for its traditional farming practices—passed down over the millennia and considered by many to be the finest, most ...
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