david alan harvey presents....

THE EXHIBITIONS

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  David Alan Harvey discovered photography at an early age and quickly began photographing his family and neighborhood. At 20 Harvey lived with, and documented the lives of a black family living in Virginia. These photographs were published in his first book, Tell It Like It Is. Harvey went on to shoot over 40 essays for National Geographic Magazine and publish Cuba (National Geographic, 2000), Divided Soul (Phaidon, 2003), and Living Proof (powerHouse Books, 2007). Harvey has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1993 and lives in New York and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He is currently producing his largest lifetime body of work, Off For A Family Drive, on the complexities of the American Family. In December of 2008, Harvey launched BURN magazine, an online showcase for emerging photographers, which in its 10-month career has garnered a huge worldwide audience and has recently won the prestigious Lucie Award for Photography Magazine of the Year. It is the first time the award has recognized an electronic-only publication.

  website: www.davidalanharvey.com

  BURN: www.burnmagazine.com

• michael loyd young blues, booze, & bbq
  
  

  Young's exhibition, based on his book, Blues, Booze, & BBQ, documents the 150 miles of Highway 61, the famed blacktop road snaking from Memphis, TN down to Greenville, MS. At the halfway point, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, sits Clarksdale, MS, the city considered the birthplace of the blues and the location of Robert Johnson's famed 'Cross Road Blues' intersection of Highway 61 and 49.

  The Delta has been home to blues legends such as Charley Patton, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Cadillac John Nolden, B.B. King, T-Model Ford, Mississippi Slim, Big Jack Johnson, and Willie King, among countless others whose music has become the glue that holds these communities together as they struggle to survive. Young's photographs, taken at juke joints, in private homes, or just hanging out, illustrate the bond blues creates between the Delta and its people. It is through this music that the people pass on their heritage and culture to future generations.

  Michael Loyd Young lives in Houston, TX. Since 2002 Young has worked on several projects, traveling to 21 different countries documenting cultural symbols and the impact they have on the daily lives of the people he photographs. This is Young's first book. All proceeds will be donated to the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, MS. He is currently working on his second book documenting the hunting and fishing culture along the Gulf Coast, from southern Texas to the Florida Everglades.

  website: www.michaelloydyoung.com/

  book: http://www.powerhousebooks.com/author/1066

• chris bickford after the storm
  
  

  In the spring of 2008, Chris Bickford set out on a journey of several hundred yards to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean to document the unique nature and culture of the surfing community on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Armed with an underwater camera, a wetsuit, and a set of swimfins, he stole from the sea a set of images that has now become known as "After the Storm". The project made its debut on David Alan Harvey's BURN magazine in March of 2009, and since then has appeared in the New York Times, Outside Magazine, American Journal, and Surfing Magazine. After the Storm appeared as an official selection of the Look3 Festival of the Photograph, and is currently part of a solo exhibition at the Rankin Gallery in Big Rapids, Michigan, with further exhibitions to follow. Bickford has self-published a version of the work in book form, which sold out of its first edition, and is currently seeking big-house publication for the work.

  Chris Bickford was born in Virginia and has lived in Ireland, Australia, California, Colorado, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Boston, and many other places in between. After journeys into the worlds of academia and folk music, he eventually settled on photography as a tool for both creativity and inquiry. His work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Vision Magazine, BURN magazine, and other national and international publications. His other ongoing projects include an ode to the ole American swimmin' hole, an exploration of Carnival celebrations around the world, a body of abstract landscape photography of the Outer Banks, and a mood piece on the nocturnal world of New York's Lower East Side, called In the Night. He currently divides his time between New York and the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

  portfolio: www.chrisbickfordphoto.com

  blog: www.chrisbickford.com/wp/

  burn magazine article: www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/03/chris-bickford-after-the-storm/

• a.j. wilhelm kabul opium
  
  

  Wilhelm's exhibition focuses on young men in Kabul who are living as homeless opium addicts in a structure built by the Russians to house operas, ballets and music concerts. The building was decimated during tribal fighting of the Afghan civil war and sometimes shelters as many as 400 addicts. Most of these men have the same story of addiction--they snuck into Iran to work in fields or weave carpets or do other back-breaking labor and became addicted when they started smoking opium to ease their physical pains. Deportation inevitably forces them back to Afghanistan where they travel to Kabul desperate as full blown addicts begging and stealing to buy more opium. There isn't much hope or help and many health officials fear that more addicts will start using the drug intravenously as eradication efforts threaten to drive up the street price.

  AJ Wilhelm is a New York City-based photographer and filmmaker whose work has been published by New York Magazine, The FADER, Playboy España, L'espresso (Italy), Vacature Magazine (Belgium), Washington Post, National Geographic Books, Punk Magazine, Wine Spectator, and others. Born and raised in the midwest, AJ is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

  website: www.ajwilhelm.com

• burn magazine selections
  
  

  This will be the second BURN exhibition, following the opening of the BURN Gallery in New York City on October 9, 2009. BURN made its debut in late December of 2008, in response to the overwhelming popularity of David Alan Harvey's "Road Trips" blog, as a forum for showcasing emerging new talent in the photography world, as well as providing a forum for established and iconic photographers to share new work and participate in dialogue about the changing face of the photography world.
  
  BURN is curated and administered by the team of David Alan Harvey and Anton Kusters, and content is provided by an international community of photographers and writers, with work ranging from abstract art photography and digital photomontage to straight photojournalism. BURN has also introduced a number of new multimedia pieces to the public, and strives to walk the cutting edge of contemporary photography, with a "no rules" approach to the medium, and an open blog-style forum of opinions, critiques, suggestions, and sometimes heated debate and controversy. In its 10 months of existence it has already amassed one of the largest online audiences of any publication of its kind, and on October 19 of 2009, BURN won the coveted "Photography Magazine of the Year" Lucie award, making it the first online-only publication ever to receive the award.
  
  Selections will include photographs by Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Erica McDonald, Anton Kusters, James Delano, Bob and Marina Black, Panos Skoulidas, Medford Taylor, Michael Courvoisier, Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Kyunghee Lee, Yalda, Andrew Sullivan, Lassal, Victor Ben Tzvi, Marcin Luczkowski, and many more.

  burn magazine: www.burnmagazine.org

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