Aurora photographers Susana Raab and Scott Goldsmith are currently featured as a two-person exhibition in the New Works Gallery at the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The New Works Gallery is a space for Silver Eye members to exhibit their recent work, rotating each month, to keep members and visitors informed of contemporary trends in the field.

In Susana Raab’s portion of the exhibition, entitled Consumed, her images expose the fast food industry’s often unseen consequences on our health and the environment, along with their intrusive advertising campaigns. “Americans are slaves to an industry whose influence over our society we do not fully comprehend. And we abet this national drama through the worship of the signs and totems of this junk food culture, proving the efficacy of the billions spent on fast food related advertising”, says Susana. For this series, she used a medium-format film to achieve more saturated colors, portraying the hyper-reality of this industry’s advertising conventions.

In Scott Goldsmith’s portion of the exhibition, entitled Political, his photographs depict moments and stories in the world of American politics, including the recent inauguration of President Obama, that are only seen first hand. “I have been blessed and lucky to travel with US Presidents and presidential candidates. It was during these assignments that I became fascinated by what the public did not see in the nightly TV news cast”, says Goldsmith. “It is the amazing experiences we are allowed to witness just because we have a camera or a plastic credential”. In the future, Scott hopes to turn his ongoing project into a book.

To learn more about the exhibition, taking place November 18 – December 5, click here.

To see more work by Susana Raab and Scott Goldsmith, visit Aurora Photos.

Photographer Lukasz Trzcinski of Aurora partner agency Visavis, is currently showcasing images from the New Europe project on the Main Market Square in Krakow, Poland at the Camelot Gallery. The outdoor exhibition began on September 21, 2009 and will be traveling to Warsaw on October 10, 2009.

In his showcase of images, Lukasz Trzcinski reveals the impact left behind by communism on the people of Eastern Europe. Each country in the region is represented by a group of photographs that portray the local attitudes of citizens which reflect their past and current reality. Visit the project’s website for more information at www.nowaeuropa.info/index.php?q=en.

To view more work by Lukasz Trzcinski, visit Aurora Photos.

A culmination of images captured over the course of a decade by Aurora photographer Steven J. Kazlowski now compose a book and traveling exhibit, titled The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World. The photographs were taken in various locations from Canada’s Arctic coast to Point Hope, Alaska in celebration of the great, but struggling animal and to document the affect of our changing climate on it’s future.

Steven says, “I offer these images as witness to an iconic species and an ecosystem that may be lost to future generations if we, as a global community, do not take action now.”

The exhibit opened it’s 10 city national tour on May 16, 2009 at The University of Alaska’s Museum of the North and will be traveling next to The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington on June 28, 2009. Visit The Burke Museum’s website for more information on the exhibit here at http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/polarbear/about.php. Check here for the entire exhibit schedule, coming at http://www.lefteyepro.com/globalwarming.html.

A playful spring polar bear (Ursus Maritimus) cub plays with a piece of bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) baleen at sunrise, Barter Island, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.  Every fall, Inupiaq subsistence whalers from the village of Kaktovik, catch up to three whales then leave the carcass outside of town.  Polar bears waiting on land for fall sea ice freeze up arrive to scavenge the carcasses. Photo by Steven Kazlowski/Aurora Photos. Read the rest of this entry »

The French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) Gallery presents Denis Darzacq’s exhibition, The Fall which explores the instability of youth culture through a series of photographs and videos.  Darzacq, who was recently presented with the award for First World Press Photo in the Arts and Entertainment category, presents photos which “become a metaphor for youth in precarious stability, playing a game of equilibrium and provocation. Featuring the bodies of young hip-hop, capoeira and contemporary dancers in weightless positions, The Fall opposes the elasticity of these bodies to the raw material of architecture.”

The exhibit is presented in partnership with Galerie VU and is part of the “I Kiffe NY” French Urban Cultures Festival in New York City.  Opening on October 16th, the exhibit will run through November 20, 2008 at the FIAF Gallery at 22 East 60th Street, New York City.  For more information, please click here.

Visit Aurora Photos to view more work by Denis Darzacq.

Women by Women, an exhibit from the Women Photojournalists of Washington will open today in Washington, DC and will feature photography by Katja Heinemann and other female photojournalists.  For more information, visit www.womenphotojournalists.org.

To view more from Katja Heinmann, visit Aurora Select.

Aurora contributor Peter Essick’s images are currently being showcased at the Henry Gregg Gallery in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York. The show titled, Back in the Day, features six of Essick’s black and white prints that, “were taken when (Essick) was working at a newspaper called The City Sun in Brooklyn from 1988-1991.” The show runs from May 8th until June 15, 2008. To read more details about the show click here.

To see more Peter Essick photography click here.

Opening, March 29, 2008 at the Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary, Alberta-Canada, Aurora Select photographer Todd Korol’s “Cities: The Carbon Prints.” The show is a look at how Art and Architecture help develop a soul of the city. “Cities; The Carbon Prints” is a culmination of over 2 years of work. Says Todd, “I am interested in how a city feels, not how a city looks.” Todd focused on simple forms and light using an engineered lens on traditional camera body and black and white film. With photographs from New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C, the show run until April 19, 2008.

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New York, Feb 28th, 2008. Aurora Select hosted the opening party and exhibition launch of Battlespace: Unrealities of War. Some of the best known conflict photographers donated an impressive collection of powerful and evocative images from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With over two hundred photographers and editors in attendance, the evening was a true testament to the industry’s commitment in documenting international conflict.

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Aurora Select photographer Katja Heinemann’s documentary photography exhibition “On Borrowed Time: Growing Up with HIV/AIDS in the United States” opened at Columbia University’s School of Social Work as part of the Open Society’s Moving Walls traveling exhibits, and will be on display through the summer of 2008.The exhibition explores the impact HIV/AIDS has on young people. For more information about the exhibition, please visit www.movingwalls.org

To see more Katja Heinemann photography click here.

The Belmont Gallery of Art, www.belmontgallery.org, in Massachusetts will be featuring Aurora contributor Paula Lerner’s multi-media presentation, Afghan Stories: Giving Women a Voice, January 15, 2008. A reception starts at 7pm with the presentation at 7:30pm. The presentation comes from Lerner’s work as a photojournalist, “In the 23 years I have been a working photographer, women’s issues have been a recurring theme in both my professional assignments and personal projects. When I had the opportunity to document the lives of women in Afghanistan, my interest was especially piqued. Knowing Afghan women have faced some of the harshest circumstances of women anywhere in the world, I knew their stories would be some of the most compelling.” The presentation shows from December 14, 2007 until February 5, 2008.

To see more Paula Lerner photography click here.