FINDING GENE

Did you know FOTOFOLIO printed several photographs by Eugene Pierce as postcards?

FOTOFOLIO is known as the leading publisher of fine art and photographic postcards and collaborated with important photographers and artists of the 20th and 21st century.

Since 1975, FOTOFOLIO has worked closely with artists and their foundations including Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mark Rothko, Nan Goldin, Jean Michel Basquiat, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray just to name a few.

Can you guess which one of these postcards is Gene’s?

Click on grid to find out.

Exploring our Connections

2024 NJ ARTS ANNUAL SHOW

I am so excited for the opportunity to occupy this space along many New Jersey Artists. The opening will be on September 26th. The exhibition is open until December at the Monclair Art Museum (MAM).

A jury reviewed more than 1000 submissions and selected 63 recent works that explore past and present themes of family, community, and belonging, in relation to identity, diversity and inclusion.

This is one of the first museums in the USA primarily engaged in collecting American art, including the work of contemporary, nonacademic artists, and among the first dedicated to the study and creation of a significant Native American art collection.

See the complete series that accompanies the work I am presenting at Montclair art museum here.

FALL 2024 BOOK DUMMY AWARDS

ALL FOR HER

The evolution of a book

“I decided to be an open book and share the evolution of this project since I didn’t develop it alone.

Where this book prototype started and where it now stands is beyond what I could ever describe or envision. So here I share the first prototype and the current version of this book in complete vulnerability so you can see the mutation of each page and get to know all those involved in creating it.”

-Jennifer Cabral

In August, Cabral’s book dummy “Depression. Possession. Repression. - All for her” received an honorable mention at Prêmio Foto em Pauta 2024 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Thank you to the jury during the 8* edition of Prêmio Foto em Pauta for photobooks - composed by Ângela Berlinde, Eugênio Sávio, Isabel Santana Terron, Sofia Fan e Tiago Santana.

And this book dummy will also be featured at the Book Festival “Mulheres Luz - Mostra de Fotolivros” in Sao Paulo curated by Daniele Queiroz, Assistant Curator at IMS - Instituto Moreira Salles, and Maira Gamarra photo researcher in Latin American Photography. Thank you for the inclusion on this festival dedicated to highlight women photographers and their voices.

If the process to convert an exhibition project into a photo book wasn’t challenging enough: Cabral had to simultaneously transmute my outdated concepts of what a photo book can be in order to design this project. To guide her in this process she had the privilege to work with the independent book publisher Selo Turvo.

Along with other 12 photo artists she participated of the lab “Fabulações para o fim do mundo” and during nine weeks we conceived disjointed images into fables in printed form. The cross-pollination coming from the pages of Selo Turvo’s catalog mingled with the incredible prototypes brought to the table forever changed our visions of what printed matter can be.

“I patiently await each of the incredible books germinated together to be published one day. Thank you Alix Breda e Joao Paulo Lima for helping us in the painstaking process of detachment so we could “ kill our darlings” and edit, sequence and design in a way that would allow the images to become what they want to become., says Jennifer Cabral.”