To celebrate our 2 year anniversary, we’re organizing a special January 2013 edition of One, One Thousand. An amazing jury will be selecting a group of 4 photographers to be featured on our site.

2 Year Anniversary Jury:
Tom Griggs, Editor, fototazo
Maggie Kennedy, Photography Director, Garden & Gun
Jennifer Shaw, Coordinator, PhotoNOLA
Aline Smithson, Editor, Lenscratch

As always, submissions are free. Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2012. Please follow the guidelines on our submissions page or on the spec sheet below.

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." — John Ruskin

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The founders and editors of One, One Thousand | A Publication of Southern Photography, Daniel Echevarria and Natalie Minik, will be speaking at the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Southeast Fall 2011 Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC, on Saturday October 29.

The conference, titled "Zone 5" and organized by Rebecca Nolan and Easton Selby, will take place October 28-30 at the Sheraton Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, and keynote speakers include Sam Wang and Michelle Van Parys. Echevarria and Minik will speak about One, One Thousand on Saturday from 11:00 - 11:45am in Zone 3 (the 103 Meeting Room).

You can view or download a full conference schedule here.

For detailed information about registration, please visit the SPE Southeast Blog.

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." — John Ruskin

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Dave Anderson : One Block
Publisher: Aperture, 2010

Publisher’s Note: One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds (Aperture, August 2010), photographs by Dave Anderson, is a powerful portrait of post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as seen through the prism of a single city block whose residents are attempting to rebuild their homes. Using portraiture and still lifes, Anderson explores the very nature of community while testing its fortitude.

Anderson’s compassionate treatment of the neighborhood’s difficult circumstances has drawn comparisons to the work of Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration–funded photographers. Seventy years later, between the devastation left by Katrina and the current housing crisis, the stability and permanence of the American home is once again in jeopardy. One Block reflects Anderson’s affection for New Orleans and his fascination with the power of human resilience—both individually and collectively.

Purchase a copy of One Block here.

Deborah Luster : Tooth for an Eye
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, 2011

Publisher’s Note: The city of New Orleans is a topographical/ architectural/material/cultural phenomenon with a diverse population participating in raucously colorful and fascinating pursuits and rituals. Homicide is a cultural fact of the life in the city as well. In her second book, Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish, Deborah Luster explores the city in a new way, creating a compelling portrait in the form of a photographic archive of contemporary and historic homicide sites. Following on from her first book, Prisoners of Louisiana, Tooth for an Eye explores the themes of loss and remembrance in a series of tondo photographs that offer an opportunity for the viewer to enter deeper into the idea of the city, a place where life and death coexist, neither free of the other’s influence.

Purchase a copy of Tooth for an Eye here.

Jennifer Shaw : Hurricane Story
Publisher: Chin Music Press, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Hurricane Story is a spellbinding odyssey of exile, birth and return told in forty-six photographs and simple, understated prose. This first-person narrative told through dreamlike images of toys and dolls chronicles one couple’s evacuation from New Orleans ahead of the broken levees, the birth of their first child on the day that Katrina made landfall, and their eventual return to the city as a family. Jennifer Shaw’s photographs, at turns humorous and haunting, contrast deftly with the prose.

This clothbound hardcover edition includes an introduction by Rob Walker, author of Letters From New Orleans and former "Consumed" columnist for The New York Times Magazine.

Purchase a copy of Hurricane Story here.

Lori Waselchuk : Grace Before Dying
Publisher: Umbrage Edtions, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Grace Before Dying charts the extraordinary breakthrough in humanity that has helped transform one of the most dangerous maximum security prisons in the United States, Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison, into one of the least violent. Poignant quotes from the incarcerated hospice volunteers and patients accompany the searing photographs set in a carefully built sequence that charts the development of a culture of caring and compassion that challenges stereotypes of incarcerated people, and provides an intimate perspectives on what long-term and life sentences signify for those inside.

Purchase a copy of Grace Before Dying here.

Editor’s Note: You can view a selection of Dave Anderson’s photography that was featured on One, One Thousand in September 2011. You can also view more of Anderson’s photography on his website: dbanderson.com

You can view a selection of Deborah Luster’s photography that was featured on One, One Thousand in August 2011.

You can view a selection of Jennifer Shaw’s photography that was featured on One, One Thousand in September 2011. You can also view more of Shaw’s photography on her website: jennifershaw.net

You can view a selection of Lori Waselchuk’s photography that was featured on One, One Thousand in August 2011. You can also view more of Waselchuk’s photography on her website: loriwaselchukphotos.com

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." — John Ruskin

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The Kiernan Gallery is a new photography gallery located in Lexington, Virginia. The gallery focuses on emerging artists via a call for entry format. Currently, the gallery is accepting submissions for its first four shows, including an exhibit of street photography called Street Stories. The show will be on view from November 8 - December 3. Here’s more information about Street Stories:

"Photographers who shoot on the streets become undercover agents, witnesses, and stalkers. They also serve as interpreters of our society. Street photographers are hyper-aware of their surroundings, of irony, of fleeting moments, and they tell the stories of the people around them. For Street Stories, The Kiernan Gallery welcomes images that offer a unique look at our every day world and the people in it."

What you get: 30 images will be exhibited in The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia. Up to an additional 40 images will be selected for exhibition in the online gallery. All selected works will be published in a full color exhibition catalogue available for purchase from Blurb Books. A Juror’s Choice and Director’s Choice award will also be given.
Who can apply: Anyone.
It’s gonna set you back:$25 for the first 5 images, $5 per additional image up to 10 images.
Who is the juror: Debbie Hagan, editor-in-chief of Art New England, has been writing about contemporary art for regional and national publications for more than twenty-five years. She has written for Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic, Boston Globe Magazine, American Style, Robb Report, and many others. She is the former show manager of international Artexpo, heading up shows in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. She holds an MFA from Goucher College, and teaches visual analysis and creative writing at New Hampshire Institute of Art.
When’s the deadline: Entries due September 30, 2011

For more information and to submit your work visit: www.kiernangallery.com

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." — John Ruskin

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Eliot Dudik will be having an opening reception for an exhibition of photographs from his series ROAD ENDS IN WATER at ART+CAYCE in Cayce, South Carolina, on Friday, September 9th, from 6:00pm - 9:00pm.

Here’s more information about ROAD ENDS IN WATER from Dudik’s project statement: "The main highway, U.S Route 17, that bisects South Carolina’s 'low country,' north to south, is being widened to accommodate commerce, tourists, and urban refugees. Not only are many homes, some historic, disappearing before the tracked blades of expansion, but also the new, faster thoroughfare encourages greater disregard and obliviousness to the charm and culture of the basin harbors. This collection of images and thoughts is a tribute to, and an acknowledgment of, the respect that the modest souls of this region, obscure from the mainstream, deserve for their tenacity, good humor, social commitment, and acceptance of the ebb and flow of the often incomprehensible vagaries of existence."

ART+CAYCE is located at 1329 State St, Cayce, SC, 29033. The ART+CAYCE gallery initiative started in 2009 by Architect Maryellyn Cannizzaro with the help of USC Art Professor Virginia Scotchie is located in the storefront studio offices of Compass 5 Partners Architects. Dedicated to exhibiting art that often eludes a formal venue, ART + CAYCE celebrates new and established artists whose work connects to the Midlands. Here’s a link to Google Maps for directions.

In other good news, Eliot Dudik has also recently won the Member Award in the Society for Photographic Education: Southeast Region’s (SPESE) first grant competition. The competition was judged by Fraction Magazine’s editor, David Bram, and other award recipients include Gloria Fite, Christina Poindexter, and Lizzie Cuthberson.

Editor’s Note: View a selection of Dudik’s photography featured on One, One Thousand in May 2011. You can also view more of Dudik’s photography on his website: eliotdudik.com.

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." — John Ruskin

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In fewer than two weeks, Jacksonville, FL, will host it’s inaugural 2-day photography festival, PHOTOJAX 2011. According to the festival’s website: "PHOTOJAX 2011 offers a diversity of photography related exhibitions, artist receptions, portfolio reviews, and a community cell phone image projection exhibit hosted by various venues throughout Jacksonville. PHOTOJAX is a not-for-profit organization coordinated by a group of dedicated volunteers in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, a cultural resource of The University of North Florida. The festival brings together photographers, photography enthusiasts, collectors, educators, galleries, museums and the general public to explore all aspects of the medium by answering this year’s thematic question: ‘What is Photography?’"

Among the photographers showing work during the festival are One, One Thousand featured artists Jeff Rich and Alexander Diaz.

In collaboration with the PHOTOJAX photography festival, Alexander Diaz curated "No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape." The photography exhibition investigates the visual, societal, and ecological consequences of postwar development, and it is a component of the museum’s celebration of photography this fall. Opening today, September, 7, at the UNF Gallery at The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (MOCA), the exhibit features artists including Jeff Rich, Jeremiah Ariaz, Bryon Darby, Matt Siber, Steven B. Smith, Amy Stein, Michael Vahrenwald, and Scott Wheeler.

The show will be open from September 7 — November 6, 2011.

The UNF Gallery at MOCA is located at 333 North Laura Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32202. Here’s a link to Google Maps for directions.

For more information about Jeff Rich’s upcoming shows, please visit his blog: Shot or Taken.

Apart from curating "No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape," Alexander Diaz will also being showing photographs in the group show "What is Photography?" during PHOTOJAX. "What is Photography?" is at the Southlight Gallery and features the following artists: Alexander Diaz, Doug Eng, Dominick Martorelli, Michael Dunlap, Anna Tomczak, Jane Shirek, Gary Mcelwee, Paul Karabinis, Craig Monroe, and Chris W. Luhar-Trice.

Artists’ reception: September 7, 2011, 5—9pm

The Southlight Gallery is located at 6 East Bay Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32202. Here’s a link to Google Maps for directions.

Editor’s Note: You can view a selection of Rich’s photography featured on One, One Thousand in July 2011. You can also view more of Rich’s photography on his website: jeffreyrich.com.

You can view a selection of Diaz’s photography featured on One, One Thousand in June 2011. You can also view more of Diaz’s photography on his website: alexdiazphoto.com.

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." — John Ruskin

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Kathleen Robbins will be having an opening reception for an exhibition of photographs from her series Into the Flatland at Beard and Riser Studios in Greenwood, Mississippi, on Tuesday, September 6th, from 5:00pm - 8:00pm.

Here’s more information about Into the Flatland from Robbins’ project statement: "The photographs in this series were made during regular trips home to visit family over a period of several years. These are the people I love most in a place that I am deeply connected to. I chose to leave the Mississippi Delta for many of the same reasons anyone ever chooses to leave a rural area. This is land that my family has inhabited for generations, and I am pulled to this place in a way that I am not able to fully articulate. It is not my nostalgia alone that creates this longing; it is that of my mother and my mother’s mother."

Beard and Riser Studios is located at 201 Main Street, Greenwood, Mississippi, 38930. Here’s a link to Google Maps for directions.

Editor’s Note: View a selection of Robbins’ photography featured on One, One Thousand in February 2011. You can also view more of Robbins’ photography on her website: kathleen-robbins.com.

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." — John Ruskin

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Natalie is not only an amazing friend and editor, she’s also a fantastic photographer and artist. I’m very proud and excited to write that she’ll be attending Duke University next year for the inaugural MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program!

Congratulations, gal! Kick some ass and take some names!

                          

The Rex pageant, Mardi Gras Day, New Orleans, LA, circa 1907

Alexander Allison, Mardi Gras revelers on a New Orleans side street, circa 1905

Mardi Gras, New Orleans, the Red Pageant, circa 1900-1910

John N. Teunisson, A group of masked and costumed Mardi Gras revelers on Frenchman Street, New Orleans, circa 1910

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Our publication focuses on an area of the medium that doesn’t often get the exposure we feel it deserves. One, One Thousand is a publication that should have existed decades ago — a resource for the highest quality work about the South, produced for the photographic community as a whole.

In the coming weeks, we’re going to begin regularly featuring projects produced by photographers in the Southeast. Our issues will be published online monthly, and each will include selections from two projects by two different photographers. You can expect a varied and always exciting look into the contemporary Southern photography scene.

One, One Thousand’s blog will act as a separate aid to keep readers informed. Not only will it offer news about the publication itself, but we’ll also be posting updates about various photography-related events going on around the region — from exhibitions, to talks, book releases, and open calls.

We have some excellent photographers lined up, and we hope you’re getting excited. Always feel free to leave us your feedback, either by e-mail or as comments on this blog — we look forward to the conversation.

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one." — John Ruskin

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