Exposure Launch tonight in Calgary

It's time for another round of photography exhibits, speakers and events for this year's Exposure: Banff- Calgary Photography Festival! The festivities kick off tonight at the Exposure Launch party at the Gerry Thomas Gallery in Calgary. The show featureds work from local photographers and was in part curated by Kristine Thoreson and myself. Please come down to check out the show.
More info at:
http://www.exposurecalgarybanff.com/

The Coat Check

Just heard about a great new exhibition opening at the 809 alternative exhibition space in Calgary. The project involves about twenty local artists and provides much needed clothing for homeless people in Calgary. The opening is next week (Feb 6th) in Calgary. Check out the link below for more information:

http://www.809er.com/Currentexhibition.html

A website about the project is to be launched next week:

www.skiddysmith.com/coatcheck

Invitation to participate

I've been working on a collaborative project about dreams over the last year and a half. This has recently taken the form of a book project that grows as each person takes the journal home. Inside is a record of their dream in both written and photographic form; the photo is taken with a pinhole camera. The part that I'm really liking about it is that it is a cumulative piece and each person has the opportunity to read what the others have written before. In this way, it continues to evolve as a piece and invites people to share within an intimate forum. If anyone's interested in contributing to the book and being part of the piece let me know. Here's a couple of shots from contributors who live in Chicago.

Some Iceland shots from the vault..

Well, I suppose they weren't in the vault really. I just didn't have a chance to scan them in the last few months! It's hard to believe that a year ago I was getting excited to travel to Iceland. Time is a funny thing.

Artist's Talk- January 23, 2009

Just wanted to post a little info about an artist's talk that I'm doing with Andrew Querner (http://www.restless-planet.com/) next week at the Canmore Community Co-op (http://canmorecoop.ca/pitch/). The talk will take place at 7:30 in Canmore and will run for about 1.5- 2 hours. Please stop by if you can!