Stan Raucher in Black & White: December 2011

Year in Review

As the year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the many wonderful photographic experience I’ve had in the past twelve months. The major highlight of the year was the publication in LensWork #97 of my ten-page interview on street photography and a portfolio of 20 images from my series Return to New York. LensWork extended #97 included more images and an additional 33 minute video interview. I was also honored to have my work in solo exhibitions in Hungary, Solvakia and Seattle. My prints were also included in over a dozen juried group exhibitions in locations ranging from Oaxaca to New York to Minneapolis to Seattle. I also had the opportunity to do street photography in many urban locations including New York, San Francisco, Sicily, Naples, Rome, Budapest, Vienna, Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Mexico City and Oaxaca. All of those cities also afforded wonderful opportunities to visit photography exhibitions in local museums and galleries. This year I also enjoyed taking workshops with Ernesto Bazan in Sicily and Oaxaca. Finally, I pleased that I received the Merit Award from B&W Magazine in the 2011 Portfolio Contest and Honorable Mention in the Texas Photographic Society Portfolio Mid‐Career Artist Competition III. The upcoming year promises to be equally exciting so check back on my blog for updates.

LensWork Extended #97

I’m pleased that LensWork Extended and LensWork Online #97 are now available. They contain additional content including my 33 minute video interview with Brooks Jensen, which expands on topics covered in the print interview, and more images from my series Return to New York.

These versions also correct a minor glitch which may have puzzled careful readers of the print edition interview. The image Atlantic Avenue MTA Station is referenced in my discussion of secondary elements with Brooks starting in the last paragraph on page 51 in the print edition, but the proper image for this discussion is actually Washington Square MTA Station. This error has been corrected in the extended and online versions.

Washington Square MTA Station

Fotovisura Photo of the Day - December 19, 2011

I'm delighted that my photo El Viernes Santo - Good Friday, Antigua in my series Guatemala has been selected as the Photo of the Day by curator Adriana Teresa for the Fotovisura website. Fotovisura is a user-friendly self publishing and photo sharing community. It contains a public archive that may be used in lieu of a traditional website and offers a myriad of interesting features. Fotovisura also publishes Visura Magazine and sponsors an annual grant competition. My albums and profile on the Fotovisura public archive may be found by searching on my name.

El Viernes Santo - Good Friday, Antigua

Exhibition in Slovakia

I'm delighted that my Never Ending Stage exhibition 38 of prints has traveled from the Sixth Ménes-patak International Festival of Photography in Szécsény, Hungary to Fil'akovo, Slovakia, where it will be shown at the fifth annual International Artfoto Festival at the Hradné Múzeum from December 1, 2011 through February 17, 2012. The entire show, which also includes work by my friends Attila Kleb and Bernd Arnold, is entitled Hrad Svetov V in Slovak and Világok Vára V in Hungarian which translates to Castle Worlds Five in English. This is quite appropriate since the Hradné Múzeum is located high on a hill in a restored castle. The exhibition was curated by András Tóth, who kindly sent me images of the installation.