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2018 20 YEARS OF AT LANTA CELEBR A T E S PHOTOGR APHY FESTIVAL GUIDEacpinfo.org #acpfest | STEVEN WALLACE PHOTOGRAPHY Your photos speak for themselves. Our galleries just turn up the volume. Made with in Atlanta SHOOTPROOF + ATL OPEN GALLERY Focus on what matters most and let ShootProof do the rest. WELCOME PUBLISHED BY Experience the largest annual 260 Peachtree Street Suite 300 community-based photography Atlanta, GA 30303 404-527-5500 atlantamagazine.com festival in the United States! “There are so many events. I just don’t know where to start.” We’ve heard that more than a few times, and PUBLISHER we’re here to make it easier for you. To customize your experience at ACP, visit us online at festivalguide2018. Sean McGinnis acpinfo.org to view our digital guide. Love black-and-white photography? Documentary storytelling? Films or artist talks? Search our digital guide using keywords to narrow your search and find exactly what you want. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kevin Benefield Another simplified way to experience the festival is with our iPhone app (free in the app store). See what is DESIGN DIRECTOR happening near you today, tomorrow, or whenever you’re available. Don’t pass up on the largest annual photo Cristina Villa Hazar festival in the country. With more than 100 photo-related events and exhibitions, there are plenty of ways to celebrate photography in Atlanta. ART DIRECTOR Joss Wakamo • Featured ACP Events highlighted on pages 22-38 ASSISTANT EDITOR • All ACP Festival events are listed chronologically in the main section of the guide Emma Hunt • Calendar at the front of the Guide is the most comprehensive display of all ACP events for planning your ACP Festival adventures. PRODUCTION DIRECTOR • Index of Artists and Venues to aid your search for a particular event Whitney Tomasino COVER IMPORTANT: It is always a good idea to check the ACP Festival Guide online FestivalGuide2018.ACPinfo.org Annie with Nick Rogers, Lazy D Ranch, Houston, or the iPhone app as updates will be reflected there after this guide has gone to print. Texas, 2008. Picture credit: © Annie Leibovitz. From Annie Leibovitz At Work. See page 38 Disclaimer: The listings compiled in this guide are submitted by companies and individuals, and are considered as advertisements. for an event featuring this photographer. Although every effort has been made to ensure that this information is correct, the publisher cannot guarantee accuracy. Please note that the information herein is meant to be used as a guide only. Exhibitions, dates, locations, and services may be subject to change Copyright: Reproduction in whole or in part without notice. We apologize in advance for any errors or omissions. of any elements of this publication is strictly #acpfest prohibited without the written permission of the publisher and the individual artist. ACP’S MISSION: Atlanta Celebrates Photography aims to make Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Inc. is Atlanta a leading center for the world’s fastest growing art form. a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization. We provide unique experiences that engage, educate, and indicates Sign Language inspire diverse audiences, and produce the largest annual t interpretation will be community-based photo festival in the United States. provided at this event. 1 Ying Chen, B.F.A. photography, photography, Chen, B.F.A. Ying TK UNCOMMON PERSPECTIVES Madame Rebel Rebel , archival pigment print, edition 1 of 5 (+1 AP), 13” x 19”, April, 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Courtesy pigment print, edition 1 of 5 (+1 AP), 13” x 19”, April, 2018. , archival Sept. 27–Nov. 2, 2018 Inspired by David Bowie’s singular vision of glam and visual excess, Rebel Rebel exudes unexpected viewpoints captured in SCAD student and alumni fashion photography. Featuring more than 30 works, the exhibition highlights innovative and surprising approaches to the medium. Reception: Thursday, Oct. 4 | 5–7 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Trois Gallery | 1600 Peachtree St. NW | Atlanta, Georgia t#acpfest 2 scad.edu TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE Get Social. Use #ACPfest. Table of @ACPtweets Contents @atlantacelebratesphotography 1 A Message from ACP fb.com/AtlantaPhotoFestival 4 ACP Program Sponsors 5 Welcome Message 6 Artful Impact Experience ACP online during the festival: 8 What to Expect FestivalGuide2018.ACPinfo.org 10 Calendar of Events View events by week, neighborhood, artist, venue or keyword. 22 ACP Featured Events There’s an app for that! 42 Participating Venues To download for iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, visit the App 66 Event Supporters & Credits store or scan this code: 68 Venue Index #acpfest Three reasons to subscribe to our email list — j.mp/ACPemail : 70 Artist Index 1. We never give out your info. 2. You select the information you wish to receive. 3. We’ll deliver! t 3 We love—and thank—our sponsors! Major funding for this organization is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council. This program is also supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and the Georgia Council for the Arts. SPONSORS Mary Alice & MASSEY LUBO Bennett Brown CHARITABLE TRUST Fund Foundation Livingston Foundation M A R K E T I N G G R O U P TheBatesSolutionsGroup.com ACP is a proud member of Festival of Light, an #acpfest international consortium t of Photography Festivals 4 WELCOME Celebrating 20 years of 20 YEARS OF AT LANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGR APHY Hard to believe that ACP has been It’s been an action- around for 20 years – and it seems that packed 20 years as with each passing year there has never I’ve watched ACP been a more exciting time to be involved grow from a newborn with photography than the present. It is baby into a feisty easy to take something as ubiquitous as young adult. The photography for granted. In my opinion, co-founders (and all photography has notched up a few places the nurturers along in its importance in our lives and on the the way) dreamt of a world stage recently. vibrant photographic As an organization that aims to celebrate community, and now the roles that photography plays in each ACP has become the © ANDERSON SCOTT of our lives, we are cognizant of the risk in largest annual photo trying to be all things to all people, but there are still stones left unturned! festival in the country! Atlanta has changed in the last 20 years – there is so much to do here, And still, we progress by leaps and bounds. You, who and so much competing for people’s attention and free time. We see this as love photography, are carrying the dream forward. ACP a challenge to continue to deliver meaningful programs, and to listen to our is YOUR festival, and the support, passion, and creativity audience. In 2017, we conducted focus groups and surveys to hear what you you put into it make all the difference. Let’s do 20 more have to say. Your feedback informed the programming you’ll find in the 2018 years and then some! #acpfest ACP Festival. We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate some fresh new voices, some revered masters of the medium, and our 20th birthday! Amy Miller Corinne Adams Executive Director, ACP ACP Co-founder t 5 Artful Impact For over two decades, ACP has made photography matter in Atlanta. 20TH ANNIVERSARY ANNIVERSARY 20TH For the past 20 years, Atlanta Celebrates roll call of some of the contemporary has been about the more subtle tri- Photography, Atlanta’s enduring and art world’s brightest lights: Gregory umphs, too: the ability of art to impact influential homegrown photography Crewdson, Larry Sultan, Emmet Gowin, and create change for people from festival, has brought an impressive roster Lalla Essaydi, Lorna Simpson, Deborah all walks of life. “In fact, we are now of photographers to Atlanta, keeping the Willis, Tierney Gearon. the largest community-based photo city abreast of what is new, important, But it’s not just about the big names. festival in the country—something I and interesting in the medium. It’s a Over its influential 20-year history, ACP could never have imagined,” says ACP co-founder Corinne Adams. What began as a festival geared toward photographers has morphed into something far less niche, says Adams. “Who isn’t impacted by pho- tography today? It is the medium of our intimate and working lives. We are impacted by photography with every blink of our eyes.” #acpfest #acpfest Executive director Amy Miller sees t ACP’s mission as continually focused 6 on bringing photography to as diverse ACP OPEN EXHIBITION, 2015 20TH ANNIVERSARY 20TH ACP OPEN EXHIBITION, 2015 THE FENCE, 2016 an audience as possible: “young and old, role ACP has played in defining scene appeared and the critical role selfie-sharer and gear-head, industry Atlanta as a photography town, not ACP played in that perception. “I first insider to casual photography lover.” just locally but nationally. “Beyond came to Atlanta in 2014 to review While imprinting the city with Atlanta, the festival gives people from portfolios when I was a curator in #acpfest photography’s vitality, ACP has helped put across the country a peek into all the Chicago. I was blown away by how #acpfest Atlanta on the national photography map, ways—from artists, museums and much was happening here and elevating what was once considered a galleries, collectors, and publishers— the high quality of the work being hobby to the conceptual and formal equal that the city contributes to the wider done. I likely would not have had to painting or sculpture.