Joianne Bittle, Empty Met - European paintings gallery, 2018 ​ ​ Social Photography VI Prints available online from June 28th at: socialphotography.carriagetrade.org See details on purchasing below* Online Sales Begin: Thursday, June 28 Gallery Exhibition Opens: Tuesday, July 10, 6-8 PM carriage trade 277 Grand St, 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10002 ​ ​ First presented in 2011, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have catalogued the rapid transformation of cell phone photography over the last several years. From a novelty medium existing between the voice and text functions of flip phones, to the smart phone as near physical appendage capable of recording and transmitting every waking moment, the cell phone camera now plays a pervasive role in many people’s lives. While Instagram tends to emphasize the medium’s social utility, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have tracked an alternate course, inviting participants and viewers to encounter these images in a format free of peer-generated tallies, while offering the option of a sustained look afforded by a gallery setting. Social Photography contributors are not limited to visual artists, and include writers, curators, musicians, students, etc., reflecting the accessibly and ubiquity of cell phone camera use. Functioning as a benefit exhibition to help support upcoming programming at carriage trade, there is no particular theme guiding Social Photography VI apart from how the cell phone camera is most often used. Participants email images from their phones to carriage trade, which are then formatted, printed on 7" x 5" paper, and sold online and in the gallery during the exhibition. Less a sanctioning of an evolving medium than a hybrid of a traditional exhibition format and the wider net of social media, Social Photography also functions as a means to sustain and expand carriage trade’s community, which exists in the combined spheres of online experience and the irreplaceable physicality of the exhibition space itself. *Prints are available in editions of 10 on a first come, firsts served basis: 1 for $75.00 ​ 2 for $120.00 (use promo code: 2/$120 at checkout) ​ ​ 3 for $150.00 (use promo code: 3/$150 at checkout) ​ ​ Prints purchased online by July 4 will be available for pick-up at the opening on July 10. Outside NY and International Purchasers : Shipping is available on Shopify Social Photography VI photographs can be viewed and purchased here: socialphotography.carriagetrade.org Please look for daily posts from Social Photography VI on our Instagram and Facebook page. ​ ​ ​ ​ Image: Joianne Bittle, Empty Met - European paintings gallery, 2018, Inkjet Print, 5"x 7". ​ ​ List of Contributors: Dennis Adams, Peggy Ahwesh, Diana Al-Hadid, Juan Amaya, Michele Araujo, Elliot Arkin, Michael Ashkin, Mengfan Bai, Agnes Barley, James Barondess, David Baskin, Lisa Beck, Peter Bellamy, Liz Berg, Julien Bismuth, Joianne Bittle, Ann Bobco, Suzanne Bocanegra, Jennifer Bolande, Richard Bosman, Evan Boutte, Leslie Brack, Ethan Breckinridge, Francis Cape, Antoine Catala, Olivier Compte, Jeri Coppola, Fransisco Correa Cordero, Anne Couillaud, Fred Cray, Jody Culkin, Paul David Young, Jeremiah Day, Mira Dayal, Lucky, DeBellevue, Ala Dehghan, Liz Deschenes, David Deutsch, Noah Dillon, Daniella Dooling, Chris Dorland, Satoru Eguchi, Tracey Emin, Barbara Ess, Ben Estes, Margaret Ewing, Ceal Floyer, Hal Foster, Andrea Frank, Devin Friedrich, Joy Garnett, Jeff Gibson, Olivia Gilmore, Andrew Ginzel, Jennifer Golub, Kathleen Goncharov, Christopher Goode, Dan Graham, Tracy Grayson, Ethan Greenbaum, Helga Hansen, Lorna Hayden, Liselot van der Heijden, Will Heinrich, Patrice Helmar, Daniel Hill, Laura Hoffmann, David Horvitz, Cannon Hudson, David Humphrey, Emily Hunt, Laura Hunt, Scott Indrisek, Virginia Inés Vergara, Shirley Irons, Neil Jenney, Jamie Jensen, Lulu Jiang, Suzanne Joelson, J John Priola, Nicole Kaack, Vasili Kaliman, Craig Kalpakjian, Anne Katrine Senstad, Sojin Kim, Rick Klauber, Hilary Kliros, Nicholas Knight, John Kramer, Stephen Lack, Justen Ladda, Louise Lawler, Jason Lazarus, Mika Lee, Simon Leung, Wenxiao Li, Miranda Lichtenstein, Justin Lieberman, Jeanne Liotta, Neil Logan, Stephen Maine, Mary Manning, Kai Matsumiya, Sarah Meister, John Miller, Thurston Moore, Rick Myers, Diane Nerwen, Edouard NG, Matteo Norzi, John Oakes, Stefano Olla, John Opera, Kristin Ordahl, Lily Pinchbeck, Laura Parnes, Gelah Penn, Annie Plumb, Jeff Preiss, Lee Ranaldo, Asad Raza, Calvin Reid, Patrick Reynolds, Michelle Richardson, Aura Rosenberg, Benjamin Rosenthal, Emily Roz, Sam Samore, Ken Saylor, John Schabel, Jeffrey Schiff, Heidi Schlatter, Diana Schmertz, Nadine Schmied, Gary Schneider, Barry Schwabsky, Michael Scott, Peter Serling, Raphaele Shirley, Susan Silas, Adam Simon, Leah Singer, Molly Soda, H. Spencer Young, Tom Sperry, Gary Stephan, Steel Stillman, George Stoll, Jichao Sun, Carol Szymanski, Sikay Tang, Colin Thomson, Benjamin Tischer, Yulia Topchiy, Sophie Tottie, Pegi Vail, Philip Vanderhyden, Doris Vila, Julia Wachtel, Douglas Walla, Lindsay Walt, Walter Robinson, Lotte Walworth, Daniel Walworth, Sarah Wang, Max Warsh, Christian Wassmann, Barbara Weissberger, Pam Widener, Scott Williams, Sam Winston, David Winter, Ying Zhang, Charlotte Zinsser. .