Slaby to Present Work on Heroin and Healthcare in Colorado
APRIL 11, 2012
LUCEO photographer Matt Slaby will be presenting images from a work-in-progress on the topic of injection drug use and public health at several venues this April. The work was recently presented at Denver’s Harm Reduction Action Center’s Grand Opening of their syringe exchange at an event featuring former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter. Images from the project remain on display and can be seen at the center at 733 Santa Fe Drive in Denver. The project will also be presented to Boulder County medical providers in conjunction with the county’s syringe exchange program.

Slaby will also be presenting a selection from the project during a panel presentation to anthropology students at the University of Colorado at Denver on April 11th. The panel will feature active injection drug users, outreach workers, and academics.

Banks and Brinson to Lead Holy Week Workshop and Exhibit Work in Venezuela
APRIL 4, 2012
LUCEO’s David Walter Banks and Kendrick Brinson will exhibit work from their ongoing projects on Atlanta and Memphis at RMTF in Caracas, Venezuela April 4-May 31, 2012. The pair will also lead students through a four-day shooting and photo editing workshop surrounding Holy Week in Caracas, Venezuela April 5-8, 2012.

Slaby and Eich Receive FotoVisura Grant Honorable Mentions
APRIL 1, 2012
LUCEO photographer Matt Slaby received an honorable mention for a selection of images from his work-in-progress, In Xanadu. The project explores issues related to public health as applied to injection drug users. The images pair portraits of active and recovering users with spaces significant to their healthcare narrative such as where a user overdosed, contracted a blood-borne pathogen, or died. The project, currently being used by regional healthcare advocates, aims to reframe the issue in normative terms to address preventable outcomes.

Slaby shares the honorable mention with LUCEO’s Matt Eich, as well.

Details about the FotoVisura Grant and winners can be found here.

Banks and Brinson to Speak to University of Miami’s Visual Journalism Program
MARCH 16, 2012
LUCEO’s David Walter Banks and Kendrick Brinson will speak to students at the University of Miami March 22, 2012. The founding LUCEO members will discuss personal work, as well as business and collaboration to students in the university’s visual journalism program.

Matt Eich Receives $10,000 Grant from National Geographic
MARCH 15, 2012
LUCEO’s Matt Eich received a grant from National Geographic to continue his longterm project “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town” about race and class disparities in Greenwood, Mississippi. This is the second grant from National Geographic for Mr. Eich, as he also received a $5,000 Innovation in Storytelling Grant by way of the LOOKbetween Festival, which is a part of LOOK3. 

 Banks and Brinson Speak at Western Kentucky University
MARCH 12, 2012
LUCEO’s David Walter Banks and Kendrick Brinson reviewed photography portfolios, spoke about the business side of photography and how LUCEO functions as a cooperative to a Western Kentucky University business and lighting class, and did another talk about the importance of and passion for personal projects to an audience of students and professors at Western Kentucky University’s photojournalism program Monday, March 12, 2012.

If you are interested in one of more LUCEO members presenting work or discussing business at your school or business, please email us at mailATluceoimages.com

Matt Eich Receives $12,000 Grant from ShootQ/Pictage
MARCH 5, 2012
LUCEO’s Matt Eich received a grant from ShootQ/Pictage for his ongoing project “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town.” To see the images he submitted in his August 2010 proposal for the grant, click here. Congratulations, Matt!

Slaby Named Among CRMA and the Missouri School of Journalism’s Finalists
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
LUCEO photographer Matt Slaby was recently named among finalists for the City and Regional Magazine Association’s National Awards Competition. Magazines of varying circulations competed in 31 categories, including editorial, design, online, e-newsletter and a new multi-platform storytelling category. Judges named five finalists in most categories and will soon choose one ultimate winner in each. The winners for work completed in 2011 will be announced at the CRMA’s 36th Annual Conference to take place May 19–21 at Caesar’s Palace Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Slaby’s work profiles an unlikely Brooklyn-born horse trainer who moved to the West in his youth to pursue his equestrian dream. The work was featured in 5280, a Denver regional magazine.

Details about the award and other finalists can be found here.

LUCEO’s Greater Than the Sum Exhibition in New York City Completely Sells Out, Receives Press
JANUARY 20, 2012
LUCEO’s annual New York City show was a complete success. The entire exhibition, which was 163 feet of layered images wrapping the walls of 25CPW in Manhattan and offered 74 one-of-a-kind editioned prints for sale, completely sold out.

“We are each pieces that weave together to run our organization, and this collaborative nature is what stands as our foundation,” David Walter Banks told CNN in an interview.

Art patrons and attendees also got to collaborate and create their own art on a wall of submitted images that AdoramaPix sponsored. The backdrop of the entire night was a soundscape of submitted sounds that LUCEO partner Tyler Strickland wove into a unique piece called DIN. You can listen to DIN and see the layered images in their entirety HERE.

Greater Than The Sum was featured on PDN as the PDN Photo of the Day.

CNN Photos ran images from the exhibition, as well as an interview about the exhibition.

Greater Than the Sum interview on Feature Shoot.

AdoramaPix wrote about the exhibition and how to get involved with the interactive wall that they sponsored at the exhibition, as well.

 LUCEO’s Few and Far Between Project Featured on The New York Times Lens Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
LUCEO’s ongoing group project, titled Few and Far Between, was recently featured on The New York Times Lens Blog. The body of work brings all of LUCEO’s photographers together in order to accomplish the common goal of documenting industrial and population change in rural America. The project is collaborative by nature and encourages cooperation between LUCEO’s photographers to handle all planning and logistics related to this large-scale shoot.

David Banks explains, “What we can produce as a unit working together is more than the sum of our parts.”

Few and Far Between began in 2010 and has been renewed through a series of regional trips made by LUCEO’s photographers. The most ambitious of these trips covered four states and eight towns in a ten day period spent traveling in an RV.

Read more about the trip on The Lens Blog

See Few and Far Between on LUCEO’s site

Read a case study on Few and Far Between

Eich a Featured Guest Speaker at American University of FotoWeek DC
NOVEMBER 9, 2011 at 6:30 pm
LUCEO photographer Matt Eich will give a lecture: “A Cooperative Approach to Photojournalism: LUCEO Images at American University School of Communication,” where he will speak out the cooperative and present photographs from LUCEO’s archives as well as his personal work. 

Location: Weschler Theater, American University MGC 3rd Floor, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, Northwest
202-885-2094
More Info >>

 Peveto a Featured Guest Speaker at Brooks Institute
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 at 6pm
LUCEO photographer Daryl Peveto will be a Featured Guest Speaker at Brooks Institute as a part of their Fall Guest Speaker Series. Peveto will discuss the business aspects of freelance photography today as well as the benefits of working with a photo cooperative like LUCEO.

Location: Ventura Campus Screening Room
Directions >>

 Brinson is a 2011 Ones to Watch for the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
LUCEO Photographer Kendrick Brinson is one of 10 photographers based in the United States chosen by curator Mary Stanley for Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s Ones to Watch. The Ones to Watch are “the hottest emerging and established photography talents. These artists are highly collectible, nationally and internationally recognized, and set a high bar for innovation and quality.” Brinson donated one piece from her ‘Sun City: Life After Life’ photo essay to be auctioned at the ACP 2011 Photography Auction Gala on September 23, 2011, the same piece was on display at the Mary Stanley Studio in downtown Atlanta September 8-22, 2011.

Slaby Appointed as Chair of NPPA’s Business Practices Committee
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
LUCEO photographer Matt Slaby was recently appointed by NPPA President Sean D. Elliot to chair the organizations’ Business Practices Committee. The National Press Photographers Association is an organization dedicated to the advancement of visual journalism, its creation, practice, training, editing and distribution, in all news media and works to promote its role as a vital public service.

Slaby, who recently presented during the NPPA’s Business Blitz alongside Photoshelter’s Grover Sanschagrin and John Harrington, will draw from his background as a founding member of LUCEO and as an attorney to help the organization shape business practices for independent journalism.

Slaby began is tenure on September 1st and will be establishing his committee and advisors in the coming weeks.

For more information, visit: NPPA

 Banks’ ‘The Fourth Wall’ Featured in Newsweek

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
LUCEO Photographer David Walter Banks ongoing project on themed alternate realities titled ‘The Fourth Wall’ has been published with a new edit in Newsweek. 

To view the slideshow, visit Newsweek

Kendrick Brinson’s ‘Sun City: Life After Life’ Work in 18th Noorderlicht Photo Festival
SEPTEMBER 12 through OCTOBER 9, 2011
On September 12th, the 18th Noorderlicht Photo Festival kicked off in Groningen, The Netherlands. The theme of this year’s international festival, which is open through October 9, 2011, is “City Life in the Urban Age.”

Five framed 16×24” images from Kendrick Brinson’s Sun City: Life After Life are on display in the 18th Noorderlicht Photo Festival, which kicked off in Groningen, The Netherlands September 11, 2011. The theme of this year’s international festival, which is open through October 9, 2011, is “Metropolis: City Life in the Urban Age.” This will be the eighth show Brinson’s Sun City work has appeared in in the past year.

For more information on the festival, visit: Noorderlicht Photofestival

 Slaby Among 2011 Critical Mass Finalists
AUGUST 30, 2011
LUCEO photographer Matt Slaby was selected to be among Critical Mass’ 2011 Finalists. Slaby’s submission, a project focusing on healthcare issues endemic to populations of injection drug users, was selected from over 700 entries.
Critical Mass is an annual online program that makes connections within the photography community.

Critical Mass’ Top 50 entrants will be announced in November.

To find out more, visit Photo Lucida: Critical Mass

Slaby to Share Work On International Overdose Awareness Day
AUGUST 31, 2011

LUCEO photographer Matt Slaby will share work from a recent project focusing on healthcare issues endemic to populations of injection drug users in conjunction with International Overdose Awareness Day. Slaby’s work will be on display as part of Denver’s Harm Reduction Action Center’s broader advocacy and awareness campaign at Fluid Coffee on August 31st starting at 5:00 pm. He will be on hand to answer questions related to the work.  

For more information, please visit the event’s Facebook page or get involved directly at the Harm Reduction Action Center: HERE

Eich wins Aaron Siskind Fellowship
AUGUST 24, 2011
 LUCEO co-founder Matt Eich is one of five recipients of the 2011 Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, a cash award of $10,000 for the support of his project “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town.” There were more than 1,200 applicants for the award this year. The recipients are listed below, or you can see past winners on the foundation website.

2011 Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellows:
Matt Eich – Norfolk, VA
Lisa Elmaleh – Brooklyn, NY
Brigitte Grignet – New York, NY
Chris Jordan – Seattle, WA
Justin Kimball – Florence, MA

Judges:
Susan Bright, Independent Curator and Writer
Alexa Dilworth, Publishing Director/Editor, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Jamie Wellford, Senior Photo Editor, Newsweek

For more information, visit Aaron Siskind Foundation

Eich wins PDN Curator Award
July 2011
Matt Eich’s “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town” series wins the Photo Essay/Reportage category of the PDN Curator Awards, juried by Brian Clamp (ClampArt), Ariel Shanberg (Center of Photography at Woodstock), Jeff Dunas (Palm Springs Photo Festival), Mazdack Rassi (MILK), Julie Grahame (aCurator.com), Michael Zide (Photographer), Gravelle Pierre (Kris Graves Projects). He has three images spread out over four pages in the July issue of PDN and his work is featured in an exhibition at MILK Gallery in July, as well. 

For more information, visit PDN’s “The Curator”

Banks Featured on NPR

JUNE 27, 2011
LUCEO photographer David Walter Banks’ work was featured on NPR’s 100 Words column. The photos were curated by Visura Magazine co-founder Graham Letorney. The column revolves around photographing in Atlanta and provides a sneak peak to Banks’ unreleased ongoing project on the subject.

To view the column, visit NPR

Eich wins in 2011 PDN Photo Annual
MAY 23, 2011
LUCEO photographer Matt Eich’s series “Sin and Salvation in Baptist town,” originally assigned by Michael Wichita of the AARP Bulletin and edited by LUCEO Partner Mike Davis of One28 Media was awarded in the Photojournalism/Sports/Documentary category of this year’s PDN Photo Annual.

For more information, visit PDN

LUCEO Selected for Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2011
MAY 9, 2011
LUCEO photographer Matt Eich was selected for inclusion in the seventh year of the Magenta Foundation’s census for emerging photographers, with David Walter Banks receiving an Honorable Mention. Eich was selected for his project, ‘Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town’ and Banks for his essay, ‘The Fourth Wall’. A selection of work will be published in the Magenta Flash Forward 2011 book along with a lot of talented young artists including some good friends of LUCEO. 

For those around the Boston area June 2-5, 2011, the good folks at Magenta will be hosting ‘Flash Forward Festival Boston’ in what looks like an exciting photo festival.

For more information, visit Magenta   
To view the entire list, visit Flash Forward – Emerging Photographers 2011

LUCEO to Participate in 2011 New York Photo Festival and FotoVisura

MAY 8, 2011
LUCEO photographers Matt Eich and David Walter Banks will be in NYC May 10th-15th to participate in the 2011 New York Photo Festival and FotoVisura. You can catch up with them at any of the following speaking engagements or the PDN Photo Annual Party. They hope to see you there or on the streets during the festivities. For client meeting inquiries, please contact Banks directly at davidbanks@luceoimages.com or by cell at 706.296.3085. 
MAY 13, 2011
St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Water St., Dumbo, Brooklyn

Artist Talk with Matt Eich

Matt Eich will deliver an artist talk about the development of long-term projects and his approach to building relationships with the people he photographs while sharing two ongoing book-length bodies of work. Other topics to be discussed are methods for funding extensive documentary projects, collaboration and creative community.

 The artist talk is connected to the work Eich will be showing in the festival, which is part of Enrico Bossan’s curation, “Hope”. This year’s main exhibitions, curated by Enrico Bossan and Elisabeth Biondi (on show at the 81 Front Street Storefront) are presented under the shared rubric PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: engaged, personal, and vital. They offer distinct perspectives on a shared theme: the state of documentary photography today.

Bossan’s show, entitled Hope, features the work of young photographers who, in his words, “neither provide a faithful representation of reality nor create an illusion, but who have impressed me with their ability to capture the essential aspects of life.” These artists include Olivia Arthur, Clemence de Limburg, Matt Eich, Simona Ghizzoni, Andrea Gjestvang, Sean Lee, Margo Ovcharenko, Andy Spyra,Mikhael Subotzky, Ali Taptik and Peter van Agtmael. Bossan grants that photography can portray the world at its bleakest, but suggests that it can also—and, in fact, must—remain oriented toward what lies ahead.

For more info, visit The New York Photo Festival

SLIDELUCK POTSHOW XVI
Saturday, May 14th with Potluck @7pm and Slideshow @9pm
St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Water St., Dumbo, Brooklyn, 11201

Please join Slideluck Potshow and The New York Photo Festival for Slideluck Potshow XVI at the legendary St. Ann’s Warehouse this Saturday, May 14th in Dumbo, Brooklyn! Ticket availability is limited and can be purchased here (http://network.slideluckpotshow.com/events/slideluck-potshow-xvi-in-nyc). 

The slideshow was curated by Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography for The New Yorker, and the theme is UPHEAVAL. Keep in mind that this is a potluck dinner! They ask everyone to bring something delicious to share – including Tasting Hour participants.

Participating photographers include LUCEO’s Matt Eich along with a lot of talented photographers including:
Alex Fradkin * Alex Webb * Benjamin Sklar * Bruce Gilden * Carolyn Drake * Chris Hondros * Dominic Bracco * Dominic Nahr * Elena Dorfman * James Pomerantz * JR * Krisanne Johnson * Iwan Baan * Landon Nordeman * Luca Zanier * Luis Ladron de Guevara * Lyle Owerko * M. Scott Brauer * M. Wesley Ham * Mari Bastashevski * Mark Peterson * Martin Usborne * Matt Eich * Melanie Burford * Michael Christopher Brown * Natasja Fourie * Peter DiCampo * Phillip Toledano * Platon * Rinko Kawauchi * Stefano de Luigi * Steve Pyke * Steven Brahms * Tim Hetherington

 For more info, visit Slideluck Potshow XVI 

FOTOVISURA PANEL DISCUSSION: E-Cite: The Phenomena of Online Blogs & Magazines
Saturday, May 14th @ 5pm
St. Anne’s Warehouse, 38 Water St. DUMBO, Brooklyn

LUCEO’s David Walter Banks will serve as a panelist in a discussion moderated by James Estrin, Co-Editor of the NY Times Lens Blog & Senior Staff Photographer; with panelists including: Kira Pollack: Director of Photography, Time Magazine; Holly Stuart Hughes, Executive Editor, PDN; David Walter Banks, Luceo Images; Adriana Teresa Letorney, Publisher, Visura Magazine/FotoVisura.com.

Cocktail will follow the Talk from 6:30-9pm.

For more info, visit FotoVisura Pavillion 

FOTOVISURA PAVILION
Dumbo Arts Center, 111 Front Street, Suite 212, Brooklyn, NY 11201

LUCEO is a proud media sponsor of the 2011 FotoVisura Pavilion. Curated and produced by Adriana Teresa, the FotoVisura Pavilion—located in the Dumbo Arts Center—is sponsored by the Viso Lizardi Family. In this year’s exhibition, curator Adriana Teresa seeks to inspire a dialogue on how the roles we assume are a mere reflection of the life that we live; how photography can become a mirror to that life and in doing so introduce a historical narrative of an event and the experience of an individual, as well as that of a community, city, state, and a country; and, how from a human standpoint we are fragile, and this contemporary world is a humbling experience to our generation. 

Stick around Sunday, May 15th, to hear an artist talk from LUCEO’s friend and FotoVisura Grant Winner Justin Maxon @1pm at St. Anne’s Warehouse located at 38 Water St. DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Daryl Peveto Places in Forward Thinking Museum 2011 Contest
APRIL 15, 2011
The Forward Thinking Museum’s 2011 Artists Photography Contest named LUCEO member Daryl Peveto a runner up for the 1st Quarter contest. The Forward Thinking Museum states, they “seek to support the visual artists who  use their talents not just to expose the harsh realities of the present, but rather to engage in the future.”

For more information, visit the Forward Thinking Museum

Matt Eich and Daryl Peveto Awarded CENTER  Editor’s Choice Awards
APRIL 1, 2011
The annual Center Awards recognize outstanding photographers in five categories – Curatorʼs Choice, Directorʼs Choice, Editorʼs Choice Project Launch and Project Competition awards. This year Matt Eich received First Place and Daryl Peveto Honorable Mention in the Editor’s Choice Category.

Juror Todd James, Senior Photo Editor for National Geographic, had this to say, “I have never had more fun or struggled so hard to rank the work of so many talented photographers. The reason is simple. The Center Choice Awards draws a startling amount of good work across many genres. That makes picking the best of the best very difficult.” 

For more information on the 2011 Center Awards, visit CENTER

Matt Slaby joins Ami Vitale and Callie Shell to Judge the 2011 Through Your Lens Contest 
MARCH 14, 2011
The contest, a collaboration between Critical Exposure, the 21st Century School Fund, and the Healthy Schools campaign, asks photographers to document how a school’s physical space helps or hampers the learning environment. Judging will take place mid-March and winners will be announced on March 25th.  

More details on the contest can be found at www.throughyourlens.org

Carry Me Ohio Selected as One of the Best Books of 2010 by Photo-eye Magazine 
JANUARY 24, 2011
Larissa Leclair, a photography writer, curator and collector who also is the founder of the Indie Photobook Library, has named Matt Eich’s book Carry Me Ohio one of the best books of 2010 in Photo-eye Magazine. 

To see more on Carry Me Ohio as well as other books chosen, visit photo-eye Magazine

LUCEO Hosts Panel Discussion in Conjunction with Altered States
JANUARY 18, 2011
We were so pleased to be able to host a panel discussion on the future of documentary photography at 25CPW in conjunction with our show Altered States. Panel members included Paul Moakley, Deputy Director of Photography for TIME; Brian Paul Clamp, owner of ClampArt in NYC and the curator of the show; James Estrin, of the NY Times LENS Blog; and Bess Greenberg, owner of 25CPW. The panel was hosted by our very own David Walter Banks. The event was standing room only, with about 185 in attendance. We are also very excited that our friends at PhotoShelter hosted the discussion and including videoing and posting it online. 

To view the discussion, please visit The Future of Documentary Photography >>

LUCEO Group Exhibition ‘Altered States’ at 25CPW  
JANUARY 18, 2011
LUCEO Group Exhibition
Curated by Brian Paul Clamp 
25CPW
25 Central Park West at 62nd Street
 We are excited to announce their second annual group show at 25CPW in New York City, titled Altered States: How We Live Today. Brian Paul Clamp, owner of CLAMPART, a NYC gallery specializing in modern and contemporary paintings and photography curates this year’s event. The show opens with a gallery reception Wednesday, January 19 beginning at 6pm.

In addition to limited edition fine art prints, a limited edition exhibition catalogue designed by Deb Pang Davis and edited by Mike Davis will be for sale. To reserve your copy, visit Altered States Limited Edition Exhibition Catalogue.

TIME Magazine’s Paul Moakley Discusses His Favorite’s in PDN 
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
One of our favorite editors of all time, who happens to be the Deputy Photo Editor at TIME, Paul Moakley gave a very interesting interview in Photo District News this month about some his favorite promotional materials from photographers. We are grateful for his kind mention of LUCEO and of two of our photographers specifically. 

To read the interview, visit Photo District News

LUCEO Featured in Fraction J Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
LUCEO’s Matt Slaby is one of four photographers, along with Benjamin Lowy, Colleen Mullins and Stacy Kranitz, featured in the second issue of Fraction J Magazine.  The issue which was curated by Stella Kramer, looks at the Gulf Oil Spill. 

To see the full issue, visit Fraction J, Issue #2 

LUCEO Added to Mother Jones Masthead
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
LUCEO’s Matt Slaby and Matt Eich have been added to Mother Jones masthead for their excellent work in the magazine over the past year. Some of there work can be seen at the links below, and of course in the magazine. 

Prison Cowboys by Matt Slaby
Mustang Redemption by Matt Slaby 
Queer and Loathing: Does Foster Care System Bully Gay Kids? by Matt Eich
Brave New Welfare by Matt Eich

 LUCEO Finalists 2010 Magnum Expression Award
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
LUCEO’s David Walter Banks’ new project The Fourth Wall is one of 19 finalists for this years Magnum Expression Award. The competition received portfolios from more than 150 countries and territories world-wide.

To read more about the award and view all or the finalists, visit The Magnum Expression Award >> 

LUCEO Finalists for Critical Mass’ Top 50 of 2010
OCTOBER 27, 2010
We were proud to learn today that 3 LUCEO members – Kendrick Brinson, Matt Eich and Kevin German – were selected as finalists for the Critical Mass Top 50 of 2010. That is half of our organization! Of the 549 entrants, those were narrowed to 177 and the 215 jurors selected the final fifty.

To read more about Critical Mass, Photo Lucida and to view the other 47 talented finalists, visit Critical Mass >>

LUCEO Featured (again) in NY Times Lens Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2010
LUCEO’s Matt Eich was featured in an interview on the New York Times LENS Blog for Amanda Rivkin’s column Turning Point. 

See Matt’s Interview >>

LUCEO Featured in NY Times Lens Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
James Estrin has written an intriguing response to Neil Burgess’ article,  For God Sakes, Somebody Call It!, which pronounced photojournalism dead.  In If Photojournalism is Dead, What’s Luceo?, Estrin writes that LUCEO is a vibrant rebuttal to this idea.  Our gratitude to James for such a thoughtful article. 

To read James’ article, visit the NY Times Lens Blog. 
 

LUCEO Photographers Featured in Inagural Issue of Fraction J Magazine
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
All six LUCEO photographers are being featured in the inaugural issue of Fraction J Magazine, a sister publication to Fraction Magazine which was created and is edited by David Bram. Fraction J is the product of Bram, along with Pulitzer winning editorial photo editor Stella Kramer and Orion Magazine photo editor Jason Houston. Their stated goal with the new publication is to provide a new venue for documentary photography and photojournalism. 

To see Fraction Magazine, visit: FractionMagazine.com
To see FractionJ, visit: FractionMagazine.com/Fraction-J

Four LUCEO Finalists in Critical Mass 2010
AUGUST 27, 2010
LUCEO’s Kendrick Brinson, Matt Eich, Kevin German and Matt Slaby are each finalists for Critical Mass 2010. “Critical Mass is a program about exposure and community…The aim of Critical Mass, and all Photolucida programming, is to provide participants with career-building opportunities and to promote the best emerging and mid-career artists working today.”

To read more about Critical Mass and Photolucida, visit: Photolucida.org
To see the 2010 Finalists, visit: Critical Mass 2010 Finalists

LUCEO Commended in Ian Parry Scholarship
AUGUST 1, 2010
Matt Eich’s project “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town” has been Commended in the Ian Parry Scholarship. This is the third time in five years that Matt’s work has been commended in this competition. He will receive 500 euros and six of his images will be on display at The Getty Images Gallery in London for one week, from August 16.

LUCEO Selected For Communication Arts Photo Annual
JULY 19, 2010
Matt Slaby’s image shot at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta was honored with placement in Communication Arts 51st Photography Annual. The same photo was also selected for American Photo 26 as well as for CENTER’s Director’s Choice Award. This years Communication Arts Photo Annual contains work from 135 photographers and is available for purchase at: www.commarts.com/annuals/2010-photography

LUCEO Recipient of Fabrica’s F25 Award
JUNE 21, 2010
Matt Eich has been awarded the 2010 F25 Award from Fabrica Forma Foto. The F award is a creation of Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s Research Centre on Communication, based in Treviso, and Forma, International Center of Photography, Milan, a joint initiative of Fondazione Corriere della Sera and Contrasto – www.fff.ph. The winning F project will receive a contribution of euro 20.000, the possibility of publishing a book and of having an exhibition of the selected work. The F25 winner (for photographers under 25), will be awarded a one year scholarship in Fabrica’s Photography Department. This year’s judges included: Monica Allende, Director of Photography, The Sunday Times Magazine; Enrico Bossan, Director of Photography, Fabrica; Melissa Harris, Editor-in-chief, Aperture magazine; Roberto Koch, President, Forma; Paolo Pellegrin, Photographer Magnum Photos; and Urs Stahel, Director of the Museum of Winterthur (Zurich). 

About Eich’s project, Carry Me Ohio:
“In an effort to give a voice to increasingly marginalized communities destroyed by nearly 150 years of unmitigated mining, Matt Eich documents the daily lives of the people in Southeastern Ohio. Once rich in coal, salt, clay and timber, this region has been stripped bare of all natural resources—its people left to fend for themselves with minimal opportunities, horrific housing conditions, and sub-standard schools. As occurs in so many impoverished areas, the fabric holding together these communities is slowly disintegrating, as the people become more and more demoralized, often turning to drugs. Matt’s ongoing exploration conveys their struggles—further exacerbated and contextualized by the current economic situation—while simultaneously pays homage to their strength and resilience in the face of such adversity.”

To read more, visit: Fabrica Forma Fotografia

Art for Haiti Benefit Auction
JUNE 16, 2010
The silent auction to benefit Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres Art for Haiti exhibition was held on June 16th at Aperture Gallery. The auction had images donated from over 100 artists, including LUCEO’s Matt Slaby, Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks. 

To bid or just to see more, visit: Art for Haiti

LUCEO Announces Winner of Student Project Award
JUNE 16, 2010
The final round of judging for the LUCEO Student Project Award took place last weekend at the LOOKbetween Festival for emerging photographers. Guest judges Michael Wichita of AARP, Avi Gupta of US News and World Report and Elizabeth Krist of National Geographic Magazine narrowed down the ten finalist to one: Masud Alam Liton. 

To read more about the judging, see our blog post
To read more about the Award and Liton’s entry, visit: LUCEO Student Project Award 

LUCEO Selected for American Photo 26
MAY 24, 2010
LUCEO members Matt Slaby and Matt Eich each have work selected for American Photo 26, Slaby with three in the book and one online and Eich with one for the book. American Photography, which was founded in 1985, is one of the leading juried annuals of contemporary photography spanning all genres of work: editorial, advertising, fine art and experimental work. Work is selected for both online galleries and a book, which according to their website is “designed with defiant irreverence, are themselves objects of beauty and debate and have been recognized by every top design competition, including the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, The Art Directors Club, The British Design; Art Direction, I.D., Communication Arts, How, The One Club and Print Regional Design.

For more info about American Photo, visit: www.ai-ap.com/aboutaiap.html
To order the book, visit: www.ai-ap.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=BookOrderForm
To see the American Photo galleries, visit: www.ai-ap.com/cfe/APss/

LUCEO Announces the Ten Finalists for Student Project Award
MAY 24, 2010
Today we at LUCEO are proud to announce the ten finalists for our inaugural Student Project Award, listed below. The 2010 Award will offer one student $1,000 cash as well as mentorship for their project from one LUCEO member. The ten finalists will be judged during the LOOKbetween event on June 12-13 in Charlottesville, VA by our selected panel – Amber Terranova, editor at PDN, Michael Wichita, photo editor at AARP and Mike Davis, editor-at-large. We created the Student Project Award because we believe in the importance of long-term photographic essays and that developing photographers need support.

For More info, visit: luceoimages.com/about/luceo-images-student-award/

LUCEO Chosen for HCP 28th Annual Membership Exhibition
MAY 24, 2010
LUCEO members David Walter Banks, Kendrick Brinson and Matt Eich each had work chosen for the Houston Center for Photographyʼs 28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition. This yearʼs juror, Hannah Frieser, Director of Light Work in Syracuse, New York, chose one image each from Brinson and Eich and four from Banks. In total 36 artists were selected to display in the exhibition which will be on display in HCP’s galleries from July 9 – August 22, 2010 with an opening reception on Friday, July 9 from 6-8 p.m. HCP’s Juried Membership call for entries and exhibition has been a celebrated tradition since the organization began in 1981. Each year a well renowned curator, writer or artist is selected to review hundreds of submissions and jury a final selection of photographs and/or video to be featured in the summer exhibition.

For more information, visit: hcponline.org/news.asp?show=art;artid=1028

LUCEO Recipient of Center 2010 Director’s Choice Award
MAY 11, 2010
LUCEO co-founder Matt Slaby is a recipient of the annual Center Directorʼs Choice Award. The annual Center Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers in three categories – Curatorʼs Choice, Directorʼs Choice and Editorʼs Choice awards. Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography for the New York Times Magazine, and Scott Thode, Editor-in-Chief for VII, judged the competition of some 6,000 images submitted from 24 different countries around the world. The Directorʼs Choice jurors and Newspace Center for Photography representatives noted – “Our selection is unified by a subtle elegance, a delicate humanity, and a sense of mystery, as well as a remarkable clarity of perspective and a high level of craft. As a whole, the images chosen speak to our primary interest in showcasing challenging contemporary fine-art and fine-art documentary work.” The Directorʼs Choice Award recognized work from Slabyʼs project on the American West, titled And Then They All Came Home.

For additional information about Center, visit: www.visitcenter.org
To view Slabyʼs winning images, visit: www.visitcenter.org/newsite/gallery.php?artist=matt_slaby#

LUCEO Selected for Photo District News 2010 Photo Annual
MAY 11, 2010
Photo District News (PDN) selected work from Slabyʼs project, My Diving Bell, for their 2010 Photo Annual. Shot through the windows of his rental car while travelling through Wyoming, Slaby remarked in his preface to the project, “Peeking out the windows of this peculiar car, the world had suddenly changed, refocused through these strange, little frames, their inset into the body of the automobile making them appear as awkward maritime port-holes. Lost in a sleepless haze, the metaphor seemed appropriate. It is how we travel, always peeking through a window into another world that is not completely ours, those foreign places we pass by at 65 mph, rapid-fire zoo exhibits, places we imagine as much as we experience.”

To view Slabyʼs project My Diving Bell, visit: luceoimages.com/2010/01/my-diving-bell/
To view the PDN 2010 Photo Annual, visit: www.pdngallery.com/contests/photoannual/2010/

LUCEO Solo Exhibition at Houston Center for Photography
MAY 7, 2010
The Houston Center for Photography will feature a solo exhibition of LUCEO co-founder Matt Eich from his long-term project Carry Me Ohio beginning May 7 running through June 27, 2010. Eich is the 2010 HCP Fellowship recipient. HCP juror Brian Paul Clamp of CLAMPART in New York curated the nine images on display. Eich will be on hand on opening night – May 7 – from to 8 p.m. for the artists’ reception, to autograph the limited edition release of his book of the same title and for an artist lecture with curator Brian Clamp and Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship winner Scott Dalton.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Eich has published a book of the work, edited by legendary photo editor and LUCEO partner Mike Davis and designed by his wife Deb Pang Davis of Cococello Design. Eich says of the project, “In February of 2006 I unknowingly began making images that would later become an all-consuming project lasting for more than four years.” The first 100 copies of the 88- page hardback edition sold out within 24 hours of being released. Eich is planning on making a second run some time in the near future which will be sold on the soon to open LUCEO Store.

For more information on the Houston Center for Photography, visit: www.hcponline.org
For more information on the book, visit: luceoimages.com/2010/05/carry-me-ohio-the-book/
To see images from the project, visit: luceoimages.com/2009/07/carry-me-ohio/

LUCEO Named to PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch for 2010
MARCH 31, 2010
Photo District News has named LUCEO founding memberMatt Eich as one PDNʼs 30 for 2010. Says Eich, “After four years of being nominated I am really excited to have been included in this year’s selection for PDN30. In addition, I’m flattered to be in the mix with quite a few photographers that I really respect.” The selection was by Amber Terranova, Conor Risch, Jacqueline Tobin, Holly Stuart Hughes and Darren Ching. In the Editorʼs Note, Conor Risch said, “Look at the photographers in this yearʼs PDNʼs 30 class and youʼll find a solid refutation of the idea that “everyone is a photographer now…Perseverance and determination are common to all these photographers but equally notable is the individuality of their interests and styles… They tell stories that matter to them in ways that make them matter to viewers.”

To view the PDN30 for 2010, visit: http://www.pdngallery.com/gallery/pdns30/2010/

LUCEO Announces Project Fund and Student Project Award
JANUARY 11, 2010
LUCEO is united in a common belief that, through these times of change, the still image continues to be relevant. We believe that history extends beyond the news-cycle, and that ordinary people and personal struggle are avenues through which we can explore the bigger issues facing our world. It is with this purpose that we have created the Luceo Images Project Fund and the Luceo Student Project Award.

Luceo Images Project Fund
LUCEO believes in actively encouraging the completion of significant personal bodies of work, which lack funding through mainstream outlets. In pursuit of this goal, Luceo will contribute a percentage of all editorial, commercial and corporate commissions toward the Luceo Images Project Fund. This fund exists solely to support the long-term projects of LUCEO’s member photographers. Every commission allows our clients to support significant photographic work.

Luceo Student Project Award
LUCEO also believes that developing photographers need support. To advance this cause, LUCEO pledges a portion of this fund towards the Luceo Student Project Award. This award will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work. This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 along with mentorship for the project from one LUCEO member.

LUCEO and MJR Announce Gallery Show Entitled ‘Make Do’
JANUARY 6, 2010
LUCEO and MJR announced their group show entitled ‘Make-Do’ with an opening night on January 21, 2010. The show will feature a limited edition fine-art print publication distributed to the first 200 attendees. Large-scale reproductions of the publication pages will be displayed on the gallery walls.  MJR and Luceo are photography groups determined to Make-Do with an industry in transition. This publication is part of a larger vision to strengthen independent platforms for expression and collaboration.

Editorial by Gillian Tozer: The role of the documentary photographer has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. No longer emblazoned in funding and dispatched to remote surroundings adjacent to ʻthe actionʼ, the photojournalist must now explore their own environment. This exploration of the familiar is perhaps what best aligns the two photography collectives of MJR and LUCEO. Issue One of Make-Do captures the cultural struggle within America as it embraces a ʻnewʼ era of change while desperately clinging to that which made it solid. Among the degradation and disarray, there are traditions, habits and memories that call out to be salvaged. What you will witness is a dialogue between the America that was and the America that is now. For those working outside of America the same theme pervades. This collection documents the youthful and local meanderings of each photographer. While each series is strikingly different to the next, what remains ubiquitous is a sense of stoicism in the face of an inescapable and united collapse. This subject of human resilience is not uncommon to photojournalism, but it is never cumbersome, nor can be disregarded due to the warmth and significance it emanates. These are everyday, fleeting moments, often stumbled upon, now marked in print.