Call for Entries! Hey, Hot Shot!!

Jen Bekman Gallery is now accepting entries for the first edition of Hey, Hot Shot 2008. Its a great opportunity to get your work out there, specialy for young photographers.

For more, visit:HEY, HOT SHOT!

Work selected for URBAN SPACE 08.

Yesterday during a trip to Ribeirão Preto, where i am working on a longterm project about Biofuels in Brazil, i received an email with great news....my IN TRANSIT series was selected for URBAN SPACE 2008. The show will premiere in Berlin June 4th at 10pm in the alternative film and music venue KIM. The show is part of The New Life Berlin Festival, taking place from May 31 to June 15th. The show will travel during the year.

To see more please visit URBAN SPACE

"URBAN SPACE is a photographic traveling exhibition open to international artists.

Focusing on the aesthetics of large urban centers as a theme, URBAN SPACE curates works of photography, performance and interventions and is exhibited as a projected slideshow at selected festivals and galleries around the world.

The first edition of URBAN SPACE - a projection of 530 images from over 23 countries - was first premiered at the renowned media arts foundation Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in July 2007. The show has since travel to be screened at several exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including: ECCO during Brasilia's FotoArte, Sao Paulo's Galeria Vermelho, the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center in New York, as well as showings at the Fotopub07 festival in Slovenia.

Future screenings are scheduled for Lisbon, Porto, New York City, Chicago, Montreal, Buenos Aires and Caracas.

The 2008 edition of URBAN SPACE is curated around the theme of “URBAN COMMUNITIES” and looks to examine the diverse formation of local communities, informal situations and other site-specific representations of contemporary urban existence. Anonymity. Survival. Decadence. Defiance."

Agriculture Frontiers

It was an amazing experience to fly over Xingu National Park, in Mato Grosso...20 minutes and only forest all around. Until we got to the park frontiers, where the trees are giving place to SOYA. The images are strong enough…so no more words. I just hope, it helps us all thing about our place as consumers collaborating with these kind of practice.

Back to the computer

Im back home from a great trip to Mato Grosso with loads of material to edit. Was an amazing experience to visit the agriculture frontiers of Brazil and see with my on eyes how huge and fast are the changes going on here. While i edit i will post some pictures and storys on these first trip of a long-term project. Hope you enjoy these first two images.