Tuesday, March 30, 2010

New Exhibition April 6 -June 7


Suzanne Quinlan

Musings












Peggy Fleming

Crown Me! Capital Pool Checkers Club









Please join us for an artists' reception on Saturday, April 10 2-4 pm

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Coffee + Critique + Conversation

Coffee + Critique + Conversation
This Sunday, March 28 - FREE!

MEG member Blake Stenning will be on hand to review your work and offer advice. Whether you have a new set of images or project, a completed portfolio, or simply a selection of photos about which you have questions, all are welcome to come in and engage in friendly and helpful dialog.


Call MEG for more information.
703-683-2205

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Borek, Matthews at Rayko Photo

Robert Holmgren featured images on his blog taken at Rayko Photo's 3rd Annual Plastic Camera Show and exhibit by Michael Borek. An image by Janet Matthews was included in the juried show. See more images of the show on Robert's blog.

Work by Michael Borek (6 images at right)

Lighthouse image by Janet Matthews

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Reception


Scene from the reception for Danny Conant and Min Enghauser on February 28.
Danny's work is on the gray wall, Min's is on the red wall.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Corrected link for Peggy Fleming's film

New link for viewing Peggy Fleming's film:
At 9th and S.

Michael Borek in San Francisco Examiner


Michael Borek was a featured artist at RayKo's International Juried Plastic Camera Show in San Francisco. Here is the excerpt from the review of the show in San Francisco Examiner:

The Holga is the camera of choice for Michael Borek, the RayKo exhibit’s featured artist, who grew up photographing Prague, his hometown, under Communist reign.

He writes, “I and my fellow citizens lacked basic freedoms and lived in newly created, cheerless urban landscapes.” With his camera, he found the unsung spots of beauty in this environment.

When Borek moved to the United States in 1992 (he lives in Maryland now), he had no trouble finding vast tracts of similarly lifeless design in America’s suburbs and strip malls. He notices sumptuous colors in barren places, and, looking through the Holga’s romance-inducing lens, captures the visual poetry buried within something as plain as an old curtain.

Borek’s quiet, self-assured images are helped along by his trust in an unpredictable plastic lens, the kind of thing that lets photographers abandon their perfectionism.