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				<title>Issue 38</title> 
				<description><![CDATA[Issue 38 - May 2012 - The Fourth Anniversary

For four years, Fraction Magazine has promoted talented photographers from across the globe. In four years I have published 38 issues featuring over 200 photographer portfolios. You have given these photographers an audience and supported them by viewing their work, giving feedback, and following their careers.

To show my gratitude for your continued support and encouragement, I am dedicating the Fourth Anniversary Issue to you, Fraction's photographically diverse readership.  I have selected 60 images from over 1400 that were submitted (by 464 photographers) for consideration, and I am thrilled with the overwhelming number of strong and compelling photographs.

As Fraction moves forward, I will continue to work toward growing the audience for artists and supporting the amazingly rich photographic community.  There are a lot of great things to come – thank you for your enthusiasm and your loyalty.  Thank you for looking.
- David Bram, editor




Aliza by Neta Dror

The 60 photographers that were chosen are (in alphabetical order) :

Group 1 
Heather Alexander, Jane Fulton Alt, Steven Alvarez, Collin Avery, Steven Beckly, Anne Berry, Cynthia Bittenfield, Richard Bram, Cody Bratt, Martin Brink, Juergen Buergin, Kelly Burgess, Caleb Cole, Dennis DeHart, Dan Depew

Group 2 
Giancarlo Di Sotto, Mark Peter Drolet, Neta Dror, Susan Myhr Fritz, Dan Gerber, Joseph Gerhard, Shawna Gibbs, Tom Griscom, Charlotte Hedley, Ilya Ilyukhin, Tamara &#38; Yoshi Kametani, Priya Kambli, Sarah Kobos, Eliza Lamb, Tamar Levine

Group 3 
Sean Litchfield, Jennifer Loeber, Roger May, David McClain, Erin Meehan, Sarah Moore, Wynn Myers, Chris Nunn, Natalie Obermaier, Mark Olwick, Emma Powell, Anthony Prevost, Natalya Reznik, Taylor Russ, Julia Schiller

Group 4 
Michael Sebastian, Jeff Seltzer, Anton Sokolov, Arthur Sysoev, Ahsley Suzanne Taylor, Alex Timmermans, Paco Ulman, Jory Vander Galien, Camila Verdiyeva, Todd Vinson, Paris Visone, Terri Warpinski, Toshiya Watanabe, Eldar Zeytullaev, Mengxi Zhang




Collaboration

This issue includes the 2012 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship Award winners, Isa Leshko and David Politzer.  
Click here to see the work and read the statements by Christopher Rauschenberg




Book Review


A review of Jeff Rich's "Watershed" by Daniel W Coburn




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Fraction is very pleased to feature and promote the work of the 2012 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship Award winners, Isa Leshko and David Politzer. Congratulations to these two talented artists, and thank you to Bevin Bering Dubrowski and everyone at HCP for providing this opportunity to photographers.
-David Bram, Editor



Each year Houston Center for Photography grants two fellowship awards which include a $2,500 grant, a solo exhibition at HCP, and now, a feature in Fraction magazine. The annual call is open to HCP members and juried by an internationally acclaimed specialist in the field.

This year's Juror is Christopher Rauschenberg and the winners are Isa Leshko and David Politzer. Their exhibitions will be on view at HCP May 4 - June 23, 2012. 

The Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship is awarded to a Houston-based photographer and the HCP Fellowship is awarded to a national or international photographer. Fellowship recipients and honorable mention recipients receive an artist page on the HCP Member Artist Database. 

HCP would like to send special thanks to the friends and family of Carol Crow and The Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation for supporting HCP's fellowship program.

And, many thanks to David Bram for his support of HCP and photography at large.
-Bevin Bering Dubrowski, Director



From Christopher Rauschenberg, Juror:

ISA LESHKO
When a photographer picks up a camera, he or she is surrounded by an entire world to point her camera at. She will pick a small rectangle out of all of this possible everything and say “this is what I’m paying attention to - this is what’s on my mind - this is what’s in my heart.” Artists understand the world by creating metaphors, the same way that scientists understand the world by creating scientific models. The strongest and most soulful art is achieved by using a balance of intellect and intuition. An artist will be drawn to something without knowing why, then she will bring her intellect to those first images and the resulting insight will enable her go back out and take images that are more profound. Each round of photographing and listening to the images takes her deeper into the heart of the issues and questions that haunt her.

In Isa Leshko’s case she explains, “I began this series shortly after I had spent a year in New Jersey helping my sister care for my mother who has Alzheimer’s disease. When my mother got ill, I made a conscious decision to not photograph her. However, caring for her had a profound impact on me and I knew the experience would influence my photography. Shortly after I had returned from New Jersey, I encountered a blind elderly horse that was living on a relative’s property. I was mesmerized by this animal and spent the afternoon photographing him. After reviewing my film, I realized I had found a project that would enable me to sift through my feelings around my mother’s illness.”

We are surrounded at all times by “unimportant things" that have a lot of important things to say to us if we stop to look and think about them and with them. One can use a geiger counter to find concentrations of something powerful and invisible, but the best photographers, like Isa, use a camera the same way. Isa has indeed found something powerful and invisible here. I find myself in deep conversation with these (self-)portraits of elderly animals, looking in from an unexpected new vantage point at complex issues of mortality and what it means to be human.

Click here to see Isa Leshko's photographs.


DAVID POLITZER
David Politzer’s photographs look at nature with a sense of humor but with a sense of longing too. It’s not a longing for nature itself as much as it’s a longing for nature to have a more profound meaning to us. There’s nothing “red of tooth and claw” here for us anymore, just pleasant decoration that we are so used to that we don’t see it any longer. David does see it, though. In his photographs, this simulacrum of nature is rising in intensity, moving from the background to the center stage. It’s as if the elevator Muzak has been turned up to 90 decibels so slowly that no one but David has noticed.

As the human-built environment encroaches on and shrinks wildlife habitat, animals have had to learn how to go about their business, adapt and live in our landscape. In these photos of David’s, they are on our walls, on our chests and looming over our parking meters, but the bald eagle doesn’t care about our national anthem, the cardinal doesn’t care about our sports teams and the sunflower pays no attention to the phone mounted on it. In these photos of David’s, the illusory depicted nature overwhelms the mundane reality of these offices and parking lots with a delicious combination of Magritte and Rousseau.

This exhibition is a subset of David’s project, “When You’re Out There.” The other half of this project is on view now at the Lawndale Art Center. The show at Lawndale consists of videos and photographs that explore what it means for us to go out into the natural world (maintaining our consciousness), whereas this exhibition looks at what it means for nature to manifest in our world (maintaining its consciousness).

Click here to see David Politzer's photographs.


Christopher Rauschenberg is the Co-Curator &#38; Board Chair of the Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon

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				<description><![CDATA[Issue 37 - April 2012


Portfolios:


American Faith by Christopher Churchill



North by Deborah Hamon



The Last Road North by Ben Huff



Coming and Going and Staying by Lara Shipley


Fraction J:


I've Fallen in Love with the Pelicans by JT Blatty


Book Review:


Daniel W Coburn reviews The Auckland Project


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				<description><![CDATA[I've Fallen in Love with the Pelicans by JT Blatty

In April of 2010, the world watched in horror as images of brown pelicans, plastered and suffocating in tide-pools of oil, flickered across their television screens during the largest accidental marine oil spill in history: The Gulf oil spill.

Months later, the Macondo well was finally sealed and the media slowly pulled their cameras away, redirecting their attention to other disasters around the world. They left much of the public with the most disturbing visuals to store as lasting memories, with many stories untold and unfinished.

My documentary, “I’ve fallen in love with the pelicans”, is a story of the birds after the oil; about the people who spent endless hours and months of their lives to rehabilitate every single in-processed bird; a story of the birds that didn’t make it, and of the ones that were banded and released back into the wild. It’s also a story that went on months after the Macondo well was sealed . . . and, two-years later, continues to unfold. 

From April 2010 through January 2011, the Gulf oil spill’s Wildlife Response Effort (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida) rehabilitated and released 1,465 birds. 612 were brown pelicans.

Since the 1990’s, wildlife rehabilitation organizations such as Tri-State Bird Rescue &#38; Research (the lead wildlife responders during the Gulf spill), have been struggling to counter a widespread belief that emerges with every oil spill–that wildlife rehabilitation is unsuccessful. This belief was the result of a widely published investigation that tracked rehabilitated and released pelicans from oil spills off of the coast of California. The findings were that rehabilitated birds, specifically pelicans, rarely survive more than a few years in the wild after being released, and if they do, they fail to breed. It also suggested that funding for wildlife rehabilitation following an oil spill should be redirected towards other areas of concern.

Although Tri-State immediately wrote an elaborate rebuttal to the investigation, citing faulty conclusions and requesting critical supporting data that was omitted from the report, they were denied publication, leaving the public with only one side of the story.

Over the years, rehabilitators have failed to receive sufficient funding for efficient tracking devices, but since the Gulf oil spill, there has been a community effort among individual scientists and Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (DWF) members to keep a watchful eye on the Gulf’s banded birds in their areas.

As of March 2012, there have been confirmed sightings of 98 individual released, healthy brown pelicans in the wild. Of those 98, there have been 8 sightings of Louisiana’s brown pelicans in Georgia, nesting with eggs or young, and 17 healthy chicks are confirmed to have fledged from adults that were oiled and rehabilitated during the spill.

What most of the public is not aware of is the mortality rate of baby brown pelicans: Only 30-40% survive their first year in the wild under natural circumstances. Over half of the 612 released brown pelicans were in their first year of life–many developing the skills to recognize fish and feed on their own from the rehabilitators in the absence of their parents. 

So far, only 17 of them have been found dead. According to Dr. Erica Miller, Tri-State oil spill response veterinarian, “this is a remarkable statistic, not only suggesting that rehabilitation is successful, but that time in captivity with extra food and safety from predators may have helped them past the point of juvenile mortality.”

When the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, I, like the media, was determined to capture the most tragic of sights, but my motives quickly changed after spending a week with a few charter captains, contracted by BP as transporters, in Venice, Louisiana. They were disgusted with the media and daily cash offers to take them to the “oiled pelicans;” but most of all, they were sickened by the media’s eagerness to find tragedy, and their deep disappointment when none could be found. 

I could empathize: Louisiana was their home, as it was also my home. It wasn’t just about capturing a priceless photograph and then leaving for the next job.

In June, I submitted my application to volunteer with the Louisiana State Animal Response Team (LSART), the local organization providing manpower to Tri-State. In August, I began working shifts at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Hammond, Louisiana.

 “I’ve fallen in love with the pelicans” is a phrase I heard more than once from the people who gave the Gulf’s wildlife a second chance. 

JT Blatty is a New Orleans, Lousiana based photographer.
To view more of JT's work, please visit her website.

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				<title>Issue 36</title> 
				<description><![CDATA[Issue 36 - March 2012

From the Editor:
I am very pleased to bring you this months issue of Fraction.  


Portfolios:


Artists and Models by Mary Ellen Bartley



Along the St-Maurice River by Alexi Hobbs



Fort Juniper by Bruce Myren



Borrowed Views by Martina Shenal


Book Review:


Daniel W Coburn reviews Ryan McGinley's You and I


Show Reviews:


Larissa Archer reviews Excerpts from Silver Meadows



Antone Dolezal reviews Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece


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				<title>Issue 35</title> 
				<description><![CDATA[Issue 35 - February 2012

From the Editor:
It is no secret that photography, like many creative fields, is a male-dominated art form.  I have always been very conscious of showing equal amounts of work from both men and women in Fraction.  Since the first issue, Fraction has featured 184 photographers (not including the original group shows or Fraction J). From that number, 87 were female artists. (Fraction Archive)

Although Fraction aims to represent men and women equally, I think it is important to highlight female photographers in a male-centric art form. This issue marks the third time Fraction has created a female-only issue.  Issue 12 featured Susan Thelwell, Noelle Swan Gilbert, Isa Leshko, Celine Wu and Francesca Yorke. Issue 23 featured Jennifer Schlesinger, Jennifer Shaw, Nan Brown, S Gayle Stevens, and Susan Burnstine.  All of these women have continued to build their reputations for creating strong, original work.

Building on this this talent, Issue 35 includes the work of Bex Finch, Julia Kozerski, Susan Barnett, and Jennifer Hudson.  These four artists' work range from photographing strangers to brutally honest self-portraits. I am thrilled to add these artists to the Fraction roster, and I am sure you will enjoy exploring their unique and inspired imagery.
-- David Bram


Portfolios


Not In Your Face by Susan A. Barnett



The Sleepwalker by Bex Finch



Medic by Jennifer Hudson



Half by Julia Kozerski


Book Reviews


Dolls and Masks reviewed by Daniel W Coburn




The Bridge At Hoover Dam reviewed by Ellen Wallenstein



SOMETHING TO CONSIDER





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				<title>Issue 34</title> 
				<description><![CDATA[Issue 34 - January 2012

From the Editor:
This issue and the beginning of 2012 mark the fourth year of Fraction Magazine.  The past 33 issues have focused primarily on emerging photography, as one of Fraction's primary goals is to introduce compelling photographic work to new audiences.  Another aspect of that goal is to show important and influential photography that the Fraction audience may not be aware of, and so I decided to dedicate this first issue of the year to four seminal photographers who have certainly influenced my own photography.

Robert Adams has published many books of his own photographs, but he has also written several books about photography in general, including Why People Photograph (a book I highly recommend). He has had numerous solo exhibitions and his current show Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs will open at LACMA in Los Angeles in March, 2012.  

Richard Benson was the Dean of the Yale School of Art and shortly after retiring published The Printed Picture, a book that every photographer who does their own printing should own.  In 2008, Benson presented work from The Printed Picture as an exhibit at MoMA; his own work is part of collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Yale University Art Gallery. 

Edward Ranney has been traveling to Peru since the 1960’s, photographing the ancient pre-Columbian sites. He published his photographs in the critically acclaimed Monument of the Incas, in 1982. His work is included in collections such as MoMA in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, the Princeton University Art Museum, and The Art Institute of Chicago.

Judith Joy Ross has been photographing around Pennsylvania and the East Coast since the 1980’s and her work has been exhibited globally. She has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and NEA Fellowship.  Her latest book, Judith Joy Ross: Photographs, published by Schirmer/Mosel Verlag in 2011

All four of these photographers are contemporaries,  specialize in black and white work, and made a significant impact on the medium of photography.  I hope you will enjoy starting off the year with some inspiration from these masters.

I wish to thank all of the photographers, especially Edward Ranney, for help making this issue a reality.  I would also like to thank Joshua Chuang of the Yale University Art Gallery, Maya Piergies of Pace/MacGill, Carin Johnson of the Fraenkel Gallery, and Christopher Benson of The Fisher Press for their assistance as well.
-- David Bram


Portfolios


Robert Adams



Richard Benson



Edward Ranney



Judith Joy Ross


Book Review


Archeology and the shape of time reviewed by Antone Dolezal


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				<description><![CDATA[Issue 33 - December 2011

From the Editor: 
As the year comes to an end, I want to send a sincere thank you to everyone who has been featured in Fraction as well as to all of the writers who provide Fraction with written content.
Also, I want to wish everyone a very happy and healthy holiday season
- David Bram

Portfolios


Everyday Death by Anna Kharina



Grassland by H Lee



Sunday Morning Sales by James Dodd



Stranger than Family by Matthew Avignone



Book Review


Salt &#38; Truth reviewed by Daniel W Coburn



Holiday Print Sale
The Fourth Annual Fraction Holiday Print Sale is in full swing.  There are 74 photographs and 12 books currently for sale, with the entire sale price going directly to the artist.  This holiday season, please consider Giving the Gift of Photographic Art.  Click here.



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				<title>Issue 32</title> 
				<description><![CDATA[Issue 32 - November 2011

Editor's Note: David Bram, editor of Fraction, has been asked to curate a show of two photographers work at the Lishui Photo Festival in Lishui, China.
Michael Sebastian (Issue 7) and Jim Stone (Issue 6) will be representing Fraction at this international event, which takes place November 5-9, 2011.
David, Michael and Jim will be in attendance and there will be a full write up by David and Michael in the December 2011 issue of Fraction.


Portfolios



Sarah Moore



Dave Powell



John Sypal



Kurt Simonson



Noah Rabinowitz


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Book Review



Within Shadows reviewed by Daniel W. Coburn
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				<title>Issue 31</title> 
				<description><![CDATA[Issue 31 : The Russian Issue
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I spent the beginning of September at Portfolio Review Russia in Moscow.  It was a tremendous opportunity to meet with photographers from all over Russia and to get a sense of what is happening photographically there.  What you see here is a very small selection of the terrific work that I got to see first hand.
A sincere thank you to organizers of Portfolio Review Russia and to the fine folks at Fotofest in Houston.
- David Bram, editor


Portfolios


Anastasia Tailakova



Max Sher



Sergey Varaksin



Vasily Ilyinsky


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