See you in August!

You won't be hearing from us for a little bit, because guess what?  We are taking a little vacation!  We will still be accepting requests for reservations for space on the gallery wall, but we won't be posting anything on the blog until we get back on August 2nd.  We currently have 47 phonographers and we are thrilled with the response and really looking forward to the show.  Hoping to get inspiration while we are away!  See you August 2nd everyone!

Coming in September to a gallery near you

PHONOGRAPHY-taking your photos out of the cell phone and onto the gallery wall.

Some day my prints will come

Don't have a good printer?  That doesn't mean you can't take part in PHONOGRAPHY!  It's easy and surprisingly inexpensive to get prints of your cell phone photos.  If you download your photos to a thumb drive and take them to any local copy center, they can fix you up with some pretty good quality prints.  If you want to order them online, here's some online services for printing:

1. PostalPix — Use this iPhone app to print four-inch squares from your Instagram library for only 30 cents each. Fast shipping, matte finish, professional quality resolution, and the convenience of mobile shopping make this our first stop for Instagram prints. They even sell just-right square 4-inch wooden frames.
2. CanvasPop — Those filtered photos are worthy of an at-home gallery. Create a high-resolution 12-inch square or 20-inch square stretched canvas print for the temporary price of $30 and $60, respectively. Buy multiple canvases for an artful wall vignette.
3. Printstagram — The company offers multiple ways to print Instagram photos, but the 20-by-40-inch posters will make the most stunning addition to a living room wall. Between 50-400 photos are arranged in a clean grid on thick, archival paper for $25.

If you use Hipstamatic, try this


http://community.hipstamatic.com/hipstamart

We did a test run and had prints made by all of these companies we were happy with the quality of all of them!  Most of them offer prints in a variety of sizes and packets, so check them all out to see which one suits your needs. 

Photoquai

Last year while strolling along the River Seine in Paris last autumn, I stumbled upon Photoquai, a biennial photography exhibit put on by the musee du quai Branly.  I can't imagine a more lovely setting for a photography exhibit-on the banks of the river, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.  Among the many interesting photos were a collection of shots by Chilean photographer Roberto Candia.  Candia is a photojournalist who was covering the rescue efforts of the miners trapped underground in the Atacama Desert in October 2010.  

To capture the full strangeness of the situation, Candia used his cell phone to photograph the trivial objects and other signs that symbolized the waiting process and the families' anxiety as time dragged by and the outcome remained uncertain. Plan B – the second rescue attempt, which proved to be successful – used a special capsule to extract the miners. Candias personal plan B was the cell phone and an application that turned it into an instamatic, producing square, low definition images with altered colors.
Drawing on 33 images captured during the wait, the photographer assembled 33 fragments, among them cranes, the journalists' observation deck, children’s drawings, good luck cards, the morning light and paths winding out into the desert. Candia offered another vision of things, a narrative that avoided the over-dramatic. This break with his usual way of working resulted in an idiosyncratic coverage of the period between the announcement of the collapse and the ultimate exit of the miners.

The Rules

There are only 2 rules, or guidelines-as we prefer to think of them, for the PHONOGRAPHY SHOW:

1.  your photos must be taken with a cell phone camera.  Any camera or app that you use on your  
     phone is fine.  Feel free to use any sort of photo editing app you have on your phone

2.  your prints must be SQUARE.  They can be any size, but should be square.  We are expecting a
     huge number of participants, and wanted to have a thread of continuity in the photos

Oh!  and one more thing.  Due to the fact that the gallery is in an office building, we have been asked that no nude photos be included.  We do not like putting restrictions on content, but we had to agree to this to use the space.  So sorry, no nudity folks!  Save those for your Facebook page:)

Reserve a space!!!!

Want to be a part of the PHONOGRAPHY SHOW?  We would love to have you!  All artists who wish to participate in our SEPTEMBER 20th show need to reserve a space by AUGUST 20th.  Once you contact us, we will confirm your spot in the show and reserve a 24x24 inch spot for you on the gallery wall.  In LATE AUGUST, we will send detailed info about the show to all of our participants.

For the show, you are free to submit as many prints as you wish that will fit in your reserved 24x24 inch space.  You can do any size/number of prints, as long as they are SQUARE.  One big one? Sure!  Three 8x8s?  Sure!  Four 12x12s?  yep!  Any configuration of SQUARE prints that will fit in the 24x24 inch space will be allowed.  We ask that your prints are READY TO HANG.  We will be posting ideas throughout the summer on how to make your prints look amazing. So keep checking the blog and get snappin'!!

TO RESERVE A SPACE, EMAIL US AT:

fonography@gmail.com

Just let us know you are interested in participating, and we will reserve you a space and send you a confirmation email.  The sooner the better!

CALL FOR PHOTOS!

PHONOGRAPHY wants you!!  If you take photos using your cell phone camera, then you are just the artist we are looking for.  Do you print out your photos and enjoy them "off the screen"?  Well, if not , PHONOGRAPHY will make you want to!  PHONOGRAPHY aims to take your photos off the screen and onto the gallery wall.  So many folks take amazing pictures with their phones, and we want to showcase your talent.  PHONOGRAPHY will be a gallery showing of photographs taken exclusively with cell phone cameras.  The photos MUST be taken with a phone camera.  Any app you want to use is acceptable, but we want the prints of your photos to be SQUARE.  This is to give the huge variety of photos we will be showing a thread of continuity.  Many of the apps that we ourselves use (Snapseed, Hipstamatic, Instagram etc) produce square photos, and most of the editing apps we checked out can crop photos to square easily.  We realize that not everyone has a photo printer, so we will be posting info in the next couple weeks on the various photo printing options that we have researched.  It is very easy and surprisingly affordable to get prints made! 

The show will open on SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 at the TECH GARDEN in downtown Syracuse.  If you would like to be a part of our show, please email us by AUGUST 20, 2012.  We will reserve ONE  24x24 inch space for all who contact us by that date.  You are welcome to show as many photos as you want that fit in that amount of space.  One giant one, lots of little ones, it's up to you.  Just be sure that your photos are SQUARE.   Space is first come, first served, so if you want wall space, let us know ASAP.  IF we have any space left on that date, we will contact all artists on the list and offer a second space to those who have already registered as a participant. 

Once we have a FINALIZED list of participants, we will contact you all with details on dropping off your work and more info on the opening.  (We anticipate that to be around September 3-8th, tentatively)  ALL WORK MUST BE READY TO HANG!  We encourage you to be creative in your set up!  The organizers of the show have experience in gallery curating, visual merchandising, architecture,  and all sorts of areas of display-and we would be happy to help you with your set up.  Just ask us!  We have lots of creative ideas to share and will be posting some great display ideas on the blog.

If you are interested in having your photos in the PHONOGRAPHY show, please email us at:

fonography@gmail.com

Once you contact us with your request to reserve a space, we will put you on our list of participants, and follow up with a confirmation email.  Then all you have to do is start getting creative with your phone!  C'mon!  It's gonna be FUN!