photography – PLAZM

Playa Prize – our newest – our latest – our last addition.

magdalen — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:48:00 +0000

The Plazm fundraising sp@m will soon end. If we don’t raise another $3500 in the next week, we are hosed and don’t get any money at all.

We’re adding one last prize package (you get lovely reward gifts for donating). Called the Playa Prize, it features writing, photography, and a genuine Tarot reading. Not to be missed.

http://kck.st/iNrLDS

– Steven Fritz’s live, crackling portrait of the infamous Dr. Megavolt, signed, in large format. (Value $100)

– Tarot reading by phone or in real life in Portland, by Miss Magdalen of Mystical Mayhem, using the Burning Tarot deck. (Value $85)

– Signed copy of Burning Man Live: 13 Years of Piss Clear, Adrian Roberts’s hilarious anthology of alternative Playa publication classics. From the inimitable RE/Search books.

– Very special Burner mystery necklace.

– Copy of Plazm’s 20th anniversary issue

– Your name in the magazine and on our forthcoming website at plazm.org

– Invitation to VIP event

– A Whole Lotta Love

TO SHARE THIS PRIZE INFO AROUND: http://tinyurl.com/playaprize (works better than clicking Facebook thingy below)

or share the whole kickstarte: http://kck.st/iNrLDS

Unembedded photojournalists in Iraq

Joshua Berger — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:01:00 +0000

Thorne Anderson, featured in Plazm #29 alongside other unembedded photojournalists in Iraq, will be in Portland on Wednesday, May 26 as part of Oregon Humanities Think & Drink happy hour conversation.

Photography curator and writer Kirsten Rian and photojournalist Thorne Anderson will discuss the ethics of war photography and the role of photographs in shaping our understanding of war.

600 E. Burnside, Portland
6:00 pm
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Oregon Humanities

This event is free and open to the public.

The Graphic Eye Book Release

rachelr — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:25:00 +0000

Joshua Berger is one of a number of designers featured in the upcoming book The Graphic Eye:
Photographs By Graphic Designers From Around The Globe. There’s a release party at Skylight Books in Los Feliz on Friday, September 18th at 7:30pm.

Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Liza Ryan – SPILL

Joshua Berger — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:14:00 +0000

Some shots of the recently published catalog that I designed for the Liza Ryan – SPILL show are now up in the Plazm portfolio. It was truly great to collaborate with artist Liza Ryan and Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder on this project.

View here.

The catalog edition is 500.
We have a few copies for sale in the Plazm store.

Christina Seely’s Lux Project Opens in Seattle

Joshua Berger — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:54:00 +0000

Christina Seely’s Lux, titled after the system unit for measuring illumination, presents photographic portraits of cities within the most brightly illuminated regions on the NASA map of the night earth. This project is inspired by the disconnect between the immense beauty produced by human-made light and the complexity of what this light represents. Lux, focuses on cities in the United States, Western Europe and Japan. These economically and politically powerful regions not only have the greatest impact on the night sky but this brightness reflects a dominant cumulative impact on the planet. Collectively they emit approximately 45% of the world’s CO2 and (along with China) act as the top consumers of electricity, energy and resources. For most of human history, light has signified hope and progress. In Christina’s project, light also paradoxically denotes regression or transgression — an index of the complex negative human impacts on the health and future of the planet.

Lux opens April 2 at the Photography Center Northwest with an informal artist reception and talk and continues through April 27.

Informal Artist Talk & Reception: Thursday, April 2, 5-8 PM

900 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
Mon. 12pm-7pm, Tues. 11am-5pm, Wed.- Fri. 12pm-7pm

I interviewed Christina recently for Plazm magazine. You can see images from nine of the Lux cities as well as read the interview here.

Neon Sign Graveyard

thomasb — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:56:00 +0000

As I am more of a typography nerd than a gambler, these pictures of The Las Vegas Neon Sign Graveyard are almost enough to make me book a ticket to Sin City.