DAVID ELLINGSEN PHOTOGRAPHY

I’m very proud to announce some of my work has recently been acquired by Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in Boston, Massachusetts for their world-class art collection. The Institute is a treatment facility associated closely with Harvard University and their collection contains works from a wide spectrum of artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg.
“We believe that art helps and encourages the healing process for patients and their families” says DFCI chairperson Jane Mayer, confirming the strong commitment to art therapy from the one of the United States’ premier Comprehensive Cancer Centers.

I feel greatly honored and am thrilled to be a part of this collection.

If you are in Toronto, or are there this coming weekend, I would love to see you at The Artist Project 2011. 200 juried artists from across Canada will be exhibiting…with 14 other photographers including the wonderful Emily Cooper. I’ll be showing work from the Future Imperfect series (the first time in Canada) along with photographs from Hibernus, Endure and Pacific. Some samples are below.

Booth 814…see you there!

FUTURE IMPERFECT

HIBERNUS

ENDURE

The always wonderful Michael V. Smith has his second novel “Progress” out in Spring 2011 with Cormorant Books in Toronto. Smith’s first novel, Cumberland (Cormorant Books, 2002), was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. His first book of poetry, What You Can’t Have (Signature Editions, 2006), was short-listed for the ReLit Prize. Most recently, he’s published a hybrid book of concrete poems/photographs, Body of Text (BookThug, 2008), created with yours truly.

I am excited to have received five Honorable Mentions at this year’s International Photography Awards out of the approximately 15,000 submissions.

Some of the new Polaroid work I have been shooting was awarded in the following categories:
Portrait Professional
Fine Art Portrait-Professional
Self Promotion-Professional
People Other-Professional

And the image of Vancouver harbour during the 2010 Winter Olympics was awarded in the following category:
Cityscapes-Professional

Yah…

Showing “fresh works from creative professionals”, Photography Served has featured my recent collection of Polaroid Corporate portraits.

Issue 19 of New York’s  Creative Quarterly magazine is out now!
I was honoured to be awarded a winner in Professional Photography for some of the work from the Future Imperfect series.

I’m very pleased to be included in a group exhibition opening today at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

Susan Baraz (who, among other things, is Co-Chair of The Lucie Awards and Head of Judges for the International Photography Awards) contacted me to see if I was interested in this event, Another Nude Show. Susan often refers fine art photographers to a selection of galleries including the Farmani Gallery and the Paul Kopeikin Gallery. Have a look at her Phototherapy site for details. An excellent resource for photographers and anyone interested in photography.

Anyway, after 1/2 a second, I agreed.

I am really excited…not only am I included in a show along with Joel Peter Witkin, Ruth Bernard and Tracey Emin, but this exhibition is running in conjunction with MOPLA Month of Photography Awards and the XTO Awards. I cannot make it down so if you happen to be there let me know how it goes…the details as listed on the gallery’s site are as follows:

ANOTHER NUDE SHOW
April 3 – 30, 2010
D5 Gallery

A Group exhibition exploring the imagery of the nude form including works by
Robert Graham, Ruth Bernhard, Horst P. Horst,Man Ray, Joel Peter Witkin, Francesco Scavullo, Sante D’Orazio, Raymond Pettibon, The Mac, John Altoon, Ben Talbert, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frederick Wight, William Tunberg, Ralph Goings, Stephen Verona, John Colao, Ron English, Manuel Ocampo, Jorg Dubin, Ellwood T. Risk, Britt Ehringer, Eliza French & Jeff Charbonneau, Robert Sean Coons, Dennis Mukai, David Trulli, Greg Gibbs, Andrew George, Vic Huber, Rafael Serrano, Jon Cournoyer, Sally Mann, Jock Sturges, Marc Fichou, Ken Aronson, Brett Aronson, Steven Teitelbaum, Randal Haworth, Tiphaine Popesco, Eric Schwartz, Christine Lissman, David Ellingsen, Bill Durgen, Toby Burrows, Bill Phelps, Gail Greenfield Randall, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Edouard Chimot, Max Turner, Emil Jean Kosta Jr., Mel Ramos, Alejandro Gehry, Thomas Ruff, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tracy Nakayama, Tracey Emin, Vanessa Beecroft, Tom Wesselmann, and many more.

In conjunction with the MOPLA Month of Photography Awards & XTO Image Awards

Congratulations to the winners.

The results for Rodeo 2, CAPIC’s latest photography competition, have been announced. I was honoured to be one of ten judges from across Canada to adjudicate this contest. The whole process was executed on-line, a wonderfully efficient process for judges across the country, with almost 100 photographs to examine and rank. Nice to see such participation. Based on a scale of 1 through 5 we worked through them in the first round…with a tie-breaking vote for 2nd and 3rd place a week later (a tight race between 5 talented photographers!).

Nice to arrive to the studio this morning to find an email notifying me that I have won in the “Photography-Professional” category of Creative Quarterly’s annual competition. Known as “The Journal of Art & Design”, CQ’s mandate is inspiration…where it comes from and how it manifests itself. “Creative Quarterly publishes the best work being done internationally in graphic design, illustration, photography and fine art. Our hope is by representing both the next generation and those currently working in the marketplace there will be a sharing of ideas. Ideas that spawn new ideas. Join us in building a new creative community where we share and grow together.”

The work…from the series Future Imperfect… will be published in the June issue.

I received an email from Oscar at Behance this morning to let me know that two of my portfolios have been featured on Photography Served, one of Behance’s “Served” sites that they developed to further showcase the best projects in the Behance Network, within specific industries.

“Our editorial team features a small number of projects every day. With many thousands of options, we only pick a few that promote new thinking in the industry.”

Thanks to Oscar and the Behance Team.