It's a dreamy lens kind of day

Magical NYC Blizzard

Borough of Manhattan Community College Lecture

Hope you can make my lecture-Arts and Education for the Latino Community- Thursday 2-4pm at BMCC-Borough of Manhattan Community College highlighting the photography and literacy work I have done for the past 10 years.

Faith Ringgold

In the POP curriculum for 1st and 2nd grade, we always read and used Faith Ringgold's books as an inspiration and springboard for our POP projects. She will be at ACA gallery on September 16 from 6-8pm for the opening of her show- Faith Ringgold: Coming to Jones Road, Part II & Other Story Quilts. Her layered work combining painting, quilted fabric and storytelling is a must see!

Contemporarius Exhibit in Alabama

"Contemporarious...we are a web of photographers, whose work belongs in the present. media has connected us and we are connected to it as we embrace or resist it's pull on our creative pulse, we come together in time."

I have 35 images represented in 9 photographs in the exhibit, "Contemporarious" that opened last night, September 3rd, at the Eastern Arts Center in Fairhope, Alabamba. The exhibit will be on exhibit until October 2nd. The Eastern Arts Center is located at 401 Oak Street.

My images were selected by curator and photographer Kristy Johnson-Snell. She selected 5 images from my Nicaragua series and 30 hipstamatic images taken on my camera phone and montaged the images into 4 photographs with 5 images each.

Hipstamatic Montage

Below is my artist statement and images for sale in the exhibit.

My photographs in this exhibit reveal personal moments, contemporary moments that are still breathing and antiquated ones once so real but only alive as images yet still evoking present-day emotions.

These moments were captured with a film camera, a simple digital point and shoot camera, and a mobile camera phone. I take these pictures as a first time mother, a wife, a Californian living in New York, and a Peace Corps volunteer in love with Nicaragua and her people.

My hipstamatic prints taken on my camera phone document 2010 summer adventures with my son and husband in our current temporary home of Brooklyn, New York.


Summer Brooklyn

Summer Brooklyn and Summer Diversions shows how much Yo Amo NY from brownstones in Bed-Stuy, to views of the island. I love NY in the sounds of sirens, the sight of sunsets, the taste ofSu ice cream and the thrill of a full moon roller coaster ride in Coney Island while humming MJ’s Remember the Time. Longing for a taste of Latin America, a place once so familiar sends me to the Red Hook Ballparks to eat traditional Salvadoran Pupusas (corn tortillas filled with beans and cheese) and drink Mexican horchata (cinnamon rice milk) and agua de flor de jamaica (hibiscus tea).


Summer Diversions

Summer Baby shows my beautiful baby, my sweet Wendell B, and his first summer...from tummy time to sleepy time, to silly faces, spit bubbles and discovering his hands. Lets not forget my belly and her beauty marks to remember where my baby boy grew for 9 months, his home last summer. I could photograph my son and document motherhood all day!


Summer Baby

Summer Junctures are fleeting moments from when summer just began and now summer is being locked away just like those preschool bikes. Remembering our first trip to the National Zoo in DC, World Cup fever on the NY subway and the security fence next to our former apartment building. The summer series ends with a weathered balloon, once wishing someone a Happy Birthday finding a resting place.


Summer Junctures

My Nicaraguan photographs are from 2003-2006 taken in the towns of Karawala, Bluefields and Altagracia where my husband and I served as Peace Corps Volunteers and fell in love with our son’s namesake, the writer Wendell Berry. These images were taken with both my film camera and a simple digital point and shoot camera. These images while of the past could communicate an emotion parallel to that of the recent gulf disaster-a calm before the storm.


Melvin on the Wharf of Karawala

Melvin on the Wharf of Karawala shows the entrance to the Miskito village on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. The Miskitos are Native Americans from the Mosquito Coast. Many Karawalans were mixed African-Indigenous Central Americans speaking Ulwa, Miskitu, Creole and Spanish. Melvin was my best friend Rosa’s son. In the background you can see the wooden homes on stilts made from the pine trees in the basukra. Unfortunately in November of 2009 Hurricane Ida landed in Karawala destroying 80% of these homes.


Basukra

Basukra is the home to the beautiful pine trees out in the bush of Karawala. Melvin and his cousin Luis are jumping off a makeshift bridge that was destroyed by a previous Hurricane in 2004- Hurricane Beta. Busukra is where I got my Karawalan nickname, Liwa Mairin, mermaid in Miskitu.


Sara the Midwife

Sara the Midwife is Melvin's grandma. This photograph was taken in Bluefields Nicaragua, which is the port city on the Atlantic Coast. Sara’s sister Flora moved to Bluefields after Flora’s three young daughters all had babies. Sara went to help deliver her grandnieces. I had the honor of naming the baby next to Sara in the image. She was born on July 27. One of best childhood friends growing up was born on the same day so a Karawalan baby born in Bluefields is named after her, Baby Audrey. I wish Sara could have delivered my baby.


Maribel's Braids

Maribel's Braids. Maribel is actually not related to Melvin and his family, well not that I know of. Maribel and her daughter Gina lived across the grass from me. Maribel could plait your hair tighter than anyone in town. Whenever I would leave Karawala, Maribel would offer to plait my hair so I could leave town with beautiful braids and always stay a Karawalan girl.


Girls and Dolls

We did have to leave town and after a year and a half on the beautiful Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua we were transferred to Altagracia a town in the middle of an island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua in southern Nicaragua. It was devastating to leave Karawala but we quickly fell in love with Altagracia and her island. Girls and Dolls was taken in Lake Nicaragua near the town of San Jose del Sur. The girls in the photograph were my students who lived at Los Quinchos, a home for exploited young women. After lunch, the girls would bathe in the lake and bathe their dolls. As an observer, I always felt the girls were regaining a lost innocence the tender way the cared for their dolls.

From a Nicaraguan island, once isolated from media to a New York Island, saturated with media, my images are now connected via Contemporarious.

POP presentation/exhibit at BMCC

Save the date New Yorkers- In November POP will have an exhibit and do a presentation during Hispanic Heritage Month at BMCC- Borough of Manhattan Community College. POP alumni are invited to present. November 4th 2pm. Thanks to professor Rosario Torres Guevara for the invitation.

POP Published in World Savvy's New Curriculum- Sustainable Communities

POP loves World Savvy and has two images featured in their upcoming curriculum/collaborators guide on Sustainable Communities. Stayed Tuned! The images are from a POP project called Shout out for Peace from the South Bronx in 2007.

Here's what World Savvy has to say,"We are so excited to introduce your inspiring artwork to our students in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and beyond. We know that the ideas and important inquiries your work presents will spark many a discussion and creation around issues of sustainability in our local and global communities!"

July Cover On My Favorite Magazine

So many of my loves converged today -Nicaragua, SUN Magazine, Photography, Peace Corps, Sacred Celebrations and a Mothers love for her Son. It is such an honor to have a photograph taken en mi querida Nicaragua on the July cover of SUN Magazine & my sweet babe is mentioned in the on the cover blurb. Click here to view it and here to read about my photograph.

"KATIE DelaVAUGHN lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is smitten with her infant son, Wendell, born in February. She took this month’s cover photograph in 2008 in Altagracia, Nicaragua, where she had been a Peace Corps volunteer. The children are part of a wedding procession that is about to go from the bride’s house to the church in the town square."

If you would like a copy of this magical magazine you can get a free trial offer here or you can find it at a store near you here.

It was so great to hear from so many Peace Corps friends who received the SUN in their mailbox or who contacted me after they saw Peace Corps tweet about it on twitter or the SUN post it on their facebook page. Who would of thought that 7 years ago in my first Peace Corps site where we lived without running water or electricity, where I hauled water from the well to develop my negatives from a film camera and where we had to travel 5 hours by boat to check email that I would get in touch immediately with former RPCV's (Returned Peace Corps Volunteers)and Nicaraguan friends when my photography is tweeted and faceboked about. I look forward to returning to Nicaragua to give the families copies of the magazine where they beautifully grace the cover and introduce them to the newest addition to our family!

More about the SUN

"The Sun is an ad-free monthly magazine that features some of the most radically intimate and socially conscious writing being published today. It’s not a “literary” magazine, though we publish heartfelt fiction and personal essays about the human condition. Nor is it a “political” magazine, though each issue features an interview with someone who invites us to see the world differently. And it’s not a “spiritual” magazine, though writing in The Sun honors the mystery at the heart of existence. In short, The Sun is a magazine unlike any other: always authentic, always personal, always relevant."

Creative Week NYC

Thrilled that POP was asked to participate in Creative Week NYC
Check out the event details below
Pedaogogy of Photography (POP) Community Exhibit

Crowdsourcing goes global: The NYT’s “Moment in Time”

I loved this article by the Nieman Journalism Lab, a project from Harvard University.

Here's a snippet

“A Moment in Time” (and, with that, I’ll try not to use the project’s name again in this post — so that you won’t, as I did, get something unfortunate stuck in your head as a result of repeated exposure) is aesthetically compelling and socially revealing. It also suggests the Times’ openness to exploring avenues of documentation and expression that don’t fall into the neat categories of traditional journalism.

“I was driving to work, and it just hit me: Okay, we’ll get thousands of people around the world to take a photograph at the same moment,” Estrin told me of the project’s inception. And the goals of the project mix the artistic and the journalistic to the point that it’s difficult to tell where the journalism ends and the aesthetic begins: first, to produce a valuable document, one that records — to an extent — a particular moment as it’s lived out across the world. Second, from the social media angle, to facilitate the sense of shared identity that comes with “doing things as a community around the world — doing the same things at the same time.” Ultimately, Estrin says, the project was about “the intentional profundity of the moment.”

Whether the feature represents journalism, or something more, or something less, the reaction it’s received from Times users offers a lesson for news organizations chasing after the holy grail-and-sometimes-white-whale that is reader engagement. If the project’s participatory outpouring is any indication, it has struck a nerve with Times users. In a good way. And the ‘why’ in that is instructive. The project involved an assignment with specific instructions; users weren’t merely being asked for something — a hazy invitation to contribute — but to provide something specific, and easily attainable. And to provide something, moreover, that would be part of a project with a clearly defined, but also inspiring, purpose: to document the world, via its many corners, at a particular moment. That mix of depth and breadth, of pragmatism and idealism, can be a potent incitement to action — a fact evidenced by the thousands of images currently blanketing the globe over at the Lens blog.

A Moment in Time- NYTimes Lens Blog

It's up and it's incredible! I can't wait to view these global images!!!

“Here it is, Earth, covered by stacks of thousands of virtual photographs, corresponding in location to where they were taken by Lens readers at one ‘Moment in Time.’”

When I heard that the NY Times Lens Blog was calling photographers of all levels to simultaneous record a moment of their lives, I couldn't wait to participate and encourage my students & photo enthusiasts to do the same. As a photographer and educator, this is what I am talking about, a moment to create art at the same time with lovers of photography all over the world, to click the shutter at the same time as my former students in San Diego, Nicaragua and the Bronx, at the same time as family and friends in Peru and California. To feel connected with not only those behind the camera but to the moments that they record.

What image(s) could I possibly take that could encapsulate this intimate feeling of a global photographic communion. Communion? Communion? Communion! Alright, I'll be literal! I received my First Holy Communion May 4th 1986 (I will always remember the date because it was Brian Finnegans 7th Birthday). There must be a First Holy Communion Mass the first Sunday of May around 15:00 hours (U.T.C.). And there was, just a few miles away. Alleluia!

While photographers all over the world were in communion with each other, Emma celebrates her First Holy Communion in Brooklyn, New York.





Click here to view the interactive gallery on the New York Times Lens Blog.

Click here to view my image.

Mothers Day!

Happy Mama's Day! I had to take this pic while reading the following by Annie Dillard. Such a sacred moment. It is amazing that you can take and edit a pic on your phone.

" -Until you have a baby, her mother said, you don’t know what love is! Her mother volunteered this on the day of Lou’s one and only wedding. –Oh, Lou wanted to say, go soak your head. After Lou brought forth Petie, she at once recalled her mothers words, forgave and endorsed them. That her mother was so often right no longer irked her. As she would never irk Petie, now joyful in her arms, he sucked her nose. Later his pointy fingers made faces with her face. She never put him down. She must feel his skin on her, feel his cranium in her arm’s crook, his belly on her belly, and smell his breath, his scalp, etc. He obviously felt the same way. They were pieces of each other foully parted. When they had to separate, she took ever deeper- breaths as if the air had no use. Her sternum and central torso and arms ached. Maytree had some horseshoe magnets in the kitchen. She gave each of them a wrench to hold.

She and Petie laughed to flout fate by smashing together thigmotropic. Or they met staring forehead to forehead, then twisted and laughed.

Lou saw that she had hitherto wasted her life. When he was six months old, she asked Maytree, Can we have more?"


-Annie Dillard "The Maytrees"

From Many Instants, A Moment

Over 10,000 photographs were submitted the first day! We have till Friday so ya'll know when my photo will arrive ;)

Read about it on the New York Times Lens Blog.

Don't Forget!!! No Te Olvides

Contribute to the New York Times Lens Blog!!!

A Timely Global Mosaic, Created by All of Us

Photo of POP student, Mario's hand, at American Natural History Museum, NYC.


Contribute to the New York Times Lens Blog!!!
I can't wait to see your beautiful and unique images. POP students you can even use your camera phones! Teachers, what a perfect homework assignment!

Where will you be on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 hours (U.T.C.) ?

Wherever you are, we hope you’ll have a camera — or a camera phone — in hand. And we hope you’ll be taking a picture to send to Lens that will capture this singular instant in whatever way you think would add to a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world.

We extend the invitation to everyone, everywhere. Amateurs. Students. Pros. People who’ve been photographing for a lifetime or who just started yesterday.

What matters more than technique is the thought behind the picture, because you’ll only be sending us one. So please do think beforehand about where you will want to be and what you will want to focus on. Here are the general topics:

Religion
Play
Nature and the Environment
Family
Work
Arts and Entertainment
Money and the Economy
Community
Social Issues

In New York, it will be 11 o’clock on Sunday morning when the clock for Coordinated Universal Time — which carries the neither-English-nor-French abbreviation U.T.C. (it’s formerly Greenwich Mean Time) — reaches 15:00 hours. So some people will be settled into church pews while others prepare to head out to the park, if not the beach. Los Angeles will be a good deal quieter at such an early hour, except for some hard-partying types unwilling to concede that it’s no longer Saturday night. Lunch time will be at hand in Rio de Janeiro, dinner time in Cape Town. Dusk will be bringing an end to another tough day in Afghanistan, while midnight strikes in Beijing. For Australians, it will already be first thing Monday morning.

After you take your photo, please send it as soon as possible to submit.nytimes.com/moment (the link should be active at 15:00 U.T.C.). On the Web form, you’ll be asked to categorize your photo by location and subject (the topic list shown above) and to include caption information. We don’t expect everyone to hit 15:00 exactly, but we do ask that you try to stay within a few minutes of that targeted time.

The photos will appear quickly on the Lens blog and on NYTimes.com, and — if you’d like — you’ll be able to arrange them by country, by topic or by how they were ranked by other readers. Or you can just view them randomly. Some will almost certainly be spotlighted on the Lens blog.

pictureHOPE exhibit update

pictureHOPE exhibition update: We have now sold 207 photographs! So far we have raised $10,350.00 for Doctors Without Borders!!! Thank you all so much for supporting our cause and making this lofty goal of ours become a reality! We now have only 55 prints left in stock. If we sell them all that will be $13,100.00 raised. LET'S DO IT!

Click Here to purchase my photograph for only $50.

He's Here!

Welcome to the world my beautiful boy!
Wendell B DelaVaughn
Born February 9, 2010 at 2:05pm
8lb 8oz 21.5 inches long
I love you!

I'm Ready

Breastfeeding by Candlelight -Polaroid Emulsion Lift taken in San Jorge Nuchita, Oaxaca, 2002

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography

Photograph by Xavier Miserachs

This exhibit opens today at the Aperture Gallery and Amster Yard Gallery at Instituto Cervantes ! I can't wait to see it! I think it will be the baby's first exhibit!


New York, New York

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography

Opening reception:
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 6:00–8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
Friday, February 5, 2010 –Thursday, April 1, 2010

FREE

Aperture Foundation
547 West 27 Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions at Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes. This exhibition in two parts features such artists as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Brassaï, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesc Catalá Roca, Inge Morath, Martin Parr, Man Ray, and Miguel Rio Branco.

Whether as social phenomenon or musical expression, flamenco has been of enduring interest and inspiration to photographers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. While some photographers from outside of Spain went in search of it or encountered it by chance, to others flamenco and its practitioners are an essential, if not innate, aspect of their cultural heritage and their photographic work. This artistic form—also considered a way of life or being—has generated fascination in cultured urban circles, remaining one of the most secret, mysterious, and seductive manifestations of twentieth-century European popular art. Marginalized and ostracized, the world of flamenco took root in an economically backward region of southern Europe, culturally peripheral and marked by a history of authoritarianism and local despotisms. This exhibition of more than one hundred and fifty years of images, frequently taken by foreigners rather than Spaniards, is an extensive survey of how photographers of different eras have approached the universe of flamenco, whether documenting the dance itself, gestures that recall it, or the culture that is developed around it.

This exhibition is coproduced by Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, with the collaboration of Centro Andaluz de Flamenco, and is made possible thanks to the generous support of Antonio Banderas Fragrances by PUIG. The exhibition debuted at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla in April 2009 and is curated by José Lebrero Stals.

pictureHOPE exhibit update

pictureHOPE exhibition update: We have raised $9,400.00 for Doctors Without Borders in just 1 week. Our goal is $10,000.00. We are only 12 print sales away (only $50 each)! Help us make it happen! Thanks for purchasing a photograph and or sharing these links!

http://www.soulcatcherstudio.com/exhibitions/haiti/index.htm
http://www.soulcatcherstudio.com/exhibitions/haiti/delavaughn.html

A Simple Letter

I received this lovely letter today and was touched that someone took the time to reach out and share the emotions my photograph evoked in them.

Picturetaker,

Your photo on the cover of Sun is
wonderful. It stirred me deeply, and
deeper still after returning to it several
times as I skimmed the pages, the black
and white haunting me to look deeper after
each glance. And then the vision cleared and
I saw the picture - no words here to tell a story, just
a feeling. We're so lucky. Thank you.

A Sun reader

There have been so many people who have created works of art that have touched me but I never made the time to let them know. I am so grateful this Sun reader did. It fuels me (at 40 weeks pregnant) to keep recording life as I see it.

pictureHOPE exhibition update

pictureHOPE exhibition update: We started with 260 photographic prints for sale. We now have only 89 left in stock. We have raised $8,650.00 for Doctors Without Borders in just 5 days. Our goal is $10,000.00. It is within reach. Help us make it happen.

Click here to view the online exhibit and fine art photography sale

Click here to view my photograph

$50 per fine art photograph. All proceeds go to Doctors without Borders to benefit the people of Haiti!

PictureHOPE Exhibit Update

pictureHOPE exhibition update: As of this moment we have sold a total of 160 photographs to benefit Doctors Without Borders. That's $8,000.00 raised so far! Please revisit our exhibition and consider purchasing a print.

To purchase my photograph (only $50) taken in Nicaragua, click here.
All proceeds go to Doctors without Borders to benefit the people of Haiti.

PICTURE HOPE FOR HAITI: Women Photographers Benefit Doctors Without Borders

Soulcatcher Studio is honored to present "picture HOPE", our exhibition and sale of limited edition fine art photographs, benefiting the people of Haiti through Doctors Without Borders USA.

Limited edition fine art photographs from amazing female artists, all for only $50.00 each! 100% of the proceeds benefit Doctors Without Borders to support their work in Haiti. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

On January 28, 2010, the opening day of this exhibition,105 prints sold! That adds up to $5,250.00 for Doctors Without Borders!

Today, January 29,2010 they will be adding one of my images, Nicaraguan Angel, to the exhibit. I took this photograph on Christmas Eve, 2008 outside of San Martin Church in Bluefields, Nicaragua. I lived in the town of Bluefields for 3 months during my Peace Corps Training and did my youth development preparation work (a Pedagogy of Photography project) at San Martin Church. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua from 2003-2006.



Here is what Eric J Keller, Gallery Director of Soul Catcher Studio is saying about the online benefit exhibit.

On January 12, 2010 a major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, causing catastrophic damage and casualties. The quake was followed by several aftershocks with magnitudes over 5.0. The Haitian government has said more than 111,000 people died in the earthquake.

On January 21, 2010, I began to reach out to female fine art photographers from around the country, asking for their kind assistance in producing a benefit exhibition and sale of limited edition photographs. The premise was simple: Offer a limited edition print from each artist, in a numbered edition of ten prints, and sell them for just $50.00 each with 100% of the proceeds to be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

Their response was immediate, and now, just seven days later, I am very pleased to present the work of the following group of photographers:

Angela Bacon-Kidwell (Wichita Falls, TX)
Brigitte Carnochan (Portola Valley, CA)
Katie DelaVaughan (Brooklyn, NY)
Desiree Edkins (Scottsdale, AZ)
Cat Gwynn (Los Angeles, CA)
Jessica M. Kaufman (New York, NY)
Karen Keating (Washington, D.C.)
Laurie Lambrecht (Bridgehampton, NY)
Lisa Levine (Alameda, CA)
Heather McClintock (Boone, NC)
Meg Madison (Los Angeles, CA)
Karen Morgan (Chicago, IL)
Ann Pallesen (Seattle, WA)
Sarah Renkes (Chicago, IL)
Lauren Rosenbaum (San Francisco, CA)
Jennifer Schlesinger (Santa Fe, NM)
Jennifer Shaw (New Orleans, LA)
Joni Sternbach (New York, NY)
Melissa Weiss Steele (Santa Fe, NM)
Sarah Wilson (Austin, TX)
Natalie Young (Los Angeles, CA)

Every one of these photographers has my eternal gratitude for answering the call to donate, and for their assistance in getting this exhibition together so quickly. - Eric J. Keller, Soulcatcher Studio Gallery Director


Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The official death toll from this disaster rises every day. The people of Haiti need our help now more than ever. Please consider supporting our cause by purchasing a limited edition fine art photographic print today.

Print Information: All prints are priced at just $50.00 each (plus $15.00 shipping within the USA). Orders of multiple prints will incur the same base rate of $15.00 for shipping. International clients may inquire about overseas shipping costs. Click on the thumbnail images below to view enlarged print examples and detailed print information.

We expect these limited editions to sell out quickly, so please call Soulcatcher Studio at 505-310-7685 to purchase yours today. We can take your VISA, Mastercard or American Express information over the phone, or if you prefer we can send you an electronic invoice to complete your secure transaction online through PayPal.com.


A message from Doctors Without Borders:

We are incredibly grateful for the generous support from our donors for the emergency in Haiti.



MSF/DWB has been working in Haiti for 19 years, most recently operating three emergency hospitals in Port-au-Prince, and is mobilizing a large emergency response to this disaster. Our immediate response in the first hours following the disaster in Haiti was only possible because of private unrestricted donations from around the world received before the earthquake struck. We are currently reinforcing our teams on the ground in order to respond to the immediate medical needs and to assess the humanitarian needs that MSF/DWB will be addressing in the months ahead.

We are now asking our donors to give to our Emergency Relief Fund. These types of funds ensure that our medical teams can react to the Haiti emergency and other humanitarian crises all over the world, particularly neglected crises that remain outside the media spotlight. Your gift via this website will be earmarked for our Emergency Relief Fund.

If you prefer, you may make a direct donation to Doctors Without Borders by phone at their toll-free number: 1-888-392-0392 - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We hope you enjoy this benefit exhibition and sale of extraordinary fine art photographs

February Issue- SUN Magazine

An analog photograph I took over ten years ago in the fall of 1999 was selected to be on the February 2010 cover of The SUN magazine. This is my third photograph published in the magazine (June'09 & October'09) and my first SUN cover!

In my archives I titled this photograph, "Father/Son" because I felt the image, moment and embrace evoked sentiments of a paternal bond. Perfect timing as we are about to enter parenthood at any moment!!!

Here is the ON THE COVER description of the photograph on the contributors page. Click on the link to order the issue.

KATIE DELAVAUGHN took this month’s cover photograph when she went to Julian, California, to try some of the town’s famous apple pie at a local diner. Upon leaving, she was moved by the tender embrace of a man and boy and asked if she could take their picture. She is the founder and director of Pedagogy of Photography, a project designed to increase literacy skills through photography and poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

www.katiedelavaughn.com


ABOUT THE SUN

The Sun is an independent, ad-free monthly magazine that for more than thirty years has used words and photographs to invoke the splendor and heartache of being human. The Sun celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its complexity. The personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and photographs that appear in its pages explore the challenges we face and the moments when we rise to meet those challenges.

The Sun publishes the work of emerging and established artists who are striving to be thoughtful and authentic. Writing from The Sun has won the Pushcart Prize, been published in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays, and been broadcast on National Public Radio.

The Sun invites readers to consider an array of political, social, and philosophical ideas and then to join the conversation. Each issue includes a section devoted entirely to writing by readers, who address topics as varied as Telling the Truth, Neighbors, Hiding Places, Second Chances, and Gambling.

From its idealistic, unlikely inception in 1974 to its current incarnation as a nonprofit magazine with more than 70,000 subscribers, The Sun has attempted to marry the personal and political; to honor the genuine and the spiritual; to see what kind of roommates beauty and truth can be; and to show that powerful teaching can be found in the lives of ordinary people.

The Sun Publishing Company, Inc. is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and is supported primarily by subscriptions and reader contributions. Donations to The Sun are tax-deductible.

Upon presenting The Sun its Alternative Press Award for General Excellence, Utne Reader said: "No other magazine provides quite the same atmosphere of intimacy as The Sun. It's a magazine completely unlike any other, always personal, always meaningful, always unexpected."

Published Photograph to Published Painting

I received a kind email from Martha Lavoué, an avid SUN reader who wrote to ask permission to publish a drawing she created inspired by my photograph in the June 2009 issue of the SUN magazine. The painting will appear in the upcoming issue of the Boston Literary Gazette.

¡Feliz Día De Los Reyes!

Happy 3 Kings Day! Today I am remembering the beautiful processions I witnessed celebrating this day in Nicaragua during my three years working there. After spending the following two 3 Kings Day teaching in the Bronx, I was lucky enough to return to Nicaragua last year and document my close friends participating in this festive event. Wish I could be there this again year but I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my own lil' king.