Silverlens Gallery proudly presents Sundance, a collection of photograms by Kawayan de Guia, Neal Oshima, Allan Razo and Julius Clar. The artists take a back-to-basics approach and utilize alternative photographic processes—Platinum Prints, Cyanotypes, Kallitypes (Vandyke Prints) and Gum Bichromate Prints—that antedate the first silver gelatin photographs by more than a century.

Amid the digital age, of hyper-progression and technological advancement, de Guia, Oshima, Razo and Clar take a retro step to the most basic and organic of photographic processes using the sun as their \’darkroom\’. Each process is an arduous one, subject to uncontrollable variables that demand fastidious experimentation. Each uniquely imperfect print is a suggestive abstraction of its original subject, this artisanal nature contributes to its longevity.

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For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, or manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Image: Detail, Allan Razo, Shell 3, 2005 and Cactus, 2004

Family Spaces
Stella Kalaw
January 8 – February, 2009
Opening reception on January 8, Thursday, 6pm

Silverlens Gallery welcomes 2009 with a photography show by United States based artist Stella Kalaw. Over the last fifty years, the Filipino diaspora has altered the landscape of families and the relationships that bind. Kalaw, having left the Philippines over ten years ago, returns to show Family Spaces, a series of photographs of her immediate family members\’ homes all over the world. Continents apart, each home is a glimpse of interconnectedness through objects of the everyday Filipino. Worn tsinelas on a stair landing, a tabo floating in a balde, the Sacred Heart of Jesus–all markers of Pinoy identity, they are umbilical cords to the familiar. The color photographs present cultural identity through markers that belong to one extended family, but stand in for any Filipino family anywhere in the world.

Stella Kalaw (b. 1969 in Manila) graduated with a degree in Professional Photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography in California, under a Fuji Scholarship and worked as an intern in Irving Penn\’s Studio in New York City shortly after. Kalaw has been part of group shows in Washington, New York, California and at the Ayala Museum in Manila. Her works have garnered awards such as a Honorable Mention in the Polaroid International Awards and the Gold Prize in American Photo Magazine\’s New Views Awards.

Family Spaces by Stella Kalaw opens at 6pm on January 8, Thursday and runs until February 7, 2009. There will be an Artist Talk by Stella Kalaw on January 10, Saturday, from 3-5pm. Family Spaces will be shown along with Library Bookworks by Renato Orara at SLab (Silverlens Lab).

Silverlens Gallery is at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Image:
Stella Kalaw
First Lamp at Somerville, 2007

The UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum will open Coalescence – Science and Art on 13 November 2008, Thursday, 6:00 PM at the Edge Gallery, a photo exhibition by Dr. Gil Jacinto, Professor of Marine Science at the University of the Philippines – Diliman.

Coalescence, defined as a fusion that arises from the combination of distinct elements, is the term that Dr. Gil Jacinto associates himself. A chemical oceanographer and a photographer, the boundary between these two facets of his life disappears when he embarks on his work and travels. He takes and creates photographs as a hobby, a source of rejuvenation and inspiration, and as a venue for imagining and creating new perspectives of the world as he sees it.

This collection of photographs by Dr. Jacinto delves into the world of art through his use of prosumer digital cameras and an entry-level digital SLR. The images reflect not only science in art or art in science, but science and art – the disappearance of boundaries. The captivating colors of sunsets and sunrises, real and figurative reflections, the haunting face of an 88-year old woman camouflaged by the bark of a sampaloc tree, and the beauty of a backlit flower of a common bush all manifest the union of the scientific discipline and the aesthetics.

Coalescence will run until 16 January 2009. The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. For more details, please contact the UP Vargas Museum at 928-1927 (Direct line), 981-8500 local 4024 (UP Trunkline), 928-1925 (Fax) or (0929) 8567909 (Mobile). You can also send your inquiries via e-mail to vargasmuseum@gmail.com.

Isa Lorenzo of Silverlens talks on

Collecting Photography

On view at the gallery are the works of visual artist, Noelle Katigbak Tan.

Rene Barbier wines will be served.

Silverlens Gallery is at 2330 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City.

For inquiry and attendance, please call MFPI office at 404 2685 or 0928 503 9392 and look for Elvie.

The Charles Harbutt Workshop has been evolving for over thirty years. It was first given in France at the Arles Festival in 1974 and has had been given in England, Italy, Mexico, and all over the United States. For twenty years, it was a twice-yearly feature at the International Center of Photography in New York. It had been taught in a semester long version at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute and for the past ten years it has been a required course at Parsons School of Design.

This workshop will use the examples by masters of Twentieth century photography to learn what they discovered about how cameras see, and about how to make that vision express something of themselves. Each day there will be a slide lecture which will show a different component of photographic vision – lens, shutter, film/paper, and discuss their impact on how photographs \”look\”. Field assignments will be given daily and will be reviewed in the next class.

Having taken photography apart, students will try to discover how they can put it back together in their own unique way, to be able to find their own \”look\” as photographers.

Prerequisites: Portfolio review. Portfolios will be accepted at silverlens gallery until 6pm on Dec. 12, Wed.
Registration Fee: P10,000 (exclusive of materials)
Required Materials: At least 10 rolls of film or a digital camera

15 Slots Available

Sessions:
Jan. 11, Fri. 5-9pm
Jan. 12, Sat. 9am-5pm
Jan. 18, Fri. 5-9pm
Jan. 19, Sat. 9am-5pm

About the Instructor
For the first twenty years of his photographic life, Charles Harbutt was a photojournalist, working mostly through MAGNUM PHOTOS (of which he was twice president) for magazines in Europe, Japan and the United States. Since 1980, Harbutt has increasingly pursued more personal interests in photography, especially the extension of documentary into the everyday. He is a full time faculty member of the PARSONS School of Design Photography Program and a teacher at the INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY in New York City, where he lives. Mr. Harbutt is also opening his first show in the Philippines at the silverlens gallery on Jan. 10, 2008 with a mini-retrospective \”Charles Harbutt\”.

To Register:
816-0044 (Look for Leonore or Rica)
manage@silverlensphoto.com

50% Reservation Fee required
Balance due on first day of classes

All classes are at silverlens gallery,
2320 Pasong Tamo Ext. Makati City

www.silverlensphoto.com

Kodakan brings to the fore the art making versatility of visual artists Plet Bolipata, Elmer Borlongan, Ruel Caasi, Carlo Gabuco, Dennis Leonardo, Ferdie Montemayor, Mikel Parial and Mario Parial. Renowned for their art in various media, the artists, who are all photo buffs, have been using an online image-sharing service for the past year for their private appreciation of each other\’s photographic art.

Kodakan is the group\’s first public foray in the medium of photography. With the cooperation of DPI Photography Center, the show will feature a wide range of subjects as each artist will present a unique way of seeing the world.

Exhibit opens on December 7, 2007 (Friday) at 6:00 pm and will run until January 5, 2008. Kaida Gallery is located at the 2nd Floor GFO Building, 122 Kamuning Road, Diliman, Quezon City. For inquiries, call 414-4777 or log on to www.kaidagallery.com.

Our Times
Four Generations Through Photographs

by

John Silva

Show opens on November 22 at 6:00 pm and will be on view until December 20, 2006.

silverlens gallery
2320 Pasong Tamo Extension,
Warehouse 2, Makati City
816-0044
manage@silverlensphoto.com

shift
Rachel Rillo
27 September – 14 October 2006

Silverlens Gallery reopens in a former piano factory on Pasong Tamo Extension in Makati City with Rachel Rillo\’s series of black and white photographs entitled SHIFT. The show encapsulates its title in high contrast images as that of a shattered glass bursting into a faceted flower, or of a loose thread hanging past a neat row of frilly tassels on a rug, or in a row of dew drops hanging down like tears under an iron bar. These are among other images that seem to have been sculpted out of the mundane to be revealed in that fleeting \”aha\” moment of their discovery. Their magnification on archival photographic paper as big as 4 ft underscores even more their strangeness. The highlights shaping their form act at times as their tenuous link to their worldly familiarity.

Silverlens is a gallery focused on showcasing contemporary photography and is located at 2320 Pasong Tamo extension, Warehouse2, Makati City. For inquiries, please call 816-0044. Silverlens is open from Monday to Friday, 10 am to 7 pm, and Saturday, 2 – 6 pm.

The Lopez Memorial Museum, in cooperation with the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, presents the seventh in the series Stories about Preserving Cultural Heritage on August 12, 2006 (Sat) at 2-4 pm, at the Lopez Library. Architect Paulo Alcazaren’s talk will focus on the basics of architectural photography using digital camera to document heritage buildings, monuments, landscapes and sites. His talk will also touch on the choice and use of equipment, tripods, lenses and lights along with techniques to faithfully capture a building\’s technical as well as aesthetic characteristics in various shooting conditions.

Alcazaren is editor-in-chief of BluPrint Magazine and columnist for the Philippine Star. He is also an architectural photographer who has shot for both local and international publications. An architect, urban designer and landscapist by training and profession, Alcazaren is an advocate of Filipino design, smart urbanism and heritage conservation. He is also an assistant professor at the College of Architecture at the University of the Philippines.

Lecture fee is P50 for Museum Foundation members and P100 for non-members. The Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. Museum days and hours are Monday-Saturday, 8am-5pm, except holidays. For more information, call 6312417 or email pezseum@skyinet.net.