Reveiw Santa Fe 2024
Press Details
The Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium is a conference for photographers and lens-based artists seeking audience expansion, critical discussion, and community connection. One of the oldest juried portfolio review events in the U.S., Review Santa Fe, enters its 23rd year in 2024 • November 1 - 3, 2024.
Review Santa Fe is a premier program serving local, national, and international constituents with portfolio reviews with esteemed industry professionals, a public exposition and book fair, scholar lectures, and more. Please refer to the schedule of events for more information.
Each year, CENTER conducts a call for entries, where photographers from across the globe can submit their work. An independent selection committee ranks projects, and the highest-scoring work receives invitations to participate in the portfolio reviews.
• View the SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHERS - reviewsantafelisting.org.
• Download the full Review Santa Fe 2024 PRESS RELEASE here.
• View PROJECT PRESENTATION images here.
• View the Digital PROGRAM GUIDE here – see right
• View PROGRAM GUIDE images here.
Guide Cover © Anna Reed Download
© Barron Bixler (Review Santa Fe Alum)
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Review Santa Fe Project Presentations
© Sophie Hect (Socially Engaged Award) Download
© Anna Reed (Me & Eve Award) Download
© John Trotter (Environmental Award) Download
© Matthew Finley (Personal Award) Download
© Sara Abbaspour (Development Grant) Download
© Austin Bryant (Project Launch Grant) Download
© Robert Pluma (Multimedia Award) Download
Free Public Event: Portfolio Walk & Book Fair
Each year the Review Santa Fe Portfolio Walk & Book Fair brings together a global network of 100 selected lens-based artists and 50+ representatives from museums, publications, book publishers, and media outlets.
For one night only, this lively event offers the Santa Fe community a chance to view the broad range of vetted photographic and lens-based projects encompassing today’s social, environmental, and political issues, as well as stellar contemporary art projects. Notable photographic book publishers, indie publications, and art-book enthusiasts are invited to join us and showcase newly released publications for sale.
WHEN • Saturday, November 2, 2024, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
WHERE • Farmers’ Market Pavilion – 1607 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM
HOW • Free and Public
PRIVATE VIP PREVIEW • Press and VIP Guests are invited from 5:00 - 6:00 PM. Please note, there is a guest list during this time.
2023 Portfolio Walk © Peter Ogilvie
© Chris Mortensen
2023 Portfolio Walk © Peter Ogilvie
Portfolio Walk © Jennifer Davidson
Portfolio Walk © Stefan Wachs
Portfolio Walk © Christopher Mortenson
Project Presentations
Each year, recipients of CENTER’s awards are invited to give presentations at Review Santa Fe. This year, CENTER returns to in-person presentations for the first time since 2019. Review Santa Fe presentations are a wonderful way to connect with world-renowned artists at home in Santa Fe.
2024 presentations cover a wide range of socially engaged topics including LGBTQIA+ histories/experiences, Indigenous histories, Wampanoag and African American experiences, our relationship with technology, the social justice movement, and more.
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS -
WHO • 2024 Award and Grant Winners - centerwinners.org/2024
WHEN • Sunday, November 3, 2024, from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM MT
WHERE • La Fonda on the Plaza Hotel, New Mexico Room and Livestream on Zoom
HOW • Free and Public
FREE EVENTBRITE REGISTRATION • eventbrite.com/e/project-presentations-tickets-940126542797
2024 Socially Engaged Award • Sofie Hect on Listening to the Voices of New Medico’s Downwinders
For A Matter of When: Stories of New Mexico's Downwinders, her project on families within the 50-mile radius of the Trinity test site, Sofie Hecht has found ingenious ways to share the voices of local families, including fourth-generation cancer survivors. She will discuss the interviews, portraits, family archives, and New Mexico residents’ stories.
Juror: Noelle Flores Théard - The New Yorker
2024 Personal Award• Matthew Finley on Imagining a Life of Love and Acceptance
Matthew Finley portrays the imagined life for an uncle he never knew through archival images he subtly alters. His fictional snapshots invite us to imagine an alternate world “where who you love is immaterial” and “what’s important is that you love.”
Juror: Kristen Gresh - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2024 Environmental Award• John Trotter on Sustaining a 20-year Study of the Colorado River Crisis
John Trotter discusses his 23-year project, No Agua, No Vida, on the depletion of the Colorado River’s reservoirs. He traces the continuing impact of the Colorado River Compact, signed in Santa Fe, NM, in 1922, and examines local communities’ responses to the ongoing water crisis.
Juror: Sabine Meyer - National Audubon Society
Austin Bryant explains his personal connection to the erased stories of connection between the Wampanoag and African American communities on Martha’s Vineyard. Through his use of original photography, archival research, and historic texts, he captures how he used his own photography, archival materials, and altered text to tell an American tale that resonates universally.
Juror: Jehan Jillani - The Atlantic
Sara Abbaspour describes how she makes, edits, and sequences the images in her project, “Transitional Realms.” Made in the wake of Iran’s ongoing “Women, Life, Freedom” social justice movement, her collaborative portraits capture women reclaiming their own image.
Juror: Gregory Harris - High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2024 Me&Eve Award - Anna Reed on The Process of Dissecting Our High-Tech World
To examine our relationship to technology, Anna Reed uses high- and low-tech devices, hand-crafting assemblages on which she prints her provocative images and self-portraits. She will discuss the complex processes she undertakes to produce Merging Dimensions.
Juror: Eve Schillo - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Robert Pluma shares the mix of video, stills, oral histories, and 3D scans in his project countering colonial accounts of the Coahuiltecan Indigenous people of San Antonio, and his plans to use augmented reality to allow people to participate in a forgotten past.
Juror: David Barreda - National Geographic
Reviewers
CENTER invites renowned photographers, artists, curators, journalists, and photography professionals to review portfolios at Review Santa Fe.
Museums, Curators, and Directors
Mitra Abbaspour • Curator & Head of Modern & Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums
Brittany Corrales • Curator, Arizona State University Art Museum
Crista Dix • Executive Director, Griffin Museum of Photography
Nicole Dial-Kay • Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Harwood Museum of Art
Ysabel Pinyol Blasi • Executive Director & Curator, Monira Foundation
Mary Anne Redding • Senior Curator, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University
Rebecca Senf • Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, Norton Family Curator, Phoenix Museum of Art
Mary Statzer • Curator of Prints & Photographs, University of New Mexico Art Museum
Alisa Swindell • Associate Curator of Photography, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Christian Waguespack • Head of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of 20th Century Art, New Mexico Museum of Art & Vladem Contemporary
Non-Profit and Commercial Galleries
Matthew Chase-Daniel • Co-Director & Co-Curator, Axle Contemporary
Kathy Dowell • Director of Arts & Humanities Programming, Mid-America Arts Alliance
Mary Goodwin • Founder, Aurora PhotoCenter
Eirik Johnson • Programs Chair, Photographic Center Northwest
Anne Kelly • Gallery & Shop Manager, Historic Santa Fe Foundation
Pilar Law • Founder & Director, Edition ONE Gallery
Olivia Amaya Ortiz • Curator, 516 ARTS
Sage Paisner • Executive Director, Foto Forum Santa Fe
Christopher Rauschenberg • Co-Founder & Board Chairman, Blue Sky Gallery
Jennifer Schlesinger • Owner & Director, Obscura Gallery
Jackson Siegal • Associate Director, CLAMP Art
Chris Webster & Paisley Mason • Founder & CEO, Webster Collection, & Webster Estates
Francesca Yorke • Owner & Director, FOMA Gallery
Book Publishing
Joan Brookbank• Director, Joan Brookbank Projects
Mark Alice Durant • Publisher & Editor, Saint Lucy Books
Shannon Fagan • Independent Consultant & Producer
Joanna Hurley • President, HurleyMedia
Caleb Cain Marcus • Director, Luminosity Lab
Melanie McWhorter • Photography & Photobook Consultant, Grenade in a Jar
Amy Wilkins • Publisher, MW Editions
Denise Wolff • Senior Editor, Aperture Foundation
Editorial
Skye Battles • Photo Editor, WIRED
Kate Bubacz • Lead Photo Editor, News, The Wall Street Journal
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman • Art Editor, Oxford American magazine
Stephen Frailey • Founder & Editor, Dear Dave, Magazine
Daniel George • Submissions Editor & Contributing Writer, LENSCRATCH
Julie Hau • Photo Editor, National Geographic magazine
Stephanie Heimann • Photo Director, New Republic
Lauryn Hill • Senior Digital Photo Editor, AARP
Holly Stuart Hughes • Independent Editor & Writer
Michael Kirchoff • Editor-in-Chief, Analog Forever Magazine & Catalyst: Interviews
Sabine Meyer • Photography Director, National Audubon Society
Glenn Ruga • Founder & Director, Social Documentary Network & Executive Editor, ZEKE magazine
Sandra M. Stevenson • Deputy Director of Photography, The Washington Post
Amber Terranova • Executive Director, Amplifier Newsroom
Jessie Wender • Photo Editor, The New York Times
Nancy Zastudil • Owner & Editor, The Necessarian