Dafna Lemish
LUX, a FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY JOURNAL, Call for Entries.
Established in 1979, Photogenesis is a student organization comprised of photography enthusiasts, both majors and non-majors who partake in social and education events that center around anything that involves the photography. Such activities include organizing photo exhibitions, co-sponsoring guest artist lectures, coordinating fund-raising events for field trips, and hosting workshops. The Cinema and Photography program benefits from the active role of its Photogenesis members, for they proudly demonstrate the importance, need and beauty of photography on campus.
Eligibility is open to all currently enrolled SIU Carbondale students. Jurors will select work to be published in a fine art photography journal, sponsored by RSO Photogenesis. All work submitted must have been produced within the past two years. The advisor of Photogenesis holds the right not to publish work that may be offensive to their general public.
Submissions will only be accepted by email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or mail (Dept of Cinema&Photo, mailcode 6610, Attention: Photogenesis). - Submit jpegs, sized 8 inches on the shortest end at 72 dpi. - Save jpeg files with an sRGB colorspace. - Files should be named by artists last name and numbered ( ex: Jackson_1.jpg) - Fee is $5 for 3 entries. No more than 3 images may be submitted. (Make checks payable to SIUC) - Entries must include attached entry form. - Mailed submissions will not be returned. - Entries that are incomplete or do not meet publication standards are disqualified & fees will not be refunded.
For more information email Antonio Martinez, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Polly Chandler earned an MFA in photography in 2004 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Since 2004, Polly’s work has been exhibited and published widely in several fine art photography venues. Publications of her work include PDN Photo Annual 2011, B&W Magazine, View Camera Magazine, Shots Magazine, and Silvershotz Magazine. Additionally, Polly’s work has been exhibited in over fitfy juried exhibitions since 2004. Polly’s large format portraits and landscapes of serene environments embody a poetic charm made visible only through her careful observation of the world. Visit http://www.pollychandler.com/
First Place Award - $200 Second Place Award - $100 Third Place Award - $50
By submitting your work to the 2012 Lux journal, you acknowledge that you are the original creator of the images. Lux is a not-for sale publication. No photographer will be paid for the publication of their images in Lux journal. Accepted images may be used for future promotional purposes relating to Lux journal and the photography program of SIUC. No monetary gain will be acquired through the promotional use of any selected work for Lux journal.
It doesn’t matter if your interests fall within the range of fine art and commercial photography, fashion or documentary photography or any other area of the photographic arts. It is important for our students to explore the full breadth and depth of a photographic education at SIUC. Students graduate from our program with a broad range of photographic skills, which is supplemented with other media-making course electives, such as video editing or web-design and a required minor that partners with their academic interests. Learn more at http://cp.siu.edu
Funding for Lux journal is made possible through the funding of the Fine Arts Activity Fee. Photography faculty and students of the Cinema and Photography Department of the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts.helped organize and sponsor this publication.
Antonio Martinez, assistant professor in Cinema and Photography, was recently awarded honorable mention as a semi-finalist in the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards for his film, Near the Egress.
The black and white stop-motion video was entered in the Innovation in Motion and Video category. The film, which runs just over five minutes, consists of over 800 dry-plate tintype images of a 2006 circus.
“I had no intention for this project to be so big,” said Martinez. “I originally started with a 17 second elephant sequence. I received such positive feedback, I decided to do more.”
The process was very labor intensive and time consuming. The long process included exposing the images, turning a negative into a positive, hand coating the metal, doing a contact print onto the metal, scanning each tintype and then editing the images in Photoshop and Final Cut Pro. Martinez worked on the project for three years. Martinez worked with a former student to develop the sound track that accompanies the images.
“I would take the images home with me to Tulsa at holidays,” said Martinez. “I turned my parents’ garage into a dark room. My brother would help to develop, fix and rinse the images at night after our parents had gone to sleep.”
Martinez said the project involved a lot of trial and error, and that for every one good plate there were probably eight to ten throw-aways. After assembling the first set of images in Final Cut Pro, Martinez felt the film was too choppy. He used Photoshop to build inter-frames between each master frame. He had to build six inter-frames for every two master frames.
“I think the effort paid off,” said Martinez. “I am really happy with it. I have received such positive feedback about the project.”
To date, Near the Egress has been in over 20 art and video festivals. Martinez was featured in the September 2010 issue of pdn magazine for his work with the experimental film.
Currently, Martinez is working on two new experimental videos. Faith Into Madness is a stop motion film using images of a mustang rider at a rodeo, shot on Polaroid film. The other project is a stop motion film with images of cage fighters.
“I think the long exposures of the cage fighters’ movements and the blurring of the bodies provides a powerful image,” said Martinez. “My current work explores the male body and the situation in which men perform and demonstrate machismo to regain power in modern society.”
Martinez’s work is currently an display as part of an exhibition at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art in New Harmony, Indiana.
Martinez joined the C & P department in 2005. He has an M.F.A. from East Carolina University. He teaches courses in analog and digital photography, multi media, and a variety of photography topics. You can see his work at his website www.antoniom.com.
Pinckneyville high school Photography class, which worked with SIUC Photography assistant professor Antonio Martinez will have an reception for the exhibition of “Meet the Faces of Pinckneyville Project” this Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Luke's Shade Tree Cafe in Pinckneyville.
Directions to Luke's Shade Tree Cafe in Pinckneyville
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- A collaboration that started with a tour of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Department of Cinema and Photography is paving the way for local high school students to learn more about photography as well as their community.
Antonio Martinez, an assistant professor in cinema and photography, is working with 16 Pinckneyville Community High School students in a “Meet the Faces of Pinckneyville Project.” The students, in art instructor Sandy Stevens’ digital photography class, are photographing and interviewing residents for the project.
Earlier this month, Martinez and the students interviewed and photographed 40 townspeople ranging in age from 3 to 95 years old. Another photo shoot is set for Thursday, Oct. 28, and will focus on capturing Pinckneyville’s youth, Stevens said. The students will then come to SIUC the next day for a three-hour workshop on editing techniques. An opening reception with photos and an edited copy of the interviews is set for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Dec. 10, at Luke’s Shade Tree Café, 314 W. Water St., Pinckneyville.
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Reporters, photographers and camera crews are welcome to attend the photo shoot from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 28, at Pinckneyville Community High School, and the editing class from 9 to noon, Friday, Oct. 29, in SIUC’s Communications Building Room 9B. For more information on the events contact Sandy Stevens at Pinckneyville Community High School at 618/357-5013, or Antonio Martinez in SIUC’s Department of Cinema and Photography at 618/453-2365 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
“These kinds of projects are great ways to reach out to the community, to showcase our talented faculty and students, and to build those bridges of regional service that are a hallmark of this University,” said Gary P. Kolb, dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts. “Antonio Martinez is the kind of faculty member who goes above and beyond his regular duties to reach out to others and find ways to creatively engage their goals.”
Martinez said the association started when Stevens asked last spring if any faculty were willing to give a tour of the department’s facilities to her class. Martinez said he became interested because of Stevens’ digital photography class, noting that not many high schools have the resources to teach digital photography.
This is the first year the digital photography class has done this type of project, said Stevens, who came up with the idea after learning about the Mayors’ Challenge Cultural Grant through Carbondale Community Arts. The grant-sponsored event needed to be open to the public, and Stevens said she wanted “the event to be something interactive that would resonate with people and actually connect our school with the larger community.” The photo shoot is in the same spirit as The Oxford Project, where nearly all 673 residents of Oxford, Iowa, had their portrait shot in 1984, and again in 2005.
The goal is to capture the “full spectrum of people who make a community and its town history worth recognizing and celebrating,” Stevens said.
A glimpse into the project is available at www.pchsart.com/ under the “Meet the Faces of Pinckneyville” tab.
About a month ago, approximately nine of Stevens’ students came to SIUC for a hands-on workshop on photography lighting, Martinez said. Martinez uses his own lighting equipment for the project, and said the students are eager to learn and all are involved.
“This is a team effort. Everyone had a critical job in order for this to be successful,” he said.
Stevens said students are learning skills that include conducting, recording, transcribing and editing interviews, lighting techniques for portrait photography and image editing with Adobe Lightroom.
But there is more, she said. From gathering stories of the Korean War to town politics, ideas on what it takes to maintain a successful business, and favorite childhood memories, the students are taking “a strong interest in their neighbors’ and leaders’ stories,” Stevens said.
“I believe that the more students learn about others in their community, the more they will understand themselves, their roots and origins, and have a more clear idea of where they would like to go.”
Stevens said she is grateful to Martinez for his work and appreciates the support from the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts.
Martinez is excited about the project. He said he would like to see it develop into a tradition that includes other communities. A benefit is showing high school students the various arts offered at SIUC, including photographic art, Martinez said.
“When you carve out time and work with people in the community who are enthusiastic about the arts, or your specialty, that energizes you,” he said. “It is work, but I don’t consider it work because I enjoy it.”
Photographs are a “great record of who we are” and celebrate the human spirit, he said.
Martinez said he hopes to bring an appreciation for the photographic arts, along with an appreciation for Pinckneyville’s history.
“This is a great chance for the students to understand their own history,” he said.
A recent photo project from Antonio Martinez, assistant professor of photography, has been featured in Photo District News, a magazine devoted to the professional photographic industry.
The article is available for viewing on the Photo District News website.
Sept 2, 2010
By Holly Stuart Hughes
Set to an eerie and mournful soundtrack, the video "Near the Egress" shows images of a circus not as a colorful spectacle but as a mysterious, sometimes sinister series of scenes: herky-jerky black-and-white images of lumbering elephants commanded by a trainer, an acrobat and a magician flicker and fade, sometimes obscured by blotches and spots. 
Photographer Antonio Martinez created the stop-motion video as an experiment in fusing old and new, analogue and digital photographic techniques.
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A joint project is using photography to both preserve and develop one Southern Illinois town. The Cairo Chamber of Commerce and students from the Cinema and Photography department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have joined efforts to produce photographs that document Cairo as it is now.
The project also produced photographs that can be used in the future for Cairo's website.
An image database will be created so the community can access images of the historic town.
Daniel Overturf and Antonio Martinez, professors in the cinema and photography department, assigned 25 students from the department to spend the semester documenting Cairo.
For the project, they shot the town's historic features such as Custom House Museum, Magnolia Manor, The Gem Theater and the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
The culmination of the project is the exhibition "Cairo: The Confluence of Photography, Film and Town." The exhibition will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Custom House Museum. The exhibition will feature 25 photographs produced by SIU students during the project, with all the images for sale as part of a fundraiser. The money raised will be donated to Cairo Public Library, Custom House Museum and other community-based projects.
Andy Sisulak, project coordinator, said the genesis of the project was born out of a need for photography and the creation of an image database for Cairo.
"The whole idea is to create this image databank that the community can use for future needs," Sisulak said. "As well as catalog Cairo as it is historically today, have this fundraiser to create some money and also just have a positive event that tells the world there are some positive things that happen in Cairo."
Daniel Overturf, associate professor in the Cinema and Photography department, said Cairo has a rich history. He was excited about the project because it would assist the local community as well as the students.
"It's a real educational opportunity for them because they have a chance to work with somebody who needs photographs for different purposes," Overturf said.
Sisulak said it is vital to preserve the history of Cairo.
"Cairo is important to preserve, not only because of its history, but also when we look at the decay of communities in Southern Illinois there's not one that is as architecturally rich as Cairo," Sisulak said. "As it disappears, we don't know what it will be like in another couple of years, so it's important to preserve, or at least archive."
- SIUC University Communications contributed to this report.
Source: The Southern Illinoisan
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Photographs capture a moment that can easily fade from memory.
Students in two Southern Illinois University Carbondale photography classes are working to preserve Cairo's past and present with a project that organizers hope assists Cairo's Web presence and economic development.
Twenty-five students have fanned out across the community over the past month, shooting not only the town's more historical venues, including the Custom House Museum, Magnolia Manor, and the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, but also the seemingly commonplace, everyday features that people and time could easily overlook.
"Cairo has such a rich history and distinctive look like all river towns, that I felt we were really losing something of the visual component of the town," said Daniel Overturf, an associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography.
Carbondale resident Andy Sisulak was working with the Cairo Chamber of Commerce to build a Web presence, and approached Overturf and Assistant Professor Antonio Martinez about using students from two upper-level photography classes for the project.
Overturf said he was excited about the possibilities because the project assists a local community and also helps students, many of whom will graduate in May, on a variety of different levels.
"It's a real educational opportunity for them because they have a chance to work with somebody who needs photographs for different purposes," Overturf said. Students can build up their individual portfolios and also create photographs for use on the Web site and various other projects, Overturf said.
Students may shoot whatever sparks their interest. Content will include historic buildings, parks, businesses, churches and other parts of the town.
The exhibition, "Cairo: The Confluence of Photography, Film and Town," is from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 24, at the Custom House Museum. Proceeds from the sale of 25 framed images included in the exhibit will go to continuing preservation and restoration efforts in the town.
Building up an image bank is important for communities, particularly in this digital age, Overturf said. A photograph taken in 1973 of an ordinary street scene along Commercial Avenue in Cairo might not seem awe-inspiring. However, 37 years later, the same photograph allows people to reflect on the businesses, automobiles and events of the era.
The project is also a reflection of current trends in photography with digital cameras, Overturf said.
"A lot of people making these very kinds of unspectacular photographs with a digital camera these days may hit the delete button and it is gone forever," he said. "Not only will it not be in the bottom of a box, it will just not be there, ever. This is a way to celebrate the ordinary as you look forward to its use in the future as not being thought of nearly as ordinary, but rather a document of the time."
Monica Smith, president of the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, expects the students' work will be a positive public relations tool for the city.
"It's going to give us a tool to work with that will enable us to do a past, present and future synopsis of what there was and what there is now," she said. The Web site, at www.cairoillinois.org, gives people access to old photographs "and enjoy the history that is here."
"We are very excited about it, " she said. "We are excited about working with SIUC and all of the students, and are wondering what they have come up with. We have seen them all over town."
Several groups, organizations and businesses are involved with the project, including SIUC's College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, the Department of Cinema and Photography, Cairo Public Library, Cairo Custom House Museum, Capaha Bank, SMART (Shawnee Mass Area Rapid Transit) and the Ace of Cups in Cairo. SMART is donating its bus service to take students and members of the University to Cairo for the reception, Overturf said. In addition, Canon USA donated the printing paper and ink for the project. Brian Matsumoto, an SIUC Cinema & Photography alumnus, is a Canon technical representative and spearheaded the donation, Overturf said.
College of Mass Communication and Media Arts
Class Preview Day
Friday February 26, 2010
This Friday we are holding a first-time special event called MCMA Class Preview Day to give students the opportunity to sample some of the cool classes we will be offering in the fall and to meet some of our wonderful instructors. We hope you join us on Friday for all or part of the day!
WHO: All students planning to take Fall 2010 classes
WHAT: College of Mass Communication and Media Arts Class Preview Day
Come check out some of the classes that will be offered in the Fall!
WHERE: SIUC Communications Building
WHEN: Friday, February 26 10am until 12:35pm
15 minute class preview sessions will run from 10am until noon, then again from 12:20 until 12:55. At noon there will be a 15 minute break with free pizza available. Look for signs to indicate where and when the various classes will be held.
COMM 1032
JRNL 396 Online Journalism Anita Stoner
COMM 1046
RT 325 Media Industries Paul Torre
COMM 1018
10:20-10:35am¬CP 102 Introduction to Sound and Image Production Angela Aguayo
COMM 1032
JRNL 435 Advanced Graphic Communication Aaron Veenstra
COMM 1046
10:40-10:55am CP 230 Introduction to Digital Photography Antonio Martinez
COMM 1032
RT 489 Media Industries ProSeminar Jim Wall
COMM 1046
11:00-11:15am CP 470D Web Production I: Creating Web Portfolios Robert Spahr
COMM 1032
MCMA 592 Proseminar John Hochheimer
COMM 1052
11:20-11:35am RT 389 Corporation/Industry Media Workshop Eileen Meehan
COMM 1032
11:40-11:55am RT 477 Investigative Reporting for TV, Radio or Online Eileen Waldron
COMM 1032
RT 476 Creative Audio Producing Todd Herreman
COMM 1052
12-12:15pm Pizza Break
12:20-12:35pm RT 483 Script to Screen H.D. Motyl
COMM 1032
MCMA 560 History of Media Jake Podber
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Antonio Martinez, Assistant Professor of Intermedia Arts is continuing his photographic and video art project centered around the local mixed martial arts culture of southern Illinois. Martinez has been photographing and training with local MMA athletes in hopes to understand why men and women between the ages of 18-45 participate in a high- physical contact sporting competitions (aka Cagefights). On September 19th, Martinez will participate in an MMA competition in a local casino hotel to experience both the ritual and spectacle of organized sports entertainment. Aside from his MMA investigations and pursuits, Martinez is exhibiting his experimental video art project, Near the Egress, in several national and international film and video festivals such as the PDX Film Festival in Portland, Tenderpix Experimental & SoHo Shorts in London, and Optica- Festival Internacional de Videoarte in Barcelona. Near the Egress is an stop-motion video comprised entirely with modern dryplate tintypes of the circus. Martinez will be presenting his Near the Egress project in a group panel at SECAC 2009 in Mobile, Alabama and exhibiting the completed project in a group exhibition in Chicago of February 2010.
This 2009-2010 academic year, Martinez is teaching Color Photography and Digital Photography to undergraduate photography students in the Fall. In the Spring semester, Martinez is teaching Color Photography and Senior Portfolio.
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