Yodith in Progress

Love takes off the mask that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “Love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

Making Pictures of People — On Current Portraiture
A collaboration with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Hello All, Touching base about a new Flak Photo project…

For the past seven years, I have promoted contemporary image-makers and archived their work in The Flak Photo Collection.

Last year, our team partnered with the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design to produce Looking at the Land — 21st Century American Views, a presentation of landscape images that aimed to expand the ideas of photographic publication and exhibition.

Today I’m excited to announce a new collaboration. In August 2013 curators April M. Watson and Jane Aspinwall will launch About Face, an exhibition of current portraiture at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

They’ve invited me to curate a complementary show that highlights voices from within the online photo community. As with Looking at the Land, I’ll make selections from websites across the Internet. My aim is simple — to highlight compelling portrait photography produced since 2000. SUBMIT All are welcome to submit images for consideration by emailing portfolio links for review via the submission form. (You may submit more than one portfolio for consideration.) There is no entry fee or formal deadline. I’d love more people to hear about this; please share my call with photographers who would be interested in contributing.

Making Pictures of People will be presented digitally in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri as well as online for public audiences worldwide. I’ll be posting project updates here and on my Facebook Timeline in the coming weeks. Thanks in advance for making time to share your work with me and for understanding that I’m not able to respond to each submission individually. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

Best, Andy Adams
Editor • Producer • Publisher
FlakPhoto.com

I went to the Seattle Art Museum with my mother for the first time when I was 11. I saw this Jackson Pollock drip painting with aluminum paint, tar, gravel and all that stuff. I was absolutely outraged, disturbed. It was so far removed from what I thought art was. However, within 2 or 3 days, I was dripping paint all over my old paintings. In a way I’ve been chasing that experience ever since.