ETSU Photo News

KEH Camera , the world's largest dealer of used cameras, will be coming to Bristol, TN for t he Bristol Music and Camera Gear Swap  on Saturday, June 29. The one-day event will be held from 9am to 6pm at the Viking Hall Civic Center located at 1100 Edgemont Avenue. KEH will be there exclusively to buy equipment, so if you're looking to get rid of a camera or a lens, just so you can turn around and buy another one, this is the place for you. In addition to KEH, there will be other vendors there to buy, sell or trade lots of equipment, plus a host of speakers, demos and other goodies. You can even go get your digital camera sensor cleaned on the spot. It's only $5 to get in, but if you Facebook the Bristol Music and Camera Swap , you just might be able to score free admission.

© Trish Gibson Current ETSU undergrad Trish Gibson  has work from her Shared Names series featured on Oxford American's  Eyes on the South .  Eyes on the South  is a weekly, online segment featuring new and exciting photographic work made in the South and is curated by photographer and former ETSU visiting artist  Jeff Rich .  Gibson has been working on this series of black and white portraits for less than a year, so it's pretty impressive to see it getting recognition on this level so early. To see more of Trish's work, check out her website here .

Elizabethton, Tennessee ( 2010) © Mike Smith The summer issue of Oxford American has just been released featuring this recent photograph by ETSU Professor of Photography Mike Smith . Long known for its amazing literature, Oxford American is quickly making a name for itself in the photography world and this issue is proof positive of that fact. Included alongside Mike's image are photographs from William Eggleston, Elijah Gowin, Lucas Foglia, Susan Worsham and many, many others. The issue will be on newsstands until September, but why wait? Get your copy today.

© Ian Arsenault Early last week, the Chicago Sun-Times  unexpectedly laid off its entire photography staff and announced it would now rely entirely on freelance photography and iReporting. The firing affected 28 photographers, including Pulitzer Prize winner John H. White, who has been with the paper since 1978. In the days since the announcement, it has been revealed that current Sun-Times reporters will now go through mandatory training including "iPhone photography basics" in an effort to create new photographic content. No, that is not a joke. Jokes have been made at the Sun-Times ' expense however, including the above image by Chicago-based media production editor Ian Arsenault or a fake Craigslist ad created by comedian Jason Sereno. But perhaps the most poignant and hilarious spoof came courtesy of Stephen Colbert in a recent episode that features the following clip. Enjoy.

from the series Geolocation © Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman Nate Larson is a contemporary artist working with photographic media, artist books and digital video. He holds an MFA from Ohio State University and his work has been featured globally in such publications as the New York Times , Wired Magazine , VICE Magazine and Gizmodo . Often Larson works in collaboration with creative partner Marni Shindelman , with whom he created the bodies of work, Hashtags and Geolocation . He currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and will act as Chair for the 2014 national conference for the Society for Photographic Education.  He was recently interviewed by David Gwaltney for our   Contemporary Photographer Series   (CPS). You often work with a collaborator, Marni Shindelman, on some of your projects. In terms of working in a partnership, how is the work divided? Does ego ever get in the way of sharing credit for a work? We work collaborativ...

© Kevin Thrasher ETSU Alum Kevin Thrasher (BFA 2007) has photographs from his Common Ground series featured on Oxford American's Eyes on the South .  Eyes on the South is a weekly, online segment featuring new and exciting photographic work made in the South and is curated by photographer and former ETSU visiting artist Jeff Rich . Although Common Ground is not strictly limited to the Southern portion of the US, Thrasher's work does investigate this landscape and its relationship to communal interaction and recreational use.  Thrasher, who received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, is currently living in Richmond, Virginia. To see more of his work, check out his website here .

The latest edition of  37614  is now available on Blurb.com. The book features photographs from our Advanced Digital class consisting of Suzanne Clemons, Jennie Dean, Emily Denton, Trish Gibson, David Gwaltney, Megan King, Heather Love, Lurah Lowery,  Tania McCamy, Jeff Miller and Lauren Roberts.  As always, you can preview the entire book online or buy your very own copy.