In addition to speakers we will be reviewing members images after the main presentation: see bottom of this page to see upcoming meeting presenters and who is sharing their images as well as how to signup to show your images.
New Meeting Days: Third Monday of the month from 6:30-9:00pm
Monday Nov. 18th, 2024
― Hopkins Center for the Arts ―
― 1111 Mainstreet Hopkins, MN 55343 ―
Map/ Parking and directions
The Ongoing Moment meets on the third Monday of the month from 6:30-9:00pm
hosted by Mpls ― based photographers Richard Ott and Walter Horishnyk
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theongoingmoment
Meetings are free, donations are welcome that goes toward special guest speakers,
snacks and beverages.
Sign up in advance to exhibit your images for a short discussion with the hosts and group attendees
by emailing: walter@horishnyk.com or dickophoto@yahoo.com
“History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.
Eduardo Galeano
The Ongoing Moment is a monthly meeting for PHOTOGRAPHERS / ARTISTS who wish to increase their understanding and improve their practice of their medium. The title refers to the idea that “we share experiences that are formally similar”
We explore past Master photographers and Contemporary photographers, looking at their images and artistic process to help us go forward on our own photographic journey.
Monday, Nov. 18th presentation by Steven Ozone
No Claim: Assimilation, Integration, Adaptation
When my Japanese and Chinese grandparents left Asia, they not only saw America as a new start, they also believed in the necessity of leaving the old ways behind.
The result: my generation, sisters, brother and cousins and I have lost much in the way of culture, language and food, in realizing our elder’s dreams of assimilating into U.S. society.
My work aims at reconciling the tensions between what I feel I’ve gained versus what I’ve lost in order to attain the “American Dream” through exploration of my heritage and origin
In September I asked Steve if he could update out group on what he has been up-to lately. He replied that he would be glade to:
Hi Walter,
I can do that. I’m currently working on three projects.
1) In January I have a solo exhibit at Veronique Wantz Gallery in the North Loop. It will feature work from my still life series, No Claim.
2) Below is the project I submitted to Fujifilm’s Challenge Grant.
Steve Ozone will make photographs “in the footsteps of Gordon Parks” and cities he might have traveled to were he alive today. He will travel to 12 cities within the U.S. where Parks photographed on assignment for Life Magazine. The idea for the project came after discovering that he lives less than a mile from Parks’ in-laws home in Minneapolis and the newspaper where he worked. The area has a rich history of African American culture and discrimination, including red-lining and civil rights violations. Much of Parks’ work dealt with social issues and Ozone’s work will include aspects of that. The work will not mimic Parks, but document the changes since that time.
I’ve been asked to submit the project to the Gordon Parks Gallery at Metro State for a show in 2026.
3) I’m also working with the daughter of Matthew Little on organizing her family photos. It may turn into a documentary about her father (Matthew). He was a contemporary of MLK and organized the upper Midwest contingent to Washington D.C. when MLK gave his I Have A Dream speech.
Best, Steve
We will also be giving away copies of SHOTS magazines
courtesy of Elizabeth Flinsch I Editor of Shots.
Elizabeth Flinsch will be speaking to us about her images as well as the magazine some time in the near future.
Book Giveaway:
At every meeting we have a book giveaway, attendees have a chance to receive our monthly book choice.
The Unseen Saul Leiter Hardcover
A thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly vision. Now firmly established as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color, when he was already in his eighties. Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm, Leiter portrayed midcentury New York’s street life with a gorgeous painterliness that evoked the sensuality of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries Rothko and Newman. His studio in the East Village, where he lived from 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation, which has commenced a full-scale survey of his more than 80,000 works.
This volume contains works discovered through this project―specifically, color photography from slides never before published or seen by the public. It is edited by Margit Erb and Michael Parillo of the Saul Leiter Foundation, and is embellished with texts that describe how Leiter assembled his slide archive and how it is being catalogued and restored.
Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. He pioneered a painterly approach to color photography in the 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. The publication of his first collection, Early Color, by Steidl in 2006, inspired an avid “rediscovery” that led to worldwide exhibitions and the release of a documentary, In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter (2014). He died in New York in 2013.
Members sharing images these months:
You are encouraged to bring prints of your current or past work to share with the group, where you can ask for comments or reviews. We are a safe place to help you grow as artists and encourage creative exploration of all kinds. Please email us before the meetings with how many images you will share and tell us if you will be presenting digital or prints. If digital, bring images on a USB drive with only your images on it. All presenters will need to come 30 minutes before the meeting for preparation time.
email to: walter@horishnyk.com or dickophoto@yahoo.com,
We will post your request below to your chosen month, Thanks
Monday, October 21st, Main Topic/Presenter : Xavier Tavera Castro
Reviewing images of: Peter Boulay and Dan Tran
Monday, November 18th, Main Topic/Presenter : Steve Ozone
Reviewing images of: Dave Heinz and Julian
Monday, December 16th, Main Topic/Presenter : Nicole Houff
Reviewing images of:
Monday, January 20th
Monday, February 17th
Monday, March 17th
Monday, April 21st
Monday, May 19th
Monday, June 16th
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