Due to scheduling conflicts at praxis May and June are in a New Location:
― Hopkins Center for the Arts ―
1111 Mainstreet Hopkins, MN 55343 ― Map/ Parking and directions
The Ongoing Moment meets on the third Wednesday 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
“The beginning and end of all artistic activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds us by means of the world that is in the Artist, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.”
― Paraphrased from ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Ongoing Moment is a monthly meeting for PHOTOGRAPHERS / ARTISTS who wish to increase their understanding and improve their practice of there 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.
June 19th presentation by
Robi Chakraborty
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After a career doing both commercial and press photography, I became drawn to exploring the cities and villages of my native India, seeking out and photographing the people whose cultures and ways of life are quickly becoming lost in the contemporary, more homogenized world of today.
Now based in the US but having lived in Africa, Nepal and India, where much of my work is focused, I have a unique connectivity to and understanding of my subject matter. I offer a perspective that looks both from the outside in and from the inside out. As an artist who sees myself as a global citizen, I seek to capture what is culturally familiar to me, yet present the image with an appreciation of how an outsider’s eye may see the peoples and cultures that I explore through my work. Rather than solely portraying the novelty, my focus is on presenting the humanity and allowing the viewer to relate to the subjects that I photograph in a way that they otherwise may never get to experience.
Robi is the recipient of several awards from the International Color Awards including Photographer of the Year Award and was the recipient of the 6th Annual Master Cup for his photo, Off the Ground, depicting a tribal child in (region, India) pushing a cycle rim down a village road. The same photo won the 2015 Directors Choice award from Photo Place Gallery Vermont, juried by James P Blair National Geographic photo editor (Retired). Recent awards include the Merit Award in All About Photo Magazine (July 2018) and the Excellence Award in Black & White Magazine (June 2018).
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Book Giveaway:
At every meeting we have a book giveaway, attendees have a chance to receive our monthly book choice.
The history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognized as a medium in its own right. Cologne’s Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devote a substantial section to international photography. The L. Fritz Gruber collection, from which this book is drawn, is one of the most important in Germany and one of the most representative anywhere in the world, constituting the core of the museum’s holdings.
This book provides a fascinating insight into the collection’s rich diversity; from conceptual art to abstraction to reportage, all of the major movements and genres are represented via a vast selection of the 20th century’s most remarkable photographs. From Ansel Adams to Piet Zwart, over 850 works are presented in alphabetical order by photographer, with descriptive texts and photographers’ biographical details, providing a comprehensive and indispensable overview of 20th-century photography.