PAST EVENTS

(if you missed any of the artist talks, email us for the recording)

DEWPOINT// a photographic performance with original music by Oliver Domingo (@organicallyprogrammed). Watch the video of the slideshow as it was projected during the event here.

Thank you to the 110 participating artists for making this event possible!

In collaboration with the Georgia Museum of Art and UGA’S Willson Center.

Our first in-person event since March 2020, In Another Life will be a photobook frenzy with rows of books to browse and take home! On view will be books by ten recent graduates of Hartford University’s low residency MFA photography program, as well as a wide selection of published titles curated and brought our way by Baltimore Photo Space’s Kyle Myles. In the early evening we will broadcast a live Zoom event (on view online and at The Humid) in which the ten artists will present their projects from afar. Please join us!

12:30-4:30pm EST photobook pop-up | 5-7pm EST Zoom broadcast & reception

Established in 2020 by Kyle Myles and Victoria Hardy, Baltimore Photo Space is a photobook store and gallery located in Baltimore that focuses on small and independent publishers of photography books and zines. Myles will have several titles for sale from the store's inventory, including new releases, as well as books that complement the diverse ways of seeing presented by the Hartford MFA photobooks.

These participating artists will have prints and books on view. Elijah Barrett will be present to speak about the work and conduct the Zoom broadcast. Please email info@thehumid.com for the link to join from afar.

Arianna Arcara & Claudio Majorana, *Ciao Vita Mia*

Paolo Morales for The New Yorker (from the story The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning, September 28, 2020) — Paolo Morales for *The New Yorker* (from the story *The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning*, September 28, 2020)

Image from Love’s Labour, published by Stanley Barker, 2020 — Image from *Love’s Labour*, published by Stanley Barker, 2020

Sergio and Mark, friends since graduate school in the 1980’s, discussed Sergio’s life’s in photography, his early work, his new book Love's Labour (with Stanley Barker), and his more recent work in Brooklyn. Sergio also gave a tour of his fine art photography darkroom facility Black and White on White.

Sergio moved from his native Chile to the United States in 1973. He received a BFA in photography from RISD, and an MFA from Yale. Purtell went on to teach photography until he moved to New York City in the mid-1980s. As a fine art photographer he has exhibited worldwide. In the 1990s he turned to commercial photography and worked for design studios, prestigious magazines and publishers. Purtell went on to pursue his love of fine art printing and in 1996 opened Black and White on White, printing works of distinguished photographers (his first job was for the Walker Evans estate). The studio is now located in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where he continues his collaboration with other photographers, and again works on his own photography. sergiopurtell.com & bwonw.com

Over 200 people from around the world tuned in for Sohrab Hura’s presentation Growing like a Tree on August 16th. In a talk designed for The Humid, Sohrab opened up his work and motivations to the larger invisible parts of his process. He invited us to experience his journey and his community, like a passage through a nervous system that connects friends without whom he would not exist.

Sohrab is a self taught photographer based in New Delhi, India. He has self-published four highly sought after monographs with his imprint Ugly Dog: Life is Elsewhere (2015), A Proposition For Departure (2017), Look It’s Getting Sunny Outside!!! (2018), and The Coast (2019). He is featured in MoMA’s current New Photography exhibition Companion Pieces. Sohrab has been a member of Magnum since 2014. www.sohrabhura.com

Photograph: Judith Black from Pleasant Street — Photograph: Judith Black from *Pleasant Street*

Judith Black and Mark Steinmetz spoke about Judith’s straightforward portraits of her four children, who came of age in an apartment on Pleasant Street in Cambridge, MA during the 80’s & 90’s. Pleasant Street was recently published by Stanley Barker. Also: Off the Radar.

JUNE 3, 2020

DANA LIXENBERG

ARTIST TALK

With the help of viewer donations, Dana’s talk raised $1,380 for the Athens Nurses Clinic—a non-profit health center that offers free care to vulnerable members in our community, here in Athens, Georgia. We are enormously grateful to all who contributed and helped make this happen. Thank you. If you’d like to watch a recording of the talk, please email us at info@thehumid.com.