Jose (48"x60"), Bange, Rainie, Seville, Alb (30"x40") Exhibit at De Santos Gallery June 2010 - Brad Carlile (created with no digital manipulation),
Biennial Show:
I've always felt the need to push the bounds and to experience new things. This permeates many aspects of my life including my art, climbing big walls, skiing, and traveling to unusual places. I travel with only a rough plan and try to go with the flow, but I still have to remind myself to really 'let go'.
A few years ago I explored the northern Indian states of Kashmir and Ladakh. During a day trip in Ladakh I spent an entire morning traveling on local buses to a remote village, Hemis, which has the largest monastery in the region. The bus finally arrived at 11am and I was told that the last bus of the day left at noon. With the campground locked for the season and no overnight things, I had little alternative but to hurry. Then my urge to let go kicked in, "wait a minute, shouldn't I see if I can stay with a villager?"
I ran back and found two monks. I asked if they knew of someone with whom I could stay. The older one motions I can stay with him. The younger one explained that the older monk is the Lama, the head monk, and I have been invited to stay in his private apartments. "Yes", I quickly replied. I spent two amazing days attending the Puja (morning prayers), visiting another monastery, and sitting with the Lama. Amazing, unplanned, and well worth letting go.
Letting go has provided me with unmatched travel experiences, and helped my skiing and rock climbing. And I like to think that it helps me push the bounds and let go of conventions when it comes to what can be done with film for my fine art images. Photography has a lot to do with 'letting go' of the right things.
PRESS RELEASE:
Distinguished panel of judges includes Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Peter Lindbergh, David Granger, Virginia Heckert, Debra B. Shriver, Judith Bookbinder & Charles Stainback
New York – March 25, 2009 – Hearst Corporation announces that Portland photographer Brad Carlile was chosen as one of the eight winners of the first Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial. This international biennial competition recognizes and showcases the professional work of eight rising stars who will play an important role in the future of magazines, media, the Web and the world of photography.
Brad Carlile's series that was chosen for the Biennial is called “Tempus Incognitus.” This series explores a mysterious world of rented rooms in which the day's liminal times exist concurrently. Breathtaking in their tonality and vibrant colors, Carlile's series "Tempus Incongitus" explores the realities of impermanence in light, color and the passage of time. Where Cubists' landscapes show several perspectives at a single moment in time, Carlile's interiors show various times from a single perspective. All work is done in camera without digital creation or manipulation. Creating the images in camera on film allows Carlile to capture the energy of change while maintaining a mystifying grounding in reality.
There are ten distinguished judges for the biennial, half of which include leading photographers and museum curators, that selected the eight award recipients from more than 1,000 entries from photographers in 47 different countries. The judges are:
The eight biennial winners are: Brad Carlile, Andy Freeberg, Mark Kessell, Edith Maybin, Louie Palu, Benedikt Partenheimer, Nicholas Prior, and Hiroshi Watanabe.
EXHIBITION: Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial
OPEN/CLOSE: March-September 2009
ARTIST RECEPTION: March 30th, 6-8:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Hearst Tower
Alexey Brodovitch & Hearst Galleries
300 West 57th Street (enter 8th Ave)
New York, New York
www.hearst8x10.com
Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial is open to photographers who have at least two years of professional experience, both in the United States and abroad. The next competition will be held in 2011.
About Brad Carlile:
Brad Carlile is based in Portland Oregon, Carlile's work has been exhibited internationally including Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (Fall 2008), solo show at Galerie Maurer in Munich German (Spring 2008), as well as shows in Austria, Qatar, Germany, and China. National shows in California (San Francisco & Los Angeles), New Mexico, Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington. Since 2005 he has won 11 fine-art photographic awards including Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3), International Photography Awards New York & LA (IPA), Alaska Airlines $4000 award, and the People's Choice award at the Pacific Northwest Art Annual. In addition he has been published several fine-art images in magazines. In 2007, Carlile was in two group shows at the Mark Woolley Gallery in Portland OR. He has also had a solo show at Pushdot Studios in Portland OR.
Contact: Brad Carlile, www.bradcarlile.com, bradcarlile@yahoo.com
Hearst Publications:
Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com) is one of the nation’s largest diversified media companies. Its major interests include ownership of 16 daily and 49 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Albany Times Union; as well as interests in an additional 43 daily and 72 non-daily newspapers owned by MediaNews Group, which include the Denver Post and Salt Lake Tribune; nearly 200 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations through Hearst-Argyle Television (NYSE:HTV) which reach a combined 18% of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, History and ESPN; as well as business publishing, including a minority joint venture interest in Fitch Ratings; Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.
*Alexey Brodovitch was the Creative Director of Harper’s BAZAAR from 1934 to 1958. In giving assignments to talented young photographers and artists – many of whom became legendary – he is famous for having adapted Diaghilev’s admonition to Jean Cocteau, “Astonish me!” More often than not, they did.
Contact: Debra Shriver, vp/chief communications officer, svp/magazines, Hearst
Corporation, 212-649-2461, dshriver@hearst.com
Blogs about Hearst Biennial
TJ Norris: "Brad Carlile / Hearst Biennial"
ARTmostfierce: Hearst Biennial
The Conveyor Belt: "Hearst 8X10 Photography Exhibit"
Elizabeth Avedon: Images from Opening
APhotoEditor: "Discover & Cultivate Talent"
American Photo: "Talent @ Hearst"