The Clarence John Laughlin Award was created by the New Orleans Photo Alliance to support the work of photographers who use the medium as a means of creative expression. It honors the life and work of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985), a New Orleans photographer best known for his surrealist images of the American South….

Juror Julie Grahame, publisher of aCurator.com, awarded third prize to “Yes. Yes.” from Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures series. A second photograph from the same series, “Possession of Navigational Charts of Monterey Bay,” was also selected to be part of this show.

“Yes. Yes.” refers to the answers given to two questions on a …

Photolucida, an arts nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon, has  selected Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures portfolio as a Top 50 finalist in their 2017 Critical Mass program. Portfolios from over 600 photographers were submitted to Critical Mass 2017. Entries were reviewed by 30 preliminary jurors and narrowed to 200 finalists. The finalist portfolios…

Providence Center for Photographic Arts enlisted Julie Grahame, publisher of aCurator.com, as juror for their 4th Annual Open Call Exhibition. Two images from Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures series were selected to be part of the exhibition, which will run October 12 – November 3, 2017. The opening reception will take place October 19, from 5 –…

Images from Jerry Takigawa’s photographic series Balancing Cultures will be included in a forthcoming book project and two new juried group exhibitions.

The book, “Shift,” is being published by LoosenArt Gallery in Rome, Italy. It will be released in November of 2017. Shift is about “a physical and mental shift, migration, transfer, or…