Sara Macel Photography NEWS

Huge thank you to Light Work for naming me one of their 2017 Artists-in-Residence. I will be spending July 2017 in Syracuse creating a book and exhibition of my new work-in-progress “What Did the Deep Sea Say.” 

Happy to announce that I was selected as a Critical Mass Finalist for 2016. And even sweeter to share this with so many talented friends. Full list of artists selected in the link! Thanks Photolucida!

The Fence in Brooklyn Bridge Park officially opens today with a sunset walking tour. For more details, visit: http://fence.photoville.com

“May the Road Rise to Meet You” featured in Landscape Stories Issue 24 ROAD 

This summer, selected images from my new on-going series What Did the Deep Sea Say will be on exhibit for the first time at Houston Center for Photography in their 34th Annual Members Exhibition curated by Yasufumi Nakamori, Curator of Photography and New Media at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (formerly of MFAH). 

Kiss & Tell will also be featured on FENCE installations this summer in Houston, Santa Fe, Atlanta, and please join me on June 16, 2016 for the opening of the FENCE in Brooklyn Bridge Park. More details to come! 

Exhibition Dates: May 6 – June 25, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, May 20th, 6 – 8 pm

This Thurs 4/21, I'm doing an artist talk with @bricartsmedia at the @bklynlibrary (you know, the big awesome one by the @brooklynmuseum) at 6:30pm. Copies of #MaytheRoadRisetoMeetYou will be available for the book signing following the talk. Hope to see you there! #saramacel @mfaphotovideo @tischphoto @rockland_community_college @cunynews #kbccphotoclub #rccphotography #artisttalk #CrusadeforArtBk

The good people at photo-eye asked me to recommend a recent photobook, and I immediately thought of my talented friend Jenny Riffle and her gorgeous book "Scavenger." Check it out! And buy the special edition with super cool stereographs!

http://www.mfaphoto.sva.edu/events/2016/3/3/an-affair-of-books-open-house-and-book-fair

New birthday, new year. New image from my untitled work-in-progress about The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, 2015. 

More details at: http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/media-talks-photography-w-sara-macel

As co-director of Crusade for Art Brooklyn, I work with my partner Liz Arenberg to create fun and creative ways to share the work of our members with local Brooklyn audiences. One of the best things we have had the opportunity to do was curate a group show and installation at Photoville this past fall. In addition to having our work installed in one of their shipping container “galleries,” our members were on-hand throughout the festival taking Polaroid portraits of our visitors and getting to know our fellow Brooklynites. Those portraits were installed on the back wall of our gallery creating a real-time portrait of Brooklyn. I wrote about this incredible experience for our blog if you’d like to hear more. 

HCP is one of my favorite places in Houston and has done so much to support my career as well as so many emerging art photographers. Let’s show them some love!

Thanks to Jose Velazco for this short video piece from SPE’s 2015 Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. You can see my work at the :39 sec mark as the awesome Jess T. Dugan walks by it. 

Thank you to Silver Eye Center for Photography and Joshua Franzos and the Franzos family for naming me the 2015 Artist of the Year for the Stanley Franzos Award for Emerging Photographers. This award honors the late Stanley Franzos, a photographer and important figure in the Pittsburgh photo community and by all accounts an incredible person. I’m so thrilled and honored by this award. Thank you also to David Oresick and Leo Hsu for bringing “May the Road Rise to Meet You” to Pittsburgh and Silver Eye.