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Comanche artist weaves past, present, future with new exhibit
A new art exhibition featuring a Comanche/Kiowa artist’s contemporary take on traditional imagery kicks off Dec. 9 with a special meet-and-greet event.
The Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center will unveil its latest art exhibition, “Nahmi-A-Piah,” featuring the works of J. NiCole Hatfield.
Indigenous Christmas market celebrates community spirit in North Vancouver
Haisla artist Brad Starr has been travelling from Kitmat to the Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s Christmas Market for 21 years.
Dozens of Indigenous communities attend the annual Christmas market every year. It is being held at the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Community Centre in North Vancouver.
“It’s incredible, and I go home happy. I am doing what I love,” Starr said. “I actually have a line of clothing and I do carvings that I bring with me. I do traditional designs.”
Starr said it is not just about selling his art. He said it is also an opportunity to share Indigenous culture, and storytelling, with other community members.
“It’s getting people to understand the struggles about where we came from,” he said. “The only way we’re going to survive is if we learn to work together in peace and harmony.”
A Heiltsuk land-based camp immerses youth in language and culture
The Christmas market has grown significantly since it began and this year is the biggest turnout yet with more than 80 diverse vendors.
“That’s who we are. We invite and welcome anybody into our community to share their gifts. That’s what it is — it’s to share each other’s gifts at each other’s tables,” Tsleil-Waututh Nation Chief Jen Thomas said. “You can find original crafts, handmade crafts, blankets, drums, food, and jewelry.”
That also includes crochet by Lisa George who has attended the fair all her life with her mother and now has her booth.
“I really enjoy it especially watching the little kids and watching their faces light up when they see the different creations that I’ve made,” she said.
Funds raised from the weekend-long event support Indigenous traditions.
“The proceeds from the tables that the vendors purchase all go towards our babies’ celebration, where we welcome all of the new babies into the community every year,” Chief Thomas said.
The market runs on Saturday and Sunday.
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Photographers go to LCC to give free portrait sessions
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – People at Lansing Community College got a free professional photo shoot on Saturday. This is part of their annual event called ‘Help Portrait’.
The event is part of a global movement of photographers and volunteers giving back through free family photography. Photographers worldwide set up portrait studios on the first Saturday of December and give away free sessions.
All the families who visited received a professional photo session, which included a printed photo and a flash drive with all their digital images.
“We’ve met families that have come all 3 years,” said Steve Robinson. “They come and get their pictures taken. It’s actually great for us to see new babies and new additions to the family. But it’s a really joyful occasion to get a family photograph.”
Steve Robinson is the President of Lansing Community College. He says it helps apply learning for students of photography.
“Our photography faculty love to give back,” said Robinson. “They’re here taking pictures of folks, but it’s just another wonderful example of LCC putting community in our name. You know, we’re Lansing Community College. We love to give back to the community.”
This was the 3rd year for the Help Portrait event.
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Bond villains in the frame
Andy GottsPhotographer Andy Gotts has been a Bond fan since he was 10 when his parents took him to see Roger Moore star in For Your Eyes Only at his local Odeon in Norwich.
Now in his third decade as a celebrity photographer, Gotts realised he had photographed a lot of actors who had played the baddie in Bond films.
“I worked out there were only six actors still alive that had been a 007 foe that I had not shot,” he says.
Gotts made it his “mission to shoot them so I had the full set”. The resulting images form his NEMESIS exhibition on show in London, 70 years on from when author Ian Fleming introduced James Bond to the world.
“My favourite Bond nemesis is without doubt Auric Goldfinger. His humour and ‘wheeler dealer’ persona was very infectious,” says Gotts.
“It is such a shame the wonderful actor Gert Frobe, who played Goldfinger, had passed away before I started my photographic career, but it will take a lot to beat this wonderful character.”
Here are some of Gott’s photographs of Bond villains.
Christopher Lee played Francisco Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
Andy Gotts“I had been looking forward to this shoot for a while for a number of reasons.
“I had my equipment all ready when Christopher sat in position and started to puff on a large cigar.
“It was fascinating to hear him recant stories from the old movie days and his crowning glory, The Wicker Man, though his face started to contort when he mentioned they are going to remake it.
“Afterwards as we walked together through the hallways of the Savoy, he spotted the sheet music for The Mikado. He looked at me with a boyish glint and told me that he sings every day, and with that the hallways were filled with a bellowing rendition of Three Little Maids.”
Charles Dance played Claus in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Andy Gotts“Charles was the very last person shot for my NEMESIS exhibition. I had been wanting to photograph him for quite some time, but I never had any luck.
“I knew via mutual friends ‘Charlie’ was not too keen with being photographed and this was why I always got a polite decline from his management.
“It just so happens both Charlie and I went to the same university in Leicester, DMU (De Montfort University), which was perfect when we were invited to an alumnus dinner.
“Due to clever and creative table settings, which I helped with, I ended up sitting next to Mr Dance for the duration of the meal and after several glasses of red wine he agreed to be shot by me.
“Perseverance works.”
Michael Lonsdale played Hugo Drax in Moonraker (1979)
Andy Gotts“I shot Michael at his home in Paris. I have always been a fan of Michael and loved his moves going way back to The Day of the Jackal.
“I knew Michael was a tall man and quite stocky, so I was a little taken-aback when I arrived at his residence to see this fragile figure in a wheelchair. The sands of time are not kind to anyone, and it had escaped me that a man 89 years old, who had been retired for a number of years, would look quite as delicate.
“After a delightful afternoon chatting and swapping stories I headed home. A week or so later Michael passed away, so this became his very last portrait.”
Mads Mikkelsen played Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006)
Andy Gotts“Mads is such a down-to-earth, warm guy, though he plays Hollywood baddies probably the best.
“I love him as the tearful Le Chiffre, the foe of 007 in Casino Royale, and high-kicking Kaecilius in Doctor Strange. We both thought Marvel missed a trick and should have brought him back for the Avengers: Endgame finale.
“A huge part of me hopes he will always play the bad guy. The world needs just a charming and charismatic baddie to watch on the silver screen.”
Christopher Walken played Max Zorin in A View To A Kill (1985)
Andy Gotts“I shot Christopher in New York during a theatre-in-the-park production of The Seagull. I was given a space in the rehearsal room in a very confined corner.
“When he turned up it was like it was Christopher Walken, acting the part of Christopher Walken, a slightly unsettling airiness about him. I knew I wanted a close-up full-face shot of him, so I put on a semi-wide lens and got really close to his face.
“I could hear he was being called by one of the theatre runners, so I quickly ran off a couple of reels of film.
“And then as mysteriously as he arrived, he departed.”
Javier Bardem played Silva in Skyfall (2012)
Andy Gotts“I shot the Spanish sensation at Pinewood Studios in England and have been lucky enough to meet his wife, Penelope Cruz, a few times.
“He has these puppy dog eyes with such a twinkle, but when he fixes a stare on you, there is without doubt a hint of his unhinged character Anton Chigurh from the cult movie No Country for Old Men.”
Christoph Waltz played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre (2015)
Andy Gotts“Paul Newman gave me the nickname One Shot Gotts due to the speed of my shooting. Sometimes shoots are mega quick and other times we sit around talking for hours even before I pick the camera up.
“This shoot was a ultra-speedy one as I had to catch Christoph between the Bafta ceremony and the after party.
“He said: ‘Dr Gotts, it is an honour for me to be One shot’d, your talents precede you. How do you want me?’
“My answer being: ‘We are done… I’ve got my shot!'”
Andrew Scott played C in Spectre (2015)
Andy Gotts“Andrew was a dream to shoot and be around. He is one of those people who does not put up barriers or just want their good side to be seen in the shots.
“After we did the entire shoot of iconic and quirky snaps we sat around chatting over a drink. I was speaking about vulnerability in art and rawness in the natural face.
“The subject turned to crying, men crying in images.
“I suggested that we should try to capture a shot with these raw and vulnerable qualities. I asked him what headspace he would need to be able to create a tear.
“Andrew sat in front of me looking down and his feet. He said: ‘Are you ready?’
“He lifted his head and at that moment one tear rolled down his cheek and I captured this salty trickle at the perfect moment.
“I only took this one shot of the ‘tear’ image as I felt I was intruding in a moment he was having, even though this moment was specifically created to take a shot.
“It felt too personal as he was obviously thinking of something painful to cause the tear.”
Rami Malek played Lyutsifer Safin in No Time To Die (2021)
Andy Gotts“I shot Rami in Flemings Hotel, Mayfair. He was the one actor I needed to complete the set, almost like a fancy version of the card game Happy Families!
“A very quietly spoken gent, but always with a playful glint in his eye.
“We spoke of his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in his award-winning role, and I asked him if he would have fancied the part of Elvis.
“He mentioned he was more comfortable being Freddie though he would be up for playing Buster Keaton, which I can see him as.”
Gotts’ photographs of Bond villains can be seen until 8 January 2024 in an exhibition entitled NEMESIS at Al Mare, The Carlton Tower Jumeirah in Knightsbridge, London.
All photographs courtesy Andy Gotts. You can see more of his work on his website or Instagram.
Indigenous artists and makers gather for Haskell Holiday Bazaar
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About 20 vendors gathered to sell art, jewelry, baked goods, holiday decorations and even muktuk Saturday at Haskell’s fifth annual Holiday Bazaar.
One vendor, Sharon Tah Romero, enrolled Apache, Ponca, Tonkawa, and Kiowa, has been an artist for decades.
She studied at Haskell Indian Nations University in the 1970s and now shares her experiential knowledge with other artists. She leads the Native and Indigenous Tribal Artists group, which was formed in April. The intertribal group is a place for Indigenous artists to learn and reconnect with traditional art, including making medicine pouches, beadwork, quilts and ribbon skirts.
The group meets at the Indian Avenue Baptist Church. The funds they earned from the bazaar will go toward supplies for the group.
Joel Hernandez, Navajo and Sicangu Lakota, learned to bead as a student at Haskell and helped start a beading club.
For Hernandez, beadwork is a way to share cultural knowledge and ways to be, it helps him reconnect with and continue his culture and express himself, and it’s therapeutic. His great-great-grandma, who lived to be 106, was a beader.
Tweesna Mills, Shoshone-Yakama-Umatilla Nations of Wyoming, Washington and Oregon, brought some Indian humor to the show in the form of her “Indigenous creatures.”
Mills made the Grogru/Baby Yoda “Indigenous Creatures” in response to the 2022 incident in which an ABC reporter misspoke and referred to Indigenous people as “Indigenous creatures.” Native social media immediately memed the mishap, many expressing that “we’ve been upgraded” from “something else” to “Indigenous creatures.”
She said she wanted to make these to “reclaim the negative and make it into a positive.” Mills added that “through our art, we express our artivism — activism through artwork.”
Kris Wilson, Akimel O’odham, learned to bead in the Haskell beading club while a student.
Learning to bead provided a path for healing and growth for her, despite initially learning artistic elements from tribes other than her own. She has grown as an artist and now has a distinct style.
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Falonda Henry, Navajo, started beading a year ago. Her mother has since passed on, and she said she finds beading therapeutic. She finds inspiration in Diné basket weaving patterns and in fire colors.
Joey Tosee, Comanche and Kiowa, graduated from Haskell in 2018. After working as a firefighter and EMT, he said he finds creating art to be a therapeutic outlet for stress.
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Associate Photographer- eCommerce at Hallmark
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WHO WE ARE
You will be part of a small and high-performing e-commerce photo studio delivering product photography that puts Hallmark’s products in front of the consumer demonstrating our superior product. As one of the world’s largest creative employers and in-house creative teams, we need highly motivated creative problems-solvers to help us achieve our mission to enrich lives and relationships every day. As technology evolves and consumer expectations become more demanding you will help us meet the challenge of staying relevant and best in class.
WHAT YOUR ROLE ENTAILS AND HOW YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE
As an Associate Photographer-eCommerce, you will focus on creating marketable ecommerce images displaying individual products as well as tabletop and basic environments for PDPs (product display pages) and other marketing materials through your contributions in craft, conceptual skills, creativity, initiative, collaboration and flexibility.
You have an eye for detail and demonstrate ability to conceptualize and solve for image direction to ensure product formats are clearly represented and understood by online shoppers. You will follow established style guides to create original photographic images for specific projects or products.
We are a fast-past, high volume production studio. You will partner with traffic, account leaders and art directors. You will collaborate with other photographers and production designers. We are a highly collaborative team: good flexibility and receptivity to feedback is essential to aid in learning the broad variables across the Hallmark eCommerce landscape.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
The following is required to be considered for this role:
At least 2 years’ experience in a creative field emphasizing photography in one or more of the following areas: Digital Print/ eCommerce/Commercial Environment, Fine Art / Multimedia.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Your resume and application will stand out if you have:
BFA or BA with emphasis/major in one of the following areas: photography, multimedia, graphic design, or a related visual communications field.
Work experience in a team environment. Prefer 1 years’ experience in Hallmark photography, design and/or visual studios.
Technology Experience preferred: Adobe Creative Suites (e.g., Photoshop); Capture One: Aperture; Final Cut; After Effects; Adobe Premier; general computer programs supporting business communication (e.g., Word). Excellent visual, technical, and photographic skills with an eye for consistency and light.
Behaviors/Traits/Aptitude preferred: Visual creative and conceptual skills; 2D&3D, strong collaboration, communication skills (written and oral), aesthetic discernment, leadership skills, visioning skills, organization, results orientation, flexibility, strategic agility, and dealing with ambiguity.
Ability to work in a fast-paced commercial studio environment and adapt quickly to changes/deadlines. Ability to work independently and efficiently.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
This position is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-studio/on-site depending on team needs and workflow/product expectations. Flexibility is needed in honoring business needs and drivers.
To be considered, you must show how you meet the basic qualifications in a resume or document you upload, or by completing the work experience and education application fields. Accepted file types are DOCX and PDF.
An uploaded portfolio is also required for this position.
Your portfolio should be compiled into one PDF document that is no larger than 5 MB, and uploaded with your resume. If your portfolio file size is above the 5MB limit, you can submit a one-page overview (ex) of your work.
In addition, you can submit a URL to a portfolio website or social media site displaying your portfolio,
but only as a supplement to your uploaded portfolio or one-page overview.
Now’s your chance to embrace a future with Hallmark-just follow the instructions below to apply.
You must show how you meet the basic qualifications in a resume or document you upload, or by completing the work experience and education application fields.Accepted file types are DOCX and PDF.
In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Hallmark Cards, Inc. and its subsidiary companies will hire only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. Hallmark does not generally provide sponsorship for employment.
Employment by Hallmark is contingent upon the signing of the Employment Agreement, signing of an agreement to arbitrate in connection with the Hallmark Dispute Resolution Program, completing Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification and satisfactory reference and background checks.
Hallmark is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other legally-protected status. Principals only please.
HALLMARK – Because Connecting With Each Other Has Never Been More Important
For more than a century, Hallmark has been bringing people together and improving the relationships that matter most. That’s why millions of people all over the world connect with the Hallmark brand. It has always been a mission so much bigger than any one of us who work here.
Today, we need empathetic learners, strategic thinkers, and enthusiastic visionaries with diverse experiences and skills to help us create the rest of Hallmark’s second century as we shift to a more digitally savvy, unified approach that combines the best of brick-and-mortar retail with the efficiency of dot-com spaces. Help us imagine what our next hundred years could look like!
When you join Hallmark, we will go out of our way to make you feel like part of the team, even in a remote/hybrid work environment. In the day-to-day, we’ll make the best use of the skills and talents you already have. We’ll also give you leadership opportunities and show you multiple potential pathways to future success.
Our culture of care for our consumers and for one another shows in the way we embrace different backgrounds, identities, and working styles, deliberately seeking out ways to be more inclusive both internally among our work groups and externally through the things we make and sell to our retail partners and consumers. We believe that a broadly inclusive, equitable approach is also our best path to future success. We’re seeking out those who can bring a fresh perspective to our business and would love your input as someone new to our team! We can only change and grow when we intentionally include new perspectives-like yours.
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You Can Learn Photography Without a Camera
While a camera may be indispensable for producing photographs, there are manifold ways to learn the art of photography without one. Besides technical proficiency, great photographers like Dorothea Lange relied on less tangible traits like emotional intelligence and inspiration, and we can learn from them.
Coming to you from Tatiana Hopper, this awesome video discusses ways of learning photography without a camera. Hopper shares an exercise from mentor Alexey Brodovitch, who had his students frame compositions using cardboard with a rectangular cut-out rather than a lens. This trains the innate skill all photographers must hone – the ability to construct compelling images from disparate visual elements. Hopper suggests additional techniques like critiquing your own work, purposefully observing scenes without a camera, or finding inspirational activities that spark ideas.
By emphasizing the critical roles of emotional intelligence, inspiration and intentional development apart from technical proficiency, Hopper challenges us to rethink what skills differentiate snapshot-takers from artists. While mastery of camera controls provides the means, cultivating an intuitive eye through diverse inspirational sources represents the true heart of exceptional photography. It serves as an important reminder that our most essential tools as photographers remain not with our equipment, but within our own minds and spirits. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Hopper.
Air Guitar Roo has won the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
By India BourkeFeatures correspondent
Jason Moore/Comedy Wildlife 2023An air-guitar-playing kangaroo, a balletic otter and a topsy-turvy heron are all winners at this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
In 1969, the musician Joe Cocker made air-guitar history on the Woodstock stage, strumming With a Little Help From my Friends into nothingness. Now, there’s a new contender for the air-guitar crown: a small, grey kangaroo from Perth, Australia, has been caught empty-handed, mid-strum, by the camerawork of Jason Moore.
The photo, entitled Air Guitar Roo, was announced the overall winner of 2023’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards this week. It also scooped the prize for the Creatures of the Land category.
“Not many people know that kangaroos are normally fairly docile and even a bit boring most of the time, if I’m honest,” says Moore. “However, when I saw this Roo striking the air guitar pose, it immediately brought a smile to my face, and I knew that I had captured something really special.”
The image had competition from 5,300 submissions from 85 countries. Other category winners included Otter Kewk’s image of “an otter ballerina”, in which a smooth coated otter performs an impressive first-arabesque in Singapore. And Vittorio Ricci’s heron taking an unexpected plunge, into a waterbody in Zimanga Private Game Reserve in South Africa.
Jacek Stankiewicz/Comedy Wildlife 2023Another double category triumph went to young photographer Jacek Stankieicz, who won both the Junior Award and the People’s Choice for his image of two greenfinches called Dispute.
Founded in 2015 by the photographers and conservationists Paul Joyson-Hicks and Tom Sullam, the photographs are a reminder of the varied, vibrant and ever-surprising creatures with which humanity shares this planet.
Otter Kewk/Comedy Wildlife 2023Yet stories from the animal world are not always so uplifting: in the last 50 years, global wildlife populations have plummeted by nearly 70% on average.
More frequent heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are also altering animal behaviours and increasing the chance of human-wildlife encounters. This might sound like good news to those hoping to spot a kangaroo in their backyard, but it is also raising the chances of conflict.
Vittorio Ricci//Comedy Wildlife 2023Wildlife-lovers may want to keep their eyes on proceedings at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai this December. With climate change one of the five main drivers of biodiversity loss, nations attending the summit have an opportunity to help stem this threat.
It’s a big ask, but it really would be something big to smile about.
Jacques Poulard/Comedy Wildlife 2023* All photographs courtesy of Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023.
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Mother and daughter sharing culture through art and learning
Justice Sutherland wants her children to know where they come from.
“Just bringing back tradition to our family has been amazing,” she said.
The local artist has been reconnecting to her Indigenous roots in Moose Factory since becoming a mother. She’s learning from a great source — her mother, Amanda Sutherland.
Amanda’s father, who was a Fort Albany First Nation member, died when she was young, and she lost a lot of her cultural connections.
“Bringing in the culture to us is very important since we weren’t raised in it. I didn’t raise my kids in it,” said Amanda. “It wasn’t until I started working at Northern College and learning from community members, elders in the community.”
Amanda is an Indigenous services administration assistant at Northern College.
“Everybody has been so good at teaching me, at teaching Justice,” she said.
Justice agrees and adds that the community has been incredibly helpful in their journey.
She’s using art to explore her cultural ties and has painted murals at Northern College and Sparks Pizza. It’s a way to connect to her own community and family, and anyone else who wants to enjoy her work.
“The one thing I always could connect to is art and it’s something that translates in every culture, in every language. It connects to everyone in a different way,” she said.
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Having spent time in western Canada, those traditions shaped some of their views.
Becoming a mother has motivated justice to explore her local roots and bring more tradition and culture into her home.
“It wasn’t until I had my own kids and she started doing her teachings and stuff like that and getting connected to the culture here in Timmins that I was able to realize that I wanted to bring that down to my kids as soon as I had them,” said Justice.
Her time in Kelowna has influenced her art and she learning more about the local styles.
“It’s weird because I’m always talking about Indigenous culture and I realize I have to bring this side in instead of always bringing what I was raised around,” said Justice. “Because that’s the whole point. I’m trying to reconnect to the Native lines here and bring more of an arts and culture representation from our area.”
Language has been a challenge in reconnecting with family.
“Justice was four years old, and I had not connected to my dad’s side of the family yet, and I went up north to meet my kokum (grandmother) for the first time, and it was very emotional,” said Amanda.
“I couldn’t talk to her though because I didn’t know how to speak Cree, and she only knew how to speak Cree, which is sad because it’s a language that’s being lost, and I wish I had that language so that I could teach it to my kids.”
Amanda said passing on what she’s learned is a healing experience.
“Whatever I am taught, I then go, and I teach students, I teach staff, I teach whoever wants to learn what I know,” she said.
The shift in how Indigeneity and culture are perceived in Canada has impacted Amanda’s growth and education.
“When I was being raised, being Indigenous was something you hid,” she said. “I was glad to hide it at the time, but as I got older, I realized that I was missing out on so much, and learning all of that and bringing it in has helped me grow not just as a person but as a parent, a grandmother, a friend, a colleague, it gets into everything that I do now.”
Justice’s goal in her art and her family is to amplify the feeling of home.
“It’s nice to continue to bring down our teachings and traditions down through our family,” she said.
