Paul Slaughter had an ear for jazz, a feel for people, an eye for photography.
His life was much more complex than that, but the triangle of sound, heart and sight dominated his 84 years on the planet, said his widow, Inée Slaughter.
Paul Slaughter, once the official photographer for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Committee and a 34-year resident of Santa Fe, died April 6 after a long battle with myasthenia gravis and Parkinson’s disease, his wife said.
WATERVILLE — Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce welcomes Bridget Campbell as its new marketing and membership director. She will be replacing Brandi Meisner, who was VP of operations, and has left to work for her family businesses Maine Cedar Hot Tubs and Skowhegan Wooden Rule Co., following two years in her position.
Bridget Campbell Submitted photo
Campbell, who was advertising operations manager for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, had served 27 years over two different time periods throughout her newspaper career in various creative and management roles.
A graduate of Waterville Senior High School, Campbell graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a degree in communications and a minor in art. Campbell began her career at the newspaper as a graphic designer in 1985, creating ads by hand, prior to computers, winning numerous awards for her designs. In 1996 she started her own business, Papermoon Graphics, where she assisted many local businesses with their graphic design needs. During this time, she also followed one of her other passions, theater, as set designer and technical director for Waterville Senior High School Thespian Troupe 2926, as well as being in and involved with many productions at the Waterville Opera House. Campbell later worked at the Waterville Opera House as production manager and Box Office manager. Her latest employment prior to coming to the chamber was as advertising manager for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Included in her new duties at the chamber is new member procurement and retention, marketing and communications of the numerous chamber events and programs through print and social media platforms, website development and maintenance, tourism promotions and the production of the Better Living in Mid-Maine Map and Guidebook, among other duties.
Mid-Maine Chamber President and CEO Kimberly Lindlof said of Campbell, “Bridget brings a vast knowledge of marketing expertise, management experience and business connectivity to our team. Staff and volunteers alike are pleased to welcome her onboard.”
Campbell resides in Winslow with her husband, John. They have a daughter, Haley, who is assistant creative director for Thomas College.
Mogarraz
In 1967, a photographer from Mogarraz, a small town in the Sierra de Francia, was commissioned by the mayor to take the photo for the identity card of the 388 inhabitants who lived in the town. The painter Florencio Maíllo, also born in Mogarraz and who was a five-year-old boy at the time, already had access as an adult to these old photographic archives in which, as an artist, he was inspired to reproduce the portraits that can currently be seen on the facades of the houses of this picturesque town in the province of Salamanca (Spain).
With this photographic project, I also want to pay my personal tribute to this city and its inhabitants.
Fernando Torres
Visual memories of Paris in black and white
Places that have been, are, will always be part of my life, of my most intimate “myself”, places that crystallize into slightly hazy images suddenly becoming the aesthetic menhirs of my unconscious, mirages that I don’t want never see vanish, moments of life, joy, pain, loneliness, reflection, introspection, each shot bringing me back to the precise moment when and where I felt these emotions. And it is very peaceful for me to be shipwrecked in these abysses of sensations, of “saudade”.
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Months of work had led up to this: After studying the late Chinese American photographer Corky Lee, fourth-graders at the California Creative Learning Academy in Eagle Rock watched Friday as their teachers hung their photos in an art installation.
Griffin Gaerlan, 9, had taken a striking photo of himself holding up a camera, imitating Lee in a famous self-portrait.
It was Lee’s photos documenting police brutality, however, that left the deepest impression on Gaerlan. Lee took photos in New York’s Chinatown when a Chinese American man was beaten by NYPD officers (who had been trying to intervene in a police beating of a teen). Lee’s photos of Peter Yew, with blood streaming down his face as he was led away by police, led to thousands of people in Chinatown protesting against police violence.
Corky Lee captured pivotal images of Asian American history, like this 1975 protest against police brutality in New York’s Chinatown.
“Without these pictures, we wouldn’t have any proof, no knowledge of any of this happening,” Gaerlan said. “And it really made an impact on the world.”
His classmate Mayla Stegall, also 9, nodded.
“He was actually there in the moment so he actually knows the truth,” Stegall said. “And he’s just trying to show other people so that they understand too.”
Around the country this month, school kids are marking Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Anna May Wong and Jeremy Lin are some of the most celebrated figures, showing up on fact sheets and in word searches. But figures who are less widely-known outside the Asian American community, like Lee, are also getting their due.
Gary San Angel, an artist and filmmaker, is making sure of that. A long-time mentee of Lee’s, San Angel taught the photography course to the fourth-graders in Eagle Rock. He explained how Lee — who died of COVID-19 in 2021 at 73 — used his photography as a “sword,” as Lee liked to say, to fight injustice and indifference.
San Angel said Lee also worked to rectify the historical record. Lee had long questioned why an 1869 photo taken after the transcontinental railroad was completed was missing any of the Chinese men who built it. In 2014, he restaged the photo, this time with the descendants of the rail workers.
Lee’s business card had the joking title of the “Undisputed, Unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate,” but it was not far from the truth. He was present at a number of key moments in Asian American history, like when protests broke out in Detroit in 1982 after Vincent Chin’s killers were allowed to walk.
One of Lee’s most famous photographs was taken after 9/11 at a candlelight vigil, featuring a Sikh man wrapped in an American flag.
After 9/11, when Sikh Americans were being scapegoated and attacked, Corky Lee took this image of a Sikh man at a candelight vigil.
( Corky Lee with permission of the Corky Lee Estate )
“What Corky was trying to do is just humanize all our stories,” San Angel said. “Then we can also recognize we are a part of the fabric here in the US.”
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THE FORESTS. I WANT TO HELP SAVE THIS FOREST. THE CHALLENGE IS GETTING OTHER PEOPLE TO CARE. LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR SEAN GOLDSMITH IS ON A MISSION. HE’S HOPING THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY CAN KEEP A SMALL STRETCH OF FOREST IN HIS HOMETOWN FROM BEING LEVELED BY A DEVELOPER’S BULLDOZER. I’M REVEALING THE UNSEEN WILDLIFE THAT CALLS THESE PATCHES OF WOODS THEIR HOME BY USING MOTION ACTIVATED CAMERAS. THE 18 YEAR OLD CREATED A VIDEO CALLED SAVE THE FOREST AND SUBMITTED IT TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S SLINGSHOT CHALLENGE. SOREN WAS ONE OF 1800 TEENS FROM ACROSS 80 COUNTRIES TO TACKLE FIVE TOPICS OF CONCERN ONE MINUTE VIDEOS ADDRESSING EITHER CLIMATE CHANGE, REDUCING WASTE, RESTORING THE OCEANS, CLEAN AIR OR PROTECTING NATURE. THE IDEA IS LIKE, HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT PROTECTING A FOREST IF IT’S KIND OF HARD TO CONNECT TO A TREE? NEARLY 3000 OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE COLLABORATE ON THE CONCEPTS WITH ASSISTANCE FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORERS AND TEACHERS FROM ACROSS THE US AND VIA YOUTUBE ANNOUNCEMENT ON FRIDAY, SOREN WAS AWARDED FIRST PLACE. I’M KIND OF STILL A LITTLE BIT IN A STATE OF SHOCK, SOREN SAYS. HE DECIDED TO USE HIS PASSION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR CHANGE BECAUSE AS HE SAYS, IT’S A BIT EASIER TO CARE FOR SOMETHING WHEN YOU CAN SEE IT. I THINK WITH PHOTOGRAPHY, ESPECIALLY MOTION ACTIVATED CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHY, YOU CAN TAKE PICTURES THAT NEVER WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITH LIKE A LIVE PHOTOGRAPHER STANDING THERE BECAUSE IT’S SO EASY TO FEEL LIKE YOU’RE POWERLESS AND LIKE YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING. BUT IT REALLY ISN’T TRUE. AND I THINK THE IDEA THAT THEY’RE SHOWING KIDS WHO ACTUALLY ARE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING, IT’S JUST SO INSPIRING. SAVE THE FOREST IN THE FALL, SOREN’S GOING TO BE STUDYING ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. NOW, AS FAR AS THE $10,000 HE RECEIVED FROM WINNING THE CHALLENGE, SOREN SAYS HE PLANS TO USE SOME OF IT ON NEW CAMERA EQUIPMENT AS WELL AS PUTTING THE REST OF IT I
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Massachusetts teen’s photography wins national award, hopes it’ll save forest
Updated: 7:07 PM EDT May 5, 2023
A Lexington, Massachusetts, high school senior is one of six teenagers around the world who have won this year’s National Geographic “Slingshot Challenge.”Soren Goldsmith is on a mission, hoping the power of photography can keep a small stretch of forest in his hometown from being leveled by a developer’s bulldozer.”I want to help save this forest. The challenge is getting other people to care,” Goldsmith said. “I’m revealing the unseen wildlife that calls these patches of woods their home.”By using motion-activated cameras, the 18-year-old created a video called “Save the Forest” and submitted it to National Geographic’s “Slingshot Challenge.”Goldsmith was one of 1,800 teens from across 80 countries to tackle five topics of concern. The one-minute videos addressed either climate change, reducing waste, restoring the oceans, clean air, or protecting nature.”The idea is, ‘How are you supposed to care about protecting a forest?’ It’s kind of hard to connect to a tree,” Goldsmith said. Nearly 3,000 other young people collaborated on the concepts with assistance from National Geographic Explorers and teachers from across the United States.
A Lexington, Massachusetts, high school senior is one of six teenagers around the world who have won this year’s National Geographic “Slingshot Challenge.”
Soren Goldsmith is on a mission, hoping the power of photography can keep a small stretch of forest in his hometown from being leveled by a developer’s bulldozer.
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“I want to help save this forest. The challenge is getting other people to care,” Goldsmith said. “I’m revealing the unseen wildlife that calls these patches of woods their home.”
By using motion-activated cameras, the 18-year-old created a video called “Save the Forest” and submitted it to National Geographic’s “Slingshot Challenge.”
Goldsmith was one of 1,800 teens from across 80 countries to tackle five topics of concern.
The one-minute videos addressed either climate change, reducing waste, restoring the oceans, clean air, or protecting nature.
“The idea is, ‘How are you supposed to care about protecting a forest?’ It’s kind of hard to connect to a tree,” Goldsmith said.
Nearly 3,000 other young people collaborated on the concepts with assistance from National Geographic Explorers and teachers from across the United States.
The photographer tasked with taking official pictures at the Coronation is a favourite of King Charles who is known for his catchphrase: ‘Don’t f**k it up’.
Hugo Burnand, 58, is the only portrait photographer with a Royal warrant, and is considered a safe pair of hands to capture the great and the good looking their best.
The high society snapper was the official photographer at Prince William and Kate’s wedding in 2011 which he called ‘the gig of the century’.
He will now be following in the footsteps of Cecil Beaton who famously photographed the late Queen, then 27, when she was crowned at her Coronation in 1953.
Burnand is an obvious choice and safe pair of hands to record the Coronation today as he has plenty of experience of putting Charles and Camilla at ease, having repeatedly photographed them over the last 18 years.
The former Tatler photographer won acclaim for his ‘relaxed, but regal’ official pictures of the couple’s wedding in Windsor in 2005 after Camilla emailed him to say that she and Charles wanted him for the role.
Burnand also took pictures of Charles on his 60th birthday in 2008 and his 70th in 2018 and pre-Coronation portraits of him and Camilla in March in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace.
Others who have posed for him include Bill Clinton, President Mikhail Gorbachev, Baroness Thatcher, Lucian Freud, Spike Milligan, Victoria Beckham and Michael Jackson.
Burnand told Hello magazine in 2008 how he preferred an ‘approachable feel’ to his subjects, describing his method of taking pictures as ‘almost talking to the person”.
He once revealed his secret for snapping the perfect photograph as being ‘the three Ts: tummy, tits, teeth.’
Explaining his words, he said: ‘Suck it in, thrust them out, flash those pearly whites. And for the perfect smile? Don’t say cheese. Say: “shit!” Try it. It works.’
Burnand also has another trick up his sleeve to make sure children behave by bribing them with jelly beans to make sure they follow his instructions which should come in handy when he wants to get the attention of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
The trick gave him a good rapport with the page boys and bridesmaids at William and Kate’s wedding, enabling him to get his favourite photograph of the day featuring the couple on the steps of the throne room at Buckingham Palace with the children surrounding them.
The picture showing Kate’s hand casually resting on William’s knee, as a page boy playfully leaned in was taken in a three minute time slot before the wedding flypast.
The snapper later told Town and Country magazine: ‘The flypast was at 1.30pm and we couldn’t overrun, even by a minute.’
Burnand who has also photographed the Queen and Princess Anne had to cycle to Buckingham Palace with his team of six from his studio in Notting Hill studio on the day of the wedding because of all the road closures.
He used staff with stopwatches to fit in pictures in allotted time slots, raising the possibility that he will have to do the same to organise his official snaps today.
Burnand who spent three weeks preparing for the 2011 wedding, recalled: ‘We had spares for everything and then spares for the spares.
‘We did dress rehearsals with stopwatches using endless staff from Buckingham Palace to fill in as family members, so we knew we had just enough time.’
It has been reported that his Coronation photographs will feature traditional and modern elements – reflecting the new Carolean era which is the name given to the reign of King Charles III.
Beaton’s portraits of the late Queen after her Coronation service were very different from the official pictures taken when her parents were crowned in 1937, and her grandparents, George V and Mary, came to the throne in 1911.
He rejected having static line-ups of royals in favour of more dynamic compositions, featuring the Queen wearing the imperial state crown and her coronation robes while holding the orb and sceptre.
The historian Hugo Vickers, a biographer of Beaton, told the Sunday Times: ‘Beaton’s images were such a success because he captured a young woman looking assured and in control, not overawed by the trappings of monarchy.
‘Burnand won’t have a young, romantic queen, but his portraits of the King and Queen Consort in full splendour will be a big statement and crucial in setting the tone for the new reign.’
The photographer who is British was born in Cannes, France, and took up photography at the age of seven when he was given his first camera by his grandmother as a seventh birthday present.
His website describes how he first learned to develop and print photographs his kitchen table at home, with his photographer stepmother Ursy Burnand who raised him after his mother Susan Gordon died in a car accident a year after he was born.
Describing how he learned from her, he said: ‘I spent many childhood years helping her convert our kitchen into a darkroom after supper most evenings, blacking out the windows and putting the enlarger on the kitchen table which the dogs were sleeping under.
‘She is enormously talented with a fantastically sympathetic and humorous eye.’
Burnand, who enlisted his stepmother to help him at the weddings of William and Kate as well as Charles and Camilla, won his first photography competition at the age of seven at Cheam School in Headley, Hampshire, which was the prep school attended by the King and the late Prince Philip.
He honed his skills at Harrow by taking portraits of school-leavers, and worked as a stable hand, and an insurance broker at Lloyds of London before becoming a professional photographer at the age of 27.
Burnand became known as a society photographer during more than 20 years spent working on Tatler’s Bystander party column.
During that time, he took the steely portrait of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher and husband Denis, seemingly reluctantly holding hands on a gold coloured sofa, for their Golden Wedding anniversary.
He also photographed David and Samantha Cameron’s wedding in 1996 and regularly photographs his own family, taking a new birthday portrait of each of his four children ‘no matter where they are in the world’.
His portfolio includes a striking black and white image of himself, his former wife and their children lying face down and naked on top of each other ‘in a human pyramid’ with Burnand at the bottom of the pile.
Burnand talked of his love of taking photographs and travelling the world in a 2021 interview, saying that he ‘really, really enjoy[s] it and want[s] to keep doing it’.
Hand-woven baskets. Vibrant beadwork. Portraits made out of porcupine quills.
Those are just a few of the items that will be available for purchase at Madison’s first Native Art Market this weekend. The market, at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston St., provides a space for 15 Indigenous artists from various tribes across Wisconsin to showcase their work.
A preview of the market took place Friday as part of “Gallery Night,” but the full market runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
“This is something that I’ve always really been interested in supporting and creating for the community here in Madison,” said Dakota Mace, a local Diné artist and curator of the Native Art Market.
Mace
Mace, who comes from a family of artists, has seen the power that art holds throughout her life.
“It was always a source of income for my family,” Mace said. “Our artistic expression is directly connected to not only our family traditions and our culture and our language, but it’s also part of the future in terms of maintaining those cultural traditions.”
Mace often attended art markets when she was younger. As she got older, Mace noticed that the markets had barriers to entry, such as vendor fees, and felt that media coverage didn’t include Native voices. So for the Native Art Market, Mace wanted to make the market not just accessible but also centered around the artists’ identities and cultural backgrounds.
Along with not charging an application or vendor fee, all the featured artists received a stipend and help with lodging, if needed.
“We really just want to focus on supporting our artists and being in the community,” said Paige Skenandore, a local Oneida artist, who worked with Mace to organize the market. “Artists are coming from all throughout Wisconsin.”
Besides making the market accessible, another motivation of Mace was prioritizing the needs of Indigenous artists following allegations in January that a Madison artist, Kathryn “Kay” Le Claire, had pretended to be Native American, benefitting professionally and financially.
“Unfortunately, what had happened was that the conversation that was created was more focused on singling out Indigenous representatives throughout our community and having them speak for the entirety of our people,” Mace said. “I wanted this market to re-center the narrative of supporting Indigenous artists.”
Local Oneida artist Paige Skenandore often hosts beading circles at her home for her friends and other local artists.
Skenandore, who owns the small business Moody NDN, will be selling a mix of beadwork, quillwork and apparel at the market. Skenandore, who didn’t consider herself an artist until later in life, often hosts beading circles at her home.
One of Paige Skenandore’s beaded pieces.
“I think beadwork, or just Indigenous art in general, is really connected to my Native identity because it’s one way we stay in our communities, and it’s also really beautiful,” Skenandore said. “I just love the network that I’ve found in Madison Native artists.”
Melanie Sainz, a Ho-Chunk artist based in the Wisconsin Dells, specializes in the use of porcupine quills in portrait, floral and geometric objects. Since retiring and founding the nonprofit Little Eagle Arts Foundation, which provides entrepreneurial support for Indigenous artists, Sainz doesn’t participate in art markets as often as she used to. But she didn’t want to miss this one.
Sainz
“I really wanted to be there as an elder to support this effort in whatever way I can,” Sainz said.
Along with showcasing her work, Sainz will be leading a quillwork workshop on Saturday.
One of Ho-Chunk artist Melanie Sainz’s quill-embroidered portraits is titled “My Chief is Not Your Mascot.”
“We’re not just showing art, we’re engaging with the public and we’re really sharing our stories, whether it’s the historic trauma that our people have endured or personal experiences,” Sainz said. “I often thank the people who adopt my pieces. They’re giving them a new home.”
For local artists, exposure is often everything, making this weekend all the more important. Organizers ask that those attending the market refrain from touching the artwork and sharing pictures on social media. When in doubt, they said, ask the artist.
“We’re seeing a lot of non-Native artists or businesses that are stealing Indigenous designs and even language to boost their profits or make money on them,” Skenandore said. “So I think it’s really important to just talk to the artists and really connect.”
In addition to this weekend’s market, Mace and the Arts + Literature Laboratory hope to host similar events, including an exhibition and a second Native Art Market in October.
“It’s really exciting to see all these different types of artists explore their own stories, whether that’s their family histories or their culture and language,” Mace said. “It’s all about creating this idea of a new way of appreciating Indigenous art from an Indigenous perspective and really independent from that Western gaze.”
Fave 5: Race and culture reporter Melissa Renee Perry picks her favorite stories of 2022
This September, I started as the Wisconsin State Journal’s first race and culture reporter. Since then, I’ve had the privilege to interview community leaders, explore broader issues such as cultural appropriation and amplify social justice efforts. Here are my five favorite stories from this year.
As Black women creatives in Madison voiced their concerns, some artists like Catrina Sparkman created safe spaces of their own.
Dark Matter, an exhibition at the MMoCA, featured a variety of works from the prolific Wisconsin-based artist Faisal Abdu’Allah.
Some residents considered the issue of cultural appropriation when picking their Halloween costumes this year.
I talked to Awa Sibi and Jeff Patterson about the joys and challenges of being a Black business owner in Madison.
A free 12-week course in baking, food sanitation and restaurant management gives students a fresh start.
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