Oct 1 11am- 2pm

Exhibit your photographs at Ponce City Market - open to the public!

Sat, Sept. 26: 10am-4pm
Photographers of all ages are invited to hang their best photo(s) at our Ponce City Market pop-up gallery.

Hours for viewing:
Thursday & Friday 11am- 2pm (October 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22)
Saturday 10am - 4pm (October 3, 10, 17)
Sunday 12pm - 4pm (September 27, October 4, 11, 18)
Fri, October 23rd & Sat, October 24th, photographs removed 10am-1pm

This is an opportunity for photographers of all ages and with all levels of experience to exhibit their work and to compete for prizes. You are invited to hang your best photo; the best you've ever taken, or the best you've taken this week!

The general public (yes, you!), Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools and Senior Centers are encouraged to participate. Prizes will be awarded in nine categories, judged by the staff of Creative Loafing.

Photographs must be hung on Saturday, September 26th, between 10am and 4pm, and must be picked up Friday, October 23rd or Saturday, October 24th, between 10am and 1pm. Please bring unmounted, un-matted photographs, as images will be adhered to the wall with painter's tape. Framed photographs cannot be used.

This event is free and open to the public. Parking on-site, or arrive via the BeltLine.

In Partnership with Ponce City Market and Creative Loafing.

Opening Reception Oct 1 7- 10pm

#weloveatl inspires and empowers people in the Atlanta area to come together and share their love of the city through photography and other visual art.

For the fourth year in a row, #weloveatl is mounting a participatory photography show showcasing new work from Atlanta-area photographers. Explore the photographic stories shared by other Atlanta citizens, and then add your own by submitting your own images on Instagram using #weloveatl. Over the course of October, the gallery exhibition will evolve and grow with newly curated images and installations.

ABOUT #weloveatl:
#weloveatl inspires and empowers people in the Atlanta area to come together and share their love of the city through photography and other visual art. We strive to connect, support and build Atlanta's photography community online and off and curate and present the work of that community in non-traditional galleries and installations throughout the city in order to promote love of Atlanta and support local non-profits throughout the city. Started in Oct 2012 as a way to curate images from the Instagram community for an art show at Young Blood Gallery, the #weloveatl movement has grown to include 200,000+ images tagged and 15,000+ people connected by a love of their city.

Exhibition Oct 1 - Nov 8

Opening Reception Oct 1 7- 8pm

World-renowned master photographer, Zeng Yi, has spent a lifetime telling the story of the common people of China through his photography. Zeng Yi told the story of their lives; President Carter sought to change their lives.
Professor Zeng's master works will be on exhibit at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library from October 1, 2015 through January 17, 2016. Come and meet the China you have not yet met.

Exhibition Oct 1 -Jan 17, 2016

Oct 1, 6pm

Thu, Oct 1, 6pm exhibition viewing, 7pm lecture, 8pm reception

This lecture, presented with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum and Lumieere, is in support of the exhibition: "The People's China...Village Life by Master Photographer Zeng Yi". World-renowned photographer, Zeng Yi, has spent a lifetime telling the story of the common people of China. Born in 1949 in Jinan, the capital of the Shandong Province in Eastern China, and now the curator, professor and research supervisor of Shandong College of Art and Design, Professor Zeng is one of the established leaders of the arts in China.

Zeng Yi has won numerous international awards and his work has been exhibited in the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, South Korea and Taiwan. He has written extensively on the visual arts and organized numerous international exhibitions, including Asia's largest exhibition of Picasso paintings in 2004. He was selected by the Chinese Ministry of Culture as a planning director of the Beijing International Photography Week in 2013, and is taking a lead role in conducting Photo Beijing in 2015.

Admission is free. Free parking on site. Please use the entrance to the Museum (not Carter Center entrance).

Artist's Reception Oct 2, 5-7:30pm

Atlanta based artist Madeleine Soloway's solvent transfer digital photographs draw inspiration from the beauty found in both gritty urban decay and the ever changing natural landscape. In a world continuously evolving by the transformative nature of time, it is the lingering remnants that hold captivating stories. The multi-layered images on exhibit create mysterious and dream-like narratives with an implied sense of history. The images reference the interplay between past and present, imagined and existing, transition and change.

Originally from Boston, Madeleine Soloway has been an exhibiting artist in the Atlanta area for the past 25 years and faculty member at The Paideia School. Soloway earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. With several solo exhibitions at the Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, in the early 1980's Soloway's work landed in many important private SF Bay Area collections, and developed a strong following. This is Madeleine Soloway's first solo exhibition in Atlanta.

Exhibition Oct 3 - Oct 30

Opening Reception Oct 3 6- 9pm

Born in 1904 in Nashville TN, Dr. Horace Mann Bond was an educator, activist, and scholar.

Beginning in the fall of 1929, Dr. Bond participated in a survey of black schools and the achievement of black children in North Carolina, Louisiana and Alabama. During this time, Bond visited more than 700 urban and rural black schools and administered standardized tests to nearly ten thousand children. The project was sponsored by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Later, Dr. Bond and his wife, Julia Washington Bond, studied an isolated rural community, Star Creek, Louisiana. The Bonds were directed to observe and report on black schools, social and economic conditions and race relations in the rural South. These photographs are products of those studies.

The Schoolhouse series is accompanied by Bond family photographs that bare a stark contrast to the children Dr. Bond was photographing at the time.

This show was brought to life through the collaboration of James Bond, son of Dr. Horace Mann Bond, and Atlanta Master Printer, Barry Blackwell. We are honored as this is the first time these photographs have ever been printed and displayed to the public.

Exhibition Oct 3 - Oct 31

Film Screening Oct 29 6 - 9pm - Tickets here

Opening Reception Oct 3 6- 9pm

Proving Grounds is a series of black and white imagery of the United States Marine Corps recruit training on Parris Island SC. Large format prints from vintage plastic cameras from the early 60's are surreal yet hauntingly visceral. In 1994 Maris was embedded with recruits for 23 days and each image reflects this intimate perspective into the transformation our youngest men and women experience as they commit to a life of service to the American public. The large format prints are accompanied by fiber based black and white prints taken with a Hasselblad in 2014. Both series were taken while scouting locations for commercial projects. This is the first time the photographs have been exhibited in their entirety. Jason Maris is a freelance photographer and documentary filmmaker that has been based in Atlanta since 1993. This show is timely as we are still at war although many civilians do not acknowledge it. The show is also part of a larger documentary film project entitled Homemade which addresses issues surrounding Post Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injuries and Suicide.

Exhibition Oct 03 - Oct 31

Dinner with the Artists Oct 11 7 - 11pm