This weekend, lots to do right in our neighborhood! After you have had a chance to stop by the farmer's market (FRAM) under the bridge, be sure to check out PHOTOJAX 2013, a celebration of photography, returning to Downtown and CoRK Arts District in Jacksonville, Florida on January 24-26. PHOTOJAX 2013 presents a broad range of curated photography exhibitions, juried exhibitions, video installations, #PHOTOJAX500 – a community response Instagram project, parties, and other fun stuff. Gallery 725 & Florida Mining Gallery will kick off the festival with dual benefit receptions on Thursday, January 24th starting at 6PM. Friday 7PM come Downtown for a street party to view the #PHOTOJAX500 project which received over 1,000 submissions. Followed at 8PM by the public opening exhibition of Slow: Marking Time in Photography and Film at MOCA Jacksonville. Saturday 12PM Featured Exhibitions will open at CoRK Arts District. Opening receptions for exhibiting photographers begins at 6PM.
PHOTOJAX is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization coordinated by a small group of dedicated volunteers who share a love of photography. The festival brings together artists, enthusiasts, collectors, dealers, educators, galleries, museums and invites the public to share in this exploration of photography.
More information can be found on their website, here are some details about what you can see during this great event!
More information can be found on their website, here are some details about what you can see during this great event!
Exhibitions
Chris McCaw Sunburned GSP #461 (Full day/Puget Sound, WA)
MOCA Jacksonville (333 N. Laura St.)
SLOW: Marking Time in Photography and Film focuses on artists and works that engage photography, film and video to explore questions of time and duration. A combination of still photographs, films, and video works, the exhibition explores multiple approaches to the topic: some works animate and extend the temporal boundaries of painting; others open the sealed confines of photography to the flow of time. In addition, photographic works capture an ever-expanding series of gestures and moments — ones that physically and conceptually transform the boundaries of the medium. In most cases, the temporal elements at play invite the viewer to slow down the process of looking and engage with the works over an expanded period of time in order to observe their unfolding. The exhibition features the works of seven American and European artists whose approaches to this concept complement and challenge one another. Participating artists include: Eve Sussman, Kota Ezawa, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Chris McCaw, Idris Khan, James Nares, and David Claerbout.
Florida Mining Gallery (5300 Shad Road)
MANIFEST: Select Photographs 
Bobby Davidson, Jessica Yatrofsky, Chang Kyun Kim, Allen Frame, and Emma Wilcox
Though the medium of photography has not yet reached its two-hundredth birthday, the significant impact on our social schema runs through many common relatable threads including the historical documentation of events such as Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” and “The Unknown Rebel in Tiananmen Square” by Jeff Widener, to the still life as abstract of Edward Weston, or the intimate yet confrontational portraits of Diane Arbus. The works in this exhibit come together to form an anthropological analysis of our social schema: in short, the figure, architecture and their interaction. The oeuvre of “Manifest: Select Photographs” range in process and production, giving attention to the various methods that consist in photographic practice, exemplifying the crisp clarity of digital shooting and printing, contrasting it with 120mm medium format film and proper darkroom process printing.
CoRK Arts District ( 2689 Rosselle Street)
Featured Photographers
Abra Anderson, Roy Albert Berry, Daryl Bunn, Dennis Ho, Jensen Hande, Jen Morgan, David Montgomery, Kedgar Volta, Edison Williams, Logan Zawacki
Featured Exhibits
The Territory of Light: Works by UNF photography students
#PHOTOJAX500 Poloroid Exhibit, by Jensen Hande
Gallery 725 (725-5 Atlantic Blvd./Beaches)
LOCAL EXPOSURE: A juried photography exhibit featuring artists from the region.
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