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C/O Berlin is seeking young photographers and art critics for their 2011 Talents series of exhibitions. The theme this year is Cinematic Thinking and applications will be accepted until December 31, 2010. The Talents series of exhibitions is really a fantastic opportunity for an artist just getting started. If chosen, the artist will be featured in a solo exhibition at one of Europe's premiere photography institutions as well as have an accompanying catalogue published which includes an essay written by an art critic. From the newsletter I received this morning: "In 2011, the Talents series will focus on the theme of Cinematic Thinking. Engagement with the medium of film has become ever more central to photography in recent years. This can be seen in the increasing exploration of film production processes, experimentation with narrative structures, and references to film aesthetics and film myths. How can photography adapt film structures and simulaneously break them open? What strengths do still images have over moving pictures? Photography in the classical sense, with its conventional wall presentation, can be expanded through the utilization of projection and installation strategies, thereby creating new possibilities for reflecting on the medium of photography itself. How do you apply? Photographers under the age of 35 can submit up to 15 samples of their work in print form – maximal size DIN A4, no originals. A short project description should accompany the photographs, as well as the application form that van be completed online on the C/O Berlin homepage. A fee of 20 Euros will be raised. Please note that art critics are welcome to submit samples of their work at any time." You can find further information here.

We all know that summer shows in New York City can be a real downer but this summer there are three ambitious artist curated exhibitions on view in three different locations around the country. Closest to home but not in the city, there is Matthew Porter's Seven Summits exhibition on view through August 15th at Mount Tremper Arts in the Catskills. Arthur Ou, Test Screen (Rincon I), 2010 From the press release: "Seven Summits is a group photography exhibition featuring fourteen pieces by seven artists. Recalling the mountaineering challenge of climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents, Seven Summits highlights the practice of artists whose adventuresome spirit leads them straight to the source of their subject matter, whether it be found inside the studio or across the country. Each artist is represented by two pieces—separated by wide geographical margins—that reframe the tradition of expedition photography within their independent creative visions." Further away from the city, there is Bill Sullivan's New Genre Pictures on view at the Flanders Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina through August 28th. The exhibition features the work of Lucas Blalock, Sam Falls, Thomas Hauser and Bill Sullivan. Bill Sullivan, Courts #21 & 22 (Wimbeldon 1994), 2007 From an essay by Lauren Turner: "In the ubiquity of the nefariously popular mixed media designation, how can disparate artworks currently be categorized? In what ways can one judge technological manipulation in a work as a marker of an artist’s skill? And are the genres of old still relevant to contemporary society? New Genre Pictures presents the works of four artists and their variations of the art world’s current medium darling, photography, to start the process of untangling some of these questions’ answers." There is also a good write up of the show and some installation shots here. For those of you in Los Angeles, Walead Beshty has curated what is probably the most ambitious summer group exhibition, Picture Industry (Goodbye To All That) at Regen Projects which is on view through August 21st. The exhibition features a long list of people working with and/or around photography today: Tauba Auerbach, Thomas Barrow, Carol Bove, Troy Brauntuch, Tony Conrad, Abraham Cruzvillegas, De Rijke / De Rooij, Liz Deschenes, Isa Genzken, Wade Guyton, Robert Heinecken, Charline Von Heyl, Karen Kilimnik, Imi Knoebel, Michael Krebber, Glenn Ligon, Erlea Maneros-Zabala, Albert Oehlen, Manfred Pernice, Seth Price, Richard Prince, Josephine Pryde, R.H. Quaytman, Eileen Quinlan, Miljohn Ruperto, Michael Snow, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kelley Walker, James Welling, Christopher Williams and Christopher Wool. Eileen Quinlan, Everything moves, Everything Shimmers, 2010 From the press release written by Walead Beshty: "In most Los Angeles social circles, when one speaks of the "industry" they are referring to the Entertainment Industry (a.k.a. the "Picture Industry"). Pictures have a knack for supplanting the concrete, sliding as though self-lubricating around the globe, like poltergeists, they haunt the world they represent like vague recollections, inhabiting concrete forms briefly until slipping off to another host, a billboard here, a magazine page there, creating momentary associations, and chance resonances. And what to make of the application of the term industry, with the heaviness of factories and smoke stacks encircling it, to the production of ephemeral pictures whose power is synonymous with their lightness? It could be said that it is the seemingly invisible and ephemeral aspects--the means of distribution, the contextual frame, the vicissitudes of taste, and an object's ability to "pass"--which serve as the most robust material of the contemporary work, an embrace of convention that produces an endless sequence of provisional "meanings." Perhaps the only solution available to us is to allow pictures to be concrete, to reclaim their moments of heaviness, instead of pretending that they are endlessly able to float listlessly in the breeze."