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John Chervinsky Scholarship 2016
Congratulations to Tricia Gahagan who has been awarded the John Chervinsky Scholarship!
Thank you to the judges who spent long arduous hours deciding the outcome.
View the press release here:
John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship awards 2016
Our thank you to the judges and nominators for the thoughtful time spent.
Scholarship Awardee
Tricia Gahagan
Finalists
Vanessa Filley
Ville Kansanen
Wen Hang Lin
Katie Mack
Tiziana Rozzo
Rebecca L. Webb
“In viewing the applications to the Inaugural John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship, I could not help but think of John and his creative practice.
Within the applications there were dozens of compelling projects that bore evidence of exploration of both ideas and process. Upon viewing Tricia Gahagan’s project “11:11 Connecting With Consciousness” and reading her applications documents, I felt she had achieved that and more; I sense she is approaching her project with deep and profound contemplation. Gahagan envisions life’s most complex issues in this series of simple images, affording the viewer a path towards their own contemplative journey.”
– Mary Virgina Swanson
“I was honored to co-jury the Inaugural John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship. I first showed John’s photographs when he entered and was accepted into the Photographic Resource Center’s Member Exhibition in 2003, which was juried by the PRC’s founder Chris Enos. John pursued each new step in his career and work with an unbounded sense of passion and creativity.
From the many admirable submissions to this first scholarship iteration, Tricia Gahagan’s project stood out. Gahagan’s imagery, statement, and philosophy shared many of the same artistic and personal qualities that John exhibited. With her quiet and contemplative series “11:11 Connecting With Consciousness,” Gahagan poses visual and conceptual questions. Akin to John, she also works within realms of perception and paradoxes, observation and the everyday. Nevertheless, her carefully composed and considered images come from a completely different well, and yield completely different results. Like John was in 2003, Gahagan is both on a quest and at a cusp. She will benefit immeasurably from the honorarium, course, and path that this award will allows. I very much look forward to following her journey.”
~ Leslie K. Brown, independent curator and PhD candidate
Learn more about John.
image below of John Chervinsky © L. Barry Hetherington
Arthur Griffin’s Quincy Quarry, 1938
The Cover of Life
In photography, we often refer back to Henri Cartier Bresson’s introduction of capturing the “Decisive Moment.” What constitutes this perfect moment in time…is it purely aesthetic or is it defined by the emotional impact of the image?
Arthur Griffin’s Quincy Quarry taken in 1938 was featured on the cover of LIFE Magazine in August of that year. The image takes on an unfamiliar perspective; the viewer is only able to see the area of departure of these divers without clues to where they may be landing. For a Massachusetts native, this image may not be jarring but imagine the young child who picked up this issue of LIFE in another part of the country and had so many questions about where those men would touch down.
Griffin captured the divers at an opportune moment, highlighting the point of departure and leaving room for the imagination to map out their trajectories. The presence of shadow against the rock quarry wall and the two men’s arms reaching out to the edge of the frame constituted this image to be selected for the cover of the issue. The bounds of the rectangle tightly hug in the action of the jumpers, freezing this exciting moment in time for us to experience almost 76 years later.
