The Chain Project

'Make love to me' (set by Beso Uznadze) Photograph by © Harlan Erskine

 

A few months ago curator, Stuart Pilkington, asked me to work on a new project called The Chain. The Project operated similar to an old parlor game called Exquisite corpse. One artist thinks of a title of an image. The title then gets passed on to the next artist and they have to make an image based upon that title. I was given the title 'Make love to me.' At first I really was uninspired by the title. But as it settled in I started to think about lover's lanes and found out about a lovers lane beach in New York near Coney Island. I drove out there with my camera totally unsure of if I would find anything I could use but I had to start shooting. Below is the final shot I submitted for the The Chain and it is the first frame I shot of that beach walk. I'm still working on the rest of the images I made that day and I'll be posting more about what they are in the future. Needless to say  it was a very productive walk on the beach.

Here is the link to my Chain page. http://www.chainproject.co.uk/harlanerskine.html

Here is the full list of the photographers involved:

A
Aernout Overbeeke 
- Dutch
Alejandro Cartagena
- Dominican
Alexey Tikhonov
- Russian
Aline Smithson
- American
Amy Eckert
- American
Amy Stein
- American
Andrea Chu
- American
Andrew Phelps
- American
Annabel Clark
- American

B
Beso Uznadze
- Georgian
Beth Dow
- American
Bieke Depoorter
- Belgian
Björn Sterri
- Norwegian
Bob O'Connor
- American

C
Colin Blakely
- American
Colleen Plumb
- American
Corey Arnold
- Norwegian

D
Daniel Shea
- American
Darcy Hemley
- American
David Bram
- American
Diana Scheunemann
- Swiss

E
Eamon Mac Mahon
- Canadian
Elinor Carucci
- Israeli
Elizabeth Fleming
- American
Elizabeth Gordon
- British
Erika Larsen
- American

F
Faisal Abdu'Allah
- British
Flavia Sö'llner
- German
Flora Hanitijo
- Chinese
Francisco Reina
- Spanish
Freya Najade
- German

G
Geert Goiris
- Belgian
Geoffrey Ellis
- American
Gonzalo Puch
- Spanish

H
Harlan Erskine
- American
Harry Borden
- American
Harry Watts
- British
Hin Chua
- Australian
Hiroshi Watanabe
- Japanese

I
Igor Starkov
- Russian
Iosif Kiraly
- Romanian
Irina Rozovsky
- American

J
Jake Stangel
- Canadian
Janaina Tschäpe
- Dutch
Jennifer Boomer
- American
Jenny Riffle
- American
Jens Lucking
- German
John Stathatos
- Greek
Joerg Colberg
- German
Juliane Eirich
- German
Justin Maxon
 - American

K
Kate Hutchinson
 - Canadian
Kathryn Hillier
- American
Kelli Connell
- American
Kevin J Miyazaki
- American
Klaus Pichler
- Austrian

L
Lane Collins
 - American
Laura Hynd
- British
Laura Pannack
- British
Li Wei 
- Chinese
Lisa Wiseman
- American
Liz Kuball
- American
Loan Nguyen
- Swiss
Luis Diaz Diaz
- Spanish

M
Mac Adams
- British
Maïa Roger
- French
Marie Sjøvold
- Norwegian
Marina Gadonneix
- French
Mark Denton
- British
Mark Mahaney
- American
Martin Amis
- British
Martin Beckett
- British
Matt Eich
- American
Mauro Corinti 
- Italian
Mayumi Lake
- Japanese
Michael Itkoff
- American

N
Nick Turpin 
- British
Noah Kalina 
- American

O
Olivier Despicht
- French

P
Paul Plews
- British
Philippe Herbet
- Belgian

R
Rachel Hulin
- American
Rachel Papo
- American
Renee Chartier
- American

S
Sarah Small 
- American
Seba Kurtis
- Argentinian
Shane Lavalette
- American
Shannon Taggart
- American
Simon Winnall
- British
Sophie Gerrard
- British
Sue Parkhill
- Australian
Susana Raab
- Peruvian

T
Taj Forer
- American
Tema Stauffer
- American
Thomas Mailaender
- French
Tom Janssen
- Dutch

V
Vanessa Winship
- British
Victoria J Dean
- British

W
Wendy McMurdo
- British
Will Steacy 
- American
Wolfram Hahn
- German

X
Xavier Delory
- Belgian

Y
Ye Rin Mok
- Korean
Youngna Park
- American

Z
Zhang Xiao 
- Chinese
Zoe Norfolk
- British

ps I now have a tumblr: http://diary.harlanerskine.com/

New music videos from Panda Bear

Two new music videos I have rocking on my speakers. I don't have tickets to tomorrow night concert in Prospect Park but its also great to just sit out and picnic.

Panda Bear "Slow Motion" + Interview + Live at Governor's Island September 11th, 2010

Directed by Cheryl Dunn www.cheryldunn.net "Slow Motion" from the album "Tomboy" on Paw Tracks. p + c 2011 Paw Tracks

Panda Bear "Alsatian Darn" video

Directed by Ara Peterson Video by Dave Fischer and Ara Peterson c + p 2011 Paw Tracks

OPENING TOMORROW: Fringe Economies: Sarina Finkelstein & Maureen Drennan at the Newspace Center for Photography

Fringe Economies

Sarina Finkelstein & Maureen Drennan

May 6th – 29th Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th 6-9pm Artist Lecture: Saturday, May 7th 1pm

Maureen Drennan, Adam, 2008

My friend and fellow SVA Alum, Maureen Drennan is in a two person show at the Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR. I had the pleasure of watching this body of work develop. It is a fascinating series and quite a relevant body of work to show on the west coast. If you are around be sure to get out there and see the opening and artist lecture.

from the press release:

MAUREEN DRENNAN

Maureen Drennan will be presenting work from her series “Meet Me in the Green Glen.” The series documents the life of Ben, a marijuana farmer in California. Though it is legal to grow marijuana in California, it is still an activity that carries heavy social and political stigma. Drennan’s photographs of Ben’s life, his lands, and his plants is an intimate look at a seldom seen lifestyle.

Maureen Drennan is a photographer born and based in New York City. Since receiving her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2009, her photographs have been included in numerous group exhibitions including the Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburg and Rayko Gallery, San Francisco. Maureen has received honors from Aperture, The Photo Review, PDN, The Photographic Resource Center of Boston, Humble Arts, and Artist as Citizen. Her photographs were included in The Collector’ s Guide to New Art Photography, Volume 2. Maureen currently teaches photography at the City University of New York.

www.maureendrennan.net

SARINA FINKELSTEIN

Sarina Finkelstein will be presenting work from her series “The New 49ers.” The series is an investigation of the re-emergence of gold prospectors in California. The New 49ers are recently laid-off workers, veterans, retirees, ex-convicts and freelancers in between gigs—all dependent on the income they derive from gold prospecting. Finkelstein’s project draws a comparison between the original Gold Rush, the lesser-known surge of gold prospecting during the Great Depression of the 1930’s and the modern-day wave of gold prospectors in California during the Great Recession.

Sarina Finkelstein earned her BFA from Washington University and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been featured as the cover story forThe Daily, in SEVEN, and on TIME.com and NPR.org. She has been a guest speaker for Professional Women Photographers and a speaker and award recipient at the Society for Photographic Education National Conference. Finkelstein lives in New York.

www.sarinafinkelstein.com