San Antonio Museum of Art.

Gerardo Montiel Klint and Fernando Montiel Klint.

No Escape: Photographs From The Brothers Montiel Klint.

Curated by David Rubin, Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary Art.

David Rubin, Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary Art.

Gerardo Montiel Klint, featured photographer.

Fernando Montiel Klint, featured photographer.

Views of the exhibit No Escape: Photographs of the Brothers Montiel Klint.

Images by Gerardo Montiel Klint.

Images by Fernando Montiel Klint.

View of the exhibit at SAMA.

Image by Gerardo Montiel Klint.

Detail of image by Gerardo Montiel Klint.

Image by Fernando Montiel Klint.

Image by Gerardo Montiel Klint.

Detail of image by Fernando Montiel Klint.

Image by Fernando Montiel Klint.

Image by Gerardo Montiel Klint.

Opening reception remarks by Marion Oettinger and David Rubin.

Ann Kinser, Fernando Montiel Klint, Gabriela Franco, and Gerardo Montiel Klint.

Opening reception for the exhibit.

Karen Baker looking at images by Gerardo Montiel Klint.

Making their first public appearance for FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA 2010, Marilyn Lanfear and Nancy Fullerton with the brothers Montiel Klint, just before the Conversations event conducted by David Rubin.

A Conversation With The Brothers Montiel Klint, conducted by David Rubin and assisted by Rosario Laird.

Question and answer session after the conversation.

The Montiel Klint brothers.

Rendon Photography & Fine Art

Luisa Wheeler and Elva Salinas • Poetic • Curated by Kathy Vargas.

Luisa Wheeler, featured artist.

Elva Salinas, featured artist.

View of images by Luisa Wheeler.

View of images by Elva Salinas.

Images by Luis Wheeler and Elva Salinas.

Images by Elva Salinas.

Image by Luisa Wheeler.

Opening reception for Poetic at Rendon Photography & Fine Art.

Felix Padron and Al Rendon.

Terry Ybañez and Jeffrey Dyer.

Gabriela Franco and Jeffrey Dyer.

Say Si • Middle & High School Students • San Antonio Lost – San Antonio Found.

This year’s theme for SAY Sí students is San Antonio Lost, San Antonio Found. Guillermina Zabala, SAY Sí’s Media Arts Director, went on field trips with the middle-and-high school-aged students to find images of recognizable and unrecognizable places and structures.

Media Arts Director Guillermina Zabala: “The idea of finding areas that people usually don’t’ know about San Antonio. Unusual either locations or characters and finding interesting architecture, and also unusual areas, unusual perspectives.”

Some of the students created black and white images of every day people doing every day things. Others looked for patterns and used computer techniques to create stories with color in their black-and-white photos. Once back at the SAY Sí studios, the students are challenged further.

Executive Director Jon Hinojosa: “It’s not only letting them be creative, but it’s pushing process and understanding and design elements and decision making and all those things that are so important to anybody.”

SAY Sí’s mission is to provide a resource for artistic students, especially in an environment where arts programs are being dismantled by public schools. The artists will attend the opening at SAY Sí tonight and answer questions about their processes for the FotoSeptiembre projects.

Yzavel Sanchez, Lady Esther. 11th grade, International School of the Americas.

Joscelyne Ponder, 1884. 12th grade, Incarnate Word High School.

Alysha Rangel, Esther Luminescence. 11th grade, O’Connor High School.

Kyle Drahl, Should Have Gone to College. 12th grade, International School of the Americas.

Hyland O’Brien, Untitled. Incarnate Word High School.

Nina Cortez, The Last Shall Be First. 12th grade, Burbank High School.

Gabino Sanchez, Fun!. 11th grade, Highlands High School.

Madison Johnson, Open. 10th grade, Antonian College.

Miranda Whitus, Rollercade. 9th grade, Communication Arts.

Morgan Mueller, Indian Cloud Factory. 10th grade, Alamo Heights High School.

Nathan Engel, Black Piñata. 10th grade, Keystone School.

Tommy Hopkins, Visual Arts Director and Ashley Sanchez, Visual Arts Instructor, Say Sí.

Opening reception views at Say Sí.

Silvia and Arturo Betancourt, and Luis Delgado Qualtrough.

Display of traditional photography equipment at the San Antonio Lost – San Antonio Found exhibit.

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center.

Bill Fitzgibbons, Director, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center.

Kimberly Aubuchon, Curator, This Is Not A Photo Show (1).

Views of the exhibit, This Is Not A Photo Show (1).

Views of the exhibit, You Appear To Me To Be Someone Whose Life Is Meaningless.

Kemp Davis, featured photographer, Kathy Drive.

Image from the Kathy Drive exhibit.

Opening reception for the exhibits at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center.

UTSA Satellite Space • Long Range Collaborations. Curated by Libby Rowe.
Nate Larson + Marni Shindelman and Anne Leighton Massoni + Chelsy Usher.

Long Range Collaborations brings together the artwork of two pairs of photographers who, though geographically separated, conceive and produce their imagery as a team.

Witness: A Psychic Collaboration, by Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman is the whimsical culmination of experiments between two close friends.  The resulting diptychs of either sketches or photographs illustrate the power of their psychic connection expressed through their personal, and diametrically opposed visual styles.

Mine & Yours, by Anne Leighton Massoni (a photographic artist) and Chelsy Usher (a member of the US Coast Guard), is a three-part exhibition of self-portraits taken using cell phone cameras over the course of a year.  The low-resolution images, though visually noisy and compositionally restricted, are surprisingly honest and often extremely personal, exploring how a friendship is nourished from afar through the contemporary form of instant messaging.  The resulting images are exhibited in a 50-foot long grid that documents the timeline of moments shared between the friends. Accompanying the grid are selected images shown as diptychs and a video compilation of the images.

Libby Rowe, exhibit curator.

Anne Leighton Massoni, one-half of the Massoni + Usher Mine & Yours series of images.

Nate Larson, one-half of the Larson + Shindelman Witness: A Psychic Collaboration series of images.

Views of the exhibits at the UTSA Satellite Space Gallery.

Select images from the Larson + Shindelman Witness: A Psychic Collaboration exhibit.

Select images from the Massoni + Usher Mine & Yours exhibit

Detail from the Mine & Yours collaborative series of images.

50-foot long grid of the timeline for the Mine & Yours collaboration.

Schematic timeline for Witness: A Psychic Collaboration.

Centro Cultural Aztlan • A Tale Of Two Cities.
A photo essay curated by Mel Feldman, A South Bronx Original, celebrating the similarities and differences between the two greatest cities in the country (San Antonio, New York), with a visual and culinary taste of both.

Exhibit curator Mel Feldman, a South Bronx Original.

Malena Gonzalez Cid, Executive Director, Centro Cultural Aztlan.

Ruth Guajardo, Programs Manager, Centro Cultural Aztlan.

Views of the exhibit A Tale Of Two Cities at Centro Cultural Aztlan.

Select images from the exhibit A Tale Of Two Cities.

Richard Arredondo and David Rubin contemplating the trappings of royalty.

Ann Kinser, Malena Gonzalez Cid, Patricia Mendoza, and Josephine Sacabo.

Justin Arecchi, San Antonio icon, world-famous ice cream maker, and all around cool guy.

Nosh pit at Centro Cultural Aztlan.

Trinity University • Dicke Art Building
Trish Simonite, The Akrotiri Project.

Trish Simonite, exhibiting photographer.

Neidorff Art Gallery entrance.

Views of The Akrotiri Project exhibit with images by Trish Simonite.

Digital prints on silk.

Select images from Trish Simonite’s The Akrotiri Project.

Patricia Mendoza and Josephine Sacabo.

Southwest School of Art & Craft • Ursuline Hall Gallery.
Carra Garza: Ordered Kingdoms.

Carra Garza, exhibiting photographer.

The name of my exhibit  is derived from the scientific taxonomy and organization of all living things. Basically, what you are looking at are still life photographs of insects and other biological specimens in constructed environments. This body of work consists of 20 toned silver-gelatin prints. They were photographed with a 4×5 field camera using sheet film. I printed everything in the darkroom. I shot everything in my studio, which is essentially my bedroom, using natural light.

This subject matter came to me quite naturally as I have always worked with still life.  This was partly due to the circumstances of my life. As a mother with a small child, it was difficult for me to go out and find the subject. Instead I had to create the subject at home.  Though my child is now a pre-teen, old habits die hard.

I have learned to embrace the beauty of the commonplace and have been a collector of sorts. I wanted to see if I could create dioramas using a variety of insects and other specimens. I wanted to create my own world of captive souvenirs. You could say I was drawn to the idea of discovery not unlike the early naturalists. I have always been fascinated with the small subjects, the quiet and often overlooked.

I combine architectural and mechanical drawings because they have a functional elegance that is both timeless and enigmatic at the same time.  In my work  I used glass lenses, mirrors, prisms and magnifiers to accentuate depth and create ambiguities. Lenses also convey the notion of seeing and being seen.

What I find unique to photography is that it gives us a sense of something being real. In photography there always has to be a subject. I am giving you a real specimen, a real insect, but I am presenting it to you in a completely false environment. I enjoy the juxtaposition of that and of the communication between those two worlds:  the real and the fake. These are controlled worlds, but they exist as such because the specimens, the bird, the insect, the amphibian, they are no longer alive. It is apparent that as much as we would like to think otherwise, we cannot control living things.

Some of my artistic influences have been the photographers Olivia Parker and Abelardo Morell and of course the artist, Joseph Cornell. I love photography. I still find the darkroom magical. I look forward to making more. Thank you for looking.

Views of Carra Garza’s Ordered Kingdoms exhibit.

Select images from the Ordered Kingdoms exhibit by Carra Garza.

Carra discussing her exhibit.

Carra Garza: Elated.

¡Viva Books! - ¡Viva Las Fotos!
Featuring photographs by Cathy Adelman, Jim Collier, Will Douglas, Juliana Hernandez, Maurean Leach, Gary Mortensen, Deb Myers, Kate O’Brien, Kip Sikora, and Marshall Surratt.

Rosalyn Collier, manager and exhibit organizer.

Maureen Leach O.S.F., exhibiting photographer. To live in right relationship with all creation.

Jim Collier, exhibiting photographer.

Views of the gallery area.

View of a section of the exhibit with photographs by Marshall Surratt.

Photograph by Gary Mortensen.

Photograph by Juliana Hernandez.

Roslyn Collier and a guest. Photographs by Deb Myers.

UTSA Art Gallery. Images Speak To The World – Today’s China.
China Photographers Association.

Members of China Photographers Association at the opening of their exhibit in the UTSA Gallery.

Exhibition views of Images Speak To The World – Today’s China.

Select works from the exhibit.

Opening reception crowd.

Presentation of their work by members of the China Photographers Association.