Lanakila MacNaughton is a Portland based photographer and motorcyclist. Involved in many outdoor sports from a young age, Lana began documenting her experiences through photography. After developing a passion for motorcycles in her early twenties, she started documenting many facets of motorcycle culture through her lens. Lana shoots in medium format on a Hasselblad CM.
Lanakila MacNaughton speaks to her influences and mission for her latest project, “The Woman’s Motorcycle Exhibition: The Real Woman Who Ride.” Spend a day with a few of these woman as they cruise the wooded backroads of Portland, Oregon.
The Women’s Motorcycle Exhibition documents the new wave of modern female motorcyclists. The goal is to reveal the brave, courageous and beautiful women that live to ride. TheWomen’s Motorcycle Exhibition is a traveling show. The mission is to discover and present female riders from all different communities, riding backgrounds, and styles, and maybe even influence some connectivity amongst riders from these different areas. Different communities and venues are invited to host the photo exhibit to aid in this discovery.
Lanakila is always looking for women to shoot. Above all, she hopes to illustrate, and really present, the freedom, independence, excitement and personalities’ of “the born to be free” woman motorcyclists.
FILM CREDITS:
Director // Austin Will
Producer // Lanakila MacNaughton
Woman featured in this film // Letizia Maria aka. Zia – Stormie Lynne Ray – Ginger McCabe – Jenny Czinder
Interview Audio Editing // Andrew Grosse
Music // Courtesy of Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside + Partisan Records
More Info // womensmotoexhibit.com/
Austin Will’s Seleted Works // cargocollective.com/austinawill
“Momentum XIcelebrates the 11th anniversary of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Artist Advancement Grant which annually provides financial support to individual artist and craft people in our region.”
Many thanks to visual artist Lauren Gillette for allowing us the opportunity to print her work for her current show, Momentum XI, at the George Marshall Gallery in York, ME. Lauren is showing her work along with photographer Bear Kirkpatrick and painter Rose Umerlik. I hope you all get a chance to get over there. First time I saw Lauren’s work was at The Parlor at Plainspoke. The show was titled “Wish/Regret” (pictured above). She makes mug shots look good. Lindsey Lohan should have modeled. Seriously, this current show will be something you won’t expect. You’ll laugh, you’ll have to think, you might even be insulted. Lauren is one of a kind, She was fun to talk to and work with and I wish I had been in NH to go to the reception to see everything put together, but I’m hopefully going this Saturday. I’ll take some snaps if it’s allowed. Please make it over. If it wasn’t for working with Lauren, I wouldn’t even know this show was happening. So make it over and show some support for Lauren, Bear and Rose.
“Cambodia, A Serendipitous Gift of Fate,” a visual representation of the current Seacoast Artist Association Featured Gallery Exhibit. The slideshow will be combined with a conversation about the emerging genre of travel photography where photo education is blended with the opportunity to give back to local communities through sustainable development projects.
Using the Main Street North entrance (near Poppers restaurant) at the Newmarket Mills, proceed upstairs to conference room suite 313. Parking options: along the street, in the Mill parking lot directly across the street from the North Main entrance, or the municipal parking lot a little further up the hill (just off Main Street).
Handicap parking is available in back of the building (between the two gray stone buildings). Enter through #55 Main entrance (Bloomin Cow & Creek Hill Upholstery signs nearby). There is an elevator located down the hall and to the right. Take the lift to the third floor, head left and the conference room is located on the left, just beyond the kitchen area.
the exhibit was originally set to be displayed at the Exeter town Hall. But there was a fire. you can read about the story here WMUR.
CAMBODIA – A Serendipitous Gift Of Fate. Attend the artist reception for Pat Kennedy Corlin, at the Mill Building in Newmarket, NH on 4/27/13 from 12 pm to 4pm
Pat Kennedy Corlin, owner of Performing Images Photography of Strafford, NH, recently returned from a photo journey in Cambodia, where she traveled with The Giving Lens. TGL was founded by travel photographer, Colby Brown. Brown’s vision was to provide opportunities for professional photographers and photo-enthusiasts to combine their love for photography and travel with the desire to give back. Teams travel to a developing nation and work alongside a local non-profit organization for the betterment of the community. Guided by the TGL Leaders, who are professional photographers, participants travel through the country, into the culture, taking part in workshops at locations many will only dream of, while helping in a tangible, needed way with the NGO.
The body of work, is a sampling of Corlin’s travels through the villages and temples of Angkor Wat. The images encompass highlights of her experiences working with The Giving Lens and the young photography students in the art program of The Anjali House of Siem Reap.
Pat Kennedy Corlin
“It is my hope that these images will inspire others to be moved to action and explore new opportunities where, in some small but significant way, they too can make a difference helping others with their photography.” -Pat Kennedy Corlin
This summer, Corlin will be continuing her work with The Giving Lens, traveling to East Africa and working with the non-profit Art InTanzania and the Massai Cultural Preservation, Child Education, UNICEF Documentation Program.
Photographer David Murry will lead a post film discussion
Levenson Room 175 Parrott Ave Portsmouth NH
Fantastic I just found this in the mailbox. Is it an invite for myself and Michael Winters? I might have missed it otherwise.
How exciting for Photographers and Movie makers. A Film based on Gregory Crewdson. A Film by Ben Shapiro. I posted the movie trailer, along with an interview from NPR from 2006. It might help to get some discussion going.
GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS follows acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life — perfect renderings of a disturbing and imperfect world.
*OPENS OCT 31 AT FILM FORUM IN NEW YORK*
CHECK WWW.GREGORYCREWDSONMOVIE.COM TO FOR OTHER CITIES.
@CrewdsonMovie
“Gregory Crewdson doesn’t so much take pictures as make them. Some critics say the photographer and artist is reinventing the genre by using film techniques to stage pictures.”
click on the image to read more from the interview
If you get the chance next time you are in the downtown Exeter area. Stop in at D Squared Java and enjoy the work of Chris D’Amore. He shots medium format color and black/white, as you can see from the nice photo Chris Shared with us today. Thanks again Chris for letting us be apart of your project everything looks great. View this event for more details.
The New England Chapter typically meets on the second or third Thursday at The Friendly Toast in Portsmouth, NH starting between 9-10am and ending when the time is right.The group is lead by Michael Seamans who is a wealth of knowledge in the Photography world. Feel free to contact him directly.
“The New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists (NHSPA) supports photography as a means for creative expression and cultural insight. We focus on artistic development of members and the community by providing exhibitions, publications, and outreach”
