Other standouts in my opinion were, without a doubt, the abstract color images of Enrst Haas, which reminded me of what I love about William Eggleston. Additionally, there was some beautiful if albeit less socially or politically relevant images by Rene and Radka – who prove once again that you can shoot fashion and still be recognized as artists. In the satellite show of the Tobacco warehouse I found some lovely images by Naho Kubota from her series Minimum Structure.

I’ve left out the images that go along with this post, after attending the panel on the relevance of blogging in the photographic community where the question was posed about the potential copyright issues associated with blogging about others’ work. The panel (consisting of: Jorg Colberg, Cara Philips, Laurel Ptak, Andrew Hetherington and Brain Ulrich) are all preeminent bloggers in the photographic community and promptly dismissed the issue when it was raised. However, I believe it is more complicated than they would admit on stage and am taking the time to think about it thoroughly before moving forward. More on this later…