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Rhio9 is a member of aamora. You can see more of his work on his photo blog and at jpgmag. Also, check out his books on the Blurb Bookstore. Rhio is generously offering a significant discount, and a signed copy, to members and friends of aamora – just ask him!

Betty and Me

Bus Stop on Hudson Street, NY

Waiting for a bus in Chelsea

Midtown Manhattan bus stop

Across from the Village Voice, E. Village, NY

Store window on W. 42nd Street, NY

Empty store in the W. Village, NY

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(All the photos above are single exposures with no photoshopping.)

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Aamora member Ronnie Ginnever is a born and bred New Yorker, and much of her work is inspired by the spirit and people of that City. Her photography has been shown in museums and galleries and published in magazines in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

To find out more about Ronnie, see her website here. You will be well rewarded by exploring her galleries there. Then enjoy more of her work on jpgmag.com and on aamora here and here. And here. There.

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the people, the music, the unity
and so much love in the air
This is the Real Tel Aviv.

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Ariel Shelleg makes his first appearance as a guest photographer at aamora.

Ariel (Eric) Shelleg. 24 yo.
Born and living in tel aviv, Israel.
Freelance Director\photographer\editor.
Mostly making video art and music videos, short film projects and portraiture.
Filmography student @ “minshar for Art”, tel aviv, Israel.

You can see more of his work on Flickr or Facebook. And if you’d like to experience more of the atmosphere at the Tel Aviv Gay Pride parade, we highly recommend you check out Ariel’s video.

“The object of this project was to intuitively exchange an image (of any subject matter) with another photographer, not knowing what image was to be shared with me. The result… juxtaposed subjects sharing a very similar vision.

I choose these photographers – John, Maura and Rhio, feeling I knew their work and their (sometimes) quirky visions – anticipating an intuitive connection in subject matter. I met all three photographers on JPGmag.com.”

Cairenn and John collaboration

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Cairenn and Maura collaboration

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Cairenn and Rhio collaboration

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Check out more of Cairenn’s contributions to aamora here.

And Maura’s here.

And don’t miss Rhio’s here.

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Art Deco Shadow and Light

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Flow of Reality

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Gothic Shadows

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Ripple in Space

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Shadows Cast from Easter Island

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Welcome James Ford as our guest at aamora. We asked him to tell us something about himself:

“I have a BFA degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with traditional printmaking as a major.  I also have a MA degree from SUNY Oswego with a major in digital photography/photoshop and art history study in surrealism.  I worked in custom color labs and communication companies when I was younger and have taken photographs for many, many years.  I have also been employed by SUNY Oswego for the past twenty-five years doing the same and soon to retire.  I explore, search, record and present images of my daily life in the fine art tradition.  My creative universe is expanding and I welcome it with open arms.”

You can enjoy more of Jim’s work by clicking here.

an aamora show
produced by aaron schwartz
photographs by maura wolfson-foster

When I was in San Diego preparing for Artwalk, I frequented a thrift store called Pat’s Corner in the North Park area. I struck junk gold there. A lot of the pieces I did for the festival used various objects found at Pat’s.

The place was a maze, part of it was organized and somewhat presentable and other parts looked like modern history upchucked and no one bothered to clean it up. The yard out back had the larger bits of broken antiquity that had been pulled gracelessly off the sides of houses and somehow ended up in Pat’s corral. Overseeing it all, Pat sat in the middle of the store like a glorious queen of tarnished dents. The several times I was there, I never saw her out of her throne.

Her throne. A humble chair slightly raised and surrounded by a world of junk unimaginable. I would not be at all surprised to find Jimmy Hoffa’s dentures under an old Mad Magazine on the floor next to a cookie tin full of forks. From atop this post she’d size up your finds and, with the arbitrary mathematics of thrift store pricing, would arrive at a dollar amount you could never argue with. This price wasn’t made up, it was pronounced with sage-like certainty and was usually rounded off to a fiver.

My last time in there I talked to her for a bit. She seemed to approve of the artistic madmanship I planned for the items I bought. She would only let me take a picture of her hands which I admire.

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Help us welcome Kreddible Trout to aamora as a guest artist. He is a photographer and artist living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Check out more of his work on his website, his blog and on jpgmag. And help us congratulate him on his very recent marriage!

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“John Linton is a floundering member of aamora. He lives in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the state with the biggest name and smallest size.” Check out John’s other aamora posts here and see more of his work by clicking here.

“These images were a result of me sending a call out over the internet for people’s mail addresses. When I received the participant’s addresses, I sent them a pinhole camera disguised as a parcel and asked them to take a portrait of themselves and send it back to me. Then I took a portrait of myself. The resulting imagery is a ghostly spectral trace of two faces with their physiognomic features merged.”

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We welcome Jamie House to aamora as a guest artist. Jamie is a socially engaged, practising photographer who uses pinhole cameras. He collaborates with people worldwide, from established artists such as Jo Babcock and Justin Quinnell to emerging talents. Jamie use the collective power of mail art to realise his ideas and empower people.

Jamie’s latest project “Stranger” is a collaborative pinhole photography project that examines the role of the stranger in society, collaborating with people across the globe. Jamie has used pinhole photography and mail art in previous projects such as his Pinhole Parcel Project where he constructed cameras disguised as parcels and posted them around the world, mapping the world with light.

Jamie is a conceptual Pinhole Photographer and also a camera Obscura builder. He tells us: “I recently built England’s largest camera Obscura.

Jamie’s work is currently exhibited in Goa International Pinhole show, travelling to New Delhi, Mumbai and Goa.

For an interview with author of the Pinhole Camera, Brian Krummel in Hub magazine, click here.

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We’re always pleased to have Simon Kossoff share his work with us on aamora ! Simon is a photographer and teacher from England now living in Kansas City. He graduated from Brighton University with an honors degree in editorial photography in 99 and has worked on, but more often not in the field since. Kossoff’s continuing search to orientate himself in America and its culture is documented in photographic works including ‘Running on Empty’ and ‘States of Grace’. These works can be seen at Get the Picture, the photo agency where he is a member and his on-going ‘psychic co-ordinate points’ are plotted at his blog ‘Altered States of Agoraphobia’. He also posts his unedited and on-going work at jpg.com where he finds the on-line community there a continuous inspiration.

You will be well rewarded by exploring his work on his blog site and his agency site as well as on JPGmag.