My Alebtong, Uganda photographs will be making their Slideluck Potshow and Canadian debut this Saturday night at Slideluck Potshow Ottawa.

Music accompanying the photographs will be a track that Joseph Arthur created specifically for A River Blue, the organization I was working with while in Uganda. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend but head on over to see photographs, share food and drink, and make a new friend or two.

Time: October 17, 2009 from 7pm to 11pm (7pm potluck, 9pm slideshow, afterparty)
Location: Library and Archives Canada, Lobby + Exhibit Room ‘A’
Street: 395 Wellington Street
City/Town: Ottawa, ON

Boy and bike, Alebtong, Uganda, 2009

There’s 1 day remaining in Daniel Cooney’s Emerging Artist Auction. Dan’s auction is a wonderful way to acquire beautiful works of art at reduced prices.

See my photograph here.

See all of the works up auction here.

More photographs from the Utah series are available here.

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, 2007

Doesn’t get much better than this. Maybe one day I’ll have the chance to photograph her. Maybe one day I’ll make a book of her, Joe, Ray, Ari, Leonard…

(via The Years In Pictures)

I’ve been up in Maine seeing friends, making work, and assisting a photographer friend. We all went for a swim in a nearby lake for her assignment. The water temperature was probably in the low 50s; wild.

Kelly, Camden, Maine, 2009

I was selected as 1 of 3 winners for Joerg Colberg’s Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2009. Here’s an excerpt from the published interview between Joerg and I:

“I tell my subjects that I am in control of the situation and act confident with my movements. I connect on a basic level and common interest, be it a book, a friend, a movie, etc. I often position my subjects in a specific place and tell them where to look. Sometimes we speak to one another and other times we’re quiet. There’s always the need to have subject and I to feel that the portrait is being given rather than taken. I believe that I’m a good listener, honest conversationalist, and strong observationalist. I find these important traits to make the photographs I make because when the subject believes we’re going to make a great photograph, we become closer to being able to do so.”

Read the rest of my interview with Joerg Colberg here.

George and I, A River Blue, Alebtong, Uganda, 2009

I’ve been spending the past few days with my good friends Don and Debbie. We went to Don’s photographic stomping grounds this morning and had an epic time. This one’s going out to you, Don Ross.

Rock, Chittenden Reservoir, Vermont, 2009

I’m hitting the road for about a week and a half to put together my print portfolio, make exhibition prints, see friends, make new work, and assist a great photographer friend.

October 2-5: Middlebury, Vermont

October 5-13: Hope, Maine

I’m available for freelance assignments throughout New England during this time. Email: david@davidwrightphoto.com.

Hope, Maine, 2009

Glósóli kind of day.