August is the time to harvest Oats.

The Harvest, Sîrbi, 2000

In August, oat fields paint the landscape with golden rectangles. A family must cut their crop before it is fully ripe or the seeds will be lost to the earth. To prepare the stalks for being threshed, they first tie them in bundles.

Inner-Mongolia - Jumping in the Desert

I was invited to exhibit 20 black and white photographs of my Color of Hay work. The event was for the annual Photo Awards sponsored by China Photo Magazine. We met in northern China in inner-Mongolia at a resort called Xiang Sha Wan. My daily commute to the exhibition space was a cable car, desert jeep, and walk in the sand with polyester leg coverings. Here I am (far right) with Laura Moya and Nancy Newberry.

LensWork #95 now available

I am delighted to be included in this beautiful fine art photo journal again. I was published in LensWork back in 2003 (see image below). This time there are different images from my book The Color of Hay, as well as an interview. Thank you Brooks and Maureen for this fantastic opportunity.

 

Palaguta and Vasile Borodi holding the issue of Lenswork, New Year's Day, 2003. 

fototazo: f100

fototazo has asked a group of 50 curators, gallery owners, blog writers, photographers, academics and others actively engaged in photography to pick two photographers that deserve (more) recognition - the underknown, the under-respected as well as not-appreciated-enough favorites. A little more information on the project is available in the first post in the series here.

They began the series with responses from Nicholas Nixon, Matt Johnston, Blake Andrews, John Edwin Mason, Aline Smithson, Colin Pantall, Michael Werner and Liza Fetissova. Today we continue with selections from Laurence Salzmann and Bryan Formhals.

Laurence Salzmann is a Philadelphia-based documentary photographer and filmmaker. Among many other collections, his work is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, International Center of Photography, George Pompidou Center in Paris, Brooklyn Museum of Art and Yale University. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Romania as well as a Pew Fellowship. His book "The Last Jews of Radauti" is available here.

  Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin, Petru and the Claie, Sarbi, Maramures, 1999  

Px3 Official Selection

Hey, this is good news for The Color of Hay!

Prix de la Photographie Paris is an annual competition.

You can vote for the People's Choice Awards here http://www.px3.fr/submit/vote/index.php and find it under Non-Pro/Book Series/Documentary.