What is a Portrait ? Competition WINNERS!!!

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The WINNERS of What is a Portrait? Competition are:

First Prize Winner- Matthew Swarts

Second Prize Winner -Caleb Cole

Third Prize Winner-  Mariette Pathy Allen

Honorable Mention- Luis Carle
Honorable Mention- Lesly Deschler Canossi

Winners by Portraiture Categories

Environmental Portraits- Nina Buesing Corvallo
Documentary Portraits- Kate Pollard Hoffmann
Self Portraits - Rocio De Alba
Traditional Portraits- Joe Gaffney
Experimental Portraits- David Meanix
Celebrity Portraits- Rafael Fuchs
Candid Portraits- David Sweet
Glamour Portraits- Larry Torno
Lifestyle Portraits- Shannon Clyne
Surreal Portraits-Craig Becker
Conceptual Portraits-Alison Stewart
Abstract Portrait - Maury Gortemiller
Modern Portraits-Christopher Borrok
Family Portraits- Antonio Pulgarin
Landscape Portraits- Nancy Oliveri
Animal Portraits- Bibiana Skraby Medkova
Conceptual Portraits-Rita Koehler
Selfie Portraits- Caroline Kessler
Mixed Media Portraits -Russ Rowland
Event Portraits- Valery Rizzo
Street Portraits- Sheri Lynn Behr

Please excuse me if got your name misspelled incorrectly ( can be fixed)
It was very hard for me to decide but kept coming back to the same images and artists. Since Portraiture is such a vast theme wanted to honor artists whose work stood out besides the winners. Congratulations to you all!!!
Big love,
Ruben Natal-San Miguel

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FINALIST LIST for What is a Portrait Juried Competition!!

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1. Pathy Allen #1,3,4
2. Grabowski #2
3.Rocio De Alba #3,4&6
4.Rodriguez #2
5.Cole #2,3&4
6.Buesing Corvallo #1&2
7.Clyne #1,2
8. Youmans #3,2
9.Borrok#1,2,4
10.Bacon #1,2
11.Jackson #2,3
12.Pulgarin #1,2
13.Sweet #3,1
14. Meanix 1,2,3
15. Bibiana, #2,4
16.Rowland #1,3
17. Hertog #1
18. Kessler #1,2
19. Lobis #1
20. Maier #1
21. Belanich#1,3
22.Peralta#2
23.Kane #3,5
24. Anello#1
25.Shung #1,3
26. King #3,5
27.Pollard-Hoffman#3,5
28.Ott #2
29. Oliveri #2,3&5
30. Arliss #1
31. Spero #3,5
32. Wind #13,10, 8&7
33. Jungers#2
34. Koehler#3,7& matress image
35. Becker#2,3
36. Grimm #3
37. Chan #2
38. Gordon#3
39.Gaffney #2,3
40. Deschler Cannosi #2,3
41. Rickert #1,2,3
42. Behr #2,3
43. Keiser #3
44. Fuchs #2 C.Powell , 3&4
45. Cheikin #1
46. Wallenstein #1
47. Carle #2,3
48. Bahat #1
49. Rosenberg #3
50. Jones #2
51. Keith Thompson #3
52. Doran#1,2&4
53. Mintz #3
54. Davis T #6
55. Swarts #1,2
56. Gordon #1
57. Gortemiller #fan image
58. Eckert #1
59. Torno #2,3
60. Stewart #3
61. Einhorn #2
62. Desilets #2
63. Rizzo #3,2
64. Lazar#1

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What is a Portrait ? Competition/Exhibition EXTENDED DEADline to 11/18/14!

! Due to problems with Paypal ( It sort of crashed due to a large amount of last minute entries and some people were not able to meet the deadline) DEADLine for entries extended till Tuesday, November 18, 2014! What is a P O R T R A I T ? 1 DAY Left to submit entries!! A juried competition by Ruben Natal- San Miguel . Deadline 11/18/14 . Exhibition opens at Ripe Art Gallery December 13, 2014. http://ripeartgal.com/ Winners will be exhibited alongside with Amy Elkins, Oliver Wasow, Nan Goldin, Aline Smithson, Ryan McGinley, Jack Pierson, Martin Parr, Phil Toledano and 2 more great photographers . https://www.facebook.com/events/772743416104707/?ref=22 Only 1 DAY left for 11/18/14 entry deadline. Submit you entries TODAY! Photo: " Untitled " 2014 by Ruben NSM Sent from my iPad

What is a PORTRAIT? Deadline for entries 11/15/14

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What is a P O R T R A I T ? 

3 DAYS Left to submit entries!!

A juried competition by Ruben Natal- San Miguel . 

Deadline 11/15/14 . Exhibition opens at  Ripe Art Gallery December 13, 2014.
http://ripeartgal.com/
Winners will be exhibited alongside with Amy Elkins, Oliver Wasow, Nan Goldin, Aline Smithson, Ryan McGinley, Jack Pierson, Martin Parr, Phil Toledano and 2 more great photographers .
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Only 4 DAYS left for 11/15/14 entry deadline. Submit you entries TODAY! 

Photo: Ruben NSM 

ARTmostfierce's Ruben Natal-San Miguel's Print Sale

''The Smoker'' , 2014 Brooklyn NYC by RNSM

'Firescape'' 2014 Harlem, NYC by RNSM

Lady Money Sings The Blues, 2011 Harlem NYC

Feeling pretty grateful for the most recent amount of exhibitions, press and other accolates, I decided that is time to share the joy with my fans, faithful audience and collectors who always provide the most support of it all. Saying this, it might be the very last time to get Lady Money at 11x14 size ( sold out  8x10 size), SIGNED, TITLED & at a very limited edtion of 7 ONLY for $150.00!!!

This image has won a PDN competition beating 1,500.00 entries and just this past Friday earned another competition win at NEXT curated & juried by Elizabeth Avedon. 

http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/11/07/awards/26547/elizabeth-avedon-castell-photography-exhibition

http://www.pdnonline.com/photoserve/Weekly-Contest-Winne-8400.shtml

The other two images , The Smoker and Firescape hd both generated internet buzz and are part of two new ongoing new bodies of work. they are both editions of 7 signed, dated and edition for the same price.

Please add $9.99 for shipping out of NY State. 

Email  Natalsanmiguel@gmail.com for sales inquiries.

Happy Shopping!

Big Love,

Ruben

Elizabeth Avedon Castell Photography Exhibition/Competition -NEXT - Ruben Natal San Miguel winner -L'Oeil de la Photographie Magazine Interview

'' Lady Money Sings The Blues'' 2011, Harlem, NYC
RNSM

Ruben Natal-San Miguel- Third Place Winner

New York City-based photographer, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, also holds a Bachelor and Master Degree in Architecture from Boston Architectural College and Finance and Business Administration from Boston University. His photography has been shown internationally, and published in The Atlantic, Aperture, Daily News and Urban Italy Magazine; and won the Photo District News (PDN Magazine) Portrait Competition. I am a fan of his bold, authentic images from the streets of Harlem, which Natal-San Miguel said, “captures the last vestiges of a rich street culture before the imminent gentrification in Harlem."

EA: Is your image, Lady Money Sings The Blues, 2011 Harlem, NYC,part of an ongoing series?

RNSM: Yes, it is part of a 10-year project called NYC: Concrete Jungleof work in all 5 Boroughs of NYC.

EA: Can you tell us something about the experience of shooting this image? What captured your attention to take this photograph?  

RNSM: The subject of the photograph is Billie Jean, a longtime Harlem resident and Cotton Club Jazz singer. Her look and demeanor evokes that old NYC style, presence, endurance, perseverance and uniqueness that, due to the aggressive gentrification keeps disappearing from the city's street culture. I took several photos of her, but this one was my favorite, just at the precise moment she was writing her phone number for me. There was something very soulful, vulnerable and genuine about the moment.   

EA:  How did you originally get involved in photography?

RNSM: I am 100% self-taught. I did not attend college for Photography. I am a trained Architect and learned photography by collecting it, reading and studying about it, selling and curating exhibitions. My trained eye in design always helps me to compose the photographs in my head.

EA: Is there a photography icon you met, would like to meet, or wish you had met, that has influenced or inspired you? 

RNSM: Susan Meiselas, who I had the honor to interview for the 2009 Lucie Awards. A few months later she approached me and I worked with her as a collaborator on a Flag Project that a museum in Paris, France commissioned. I photographed with her in the Bronx, Harlem and the Lower East Side. The final was a photo and video presentation in which my voice explains the sentiments behind the Puerto Rican Flag and why there is a strong fervor and love about it.

EA: Apart from developing a great body of work, what are your objectives; what are you working on NEXT?

RNSM: I started a new project that has to do with how we tend to miss the great architecture of NYC by not looking up. It will address the fact that since we live in such fast pace life with  our faces  buried in our phones, we pass by every day the most majestic architecture, and hope to bring attention to it.http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/11/07/awards/26547/elizabeth-avedon-castell-photography-exhibition

The Open Road - Aperture Foundation Benefit Party- AN EVENING OF ART AND ENTERTAINMENT IN TRIBUTE TO ROBERT FRANK TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 TERMINAL 5, NEW YORK CITY

Ruben NSM- Marcy's Playground 2014, Bushwick, Bk, NYC.

http://www.aperture.org/openroad/

http://www.aperture.org/benefit-2014/

AN EVENING OF ART AND ENTERTAINMENT
IN TRIBUTE TO ROBERT FRANK

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014
TERMINAL 5, NEW YORK CITY

POSTCARDS FROM THE ROAD

Silent auction of small framed works, including works by JESSE ALEXANDER THOMAS ALLEN JOWHARA ALSAUD MICHAEL AVEDON TIM BARBER NIGEL BARKER OLAF BECKER OLIVIA BEE CHRIS BUCK ELINOR CARUCCI OLIVER CHANARIN ELIZABETH CHILES WALTER CHIN TEJU COLE BARBARA CRANE ZOE CROSHER BRUCE DAVIDSON JEN DAVIS CRISTINA DE MIDDEL DOUG DUBOIS CHARLOTTE DUMAS MICHAEL DWECK AMY ELKINS LARRY FINK BRIAN FINKE LUCAS FOGLIA AMELIA FORMAN PETER FREED ISAAC GALE RON GALELLA HENNY GARFUNKEL TIERNEY GEARON DAVID GODLIS JIM GOLDBERG DANIEL GORDON MEGAN GORHAM JOHN GOSSAGE GEORGE GRUEL BOB GRUEN GAIL HALABAN GREGORY HALPERN ROB HANN ANDREW HETHERINGTON AARON HUEY HENRY JACOBSON SIMEN JOHAN DANIEL KRAMER BARNEY KULOK GILLIAN LAUB SHANE LAVALETTE JEFF LIAO SUSAN LIPPER JON LOWENSTEIN ALEXI LUBOMORSKI KURT MARKUS ELAINE MAYES PATRICK MCMULLAN WILLIAM MEBANE AND MARTIN HYERS RICHARD MISRACH MATTHEW MONTEITH ANDREW MOORE ALISON MOSSHART JOE NANASHE RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL REBECCA NORRIS WEBB ERIC OGDEN ERWIN OLAF SARAH PALMER RACHEL PAPO MARTIN PARR MARK PETERSON MATTHEW PILLSBURY BERNARD PLOSSU LEN PRINCE RICHARD RENALDI SCOTT RUDIN VICTORIA SAMBUNARIS GARY SCHNEIDER MICHAEL SCHMELLING BRYAN SCHUTMAAT ROBIN SCHWARTZ STEPHEN SHORE MIKE SLACK TABITHA SOREN ANDY SPADE AMY STEIN BERT TEUNISSEN MICHAEL THOMPSON PHILLIP TOLEDANO NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER PENELOPE UMBRICO MASSIMO VITALI ALEX WEBB WILLIAM WEGMAN SHEN WEI JAMES WELLING LINDSEY WHITE HANNAH WHITAKER VANESSA WINSHIP DAN WINTERS STEPHAN WURTH
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What is a P O R T R A I T ? - Call for Submissions- Juried Photography Exhibition- Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel @ Ripe Art Gallery. Opening 12/1314

'' H U S T L E'' 2014 Harlem, New York,City © Ruben Natal-San Miguel ©.All Rights Reserved. NO - Facebook may not use my Name or any of my content.

Announcing....Call for Submissions for Our First JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW!!
For Ripe Art Gallery’s First Juried Photography Exhibition is an Open Call for entries of contemporary photography based works. This competition will be juried by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, photographer, writer, photography specialist/critic and curator. The curator is looking to see exceptional photography with a unique perspective and cohesive look based on a new look at portraiture. He challenges entrants to redefine what a portrait is. We encourage entrants to challenge themselves to excite our juror, who has his finger on the pulse of contemporary photography.
Please Email WhatisaPortrait@gmail.com for submission guidelines or more information..

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15 Minutes of Fame Portfolio Reviews 7/19-20/14 Sign up today!

15 Minutes of Fame Photography Portfolio Reviews 7/19-20,2014

Geraldo Rivera by Rafael Fuchs

Natal-San Miguel Fine Art Photography Consulting Svcs & Fuchs Projects presents:
15 M I N U T E S of F A M E
Photography Portfolio Reviews
July 19-20, 2014
10AM-6PM 
Fuchs Projects
56 Bogart Street
#1-E
Bushwick, Brooklyn 11206www.fuchsprojects.com/upcoming
917-400-4481

Are you ready to be discovered? looking for new talent for future curated exhibitions. Have your portfolio looked and critiqued by very influential & key profesional in the current photography industry. You only need several prints. ipad / laptop presentations ok as long as. there is prints to be shown as well. Remember that there is a reinforced time limit so, your work need to be in order, properly presented and well edited in order to get the most timely review possible.Do not be late for your scheduled review.


$50 - for two reviews
$75- for three reviews
$100- for four reviews
$125- for 5 reviews
*NY State Taxes applicable.

Elizabeth Avedon
Stella Kramer 7/20 onlyAlison Zavos 7/20 onlyRafael Fuchs
Jon Feinstein 7/19 only
E Brady Robinson 7/19 only
David Rosenberg
John A.Bennette
Ruben Natal-San Miguel
Email & Schedule Today- 15minutesoffameportfolioreview@gmail.com
Questions? Please call : 917-400-4481Payments will be accepted through Paypal @15minutesoffameportfolioreview@gmail.com

• July 19 - July 20 Jul 19 at 10:00am to Jul 20 at 6:00pm

• Show Map Fuchs Projects 56 Bogart St Studio 1E, Brooklyn, New York 11206

Artist Mickalene Thomas on Her Film Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, Her Mother, and Creativity - Culture - Music, Movies, Art, Profiles, and More

Artist Mickalene Thomas on Her Film Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, Her Mother, and Creativity - Culture - Music, Movies, Art, Profiles, and More

Art F City is holding a roast and fundraiser Feb 17th at Postmasters Gallery. 54 Franklin St. NYC. You better be there. A crazy night of fun and art to support the premier online art criticism site artfcity.com

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THIS WEEK: Postcards from the Edge A Benefit for Visual AIDS- January 24-26, 2013

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THIS WEEK: Postcards from the Edge  A Benefit for Visual AIDS Preview Party: January 24, 2014 Benefit Sale: January 25-26, 2013 Luhring Augustine 531 W 24th Street, NYC Wishing for a Marilyn Minter...? Think you can spot an Ed Ruscha...? Want your own Julie Mehretu...? At Postcards from the Edge, you can be an international art collector. With over 1300 postcard-sized masterpieces by renowned artistsand exciting newcomers, there is something for everyone! All work only $85 each. What a great way to start the New Year! Click HERE for a FULL LIST of ARTISTS Tell your friends - and join us at the Preview Party and Benefit Sale! All events hosted at  Luhring Augustine 531 W 24th Street, NYC BENEFIT SALE  SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 from 10 AM - 6 PM  (Buy 4 - Get 1 More) SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 from 12 PM - 4 PM      (Buy 2 - Get 1 More) $5 suggested admission / $20 gets you a NOT OVER book or Kay Rosen bag Plan your weekend now - and make some extra room on your walls - for NYC's most popular art event of the year!  At Postcards from the Edge, the artwork is displayed anonymously, and artist's name revealed only after purchase.  All postcard artwork is $85 each (less than a round of cocktails - give or take a martini).  It's first-come, first-served, but with over 1300 works on display, you'll find something you love - while supporting the programs of Visual AIDS.  SILENT AUCTION closes Sunday, January 26 at 4 PM Work by Joy Garnett, Will Barnet, Mike Bidlo, Robert Flynt, Joanne Greenbaum, Harmony Hammond, Marc Handelman, David Humphrey, Cary Leibowitz, Glenn Ligon, Sophie Matisse, Slava Mogutin, Ernesto Pujol, Hunter Reynolds, and Rob Wynne is online now and on view at Luhring Augustine from January 24 - 26. Final bids close on Sunday, January 26 at 4 PM.  Bid online at Paddle8  PREVIEW PARTY: FRIDAY, JANUARY 24th The only opportunity to see the entire exhibition.  Silent Auction & Raffle Prizes. (No postcard sales.) * VIP Preview begins at 5pm Don't like crowds?  $50 admission (payable at the door or online here) allows guests into the gallery one hour before the general doors open.  Beat the crowd and get an extra close look at all the amazing artwork.  * Artist Preview from 6pm-8pm Participating artists can attend the Preview for free, starting at 6pm, one hour after VIP Preview. Additional guests $50 each.  Raffle Prizes Two raffle tickets with $50 admission, additional tickets $10 each. • First pick of any postcard that night • VIP access to the benefit on Saturday morning • Ask any question about one specific postcard (NEW this year) Raffle to be called at 7:30 pm. Must be present to win. SEE YOU THERE! Postcards from the Edge is Visual AIDS' biggest show and fundraiser of the year - and one of the most unique and democratic events in the art world!  Since 1998, over 18,500 postcard-sized works have been exhibited. Help us keep the overhead cost down and raise funds tosupport Visual AIDS' mission of promoting AIDS awareness and supporting artists living with HIV/AIDS.   Can't make it to POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE - but want to support the event and Visual AIDS' programs?     Help Visual AIDS start off the New Year right - please make an online donation today!