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mara Catalan

mara Catalan
Profession: Photographer/B/W masterpr
Location: new york , United States
Home base: nyc
URL: http://www.maracatalan.com
URL: http://www.studio304.org
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Languages spoken: english/spanish
Organization: www.maracatalan.com
Skype: Mararitaveoveo mararitaveoveo
Mobile phone: 347 739 8258
Last login: about 15 hours ago
Member since: 18 Oct 2005 05:10

About

Mara Catalan was born in Madrid in 1967. Mara is a photographer and also a B/W master printer. Her work with photography has taken her to multiple arenas and to travel to many parts of the world. She started working as a photographer assistant in Ciclorama studios for Javier Vallhonrat in Madrid. At the beginning of the 90’s she leaves Spain an establishes herself in New York City starting to work as a B/W printer and collaborating as a photographer for different magazines and artists in their personal projects.
In 1995 Mara travels to Chiapas, Mexico were she works in the photography archives of the Museum Na-Bolom in San Cristobal de las Casas. When she arrives back in to NY in 1997, she starts working as a B/W fine printer for the agency Magnum Photos. In 2002 she opens her own B/W lab in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and in 2006 she extends her working space by opening a photography space Studio304.org.were she continues to work and to organize every other month the Studio304 Slideshow.
Mara has published her work in numerous magazines and photography books like: Friendship, M.I.L.K publications; New York Fashion, V&A publications; Urban Age, Phaedon books.
Mara Catalan has shown her personal work in exhibitions in Spain, England, Mexico and the EEUU. Her photographs are also part of private collections such as Spencer Throckmorton Inc; Mead Art Museum and Linda Kaston in NYC.

Today she lives in Brooklyn, NY.

For more information regarding Mara Catalan and to see some of her work : www.maracatalan.com

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CALL_FOR_SUBMISSIONS_STUDIO304_SLIDESHOW_JUNE 7TH

Call for Submissions:

I am happy to announce that we are back and ready for our VIII Slideshow. The theme of this show will be: Invincible, Solo or Fate. You can choose one of the themes to create your body of work.
So do what you need to do – edit/choose your work, create new work and show us something special.

Do to the nice weather we are going to be screening our next slideshow outside in the parking lot behind the building. We will do a potluck barbecue and it will be on a saturday, so please let everyone know about it that you invite.

The slideshow is open to all visual arts! Photography, paintings, drawings, multimedia, video, etc. – all is welcome as long as it is short (under 5 minutes) and in a digital format we can project from our laptop to the big screen. If you are interested in presenting work, please email Mara Catalan at info@studio304.org. or call 347 739 8258. Please get in touch with Mara soon if you wish to show work.

We’re excited to see what you come up with!

Theme:
INVINCIBLE
SOLO
FATE

Date of Event:
June 7th
doors open at 8pm

Submission Date:
We’re asking that work be submitted on CD/DVD by tuesday June3rd so that we have time to put together the evening’s presentation.

Location:
304 Boerum st , first floor
Brooklyn NY 11206
www.studio304.org

Guidelines:
For videos and multimedia:
-less than 5 minutes
-burned to a dvd or cd
-able to play on standard software
-no internet required

For still images:
-image should be JPEGs with pixel dimensions of 1024×768 (be it horizontal or vertical, under Image Size in Photoshop just make sure the longest side of the image is 1024 pixels)
-filenames should contain numerical sequence and artist’s name (01Catalan.jpg, 02Catalan.jpg)
-25 images or less (but if you have a special idea, this is negotiable)

Mailing/Dropoff:
Please mail or drop off your CD/DVD to Studio 304. The address is:

Studio 304
Att: Mara Catalan
304 Boerum St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206

You may drop your CD/DVD off at Studio 304 during business hours. Just go to the above address and ring buzzer number 17. This is the building office, and you can drop your CD/DVD there from 9am-5pm.

Other dropoff location(s) are TBA.

For directions to Studio 304 please check-out our website at:

http://www.studio304.org/Instructions.html

09 May 2008 04:05 | 0 replies

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