©Alex Webb, Rebecca’s father at the “My Dakota” opening at the Dahl
It felt right that the first exhibition of “My Dakota” opened in the Black Hills of South Dakota where I grew up. So many friends — both old and new — showed up, including Ruth Brennan, the former Dahl director whom the gallery was named after where “My Dakota” is currently on exhibit. Ruth is an amazing, dynamic woman who was the driving force behind the creation of this wonderful museum and performing arts center in Rapid City.
One of my favorite moments of the evening was photographed by Alex (above)– my 92-year-old dad looking at the photograph of himself that’s in the exhibition, and — just outside the frame — my 85-year-old mom walking not far behind. A special photograph of a special night that I will long remember.––Rebecca Norris Webb
Link to “My Dakota,” which was recently featured on the New Yorker Photo Booth blog.
Link to “My Dakota” at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, June 1-Oct. 13, 2012.
©Alex Webb, “Lost and Loss” installation of “My Dakota” at the Dahl
UPCOMING EVENTS: JUNE & JULY
NEW YORK
––THURSDAY, JUNE 21, RICCO MARESCA GALLERY, NY: “Weather,” a group exhibition with a selection of photographs from MY DAKOTA, 6-8 pm. The exhibition runs through August 17.
RAPID CITY, SD
––JUNE-SEPTEMBER 2012: Launch of OUR DAKOTA Flickr site, an online photographic community This Flickr group is open to all photographers 15 and older with a present or past connection to South Dakota. There will be three assignments posted during the course of the “My Dakota” exhibition at the Dahl, and the group will culminate in an “Our Dakota” slide show to be show both at the SD Festival of Books in Sioux Falls the last week in September 2012 and at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City on Friday, Oct. 5th, at 7pm.
––TUESDAY, AUGUST 7TH: “Slide Talk with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb” at the “My Dakota” exhibition at the Dahl. 12-1pm. Check the Dahl website midJune for more details about this free event.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, AT LOOK3 PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
4-6pm Alex Webb in conversation with noted writer and cultural critic Geoff Dyer
6-7pm: Book signing with Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb, and Geoff Dyer at the Second Street Gallery
9pm: “My Dakota” in the WORKS slide show
SNOWMASS, COLORADO:
TUESDAY, JULY 7-8pm:”Together and Apart: The Photographs of Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb,” Schermer Hall, Anderson Ranch Campus, Snowmass, Colorado. Q&A with the Webbs and book signing of “The Suffering of Light” and “My Dakota” to follow.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS WITH ALEX AND REBECCA
>Friday evening, Oct. 5, thru Sunday, Oct. 7 pm: FINDING YOUR VISION WORKSHOP @ THE DAHL, Rapid City, South Dakota. Discount for members of the Dahl Arts Center.
Sunday, Oct. 21st through Sat., Oct. 27th, 2012: PROJECT WORKSHOP 2012 @ CAPTION GALLERY, DUMBO, BROOKLYN. A small intimate workshop where participants spend a week editing and sequencing a long-term project, working on the text for it, and working with a designer on a cover. There will also be presentations about bookmaking including one by a photo book editor or publisher. Former students are invited to apply, but other photographers will be considered as well. This small workshop is almost full, so please contact Rebecca as soon as possible if you are interested: rebeccanorriswebb@yahoo.com.
ADDITIONAL LINKS FOR ALEX AND REBECCA:
“My Dakota” on Time Magazine’s Light Box
Alex’s recent work on Treece, a toxic U.S. town, in The New York Times Magazine.
Alex’s interview with Alessia Glaviano for Italian Vogue
See Alex and Rebecca’s photos and others from Magnum’s House of Pictures project in Rochester here
See Rebecca’s My Dakota in progress at Radius Books
Q&A with Rebecca and Sarah Rhodes on Timemachine
To read the Robert Klein Gallery Tripod Blog Q&A with Rebecca.
Read more about Magnum’s House of Pictures project in the New Yorker and see Alex’s photo of the day, April 24th.
Alex’s “The Suffering of Light” exhibition at Forma, Milan, featured in Italian Vogue.
©Alex Webb, “My Dakota” at the Dahl, Rapid City, SD