News: David Lykes Keenan

B&W Magazine has recognized Dave's work once again in the 2010 Portfolio Contest issue. Posted Keep Out, New York, 2009 and Boots and Dog, Austin Texas, 2006 won Merit Awards  See all of Dave's award winning photographs in Published Work.

Dave's Boots and Dog photograph is proving to be a popular one.  It has been selected to be one of the 63 prints to join the Texas Photographic Society's 24th Annual Members' Only Show (24MOS) Exhibition. This year 185 photographers submitted 1185 photographs for consideration for the exhibition. 24 MOS opens at Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas on June 8th and is scheduled to travel other galleries across Texas and the USA over the next 12 months. Dave's photograph can be seen on the right immediately above.

In conjunction with his Slideluck Potshow XIV in NYC submission, Dave has posted a new slide show on his web site. Drawn from his Fear and Loathing in the US of A exhibition and from some older work, this new slide show is entitled MIssed Directions. View the show here.

A photograph in Dave's Fear and Loathing in the US of A gallery has been selected as one of the photographs to tour with the Texas Photographic Society's 24th Members' Only Show. The touring exhibition opens at the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas on June 8th. The show will be traveling to other locations in the coming months. The photograph entitled Boots + Dog can seen here. An electronic gallery of the entire show can be seen here.

Dave's photograph of renown Magnum Photos' photographer Elliott Erwitt has been accepted into the permanent collection of comtemporary portaits at the Austin Museum of Art. This is the same photograph that was featured in LeicaShots back in January.

Dave's new street photography exhibition Fear and Loathing in the US of A appears on the walls of Caffe Medici. A favorite at Medici, this is the fifth show he has had at this popular photography-centric hang out in the hip Clarksville area of Austin. [Gallery]

B&W Magazine has recognized Dave's work once again in the 2010 Single Image Contest. Drinker, Texas, 2006 won the Silver Award in the Metaphor/Abstract category; Reflection, Texas, 2008 won a Merit Award in the Still Life/Objects category, and Subway Boys, New York 2009 won a Merit Award in the Cityscape/Street category. See all of Dave's award winning photographs in Published Work.

Dave's humorous portrait of photographer Elliott Erwitt, and the story about how the picture came to be, has been published on the LeicaShots web site. You can see the photograph and story here.

Dave's Coffee House slide show was selected as part of Slideluck Potshow Sante Fe. Probably, not coincidentally, the coffee house in question, Aztec Cafe, is located in Sante Fe. You can view the slide show here.

Dave's review of the long awaited Leica M9 camera appears today with the November issue of the online magazine The Digital Journalist. Read the review here. Safe to say that Dave is stoked.

Sweet Spots, Dave's large color photographs taken with a toy Diana camera, returns at Lava Java, a University of Texas student hangout and coffee house. A collection of small prints from the same series makes its debut as well.  No formal opening festivities are planned. [Gallery]

Dave was excited to learn that two of his portfolio contest submission photographs garnered Merit Awards and were published in the B&W Magazine Special Issue: 2009 Portfolio Contest Awards issue. The twp winners, which can be seen here and here, consist of four separate photographs put together to tell a brief photo story. Pulled from a larger submission, these two stories caught the fancy of  the juror.

As a long time Leica user, Dave was asked to review the latest Leica digital M camera, the M8.2. His review, entitled The Leica M8.2 Experience, has just been published by The Digital Journalist, an online magazine. You may read the review here.

Dave's Salvation photograph has been published in the American Art Collector, an annual publication of juried multi-discipline artwork from Alcove Books. The entire book is available as a PDF file here. Dave's photograph appears on page.98. The curious can see Salvation here.

A selection of Dave's large color prints in his Sweet Spots Diana camera series opens on this date at Caffe Medici in Austin, Texas. There is an opening event on Saturday April 11 at 7pm. [Gallery]

The Grad Vukovar exhibition is on display during this time at Caffe Medici in Austin, Texas. The show appeared previously as part of the 2007 Fotoseptiembre International Photography Festival. Grad Vukovar (meaning City of Vukovar in Croatian) is photographic exploration of a city's destruction fifteen years after a devastating war. Opening festivities plans are in the works. [View Exhibition Catalog] [Gallery]

A selection of Dave's large color prints in his Sweet Spots Diana camera series are on display at

south location of Hyde Park Bar & Grill restaurant on Westgate Blvd. in South Austin. No formal opening festivities are planned. [Gallery]

A selection of Dave's street photographs are now on display in an online gallery hosted by Montreal's finest camera shop. Camtec Photo and it's specialty Leica Boutique shop. Many thanks to Jean Bardaji. [Gallery]

A short article on how Dave uses some of his camera equipment has been published on the CameraQuest web site. Cameraquest is a California dealer of Voigtlander cameras and lenses.

A selection from Dave's New Europeans series of street photography was on display within Austin's premier camera store Precision Camera & Video.

Three of Dave's black and white street photographs (including two never publicly exhibited before) were selected to be part of the Urban Ambience group show at the Watson Studio Gallery in Johnson City, Texas. Dave's "Salvation" photograph was awarded an Honorable Mention Best in Show. [Urban Ambience Exhibition]

A combined Grad Vukovar and updated New Europeans exhibition opens on this date at Hyde Park Bar & Grill restaurant on Duval Street in Austin. Within this selection of 38 black & white prints several have not previously been on public display. No formal opening festivities are planned.

While Dave is not exactly an iconic photographer in anyone's but his mom's

book, he does have an iconic photograph that he associates wtih his work. This, his most published photograph, won a Merit Award in B&W Magazine's 2008 Single Image Contest and it has been published B&W Special Issue dated February 2008. The photograph can be seen in the Publlished Work gallery here.

Three of Dave's color infrared pinhole photographs were selected to be part of the Menage a Trois group show at the Watson Studio Gallery in Johnson City, Texas. Dave's series of three 2006 photographs from Pisa, Italy were selected for the show. These can be viewed in the Alternate Spectrum gallery.

One of Dave's street photographs is on display as part of Philadelphia's Project Basho ONWARD '08 competition.

An 2007 respective exhibition is set for this month at Thunderbird Coffee on Koenig Lane in Austin. This show will feature prints of the various photographs that Dave had published or won awards for during 2007. [Gallery]

Through the end of February, Dave is particating a four-person show at Caffe Medici on West Lynn Boulevard in Austin. This show features the work of the four founding members of Collective Photo Agency::Austin. Interestingly the show is entirely of black & white photographs -- except for Dave's selection of recent color prints. [Gallery]

On newsstands until February 29th, find Dave's winning street photography portfolio submission and essay in the January/February 2009 issue of Photo Techniques magazine. The article is entitled Portolio: Street Photography -- A New Take on an Old Genre. See page 20. You can see the winning selections in the Published Work gallery.

The November Project: Around Austin exhibition opens on this date at the Clementine Coffee Bar on Manor Road in Austin. The show will be on display for the month of November. [Gallery]

The 2007 Photo Review Competition drew 4100 images from 984 entrants from 21 different countries. There were winning 92 entries including one of Dave's. The winning selection is entited Street Vendor, Frankfurt, May 2006 and can be seen here.

Look for the September issue of Black & White Photography magazine currently on  newsstands. One of Dave's Europeans (2006) exhibition photographs appears in this issue on page 33. The magazine comes from the UK but it can be found in major bookstores (Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc.). [View Picture]

The Grad Vukovar exhibition is on display during this time at the Bella Creo gallery in Boerne, Texas. [View Catalog] The show is part of the 2007 Fotoseptiembre International Photography Festival. Grad Vukovar (meaning City of Vukovar in Croatian) is photographic exploration of a city's destruction fifteen years after a devastating war. [Gallery]

The Txt Me L8r group exhibition opens this weekend at the Houston Center for Photography. Dave is part of a collaborative project consisting of 48 cell phone photographers around the world whose work will be on display at HCP between August 24th and 26th. [Gallery]

Look for the August issue of Focus magazine that hits newsstands July 11th. A four page Focus Gallery spread of Dave's photography appears in this issue beginning on page 134. Focus magazine can be found in major bookstores (Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc.) and at many art and photography galleries.

The Europeans (2006) exhibition, successor to Europeans (2005), opens on this date at Caffe Medici. [Gallery]

One of the Europeans (2005) photographs was selected for publication in February 2007 issue of Shutterbug magazine. [See the picture] This same photograph was featured in Group Show's inaugural online gallery. [Group Show site] Once on the Group Show page, click David Lykes Keenan.

The Alternate Spectrum: Color Infrared Pinhole Photographs from Pisa and Terezin exhibition opens on this date at the Book People store in downtown Austin. [Gallery]

The Europeans (2005) exhibition opens on this date at Caffe Medici. Belated opening reception on January 13. All welcome. [Gallery]

The November Project: Around Austin exhibition opens on this date at the Adams Ave. Gallery. Opening reception at 6PM. All welcome. [Gallery]

Dust jacket photograph of writer James Moore appears with the publication of The Architect: Karl Rove and The Master Plan for Absolute Power.  [Details]