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Bobbi Lane: Portraits: Studio & Location
Saturday June 5, 8pm
BOBBI LANE is a commercial photographer specializing in creative portraits in studio and on location. Lane's multi-faceted approach to photography incorporates over 30 years of technical experience with innovative artistic interpretation. Lane shoots primarily people for editorial, corporate, and advertising accounts as well as photographing "real people" and travel for stock. Bobbi’s clients include Charles Schwab, GE, Warner Bros., Neutrogena, and Sekonic. A dedicated photo educator who has taught worldwide, Bobbi is also a Contributing Editor to Photo Techniques magazine. She has authored numerous instructional books and DVDs.
Elinor Carucci
Saturday, June 18, 8pm
Saturday June 25, 8pm
ELIZABETH OPALENIK'S voice is that of a fine art photographer known for the sense of poetic grace and movement she brings to her images. She creates many one of a kind images by mixing digital and traditional methods. Elizabeth is a sought-after educator, whose work has been collected, shown and profiled internationally in many major photographic publications.. Her first monograph is Poetic Grace: Elizabeth Opalenik Photographs 1979-2007. She is represented by Gallery 291 in San Francisco, Verve Gallery in Santa Fe and David Weinberg Gallery in Chicago.
Tom DeLooza
Saturday July 2, 8pm
TOM DeLOOZA has led several tutorials and workshops, and is the Master Printer at the John Dugdale School of 19th Century Photography and Aesthetics in Stone Ridge, NY. Tom received his BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and served two years as the apprentice and assistant to John Coffer. Tom has exhibited his work in a wide variety of galleries including SoHo Photo in NYC.
Craig J. Barber
Saturday July 9, 8pm
CRAIG J. BARBER is
a photographer who uses antiquarian processes and focuses of the cultural
landscape. During the past 15 years he has photographed Viet Nam, Havana, and
the Catskill region of New York State, documenting cultures in rapid
transition and fading from memory. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe
and Latin America and is represented in several prominent museum and
private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the George Eastman House,
Rochester, NY, among others. He has received several grants for his projects. His book, Ghosts in the
Landscape: Vietnam Revisited, was published in 2006.
Carla Shapiro
Saturday July 16, 8pm
CARLA SHAPIRO has been a
photographer for over 25 years and has created bodies of work about women,
aging, 9/11, and beauty. She
has been an educator for 20 years and has shown her work throughout the
country. Carla currently
teaches graduate students at Pratt Institute. She has received many grants
and fellowships including two NYFA Artist Fellowships, a Fellowship Fund
award from the CPW, and a NJ Council on the Arts Photography Fellowship. Her
portraits have been published in The
Sun and Architectural Technology among others.
Dan Estabrook - CANCELLED
Saturday, July 23, 8pm
DAN ESTABROOK For almost twenty years Dan Estabrook has been making contemporary art using a variety of 19th-century photographic techniques. Lately he has focused on the earliest processes on paper – calotype negatives and salted paper prints – as sources for hand manipulation with paint and pencil. Dan has exhibited widely and has received several awards, including an Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994. He is also the subject of a recent documentary by Anthropy Arts. Dan is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York, and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.
Ed Kashi: Stories From Near & Far
Saturday August 6, 8pm
ED
KASHI is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to
documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A
sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are the
signatures of his work. Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited
worldwide, garnering numerous awards. His innovative approach to photography
and filmmaking produced the Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook. This creative
and thought-provoking piece has been shown in many film festivals and as
part of a series of exhibitions on the Iraq War at The George Eastman House.
Also, an eight-year personal project completed in 2003, Aging in America:
The Years Ahead, created a traveling exhibition, an award-winning
documentary film, a website and a book.
In 2002, Kashi and his wife, writer / filmmaker Julie Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media. The non-profit company has produced numerous short films and multimedia pieces that explore significant social issues. The first project resulted in a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured.
Mark Citret: The World Around Us
Saturday August 13, 8pm
MARK
CITRET studied
under Ruth Bernhard and previously worked with Ansel Adams, both in the
field and in the darkroom. He makes his living as an architectural
and fine art photographer and teacher at the Universities of California
at Berkley and Santa Cruz. His work is represented and shown by Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC, amongst
other prestigious galleries; additionally his images are in numerous
collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His monograph, Along the
Way, was published in 1999, and his most recent book, Halcott
Center, a Catskill Mountain Valley was published in 2004.
Jona Frank - CANCELLED
Saturday August 20, 8pm
JONA FRANK is an
award-winning photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work is
in many private and corporate collections, as well as in museums including
the Getty Museum and SF MOMA. Her photographs have appeared in print and
online in such media as Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The New
Yorker, and Mother Jones. Her films have been screened on the Bravo
Network, PBS, and at the Sundance Film Festival. Her acclaimed first book,
HIGH SCHOOL (Arenas Street, September 2004), explored the lives of high
school youth across the United States. RIGHT, her second book, was the
basis for In the Paths of Righteousness, an exhibition at the California
Museum of Photography. Frank’s third book will focus on the lives of
boys in California.
Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb: Together & Apart
Saturday August 27, 8pm
ALEX WEBB is best known for his vibrant
and complex color work, especially from Latin America and the Caribbean. His ninth book, a survey of 30 years of his color photography, The
Suffering of Light, will be published in spring 2011 by Aperture. Alex has exhibited at museums worldwide, and his work is in the
collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NY, and the Guggenheim Museum, NY. Alex became a full member of
Magnum Photos in 1979. His work has appeared in National
Geographic, the New York Times
Magazine, Geo, and other
magazines. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 for continuing
working in Cuba.
For
the past decade, REBECCA NORRIS WEBB has been exploring the complicated relationship between people
and the natural world. Originally a poet, she has shown her photographic
work internationally. Her photographs are in the collections of the George
Eastman House Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (upcoming), and the
Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Rebecca’s work has appeared in Time, New Letters, Orion,
and other magazines. Rebecca’s
third book, My Dakota, will be published in 2012, and exhibited at the Dahl Arts
Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, fall 2012.
Alex and Rebecca will have a joint exhibition of their Cuba photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from May 2011 to January 2012.
Mary Ellen Mark: The World Observed
Saturday September 3, 8pm
MARY ELLEN MARK is one of the most respected and loved documentary
photographers in the world. Her photographs of world cultures, subcultures,
and personalities are landmarks in the field. Mark has achieved worldwide
visibility through her numerous photo-essays and portraits in magazines such
as The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and Rolling
Stone. Mary
Ellen, a socially committed photographer, who continues to make images of
passion and integrity, has been the recipient of numerous awards, including
the Cornell Capa Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mary Ellen has published
fourteen books including the most recent Seen
Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing on Set, published by
Phaidon in 2008. Marianne Boesky
gallery in NYC represents her work.
Jill Waterman: Into the Night
Saturday September 17, 4pm
JILL WATERMAN is a photographer, editor, author and educator based in New York City. A night photography specialist, Jill’s first book, Night and Low Light Photography, was released by Amphoto books in August 2008. She has presented seminars and taught workshops for organizations such as PDN PhotoPlus Expo, the Society for Photographic Education, regional photography centers and schools nationwide. Her widely exhibited photographic work, The New Year’s Eve Project, has received notable press, including a 2003 appearance on NBC’s The Today Show. By day, she works for PDN Custom Media and Events as editor of the ASMP Bulletin, PDNedu, and other education and events projects.
Andrea Modica: Photographs
Saturday September 24, 8pm
ANDREA
MODICA works with an 8x10 camera to slow down the process of picture
making and to create intimate dramas. A graduate of Yale University, she
has photographed subjects such as Minor League baseball players, a halfway
house, and a Catholic girl’s school. Andrea has five monographs, including Treadwell, which is
considered a seminal work of portraiture. Her photographs have been published in The New York Times and Vanity Fair, and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
International Center of Photography, amongst other prestigious venues. She is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in NYC, and is a
professor of photography at Drexel University.