Throughout the years, Freestyle has supported photography events in and around Southern California, and other assorted places around the United States as well. Now that the Internet has made Freestyle's audience a truly global one, we think it only appropriate to assemble a list of some of the premier photography-related events, contests and shows from around the world. Browse the selections below, and you'll encounter happenings in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand...and maybe even your own back yard!
We encourage you to spend a few moments to see what events are taking place that might benefit you, and to send us word of events that we might not know about. If you know of a photography related event that you think others might be interested in, feel free to send us an email.
We can't promise that we'll be able to list every event of course, but we always appreciate the feedback, because it tells us that you-our customers-are as enthusiastic about photography as we are. Enjoy!
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November 24, 2009 - December 15, 2009 | Alternative Techniques for the Photographic Darkroom |
Alternative Techniques for the Photographic Darkroom
Tues, 6:30-9:30p, Nov 24, Dec 1, 8, 15
This 4-week class will survey a variety of non-traditional techniques that expand artistic possibilities for darkroom photographers. In the darkroom, we'll try: altering negatives, photograms, painting with light, Sabattier prints (aka solarizition), applying chemistry with brushes, altering prints in tea and coffee dyes, and Liquid Light emulsion. Outside the darkroom, we will discuss various films including infared, and cross processing for unusual color rendition. All students with basic film processing and printing skills are welcome to enroll. Tuition includes lab pass to B&W group darkroom.
Tuition = $175
BUT you get $25 off if you register at least one week prior to first class, making tuition only $150 !!!
Students Limit: 10 Students
Instructor: Audrey Jones
Bring: Nothing to the first day of class
RayKo Photo Ce...
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November 17, 2009 - November 22, 2009 | The Expressive Black And White Print Workshop |
Please visit http://johnsexton.com/schedule2009.html for more details.
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November 12, 2009 - November 15, 2009 | Death Valley Photography Workshops |
NOVEMBER 12 - 15, 2009
Open to all traditional or digital
photographers of any experience level
Join us for our 2009 Death Valley photography
workshop! Experience the adventure of photographing Death Valley's
remarkable places. A true photographer's desert paradise, Death Valley
has inspired master photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston
to produce some of their notable and outstanding images of this captivating
and photogenic wilderness landscape. Today, few photographers know
Death Valley's intimate canyons and vast open expanses better than
Lynn Radeka who has hiked, camped and photographed in Death Valley's
remarkable wilderness areas for over 40 years.
We will be visiting some of Death Valley's
most popular and unusual areas, and each evening we will be returning
to civilizat...
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November 07, 2009 - November 14, 2009 | Foto Week DC |
As part of its mission, FotoWeek DC is committed to raising awareness of the power of photography everywhere, in all its forms. To that end, the second annual FotoWeek DC Awards has expanded from a regional competition with exclusively still images, to an international call for entries of remarkable imagery, both in single and series form, as well as multimedia pieces that combine the strength of still images with video, sound and graphics.
Founded in 2008, FotoWeek DC is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the power of photography.
With your support, over 20,000 photography enthusiasts attended FotoWeek DC 2008 in person, and over 270,000 visitors took the virtual tour ... and continue to come every day!
Our first annual week-long celebration of photographic excellence in the Nation's Capital was a testimony to this vibrant community's talent and generosity. We were overwhelmed with the caliber of work submitted for our contests, and dazzled by NightGallery DC, the pho...
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November 06, 2009 - November 08, 2009 | Contrast Masking Workshop |
Taught by Lynn Radeka with visits and demonstrations by masking guru Dr. Dennis McNutt. This informal and enjoyable workshop will take the "mystique" out of contrast masking. Fine-tuning your prints to fulfill your visualization will become an exciting reality. Learn to easily make a variety of valuable and powerful contrast masks effortlessly and quickly, using inexpensive films and developers. The use of a densitometer is not needed, as this workshop stresses the use of contrast masking as an art in itself. The potential for improving your print quality is enormous!
For more information, visit www.radekaphotography.com
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November 06, 2009 - November 08, 2009 | Photographic Arts Workshop Master Printing Class |
Instructor: Bruce Barnbaum
August 10 - 14, 2009
Workshop Fee: $985 (Includes all lab fees)
September 13 - 17, 2010
Workshop Fee: $1125 (Includes all lab fees)
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Photograph (above): Bruce Barnbaum demonstrating the technique of bleaching a photograph
(NOTE: The 2009 workshop is a definite "go," with just 2 spaces remaining open as of 7/25/09.)
Following up on the overwhelming successes of our earlier Master Print Classes starting in 2004, this workshop is again a direct response to student requests. This workshop is for the many students who have requested a concentrated printing course allowing them concent...
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November 03, 2009 - November 08, 2009 | The Expressive Black And White Print Workshop |
Please visit http://johnsexton.com/schedule2009.html for more details.
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October 31, 2009 - December 12, 2009 | Platinum/Palladium and Cyanotype Alternative Processes with Norma C. Smith |
Platinum/Palladium and Cyanotype Alternative Processes with Norma C. Smith
Saturdays, 11am-2pm October 31 - December 12 (no mtg. 11/28)
6 Session(s)
Location:
Translight Photography Center
Instructor:
Norma C. Smith
ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 12 students
Platinum/palladium and cyanotype printing are two of the earliest methods of producing photographic images. Although the chemistry is different, these two techniques share archival permanence and tonal values that have an almost three-dimensional quality. Platinum/ palladium prints range in tones from neutral to a warm brown and cyanotype prints are traditionally a blue tone (although with cyanotypes, the class will be experimenting with print toning to produce additi...
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October 10, 2009 - January 31, 2010 | Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh |
MoPA presents Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, a provocative exhibition of over 100 photographs by the artist and activist, Fazal Sheikh. The exhibition, created by Princeton University, unites two projects focused on the women in India. The first, "Moksha," explores the lives of dispossessed widows cast out by their families, denying them legal, economic, and human rights. The second, "Ladli," examines the perils faced by girls and young women in a changing, modern India, that include domestic slavery, forced prostitution, and murder. Sheikh pairs intense camera portraits with testimony from his subjects.
The photographer was born in New York in 1965 and graduated from Princeton University in 1987, and in 2005 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation International Award.
For more information, visit http://www.mopa.org/
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October 03, 2009 - January 24, 2010 | Through the Lens |
MoPA's fourth annual youth exhibition, Through the Lens will showcase works created by students who have participated in the various photography and film programs offered by the education department including the Museum’s outreach programs, after-school programs, studio classes, workshops, and camps.
For questions, submission, and more information, please contact the Education Department at 619.238.7559 x229, or email youtharts@mopa.org
For more information, visit http://www.mopa.org
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August 01, 2009 - February 06, 2010 | Picturing the Process: The Photograph as Witness |
The fourth in a series of educational based exhibitions presented by the Education Department at MoPA, the exhibition explores the variety of ways that photographers and photographs document people, places and events throughout history. The Photograph As Witness will present a selection of approaches to the genre of documentary photography, from the image as a representation of war, photographs that focus on the human condition, and photographers who document the public and personal spheres. The exhibition will also examine the relationship between the documentary image and the concept of the photograph as reality.
For more information visit Museum Of Photographic Arts
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June 20, 2009 - December 09, 2009 | Perfecting Your Documentary Project |
For current or past participants in Jim's documentary classes, or by permission of instructor, this is a monthly workshop for photographers working on ongoing documentary projects and interested in regular review and editorial suggestions.
Fee: $300
FacultyJim Hubbard, guest artists
Days/DatesMonthly for 6 months | Begins Saturday, June 20th, 2009, 3pm–5pm. Ends Saturday, December 9th, 2009.
Register no later than: June 10th, 2009
Deposit/payment :$100 deposit required to reserve your space; payment in full required if registering June 6th or later. Please see full payment and refund details, below.
Contact Venice Arts for more details.
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| Other Events
The following events occur at various dates throughout the year. See the event details for exact dates and location.
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| see details for dates | Photographer's Formulary Workshops |
Photographer's Formulary has always been a steadfast champion of traditional and alternative photographic processes. Freestyle has proudly carried their products for many, many years, and we are equally happy to spotlight their wonderfully in-depth and intense photographic workshops. Hosted in the unmatched splendor of the Montana Rockies, the workshops cover a wide range of subjects, including Kallitype, Van Dyke, Platinum & Palladium, Lith Printing, Collodion, Carbro Printing, Bromoil, and even the classic Daguerrotype! The workshops are also taught by some of the world's foremost authorities on alternative processes, including Freestyle Advisory Board Member Dr. Tim Rudman. We challenge you to find another group of workshops so dedicated and all-encompassing as Formulary's...and quite frankly, we doubt you'll succeed.
The workshops take place over several dates through the summer and autumn of 2007. For information about specific subjects, instructors, and alternative processes in general, visit more information...
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| see details for dates | North American Nature Photography Association's NANPA Road Show |
The North American Nature photography Association I staking its in-depth workshops on a traveling tour to give you the chance to learn from top nature photography leaders. Join nationally recognized photographers Jim Clark, Richard Day and Tim Grey for an educational experience you won't soon forget.
For more information, visit NANPA's web site, and download a brochure about the Road Show.
(NOTE: You will need Adobe Reader to read the brochure)
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| see details for dates | The Julia Dean Photo Workshops |
From its base of operations in the beautiful oceanside community of Venice, the Julia Dean Workshops have thrust to the forefront of independent photography instruction in Southern California. With a range of over fifty classes covering everything from the most basic to the most advanced aspects of both traditional wet darkroom and digital photography, the workshops have helped hundreds of photo enthusiasts looking to improve their craft. Many of the classes are taught by Julia herself, and others by such noted photo luminaries as Gerd Ludwig (Time, LIFE, Newsweek, Fortune), Michael Grecco (Paramount, ABC, Playboy, Esquire), and others. The workshops aren't restricted to the L.A. area, either; Julia's 2007 schedule includes expeditions across America, Morocco, Italy and Bangladesh Freestyle has just entered into a partnership with the Julia Dean Workshops, and we are all excited about the fruits this collaboration will surely bear. For more information about the Julia Dean Workshops, visit more information...
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| see details for dates | Unrefined Light: Image-Making with Plastic Cameras and their Friends |
Juried by: Michelle Bates
The Foundry Art Center is a beautiful arts facility a bit outside of St Louis, in St Charles, MO. They are hosting the exhibit "Unrefined Light: Image-Making with Plastic Cameras and their Friends".
Michelle bates will be there for the opening, on Friday, March 28th, and I'll be teaching a workshop there on Saturday and Sunday, March 29 & 30.
http://www.foundryartcentre.org
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| see details for dates | A Healing Workshop for Women Living with Cancer |
"Let the wind of change blow by. Leave me a little bit frayed and tattered, but keep me tethered to the truth, aware of the direction from which my own life will evolve." - Wendy
The Retreats, located in the historic and elegant coastal F. Holland Day House “chalet”, are an opportunity for women with breast or other cancer or life threatening illness to mobilize their natural powers of healing through creativity. There are daily photographic assignments combined with the coaching of Dr. Matthew Budd, a 20 year professor at Harvard Medical School and author of the book You Are What You Say.
At the workshops, we engage in creative activity through word, image making, movement, and even prayer (a special form of poetry). In so doing we witness our hesitancy to be artists, our fears of the unknown, our embarrassment, but we also experience being on the cutting edge of the moment... standing in the present and creating the next moment. Our poems, essays, and photographs are the artifacts of our creati...
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