TPS TALKS: Christina Z. Anderson - Friday, October 27, 2023
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Postscript:
Christina provided some terrific information to share with those who were able to join us for the talk, and for anyone who is interested in knowing more about how to move forward with alternative processes. We are delighed to share that information HERE.
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For the next of our TPS Talks, Texas Photographic Society is thrilled to host artist, educator, writer, and editor - and juror for our By Hand:Alternative Processes exhibition - in an exclusive Zoom talk.
Join us online on October 27, 2023 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Central Time. Audience questions will be answered in the last segment of the talk.
This event is FREE to all TPS members - and ALL applicants to the By Hand: Alternative Processes call for entry. Registration is required.
To register for the event, please click HERE.
------ If you haven't had a chance to see the terrific images selected for By Hand: Alternative Processes, take a look at the gallery here!-------
Not sure if you're a member? Please email us at ann@texasphoto.org - we'll be happy to answer your questions.
If you are interested in becoming a TPS member, and want to know more about member benefits, please visit here.
Although TPS Talks are presented as a benefit of TPS membership, we are eager to make this important talk available to the full photographic community. Non-members can also register here and make a suggested donation of $8 here.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Christina Z. Anderson’s work focuses on the contemporary vanitas printed in a variety of alternative photographic processes, such as gum and casein bichromate, cyanotype, salted paper, chrysotype, palladium, chemigrams, chromo, mordançage, lumen prints, and combinations thereof. Anderson’s work has shown nationally and internationally in over 120 shows and 60 publications.
She has six books in print which have sold in over 40 countries: from newest to oldest, The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials, Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP, Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers (co-authored with Ron Reeder), Cyanotype, The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice, Salted Paper Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists, Gum Printing, A Step by Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, and Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes.
Anderson is Editor for Focal Press/Routledge’s Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography series and Professor of Photography at Montana State University. To see her work, visit christinaZanderson.com and @christinaZanderson.
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TPS Talks: Marcy Palmer - Friday, July 28, 2023
For the next of our TPS Talks, Texas Photographic Society is delighted to host photographer Marcy Palmer in an exclusive Zoom talk.
Join us online on Friday, July 28, 2023 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Central Time. The talk will be moderated by Arthur Fields, TPS Board Member and Associate Professor of Art, Dallas College, TX. Audience questions will be answered in the last segment of the talk.
This event is FREE to all TPS members. Registration is required.
To register for the event, please click HERE.
Not sure if you're a member? Please email us at ann@texasphoto.org - we'll be happy to answer your questions.
If you are interested in becoming a TPS member, and want to know more about member benefits, please visit here.
Although TPS Talks are presented as a benefit of TPS membership, we are eager to make this important talk available to the full photographic community. Non-members can also register here and make a suggested donation of $8 here.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Marcy Palmer grew up in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in the historic city, Saratoga Springs, NY. As a child, she spent time exploring the outdoors which fueled her imagination and play.
Marcy’s work explores themes of beauty, history, and social justice through the lens of photo history, nature, and science. She often approaches her work with questions that relate to research and considerations of how the materials in the work can further communicate her ideas. Integrating various approaches to image-making from contemporary to historical practices, Marcy is particularly influenced by the earliest practitioners of photography, and the Surrealist and Bauhaus movements.
Marcy has an M.F.A. in Photography & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a B.S. in Studio Art from Skidmore College. Her work has been exhibited at various spaces including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Center for Photographic Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Ogden Museum of Art and other spaces. Her work has been written about in Lenscratch, The Boston Globe Sunday Edition, D Magazine and other publications. Marcy released a book with Yoffy Press titled You Are Eternity, You Are the Mirror which was chosen as a Photo-Eye 2020 favorite photobook, The Luupe’s Favorite Woman-Made Books of the Year, and Deep Red Press’s Favorite Photobooks. She lives and works in Dallas, TX.
For More about Marcy:
Website: http://www.marcypalmer.com
IG: @marcy_palmer
Book: http://www.yoffypress.com/catalog/eternity
News: https://linktr.ee/marcypalmer
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TPS Talks: Elizabeth Turk- Friday, February 10, 2023
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Postscript:
Elizabeth provided some very useful documents to share with those who were able to join us for the talk, and for anyone who is interested in knowing more about her work and the processes she uses. We are happy to share that information here.
For the next of our TPS Talks, Texas Photographic Society is proud to host photographer, educator - and juror of our upcoming #NewVisions2023 exhibition - Elizabeth Turk. In this exclusive Zoom talk, Elizabeth will discuss her work as an artist and longtime professor at Savannah College of Art & Design.
Join us online on Zoom on Friday, February 10, 2023 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Central Time. TPS Board Member Jennings Sheffield - one of Elizabeth’s former students - is delighted to host this talk. Audience questions will be answered in the last segment of the talk.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Artist V. Elizabeth Turk was a student of painting before making a life in photography in the 1970s.
Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the High Museum of Art, the Polaroid USA Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, the Lamar Dodd Art Center in LaGrange, GA, and Il Museo Palazzo Riso, Palermo, Italy–and in numerous private collections. Recently her photography was featured in the High Museum of Art exhibition Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection.
In 2005 as co-author with writer William P. Baldwin, her photographs illustrated Mantle Pieces of the Old South: Lost Architecture and Southern Culture (The History Press).
She holds a Master of Visual Arts Degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta; and as a professor of photography has for decades mentored students (first at the Atlanta College of Art, then at the Savannah College of Art & Design). Turk remains engaged with her colleagues and peers through her membership in the Society for Photographic Education.
Her skill-set ranges from traditional film-based darkroom- and camera work to the rich realm of historical image-capturing processes.
Her work is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA.
The images in her series, Tremulous Anatomies, are about the potential of light and shadow to convey ideas tied to our human nature. At once, they accurately trace and pervert our collective reality. As schematics alluding to anatomical illustrations, they suggest the creation of a strange cyborg. Here the human figure is ever present, but absent the details that convey humanity. Instead, materials from the natural world perform an elaborate mime, as stand-ins for the visceral elements of our make-up: skin, veins, and bone. The ephemeral qualities of these figures evoke the ubiquitous nature of time, questioning past, present and future while presenting us with reminders of morality as stark yet obscure as the Shroud of Turin.
These images, each unique, are produced using antiquarian photographic processes without a camera. That ritual is akin to alchemy. Mixing the chemistry in a dim light, setting up, waiting for the sun, the long exposures, and the final processing (again in dim light) - more often than not render graphic chaos, accidents and fortuitous marvels. That controlled chaos lends humanity to these images and is at the core of their magic.
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TPS Talks: Mark Murray- Friday, September 16, 2022
Texas Photographic Society is proud to host longtime Association of Texas Photography Instructors (ATPI) Executive Director Mark Murray for the next of our TPS Talks. In this exclusive Zoom talk, Mark will share stories from his 36 years with ATPI, especially ATPI's impact in engaging and supporting school-age photographers and their teachers.
Join us online on Zoom on Friday, September 16, 2022 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Central Time. The talk will be moderated by TPS Board Member and Associate Professor of Photography, Texas A&M University-Commerce Chad Smith. Audience questions will be answered in the last segment of the talk.
This event is FREE to all TPS members and, for this special event, ATPI members. To register for the event, please click HERE.
Not sure if you're a member? Please email us at ann@texasphoto.org - we'll be happy to answer your questions.
If you are interested in becoming a TPS member, and want to know more about member benefits, please visit here.
Although TPS Talks are presented as a benefit of TPS membership, we are eager to make this important talk available to the full photographic community. Non-members can also register here and make a suggested donation of $8 here.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Mark Murray retired in 2019 from the Arlington Independent School District in Arlington, Texas after 35 years as a classroom teacher and district technology director.
For the past 36 years, Murray has served as the President—and now Executive Director—for the Association of Texas Photography Instructors. The organization of high school photography teachers from Texas and across North America annually sponsors photography and video contests for students and teachers, along with an annual conference for students and teachers. ATPI is currently working on Volume 5 of the Best of Texas Scholastic Photography, a 200+ page book and four instructional posters, that will be released in February 2023.
He has taught workshops from Austria to Hawaii and everywhere in between. And he has worked with staffs around the country to improve their photography.
Murray is a Joseph M. Murphy and Gold Key recipient from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, a Pioneer Award winner from the National Scholastic Press Association, has been awarded the Carl Towley Award and Medal of Merit by the national Journalism Education Association, has been named a Trailblazer and Texas Treasure by the Texas Association of Journalism Educators, the Interscholastic League Press Conference in Texas has named him one of 75 Texas Legends of Scholastic Journalism and ATPI has presented him with their highest honor, the Star of Texas award.
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TPS Talks: Scott Hilton - Friday, June 17, 2022
Texas Photographic Society is delighted to host photographer, educator, and Chair of the Board of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Scott Hilton for the next of our TPS Talks. In this exclusive Zoom talk, Scott will discuss his creative practice and his work with SPE.
Join us online on Zoom on Friday, June 17, 2022 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Central Time. The talk will be moderated by TPS Board Member and Professor of Art at Tarleton State University Chris Ireland. Audience questions will be answered in the last segment of the talk.
This event is FREE to all TPS members and, for this special event, SPE members. To register for the event, please click HERE.
Not sure if you're a member? Please email us at ann@texasphoto.org - we'll be happy to answer your questions.
If you are interested in becoming a TPS member, and want to know more about member benefits, please visit here.
Although TPS Talks are presented as a benefit of TPS membership, we are eager to make this important talk available to the full photographic community. Non-members can also register here and make a suggested donation of $8 here.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Scott Hilton is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has taught at numerous institutions including Collin College in Plano and Frisco, TX, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Austin College in Sherman, TX. He was the Assistant Director of the Light & Sie Gallery in Dallas, TX. Scott completed his BA at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1992 and his MFA at California State University in Fullerton in 2005.
Scott’s work reflects his interests in the re-interpretation and re-contextualization of history, and in maintaining an intimacy with the analog traditions of photography. Project Barbatype, his collaborative project with Bryan Wing from 2014 to 2019, made tintype photographic portraits of competitors at Beard and Moustache competitions. Scott’s still-life project De Rerum Natura is a meditation on the tenuous but vital connections between language and sensation - the textual and the textural.
Scott has exhibited his work at numerous galleries and venues throughout the US, and currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education.
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TPS Talks: Steve Goff - Friday, March 4, 2022
Texas Photographic Society is thrilled to host photographer, educator, and longtime TPS Board President Steve Goff for the next of our TPS Talks. In this exclusive Zoom talk, Steve will discuss his wide-ranging photographic work and share stories of a lifetime of teaching photography and his adventures with TPS!
Join us online on Zoom on Friday, March 4 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Central Time. The talk will be moderated by TPS Board Member Mike Hull. Audience questions will be answered in the last segment of the talk.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Steve Goff, Retired Professor and former Chairman of the Photography Program, taught at Odessa College from 1984 through 2021. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Ohio University and taught at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Lakeland, and Cuyahoga Community Colleges, and Cleveland State University before moving to Texas. He has been awarded the Aid to Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, the Fellowship Award in Photography from the Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts, and represented the Fellowship winners at Mois de la Photo in Paris, France. He has an extensive exhibition record and teaches workshops around the state and the US. Steve currently serves as Texas Photographic Society President of the Board of Directors and on the Board of Odessa Arts.
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TPS Talks: Eric T. Kunsman - Friday, January 7, 2022
Texas Photographic Society is delighted to host photographer, book artist, and educator Eric T. Kunsman for the first of our TPS Talks in 2022. In this exclusive Zoom talk, Eric will discuss his own work and share his experience jurying the #NewVisions2021: A Student Exhibition.
Join us online on Zoom on Friday, January 7, 2022 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Central Time. The talk will be moderated by TPS Board Member and Associate Professor of Art at Baylor University Jennings Sheffield. Audience questions will be answered in the last segment of the talk.
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Postscript:
During his talk, Eric shared a number of links and we wanted to make sure they are archived and shared here:
Eric's YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWeP6Y6BGspCNvTEOh4AN4w
LaLuz Workshops- Swanee’s Workshop that starts tomorrow
https://www.laluzworkshops.com/
Eric's Websites
http://www.erickunsman.com
http://www.rochesterpayphones.com
http://www.fakenewsarchiveproject.com
MFA Photography Reviews
http://www.mfaphotographyreviews.com
Also, we want to share our most heartfelt thanks to FUJIFILM USA for generously providing a camera from the Fujiflim X100 series to one of our TPS Talks audience members! Congratulations to our lucky winner Greg McIntosh!
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Eric T. Kunsman (b. 1975) was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. While in high school, he was heavily influenced by the death of the steel industry and its place in American history. The exposure to the work of Walker Evans during this time hooked Eric onto photography. Eric had the privilege to study under Lou Draper, who became Eric’s most formative mentor. He credits Lou with influencing his approach as an educator, photographer, and contributing human being.
Eric holds his MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and holds an MS in Electronic Publishing/Graphic Arts Media, BS in Biomedical Photography, BFA in Fine Art photography all from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
Eric is an educator at the Rochester Institute of Technology for the Visual Communications Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences.
Eric was named one of 10 B&W photographers to watch of 2018 by BW Gallerist, B&W Best Photographers of the Year 2019 by Dodho Magazine, and won the Association of Photography (UK) Gold Award for Open Series in 2019, Finalist, Top 200 for Critical Mass in 2019, 2020, & 2021, Top 15 Photographers for the Rust Belt Biennial. His project Felicific Calculus was also awarded a Warhol Foundations Grant through CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY.
Eric has held 39 solo exhibitions and counting. At this point, his work has been exhibited in over 250 galleries and museums and featured in Bloomberg Business Week, Dodho Magazine, Dek Unu, All About Photo, and LensWork.
He has been featured with online articles by Humble Arts Foundation, Analog Forever Magazine, Catalyst: Interview, One Twelve Publishing, to name a few. He is currently represented by HOTE Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, and Malamegi in San Daniele del Friuli (Udine), Italy.
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TPS Talks: Jill Skupin Burkholder and Dan Burkholder - Friday, November 19, 2021
Photographic Society is delighted to host artists and MOS 34 jurors Jill Skupin Burkholder and Dan Burkholder in the first of a series of online TPS Talks. In this exclusive Zoom talk, Jill and Dan will discuss their own work and share their experiences in jurying the TPS 34th Annual Members Only Show.
Join us online on Zoom on Friday, November 19 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Central Time. The talk will be moderated by TPS Executive Director Ann T. Shaw. Audience questions will be answered in the last segment of the talk.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jill Skupin Burkholder is a photographer/artist whose work includes handcrafted techniques such as bromoil printing, an alternative photography process using brushes and lithography ink to create an image, and encaustic techniques using beeswax and resin. She began working with photography in 1985 and studied both traditional and digital photography experimenting with various alternative photography techniques. Recent work includes the series, Hidden Worlds, ethereal photographs of animals taken using a motion-activated trail camera. Jill has taught workshops for Santa Fe Workshops, the International Center for Photography in New York, and many others; she has prints included in private and public collections. Jill’s website is www.JillSkupin.com
Dan Burkholder is known for looking over photography’s horizon to discover new ways of capturing and expressing the photographic image. In the early 1990’s he wrote the groundbreaking book Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing. After Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, Burkholder recorded the chaos of post-Katrina New Orleans in his poignant monograph The Color of Loss, the first coffee table book photographed entirely with high dynamic range (HDR) techniques. In 2012, Burkholder led the mobile photography revolution with his forward-looking book iPhone Artistry. Dan earned his BA and Master’s degrees in Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. His platinum/palladium and pigmented ink prints are included in private and public collections internationally. Dan’s website is www.DanBurkholder.com.