Every autumn Western Kentucky University’s (WKU) Mountain Workshops draw a team of dedicated teachers and determined learners to a small Kentucky town to explore the richness of community, the beauty of landscape, and the possibilities and challenges of visual storytelling. This year’s workshops will take place October 15 – 20, 2013. Application Guidelines Applications will [...]
The Alexia Foundation will host the opening night of “Eyes on the World” at 25CPW Gallery on June 20th, 2013 in New York, New York. The evening will feature current work on the clothes factory collapse in Bangladesh, an intimate look at domestic violence, and 2011 Alexia Foundation grant award winner Amanda Berg’s story on [...]
Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs This nuts-and-bolts professional development series is designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker. Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is a six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. Sundays, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, April 21 – June 2 (excluding May 26 in observance of Memorial Day [...]
Presence and Absence, a combined exhibit by Maggie Steber and Carlos Rene Perez opens Thursday, April 18, 2013 at Leica Gallery in New York. The exhibition combines the works Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber and An Artist’s Life by Carlos Rene Perez. The two works find commonality in their personal nature and in dealing [...]
The Magnum Foundation and the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project are holding a one-day conference to explore new opportunities and strategies for engagement, innovation and impact. Photography, Expanded: Interactive & Multiplatform Strategies for Photographers will feature presentations by Susan Meiselas, photographer and president of the Magnum Foundation, Amy Yenkin, director of Open Society Foundations [...]
