Friday, October 2, 2026
5:00pm 9:00pm Henry Horenstein: Show
A Photographers Place (map)
5100 Lacy Ave Ste 100
Raleigh, NC 27609
Henry Horenstein is an American artist, photographer, filmmaker and educator. He is the author of over 40 books, including a series of instructional textbooks.
5:00pm 9:00pm Breaking Free: The Photographic Object
A Photographer's Place (map)
5100 Lacy Ave Ste 100,
Raleigh, NC 27609
Contemporary photography is escaping its historical confines as a two-dimensional medium and exploding into an expansive array of three-dimensional forms as artists take an experimental approach to creating photo objects.
5:00pm 9:00pm Micah Cash: Waffle House Vistas
A Photographer's Place (map)
5100 Lacy Ave Ste 100,
Raleigh, NC 27609
Waffle House Vistas focuses on the built environment as seen through the windows of Waffle House restaurants from across the southeastern United States.
6:00pm 10:00pm North Carolina State Fair Poultry Portraits: Robert & Robbie Bailey
Artspace (map)
201 E. Davie St.
Raleigh, NC
With the intention of creating a cheeky “Best in Show" for chickens, the Baileys rig a flashy, full-scale portrait studio inside the Poultry Tent.
6:30pm 8:30pm Skipping Sundays: A Photography Exhibition by Heather Evans Smith
Visual Art Exchange (map)
Jobe House
909 W Morgan St,
Raleigh, NC 27603
In "Skipping Sundays," Evans Smith reflects on her Methodist upbringing in a rural North Carolina town, revealing how a steadfast belief has always remained just out of reach.
Saturday, October 3, 2026
10:00am - 11:30am The World of Inkjet Papers with Eric Joseph
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A1
Join us for an engaging session with Eric Joseph as he shares his expertise in inkjet papers!
10:00am - 11:00am Talk/Signing Kate Medley
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A2 / AV Room
Photojournalist Kate Medley will present her award-winning book "Thank You Please Come Again," a coffee table book of photographs.
10:00am - 1:00pm Junior Girl Scout Digital Badge Class
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A3
Do you love photography? Be a part of the first Junior Girl Scouts in North Carolina to earn their Digital Camera Badge at the Click! Photography Festival in Durham.
10:00am - 6:00pm EXPO 2026
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Exhibit Hall
Come and see representatives from Freestyle, The Darkroom, Negative Supply, CineStill, Digital Silver Imaging, Southeastern Camera, Holga, Intrepid, PSA, Arista and more!
10:00am - 12:00pm Photo Walk with Bad Flashes (Caleb Knueven) and Trev Lee from The Darkroom
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Front Steps
Join us for a free photowalk through downtown Durham, led by Caleb Knueven and Trev Lee of The Darkroom, during Click! Fest 2026!
10:00AM 3:00PM Creating Images with Impact with Pete Coco
Paid Event
Durham Convention Center (map)
10:00am - 12:00pm Dramatic Portrait Lighting Made Easy. In this workshop, I will show you how easy it is to create beautiful, dramatic portraits, using just a few continuous lights.
1:00pm - 3:00pm Intro to Outdoor Portraits. In my second session, we are going to take our cameras and lights outside and learn how to use natural light and off-camera flash
1:15pm - 2:15pm CPA Critique Class
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A3
This class is reserved for members of the Cary Photographic Artists. For membership details check out their website.
1:30pm - 2:30pm An Analog Conversation with Caleb and Trev
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A1
Join Caleb Knueven (Bad Flashes) and Trev Lee from The Darkroom for a fun, lively, and interactive conversation all about analog photography!
1:00pm - 2:00pm Talk and Book Signing with Henry Horenstein
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A2 / AV Room
Henry Horenstein is an American artist, photographer, filmmaker and educator. He has authored over 40 books, including a series of instructional textbooks.
2:30pm - 4:30pm Processing, Scanning and Printing Demo
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Exhibit Hall
Join Negative Supply and Freestyle for a scanning and printing demo.
2:30pm 3:30pm Dennis Keeley Pete Coco Panel Talk "Photographing Music"
Durham Downtown Convention Center (map)
Durham Convention Center Room A2
Pete Coco and I plan to have a conversation about our different approaches to photographing in the music industry, including songwriters, musicians, bands, clubs, concerts and the business in general.
4:00pm 5:00pm Neale Bayly: Artist Talk
Durham Convention Center (map)
In 2009 Neale founded Wellspring International Outreach, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting orphanages and children’s hospitals in Peru and Ukraine, with similar aid work in South Africa and Kenya.
Sunday, October 4, 2026
10:00am - 11:30am How to Turn Your B&W Images into Stunning Silver Gelatin Prints Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A3
Join us for an in-depth look at DSI Digital Silver Prints—the fusion of digital technology and traditional silver gelatin printing—presented by Eric Luden.
10:00am - 12:00pm Crappy Camera Photowalk with Dennis Keely
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Front steps of the Convention Center
The Crappy Camera Walk on Sunday is an exciting opportunity to bring any camera to a world of possibility.
12:30pm - 2:30pm Zines with Micah Cash
Paid Event
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A1
Join Micah for a hands-on zine-making workshop. Cut, sequence, experiment, and create your own photographic publication while exploring the possibilities of the zine as an art form.
11:00am - 2:00pm Bryce Lankard Smartphone Workshop
Paid Event
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location:Room A2 / AV Room
Join Bryce Lankard for a deep-dive into the workings of your phone's camera. Android or iPhone, Bryce has you covered.
12:00pm - 3:00pm Wreck Your Polaroids with Sarah Shae Roberto
Paid Event
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A3
Think Polaroid film is just for standard point-and-shoot snapshots? Think again. Welcome to a workshop where the rules are meant to be broken, and the film is meant to be wrecked.
12:30pm 2:00pmThe Media Today: Narrative vs. Truth
Durham Downtown Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A2
Join Neale Bayly and documentary photographers Mehmet Demirci and Travis Dove for an in-depth conversation on the role of photojournalists in the "post truth" era.
1:00pm - 3:00pm Pete Coco Portraits Pt 2
Paid registration required
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location:Outside
Join us for part 2 of this workshop where Pete Coco will share his techniques on outdoor portraiture and using natural lighting and off-camera flash to create stunning portraits.
3:00pm - 4:30pm Intro to Artist's Books for Photographers with Janet Guertin
Paid Event
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A3
In this workshop we'll look at a variety of structures that lend themselves to presenting photographs in fresh and non-traditional ways.
4:30pm - 7:00pm Elizabeth Opalenik Keynote Speaker
Durham Convention Center (map)
Location: Room A2 / AV Room
Wine and beer reception starting at 4:30 with the talk to follow. In this artist talk, Elizabeth Opalenik explores the deeply personal and evolving nature of photographic practice.
Thursday, October 8, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective
Alamance Arts (map)
213 S Main St
Graham, NC 27253
Mark your calendars for "Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective," coming to Alamance Arts October 6 with a special presentation on October 8 at noon, followed by our opening reception that evening from 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
Friday, October 9, 2026
5:00pm 8:00pm Student/Teacher Exhibit: "Quiet Light/Loud Stories"
The Arts Center (map)
The ArtsCenter, Carrboro
Work created by Instructor Heather Craig and Student Mario Chen. The Exhibit runs through the entire month of October.
6:00pm 9:00pm Frank in Focus: Tim Duffy, Bettina Molina, Jo Ann Tomaselli, and Wojtek Wojdynski
Frank Gallery (map)
370 E Main St #130
Carrboro, NC 27510
This year, our featured photographers are Tim Duffy, Bettina Molina, Jo Ann Tomaselli, and Wojtek Wojdynski. September 29 through November 14.
Sunday, October 11, 2026
11:30am 5:00pm FOTOWALKNC At APP – a 2026 Click! Festival Event
A Photographer's Place (map)
5100 Lacy Ave.
Suite 100
Raleigh, NC 27609
Fotowalknc has created a special event in association with A Photographer’s Place and Click! Photography Festival.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
6:00PM 8:00PM Art What You Eat
Block Gallery (map)
Food is an essential part of life and culture, and artists have continued to document our relationship to it in personal and profound ways.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
6:00PM 8:00PM In the Course of Human Events
Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery (map)
2020 Campus Dr Ste 235
Durham, NC 27708
An exhibit of work by Duke visual arts faculty that uses this phrase, taken from the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, as a jumping off point for works of art in a variety of media.
Friday, October 23, 2026
5:30PM 8:30PM QUARTET: Four North Carolina Photographers
Through This Lens Gallery (map)
303 East Chapel Hill Street
Durham, North Carolina.
Quartet presents a sampling of the work of Rob Amberg, Elizabeth Matheson, John Rosenthal, and Caroline Vaughan. Their images, for the most part made in North Carolina, are both quiet and passionate, in time and outside of time, revealing both surface and depth.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
10:00am 3:00pm Intro to Large Format
A Photographers Place (map)
5100 Lacy Ave Ste 100,
Raleigh, NC 27609
Demystify the amazing large format camera in this class which will get you using this incredible machine and making your first negative.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
7:00pm 8:30pm Artist Talk: Gabriel Moses Rivera
The Arts Center (map)
In collaboration with the ArtsCenter and Click! Festival, PHOTO FARM presents Gabriel Moises Rivera, an analog photographer based in NYC and Italy.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
6:00pm 7:00pm Tim Duffy: Music Makers Tintypes
Frank Gallery (map)
Timothy Duffy is a renowned photographer and founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation and has been recording and photographing traditional blues artists in the South.