Experience a walk-in camera obscura—a darkened space where the world outside is projected live inside, turning passing people, clouds, cars, and sunlight into a giant, upside-down moving image.
It’s photography you can literally step into.
Come see the world from inside the camera!
Join us for Click’s very first Community Cyanotype Mural!
Come make art with us using sunshine, photography, and a little bit of magic. Families, kids, friends, and community members are invited to become part of a one-of-a-kind, large-scale cyanotype mural.
Artist Mert Wilkinson will guide participants through the process, sharing the history and science of this fascinating sun-powered photographic technique while helping everyone create the mural from start to finish.
Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery
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.
A Photographers Place
October 24, 10AM - 3PM
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. Building familiarity with the functions and use of a large format camera will improve your overall understanding of optics and photography. This 200 year old technology still delivers the highest continuous line resolution of any camera in history. The large beautiful analog negative you can hold, see and print is the result of this process. We will use cameras and make our first large format pictures and develop them in this seminar. Bring your camera or arrange to rent one in advance from A Photographer’s Place. In this class we will discuss:
Camera functions
Lens Functions
Loading Film
Metering Light
Film Development
Contact Printing
For more information and to register on A Photographers Place website, click the button below.
About the instructor:
Holden Richards is a traditional large format film photographer and native North Carolinian currently residing in Hillsborough. Inspired by primarily by walking the creeks and rivers of Orange, and Durham Counties, these locations and subjects predominate his photographic work. He has studied view camera (with Jim Stone) and historic process printing (Jill Enfield) at Penland School of Crafts.
He is a current Getty Images Contributor who has had his work featured print, including Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, The Hand Magazine, and The Oxford American as well as appearing in corporate advertising campaigns through Getty. His recent monograph Riverwalk is included in the archives of the University of North Carolina, Duke University and the North Carolina Museum of Art. His darkroom work has been included in The Cassilhaus Collection and the public collections of the cities of Raleigh and Durham, NC among others.
Lately I am using only large format cameras, mostly older than 100 years old, and contact printing the results in the traditional wet darkroom on select European papers as well as making Kallitypes, Salt Prints, Albumen, and other alternative prints.
Experience a walk-in camera obscura—a darkened space where the world outside is projected live inside, turning passing people, clouds, cars, and sunlight into a giant, upside-down moving image.
It’s photography you can literally step into.
Come see the world from inside the camera!
Photo by Jack McKain
In collaboration with the ArtsCenter and Click! Festival, PHOTO FARM presents Gabriel Moises Rivera, an analog photographer based in NYC and Italy. In his artist talk, Selector of time, subtraction as discipline and sculpting the necessary, Gabriel explains his practice
and philosophy: "To make a photo is to choose what moments are witnessed. Before technicality, there is intuition: the pull toward a moment worth holding even before it is fully realized. Alongside it, discipline that builds in process: subtraction, refinement, sculpting until only what's necessary remains. Everything is photographable, yet not everything is photographed. What do the things we decided to make photos of say about us and the world at large?
PHOTO FARM offers a fully equipped analog darkroom and a versatile photo studio, providing creatives with the space to make and inspire. We host a diverse array of creative experiences — from workshops to meetups to artist talks — cultivating an environment of play and production.
The ArtsCenter is the largest provider of arts education in Orange County. Since our inception 50 years ago we have grown from a single music class into a dynamic multi-disciplinary educational arts center serving students of all ages through professionally taught classes from traditional ceramics and painting classes to laser cutting and 3D printing workshops. Our galleries and stage feature culturally diverse artists from across the region. The ArtsCenter is a cultural hub where community members from all backgrounds gather to collaborate, learn and build community.
Experience a walk-in camera obscura—a darkened space where the world outside is projected live inside, turning passing people, clouds, cars, and sunlight into a giant, upside-down moving image.
It’s photography you can literally step into.
Come see the world from inside the camera!
Self Portrait: Tim Duffy
Timothy Duffy is a renowned photographer and founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation. Timothy has been recording and photographing traditional artists in the South since the age of 16, when he became interested in ethnomusicology. After earning a BA from Friends World College and MA from the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Timothy and his wife Denise founded Music Maker Relief Foundation in 1994 to assist traditional musicians in need.
As a photographer he edited and took many photographs for Portraits and Songs from the Roots of America, and was the sole photographer for the nationally touring exhibitions: We Are the Music Makers! & Our Living Past. Both exhibits received support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Timothy Duffy’s photographs were published by 21st Editions in a monograph entitled BLUE in 2017 — followed by a monograph published by UNC Press in association with the New Orleans Museum of Art entitled Blue Muse: Timothy Duffy’s Southern Photographs in 2019. Works from Blue Muse premiered in a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art in April 2019. His current project is Hanging Tree Guitars, a collaboration with sculptor and spiritual philosopher Freeman Vines, containing Timothy’s photography coupled with Vine’s philosophy.
Photograph: Tim Duffy
Franklin Street Arts Collective is an art gallery, art collective, and non-profit organization located in Carrboro, North Carolina. Franklin Street Arts Collective is commonly called FRANK.
Through This Lens Gallery
Opening Oct. 16, 2026
303 East Chapel Hill Street in downtown Durham, North Carolina.
Quartet: Four North Carolina Photographers is a 2005 hardcover photography book published by Safe Harbor Books that showcases the work of four prominent regional photographers. Through This Lens Gallery is pleased to gather these four photographers together for a Quartet inspired exhibition.
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.
Mr. Amberg documents life in rural, southern communities. Ms. Vaughan's landscapes and portraits detail the increments and textures of time. Ms. Matheson's pictures present the architecture of formality that expresses the character of those who built and lived in such spaces as well as what is past and passing. Mr. Rosenthal’s photographs freeze ordinary moments thereby allowing us to see in them what is extraordinary and permanent.
As Georgann Eubanks notes in her introduction, Quartet presents images "that hum with subtle harmonies, each photographer adding another dimension to the resonant chord, all reminding us that against the din of digital media, there is yet a place for still images and deeper reflection”
ROB AMBERG'S photographs and writings from the rural South have been published and exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous journals, magazines, and galleries. He frequently lectures and does assignment work for non-profit organizations, philanthropic foundations, and editorial publications. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Documentary Studies, Alternative Roots, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His book, Sodom Laurel Album, published in 2002 by the University of North Carolina Press and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, won the 2003 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award from the Western Carolina Historical ssociation. He is currently working on a book documenting a nine-mile section of interstate highway recently opened in mountainous Madison County, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife, two children, and an assortment of animals.
Photograph: Rob Amberg
CAROLINE VAUGHAN was educated at Duke University and later studied with John Menapace at the Penland School of Crafts. She was one of only seven students in a graduate seminar at MIT with laster photographer Minor White. Soon thereafter, Ms. Vaughan was nominated by a panel of photographic experts from Europe, North America, and Australia as one of forty-three promising young photographers listed in Time Life's "Photography Year" 1977 edition. Her photographs have been published in numerous magazines, including Camera, Zoom, Aperture, and Parnassus: Poetry in Review. In 1996 Duke University Press published Borrowed Time: Photographs of Caroline Vaughan, a midlife assessment of her work. She is included in Polaroid's comprehensive survey of its collection, the Polaroid Book. She has had solo exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum, the Neikrug Gallery, the Light Factory, the Green Hill Center of North Carolina Art, and Hollins University. Among the museums that collect Ms. Vaughan's works are the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Amon Carter Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. The Gallery of and Design at North Carolina State University will archive Ms. Vaughan's photography.
Photograph: Caroline Vaughn
ELIZABETH MATHESON was educated at Sweet Briar College and studied photography with John Menapace at the Penland School of Crafts. Her affection for old North Carolina towns and houses is reflected in her books on Edenton and her native Hillsborough (with Jerry Eidenier). Other books include To See with poems of John McFee (Wesleyan University Press, 1991) and Blithe Air: Photographs of England, Wales, and Ireland (Jargon Society Press, 1995). She has had solo exhibitions at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hollins University, Western Carolina University, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the National Humanities Center, the Gallery of Art and Design at North Carolina State University and, most recently, Cassilhaus. In 2003 she was included in the Ackland Art Museum's "Defining Moments, Two Centuries of Photography." In 2004 she received the North Carolina Governor's Award in Fine Arts.
Photograph: Elizabeth Matheson
JOHN ROSENTHAL’S photographs have been exhibited throughout North Carolina and the Southeast. His one-person shows include exhibits at the National Humanities Center, the Asheville Museum of Art, the National Academy of Sciences, the NIH, and the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, as well as Wake Forest University, Elon University, Salem College, Hollins University, and the School of Design at North Carolina State University. His essays and photography have appeared in various journals and periodicals, including ARTVU, Five Points, Carolina Quarterly, Sun Magazine, Key West Review, Kenyon Review, NCArts, New York Magazine, Arts Journal, and In Brief, Short Takes on the Personal. Mr. Rosenthal has written and lectured widely on his own work and the work of others, including presentations at the City Gallery of Contemporary Art, the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. He has served as a visiting lecturer at Duke University's Institute of the Arts. In 2003 Mr. Rosenthal provided the narration and eighty-five photographs for the Morrison Project, winner of the Best Documentary at the 2003 Hamptons International Film Festival. In 1985 Mr. Rosenthal began his career as a radio commentator on WUNC-FM, an affiliate of NPR. In 1990 he joined the roster of commentators on All Things Considered. In 1998 Safe Harbor Books published Mr. Rosenthal's collection Regarding Manhattan.
Photograph: John Rosenthal
Art What You Eat
Food and art have an intertwined history, from the rustic Egyptian murals depicting bread-making to the colorful fruits by Cézanne. However, probably most notable are the hyper realistic Dutch still lifes with highly skilled renderings of reflective silver and glassware, dew drops on flower petals, and feathers and fur of dead carcasses. No matter the style in which any of these is illustrated, they all reflect the times in which they were created. Food is an essential part of life and culture, and artists have continued to document our relationship to it in personal and profound ways.
Each of the "Art What You Eat" photographers works with food as their subject matter but has a unique approach to tell their individual story. Whether it is the captured moments of food preparation by Anna Routh Barzin, the frozen-in-time images of Harsha Sipani, or the abstracted, minimalist design approach of Dhanraj Emanuel, their work reflects and celebrates our current culture.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Dhanraj Emanuel
Instagram @dhanrajemanuel
dhanrajemanuel.com
Dhanraj Emanuel, Envy (Himalayan salt, matcha green tea), 2018
Dhanraj Emanuel is a photographer and artist who explores the connections between people and food. For Emanuel, food is essential and universal. It is the setting where we connect, understand, and celebrate one another. Food is the common thread in our lives, history, culture, and sustenance for many, memory for some, but identity for all. His photographs seek out the meaningful connections between people and their culinary identities.
Emanuel's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the 9th annual FENCE at Photoville, Reclaiming at Central Gallery, Revolution Mill in Greensboro, and Post-Colonialism and After, curated by Okwui Enwezor at the University of South Florida. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times Style Magazine, and Food Network Magazine, and has been featured on NPR.
He is recognized in Lürzer's Archive 200 Best Advertising Photographers Worldwide, with additional honors from the International Photography Awards, Graphis, AP39, and APA Chicago. He holds an MFA from the University of Memphis. Based in Greensboro, North Carolina, Emanuel is department head of photography at Randolph Community College in Asheboro and shoots for food brands worldwide.
Anna Routh Barzin
Instagram @annarouth
annarouthbarzin.com
Anna Routh Barzin, Market Day Guatemala, 2016
Anna Routh Barzin is a commercial photographer specializing in food, hospitality, and interiors. Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she works with clients worldwide to create compelling imagery that tells the story behind a brand, a meal, or a space.
Anna's photography has been featured in leading publications including Southern Living, Garden & Gun, The Local Palate, Food & Wine, and Our State. She has also photographed numerous cookbooks, helping authors and publishers bring recipes and culinary stories to life through thoughtful, evocative imagery.
Known for her collaborative approach and attention to detail, Anna combines technical expertise with a deep understanding of food styling, visual storytelling, and brand identity. Whether photographing a celebrated chef, a boutique hotel, a thoughtfully designed interior, or a beautifully plated dish, her goal is always the same: to create images that feel genuine, memorable, and distinctly human.
Harsha Sipani
Instagram @harshasipani
harshasipani.com
Harsha Sipani, Fragile Strength, 2025
Harsha Sipani is a North Carolina-based photographer and visual artist whose work explores food, culture, storytelling, hospitality, and human connection. Originally from India and now working in the United States, she brings a multicultural perspective to images that celebrate the artistry, traditions, and emotion surrounding food, craft, and everyday life.
Her background in visual communication, broadcast journalism, TV production, filmmaking, and marketing informs a practice that combines technical precision with narrative depth. Across commercial, editorial, travel, product, and fine art projects, she creates imagery for restaurants, chefs, hospitality brands, consumer product companies, publications, and exhibition contexts.
RALEIGH ARTS
Raleigh Arts is part of the City of Raleigh’s Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources Department. It fosters and promotes the arts by administering programs approved by the Raleigh Arts Commission and the Public Art and Design Board and supporting the Pullen and Sertoma Arts Centers.
Block Gallery
Connecting local artists to the community through ongoing exhibitions and public outreach, the Block Gallery was dedicated in 2006 to honor Miriam Preston Block, a former Raleigh City Council member and community leader. Greeting all visitors to the Raleigh Municipal Building at the Upchurch Government Complex in Downtown Raleigh, the gallery’s marble walls and elegant staircase provide an ideal setting for showcasing original artworks. Exhibits change every eight to twelve weeks.
October 11, 2026
A Photographers Place
5100 Lacy Ave.
Suite 100
Raleigh, NC 27609
Schedule:
12:00–12:20 PM - First Speaker
12:20–12:30 PM - Intermission / Q&A
12:30–12:50 PM - Second Speaker
12:50–1:00 PM - Transition / Prep for Walk
1:00 PM - Photowalk
Fotowalknc has created a special event in association with A Photographer’s Place and Click! Photography Festival.
On October 11th, Fotowalknc will be hosting a photography lecture series featuring two incredible photographers, Reid Haithcock and Jennifer Lull.
Reid and Jennifer will each be sharing their work, experiences, and perspectives on photography, giving us an opportunity to learn directly from their creative practices.
The lectures will take place at A Photographers Place in Raleigh, NC. A space dedicated to bringing photographers and the community together.
And once the lectures wrap up, we’re taking the conversation outside with a Photowalk. So you’ll have a chance to connect, make photographs, and put some of that inspiration into practice.
Mark your calendars for October 11th. Check out the schedule on screen for all the details, and make sure you follow Fotowalknc and Aphotographersplace for updates and RSVP information. We hope to see you in Raleigh.
Fotowalknc Photo Walk Artist Bios
Jennifer Lull is a North Carolina based food photographer specializing in the creative use of flash, texture, and composition to create refined, visually compelling imagery.
After moving to the United States, Jennifer discovered photography while searching for a creative career that would allow her to be present for her daughters. Entirely self-taught, she found her specialty in food photography after an opportunity to photograph a restaurant menu.
Her work has been featured in the MICHELIN Guide. Today, she is bringing The Flavor Click to life, a project grounded in her belief that powerful food photography goes beyond the visual, creating images so evocative that you can almost taste them.
Reid Haithcock is a North Carolina based photographer making work in the social and personal documentary tradition. He has published several photo books and zines, the most recent being the fully self-printed Risograph book Poacher. In addition Reid has, for two decades, worked extensively with musicians, record labels, and magazines to create images for record covers, artist portraits, and editorial features.
Born in North Carolina, and now back there after spending a decade in Boston, MA, Reid’s work has centered on, and branched out from, the documentation of punk and hardcore music. His work now encompasses street and social documentary photography, and bringing those approaches back into documenting the lives and works of musicians as well as his own travels and search for the strangeness of everyday life.
O c t o b e r 1 0 – D e c e m b e r 3 1 , 2 0 2 6
Artist Reception:
Saturday, October 10, 5 - 7 P M
Image: Leah Sobsey
The exhibit will be open for viewing on Fridays, 10 AM - 4 PM, or by appointment.
For exhibition information, price list, and installation images after October 10, please go to:
https://www.preservationchapelhill.org/artexhibitions
For appointments, please contact: Tama Hochbaum: tamahochbaum19@gmail.com
Frank Gallery
370 E. Main St #130
Carrboro, NC 27510
Sip a warm drink and listen as featured photographers Tim Duffy, Bettina Molina, Jo Ann Tomaselli, and Wojtek Wojdynski discuss their work.
Tim Duffy
Tim Duffy is a renowned photographer and folklorist who has documented traditional artists in the South for nearly five decades. He and his wife Denise founded Music Maker Foundation in 1994 to assist roots musicians in need and preserve American musical traditions.
Tim creates one-of-a-kind direct positive tintype portraits of American artists, musicians who are the living expression of our nation’s cultural legacy yet remain little known. Shot with a large format camera using a tintype process that dates back to the nineteenth century, Tim’s masterful photographs celebrate these creators, custodians, purveyors, and performers of American music
Bettina Molina
Bettina’s series documents the everyday lives of women in India, from the quiet concentration of daily labor to the shared rituals of tea that welcome a stranger into the home. It is not travel photography, but a study of hospitality, resilience, and the dignity found in ordinary work and connection between women.
Bettina is a Colombian documentary photographer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, trained at EFTI in Madrid, whose work explores culture, identity, and the human experience. Her practice spans documentary, commercial, and portrait photography, with a recurring focus on women, ritual, and everyday resilience.
Jo Ann Tomaselli
A visit with the Suri in Ethiopia introduced Jo Ann to women untouched by modernity, living in deep connection with their ceremonial traditions and heritage. These portraits invite you into their secluded world — resilient, beautiful, profoundly human and full of grace.
“Defining myself as a particular type of photographer is not possible as every moment behind the lens offers an opportunity to share images of the people, cultures and landscapes that touch me deeply. My inspiration? Color, shape, design and the most delightful factor of all ~ fun!”
Wojtek Wojdynski
Wojtek is a fine art photographer based in Chapel Hill. His work celebrates the beauty and emotion found in everyday life, with a special focus on people, inviting the viewer to slow down, reflect, and discover the beauty and meaning with fresh eyes
Wojtek’s work offers a glimpse into the lives of women in the streets of Havana, Cuba. Through moments of work, resilience, and everyday life, these photographs celebrate the strength, dignity, and spirit of the women who shape the city’s vibrant rhythm.
September 29 through November 14
Opening Reception: October 9th
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.
Tim Duffy
Photograph: Tim Duffy
Tim Duffy is a renowned photographer and folklorist who has documented traditional artists in the South for nearly five decades. He and his wife Denise founded Music Maker Foundation in 1994 to assist roots musicians in need and preserve American musical traditions.
Tim creates one-of-a-kind direct positive tintype portraits of American artists, musicians who are the living expression of our nation’s cultural legacy yet remain little known. Shot with a large format camera using a tintype process that dates back to the nineteenth century, Tim’s masterful photographs celebrate these creators, custodians, purveyors, and performers of American music
Bettina Molina
Bettina’s series documents the everyday lives of women in India, from the quiet concentration of daily labor to the shared rituals of tea that welcome a stranger into the home. It is not travel photography, but a study of hospitality, resilience, and the dignity found in ordinary work and connection between women.
Bettina is a Colombian documentary photographer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, trained at EFTI in Madrid, whose work explores culture, identity, and the human experience. Her practice spans documentary, commercial, and portrait photography, with a recurring focus on women, ritual, and everyday resilience.
Jo Ann Tomaselli
Photo: Jo Ann Tomaselli
A visit with the Suri in Ethiopia introduced Jo Ann to women untouched by modernity, living in deep connection with their ceremonial traditions and heritage. These portraits invite you into their secluded world — resilient, beautiful, profoundly human and full of grace.
“Defining myself as a particular type of photographer is not possible as every moment behind the lens offers an opportunity to share images of the people, cultures and landscapes that touch me deeply. My inspiration? Color, shape, design and the most delightful factor of all ~ fun!”
Wojtek Wojdynski
Photograph: Wojtek Wojdynski
Wojtek is a fine art photographer based in Chapel Hill. His work celebrates the beauty and emotion found in everyday life, with a special focus on people, inviting the viewer to slow down, reflect, and discover the beauty and meaning with fresh eyes.
Wojtek’s work offers a glimpse into the lives of women in the streets of Havana, Cuba. Through moments of work, resilience, and everyday life, these photographs celebrate the strength, dignity, and spirit of the women who shape the city’s vibrant rhythm.
Our Second Friday Art-Walk reception will be for “"Quiet Light/Loud Stories.” Work created by Instructor Heather Craig and Student Mario Chen. The Exhibit runs through the entire month of October.
Photograph: Mario Chen
Photograph: Heather Craig
The ArtsCenter is the largest provider of arts education in Orange County. Since our inception 50 years ago we have grown from a single music class into a dynamic multi-disciplinary educational arts center serving students of all ages through professionally taught classes from traditional ceramics and painting classes to laser cutting and 3D printing workshops. Our galleries and stage feature culturally diverse artists from across the region. The ArtsCenter is a cultural hub where community members from all backgrounds gather to collaborate, learn and build community.
Alamance Arts
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 sponsored by Dick & Millie's Camera Corner, Inc.
This year marks 20 years since Hugh Morton's passing. A Wilmington native, Morton (1921–2006) was a photographer, businessman, tourism advocate, conservationist, and lifelong champion of North Carolina. Morton’s influence extended well beyond photography. He inherited Grandfather Mountain in 1952 and developed it into one of North Carolina’s best-known travel destinations while also working to protect its natural environment.
The exhibit was curated by Stephen Fletcher from UNC and first debuted in 2013.
Terry Sanford and the USS North Carolina, Photograph: Hugh Morton, Courtesy North Carolina Collection
In an era dominated by rapid news cycles, algorithmic feeds, and digital manipulation, where does objective reality end and curated narrative begin?
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. Why is photojournalism so indispensable in the age we live in?
Truth in journalism has never been more vital—or more challenged. As visual media rapidly evolves alongside changing editorial landscapes and new technologies, photojournalists face complex choices every day: How do you capture an authentic moment when editorial framing, algorithms, and reader expectations demand a specific story?
Together, our panelists will pull back the curtain on modern photojournalism, examining the delicate line between authentic documentation and constructed narrative. Whether you are a practitioner, a media consumer, or simply curious about how the news gets made, this panel offers a candid look at the ethics, pressures, and truth of visual storytelling today.
MORNING SESSION (interior lighting and portraiture)
1. 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. This class will be light on the technical jargon, and instead focus on practical techniques that anyone can use, even if they are new to artificial light. Our emphasis will be on the lighting the face, and how to shape light, use angles, and expressions for captivating results.
In addition, this will be an interactive class, so bring your camera! You will have the opportunity to practice using the lights and photograph our model using the concepts we learn in the first half of the class.
If you’ve never taken portraits before, or if you’ve been shooting for many years, this class will be filled with education and inspiration that you can take with you and use to improve your photography and connection with your subject.
AFTERNOON SESSION (on outdoor/location portraiture).
2. 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. I will show you how to balance your flash, the difference between feathered and direct flash, how color temperature affects exposure, how to find great natural light, and more.
As with my first session, an emphasis will be placed on using practical methods that are easy for anyone of any level to learn and utilize. We will also spend time discussion how to connect with our subject, posing techniques, and finding outdoor spots that compliment our portraits.
Pete Coco Bio
Pete Coco is a New York-based portrait photographer known for creating bold, engaging images that defy convention. Pete strives to capture authentic emotion from his subjects, and loves using dramatic light and a cinematic approach. He works with a wide range of clients including actors, musicians, executives, and creatives who refuse to settle for an average portrait.
Pete’s passion as an artist and photographer also drives The Portrait Community, a mentoring group he runs for photographers where he helps them sharpen their craft, grow their businesses, and cultivate a mindset for success.
Besides this, he shares his perspective with 30K+ subscribers on YouTube, where he talks shop about portraiture, gear, and everything in between. When he’s not working with clients or mentoring creatives, Pete can be found lugging his upright bass and camera around New York, playing with a variety of musicians and simultaneously documenting the music scene.
To enroll head on over to our Registration Page.
Durham Convention Center
October 3, 2026
4:00 PM
Neale Bayly.
HUMANITARIAN – ADVENTURER – PHOTOJOURNALIST- TELEVISION HOST - FOUNDER, WELLSPRING INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
Finishing an interview with Steve McCurry – the photographer behind the most iconic cover in National Geographic history – Neale Bayly glanced down at his phone and noticed two missed calls. One was from a billionaire. The Other was from a nun in Peru about his charity work. He wrapped up his interview, called the Nun back first and filed his story about McCurry. This is, more or less, a normal Tuesday for Neale Bayly
WHERE IT STARTED
Neale was raised in England by a single mother on welfare. His father left early – a geography problem as Neale tells it, with a straightforwardness that makes you laugh before you realize what he just said. There was no trust fund, no connections, no obvious runway. There was just a kid who paid attention to the world and decided he wanted more of it.
He landed in New York on a one-way ticket with a hundred dollars in his pocket, a bottle of Johnny Walker Red and a bus ticket to Florida – where 36 traveling hours would see him connecting with a bank robber he knew. Most people would call it reckless. Neale calls it efficient. It was also, by any reasonable measure, the beginning of a pattern.
WHAT HE BUILT FROM THERE
Over the four decades that followed, Neale became one of the most respected voices in international motorcycle journalism, writing for more than 100 publications worldwide – including the Toronto Star, LA Times, Rider magazine and Overland Journal. He created two national television series that aired across 65 million homes on the Speed Channel, won Tele awards for both production and hosting, and became a BMW brand ambassador and TEDx speaker. He has set foot in over 80 countries and ridden motorcycles across more than 50 of them. Neale holds two land speed records, including a 202-mph run. He has ridden with and interviewed World Champions in the motorcycle space, and Pulitzer Prize winners, Oscar winners, conflict journalists, and National Geographic photographers in the Middle East. The interview with Steve McCurry being one of them.
“He didn’t come from anywhere that predicted this. That’s precisely why he can speak to anyone who is trying to get somewhere.”
THE HUMANITARIAN WORK
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. The organization has raised over $1.5 million to date – much of it funded through the motorcycle expeditions he designs and leads personally. Neale has currently made more than 15 trips to Peru, seven to Ukraine, five to South Africa and two to Kenya. In Peru, he sits with Priests in mountain villages sharing life stories over nothing in particular. In Ukraine, his access runs from orphanages and children’s hospitals to aid agencies, torture victims, amputee wards, and front-line battalion command centers. He earned every door that opens for him.
THE PHYSICAL RECORD
In 2015, at 53, Neale broke his femur in half. Surgeons installed three four-inch bolts. What followed: summits of Kilimanjaro (19,300ft) Mt Kenya (17,000ft), and two Peruvian volcanoes – Misti (19,100ft) and Chachani (19,900ft). A 113-mile bicycle ride from the Pacific Ocean to 15,000ft in the Andes – with 16,100 feet of elevation gained in 13.5 hours. Two 200-mile cycling days for fundraising. Neale is not a man who recovers. He is a man who recalibrates.
THE LIFE BETWEEN THE LINES
Neale has dealt currency on the black market in Nicaragua during the Sandinista-Contra war, worked in a Sudanese refugee camp in Uganda, modeled fashion clothing for Blake Lively’s brand in South Africa, and had a bromance with Ryan Reynolds. He taught two Playboy centerfolds to ride motorcycles, and had a torrid love affair with a raven-haired beauty in Panama City, Panama. He took the band Hoobastank on a motorcycle tour through the Alps – they wrote a song about it. He rode Valentino Rossi’s world championship winning Moto GP bike. He works with Nuns.
Today, Neale leads transformational motorcycle expeditions through Peru – from the Pacific Ocean to the Andes – and speaks to corporations, leadership teams, and high-performance organizations about resilience, perspective, and what the world’s hardest places teach us about the lives we’re actually living.
Neale doesn’t manufacture perspective. He’s been collecting it since he had nothing else.
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.
Our backgrounds as musicians give us interesting insights and a unique understanding of both mediums. Photography and music are about special moments informed by a deep foundation of practice.
We’ve both been fortunate to find something we love but then found out that was the easy part. Professionals in every field make what they do look easy, and everything is easy till you begin to care about the result. Making something that is personal, beautiful, exceptional, while making a living, is anything but easy. Pete and I have taken different roads to rewarding and exciting careers.
I worked with musicians for thirty plus years. During this time, I was commissioned by prominent record labels and magazines to make studio and location portraits of a wide range of musicians, including Tom Petty, Sarah McLachlan, Herbie Hancock, Fleetwood Mac, Leonard Cohen, ZZ Top, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Snoop Dogg and many more.
What is most important in photography is the finish. Getting there is usually a very crooked road with many interesting twists and turns. Our talk will focus on making work in the studio environment, on location, and the complications of scheduling, travel, equipment, representation and the big picture of crafting a meaningful career. My work has always been about process; both analog (film and silver gelatin prints), and for the past three decades an ongoing digital path.
I have recently been licensing my photography to HBO, Apple TV and documentary filmmakers for inclusion in cable productions and repackaged music releases. Pete is a remarkable talent who can work with anyone who is searching for a creative solution to almost any idea.
After working commercially for years, I taught photography at the College and University level and was the Chair of the Photography and Imaging Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, for nearly twenty years.
I have two exhibitions scheduled for 2027. “25 Years in Music,” and the other, a show of Fine Art work; "A Survey of the Quotidian Landscape,” about the Southern California Freeways.
My career included both work in music portraiture, work for the J, Paul Getty Conservation and Research Institutes as well as commissions and exhibitions for museums. I recently rebuilt my black and white darkroom, and will soon begin to teach private workshops for small groups interested in analog practices. I am also working on a book about the experience of working with musicians.
Keeley
I look forward to joining Dennis in conversation about portraiture, creativity and artistry. I took the long road to becoming a portrait and music photographer, having spent many years as a touring and freelancing jazz bassist, studying both jazz and classical, and later, teaching at Hofstra University on Long Island.
Through my many years performing and studying, photography was always my other passion. I worked in the industry to help pay for college, shot for the school newspaper, and took as many photo courses as possible.
It wasn’t until the pandemic, however, that I decided to transform my passion for photography into a viable business, and it was very natural for me to gravitate towards photographing musicians. I started by simply asking friends to pose for portraits, and bringing my camera along to my gigs, documenting my journey as a bassist in New York.
Most of my work happens in small, dark, poorly lit clubs and bars around the city. I absolutely love these venues and the challenges and rewards they present to photographers. Aside from posed portraits of musicians, I love capturing candid moments before or after the show, in the green room, and interactions between the musicians. I strive to create images that are authentic, and defy convention.
Currently, I’m the staff photographer for jazz bass legend Ron Carter, and have photographed the Maestro many times including at his home and at various venues throughout New York. I’ve also been privileged to photograph many great jazz musicians including Diana Krall, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez, Rufus Reid, Bill Charlap, and Chad Lefkowitz Brown.
I have also had the pleasure to perform with many wonderful musicians including Tommy Emmanuel, Bucky Pizzarelli, Sullivan Fortner, Frank Vignola, and Jane Monheit.
My first gallery show, “Jazz Speaks,” is currently on display at The Art Alcove, located in Freeport, New York. My work has been published in Jazz Times, Bassist Magazine, Downbeat Magazine, and I recently had a portrait as the cover of Fujilove Magazine.
I’m excited to bring my perspective to this panel, and discuss music and photography with Dennis, because I know I am also going to learn from him!
Pete Coco
Skipping Sundays
A Photography Exhibition by Heather Evans Smith
Visual Art Exchange
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. Through imagery, she explores the complicated dynamics of religion and faith, as well as the feelings of isolation that can occur when one's beliefs differ with those of those around them. How is it that some can wholeheartedly embrace traditional faith while the rest of us are left questioning?
Photograph: Heather Evans Smith
Project Statement
“How many of you have been saved?” the preacher shouted at a church event. The congregation promptly raised their hands. Not wanting to be the sole individual with my hand down, I slowly raised mine to join theirs. Why had this magical experience not happened to me? I desired to comprehend why faith held a deeper meaning for them beyond attending Sunday services, for that was the extent of its significance for me.
As a young adult, I ventured out on my own, skipping Sundays, yet the questions persisted. One evening, I found myself in the living room of one of my spiritual friends. “How do you believe?”, I asked. She responded with unwavering confidence, “You simply must pray for it. You just gotta have faith. That’s all.” Following her advice, I prayed earnestly, hoping for a transformative experience. However, nothing seemed to change. Over time, these inquiries faded into the background, but they never completely disappeared. They would resurface during significant life events, such as the birth of a child or the loss of a parent. Despite my efforts, I still felt as though I was merely going through the motions, lacking this profound connection that others seemed to possess.
Often, doubters choose to keep their thoughts hidden. This decision can lead to a profound sense of isolation, especially when surrounded by individuals steadfast in their beliefs. These images delve into the memories of those bygone Sundays and my lifelong pursuit of finding answers. How is it that some can wholeheartedly embrace traditional faith while the rest of us are left questioning?
October 2-30, 2026
Artspace,
201 E. Davie St.
Raleigh, NC
What happens when a Raleigh kid moves to New York City to study photography?
Worlds collide. Mayberry meets Madison Avenue, and both are changed forever. Then comes another collision: Wolfpack Girl meets Buckeye Boy. Sparks fly, and once again, both are changed forever. Robbie teaches Robert about vinegar-based BBQ, sweet tea, and the North Carolina State Fair. In return, he introduces her to The Clash, Cleveland, and the Cuyahoga River.
A brilliant creative partnership is born, and ideas begin to flow. “Let’s do portraits at the State Fair,” Robert proposes, and “Let’s get married!” Robbie says yes to both. 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. What they discover is so much more: tradition, dazzling showmanship, and humanity at its very best. The dedication of the people showing their prized poultry matches the Baileys’ dedication to the art of photography.
Telling their stories with reverence becomes paramount. The birds may win blue ribbons, but the people who care for them will win your heart. What you see here is honest portraiture of real people doing what they love, captured by two people doing what they love.
About
Robert and Robbie Bailey are photographers whose collaborative practice encompasses studio and environmental portraiture, commercial photography, and fine art. Their photographs have appeared in The New York Times and have been featured on The Today Show, The Discovery Channel, and NBC Nightly News.
Their fine art photography has been exhibited nationally, including at the Asia Society in New York, Sampson Arts Council and Artspace in North Carolina, and Elzay Gallery of Art at Ohio Northern University. Their work reflects a shared interest in portraiture, storytelling, and the distinctive character of the people and places they photograph.
Robbie Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Raleigh Film & Art Festival and serves as an art, legacy, and stewardship advisor to Dorothea Dix Park. She majored in speech communication at North Carolina State University followed by documentary studies at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan. Her commercial clients include Macallan Whiskey, Betsey Johnson, Hennessy, Ralph Lauren, and the New York Yankees.
Robert Bailey is Head of Photography at Tarisio Fine Instruments & Bows, where he manages the company’s New York, Berlin, and London studios. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Ohio University and has taught as an adjunct professor at Ohio Northern University. He has also lectured at the Violin Society of America, School of Visual Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the International Center of Photography.
To see more portrait projects by Robert and Robbie, visit https://www.baileyphoto.com/
A Photographers Place
5100 Lacy Avenue
Raleigh North Carolina
Friday, October 2, 2026
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
“There was a time in my life when the bright yellow Waffle House sign sang out to me, called me off the highway, lured me out of my ’82 Sentra. I was younger then, and I remember sitting in a booth and mostly focusing on my food. And so I take great joy, all these years later, in these images. I love the kind of wordly obsessiveness Micah Cash brings to this project: The man visited more than 90 Waffle House restaurants in 11 states, and serves up sly, subtle pictures that lead me to look beyond my plate of scattered, smothered, and covered hash browns and think about politics, economics, anthropology, and architecture.”
— Bill Shapiro, former Editor-in-Chief of LIFE magazine
Calvert City: Photograph: Micah Cash
Waffle House Vistas focuses on the built environment as seen through the windows of Waffle House restaurants from across the southeastern United States. The collected images contemplate the surrounding architecture of habitat and commerce through the lens of a southern cultural icon. These photographs ask viewers to look up from their hash browns and acknowledge the institutions and structures that create real, yet rarely acknowledged boundaries that seem impossible to break through for many of us.
While the photographed locations vary by state, population density, and proximity to the Interstate highway system, the surrounding built environments share commonalities. The images look out from booths and chairs, placing the viewer as a witness to the intertwined narratives of economic stability, transience, and politics.
Friday, October 2, 2026
5:00 PM 9:00 PM
A Photographers Place
5100 Lacy Ave Ste 100,
Raleigh, NC 27609
Curator: Dale Rio
Sally Chapman
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.
The three artists in Breaking Free: The Photographic Object exemplify different approaches to transforming a photographic image into a 3D work of art. From a 2D starting point, each creates treasured objects that form a bridge between private reflection and public engagement. Exploring issues such as memory, time, and personal and communal aspirations, each embraces the tactility of fabrication and the manipulation of her chosen material through the use of a personalized creative methodology.
Deliquescence: Séverine Chauveau
Sally Chapman creates photo book objects that can present as standard book structures or be displayed as sculptural pieces. In them, she creates imagined worlds that explore the myths, ideals, and spiritual aspirations of the communities in which the original images were made.
Using a collection of found studio photographs as source material,.
Séverine Chauveau prints images onto handmade clay pieces and stones using liquid emulsion and creates reliquaries, icons, and video art. With these “memory objects”, she explores concepts of erasure; the preservation and loss of memory, humanity’s relationship with the passage of time, and our own eventual but inevitable disappearance.
Dawn Surratt’s work is informed by over two decades of witnessing the human condition while working with hospice patients and families. Creating an intimate experience for the viewer through her choice of scale, she creates both small objects and sites of visual
meditation through large-scale installations that feature image-based tableaux, reliquaries, and book structures that incorporate both handmade and found objects.
Impenetrably Obscure: Dawn Surratt
Photograph: Henry Horenstein
Artist Statement
In 2001, I wandered into the Shim-Sham Club in New Orleans, and caught the first annual Tease-O-Rama event. Little did I know then that this was a watershed moment for the neo-burlesque movement- in a sense, where it all began. I shot a few roles of film including pictures of the legendary Dita Von Teese and Catherine D’Lish, and started going to shows and shooting casually. One thing led to another, as so often happens in photography, and Show was born.
To me, modern burlesque performers embody so many traits of true artists. They are creative and driven and determined to serve up their vision of the world in song, dance, humor, and narrative. They like being different from everyone else. In fact, they wear that difference with pride. Their style and method of delivery make burlesque popular art- not so much for the elite Art in America crowd. But that doesn’t make it any less artful. Living in the margins, the best of today’s burlesque artists have a signature vision, strong in message and execution. In my view, the same goes for performers working in drag, fetish, and sideshow/circus.
I shot many pictures in Show with color film, but I think black and white is more timeless. It also seems well suited to my subject. Noir. Older. Today, almost all photographers work in color, which to me is reason enough to stick to black and white.
Henry Horenstein is an American artist, photographer, filmmaker and educator. He is the author of over 40 books, including a series of instructional textbooks.
He studied history at the University of Chicago and earned his BFA and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he is now professor of photography. He has worked as a professional photographer, filmmaker, teacher, and author since the early 1970s. He was also an Honored Educator with the Society for Photographic Education in 2013.
Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music (2003) is a documentary survey of country music during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Honky Tonk has also been presented as an exhibition at many public and private museums and galleries, notably the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in 2006, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in 2005, and The Annenberg Space for Photography in 2014.
In recent years, Horenstein has been working on short documentary films. His films include Murray (2010), with William A. Anderson and Hillary Spera; Spoke (2014), a celebration of the Austin, Texas, dance hall, the Broken Spoke, which was funded by The Annenberg Space for Photography and screened at the Austin Film Festival; Partners (2018), which premiered in May 2018 at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts; and Blitto Underground (2021), about bohemian Buenos Aires, which premiered at the International Film Festival in Buenos Aires, the Paris Independent Film Festival, and the Berlin International Art Film Festival. His film about Cajun Louisiana, called Marksville, LA, is scheduled for a 2027 release as well as Preacher, a short film on boogie-woogie piano player Preacher Jack.
Photo: Richard Renaldi
American Centers for Photographers
230 Goldsboro St S
Wilson, NC 27893
Opening Ocober 1, 2026
September 30 - November 1, 2026
The war in Ukraine actually began in 2014. This first part of this war was in the East of the country and was a consequence of the Maiden Uprising in Kyiv in late 2013 when large protests were sparked by the Ukrainian government’s decision to choose closer ties with Russia over the European Union.
With the full out invasion of the Ukraine by Russian forces on February 24, 2022, the fourth stage of the Ukrainian crisis has tragically arrived. No longer hiding behind the pretense of veiled language like “peace keeping mission” for the newly “recognized” regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, Russian troops were ordered to mount an invasion against the Ukrainian government. Continuing the work I had been doing since 2014, I witnessed the escalation of events as Putin’s misconceived and failed attempts to quickly replace Ukraine’s democratically chosen government turned into a war against the civilian population. With all the right reasons to defend their homes and their freedom, Ukrainians are fighting against an army whose reasons to fight their neighbors are diminishing rapidly. Having had to come to terms with this violently sudden shift in their perception of what their Russian neighbors are prepared to do, Ukrainians, no longer reeling from the shock, are mobilizing their fury as well as their fear to fight for their lives. 2022-2025/Ongoing
Photograph: Amnon Gutman
About the Photographer
Amnon Gutman is a photographer based between the Middle East and Europe and is dedicated to covering humanitarian and environmental stories all over the world. His work, recognised internationally, is published in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Le Monde, Die Zeit, and The Guardian among others. He has collaborated with the ICRC, MSF and the UN in different countries around the world.
His awards include those from Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondent, Pictures of the Year International (POYI), Unicef Photo Of The Year Award (POY), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Istanbul Photo Award and HIPA Photography Award. Gutman's photographs have been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan. His work is published in the book projects of Prix Pictet's Space and of Courier Japan's This Day of Change.
He is a member of #everydayclimatechange, a group of international photojournalists committed to informing the public about the global effects on human life from environmental degradation.
Growing up in a war-conflicted region, Gutman is deeply aware of the possibility of suffering and loss. Photography empowers him. His images point to the universality of vulnerability and fragility in the face of violence and disease as well as to the tenacity of the human spirit.
FRANK: inFocus is proud to be part of the annual Triangle-wide CLICK! Photography Festival showcasing the talents of photographers from around the world.
The month of October is an exciting celebration of photography with FRANK:inFocus “The Click! Photography Festival celebrates the medium of photography and its cultural influence by engaging the photography community with exceptional photo-based works, artists, and programming.”
Please join us for this exciting month filled with engaging photography related events!
Dan Gottlieb, a native New Yorker, studied art and biology (SUNY Buffalo) before relocating to California, attending SDSU, living as an artist and earning a living as a cabinetmaker. It was there that Dan began experiments with alternative photographic processes and a career in museum design. He was NCMA’s design director for 30 years (1990-2020). In his art practice, he developed a unique photographic process of his own design, combining archivally printed photographs with multiple layers of paint and laborious finishing..
Tama Hochbaum is a New York City-born artist and photographer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a background in fine arts and printmaking from Brandeis University and an MFA in painting from Queens College. She worked as a painter for 20 years before focusing on photography, with a central artistic theme of exploring the passage of time and memory through various projects, including her recent work, Over/Time: Imaging Landscape.
Timothy Walter, is an arts entrepreneur and art photographer based in Durham, NC. His art projects are the creation of striking portraits of friends and performers that give visual voice to experiences of past trauma. The subjects make visible emotions of anger, dismay, grief -- and sometimes resilience and resolve.
Gadisse Lee is a 25-year-old fine art photographer based in North Carolina. She was born and raised in Ethiopia for seven years before coming to the United States. Lee received her BFA in 2022 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has had numerous group exhibitions throughout North Carolina including the For Freedoms Project – Lawn Signs, and has had her work published in Stubborn Magazine, The Danger Issue.
This event showcases work at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Photography. Including examples of creative image output and theoretical speculation, this event presents work from the recent international Computing the Lens Open Call.
Augustus Wendell, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Duke University
Rose Ansari, Graduate Student, Duke University
Warren Hicks is a visual and conceptual artist working in a variety of media including photography, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation. Hicks lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and works in his studio at Golden Belt in Durham.
Completely self-taught, Hicks' artistic evolution has been as unique as his personal revolution. Hicks has morphed through a progression of styles, mediums, and influences—embracing, digesting, and discarding. A restless experimenter with a keen sense of humor, he is constantly pushing himself into new ideas in visual art, writing, and more.
Born and raised in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Hicks studied architectural design at Oklahoma State University. Prior to graduation, he fled Oklahoma under cover of darkness to Miami, Florida to explore opportunities within the music industry. After twelve years of toil and slight hearing loss, Hicks returned to architectural drafting and relocated to Chapel Hill. In 2002, at the ripe age of 36, he began painting.
Although Hicks established himself as an abstract painter, his recent forays into photography, sculpture, and conceptual art have been well received. Hicks' work has been shown throughout the U.S. as well as in Beijing, China and Skopje, Macedonia.
When he isn't making his own art, Hicks is a freelance art preparator for museums and corporate art collections. Museum clients include: NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC; Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC. Some of the artists whose work has passed, but not slipped, through his hands include Picasso, Miro, Calder, El Greco, Rauschenberg, Van Gogh, Wangechi Mutu, Nick Cave, and El Anatsui.
The virtues of contact printing are many. Because you are doing the coating yourself, you can choose from a variety of sublime fine art papers and even cloth. You can use digital or analog negatives along with found objects like lace, plant life and more. You can use sunlight or a UV exposure unit. Contact printing opens doors to an array of historic processes. In this half day workshop, students work with the oft-underappreciated Van Dyke Brown (VDB) and the celebrated Cyanotype.
VDB is a 3-part process that results in rich sepia tones with levers to adjust the contrast and color temperature. Cyanotype, less nimble and more expressionistic, is renowned for its arresting Prussian blue. You will walk away having learned about chemistry, how to coat paper, employ UV exposure, make contact prints and finish with archival practices.
PREPARATION: Bring your black and white analog or digital negative(s), no larger than 5X7. If you would like for us to digitally print your negative for you, please select “ADD ON: Digital Negative” in checkout and send us a link to your digital file (TIFF, 300 dpi, 5X7 max). Feel free to bring extra paper (unbuffered, 100% cotton) and/or semi-transparent objects for photograms as well — dried plants, lace, you name it. And, bring a snack/drink for lunch.
No prior darkroom experience is required. Parental consent required for children under 18 years old (minimum age is 15). This class has a min age of 15, however, it is also OK for an adult to bring a child (under 15) as a partner who will not count towards minimum enrollment, for a $50 fee.
Time: Saturday, Oct 25th: 11am-2:30pm
Maximum capacity: 8
Minimum capacity: 2
Cost: $150 ($125 plus $25 lab fee)
Parent-Child Friendly: Yes
Instructors: Holden Richards & Phyllis B. Dooney
Sign Up here: https://www.photofarmnc.com/events/contact-printing-oct25
Member Artist Panel Talk: 10/25, 10-11am (Panel)
Featured Artists:
Barbara Tyroler
Donna Stubbs
Barbara Tyroler is a photographic image-maker producing collaborative multi-media art projects that address social and cultural issues. As an educator she blends fine art and humanitarian work, which is central to her art practice. As a seasoned professional, Barbara’s art and teachings explore how the lens inspires the journey, how the photographic image evokes feeling and conveys meaning, creating and recreating stories and memories beyond the frame. Her photography is conceived through the synthesis of light, imagination, and technology.
Donna Stubbs has lived and worked in Washington, DC and Chapel Hill, NC most of her life. She graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro, NC and from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC. She has been a practicing artist for over 25 years. In 2020-21, she completed the ART2LIFE Creative Visionary Program with Nicholas Wilton. Currently represented by Frank Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC and 5 Points Gallery in Durham, NC. A member of the Chatham Artists Guild.
This exhibition aims to showcase the bountiful culture of our North Carolina Indigenous communities. Our featured artist, Alexandra Williams captures the proud cultural history and representation celebrated at the Dix Park Inter-Tribal Pow Wow. Her photography highlights the rich traditions of North Carolina’s original residents to bring visibility to this vibrant community.
Additionally, we’ve partnered with the Triangle Native American Society (TNAS) to feature works by their member artists. Each unique work is rooted in their cultural history and is each artist’s contribution to carrying on traditions with new perspective.
Photograph: Alexandra Williams
Click! North Carolina State Fair Photo-Walk: Dust off Mom's Polaroid, Grab Grandpa's Old SLR, or bring your new fangled digital camera. Join Sarah & Thomas from the NC State Crafts Center for an afternoon filled with good old fashioned excitement at the North Carolina State Fair. We suggest purchasing your NC State Fair tickets online to avoid long wait times or arrive early enough prior to the start of the walk for purchasing at the gate.
The photo-walk is Sunday, October 19th meeting at the Waterfall near Dorton Arena at 1:30pm & the walk will be 2pm-4pm. Following the walk, A Photographer's Place will host a gathering from 6:00pm-8:00pm for an evening of conversation and creativity. Participants who used an instant camera, can submit images to be featured in a pop-up exhibition during the gathering.
This photo-walk is a part of the month-long Click! Photography Festival. Please sign up for this photo-walk on Photowalk.Me: https://www.photowalk.me/photowalk/click-nc-state-fair-photo-walk
Saturday, Oct. 11
Wilson Library
UNC Chapel Hill
Uzzle is known for his work for Life Magazine and Magnum Photos; Freeman is remembered for his documentation of life in Black communities and traditional folklife. The exhibition features approximately 80 photos from both photographers’ careers as photojournalists and roughly 50 publications that feature their work. “Parallel Visions” also highlights the way the photographers’ decades-long friendship is intertwined in their work.
“Parallel Visions” includes installations in all three of Wilson Library’s gallery spaces. Prints are arranged chronologically so viewers can experience the work as a photographic biography.
3 – 5 p.m. Galleries open for exhibition viewing. Experience the powerful legacy of two photographers whose work documents more than six decades of American life. Exhibition curators will discuss the lives and photographs of Burk Uzzle and Roland L. Freeman and provide commentary about the selections on view.
5 – 7:45 p.m. Film screening of videos from the Roland Freeman collection plus the documentary F11 and Be There, about the career of Burk Uzzle. A conversation between Photographic Archivist Stephen Fletcher and the filmmaker, Jethro Waters, will follow, along with an audience Q&A.
Click! Raleigh Street Photo-walk: Join Thomas & Sarah from the NC State Crafts Center for an afternoon exploring the streets of Downtown Raleigh looking for photographic opportunities that tell stories.
The photo-walk is Saturday, Oct. 11th meeting at the State Capital Building facing Fayetteville St. at 12:30pm & the walk will be 1pm-3pm. We will end our walk with coffee and conversation at Morning Times.
This photo-walk is a part of the month-long Click! Photography Festival. Please sign up for this photo-walk on Photowalk.Me: https://www.photowalk.me/photowalk/click-raleigh-street-photo-walk
Christiaan Lopez-Miro's exhibition Fractured, which shares its title with his new photobook release, marks a pivotal shift in his journey as a photographic artist.
“Fractured oscillates between unsettling, often ambiguous portraits of Southerners and complicated landscapes… …Lopez-Miro's work resists stereotypes, refusing to oversimplify or pull the viewer into easy narratives. Instead, he presents a complex portrait, one that invites reflection without dictating meaning.” -Vann Thomas Powell
An evening discussion on Oct 21 will be about the process of the publication of Fractured.
Second Friday Opening Reception October 10, 6-9pm
Barbara Tyroler is a photographic image-maker producing collaborative multi-media art projects that address social and cultural issues. As an educator she blends fine art and humanitarian work, which is central to her art practice. As a seasoned professional, Barbara’s art and teachings explore how the lens inspires the journey, how the photographic image evokes feeling and conveys meaning, creating and recreating stories and memories beyond the frame. Her photography is conceived through the synthesis of light, imagination, and technology.
Artist Statement
As a fine art portrait artist and educator who utilizes pools and water for her backdrops, she is specifically interested in community outreach. The photographic series of portraiture created in pools and lakes throughout the east coast, explores how and why we immerse our bodies in water. The work is collaboratively produced with family and friends, students and colleagues, business clients, and strangers, to record gesture and the human figure, light, pattern, and reflective design. Beneath the surface are the intimate stories she encounters.
Join us for a special, one-time showing of "Always Looking" including an introduction and Q+A with Director Olympia Stone & the film's subject Titus Brooks Heagins.
Always Looking explores the work of photographer Titus Brooks Heagins and the challenging questions his photos pose about the systemic neglect of society’s most vulnerable communities of color. Humanizing yet confrontational, Titus’ photographs document the overlooked: people who, through some intersection of poverty, race or gender/sexual identity, exist as outsiders.
This film dives into Titus’ world, shedding light on the strength it takes to be a marginalized Black photographer capturing the lives of other marginalized folks.
Always Looking also probes the question of “who can tell whose story?” while directing a spotlight on an overlooked, but richly deserving, artist.
Tickets here:
https://www.thechelseatheater.org/movie/always-looking-titus-brooks-heagins
