Photoworks Master Lecture Series

October 25 – November 15, 2014, 1-2 PM

Join four master photographers as they talk about their work and their passion for the telling image:

  • Saturday, Oct. 25, 1-2 pm: Frank Van Riper: Photographing in a Foreign Country
  • Saturday, Nov 1, 1-2 pm: James Steele: The Eloquent Black and White Landscape
  • Saturday, Nov 8, 1-2 pm: Frank Herrera: The West Virginia Crosses: My Guggenheim Adventure
  • Saturday, Nov 15, 1-2 pm: Karen Keating: Snapshots of Photo History–Process & Personalities
$15 advance ticket purchase
$20 @ the door
$50 for the full four-lecture series -- a savings of $10

 

Four veteran photographers—all of them award-winning, internationally acclaimed and brimming with experience and great stories—will inaugurate the Photoworks Master Lecture series next month at Glen Echo Park in partnership with 2014 FOTOWEEK DC, a celebration of photography in the Metropolitan Region.  The four photographers are long-time instructors at Photoworks, who among them have decades of teaching and real world experience to share.

Tickets to the events are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, or save $10 and RSVP for the full series — all 4 lectures for $50.  Space is limited and first-come, first-served.  The four lectures will be held on four consecutive Saturdays, from 1-2 PM, in the newly-restored Annex building next to Glen Echo’s historic Spanish Ballroom. RSVP for the Photoworks Masters Lecture Series by sending an email to photoworks.gallery “AT” gmail.com.  We’ll send you a confirmation email, with instructions for payment.

Frank Van Riper

Internationally acclaimed photographer, journalist and author Frank Van Riper will kick off the Master Lecture series on Saturday, Oct. 25th with a lavishly illustrated talk entitled “Photographing in a Foreign Country.” Frank, who leads photography workshops in Maine, Umbria and Venice with his wife and professional partner Judith Goodman, is the author of five books, including the international bestseller Serenissima: Venice in Winter. In his talk Frank will combine gorgeous landscape and documentary photography with practical hints on how these photographs were made. This lecture follows Frank’s first Photoworks lecture last Spring, entitled ‘See the Light’ that drew back-to-back sold out audiences.

James Steele

Acclaimed landscape photographer James Steele’s arresting black and white landscapes have been compared to those of the late masters Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. Working primarily in medium and large format, Steele’s “scapes” of land, sea–and the human body–represent the finest in traditional and digital photographic imagery. Jim, who will lecture on November 1, has studied with Cole Weston, George Tice, Joyce Tenneson, Christopher James, Carson Graves, and Martha Casanave. Besides teaching at Photoworks, Jim has taught at the Art League School in Alexandria, Va., at the Smithsonian, as well as at VISARTS. His work can be seen in studio #343 at the Torpedo Factory Arts Center in Old Town.

Frank “Tico” Herrera

The most senior of the speakers in the Photoworks Master Lecture Series, Frank ‘Tico’ Herrera has been teaching at Glen Echo since Photoworks began more than 40 years ago.  An unsurpassed black and white darkroom printer, in 1985 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to document clusters of Roman crosses that were being erected all over West Virginia by a millionaire businessman as part of a religious mission called “Cast Thy Bread.” This effort, as well as Tico’s large format, black and white photos, generated both news and controversy. Besides showing “lots of pictures” and telling “lots of stories” during his appearance on November 8, Tico will discuss “the effect(s) on the vernacular landscape by the introduction of dogma-laden symbols and vice-versa.”

Karen Keating

Rounding out the Master Lecture Series on November 15th will be Karen Keating, an acclaimed documentary photographer and author.  Keating, who also is the Director of Photoworks, as well an award-winning 25-year darkroom photography teacher at Washington’s Field School, will present “Snapshots of Photo History–Process & Personalities.”  The lecture will cover the highlights of photography’s 175 years:  from early processes, to important personalities like ‘Father of Photography’ Alfred Stieglitz, to Farm Security  Administration (FSA) photographers of the Great Depression, to war photographers from the Civil War to the present. Karen also will discuss the digital revolution in photography as well as the fascinating cross-fertilization that occurs when old and new technologies mix.

Photoworks Photography School and Gallery is a true community of artists and students — devoted to the art of both film and digital photography.  Celebrating over 40 years of photography in the arts enclave of Glen Echo Park, MD, Photoworks is a creative force for visual arts in Montgomery County, and was recently honored as an Outstanding Partner in the Arts at Glen Echo’s 2014 Gala In the Park.

For more information about Photoworks, please visit www.glenechophotoworks.org or follow us on facebook at glenechophotoworks.

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