We're super excited to share a special event with you that will be taking place October, 2, 2021 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Here's some info straight from the collective: "On October 2nd, 2021, the Fredericksburg Street Photography Collective invites you to the ‘Burg to participate and compete in the first annual street photography shoot off! Attend and shoot with fellow photographers or compete to be featured in Street Photography Magazine! Best in show/class will win a free one-year
San Francisco and Alcatraz Workshop with Harvey Stein and Virginia Hines
Harvey Stein and Virginia Hines are hosting an exciting three-day workshop this October. The workshop will consist of short talks, demonstrations and photographic field trips to Alcatraz and places of interest in and around San Francisco. Key topics include ways of capturing character, methods of approaching and photographing strangers on the street, the use of light (both natural and flash) as an expressive and aesthetic element of the photograph and techniques of posing and interacting with
Surprise Walker Evans Exhibition
While visiting Knoxville, Tennessee this week I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon an exhibition of Walker Evans photographs that he cmade for James Agee’s classic work, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The exhibition currently on view at the University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery was created to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Evan's classic work. The exhibit includes 50 framed photographs printed by the Library of Congress from Evans’ original negatives plus material from the
Harvey Stein Street Photography Workshop
What is the mood and culture of the city you live in? Are you able to capture it in your street photography? Do your photos transmit clearly the character and atmosphere of the place you live in? Street photographers are one of the best resources for telling the story of a city but to do so, they need to use their intuition along with understanding of photography, public social behavior, and street life in general. The good news is, no matter where you are in your photographic journey
Call For Entries: 2021 Street Shooting Around the World Exhibition
Many street photographers have been using their extra time lockdowns and pandemic restrictions have given them to revisit older images, organize their image archives, update or create their websites, and to enter competitions! If entering a competition is on your to-do list, we've got a good one for you. The LACP says the following about an exciting upcoming exhibit and your chance to appear in it: "We are pleased to announce our Seventh Annual Street Shooting Around the World Exhibition! The
2021: The Year of Women Street Photographers
In addition, we’re starting off the year with a January 2021 issue featuring work created entirely by women street photographers, which will go live on the 15th of this month. Keep an eye out for it. Want to help us showcase some of the talented women of street photography? Then tell us who inspires you! Send us an email with the contact info, website and social media links of your favorite street shootin’ gal and who knows? We might even select her to be one of our 12 featured photographers
Miami Street Photography Festival Finalists
If you haven’t seen them already, the Miami Street Photography Festival finalists have been announced and the winning images have been posted to the MSPF website. These are worth your time, guys! The images are fantastic and they will give you heaps of inspiration as you head out to shoot post-pandemic (Or should I say during the pandemic era? Will it ever actually be “post-pandemic”? I don’t know, but you know what I mean.) You can also take advantage of the fact that the festival took place
Out of Chicago Live Online Photography Workshop Weekend!
Hey gang! Looking for some new ways to take advantage of a global pandemic that's got you stuck inside instead of out on the street? Here's a great online event coming up soon. The Out of Chicago In-depth Photography Workshop Weekend is guaranteed to get you motivated and to amp up your photography skills. Our friend Valérie Jardin (who will also be teaching topic of unleashing the power of limitations with Chris Marquardt for four hours) describes it this way: "30+ advanced sessions from
View Photography’s Last Century at the MET Online
This exhibition will celebrate the remarkable ascendancy of photography in the last century, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee's magnificent promised gift of over sixty extraordinary photographs in honor of The Met's 150th anniversary in 2020. The exhibition will include masterpieces by the medium's greatest practitioners, including works by Paul Strand, Dora Maar, Man Ray, and László Moholy-Nagy; Edward Weston, Walker Evans, and Joseph Cornell; Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Sigmar Polke, and
PPAC Presents Teen Photo 2019-2020
The Philidelphia Photo Arts Center has been putting on the Honickman Teen Photo Program for 10 years now. Teen Photo is an afterschool program that's free for Philadelphia public high school students. Here's how PPAC describes the program: Students are provided with a DSLR camera, and meet weekly with friends and mentors. Over eight months, they learn to take, edit, and print photographs, experiment with forms and genres, and explore the city through museum visits and photo walks. As the teens
LACP Online Class: Creating Personal Breakthroughs with Ibarionex Perello
As the pandemic stretches on, some of you may still be bummed about cancelled summer workshops and travel plans. Fortunately, many photographers and organizations have taken their classes online. Here's one that stood out to us as an amazing learning opportunity: Creating Personal Breakthroughs with Ibarionex Perello Here's what you can expect to gain from Ibarionex's course (as explained by LACP): · Understanding the different between wanting and needing to make photographs ·
