PB Photo Centre Sets 24 Free Events

Keith Carter, Only a Little Planet… 2019

(PRESS RELEASE)_(West Palm Beach, FL – January 3, 2023) Fatima NeJame, president and chief executive officer of the world-renowned Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC), today announced that the nonprofit organization’s 28th annual FOTOfusion would include 24 FREE Community Presentations by world-famous photographers during the popular five-day cultural festival where creativity and technology fuse. 
 
“These FREE Community Presentations are informative and productive opportunities for professional and hobbyist photographers to engage, connect, and network with some of the leading names in digital photography,” says NeJame.
 
In conjunction with FOTOfusion 2023, the Palm Beach Photographic Centre is presenting the following FREE Community Presentations at the Mandel Public Library auditorium in downtown West Palm Beach:
 
Wednesday, January 25
** 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Senescence and Photographic Botany
With J. Thomas Lopez
“Senescence” is the process of aging or decay, the term for how vital cells and tissues deteriorate. Certain actions can prolong the life of a flower, but decay is inevitable. Artists have long sought beauty in this process, from Anna Atkins and Fox-Talbot to Andre Kertesz and Irving Penn, photographic botany has been the subject matter for photographers and artists.
(Community Presentation 601)

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** 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
A Visual Journey: My Story
With Adam Stoltman
His career has taken Adam Stoltman to some unexpected places: photographer covering the Olympics, editor at national publications, internet publisher, project manager and consultant for large corporations and foundations, managing collections, and more. In this candid and intimate talk, he will share stories, many quite humorous, and insights from various projects and assignments in each of these areas.
(Community Presentation 602)
 
** 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Land as History’s Witness:
Photography of our Everyday Landscape
With Dennis Dimick
Landscape images of nature offer photographers a chance to document vanishing wild places. Photographs of our everyday world can offer rich visual potential for the curious. Dennis Dimick, who spent decades at National Geographic editing images of altered landscapes, will show and discuss his and others’ photographs of domesticated American landscapes, and how these images serve as visual markers of our history.
(Community Presentation 501)
 
** 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Smartphone Photography Essentials
With Jack Davis
Learn the indispensable, but often hidden foundations to getting the most gorgeous photos from a smartphone—both in terms of maximizing the shooting miracles of which the phone is capable, as well as the quick and easy enhancing options at your fingertips. And now, with the advent of all the mobile apps taking advantage of AI, the possibilities are truly endless. This demonstration will not only empower everyone to take better breathtaking photos right now, but it will also reveal the future of photography.
(Community Presentation 604)
 
** 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm
Self-Publishing for Photographers
With Daniel Milnor
Photographer, explorer, and avid self-publisher Daniel Milnor, Blurb’s “Creative Evangelist,” will provide insight into how to approach self-publishing for both personal and professional needs. Milnor, who has self-published since the early 1990s, both experimental and award-winning, will give tips on how best to enjoy the self-publishing process in addition to how to strategically utilize the wide range of options available today. From books to zines, he will walk through formats, software, and pricing strategies for projects of all sizes. Milnor will also show an assortment of case studies illustrating how self-publishing works for a variety of authors. Attendees will leave this
lecture with an understanding of basic self-publishing options, but more importantly, with an understanding of print in general and why print is such a strategic and entertaining aspect of photography. 
(Community Presentation 605)
 
Thursday, January 26
** 10:00 am to 11:00 am
How to Talk and Write About Your Work
With Jean “Gino” Miele
Do you get stuck when people ask you what your photographs are about? This hands-on, everybody-participates, mini-workshop will take attendees beyond talking about the technical details of their photographs and show them how to describe their work in a direct and meaningful way. In-class exercises will have participants engaging people as dynamically with their words as with their pictures.
(Community Presentation 607)
 
** 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
A Thousand Words in One Picture?
With Angelika Hala
Think of one photograph that moved you deeply. What do you see? A person, a building, a tree, a streetscape? Or does the photograph feel like an experience, does it inform you, does it make you curious, does it invite you to explore, to investigate? Photographs can be powerful narrative tools; they can be documentary or journalistic. Photographs can inform the viewer and bring understanding to the world around us and inside ourselves. This Community Presentation will explore photography as a storytelling medium, from a single image to a multi-photograph narrative. Angelika Hala will share a variety of examples of photojournalism and documentary photography, portrait series, and conceptual photography.  
(Community Presentation 608)
 
** 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
A Life in Photography
With Joyce Tenneson
This will be a rare opportunity to share a personal walk through Joyce Tenneson’s journey, not only as a photographer but as someone who has had a lifelong interest in teaching and empowering others.“ The isolation of the Covid Period gave me the opportunity not only to create a new body of work but also to put together this collection of my very best work done over the past 40 years,” she says about this intimate review of her life and career.
(Community Presentation 502)
 
** 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Chile in September: Photographs by Raymond Depardon and David Burnett
With Robert Pledge
On September 11, 1973, a military coup overthrew a freely elected president and his administration in a country with the second oldest constitution in the Americas, after that of the USA. Robert Pledge was an intrepid journalist who had visited Chile two years earlier with French photographer Raymond Depardon. He successfully encouraged David Burnett, a young American photographer recently back from Vietnam, to go and witness the immediate aftermath of the most brutal takeover. Fifty years later, he is bringing together for the first time the work of the two now famed photojournalists along with a few iconic images by Chilean photographers, to produce a book about the frailty of democracy and the preciousness of the rule of law.
(Community Presentation 610)
 
** 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm
Magnificent Mangroves
With Matt Stock
Miami-based artist Matt Stock has been obsessed with photographing mangroves for a decade. His photographic process is inherently experimental: wet plate collodion, lumen prints, and studio lighting in the wetlands at night are all a part of his photographic practice in the field. The photographer will take attendees on a journey through the wetlands to see mangroves as a source of inspiration and beauty in both the daytime and late into the night.
(Community Presentation 611)
 
** 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Photography is Life Changing
With Brendan Bannon
What do refugee children, combat veterans, jazz musicians, and HIV+ children have in common? Photographer Brendan Bannon talks about how his community collaborations and educational workshops have led to durable changes in the lives of individuals and have strengthened communities at home and abroad. He began photographing in his early 30s to navigate depression and exhaustion. His practice draws on the lessons he learned in that process and in his work as a caregiver through his mother’s battle with MS. In this Community Presentation, he will share the inspiring stories behind both his pictures and those taken by his students over the last two decades.
(Community Presentation 612)
 
Friday, January 27
** 10:00 am to 11:00 am
In Public: 50 Years of Street Photography
With George Schaub
In 2022, photographer and editor George Schaub self-published “In Public, George Schaub Photographs 1970-2020. Illustrated with his images and captioned by readings from his book, he shares his techniques for making candid and “direct” (one-on-one) street portraits, including tips on engaging subjects, framing, and compositional setups, and taking advantage of fruitful venues. Schaub’s attitude is that all photography is autobiographical and that the spontaneous images we make of our fellow humans are indicative of shared space and serve as mirrors that help us both express and understand our own unique worldview.
(Community Presentation 613)
 
** 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Four Photo Legends Lost This Year
With Dr. Anthony Bannon, David Burnett, Scott Mc Kiernan and Robert Pledge
A tribute to Arnold Drapkin, Douglas Kirkland, Dirck Halstead and Allison Wright.
(Community Presentation 614)
 
** 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Only A Little Planet…
With Keith Carter
A look at our history of “writing with light,” our own shared histories, and the search for meaning in a tumultuous, occasionally puzzling, and often eloquent world.
(Community Presentation 503)
 
** 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
NUCLEAR: From Cold War to Deep Time
With Veronika Lukasova
Growing up under communism in the Czechoslovak Socialistic Republic, the threat of nuclear war posed a very vivid future to Veronika Lukasova, to make sense of this invisible awesome power during elementary school emergency drills. The weight of this feeling and the need to understand it led her many years later to stand on the precise location of where the first atomic bomb was tested—the Trinity Site at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Understanding the subatomic world—and how can we relate to it—became an obsession and led her to fully embrace working at the intersection of art-science as an artist and academic. 
(Community Presentation 616)
 
** 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm
Stories That Need to be Told: The Best of zReportage in 2022
With Ruaridh Stewart
Witness the most important events of 2022 and other stories in pictures through the lens of ZUMA Press photographers from around the world.
(Community Presentation 617)
 
** 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Photographic Life Lessons
With Mark Maio
Whichever point we are in our photographic journey, the tendency is to concentrate on which camera, lens, software, or plugin we think we need to make better photographs. While the tools we use are important, what we see, feel, and say through them is even more important. Going beyond the technical aspects of image making and using his dual career in photography (medical/technical imaging & fine art photography), Mark Maio will discuss how each half of his photographic life contributed to the photographic life lessons that have shaped his vision and voice.  
(Community Presentation 618)
 
** 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
FOTOvision VIII – The Year in Pictures 2022
By Scott McKiernan, ZUMA Press
World renown picture editor and photo-journalist Scott Mc Kiernan will present 365: a Visual Review of 2022, photography that ran moments after shot from more than 60 countries and carried on  ThePicturesOftheDay.com. The FREE event will also include the movie premiere of Year of War Crimes, followed by a discussion with internationally acclaimed FOTOfusion faculty who created the images.
NOTE: The eighth edition of FOTOvision by Scott McKiernan will be held in the Palm Beach County Commission Chambers, located at 301 N. Olive Avenue in West Palm Beach 33401.
 
Saturday, January 28
** 10:00 am to 11:00 am
The Art of Silence: Ben Martin Meets Marcel Marceau
With Robert Pledge
Late world-renown French mime Marcel Marceau equated photography with his own art form: “an art of silence.” This spring the National Arts Club in New York will celebrate the centenary of his birth with an exhibition of photographs by Ben Martin produced over several years in close collaboration with the great stage performer. The book Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, first published in 1978, will be released once again by Pomegranate Press. Martin was a Time-Life photographer who, according to The New York Times, captured "evocative images that defined the 1960s." He admitted to being “an unashamed fan of Marceau,” and his pictures constitute a unique body of work by a most singular artist. Robert Pledge, who originally introduced Martin to Marceau, will speak about the exceptional relationship between them and their intertwined legacies.
(Community Presentation 619)
 
** 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
What Makes a Photo Icon?
With Dr. Anthony Bannon
Prize-winning writer and much-honored museum director, Dr. Anthony Bannon will tell the story of several photo icons and explore why other fine photographs are not as memorable. In the process, he will identify some of the aesthetic and thematic standards through which excellence in art and culture is recognized. Working with the audience, Bannon will create a checklist of standards that photographers could use in creating great pictures.
(Community Presentation 620)
 
** 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Butterflies: 60 Years of Wondering If It’s Gonna Be OK
With David Burnett
According to photographer David Burnett, “I can’t say for sure that Irving Penn, Alfred Eisenstadt, Margaret Bourke-White, or Mary Ellen Mark experienced the same kind of little fluttering inner butterflies which I know I experience every time I’m on my way to a shoot. In particular, when I am on assignment and something special is expected. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, but the dirty little secret is that most photographers, including really competent, accomplished, great image makers still get a case of the butterflies even en route to the kind of gig they’ve done a dozen times. Harnessing those butterflies and making pictures in spite of them, is what it’s all about to me.” 
(Community Presentation 504)
 
** 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Looking at Photographs: Practice Makes Perfect
With Daile Kaplan
Photography is an ongoing creative process that encourages you to reexamine your motivations and ideas. This illustrated lecture will be loaded with stories about the 20th-century most recognizable images, offering fun factoids and anecdotes about the photographers who made them. The talk will inspire photographers, collectors, and aficionados alike to reengage with images and connect their personal stories to the bigger picture. See how icons of photography are rich sources for new styles of image-making.
(Community Presentation 622)
 
** 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm
The Big Headlines of 2022
With Angelika Hala, Evan Kriss, David McIntyre, Ruaridh Stewart
Moderator: Scott Mc Kiernan
A discussion of some of 2022’s biggest news stories, and how they were covered, from the perspective of photographers in the field, an agency, and photo editors. They will discuss how they cover this changing world while trying to give a voice to those who live in the shadows and tell their stories with the dignity and respect they deserve.
(Community Presentation 623)
 
** 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Style Elements in Cuban Photography, 1860-1960
With Ramiro Fernandez
This visual photographic presentation dives into the aspects of style in this personal collection of Cuban Photography spanning over 40 years in the making, and 100 years of diverse subject matter, technique, and format. Photographers include Samuel A. Cohner, Armand of Havana, and KORDA. This will be an over-the-shoulder look at a book in progress. It will include photos from the fields of Studio Portraiture, Daily/Family Life, Sports, and Revolution. 
(Community Presentation 624)
 
About FOTOfusion 2023:
Now celebrating its 28th anniversary, FOTOfusion, the popular cultural festival “where creativity and technology fuse” attracts thousands of professional and hobbyist photographers to West Palm Beach for a series of workshops, lectures, panel discussions, multimedia presentations, portfolio reviews, hands-on computer classes, demonstrations, and photo shoots taught by world renowned photographers, digital imaging artists and picture editors – all of whom donate their time and expertise to educate, mentor and encourage creativity among participants of all levels and ages.
 
In addition to this year’s FOTOmentor Keith Carter, among the extraordinary photographers that will be teaching at FOTOfusion 2023 are David Burnett, Jack Davis, Sean Duggan, Jill Enfield, Lewis Kemper, Veronika Lukasova, Jean Miele, Andrea Modica, Jari Poulin, John Reuter, George Schaub, Matt Stock, Adam Stoltman, Sal Taylor Kidd, Joyce Tenneson, and Ben Willmore.
 
The cost to attend FOTOfusion 2023 is $575 for SILVER Passport Members and $645 for nonmembers, which includes all 100, 500 and 600 Series presentations. The GOLD Passport is $825 for members and $895 for nonmembers and includes all presentations and two portfolio reviews.
 
Note: Discounted rates to FOTOfusion are available through January 10, 2023.
 
To register or for more information, please visit https://www.fotofusion.org/pages/registration.php.