Academy Programs

Panel Discussion:
Why Alternative and Legacy Processes continue to capture the imagination and are relevant in contemporary photography

Saturday October 17th. 3:30pm
This will be a virtual talk via Zoom.

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Moderator: Holden Richards

Panelists:

Mark Osterman

Mark Osterman: From “Anatomy” Series

Mark Osterman is Process Historian at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. With his wife, France Scully  Osterman, the couple taught the first modern workshops in the wet collodion process and published the Collodion Journal(1995-2001).

Osterman  began his research in early photographic processes at the Kansas City Art Institute in the 1970’s. He has  established himself as a resource for research in photographic processes from the asphalt heliograph to gelatin emulsions. His teaching and writings are well known to the photographic community.

Jill Enfield

Jill Enfield: The New Americans Project

Jill Enfield is a fine art photographer, educator, curator and author and has been teaching photography for many years with a concentration on historical techniques and alternative processes.

Her two books: Photo Imaging: A Complete Guide To Alternative Processes published by Amphoto, and, Jill Enfield’s Guide to Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques published by Focal Press, are both award winning books and used in schools all over the world.

John Allen

Artist, PIC grant recipient, Big Camera Obscura Project. The Big Camera Project focuses on bringing photographic education to settings in which traditional/analog photography may no longer be included in curricula, to marginalized groups and to adults and children who have an interest in optics, science, art history.

Adam Finkelston

Adam Finkelston  is the owner, publisher and co-editor of, The Hand Magazine: A Magazine For Reproduction-based Arts, an internationally-recognized quarterly art magazine. He has juried and co-curated several exhibitions throughout the United States. As an artist, Mr. Finkelston has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and his photographs have been featured in several publications, including recent titles by Christina Z. Anderson and Jill Enfield.

2020 Fence Artists:
Pecha Kucha Event

Saturday October 17th. 3:30pm
This will be a virtual talk via Zoom.

Join us for a lively presentation of the regional artists whose work appears on the 2020 version of the Fence. Each artist will give a 5 minute presentation on their work.

If you wish to see the Fence in person, it is the largest outdoor photography exhibition in the world and is on display in Downtown Durham, in the green space between Main Street and Chapel Hill street adjacent to City Hall and the historic Black Wall Street district.

Joe Lipka

Gesche Würfel

Benita Van Winkle

Amy Herman

Ann Ehringhaus

Justin Cook

Barbara Tyroler

PIC Grant Project:
The BIG CAMERA PROJECT

LUMEN prints “Postcards for the Pandemic” Popup show and Pop up Camera Obscura

Exhibition Dates: Oct. 16-18
@ The Fruit

305 S Dillard St., Durham NC

exhibition hours TBA

Due to the pandemic, the Big Camera Project will now be working with area photo groups and schools to create Lumen Prints. Click! will have a on-line exhibit of this work and finished work will be shown as a pop-up show and mailed as postcards. We will exhibit this work and create a pop-up  camera obscura at the Durham Fruit and Produce warehouse. The Big Camera is supported by A1LabArts.

We are pleased to be working with the Karen Youth Art Group, the Chapel Hill Camera Club, the Capital City Camera Club, the Frank Gallery artists, the Cedar Ridge High School Photography program, Through This Lens/Durham Arts Council, the North Carolina School of Science and Math and the Duke University MFA program.