Join Maine Media for Rockport's Holiday on the Harbor celebration. Luminarias in the enchanting Rockport Village will light the way to 18 Central Street where you will find Tim Whelan in the Maine Media Gallery from 11 am until 7 pm Saturday, December 3.
Have Tim stamp your raffle card to be entered in the drawing for a plethora of holiday cheer including Maine Media's summer spectacular, a lobster dinner for two followed by our Friday Night Showcase in Maine Media's magnificent Sound Stage.
A Maine Media Workshops + College gift certificate makes the ideal gift for that image-maker on your list. No worry about sizes, colors, or duplicates! Let that creative one who means so much to you select from our more than 400 course offerings.
We'll provide you with a gift certificate in any amount, include our 2011 catalog and send along the 2012 catalog in early February. MMW+C gift certificates never expire and never lose value. So, if you want to light up the life of one near and dear to you, give them a Maine Media Workshops + College gift certificate. To order, give us a call toll free 877.577.7700 or order online.
A seven member search committee has been formed to find a highly qualified candidate to assume the leadership position as President of Maine Media Workshops + College. The successful candidate will have proven organizational leadership; an appreciation for the culture, spirit and traditions of the Workshops + College; and strong communication skills.
President Charles Altschul will be stepping down in May of 2012 to work on other projects within the organization. “We are grateful for Charles’ leadership during a critical period for the Workshops + College. Our challenge now is to find the right person to further the vision and goals of the organization,” said Board Chair, John Claussen.
For more information download President information and applying.PDF. The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications December 1, 2011.
Timed as a warm-up reunion before the opening of the annual PhotoPlus Expo in New York City, B&H graciously opens up their Manhattan Superstore and Event Space to host a special gathering of Maine Media alumni, faculty, sponsors and friends. Come celebrate with great food, drink and conversation while B&H staffers are on-hand to answer questions about the latest gear and technology. This year, we will celebrate the grand prize winners of the Precision Image Contest, sponsored by Carl Zeiss.
This event takes place Wednesday, October 26, from 7 - 9 pm at the B&H Superstore and Event Space, 420 9th Avenue (between 33rd and 34th streets) in New York City.
Register today for the industry’s hottest event for photographers and image-makers, PDN’s PhotoPlus Expo – October 27 to 29, 2011, at the Javits Convention Center, New York, NY. If you register before October 26 and are a MMW+C alumnus, this event is FREE for you!
At PhotoPlus Expo you will have infinite access to emerging technology, the latest trends, awe-inspiring talent, cutting-edge tools, creative solutions, unlimited networking and WPPI NYC, an expo dedicated exclusively to wedding and portrait photography.
Please stop by our booth to say “Hello”, tell us what you have been up to and find out what we are planning for 2012. Whether you came to Maine Media for the first time this season, the year before, or even 10+ years ago, we always enjoy catching up with our alums. You will find us in booth 876, aisle 8.
PhotoPlus Expo 2011 promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Come to be informed and entertained; leave inspired. Register here for your free pass!
If you are in NYC Wednesday evening, please join our Alumni Party hosted at B&H Photo from 7:30 – 9:30 in the B&H Event Space, 9th Ave @ 34th Street. This "after store hours" event will be an exciting evening filled with opportunities to meet instructors, network with your peers, enjoy the latest gear from top manufacturers and receive some special surprises that will make this night one to remember. Register now!
Faculty Presentations for Monday Oct. 17th will take place at Union Hall Theater, 2 Central Street in Rockport Village at 7:30 pm. These events are free and open to the public.
Monday: Sylvia Plachy
Sylvia Plachy was born in Budapest and lives in New York City. She has worked as an observer and photographer since receiving her BFA from Pratt Institute. Her weekly column in the Village Voice, Unguided Tour, 1990, which was a photo without a caption, evolved into her first book and won an ICP Infinity award. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a CAP’s recipient, has won the Page One Award from Columbia School of Journalism for a photo essay on Three Mile Island and recently received a Lucie, awarded by the WIPI, legacy photography in the Look3 festival in Charlottesville Virginia in 2009. In February 2010 she was given the prestigious Dr. Erich Salomon award for lifetime achievement in photojournalism.
For more information on Sylvia visit her bio page or her website www.sylviaplachy.com/
While most people know about Maine Media through its extemsive summer workshop offerings, the school is active year- round and offers a Professional Certificate as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree. This exhibition features the creative work of the Maine Media College faculty.
Exhibit will be held in The Maine Media Gallery from October 4th- New Year's Eve
Opening Tuesday October 4th from 5 - 6:30pm
While most people know about Maine Media through its extemsive summer workshop offerings, the school is active year- round and offers a Professional Certificate as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree. This exhibition features the creative work of the Maine Media College faculty.
Opening Tuesday October 4th from 5 - 6:30pm
Faculty Presentations for Monday September 12th will take place at Union Hall Theater, 2 Central Street in Rockport Village at 7:30 pm. These events are free and open to the public.
Monday, September 12th: Seán Duggan & Peter Ralston
Seán Duggan is a fine art photographer, author, educator and an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert with extensive experience in both the traditional and digital darkroom. Through his writing and teaching, he has been helping photographers master Photoshop and digital darkroom techniques for over 10 years. In a photographic career spanning over two decades he has worked as a custom black & white darkroom printer, studio photographer, and has supervised the digital imaging department of a large professional photo lab.
To learn more about Seán, please visit his faculty bio or www.seanduggan.com
Peter Ralston's photography has appeared in thirty-four books and more than fifty magazines, including American Artist, Architectural Digest, Art and Antiques, Connoisseur, National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, People, Smithsonian, and Time, as well as as on NBC's Today Show. Galleries in this country and abroad exhibit his images.
To learn more about Peter, please visit his faculty bio or http://www.pralston.com
With a background in journalism and as a leading practitioner of entertainment law, William Hochberg has written for Wired magazine and spoken at conferences and colleges nationwide. In this wide-ranging and interactive discussion, Bill outlines some of the relevant legal issues facing the creative artist today. Come and bring your questions!
This event takes place Thursday, September 1, at 8 pm in the Union Hall Theatre, 2 Central Street, Rockport, Maine.
Maine Media Workshops welcomes the community to a special event at Union Hall Theatre with Midcoast Maine’s own Mabel H. Cabot.
In the 1970's at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Cabot discovered the journals, diaries and rare photographs that documented the adventures of her mother, Janet Elliott Wulsin. Wulsin's travels in the 1920s took her to the remote corners of Western China, Inner Mongolia and northwestern Tibet.
Cabot spent four years conducting research at Harvard to unravel her mother's fascinating story. Wulsin’s adventures are captured in a magnificently illustrated book, which contains over 140 extraordinary photographs documenting the lost world of Imperial China.
In this presentation, Cabot discusses her mother’s journey as well as the process, for the first time, of digitizing rare colored lantern slides and then transposing them into exhibition prints. These prints were then exhibited in seven museums in the United States and Great Britain.
Mabel H. Cabot has had a diversified and adventurous life of her own. Trained as a museum curator, she has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and served on the boards of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City. She was the President of the Public Relations firm, Rogers and Cowan, in Washington D.C. and served as the Social Secretary to the Reagan White House from 1980–1984.
This event takes place Monday, August 29, at 4 pm in the Union Hall Theatre, 2 Central Street, Rockport, Maine.
Faculty Presentations the week of August 29 will take place at Union Hall Theater, 2 Central Street in Rockport Village at 8:00 pm. These events are free and open to the public.
Monday, August 29: Jonathan Laurence & Nancy Donaldson
Jonathan Laurence is a multi-media producer, conceptual designer /consultant, photographer, and artist currently living in mid-coast Maine. Jonathan works internationally with a wide range of clients helping create visions and ideas into realities. He received his Associates Degree in 2005 from the Rockport College and in 2007 received his BFA from the Art Institute of Boston. Jonathan has exhibited widely across the east coast and his techniques have been published in multiple guidebooks.
To learn more about Jonathan, please visit his faculty bio or www.jonathanlaurence.com
Nancy Donaldson is an award-winning Senior Multimedia Producer for Investigations at The New York Times. In this role, Donaldson specializing in visual and auditory storytelling and works on everything from individual stories to large-scale multimedia projects. Before coming to the Times, Donaldson was a Senior Multimedia Journalist for the Washington Post. Her work has received recognition from organizations such as the Emmy Awards, the Peabody Awards, and the Scripps Howard Foundation.
To learn more about Nancy, please visit her faculty bio.
Tuesday, August 30: Mat Thorne & Douglas Beasley
Mat Thorne is an artist and designer from West Virginia. He earned his BA in Photojournalism and New Media from Western Kentucky University, and was the Art Director for Maine Media Workshops from 2004-2008. He continues his relationship with the Workshops as a faculty member, leading courses in digital photography, multimedia, and design. Thorne is also a lecturer, consultant, and freelance designer in New York City where he currently resides.
To learn more about Mat, please visit http://www.mat-thorne.com
Douglas Beasley’s work has been published internationally and featured in numerous magazines such as Zoom, The Sun, B&W, Shots, PDN and PhotoVision. His first book, Japan, A Nisei’s First Encounter, offers insight into his journey to his mother’s homeland. His second book, Earth Meets Spirit, is being published by Five Continents Editions in Milan, Italy and will be out in Fall 2012.
To learn more about Douglas, please visit his faculty bio or www.douglasbeasley.com
Best known as a LIFE magazine photographer in the Pacific during World War II, W. Eugene Smith also covered domestic and peacetime subjects with a strong eye to human suffering. Monday, August 22, Jim Hughes, longtime editor of photo magazines and photo book author, with Tim Whelan, proprietor of Tim Whelan Photography Books at Maine Media Gallery, present and discuss the images included in Hughes’ book about Smith’s life in photography, Shadow and Substance.
This event takes place Monday, August 22, at 4 pm in the Union Hall Theatre, 2 Central Street in Rockport, Maine.
Faculty Presentations the week of August 22 will take place at Union Hall Theater, 2 Central Street in Rockport Village at 8:00 pm. These events are free and open to the public.
Monday, August 22: Connie Imboden & Bridget Besaw
Connie Imboden’s photographs are represented in the permanent collections of many museums in the US and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in an extensive range of group and solo shows at galleries and museums around the world.
To learn more about Connie, please visit her faculty bio or http://connieimboden.com/
Bridget Besaw tells the story of the human connection to the natural world. The primary inspiration for her work is environmental protection. During her years as a newspaper and magazine photographer Bridget won numerous national press awards for stories on the depletion of natural resources. Among publications Bridget created feature stories for: Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune, and Nature Conservancy Magazine.
To learn more about Bridget, please visit her faculty bio or http://www.bridgetbesaw.com/
Tuesday, August 23: Eddie Soloway & Jay Maisel
Eddie Soloway’s photographs are the expression of his passion and commitment to the natural world. His eye has developed during a lifetime of exploring the earth’s wild places. Former positions in educational workshop design, wilderness program development, and custom fine photographic printing have further honed his expertise. In 1998, Eddie was the first recipient of the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award presented by the Santa Fe Center for Photography.
To learn more about Eddie, please visit his faculty bio or http://www.eddiesoloway.com/
Jay Maisel's name is synonymous with color photography that uses light and gesture to create images for advertising, editorial, and corporate communications. His work also appears in books and in private and corporate collections. His awards include two from ASMP, Lifetime Achievement and Photographer of the Year; the International Center for Photography's Infinity Award; and induction into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame.
To learn more about Jay, please visit his faculty bio or http://www.jaymaisel.com
Wednesday, August 24: Michael Clark & David H. Wells
Michael Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, and mountain bikers in remote locations around the world.
To learn more about Michael, please visit his faculty bio or http://www.michaelclarkphoto.com
David H. Wells is a free-lance documentary photographer affiliated with Aurora Photos. He specializes in intercultural communications and the use of light and shadow in enhance visual narratives. Portfolios of his work have appeared in American Photography Four, Camera and Darkroom, Communication Arts Photography Annual, Graphics: The Human Condition, Photo District News, Photo Magazine, Photographers International and Zoom.
To learn more about David, please visit his faculty bio or http://www.davidhwells.com/
Monday, August 15, Susan Danly, Curator of Graphics, Photography, and Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum of Art, Craig Stevens, and Todd Weinstein discuss the legendary Ernst Haas, photography master and long-time instructor at the school, and his influence on the art form. Born in Austria in 1921, Haas was both a photographer and a photojournalist influential for his innovations in color photography. The Portland Museum of Art houses Ernst Haas Memorial Collection of works by photographers including George Tice, Maggie Steber, and Elizabeth Opalenik.
This event takes place Monday, August 15, at 4 pm in the Union Hall Theatre, 2 Central Street in Rockport, Maine.
Faculty Presentations the week of August 15 will take place at Union Hall Theater, 2 Central Street in Rockport Village at 8:00 pm. These events are free and open to the public.
Monday, August 15: Tim Grey & Syl Arena
Tim Grey is regarded as one of the top educators in digital photography and imaging, offering clear guidance on complex subjects through his writing and speaking. Tim has written more than a dozen books on digital imaging for photographers, including the best-selling Photoshop CS4 Workflow and Color Confidence. He has also had hundreds of articles published in magazines such as Digital Photo Pro, Outdoor Photographer, and Popular Photography & Imaging, among others.
To learn more about Tim, please visit his faculty bio or http://www.timgrey.com/
Syl Arena has wandered the world of photography for over four decades. Through his passion for innovation, he has become the voice for such creative flash techniques as high-speed sync, gang light, and moving the wireless master off camera. His new Speedliter’s Handbook is nearly 400-pages of how-to and why-to on Canon flash techniques. Syl blogs frequently on his two sites: Speedliting.com and PixSylated.com. He has written articles about Speedliting for EOS Magazine as Europe’s Canon Pro Network.
To learn more about Syl, please visit his faculty bio or http://sylarena.com
Tuesday, August 16: Craig Stevens & Terry Abrams
Craig Stevens is a photographer, printmaker and educator. He has taught, written and lectured extensively on the subjects of art and education and is currently a Professor of Photography at the Savannah College of Art & Design. This will be Craig's 31st year at the Workshops. He will be teaching "Experimental Printmaking" here through August 20.
To learn more about Craig, please visit www.craigstevens.me
Terry Abrams has been teaching photography since 1975, when he moved to Europe to establish photography programs for an American college. Since 1990, Terry has been teaching photography full-time at Washtenaw Community College. In addition to teaching, Terry creates photographs using the latest digital technologies and has numerous private and corporate clients. His images and writing are reproduced in numerous books on photography.
To learn more about Terry, please visit his faculty bio or http://www.terryabrams.com/Welcome.html
Wednesday, August 17: Cliff Zenor & Tim Estep
Cliff Zenor is a veteran nature photographer, tour leader and workshop teacher. For more than 15 years, he has photographed, toured and taught in parks and preserves across the country and in wild places like Kenya, the Galapagos Islands, the Brazilian wetlands and Alaska. His photographs have appeared in Outdoor Photographer, Horticulture, Fine Gardening magazines, the Chicago Tribune , textbooks and books including Indoor Gardening for which he was the principal photographer.
To learn more about the class Cliff is teaching this week, please click here.
Tim Estep is a graduate of the Maine Media College film program. During his time there, he wrote, directed, produced and edited the short film, Route 11, which went on to win the Best Short Film award at several film festivals across Canada and the United States. After college, Tim moved to Los Angeles, where he produced commercials and developed feature film projects. In 2007, Tim produced a million-dollar feature film titled Familiar Strangers. He will be presenting parts of this feature during his presentation on Wednesday night.
“Familiar Strangers” asks the question. “Is it really possible to relate to ones parents and siblings after being replaced by the family dog? . . . Perhaps as friends - weird friends?”
“Familiar Strangers” is an off beat – funny – heartfelt story of a family negotiating the changing relationships between parents and children, especially as those children grow into adulthood.
“Familiar Strangers” follows the Worthington’s through a four day Thanksgiving gathering. Brian (Shawn Hatosy), who moved away and kept his distance for the past several years, is reluctantly returning carrying the baggage of unresolved conflict with his father Frank (Tom Bower).
Frank feels he has lost the ability to connect with his maturing children, and has replaced them with his pets, new children “who never have to grow up”.The matriarch Dottie (Ann Dowd) holds the reins on the family beneath the surface, brother Kenny (DJ Qualls) is a twenty-something who has not yet found his path, sister Erin (Cameron Richardson) is struggling to find herself after a painful divorce, and Erin’s young daughter Maddy (newcomer Georgia Mae Lively), observes with a wisdom truly beyond her years. Family friend Allison (Nikki Reed), long an admirer of Brian, is happy to find him back for a visit. She may just appreciate his family more than he does, and may help to make this return home bearable.Through conflict, ritual and communication, the Worthington family strives to find the friendship and love we all hope can exist between parents and their adult children.
To learn more about Tim, please visit his faculty bio and to learn more about his film Familiar Strangers, please click here.
Faculty Presentations the week of August 8 will take place at Union Hall Theater, 2 Central Street in Rockport Village at 8:00 pm. These events are free and open to the public.
Monday, August 8: Arlene Collins & Linda Meyerriecks
Arlene Collins is a documentary photographer specializing in photographing remote cultures and changing civilizations around the world. In addition to her images of diverse and distant cultures, Arlene has worked on several long-term photography essays including Boxing in New York City; Moscow, Russia; Bangkok, Thailand; the Rodeo; and Unesco World Heritage Sites.
To learn more about Arlene, please visit her faculty bio or http://www.arlene-collins.com/
Linda Meyerriecks conceived PhotoShepherd.com to support professional photographers and students of photography, as their Photo Editor and Advisor, as well as producing books for publishers such as National Geographic. She recently completed the editing of all the illustrations for two National Geographic books: Eyewitness to History, and Hidden Alaska, Bristol Bay and Beyond.
To learn more about Linda, please click here.
Tuesday, August 9: Jill Enfield
Jill Enfield is a fine art and editorial photographer. She has taught handcoloring and non-silver techniques at schools in New York City and throughout the USA and Europe. Her work is in the collections of The Amon Carter Museum, RJ Reynolds Co., Southeast Banking Corp., Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín in Colombia, The Boca Raton Museum of Art and Hotel Parisi in La Jolla, among others.
To learn more about Jill, please visit her faculty bio or http://www.jillenfield.com/
Wednesday, August 10: Judd Pilossof & Sarah Kramer
Judd Pilossof is recognized as one of the leading food/still-life photographers in the United States. Based in New York, Judd has shot for virtually all the major advertising agencies and food magazines. Some of his clients include Starbucks, Campbell's, Domino's Pizza, Stouffers and Healthy Choice. Judd's work is constantly being inspired by his love for cooking, wine and travel and this has translated into a unique style of lighting and personal development.
To learn more about Judd, please visit his faculty bio or http://www.juddpilossof.com/
Sarah Kramer is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning journalist with 15 years of experience in documentary radio and television, print and online media. Currently, she is a multimedia producer for The New York Times. In this role, Kramer tells stories through audio and photos, creating series such as One in 8 Million and Coming Out. Prior to coming to the Times, Kramer was a founding staff member and senior producer for the public radio project StoryCorps.
To learn more about Sarah, please click here.
Twenty years ago Kodak’s Center for Creative Imaging (CCI) opened its doors in Camden, bringing hundreds of cutting-edge digital photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and other artists to teach thousands of working professionals from around the world.
The seeds planted in the 1990’s still flourish today. Camelot in Camden, a panel discussion at 4:00pm in Union Hall Theater, reunites several artists who worked and taught at CCI during its heyday to discuss its influence on their careers and the larger creative world: renowned portraitist Greg Heisler, designer Jessica Simmons, Maine Media President, Charles Altschul, and MMW instructor Peter Koons.
Heisler, know for his many Time magazine covers, and Simmons collaborated at CCI in 1992 on the first digitally produced cover of the legendary publication, featuring Man of the Year, Ted Turner.
This event takes place at 4:00pm on August 1st in the Union Hall Theater, which is located at 2 Central Street in Rockport Village.
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Later that evening, the opening reception for the exhibition We are the Camera takes place from 6:30 – 8pm at Maine Media Gallery. Two decades after Kodak founded CCI to try and understand the implications of a fundamental change in photography, this exhibition continues the exploration by examining some of the current issues in digital photography from frameless photographs to the ubiquity of the photographic image. This exhibition runs through September 30 and you can find more information on it by clicking here.
Multi-talented Kyle Martin and Lance Edmands, key members of the filmmaking team that helped create last year’s acclaimed indie success Tiny Furniture ("Best Narrative Feature" 2010 SXSW, "Best First Screenplay" Independent Spirit Award), will be sharing their experiences of the independent film world, showing clips of past work and talking about their upcoming project Bluebird which will be shooting in Millinocket in January 2012.
In addition to Tiny Furniture, past films that have resulted from their collaboration include Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (premiered at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, released theatrically in 2008, and aired on the Sundance Channel), New York Export: Opus Jazz (a location-shot Jerome Robbins Ballet, produced for PBS' Great Performances series) and the upcoming feature documentary Teenage based on the book by Jon Savage (Time Travel: From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture). Kennebunk native Edmands will also share his student Academy Award nominated Vacationland (2006 Berlin International Film Festival).
This event takes place at 8:00pm on August 1st in the Union Hall Theater, which is located at 2 Central Street in Rockport Village. Admission is free and open to the public.
Maine Media has partnered with Carl Zeiss USA to sponsor the Precision Image Competition, “PIC”.
PIC is an opportunity for all 2011 MMW students to experience the unparalleled image quality of Zeiss lenses while challenging themselves to create new still and moving pictures for a dynamic competition.
Zeiss provides a wide selection of lenses for still and cine cameras for students to ‘test-drive” while on campus. Students are invited to submit their work made with these lenses, to the competition in two categories:
The grand prize winner in each category will receive a selection of premier Zeiss SLR lenses valued at $6,750 and a MMW 2012 tuition scholarship. Winners will be announced at the Annual Maine Media Party at B&H in Manhattan, Wednesday, October 26.
Already attended a workshop in 2011? It's easy to enter: visit the FLICKR Precision Image Competition Group and request to join. You'll find complete "PIC" guidelines and instructions. Once we confirm you as a MMW 2011 student, you'can upload up to 10 images and three 90-second videos. Entry deadline: September 30, 2011. Enter the "PIC" Precision Image Competition today!
