Maine Media College graduate and faculty member, Cig Harvey, will see her first monograph go on sale across the globe only seven years after completing her MFA degree. Through 74 vibrant photographs and 17 startlingly revealing written vignettes, Cig transforms daily, ordinary experiences into totems marking key life moments in You Look At Me Like An Emergency.
As much a document of one woman’s emotional life as it is a catalog of psychological archetypes, Cig’s work takes the viewer on a literal and metaphorical journey with family, friends and lovers to finally find a place called home. Emergency conveys the universal quest for personal identity and place in the world.
Maine Media Workshops + College constituents have a unique opportunity to be among the first people in the USA to own this book. In the spring of 2012, You Look At Me Like An Emergency will go on sale in Europe and at the Maine Media Gallery. Countrywide sales in the United States will not begin until the fall of 2012. Contact or visit Tim Whelan at the Maine Media Gallery to preorder your copy today!
Cig is also offering a special lilmited edition of the book, which includes a signed and dedicated copy, slipcover and a 10x10 signed editioned C-print of The Cut Apple & Gingham Dress. The print can be shipped separately to arrive before the holidays. Only 30 of these exist. Visit http://cighavery.com/pages/books.html to order.
Mark your calendar for Cig Harvey’s August 5th – 11th workshop, The Personal Story. This popular workshop will guide you in creating a visually sophisticated body of work that resonates deeply within. Check our website in mid-December for all the details and registration information.
In 1989 Madeleine de Sinety first came to Maine Media Workshops. Susan Danly, at the Portland Museum Of Art (PMA), has now organized a retrospective show and an accompanying catalog.
The first trimester of 
Tracey Freeman added, “I already have a graduate degree, I’m not interested in another. And, nine months is more doable than four years – time-wise, financially and in terms of focus.”
“A lot of my friends went to four year schools. Today, even after two years, they are not working in their field. They are washing cars and waiting tables. I don’t care about math; I care about photography! And, the faculty to student ratio here is amazing. Here you can pretty much forget about everything except photography and eating,” added Matt Cosby.
Leslie Inman took the group’s thinking into second trimester, “We all shoot digitally so we’ve all chosen to take Alternative Processing as our elective. We can’t learn the wet darkroom anywhere else and we each want to become exposed to things we wouldn’t get otherwise.”
Muses and mentors await you at the newly renovated Maine Media Workshops + College (MMW+C) library located in the Ernst Haas Building. Come browse the wealth of books and peruse the comprehensive collection, which has been revamped as part of Kathryn Diman’s University of Maine Augusta library internship project. This project was implemented in conjunction with MMW+C to ensure that your access to the more than 3,000 materials relating to Photography, Film, Fine Arts, Biography, Cinematography and Multimedia will be easy and completely manageable.
No more squeezing between tall dark shelves overflowing with oversized books to find the resources you need – we’ve opened up the shelving to give you the space and light you deserve as a patron of the library. While at the library, make an appointment to visit the new archives room located in classroom 2E in the Shepherd Building. Back issues of Aperture, National Geographic. Zoom, Digital Imaging, Blindspot and many more professional journals and magazines are now available for check out along with classic videos and reference books. With over 1,000 archives available and easily accessed, your journey back in time will enrich your knowledge base and amaze you.
Congratulations to Joseph Mullan and Natalie Kingston, winners of the Precision Image Contest (PIC) sponsored jointly by Maine Media Workshops (MMW) and 
PIC winners were announced at the Annual Maine Media Party at B&H in Manhattan, Wednesday, October 26. Jason Esposito, Photo Department Manager at Maine Media, recalled the evening, “With 202 partygoers, fabulous food, a plethora of opportunities for networking and the excitement of the announcement of the PIC winners, this year’s B&H party was one of the best ever. There were a lot of new ideas shared for 2012 faculty and courses at MMW. The B&H crew were warm and welcoming; we enjoyed their great hospitality and enthusiasm.”
Maine Media College graduate, Jon Edwards, was one of eight American photographers chosen to present his work to Chinese photographers, including the Deputy Governor of Henan Provence. Jon and his colleagues participated in a ceremony to exchange prints, an international forum speaking about his work, and in an exhibition featuring ten photographs of each photographer’s work.
Beijing High Noon Culture and Art, Inc. held the symposium in Zhengzhou, Henan Provence, China, this past August. The theme of the main exhibition was “Place.” Edwards chose ten of his images from his series titled “A Way of Being” and “A Life.” 
The Midcoast Magnet along with pure Maine magnetism are pulling together over 20+ keynote speakers and 800 participants at the Camden Opera House in Camden, November 4-5, 2011 for the Juice 3.0 “Celebrating Risk” conference. As a conference designed to generate energy, Juice 3.0 connects leaders, policy makers, entrepreneurs, artists, and innovators to connect, collaborate and create opportunities for economic expansion.