Project Basho: Photographer's Place in Philadelephia and Beyond - Photography Classes and Workshops including Platinum/Palladium Printing and Wet-Plate Collodion, Rental Black and White and Color Darkrooms, Rental Photography Studio, Fine Art Photography Gallery, Lectures by Photographers, Informal Critiques and Discussions Project 5: Inviting

Lecture Series and Other Programs
 

Foster a culture around photography

One of the key concepts of Project Basho is to nurture a vibrant and active culture around photography in Philadelphia and its surrounding area. In addition to offering darkroom spaces, classes and workshops, and a gallery space, we recognize the importance of providing programs to promote conversation and dialogue about the medium and its possibilities. With this in mind, Project Basho will be developing a series of lectures and other programs in our new lecture room starting this fall.

We plan to invite photographers and other notable people who are involved in the field of photography to offer a range of lectures and panel discussions to the local community. These occasions are intended to provide deeper insights into photographers’ work, their ideas behind the work, the impact and implications of the work in a larger context, and ultimately their identity as a photographer as well as an individual in the ever-changing contemporary world.

Also in our lecture room, we will be showing photography-related movies on a bi-monthly basis. These titles include both documentary and fiction where photography plays an important role. We are actively building a list of movies to show, and we are open to any recommendations from participants. These screenings are free of charge, and anyone is welcome to these occasions. If you have a suggestions or would like to recommend movie titles for the screening, please feel free to contact us.

Movie Night
August 13th

“What Remains” (2005)

Description
This 80-minute documentary movie contains a lot of interviews with Sally Mann commenting on her latest project "What Remains" as well as touching upon the importance of her family and the environment of Virginia where she grew up on her work.

Lecture Series Schedule: Summer ’08

To Be Determined

Night for Emerging Photographers

In order to compliment our lecture series by notable photographers and other professionals in the field, we are launching "Night for Emerging Photographers" in May 2008. "Night for Emerging Photographers" is a program where new and emerging photographers are given an opportunity to present their project and body of work as well as ideas to the general public in order to gain feedback and responses.

Every other month, we will choose two photographers for presentation. Each photographer will have 15 minutes to show their work and elaborate their ideas behind them. Presentation can be literal to interpretive and observational to question-raising. This process is all informal and intended to provide candid and invaluable feedback to photographers' work.

If you are interested in participating the "Night for Emerging Photographers" as a speaker, please complete the online application. Applications are reviewed an on-going basis, and are open to those who have a body of work. Selected artists will be contacted with further information. Please feel free to contact us if you have questions or suggestions regarding the program.
July 31st

Chris Paquette: Roadside Memorials

Roadside Memorials is a documentary study of the artistic qualities of memorials that are created at the sites of traffic fatalities. They represent a specific form of grieving with ties to 18th and 19th century rural folk art. This project was started two years ago, and has recently expanded into a new direction. Images of the existing project will be presented with a discussion of the new changes and ideas. A short presentation will be made of a new project, Collected Horizons. This project consists of a series of minimalist and abstract horizons taken in a variety of locations, both indoors and outdoors.

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Phil Jackson

Fresh out of the University of the Arts' Undergraduate Photography program, Phil Jackson is a documentary photographer chronicling the life and times of the people surrounding him in the subculture of skateboarding. Through the informal portraiture of fly-on-the-wall documentation, Phil ignores the literal act of skateboarding and instead focuses on the strange people of this unique group. An ongoing (and potentially life-long) project, Phil will be presenting work he has shot within the last four years – images from south Philadelphia’s grimy plot of no-man’s land, FDR Skatepark, as well as countless road trips traversing the country in search of new terrain.

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