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”Looking Backwards to Move Forwards”
with Phil Warren
Color scientist and computer vision specialist, Phil Warren creates radical new photography with notes from the Old World.
PREVIOUS FORUM EVENTS/SPEAKERS…
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Looking Backwards to Move Forwards with Phil Warren
Color scientist and computer vision specialist, Phil Warren creates radical new photography with notes from the Old World.
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Uncertain Future: A Species in Peril
Photographer/activist Fred Brashear Jr discusses his long-term project involving the Mojave Desert's endemic Joshua tree.
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PPA Photo Award Winner '24 Joyce Ernst
2024 Photo Award Winner, Joyce Ernst discusses her project, “The Uncertainty of Being” with Pasadena Photography Arts."
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Intersection of Art and Activism: Huq I Seek No Favor
This event was not recorded.
Huq: I Seek No Favor is a powerful collection of artists, writers, and thinkers responding to the abortion ban. Bringing together artists and thinkers who believe in collective political action, the project aims to inspire people to use arts as means to social reform. In the act of defiance, it speaks back to the system which uses our bodies as a tool for our oppression and perpetuates historical inequality. Huq is an Urdu word for rights. I seek no favor originates from an Audre Lorde poem ‘a woman speaks’ The bilingual title articulates the multiple identities, cultures and diverse voices this abortion ban affects.
We were joined by Ashima Yadava who founded the project, and Kat Contreras and Debe Arlook who have both contributed to this powerful collection.
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Discover the Future of Mentorship with ASMP's Bridge Program
ASMP Bridge Program director Liam Alexander discusses how established photographers are helping emerging artists break into the photography profession.
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PPA Photo Award Winner Ian Wright
Douglas Hill and Ellen Friedlander of Pasadena Photography Arts talk with the first PPA Annual Prize Winner, Ian Wright about his work, including "To Be a Dancer," the project for which he was awarded the prize by juror Ibarionex Perello.
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”Women Changing the Landscape of Film and TV Unit Still Photography”
Unit still photographers Beth Dubber, Lara Solanki, and Vanessa Clifton show their work and discuss what it takes to maintain a career on Film and TV sets.
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An Artist Talk with Debe Arlook: "Trusting the Journey"
Debe Arlook is an award-winning American artist working in photography. Through diverse photographic processes, Arlook’s conceptual work is a response to her surroundings and the larger environment as she attempts to understand the inner and outer worlds of human relationships. Degrees in filmmaking and psychology inform these views. Her work is exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and festivals, nationally and internationally. Arlook discusses her work from a wide range of series with Pasadena Photography Arts.
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The Importance of Long Term Projects
Photographer Manuel Paganelli joins Pasadena Photography Arts advisors Justine Manesh and Douglas Hill in a discussion of The Importance of the long term Project
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Writing About Your Practice with Liz Sales
Writing has the power to help you understand your image-making practice and gain a wider audience for your work. In this workshop, we will discuss techniques for brainstorming, writing, and editing artist statements. If you’re one of the many image makers who has avoided developing your writing skills because you feel confused, overwhelmed, or frustrated, this is for you!
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION:
Beating writer's block
Understanding your work through writing
Writing artist statements and project statements
Editing your statement for open calls -
Excellent Photography Belongs on Paper with Tomasz Trzebiatowski
FRAMES Magazine founder and editor-in-chief, Tomasz Trzebiatowski discusses with PPA's Ellen Friedlander and Douglas Hill his life in music, his personal photography, and the development of the international phenomenon that is FRAMES.
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An Artist Talk With Lydia Panas
PPA Advisor, Debe Arlook hosts artist, Lydia Panas in a discussion of the deeply personal portraiture she makes at her farm in rural Pennsylvania.
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FORUM Panel Part 2 | March 2022
"Exploring What's Possible, Part 2" features Kei Ito, Shawn Bush, Jeff Phillips, and Hamidah Glasgow, and is moderated by Debe Arlook. A panel discussion on large-scale outdoor public display, digital projections, book publishing, book structures, zine making, installations, and sculpture.
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Derek Goldberg | Jan. 2022
PPA Advisor Derek Goldberg presents Gaudí and the Gaudy Gaudí, which explores the work of architects Antoni Gaudí and Friedensreich Hundertwasser through his photography.
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FORUM Panel Part 1 | Oct. 2021
"Exploring What's Possible" features Odette England, Hamidah Glasgow, Lonnie K Graham, J Sybylla Smith, and is moderated by Debe Arlook. A panel discussion on pushing artistic boundaries from concept to installation.
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Douglas McCulloh | Aug. 2021
We have entered what may be the golden age of lying with photographs. This talk offers an analysis of the methods and modes of photographic lying, richly illustrated by deviously illuminating examples gathered from the internet.
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Rollence Patugan | June 2021
”How did I get here?” with photographer/educator Rollence Patugan. This e event highlights his socially conscious work over several series.
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Anne Wilkes Tucker | May 2021
Photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker presents the work of Mark Klett and Terry Evans.
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Michael Rababy | Feb. 2021
Michael Rababy presents book “California Love – A Visual Mixtape.” Featuring the work of 110 photographic artists, this book celebrates our diverse, inclusive, progressive nation-state. Rababy will present images from the book and will share how the project evolved from an exhibit, through publishing and distribution.
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Ellen Friedlander | Nov. 2020
“Habits, Creativity and the Now”
Ellen Friedlander shares her work while narrating what it means for her to access and act on creativity. In conversation with Douglas Hill, Ellen explores how she broke-through her old patterns of seeing to generate her photographic point-of-view.