Lectures
Ginny Santora once again has arranged an exciting and eclectic array of diverse speakers to enlighten and educate our members and guests. All our lecture meetings will be held at the East Brunswick Public library. See "About Us" > "Where we meet" for directions.
September 8, 2011 - TBA -- "Digital Image Critique"
October 27, 2011 - Joel Morgovsky -- "Current Trends Now Showing in NYC Galleries"
What’s in the Galleries Now?
Photography constantly grows and changes. Existing and historic ways of seeing are reinvented and new ways of conceiving and making photographs are invented. In this presentation, Professor Morgovsky will take us on a digital tour of several major shows held in important New York galleries during 2011. Using show announcement pages from PHOTOGRAPH (a quarterly gallery guide magazine), Joel will lead us in discussion about what this year’s crop of shows tell us about the current state of art photography. All that in the comfort of your own Club meeting room!
November 17, 2011 - Jack Howard -- "Creative HDR Photography"
Jack Howard approach is making it look realistic, as opposed to the surrealistic look we so often see in HDR.
Jack Howard first picked up an SLR camera as a teenager over
twenty years ago and has been exploring the photographic
process ever since. Starting in the wet darkroom and now
exploring cutting-edge digital imaging techniques, he's
thoroughly embraced the evolution of the photographic process.
Jack's book, Practical HDRI, 2nd Edition, High Dynamic Range
Imaging Using Photoshop CS5 and Other Tools is now available
through many bookstores and online book sites.
Jack is a New Media Specialist with Sigma Corporation of
America, engaged in social marketing for this camera and lens
manufacturer.
From Jan 2009 through November 2010, Jack was the Director of
New and Social Media for Adorama Camera where he blogged,
podcasted and screencasted about all matters photographic. He
was previously the Editor of PopPhoto.com, the online home of
"Popular Photography" and "American Photo" magazines.
He's an established photojournalist, whose work has appeared
in "The New York Times", "The Asbury Park Press", and "The
Star-Ledger" newspapers. His photos and articles have appeared
in Photo District News, Popular Photography, American Photo,
Photoshop User, and many other publications. He has been an
expert guest on radio shows and podcasts including Martha
Stewart's Living Today, Nikonians Newsflash podcast, Inside
Digital Photo, Backcountry Utah Radio among others.
Jack holds a Bachelor of the Arts Degree in History, with
Minors in English and American Studies from Rutgers
University. His photographic skills are self-taught, although
having a photographer for a father, and two brothers who are
also mad for cameras has helped a lot along the way.
Jack lives in New Jersey with his wife Corey, their baby
daughter Avery Rose, their German Shepherd dog, Bailey, and
more camera gadgets than you can shake a stick at.
Check out some of Jack's experimental video work and other fun
stuff on his Vimeo page.
January 19, 2012 - Neil van Niekerk -- Using On-Camera & Off-Camera Flash
February 23, 2012 - Video Night (TBA)
March 15, 2012 - Mason Gross Grad Students (tentative) -- Panel Presentation with Q & A
April 26, 2011 - Annie Hogan -- Space, Place, & Dwelling; From Rentals to Prisons to Plantation Houses
Presenting several bodies of images, Annie Hogan examines the relationship between space, place, and the body through former homes, prisons and plantations. These architectural spaces often reflect binary oppositions such as absence/presence, freedom/confinement and inside/outside through the situated body and camera viewpoint. Hogan begins with images of low income housing from rural and urban Australia that subtly suggest power structures between family members. The empty rooms reveal past events and possible disturbing histories as seen from a child’s eye view.
Next, Hogan presents a series of decommissioned prisons both in Australia and the US. Images of prison cells evoke the way architecture is used to exert power over the body and of the potential of the human mind to possibly transcend a physical environment of constraint. A bruised palette of color highlights a relationship of the body, vision and thoughts of life beyond the solitary cell.
Hogan concludes with a recent series of interior and exterior images of plantation houses in the American South. Investigating the asymmetrical power structures inherent in ‘the peculiar institution’ prior to emancipation, Hogan’s images juxtapose an enslaved persons humble living quarters with opulent Georgian interiors to reveal the complex interdependent relationship. New meaning is given to that relationship when one is seen in light of the other at the same time.
Annie Hogan is an Australian photographic artist and Samstag Scholar whose interests include interior architectural space, the body and photography’s role in representation. Her color mural sized images are of rental spaces, prison cells and plantations interiors. Annie graduated with an MFA in 2004 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . Hogan exhibits nationally and internationally and her works are held in most of the major Australian collections and many private collections in the UK and US. Hogan is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Photography program at Mason Gross School of Visual Art at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Her work can be seen at www.anniehogan.com
