I am very honored to again join the Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP) Exposure Weekend team early next year for an intensive series of portfolio reviews. The actual reviews will occur over the extended weekend of January 27 – 30th, 2022. A great way to start the new year.
Registration will open on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 9am PST.
Same as last year’s LACP Exposure Weekend, due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, this will also be a virtual event utilizing Zoom. As a virtual event, this is a double edge sword; the good news is that the travel costs are avoided for everyone, more reviewers can participate and this makes it possible to participate from very far away. The bad news is there is little opportunity to spend time with the reviewers and participants actually one-to-one, as well as networking and there is something about seeing physical prints. All in all, considering the circumstances, I think that this is a great compromise, while I am still looking forward to the time (2023?) when we return to doing this extended weekend in-person.
Personally, what I have found that I have been helpful during portfolio reviews is discussing photographic projects (and series), including editing and sequencing, whether the project is intended to be published or not. There are aspects of a photographic project that are unique versus a collection of singular images that are not defined by, or investigating a concept or idea.
There is a very broad list of reviewers:
Publishing/Book Design:
Alexa Becker, Contributing Editor, Kehrer Verlag
Alexa Dilworth Publishing and Awards Director; Senior Editor, Center for Documentary Studies Books, Duke University
Caleb Cain Marcus, Director, Luminosity Lab, New York
Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator | Photography Book Designer
Melanie McWhorter, Photo Book and Photography Consultant
Douglas Stockdale, Founder/ Senior Editor PhotoBook Journal, visual artist, book-nerd, book workshop leader
William Boling, Publisher, Fall Line Press
Magazine/Editorial/Podcasts:
Aline Smithson, Founder and Editor, Lenscratch
Elin Spring, Founder & Editor, What Will You Remember?
Elizabeth Krist, Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic
Ibarionex Perello, Host of The Candid Frame Photography podcast
Jean Dykstra, Writer & Editor, Photograph Magazine
Michael Kirchoff, Editor-in-Chief, Analog Forever Magazine and Catalyst Interviews
Suzanne Révy, Associate Editor, What Will You Remember?
Timothy Anderson, Publisher/Editor, Shadow & Light Magazine and The Journal
Museums and Non-Profit Organizations:
Andi Campagnone, Museum Manager/Curator at MOAH
Arpad Kovaks, Asst. Curator, Photo Dept., J. Paul Getty Museum
Bayley Mizelle, Director, PAC LA
Diana Tuite, Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Colby College Museum of Art
Douglas McCulloh, Senior Curator, UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography
Jamie M. Allen, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Curator and Interim Head., Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum
Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, MoCP
Lauren Szumita (she/her), Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum
Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator, Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Meghan L. Jordan, Curatorial Associate, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum
Nicholas Barlow, Curatorial Assistant, Hammer Museum
Robert Benitez, Curator at MOAH
Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA
Galleries:
Brian Paul Clamp, Owner and Director of ClampArt
Catherine Edelman, Owner and Director, Catherine Edelman Gallery
Daphne Srinivasan, Publicity and Marketing, Etherton Gallery
Gordon Stettinius, Owner & Director, Candela Books + Gallery
Juli Lowe, Owner & Director at Lowe Arts
Missy Finger, Owner, PDNB Gallery
Susan Spiritus, Owner, Susan Spiritus Gallery
Independent Curators/Writers and Consultants:
George Slade, Independent Writer and Curator
Mary Virginia Swanson, Author, Educator and Advisor
Sherrie Berger, Independent Photography Consultant
Victoria Chapman, Independent Curator
Zelda Cheatle, Independent Curator
As in the past; there are pricing discounts for LACP members, so maybe consider a membership: $95/year OR $10/month ($45/year for out-of-state residents, students & educators, and veterans).
Pricing:
Early Bird Pricing (on or before November 23, 2021)
$520 ($480 Members) for 8 reviews
$340 ($300 Members) for 5 reviews
Regular Pricing (after November 23, 2021)
$540 ($500 Members) for 8 reviews
$360 ($320 Members) for 5 reviews
Single Reviews (if available) will be posted in January, 2022
From past experience, these are usually intense but really productive opportunities to meet with various professionals, from publishing (like me), to galleries’, and curators. It just might help push your career to the next step forward. This will be my sixth year participating in this event and I have had an opportunity to see some really stunning artwork. So I am pretty hyped to participate.
Let me know if you have any questions,
Cheers,
Doug
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Book workshops:
Next workshop: SEC4P Creative PhotoBook workshop just announced (and already almost sold out), a virtual event on Zoom; January 22 & 23 and 29 & 30, 2022, 10 AM – 1 PM, EST (3 hour session each day, with a week between the weekend sessions to work your book-dummy). The SEC4P membership discount is also available.
Developing a Creative Photo Book, a virtual (Zoom) workshop I will be leading again in conjunction with Medium Photo with New dates: March 5 – 6, 12 – 13, 2022 More details and sign-up available now at Medium Photo.
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