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
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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, workshops, and a gallery space, we recognize the importance of providing programs to promote conversation and dialogue about photography. 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 insight 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 and individual in the ever-changing contemporary world.

We will also be showing photography-related movies on a bi-monthly basis in our lecture room. 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 recommendations. These screenings are free of charge, and anyone is welcome to these occasions. If you have suggestions or would like to recommend a movie for the screening, please feel free to contact us.

Lecture Series Schedule: Spring ’09
March 26, 31, & April 3

Lectures on Contemporary Japanese Photography by Mika Kobayashi

This is a series of lectures on Japanese contemporary photography by Mika Kobayashi. Each seminar will cover a diverse range of Japanese photographers from the 1950's to current working artists with specific topics. The selection of photographers highlight an array of themes that defined Post World War II Japanese photography. These lectures are open to anyone who is interested in Japanese photography and its aesthetics and trends since World War II.

March 26th
Discussion of the photo exhibition, "Comical and Cynical," of emerging Japanese and Korean photographers held in a swimming pool in 2007
March 31st
Discussion of the exhibition, "Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan," held at International Center of Photography in 2008
April 3rd
Discussion of trends in photography books by Japanese photographers

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 on their ideas. Presentation can be literal to interpretive and observational to question rising. 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 on 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.
May 14

Mark Fields

Mark Fields graduated from The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts after moving to Philadelphia from North Carolina where he was born. His art and photography has been exhibited in many art institutions including Mangel Gallery, The Print Center, The Walt Whitman Center for the Arts, The Esther Klein Art Gallery, galleries in N.C., N.J. and Germany. He will be presenting photographs that have as their underlying technique the principle of pre-visualization, which he uses to get closer to the ideal he has in his mind.

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L.A. Moore

L.A.Moore is an awarding winning photographer, filmmaker and TV commercial director. His work is held in the permanent collection of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts and in private collections in the USA, Canada and Asia.

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Movie Night
April 29

“Manufactured Landscapes" (2006)

Description:

Manufactured Landscapes is a feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country`s massive industrial revolution. The Three Gorges Dam, factory floors a kilometre long and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai`s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera. Shot in Super-16mm film, the documentary extends the narratives of Burtynsky`s photographs, meditating on human impact on the planet without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.

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