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Tom Persinger of f295, home of excellent pinhole and DIY & alt process photography fora, has been working his butt off organizing a Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes. It will run from 26–29 April, 2007, in Pittsburgh, PA, US, with specific workshop, seminar, and guided trip locations to be announced.

Persinger has set up a Web site for the symposium. He writes:

…It’s designed to distribute information about the symposium AND about things to do in/around Pittsburgh. It’s in the preliminary stages, but it has lots of links to restaurants (that i particulary like), hotels/places to stay, museums, galleries, shopping, walking tours, other activites (amusement parks, zoo, etc) and lots of stuff to keep you and your family busy for days and days.

With the birth of son #2 I haven’t been able to check into hotel rates. Please feel free to email or call the hotels directly to check on availability. I’ll do my best to get to this detail in the coming weeks.

I’ll be adding more agenda information, links to register for workshops, and bios for each speaker and topics they’ll be discussing in the coming days & weeks!

The link: www.f295.org/wordpress

Cheers!
Tom

The lineup already looks tasty indeed, a veritable bonanza for the low-fi photographer. This is going to be worth traveling for.

Tom Persinger of f295 writes:

It’s an exciting weekend in Pittsburgh as The Daguerrian Society kicks off their symposium on Nov. 16! It’s the largest gathering of Daguerreotype collectors, practitioners and historians in the country, quite possibly the world. They have a full schedule on their website.

Exhibition announcement:

People are using cameras in ways previously reserved for "the professionals". Digital photography is allowing us to capture the images we see, and make images we feel.

So many photographers are making so many different styles of photography - and the best is yet to be discovered - because its hiden away on a hard drive.

Now we go a step further.

EXPOSURE takes these images from hard drives to the gallery walls - celebrating the modern day photographer - each with his or her own vision and completely unique perspective. We avoid competition. Instead we embrace our differences, then feed from the inspiration that they yield.

Flickr has provided a hub - a global online community. Individuals from every corner of the planet are sharing their work with thousands of people. This incredible resource has given today’s photographer a new playing ground.

Some professionals still say that these photographers don’t do it the way they used too. That might be true. But we choose to focus on the way we need to do it now and look towards the future!

EXPOSURE is that FUTURE!

OUR DEBUT GALLERY SHOW will Feature the work from 15 photographers, and will be headlined by DEAN M. BEATTIE (DMB05)!!!

Dean’s career spans more than 13 years of professional image making and a wide spectrum of genres, wedding, photojournalism, corporate, architectural, portrait, and fine art.

For the first time his fine art nude figure studies will be on display.

Other Photographers on display:

Craig E Biertempfel
Hans Rosemond
Stephen A. Hall
David Kent
Robert Strovers
Dan Buczynski
Jim Orsini
Cate Whitehead
Sharon West
Todd Hryckowian
Chris Nicholson
Matt Niemi
Charles Schneider
Julie Schneider
Joey Kennedy

Music will be provided by DJs Kelly Carter & Walter along with live sax/flute by Jason May.

COME! Be apart of this community known as EXPOSURE!
7-11 pm
FRIDAY April 7th 2006
@ GarfieldArtWorks
[4931 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh PA]

—> Gallery show will be followed by an A F T E R P A R T Y @ LOT 17 , LocationL: 4617 Liberty Ave [Bloomfield]

10pm-2am with DJs Joyboy & Kelly Carter

Lot17: 2 blocks up from the Bloomfield Bridge, opposite side of the street <—

Flyer design: Dan Buczynski aka Macwagen