Tom Persinger of f295 writes:
We’re excited to announce the addition of France Scully Osterman to the featured speakers/worskhop presenters at this years f295 Symposium in Pittsburgh, PA [US] May 29 – June 1, 2008!
France Scully Osterman is an artist, and a guest scholar at George Eastman House. She teaches private tutorials and workshops in the Scully & Osterman 19th century skylight studio, specializing in wet-plate collodion, salted paper and albumen printing.
France will be offering a 2 day collodion workshop called It’s All Positive! The Wet-Plate Collodion Process and delivering a artists’ talk at the Thursday night opening reception entitled Serendipity and Exquisite Manipulation which will discuss the artistic artifacts of the collodion process as well as the factors which influence and guide her work: process, lens, light, exposure and intent.
Workshop information is here
(this is a rare chance as neither she nor Mark teach very many intro collodion workshops!)You can read more about France here
And more about her talk here
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SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS
Many of the workshops are filling fast/nearing capacity, the home page of the site has been updated to reflect the number of spots remaining in each. If you’re thinking about taking a workshop register soon so as to not miss your chance! Workshops are only available for those registered for the symposium.———————————-
EXHIBITOR LIST GROWING!
We’re also excited to announce the addition of several more exhibitors to the growing group! B&H Photo, Fujifilm USA, Inkpress Paper, Lensbabies, Pinhole Blender and Without Lenses will all be on hand to discuss their products with you! More TBA soon!———————————-
MIX AND MINGLE!
Not only will you be able to interact with other like minded practitioners and see a LOT of the exciting alt-photo work that is being done by this niche photographic group but you’ll be able to mixc and mingle with all of the 2008 featured speakers and many of the speakers from the 2007 symposium. What a group! You’ll be hard pressed to find this many alt-dignitaries, authors and practitioners in any other place!Those speakers planning to be on hand for these events include:
* Martha Casanave
* Alan Greene
* Jo Babcock
* Laura Blacklow
* Jill Enfield
* Jesseca Ferguson
* Robert Hirsch
* France Scully Osterman
* Mike Robinson
* Terry King
* Jerry Spagnoli
* Keith Taylor
* Ilan WolffStay tuned for more exciting announcements in the coming days. Registration has been brisk and we have limited space available for the event –register today!
Complete symposium information: www.f295.org/symposium2008
Go directly to the registration page!
See you in Pittsburgh!
Tom