Schedule of Events:

Monday, January 23, 2023

4:45 AM - 12:00 PM: FOTOshoot 201

American Landscape: Photographing the Unique Landscape of One of Florida’s Largest Active Cattle Ranches with Shane Srogi

Step through time into a landscape that is both in and out of the 21st Century; a duality that offers an opportunity for making highly creative images. This is a chance to photograph an authentic ranch that has changed little since its formation. The tour is guided by ranch owner Robbie Adams who shares his passion for the land with our students.  Led by Photographer Shane Srogi. Learn how to see and harness the light to enhance your images. Our photo opportunities focus on the early morning landscapes on the 50,000 acre Ranch. Shane will talk about personal vision and evolving your images through techniques he has employed photographing the American Landscape for the last 20 years.

Location: Courtyard

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

8:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Master Workshop 401

The Memorable Portrait with Mickey Strand

Critique Wednesday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Digital Lab 2

Additional Fee: $30.00

In this workshop, photographers who want to add portrait shooting to their bag of skills will be introduced to all the considerations that go into capturing an image that shows the soul of the subject and the pathway to do that with a click of the shutter.  In this workshop, attendees will learn to work with the jewel of the photograph- light and all its forms. Specifically natural light, professional studio flash, and LED and how to use these types of light inside and out of the studio.  Some of the lighting styles that will be explored will include traditional Rembrandt, butterfly, and broad lighting techniques, as well as adapting to the client's special needs.

This workshop is for DSLD/MSLR camera owners with a basic understanding of their cameras and a basic understanding of post-processing software.

Topics covered in this workshop are: Terms used in the studio (key light, fill light, feathering, bouncing), Gear to start your own studio, Quality of light, Getting the shot, Color Management.

His workshop includes studio photography with models, lighting backdrops, and Classroom lessons in the post-processing of your images. In this workshop, you will explore everything from buying your first set of lights to directing a model while in the studio setting, as well as how to work with your subject and how to relax them into readiness for that great shoot.

Critique Wednesday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Hibiscus Room

Location: Studio 1

8:45 AM - 11:30 AM: FOTOshoot 202

Life is a Zoo with Brendan Bannon

Additional Fee: $30.00

Zoo’s offer a unique place to view animals and their interactions with human beings. Join photographer Brendan Bannon at the Palm Beach Zoo to focus on the spaces where our species meets rare, endangered and unusual members of the Animal Kingdom.

Brendan’s approach to the photographing the zoo highlights the unique opportunities and relationships that develop between our species and many others.

Location: Courtyard

10:30 AM - 3:00 PM: FOTOshoot 203

Take some of Cuba Home with You: Shoot the flavor of Miami’s Little Havana with Scott Mc Kiernan & Ruaridh Stewart

Explore Little Havana’s, ‘Calle Ocho’ with award winning photojournalist/photo editor Scott Mc Kiernan.  Shoot in a neighborhood barbershop, cigar-rolling factory, and the famous Cuban domino and chess players at their rattling best. Take in the exotic world of the Botanicas: exotic shops full of Afro-Cuban devotional potions and objects. End your shoot with a Cuban espresso, ‘Un Cafecito.’

Location: Courtyard

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Master Workshop 402

The Family Photographer with Ginny Rose Stewart

Additional Fee: $30.00

Learn to photograph families and children beautifully!  Starting in the classroom, we'll gather and discuss posing families, how to get natural reactions and how to get better photos of families and children. Next, we will head out on location, where you will get a behind-the-scenes peek at me photographing a family. Then, it's your turn! Put the skills learned in the classroom to the test. Each participant will have a mini-session with a family to use the skills we discussed in class and make beautiful family photos to add to your portfolio. You’ll learn tried and true techniques to pose, prompt, and elicit natural reactions from families and children.

Critique Thursday 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Hibiscus Room

Location: Courtyard

2:30 PM - 7:00 PM: FOTOshoot 204

Window on Wynwood Walls with Scott Mc Kiernan and Ruaridh Stewart

Discover Miami’s vibrant street art and your own creativity in this creative photography class held in the infamous Wynwood Art District. We discuss camera techniques and discovering your creative vision. We start the photo excursion immersed in the Wynwood Walls street art project and continue to visit some of the district’s most interesting and vibrant street art. You will receive technical support and creative ideas as we explore the area with our cameras. At 4:00 pm, we meet at the Wynwood Kitchen & Bar surrounded by some fantastic murals by Kenny Scharf, Shepard Fairey, Futura, and many others. From there, we will explore the street art and gallery culture Wynwood is known for. The excursion will end around 7 pm at the food truck circle where you will have the opportunity to sample foods ranging from Korea to Mexico. Be prepared to walk and explore one of the most unique neighborhoods you’ll ever visit.

Location: Courtyard

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Special Event S1

FOTOfusion Opening Reception

Jumpstart FOTOfusion 2023 and meet everyone at the opening reception honoring FOTOfusion presenters, sponsors, participants and the FOTOmentor Award Recipient, Keith Carter.

Location: Museum

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Master Workshop 407

Postcards from the Imaginarium: Combining Images with Photoshop Compositing with Seán Duggan

This hands-on Master Class computer lab takes an in-depth look at using Photoshop compositing techniques to create surreal and dreamlike images. We’ll examine strategies for determining what type of images work best for a composite, as well as shooting new photos with a specific composite in mind. Then we’ll dive into creating several fictional scenes by combining multiple photos to create a new image. Along the way we’ll work with various selection and masking strategies, explore the magic of blend modes, and master the power of layers and layer masks to create the perfect composite image.

Location: Digital Lab 1

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Seminar 101

Master Indoor Natural Light with Ginny Rose Stewart

Learn to harness the light inside to make beautiful images every time you shoot!

Explore the secrets for using indoor light creatively as you learn how light and shadows make a photograph, how to understand different qualities of light, learn how to use alternative light sources to create unique images, and discover the techniques of creating special light effects including sunburst, silhouettes, and shadow play!

Location: Clematis Room

Seminar 102

The Art of the Self-Published Book with Sal Taylor Kydd

Join poet and fine art photographer Sal Taylor Kydd to hear about her process in self-publishing her books and learnings along the way. Through sharing her work Sal will discuss topics such as publishing options, financing, marketing and distribution.

Location: Studio 2

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Community Event 601

Senescence and Photographic Botany by J. Tomas Lopez

“Senescence” is the process of aging or decay, the term for how vital cells and tissues deteriorate. Certain actions can prolong the life of a flower, but decay is inevitable. Artist have long looked for the beauty in this process.

Beginning with Anna Atkins and Fox-Talbot, in the 19th century to Andre Kertesz and Irving Penn in the 20th C. photographic botany has been the subject matter for photographers and artists. A forty-five minute presentation with images discussing the trajectory of the early cyanotypes of flowers and leaves to the large format decaying flowers of Irving Penn. Why are we so attracted to this kind of images?

Location: Library Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Seminar 105

Survival Skills with Anthony Bannon, Mark Maio, Robert Pledge, George Schaub;

Learn from insiders how to make it in photography. Call it survival skills or simply the tricks of the trade.  Veteran stars in the business have worked on both sides of the fence.  They have networked for success themselves and they have provided opportunity to those who network to them. They will tell you how it worked for them; plus, an artist who recently created a life-changing opportunity for himself will tell his breakthrough story.  This is a popular panel every session, and not one to be missed by either beginner or pro.

Location: Studio 2

Seminar 106

Creating Compelling Compositions with Ben Willmore

Refine how you conceptualize and compose a photograph by learning to inventory a scene and create a composition that emphasizes the positive while rendering unattractive elements less prominent. See how changing your shooting distance can dramatically change how a scene is rendered. This is all about mindset and being able to create compelling compositions in challenging situations.

Location: Clematis Room

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM: FOTOshoot 205

Stunning iPhone Portraits in Minutes: Portrait Editing App Tips & Tricks with Jari Poulin

During this FOTOshoot experience you will learn to unleash the potential of your iPhone’s camera and create stunning portraits as well as editing tips and tricks to take your images from capture to extraordinary in minutes using Snapseed and/or your photo apps.

Location: Courtyard

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Community Event 602

A Visual Journey: My Story with Adam Stoltman

My career in photography has taken me to some unexpected places……from photographer, to covering the Olympics, to editor at national publications, to internet publisher, to project manager and consultant for large corporations and foundations, to managing collections and more.  In this candid and intimate talk, I will share stories, many quite humorous, and insights from various projects and assignments in each of these arenas.  The connective tissue of visual storytelling is a constant in all.

Location: Library Auditorium

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Computer Lab 302

Custom Camera Profiles for easier and more accurate image processing with Lewis Kemper

Learn the importance of having a custom camera profile and how to incorporate into your workflow. If you process using Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw/Photoshop then you are basing everything you do on a generic profile that is provided to you from Adobe. This profile is not how your camera sees color or contrast. My creating a custom camera profile you not only save time processing but you do because your image has richer more accurate color, and better dynamic range. This simple process will make a world of difference in your images and your workflow.

Location: Digital Lab 1

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Event 501

Land as History's Witness: Photography of Our Everyday Landscape with Dennis Dimick

Landscape images of nature offer photographers a chance to document vanishing wild places yet photographs of our everyday world can offer rich visual potential for the curious. Dennis Dimick, who spent decades at National Geographic editing images of altered landscapes, will show and discuss his and others’ photographs of domesticated American landscapes, and how these images serve as visual markers of our history. He will cite two recent books that focus on the power of land use photography: American Geography – Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (Radius); and American Silence, the Photographs of Robert Adams (Aperture.)

Location: Library Auditorium

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: FOTOshoot 206

Food is the Most Shot Thing after Selfies with David McIntyre

So bring your visual appetite and ‘Chef’ David McIntyre, who shoots meals at restaurants for a living will visually wine and dine you! How do you make a plate look good enough to eat? David will show you his special styling and methods to tell the Culinary Tale.

Location: Courtyard

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Master Workshop 408

Cyanotypes in the Sun with Jill Enfield and Brendan Bannon

Additional Fee: $30.00

Use your digital images and go back in time to get beautiful handmade prints. During this workshop we will make digital negatives from your digital captures and go outside in to the sun to make blue prints (Cyanotypes).  We will use already coated cotton squares and your own images and let the sun do it’s UV magic and expose the sensitized cotton. We then simply wash them in water and you have a beautiful handmade image that started with a digital capture! Jill will help you make the negative and explain how you can do this on your own once you are back home.

Location: Digital Lab 2

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Community Event 604

Smartphone Photography Essentials with Jack Davis

Learn the indispensable, but often hidden foundations to getting the most gorgeous photos from your smartphone - both in terms of maximizing the SHOOTING miracles your phone is capable of, as well as the quick and easy ENHANCING options that are at your fingertips as well. And now with the advent of all the mobile apps that are taking advantage of AI, the possibilities are truly endless! From dreamy slow shutter seascapes, to powerful portraits, to starry night skies, to macros, to enhancing challenging landscapes to resuscitating old family photos - this demonstration from award-winning author Jack Davis will not only empower you to take better breathtaking photos RIGHT NOW, but will also show you THE FUTURE of photography that’s knocking at the door! 

Location: Library Auditorium

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Seminar 109

Smart Sell: How to Create, Target and Market Your Work with Angelika Hala, Veronika Lukasova, Robin Rayne, Micki Strand; Moderator: Evan Jane Kris

Join these panelists as they discuss methods to effectively market your work.  Before you can start an effective marketing campaign, you must be sure you have defined your style and that you have a great portfolio of work ready to show.

Know your market – target your clients, know that the work that they do is compatible with the work that you do – do your research. Look at their websites, and/or their print publications. What you want to do is to show the client that your work reflects their aesthetic, their brand, and demonstrate your expertise and value to their organization.

Location: Studio 2

Seminar 110

The Photobook: Using Word, Image and Design to Tell Your Story by Daile Kaplan

Contemporary photographers recognize the photobook as a dynamic art form, a platform in which craft and technology seamlessly merge on the printed page. This illustrated lecture will introduce classic and contemporary monographs by a range of artists and photographers who’ve published some of the most enduring monographs. Their photobooks tell powerful stories and encourage the reader to enjoy a special sensory experience. Learn about the pleasures of the photobook and see photography differently.

Location: Clematis Room

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Master Workshop 409

Getting Comfortable Photographing Strangers with Peggy Peattie

We look at, and discuss, examples of the different scenarios in which we might be photographing strangers. In my case that means individuals experiencing homelessness or other vulnerabilities, people at protests, street photography, portraits, events, etc. We then interrogate what it is that makes us uncomfortable taking pictures in these situations, and discuss how to manage and reframe that discomfort.  We then head out and practice what we have learned.

Takeaways: Participants will identify their own inner resistance. We will do some role playing, then do an activity and rejoin to discuss our experiences as well as what lessons will guide our work going forward.

Critique Thursday 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM

Location: Digital Lab 2

2:30 PM - 5:30 PM: Master Workshop 410

Advanced Lightroom: Local Adjustments, The Key to Power with Jean Miele
with Jean Miele

If you’ve been limiting yourself to overall image adjustments in Lightroom, or if you think Lightroom isn’t for “serious” photographers, you’ve been using it wrong. ;-) Learn how Lightroom’s super-powerful local adjustment tools can help you get the most out of your RAW files. Lightroom’s Masks: Linear Gradient/Radial Gradient/Brushes are the keys to power in Lightroom, and if they’re not a primary part of your workflow, you’re missing out. Learn how to re-direct attention where you want the viewer to look, and to make your pictures really “sing.”

Location: Digital Lab 1

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Community Event 605

Self-Publishing for Photographers with Daniel Milnor

Photographer, explorer, and avid self-publisher Daniel Milnor, Blurb’s “Creative Evangelist” will provide insight into how to approach self-publishing for both personal and professional needs. Milnor, who has self-published since the early 1990s, both experimental and award-winning, will give tips on how best to enjoy the self-publishing process in addition to how to strategically utilize the wide range of options available today. From books to Zines, he will walk through formats, software, and pricing strategies for projects of all sizes. Milnor will also show an assortment of case studies illustrating how self-publishing works for a variety of authors.

You will leave this lecture with an understanding of basic self-publishing options, but more importantly, with an understanding of print in general and why print is such a strategic and entertaining aspect of photography.

Location: Library Auditorium

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM: Special Event S2

FOTOfusion Awards Dinner

Each year, the PBPC Awards Committee selects a photographer to receive the FOTOmentor Award in honor of his/her lifetime achievements in the world of photography.  Among the previous recipients of this prestigious award are Ruth Bernhard, Joyce Tenneson, Carol Guzy, Ralph Gibson, Duane Michals, Arnold Newman, Gordon Parks, Sebastiao Salgado, Douglas Kirkland and Maggie Steber.

FOTOmentor Award

Keith Carter

The recipient of the Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s FOTOmentor Award during FOTOfusion 2023, Keith Carter has explored time, place, and vernacular culture for over 50 years, as well as having been exhibited in over 115 solo exhibitions in 13 countries. Sixteen monographs of his work have been published, along with two documentary films: Keith Carter: The Artist Series, and Ted Forbes and A Certain Alchemy, Anthropy Arts. A new monograph, Ghostlight, was just published by the University of Texas Press, which released Keith Carter/Fifty Years in 2018. He also contributed to nine other anthologies and received the Lange-Taylor Prize in 1991 from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Texas Medal of Arts in 2009.

Described as a “Poet of the Ordinary” by The Los Angeles Times, his work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and is included in numerous private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the George Eastman House, and more. For mor information, please visitwww.keithcarterphotographs.com.

Cocktail and dinner party starting at 6:30 pm at the Photo Centre's Museum

Admission

$200.00 - General Admision

$100.00 - Gold Passport

Location: Museum

Thursday, January 26, 2023

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Master Workshop 412

The Develop Module in Lightroom Classic CC with John Reuter

Adobe Leverages AI to Bring Masking to a Whole New Level

This is what we have been asking for since the early days of Lightroom, Photoshop-level masking tools to make precise selections for image correction and enhancement.

AI masking is being upgraded with new tools such as Select People, Select Objects, and one-click Select Background. The Select People feature can automatically detect and create layer masks in high detail. The face, body, skin, eyes, teeth, lips, hair, and more can be detected with a single click, eliminating the time-consuming need to carefully create your own masks. Once these masks are created you have access to a full set of development tools such as color temperature, the entire set of exposure controls, and the presence controls such as texture, clarity, and "de-haze."

Select Objects will similarly detect and mask objects in Lightroom using the Brush Select tool. AI will then automatically refine the edges of your selection to create a mask, which can detect fine details such as stray hair and eyelashes. One-Click Select Background will use a similar AI-powered feature to eradicate the need to invert a mask of a subject to change its backdrop, allowing you to directly generate a background mask with a single click.

Lightroom CC is more capable than ever, so you don’t want to miss this chance to see new features in action.

Location: Digital Lab 2

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Seminar 117

Write Your Ultimate Artist Statement with Jari Poulin

You will write a compelling artist statement that can be used on your website, PR, your bio, and in exhibitions. Learn to describe and articulate your work in your artist statement so that others can understand and relate to your intent. You will also learn how to verbally describe your work and photographic practice in one or two sentences so that you will always be prepared when someone asks you to tell them about your work.

Location: Clematis Room

Seminar 118

The New Instant AI Workflow of Photoshop and Lightroom! with Jack “Wow” Davis

By now you’ve heard about some of the incredible features of the new 2023 versions of Lightroom and Photoshop - but what you probably haven’t seen is how to instantly string these new mind-bendingly powerful selecting, enhancing and retouching features together into an all new streamlined workflow! Yes, these AI miracles can be customized and automated to get a HUGE jump on perfecting every photo you will ever edit - on the desktop or even on your phone! Join Jack "Wow" Davis for this game changing lecture on the future of photograph editing - that’s here now!

Location: Studio 2

9:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Master Workshop 413

Secret Life of Plants with Veronika Lukasova

Additional Fee: $15.00

Did you know that plants have rudimentary 'eyes' – a particular way of detecting light?  Join Veronika for a short lecture and then on to Mount’s Botanical Gardens to photograph plants and trees and learn more about what these unsuspicious creatures are capable of. You will create a series of photos of plants in the botanical garden setting including close ups.  You will meet the next day to experiment with the photos creating collages reflecting on the plant powers.

Critique Friday 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM

Location: Iris Room

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Community Event 607

How to Talk and Write About Your Work with Jean

Do you get stuck when people ask you what your photographs are about? This hands-on, everybody-participates, mini workshop will take you beyond talking about the technical details of your photographs, and show you how to describe your work in a direct and meaningful way. In- class exercises will have you engaging people as dynamically with your words as with your pictures.

Location: Library Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Seminar 121

Discovering the Visual Story Behind Decisive Moments with Peggy Peattie

When we are able to anticipate and document the decisive moments in our communities, we are photographing an entry point, not an end point. By asking meaningful questions -- the how and why of engaging emotions like joy, sorrow, awe, and trauma -- we uncover unique, authentic visual narratives.

Takeaways: This seminar discusses reframing moments as entry points into essential visual narratives. We talk about what is essential for respectfully documenting someone's story.

Location: Clematis Room

Seminar 122

The Personal Project: Finding New Creative Paths with Seán Duggan

In this talk, Seán Duggan will discuss the importance of the personal project for cultivating ideas, exploring stories or concepts, learning new techniques, and personal creative growth. Using some of his own projects as examples, as well as those by other photographers, he’ll share ways to find new paths to explore via image making, as well as discovering themes and threads that may already be present in some of your existing images. Both the short term and long term project will be explored, with a look at the benefits and challenges of each.

Location: Studio 2

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Community Event 608

A Thousand Words in One Picture? With Angelika Hala

Think of one photograph that moved you deeply.  What do you see? A person, a building, a tree, a street scape? Or does the photograph feel like an experience, does it inform you, does it make you curious, does it invite you to explore, to investigate?

Photographs can be powerful narrative tools:  they can be documentary or journalistic, they can inform the viewer and bring understanding to the world around us and inside ourselves.

I invite you to explore with me photography as a storytelling medium, from single image to a multi-photograph narrative.  I will share with you a variety of examples of photojournalism and documentary photography, portrait series and from conceptual photography.

My goal is to inspire you and to encourage you to find your unique narrative voice in your photographic work.

Location: Library Auditorium

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Computer Lab 306

Monochrome Moods with George Schaub

Author and editor George Schaub has written numerous books on monochrome digital photography, as well as exhibited his monochrome prints in various galleries and museums.   In this hands-on computer workshop Schaub shares his Photoshop processing techniques, with an emphasis on conversion, tonal control and selective adjustments using Adobe Camera Raw, which allows for a wide array of interpretations and moods for subjects ranging from portraits to architecture to abstract nature studies. Emphasis will be placed on “filling the gamut” to aid in the creation of vivid prints. This is a hands-on workshop so attendees should come with a good selection of their own images and an idea of how they might want to interpret them.

Level: Intermediate. A basic knowledge of Photoshop navigation is required.

Location: Digital Lab 1

Portfolio Review / Tech Center P3

FOTOfusion Portfolio Reviews

Bring your portfolio for top photographers, picture editors and other pros in the business to evaluate your work.

Portfolio reviews are available Wednesday through Saturday, from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Register 1 day in advance for each portfolio review. If there is availability, you may sign up the same day. Times may vary, so consult the individual daily schedule for exact times.

You may request a portfolio review with a specific artist. To schedule a review with a specific artist, go to the portfolio review area to see the schedule. Please do this before the artist's schedule fills up. Individual artists are scheduled for certain day(s) and time(s) and are only available when they are scheduled.

Location: Museum

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Event 502

A Life in Photography by Joyce Tenneson

This will be a rare opportunity to share a personal walk through Joyce Tenneson’s journey, not only as a photographer, but as someone who has had a lifelong interest in teaching and empowering others.

Joyce says: “The isolation of the Covid Period gave me the opportunity not only to create a new body of work, but also to put together this collection of my very best work done over the past forty years.”

I hope you will all join us for this intimate walk through Tenneson’s life and career!

Location: Library Auditorium

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM: FOTOshoot 212

Capture the Action of a Polo Match with Adam Stoltman

Learn to anticipate action, hone your reflexes, and sharpen your skills at a Palm Beach area polo match. Join 30-year veteran sports photographer Adam on a live sports shoot and get on-site instruction in how to cover action first hand. There will be a review and discussion of the images produced. Attend a live event with this veteran of 10 Olympic Games and former Deputy Picture Editor for Sports Illustrated.

Location: Courtyard

2:00 PM - 4:30 PM: FOTOshoot 213

Shoot The Garden Environment at Pans Garden with Jill Enfield

Learn to analyze visual content to capture images in a way you want them presented to the viewer with renowned fine arts photographer Jill Enfield. Enfield will clearly convey composition techniques such as Leading Lines, Rule of Thirds, Depth of Field and more with 20 different tips, in a comprehensive PowerPoint illustrated with many beautiful photos from accomplished photographers. At Pan’s Garden you will practice the many lessons you have learned; discuss your images with Enfield as she guides you to improve them.   Bring any camera you prefer to use, from a film camera, to digital to a camera phone.

Location: Iris Room

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Community Event 610

Chile in September with photographs by Raymond Depardon and David Burnett with Robert Pledge

On September 11 of 1973, a military coup overthrew a freely elected president and his administration in a country with the second oldest constitution in the Americas, after that of the USA. Robert Pledge was an intrepid journalist who had visited Chile two years earlier with French photographer Raymond Depardon. He successfully encouraged David Burnett, a young American photographer recently back from Vietnam, to go and witness the immediate aftermath of the most brutal takeover. Fifty years later, he is bringing together for the first time the work by the two now famed photojournalists along with a few iconic images by Chilean photographers, to produce a book about the frailty of democracy and the preciousness of the rule of law.

Location: Library Auditorium

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Seminar 125

Dive Into the World of Virtual Production with Alan Winslow

LED Walls, Unreal Machine, Unity, photogrammetry.  The world of photography is ever-changing, which can be intimidating to any photographer.  n this Q&A-based lecture, Winslow will discuss the new groundbreaking technology and how you can incorporate it into your practice.

Location: Clematis Room

Seminar 126

How to Navigate the Changing Media Marketplace with Richard Liebowitz

Learn your value as visual communicators to brands, publishers and companies seeking to use visual content to create a compelling message to their audience.  Your role in creating, shaping and distributing content as core messaging.  How to maintain ownership and possession of key rights associated with the act of creation throughout the publication and distribution processes.

Location: Clematis Room

Computer Lab 307

Retouching in Photoshop with Ben Willmore

Discover what is unique about each of Photoshop's retouching tools and learn how they can best be used together to accomplish any retouching challenge. Your guide is someone who has used Photoshop from the first day it was available and has written over a dozen books on the topic, which have been translated into 9 languages.

Location: Digital Lab 1

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Master Workshop 414

Expanding Your Creativity with Time/Motion Techniques with Lewis Kemper

During this master class you will have the opportunity to learn and try techniques for adding motion to your still images. Today’s outdoor photographer has many options for expanding their creativity beyond that of a simple exposure. Using techniques such as Long Exposures, both day and night, we can now make photographs that dazzle the viewer. By using strong neutral density filters in the day, we can capture motion in still images. Familiar subjects such as water and clouds will be totally different.

Time lapse allows us to condense time and show a view of our world that is lost to the normal observer. You will learn how to shoot time lapse and process your time lapse sequence. Lewis covers how to use an intervalometer and bulb timers for long exposures and for time lapse whether it be an external device, or one built into your camera.

Going beyond the static still image, you can create amazing photographs applying Time/Motion techniques to your still images.

Part one of the class will be a presentation by Lewis of the various techniques.

Part two will be a field session where we practice the techniques
Part three will be a review of the images and any additional needed instruction.

You must have at least 15 stops of Neutral Density Filters for this field session.

Critique Friday 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Location: Iris Room

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Community Event 611

Magnificent Mangroves with Matt Stock

Miami based artist Matt Stock has been obsessed with photographing mangroves for a decade. Matt’s photographic process is inherently experimental: wet plate collodion, lumen prints, and studio lighting the wetlands at night are all a part of Matt’s photographic practice in the field. He has waded through swamps, oceans, and everything in between from sunrise to midnight in search of these visually captivating and unique subjects in order to literally and metaphorically shed light on them. Join Matt as he takes you on a journey through the wetlands to see mangroves as a source of inspiration and beauty in both the daytime and late into the night.

Location: Library Auditorium

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Seminar 129

The Photograph Transformed with Andrea Modica

In this lecture and discussion, Andrea Modica will investigate how the content of a body of photographic work is affected by its presentation. We will ponder how meaning fundamentally changes when we present images as fine art prints, on a screen, in an exhibition, or as a physical book. She will present her two most recent projects, both of which have been presented as exhibitions and books: 2020 (TIS, 2021) and Theatrum Equorum (TIS 2022).

Location: Clematis Room

Seminar 130

Creating the Photography Zine - (Photography + Bookmaking = Zine making) with David Milnor

The term “‘Zine,” refers to a small-circulation, self-published, underground, or informal magazine. The “Zine,” has been around for decades but has recently exploded in popularity. Zines are often referred to as “democratized” publishing due to their informal and inexpensive nature. You will need to bring a laptop computer and will need to install Blurb Bookwright prior to the class. You should also bring enough images with you to be able to put together a short photo essay (picture package) from your images. You will learn the software required to create your Zine. (Blurb Bookwright, free and easy.) and then you will be able to design and build your own Zine utilizing the Blurb software. (Daniel will provide each participant a code for a free Zine.)

Location: Studio 2

Computer Lab 308

Photoshop Portrait Retouch with Mickey Strand

In this 3-hour hands-on portrait retouching class, students join Mickey on the adventure of taking the captured portrait to maximum storytelling within that one 125th of a sec. Editing that decisive moment capture, to create a timeless image.

Once an image is captured, we will edit the image with some of the most powerful tools in Photoshop, Learn to bring out the best of what RAW data the camera captured.

If you're new to Adobe Photoshop, this class will take you through the basics of editing and the tools needed to get the best results.  We will use Adjustment and Smart Layers.  We will demonstrate why and how to use adjustment layers, blending modes, layer masks, and brushes to get better portraits. We will even talk about how Frequency separation can benefit your editing toolbox.  We will talk about your RAW images.
Editing the human face is not hard you just have to care to get the best from your portraits.

Location: Digital Lab 1

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Community Event 612

Photography is Life Changing with Brendan Bannon

What do refugee children, combat veterans, jazz musicians and HIV+ Children have in common? Photographer Brendan Bannon talk about how his community collaborations and educational workshops have led to durable changes in the lives of individuals and have strengthened communities at home and abroad.

Brendan began photographing in his early 30’s to navigate depression and exhaustion. His practice draws on the lessons he learned in that process and in his work as a caregiver through his mothers’ battle with Multiple Sclerosis. “Photography offered new pathways for engagement in my life. I try to pay it forward with community projects, in the relationships I forge and the stories I tell,” said Brendan.

Brendan will share the inspiring stories behind his pictures and the pictures his students have made over the last two decades.

Location: Library Auditorium

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Special Event S3

Opening Reception of Keith Carter's Museum Exhibition

Keith Carter is the recipient of the Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s FOTOmentor Award during FOTOfusion 2023.

Location: Museum

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM: FOTOshoot 214

Night Life at the Fair with David McIntyre

Additional Fee: $20.00

The South Florida Fair has a vibe and speed of its own.  Feature and cultural story expert David McIntyre, is the man to guide you. Taking you on a Night time Carnival Adventure at the one and only local winter event! Learn how to experiment with fill flash for portraits and work available light for candid moments, focusing on features. Fair lighting can be tricky yet fun. David who is an Olympic game veteran will teach you his tricks to capture motion in this changing fast fair environment. While also spending time looking for feature elements to create a story, for a Night to remember!

Location: Courtyard

Friday, January 27, 2023

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Master Workshop 418

Selections & Masking in Photoshop with Ben Willmore

Learn to isolate everything from the simplest object to the most complex. We'll start with some basics just to make sure you aren't missing a critical concept, then we'll advance to selecting furry, fuzzy and hairy objects before learning how to remove the background on translucent object such as a glass of water.

Location: Digital Lab 1

8:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Master Workshop 419

Portraiture and Lighting with J. Tomas Lopez

Additional Fee: $30.00

Ansel Adams famously compared the photographic process to music, with the negative being the score and the print the interpretation or playing of that score. With that said, it makes sense to understand that to adhere to an obstinate philosophy that cropping, restaging, burning, dodging, blurring is heresy or somehow not kosher is absurd. Picasso said that “an artist makes the lie believable”. In this class we will take the portrait through a rigorous evolution. Beginning with the shoot, which will take into consideration the possible manipulations that are possible in post-production to editing the image and finally to the fine art print. This workshop will give participants an excellent re-learning of Fine Art Portraiture.

Lecture – Examples of Low Key, High Key, Ratios, Posing
Shoot – How to shoot – allowing for post shoot editing and interpretation
Post-Production Choices: Editing/Altering/Printing

Computer Session Friday 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Location: Studio 1

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Seminar 133

How Do You? Ask The Editors/Photographers/Gallerists… with Dennis Dimmick, Angelika Hala, Micki Strand, Alan Winslow; Moderator: Evan Jane Kriss

Workshops present a unique opportunity to tap into the collective expertise of many photo editors, photographers and gallerists.  Attend this panel to ask those questions you may have always wanted answered, such as how to get ideas and inspiration, how to pitch a story, how to propose an exhibit, how to get hired, how to expertly execute a photo shoot, or anything else you always wanted to know.

Location: Studio 2

Seminar 134

Capturing the beauty of the Milky Way and the Night Sky with Lewis Kemper

Night sky and Milky Way images present many challenges for photographers.  There are 4 ways to capture the night sky. A single image at high ISO and relatively short exposures; multiply images at very high ISO and short exposures, which then get stacked in special software; and tracking, using a mechanical device to move the camera in sync with the stars, allowing for long exposures at low ISO; and creating star trails by either stacking multiple images or photographing for extended time periods. Lewis will explain each technique and talk about their advantages and disadvantages. Lewis will also be demonstrating post processing techniques he has learned over the years, saving you much time and experimentation.

Location: Clematis Room

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Community Event 613

In Public: 50 Years of Street Photography with George Schaub

In 2022, photographer and editor George Schaub self-published “In Public, George Schaub Photographs 1970-2020.” Illustrated with his images and captioned by readings from his book, Schaub will share his techniques for making candid and “direct” (one-on-one) street portraits, including tips on engaging subjects, framing and compositional setups and taking advantage of fruitful venues. Schaub’s attitude is that all photography is autobiographical and that the spontaneous images we make of our fellow humans are indicative of a shared space and serve as mirrors that help us both express and understand our own unique worldview. (“In Public” Blurb Books: ISBN 9798210036995 www.blurb.com)

Location: Library Auditorium

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Master Workshop 420

The Lyrical Portrait with Sal Taylor Kydd

Additional Fee: $15.00

Participants will engage with writing and photography in this workshop geared around creating a deeper connection with your subject. You work in pairs to learn about each other’s personal story, asking each other questions to inspire a creative piece of writing. You will then go on location and work on photographing each other to create a portrait to go with the text. Learning something of each other through the writing will help you focus your photographic approach, and the process of being photographed likewise helps you build empathy and trust in your subjects. Sal will also be sharing some of her own work and process in helping students understand how to create that connection between text and image.

Critique Saturday 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM

Location: Iris Room

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Seminar 137

From Self-assignment to the Today show! With Mickey Strand

Mickey is currently photographing members of America's Greatest Generation, The Veterans of World War II.  Mickey will discuss the steps it took to get from a self-assignment to a body of work to a featured museum show, online feature articles, news stories, and then to a feature on the Today show interview with Harry Smith.  Mickey will take you through the growth of his personal project.

Location: Clematis Room

Seminar 138

iPhoneography in 2023 - Pushing the Creative Shooting, Enhancing and Retouching Possibilities! with Jack “Wow” Davis

In this seminar, Jack “Wow” Davis will demonstrate the current state-of-the-art capabilities of our omnipresent "creative partner": our beloved iPhone! From making detailed giant prints from high rez raw files (from the new iPhone 14 Pros, or even from older models), to amazing automated AI retouching (that’s often better than what’s even possible on the desktop!) to exploring the controversial world of AI assisted art (but where your photography forms the basis of the creations) - all this in a fast-paced demo of new indispensable possibilities!

Location: Studio 2

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Community Event 614

Four Photo Legends Lost This Year

with: Dr. Anthony Bannon, David Burnett, Scott Mc Kiernan, Robert Pledge

Four Photo Legends Lost This Year

Location: Library Auditorium

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Computer Lab 310

Photoshop Selections & Masking with Seán Duggan

This introductory class covers essential concepts and techniques for working with selections and masks in Photoshop. We’ll cover the most important selection tools, including the new AI-assisted selection tools. Then we’ll explore ways to refine selections using the Select & Mask workspace, as well as other techniques, so they’re as good as possible. From selections we’ll venture into the world of layer masks and alpha channels, which can be used for everything from applying tonal adjustments to specific parts of a photo, to creating composites from multiple image sources.

Location: Digital Lab 1

Portfolio Review / Tech Center P4

FOTOfusion Portfolio Reviews

Bring your portfolio for top photographers, picture editors and other pros in the business to evaluate your work.

Portfolio reviews are available Wednesday through Saturday, from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Register 1 day in advance for each portfolio review. If there is availability, you may sign up the same day. Times may vary, so consult the individual daily schedule for exact times.

You may request a portfolio review with a specific artist. To schedule a review with a specific artist, go to the portfolio review area to see the schedule. Please do this before the artist's schedule fills up. Individual artists are scheduled for certain day(s) and time(s) and are only available when they are scheduled.

Location: Museum

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Event 503

“Only A Little Planet…” with Keith Carter

A look at our history of “writing with light,” our own shared histories, and the search for meaning in a tumultuous, occasionally puzzling, and often eloquent world.

Location: Library Auditorium

2:15 PM - 5:00 PM: FOTOshoot 215

The Art of the Horse with Shane Srogi and Alan Winslow

From cave painting to the earliest days of photography, horses have been the subject of artists.  Learn a classic and modern approach to photographing horses from Shane Srogi and Alan Winslow.  Both have extensive experience with long-term projects in this time-honored pursuit.  We will be on location in the heart of the equine world, Wellington, Florida.  Poinciana Farm is an Olympic-level training facility and one of the newest in the area.  Students will be able to make portraits in this peaceful environment, learning the ins and outs involved in the art of the horse.  Then, we will up the ante and challenge students to capture the rhythm and movement between horse and rider in a dressage training session.

Location: Courtyard

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Community Event 616

NUCLEAR: From Cold War to Deep Time with Veronika Lukasova

Growing up in communism in the Czechoslovak Socialistic Republic, the threat of nuclear war posed a very vivid future. I've tried to make sense of this invisible awesome power whilst elementary school rehearsals of the safety response to the nuclear attack. The weight of this feeling and need to understand it led me many years later to stand on the precise location of where the first atomic bomb was tested - the Trinity Site which at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Understanding the subatomic world - and how can we relate to it - became my obsession that led me to fully embrace working at the intersection of art-science as an artist and academic.

Location: Library Auditorium

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Seminar 141

Women and Photography with Jill Enfield, Angelika Hala, Jari Pulin, Joyce Tenneson; Moderator Daile Kaplan

Hear from some of the most exciting voices in our field in this panel, which addresses the central role of women in defining photography. From the beginning artists and amateurs have animated a broad spectrum of practices. Documentary, editorial and fine art photographers – both well-known and anonymous – have contributed to photography as an innovative form of creative expression. Today, especially, women are fostering new ideas about photography in a host of exhibitions, photobooks and digital projects.

Location: Studio 2

Seminar 142

What You Can Learn by Turning the Lens Inward with Peggy Peattie

Working with student photographers before, during and after the pandemic lockdown presented an opportunity to re-evaluate the idea that documentary photography work is necessarily outside of our own lived experience, and exclusively involves immersion into someone else's reality.

Takeaways: Participants will see student work that reflects the depth of visual acumen resulting from creative freedom and documenting their own realities. We discuss the value of insider positionality.

Location: Clematis Room

Computer Lab 311

From Almost To “Wow!” / Lightroom Workshop with Jean Miele

Want to take your pictures from “Almost” to “WOW!”? If we all use the same tools (cameras, light, computers), why do some photographers produce consistently exceptional work? Because they understand the magic necessary to transform what’s in front of the camera into a stunning photograph. In this 90-minute hands-on computer-workshop Jean ‘Gino’ Miele will share some of his Lightroom secrets for creating stronger, more striking images, and help you take your work to the next level.

Location: Digital Lab 1

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Master Workshop 421

Creating the Picture Package with Daniel Milnor

The term “picture package” derives from the journalism world and refers to a three to five-picture “package” of images that tells a complete story. These picture packages are then combined to tell a much larger story through a complete photo essay. (Using Miami as an example, you might create a picture package from South Beach another from Little Havana and another from the art district then combine them to tell the story of the city of Miami itself).  The ability to create a picture package is helpful to photographers at any level, especially when faced with limited time at a location or scene or when traveling from place to place while on vacation. Creating picture packages helps tell a story instead of creating sets of random images. We start with a lecture to show you how to build a picture package quickly and creatively, covering the visual bases while allowing the individuality of the photographer to shine through.  We then head out on the field where you will shoot your own picture package applying the principles you just learned. We will meet the following day for a critique of the work created.

Critique Saturday 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM

Location: Studio

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Community Event 617

Stories That Need to be Told: The best of zReportage in 2022 by Ruaridh Stewart

Witness the most important events of 2022 and other stories in pictures though the lens of ZUMA Press photographers from around the world.

Location: Library Auditorium

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Seminar 145

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, Ways Photographers can generate revenue through social media platforms with Richard Liebowitz

Learn about the ways journalists are using social media to brand themselves and make money while also balancing what they are putting online. What is the future of social media? Where do you see it going? Are digital marketplaces here to stay? A fun, exciting, and interactive lecture!

Location: Studio 2

Seminar 146

Adobe Premiere Pro: Introduction to Video Editing for Photographers with John Reuter

It seems every digital still camera produced today has extraordinary video capabilities that would have been only available on professional cinema cameras several years ago. From the pioneering Canon 5D Mk2 over a decade ago to the latest phones from Apple and Android the moving image is something available to all image makers. Many phones offer limited editing programs to quickly trim your videos and upload them to social media sites. If you are taken by these possibilities, you eventually will want to utilize a program that can offer you more control over the editing process. We are choosing Adobe’s Premiere Pro, because of its cross-platform performance and tight integration to Adobe’s Creative Suite.  This will aid in learning the program.

I will introduce you to Premiere Pro, detailing the multiple processing modules such as Assembly, Editing, Color, Graphics and Export. The beauty of Premiere is that it can seamlessly handle footage from high end cinema cameras, DSLRs, mirrorless cameras and your phone, all on the same timeline.

I will demonstrate how best to set up your project in Premiere for efficiency and how to import your video, audio, and even still images to create a short film.  The seminar will detail how to create edit points for longer footage and place them on a timeline, how to place clips in relation to one another, move them around, create transitions, color correct and color grade, work with audio and music and finally how to export your video for a variety of platforms. This seminar is designed for still photographers who want to explore the possibilities of the moving image with the existing equipment they have from DSLRs to iPhones and everything in between.

Location: Studio 2

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Community Event 618

Photographic Life Lessons with Mark Maio

Whichever point we are in our photographic journey, the tendency is to concentrate on which camera, lens, software or plugin we think we need to make better photographs. While the tools we use are important, what we see, feel and say through them is even more important. Going beyond the technical aspects of image making and using his dual career in photography (medical/technical imaging & fine art photography), Mark will discuss how each half of his photographic life contributed to the photographic life lessons that have shaped his vision and voice.

Location: Library Auditorium

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM: FOTOshoot 216

Downtown at Nighttime with Matt Stock

This walking tour is designed for photographers who have always wanted to photograph at night but have not had the guidance to make it happen. Led by Matt Stock, an award winning experienced night photographer who’s motto is “carpe noctem” or “seize the night”. The downtown nighttime walking tour will be scheduled from 5pm-8pm with a 30 minute lecture prior and will take participants from the Photo Centre down towards the waterfront. We will focus on seeing light, shutter speed choices, composition, and spontaneous opportunities for building rapport with subjects for evening portraits. Tripods are recommended but not required. 

Location: Iris Room

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Special Event S4

FREE EVENT: FOTOvision- The Year in Pictures: 2022 by Scott Mc Kiernan/Zuma Press

at County Commission Chambers

Eight Edition of FOTOvision by Scott Mc Kiernan

Join us for this FREE evening event and experience photography from across the globe.   

World renown picture editor and photo-journalist Scott Mc Kiernan presents 365: a Visual Review of 2022, Photography that ran moments after shot year long on ThePicturesOftheDay.com. Images from more than 60 countries.

After ZUMA Press movie, there will be Q&A on the imagery and highlights of 2022. It is a not to be missed visual tour de force!

Then, witness amazing work by internationally acclaimed FOTOfusion faculty and hear first-hand from those who created it.

Top Ten Headlines of the Turbulent Year of 2022:

February 24th: Russia Invades Ukraine
May 24th: Uvlade, Texas 19 little Children senselessly killed
June 9th: JAN 6 Hearings Begin. Will anything come of them?
July 13th: Inflation reaches a 40-year high. Is worst yet to come?
September 8th: Queen Elizabeth a Live well lived ends at 96
November 2th: Greed: FTX $8 Billion Ponzie King Sam Bankman Fall Begins
November 8th: Republicans Takeover Congress, Yet not Senate
December 8th: BRITTNEY GRINER in Russian-USA prisoner swap
December 16th: Avatar Redux: New Box Office King, again
December 18th: World Cup Mania Ends: Long Live King Messi.

Location: Other

Saturday, January 28, 2023

8:00 AM - 10:30 AM: FOTOshoot 219

Street Candid and Event Photography Tools and Tips with George Schaub

Join experienced street and event photographer and editor George Schaub on assignment at the Susan B Komen “More Than Pink Walk” in downtown West Palm Beach, a meaningful and very fun event that is filled with spirit and costumes and camaraderie, and a perfect venue for honing skills or starting out on candid street photography. We’ll meet for an hour on Friday at 12:00 noon to cover gear and technique:  lenses, flash, camera settings, fill cards, finding and posing groups and individual subjects, etc. Schaub will be on hand throughout the event to provide posing and other tips.

Location: Courtyard

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Master Workshop 424

The New Instant AI Workflow of Photoshop and Lightroom with Jack Davis

Back Live! To attend this three-hour hands-on lab class by Jack “Wow” Davis, you must first attend Jack’s FOTOfusion lecture of the same name. In this workshop, you will experience first-hand the miracles that Adobe has built into the latest versions of their industry-leading tools--both for the desktop and for mobile devices, with an emphasis on how to instantly string these new mind-bendingly powerful selecting, enhancing, and retouching features together into an all-new streamlined workflow! Yes, these AI miracles can be customized and automated to get a HUGE jump on perfecting every photo you’ll ever edit - from portraits to landscapes to creative composites! Join Jack for this game-changing class on the future of photograph editing - that you’ll experience up close and personal now!

Seminar 118 is a prerequisite for this workshop.

Location: Digital Lab 2

8:15 AM - 11:30 AM: FOTOshoot 220

Butterfly Beauties with Alan Winslow

Additional Fee: $30.00

Join photographer Alan Winslow in South Florida's Butterfly World, the extraordinary world-famous ten-acre site where thousands of live, exotic butterflies live, surrounded by acres of waterfalls, orchids, roses, tropical gardens, and hummingbirds.

Location: Courtyard

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Seminar 149

The Ghosts of Silo City with Mark Maio

Early in Mark’s life as a photographer, he gravitated to exotic or popular locations around the world previously used as subjects by photographers he was trying to emulate. While the results of these trips produced technically good photographs, they never seemed to convey anything he felt or wanted to say about what he was photographing. It wasn’t until twenty-five years ago that he came to realize he needed to know something about what he was photographing before he could convey that through his images. This presentation of a project done over a ten-year period of a subject he had access to year round, will offer an alternative of “photographing in your own backyard” to the destination photography trip.

Location: Clematis Room
 
Seminar 150

iPhoneography Editing in a Snap! with Jari Poulin

For those that want to unleash the power of an array of photo editing apps.  This seminar will outline some of the most useful features of the top photo editing apps including Snapseed, PS Express, Afterlight and more.  Learn how to quickly and beautifully turn your iPhone images into stunning work that stands out in a crowd.

Location: Studio 2

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Community Event 619

The Art of Silence: Ben Martin meets Marcel Marceau with Robert Pledge

Late world-renown French mime Marcel Marceau equated photography with his own artform: “an art of silence.” This spring the National Arts Club in New York will celebrate the centenary of his birth with an exhibition of photographs by Ben Martin produced over several years in close collaboration with the great stage-performer. The book Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, first published in 1978, will be released once again by Pomegranate Press. Martin was a Time-Life photographer who, according to the New York Times, captured "evocative images that defined the 1960s." He admitted to be “an unashamed fan of Marceau.” The great mime wrote in 1987: “It does not matter when photographs are taken, they instantly border the world of myths, they mirror an intimate reflection of our own personal story, of an imaginary moment.” Martin’s pictures constitute a unique body of work on a most singular artist. Robert Pledge who originally introduced Martin to Marceau will speak about the exceptional relation between them and their intertwined legacies.

Location: Library Auditorium

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Seminar 153

The Creative Thread: Influences and Spirit with Keith Carter, Andrea Modica, Joyce Tenneson; Moderator Adam Stoltman

Each artist forges his or her own path drawing on collective creative energies which have come before them.  In their work, we see the threads of other influences which have guided their evolution and growth.  In this this panel discussion featuring (Names tk), we will delve into this alchemical process with each artist discussing their roots, creative influences, and ways in which this continuum of collective spirit has guided their working process.

Location: Studio 1

Seminar 154

Unlock History: Scanning Film with Digital Cameras with Dennis Dimick

While digital cameras now dominate, some photographers still use film. Many of us have film archives we want to digitize. How to convert film to digital files quickly, and with high quality? Since early 2020, Dennis Dimick has scanned more than 75,000 film negatives and transparencies using digital cameras. In this discussion of tools and techniques, Dennis will share his methods to bring film images into a Lightroom Classic imaging workflow. Besides describing hardware and software tools, he will show examples of images that would remain unseen if it weren’t for camera scanning. Bring your questions!

Location: Clematis Room

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Community Event 620

What Makes a Photo Icon? With Dr. Anthony Bannon

Dr. Anthony Bannon, prize-winning writer and much honored museum director, will tell the story of several photo icons and explore why other fine photographs are not as memorable. In the process, he will identify some of the aesthetic and thematic standards through which excellence in art and culture is recognized. Working with the audience, Bannon will create a checklist of standards that photographers could use in creating great pictures.

Location: Library Auditorium

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Computer Lab 314

Select This! What’s new in Photoshop’s Selections with John Reuter

The latest updates to Photoshop feature many new improvements to the Selections tools. This hands-on seminar will cover these new tools and more. These include the powerful One-Click Delete and Fill and Delete and Fill with the Lasso Tool. This can be much easier to work with than the Content-Aware Fill command on the Edit menu which often requires additional work. Select Subject has been updated to include skies and backgrounds, a nice improvement. You can also send your portrait images to the companion program Camera Raw and utilize all the new AI-enhanced features that can isolate your people images to individual components such as the face, skin, body skin, eyes, lips, and more. This makes beauty retouching incredibly efficient and powerful. We will also look at the new features in Neural filters, specifically Colorize and Photo Restoration. This is such a time saver for those who love to work with old photos or family photos, eliminating the need to create multiple layers with blend modes.

Bring your skill set up to date with these great new features in Photoshop.

Location: Digital Lab 1

Portfolio Review / Tech Center P5

FOTOfusion Portfolio Reviews

Bring your portfolio for top photographers, picture editors and other pros in the business to evaluate your work.

Portfolio reviews are available Wednesday through Saturday, from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Register 1 day in advance for each portfolio review. If there is availability, you may sign up the same day. Times may vary, so consult the individual daily schedule for exact times.

You may request a portfolio review with a specific artist. To schedule a review with a specific artist, go to the portfolio review area to see the schedule. Please do this before the artist's schedule fills up. Individual artists are scheduled for certain day(s) and time(s) and are only available when they are scheduled.

Location: Museum

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Event 504

Butterflies: sixty years of wondering if it’s gonna be Ok with David Burnett

I can’t say for sure that Irving Penn, Alfred Eisenstadt, Margaret Bourke-White, or Mary Ellen Mark might’ve experienced the same kind of little fluttering inner butterflies, which I know I experience every time I’m on my way to a shoot. In particular, where I am on assignment and something special is expected. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t but the dirty little secret is that most photographers, including really competent, accomplished, great image makers still get a case of the butterflies even en route to the kind of gig they’ve done a dozen times. Harnessing those butterflies and making pictures in spite of them, is what it’s all about to me.

Location: Library Auditorium

1:00 PM - 4:30 PM: FOTOshoot 221

On Location: The Creative Nude with Andrea Modica

Additional Fee: $275.00

One of today’s most important image-makers, Andrea Modica, will demonstrate what it takes to create poignant and meaningful portraits and nude photographs. You will explore how to capture the nude in a way that reflects the essence of the subject and expresses your unique viewpoint, both as a person and a photographer.

Location: Courtyard

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Community Event 622

Looking at Photographs: Practice Makes Perfect by Daile Kaplan

Photography is an ongoing creative process that encourages you to reexamine your motivations and ideas. This illustrated lecture will be loaded with stories about the 20th-century most recognizable images, offering fun factoids and anecdotes about the photographers who made them. The talk will inspire photographers, collectors and aficionados alike to reengage with images and connect their personal stories to the bigger picture. See how icons of photography are rich sources for new styles of image-making.

Location: Library Auditorium

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Seminar 157

Image Is My Muse: Experimental and Conceptual Approaches to photography with Veronika Lukasova

I've always led a double life as a photographer. Editorial and documentary photographer by day, experimental surrealist by night (and vice versa).  In this talk, I'll take you on a grand tour of my methods and attitudes to working with the photographic image - from analogue to artificial intelligence by the way of collage and destructive exposure.

Location: Clematis Room

Seminar 158

Adventures in Light Painting with Ben Willmore

Learn to extend your shooting beyond sunset to produce unique images at night. See how various light sources can be used to "paint" light into a scene to produce very unique results. Learn from someone who has been painting with light for more than for darn near four decades.

Location: Studio 2

Computer Lab 315

Using the Masking/Local Adjustment Tools to take your images beyond the ordinary with Lewis Kemper

Recently Adobe made some big changes to Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. These changes make it easier than ever to work on localized areas in your images.

Learn how to use the new features of the masking tools, including: Select Subject and Select Sky Color Range and Luminance Range and how to Intersect and Invert these selections for greater control and the old standbys - Graduated Filter, Adjustment Brush, and the Radial Filter to set your images apart from the crowd. Ansel Adams used to say, “The negative is the score and print is the performance.” In today's digital world, the raw file is the score and your post-processing is the performance. Learn how to use the tools found in both Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom to turn your score into a performance that will dazzle your audiences! Learn how to use these tools to accentuate the stars in your pictures and to control the lighting of your images. Lewis will demonstrate his technique for “flipping the light” to make your subject the strongest visual element in your pictures. Take the ordinary and make it extraordinary with these tips and techniques.

Location: Digital Lab 1

2:30 PM - 6:00 PM: FOTOshoot 222

Portraiture and More at The South Florida Fair with Brendan Bannon

Additional Fee: $20.00

The bright lights, wild characters, lively midway and carnival rides all offer unique opportunities for creative photography. The Fair is a photographer's smorgasbord and Brendan Bannon will be your guide. Looking at the fair offers abundance. Brendan will help you narrow your focus going in and maximize the results of your expedition.

Location: Courtyard

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Community Event 623

The Big Headlines of 2022 with Carol Guzy, Angelika Hala, Evan Kriss, Ruaridh Stewart; moderator: Scott Mc Kiernan

A discussion of some of the year 2022 biggest news, and how it was covered, from the perspective of photographers in the field, an agency, and photo editors.  They discuss how they cover this changing world, while trying to give a voice to those who live in the shadows and tell their stories with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Location: Library Auditorium

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Seminar 161

Using your Archive to Promote your business and navigating the freelance world with Richard Liebowitz

Do you want to enter the freelance photography world? From corporate professionals to recent college graduates, many are fascinated by the idea of setting their own schedule, but what does it take to be a freelance photographer? Owning your archive and controlling what images are put out there on the Internet, come learn what you need to do to succeed as a freelance photographer.

Location: Clematis Room

Seminar 162

Photographing for Photoshop Compositing with Seán Duggan

In this session photographer Seán Duggan discusses how to cultivate a compositing mindset and use compositing techniques for both practical and fantastical applications. This includes the creative considerations involved when choosing existing images for compositing projects or making new photos for a composite idea. Seán will discuss techniques and strategies for both studio and location for capturing the photographs you need to create a specific composite you have in mind, or for your personal library of stock images that may have potential in future composites. He will also review some simple post-processing techniques for creating different types of composites in Photoshop.

Location: Studio 2

Computer Lab 316

Making the Perfect Print, From Photoshop to the RIP with J Thomas Lopez

In this step-by-step, hands-on demonstration, professor and former Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Miami will address every step of the printing process, and explain why each step is crucial. From paper choice to image manipulation and printer setting, you’ll leave with a complete understanding of the process you need to follow to produce a perfect print.

Location: Digital Lab 1

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Community Event 624

Style Elements in Cuban Photography 1860-1960 with Ramiro Fernandez

This visual photographic presentation dives into the aspects of style in this personal collection of Cuban Photography spanning over 40 years in the making Spanning 100 years of diversity of subject matter technique, and format. Photographers Included:  Samuel A. Cohner, Armand of Havana and KORDA.  This will be an over the shoulder look at a book in progress. It will include photos from the fields of Studio Portraiture, Daily/Family Life, Sports and Revolution.

Location: Library Auditorium

5:30 PM - 9:00 PM: FOTOshoot 223

The Everglades by night with Matt Stock

Acclaimed South Florida environmental photographer Matt Stock will lead this hands on workshop photographing in what he calls “...the best part of South Florida, the Everglades.” Matt has spent years photographing the Everglades at a time when most photographers put their cameras away: the night. Matt has won numerous awards throughout his career based on his unique nighttime photography including Artist-in-Residence at Biscayne National Park and the Palm Beach Photographic Centre. Join him in this hands-on workshop exploring the photographic possibilities of the River of Grass from 5:30pm-9pm. Tripods are required. We will meet on location and photograph through golden hour into the nighttime.

Location: Other

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Special Event S5

FOTOfusion Farewell Bash

Join us for dinner and our farewell evening.

Location: Studio

Date: January 24-28, 2023

Location: Palm Beach PhotoGraphic Centre - 415 Clematis Street West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Cost: Free

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