Fri Apr 9 - Dinner & Dialogue - Photography New York Now with Julian Cox and William Boling

Presentation is free and begins at 4:00 pm. 3 course prix fixe dinner at the Hil Restaurant for $30 begins at 6:15 pm, must RSVP.

Topic: Photography New York: Now
Cox and Boling are just back from their whirlwind tour of NYC's AIPAD (The Assoc. of International Photography Art Dealers) show, and will share their favorite images, rare finds, trends and overview of what is current with photography dealers and galleries. Discussion includes works from the AIPAD showcase, ICP, the Metropolitan Museum and many more. Enjoy an interactive discussion rich with images, then join Cox and Boling at Serenbe's Hil restaurant for fine food and continued discussion.
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About the Speakers:
Julian Cox is Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the author of several books, essays, and articles on the medium ranging from historical to contemporary practice. Atlanta is lucky to have Julian Cox leading the High Museum's Photography collections and exhibitions for the last five years. British expatriate Cox is a leading national and international authority on photography, photography history and print collecting, having trained under Weston Naef at the Getty Museum in LA.
 
William Boling is a photographer and collector based in Atlanta and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Advisory Board of The Serenbe Photography Center. Bill, a Rome Georgia native, began his art journey studying drawing and painting, then discovered the camera, completing his photographic education with Stephen Shore at Bard College. Today his art practice reflects an eclectic body of work blending visceral visual realtiy with sophisticated concepts including "archive as art" and work with chance and accident, often making image capture in a profoundly intuitive and fresh process. His work is included in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOCA, GA.
 

Fri May 7 - Dinner & Dialogue - with National Geographic contract photographer Peter Essick

Online Registration Now Closed. To Attend Tonight's Lecture Call Kathryn Kolb: 404-862-0110 or to RSVP for Dinner Only Call The Hil Restaurant: 770-463-6040

$65 (includes 3 course dinner at the Hil restaurant in Serenbe Community, presentation only $25) speaker begins at 4:00 pm - dinner begins at 6:30

Topic: Environmental Photography by Peter Essick
Over the past two decades Essick has photographed over 30 stories for National Geographic Magazine, many on natural areas and environmental topics. Hear the accounts and see the images used to illustrate some of the most challenging environmental issues of our times, and how master photographer Peter Essick uses the camera to turn both ground-level reality and sometimes intangible concepts into compelling photographs that teach us all. After the presentation have dinner with Essick and discuss photography with other SPC photographers.

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About the Speaker:
For the past 23 years I have worked as a freelance photojournalist. My main client has been National Geographic magazine, and I have produced more than 30 stories for the magazine on many different topics. I first started at the magazine as a summer intern while studying photojournalism at the University of Missouri.

I have been fortunate to travel to all seven continents in search of compelling pictures.  Some of my favorite and most rewarding stories have been on Inner Japan, the American Wilderness, the Carbon Cycle, Global Warming and Global Freshwater. I am also proud that a story on nuclear waste that I did in 2002 won first prize at World Press Photos in Amsterdam.

Away from the magazine world, my photographs have been included in the Photography, Man and the Environment exhibit at Viterbo, Italy and in Thy Brothers’ Keeper exhibit at the Flint Institute of the Arts, Michigan. In April 2005, Outdoor Photographer magazine did a feature story about my efforts to photograph the effects of global warming. These photos were also seen on The Oprah Show, This Morning with George Stephanopolis and in the movie, An Inconvenient Truth. My photographs have been in Time magazine’s Great Images of the 20th Century and the 100 Best Photographs of National Geographic.

I live in Stone Mountain, GA with my wife, Jackie and nine-year-old son, Jalen.

Fri Jun 4 - Dinner & Dialogue - Vintage Plate Collodion with Todd Vinson

Fee - no charge Join fellow photographers and artists for Todd Vinson's fascinating presentation about the wet plate collodion image-making process. Using glass plate negatives/positives, the wet plate collodion process predates film, but is being used more and more as an extremely creative process for contemporary photographers and artists. Vinson also explains how to make digital prints from WPC negatives. After the presentation join Todd and friends for our a special meal at The Farmhouse at Serenbe, $40 prix fixe.
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For more information or to sign up for Todd's now Saturday only workshop click:

www.serenbephotographycenter.com/civicrm/event/info

Fri Sep 24 - Dinner & Dialogue with Susan Todd-Raque

Lecture and dinner, $67.00. lecture only $25, dinner only $42 (3-course fine family-style dining at the Hil in Serenbe), Lexture begins at 3:30 pm - dinner begins at 5:30

Topic: The Nude in Art and Photography
Independent curator, scholar, writer, lecturer and critic on art history and the photographic arts, Susan Todd-Raque, presents an historical tour of the nude through art and photography. After the presentation have dinner with Ms. Todd-Raque and other SPC photographers.

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About the Speaker:
Susan Todd Raque is an independent scholar, writer, lecturer and critic on art history and the photographic arts, Susan Todd-Raque has taught at The Atlanta College of Art, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Spelman College, and Creative Circus.  She has been the guest lecturer on various subjects in both contemporary and historical art at the High Museum of Art, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, galerieMC, Society for Photographic Education, The Daguerreian Society, Women’s Caucas for Art, Oglethorpe University, and Agnes Scott College.  Her published work includes recently published essays in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), the monograph for “First Light: The Nexus Photographers” as well as numerous freelance articles for Public Art Review, ART PAPERS, Piedmont Review, Views and the Atlanta Photography Group journals.

For more information call 770-463-9098 or email questions to info@serenbephotographycenter.com
 

Fri Oct 22 - Dinner & Dialogue with Frank Hunter - The Platinum-Plladium Process

Lecture only $25, dinner only $30 (3-course fine dining at the Farmhouse in Serenbe), Lecture begins at 3:30 pm - dinner begins at 5:30
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 Frank Hunter shares his vision, process and final images in this engaging talk about the evolution of his photography and the platinum-palladium process, including makeing digital negatives from film originals in order to make larger scale final prints; Then join Hunter for dinner afterward.

About the Speaker:
 Photographer Frank Hunter is justly celebrated for his subtle and expressive Platinum Palladium prints, which are formed through a 19th century photographic printing process that is painstaking and unforgiving, but creates images that are incomparably rich and nuanced. Hunter uses his medium to produce deeply poetic, haunting, and timeless landscapes and still-lifes through this complicated process not for its own sake, but to express fully his visual perceptions. He is the recipient of three Georgia Council for the Arts grants and has garnered wide esteem for his work, which is represented in private, corporate, and museum collections, including Atlanta's High Museum of Art.