Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Thursday, March 23, 2006, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sponsored by Calumet Photographic

Do you sometimes wonder what and how to implement digital photography and Photoshop into your curriculum? This two-day intensive workshop, taught by a leading practitioner, will showcase the latest techniques and the best tools to meet your goals. Learn to work efficiently with your digital camera and Photoshop by eliminating the misconceptions associated with some of these tools and techniques. Your camera scanner and computer should compliment your ability to get work done effectively and efficiently. This workshop is geared toward faculty who would like to bring their digital photography workflow skills up to the next level. Attendees should already know the basic operations of Photoshop CS, input (scanning & camera), output, and digital imaging concepts. This workshop costs $250 and limited space is available.

Patricia Russotti is an artist and, educator who is currently a Professor in the School of Print Media, College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. She has been an RIT faculty member since 1981. Patti is an active digital and photographic imaging artist producing a wide range of work for exhibitions, corporate and private clients. She also provides digital imaging consulting services, develops and presents technical and creative seminars, workshops, and training programs for a wide range of venues both nationally and internationally. Patti received her M.S. and Ed.S. degrees from Indiana University.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Sponsored by Adobe Systems, Inc.

Are you currently, or do you foresee teaching courses in digital imaging, photo manipulation, enhancement and/or illustration with Adobe Photoshop? If so, then this seminar is for you! Let Julieanne Kost, Digital Imaging Evangelist for Adobe Systems, demonstrate an overview of new features, input, output and color management options, resources, communities and training material and Julieanne's favorite five little known digital techniques for photographers.

Julieanne Kost combines a passion for photography with a mastery of digital imaging techniques. Using her degree in psychology, Kost finds the raw components of visual emotion within herself. She often explores images she finds disturbing: textures, structures, colors and even her own skeletal system are all ingredients in her work. Julieanne has worked for Adobe Systems for 12 years and now serves as the Digital Imaging Evangelist. She frequently teaches Adobe Photoshop workshops in fine art venues, and at prominent industry events and conferences around the world. The author of the Photoshop Fundamentals and Advanced Photoshop Techniques training DVDs published by SOftware Cinema, she is cofounder of adobeevangelists.com.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sponsored by Santa Fe Center for Photography

This three-hour workshop is for photographers at intermediate to advanced/professional levels who are interested in publishing a body of work in book form. The course will cover all stages of publishing, beginning with a set of directed questions for the photographer about where they are in their career and where they want to go. The class will also survey the state of photography book publishing. Editorial, design, and production considerations will be discussed in depth, as well as ways to approach publishers and ways of marketing the finished product.

Darius Himes is the editor of the photo-eye booklist, the only international publication devoted to fine-art photography books. The booklist includes articles and interviews with photographers and publishers and 30 of the most important new books of the season. A recent Adjunct Professor of Photography at The College of Santa Fe, Himes continues to pursue his own photographic image making.

Joanna Hurley is a book publishing professional with more than 25 years experience. She was marketing director of the UNM Press for eight years, during which time sales quintupled and they achieved national attention for their photography books. HurleyMedia LLC, consults on, plans and executes strategic marketing campaigns, coordinates photography publishing projects, and more.

Jim Stone has been exhibited and published internationally, and collected by MoMA, the Smithsonian, and LACMA. Four of his books on photography are in wide and continued use for university courses, and there are two artist’s books of his photographs, Stranger Than Fiction and Historiostomy. He teaches at the University of New Mexico.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Sponsored by The MAC Group and X-Rite Photographic Marketing

As digital technology is evolving, photographers need to be versed in the importance and use of color management to ensure that their images are reproduced accurately and consistently. This seminar will be an introduction to the digital color management tools and procedures most pertinent to contemporary photographic practice.

The topics covered will include:

• building profiles for monitors, scanners, digital cameras, and printers
• using ICC profiles within Adobe Photoshop
• collaborating with labs, clients, and other artists

Throughout the seminar, the importance of consistency, good communication, and color management in producing the photographer’s vision will be stressed.

Tom P. Ashe is a photographer, consultant, and adjunct professor at the School of the Visual Arts. He received his BS from RIT and his MS from RMIT University in Melbourne. His fifteen years of industry experience have included positions with Eastman Kodak, Monaco Systems, Itek Optical Systems, and Polaroid.

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Student Seminar
Presented by Susan kae Grant, Keith Johnson and Mary Virginia Swanson
Thursday, March 23, 2006, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Sponsored by Hasselblad USA

(Open to Volunteers and Scholarship Recipients Only)

Back by popular demand, Swanson’s and Grant’s intensive workshop focuses on strategies for building a career as a photographic artist. Discussions will address structures for making work, maintaining a workspace, fundraising for personal projects, creating networks for support and getting work into the public arena. A slide presentation will address marketing your work and your vision to three particular markets: fine art exhibition and print sales, licensing existing work, and securing commissions to create new work for clients. Johnson’s presentation will include images and thoughts about one person’s quest to remain employed in the photography industry and how to make pictures and be successful in each. He will show slides of current work and discuss the balance that allowed that work to come about.

Mary Virginia Swanson is a leader in the fields of marketing and licensing fine art photography. She is a consultant to photographers, and frequently lectures and conducts workshops on marketing for artists. She is the author of Marketing Guidebook for Photographers; her website URL is: www.mvswanson.com

Susan kae Grant (MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is head of photography at Texas Woman's University and teaches at the International Center for Photography. She was the recipient of the 2003 & 2005 SPE "Crystal Apple Teaching Award" and "The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award" from the Santa Fe Center for Photography. She has exhibited her work and lectured at museums and galleries nationwide. She is represented in numerous collections, including the George Eastman House, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the J. Paul Getty Museum Library, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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After ten years of teaching, I set out to find a way to be able to make art, pay bills, put my kids through school and ultimately be enriched by photography. This is a show-and-tell of images and thoughts about one person’s quest to remain employed in the photography industry and to be able to make pictures and be successful. The presentation will include slides of current work and discussion of the balance that allowed that work to come about. There is life after teaching!

Keith Johnson has been involved in photography since the early 70’s. He graduated in 1975 form RISD with an MFA and studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind after spending a year at Visual Studies Workshop with Nathan Lyons. Ten years of teaching led to a move to the business side of photography achieving an MBA in 1987. He supports his fine art making as a Manufacturers’ Representative in the northeast. He has exhibited throughout the United States most recently in solo shows at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, the Art Institute of Boston, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, CEPA in Buffalo, NY. His work is included in collections at RISD, George Eastman House, and Visual Studies Workshop. He is a recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship grant for 2002 and Artist in Residence at Light Work in Syracuse, NY in 2005. He is on the summer faculty for Maine Photographic Workshops and Visual Studies Workshop, and Santa Fe Workshops. His current work is split between “Road Work” and “Water/Garden” with hopes to produce a book of each. He lives in Hamden, CT, home for the past 28 years with his wife Becky for the past 33 years.

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