Events

March 20th, 2021 @ 11:00am – 1:00pm
The Gordon Center for Black Cultural Arts
Spring Valley, NY

"Taking the Struggle to the Streets: Black Lives Always Mattered"

Photographer Collette V. Fournier, adjunct Photography Professor at SUNY Rockland CC, Kamoinge Inc. member, and member of The Gordon Center for Black Cultural Arts will discuss her analogue and digital imagery as an African American female photographing in the community. Her work for magazines, newspapers...

March 19th, 2021 – April 10th, 2021
Denver, CO

9th Annual Combined Caucus Exhibition

In conjunction with Month Of Photography Denver "The 9th Annual SPE Combined Caucus Exhibition featured photographs from the Multicultural, LGBTQ, and Women's caucuses. Each caucus has a defining mission that advances, educates, and promotes the stories of underrepresented communities. Together, the photographs submitted for this exhibit reflect the...

March 19th, 2021 @ 12:00pm – 11:55pm
Virtual Event,

2021 SPE Media Festival

The SPE Media Festival is live!!! Go to https://www.spenational.org/spe-media-festival to view the entries from our incredible SPE members, including: Best Multicultural FilmPandemic19Directed by Yung Chang & Annie Katsura RollinsPandemic19 is a poignant document of the factual and emotional details of Covid-19 as seen through the eyes of...

March 17th, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Virtual Event, Zoom

FotoFika: Covid 19 Teaching Resources

Wednesday, March 17  |  4pm EST Join us for our biweekly gathering with fellow educators to share and discuss teaching in the age of COVID-19. FotoFika brings together a community of teaching artists discussing strategies, tools, and resources to improve the virtual learning experience. Bring questions...

March 12th, 2021 – April 11th, 2021
Format
Derby, UK, J3

UK Format Festival includes two SPE Members

SPE members Nicole White and Colleen Mullins are included in Waves of Exposure, a group exhibition at PARC, London College of Communication, and their collective, Rolls & Tubes, is included in the massive "Mass Communication Format" exhibition at the Darby Museum and Art Gallery, March...

February 27th, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Virtual Event, Zoom

Portfolio Throwdown!

Portfolio Throwdown!Saturday, February 27, 2021  |  1-2:30pm EST Join us for an informat portfolio sharing session! Register, bring your work in digital format, and share with your peers in small breakout rooms. One of the most productive parts of our annual National and Chapter conferences is...

February 24th, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 5:00pm
FotoFika & SPE
Virtual Event, Zoom

LAUNCH PARTY - FotoFika 2020 AllStar Trading Cards

Join FotoFika this Wednesday for an impromptu launch party to celebrate the start of our Kickstarter campaign. We are raising money to support the publication of photographs from all student participants in the 2020 Allstar FotoFika Trading Card project. We'll unveil and unbox the BETA...

February 18th, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm

Virtual Town Hall Meeting

The SPE Board of Directors invites you to attend our Town Hall Members' Meeting on Thursday, February 18, at 6PM ET.SPE is our Members. Time and time again, in feedback surveys, in correspondence, in meetings and webinars, we hear the same thing over and over- that SPE is...

February 05th, 2021 – June 20th, 2021
George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY

Carl Chiarenza Journey into the Unknown

February 4–June 20, 2021, Main Galleries- George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY

Throughout his career, Carl Chiarenza (American, b. 1935) has demonstrated that photographs can provide much more than just documentary evidence. Rather than create straightforward records of the cast-off materials that appear before his camera, Chiarenza photographically transforms them into new and provocative images. His photographs...

January 30th, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Society for Photographic Education
Online,

Panel Discussion: Other Archives

Presented by SPE's Multicultural Caucus

Moderator: Roula SeikalyPanelists: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Rodney Ewing, Kija Lucas Who creates archives? Who shapes archival narratives? Who undermines accepted cultural and socio-political narratives by creating their own archives?Beginning in the 1980s, critique of the origin, construction, and use of photographic archives exposed the medium as...