Events

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...

January 26th, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm
Society for Photographic Education
Online,

A Yellow Rose Project: How Far Have We Come In 100 Years?

Presented by SPE's Women's Caucus

Meg Griffiths and Frances JakubekAugust 18th 2020 marked the centennial of the 19th Amendment and a woman's right to vote. A Yellow Rose Project is a large-scale collaboration made by over 100 women all across the country who were invited to make photographic work in response, reflection,...

December 12th, 2020 @ 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Friends of Harvey Milk Photo Center
San Francisco, CA

Vivian Maier & Fred Lyon- Live Webinar & Guest Panel

Join us for an incredible behind the scenes look, in a Live Webinar discussion, and Q&A, FEATURING the WORK of two master photographers, Fred Lyon and Vivian Maier. This is a once in a lifetime event!Our panel includes key figures in the photography world together...

November 19th, 2020 @ 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Dallas Center for Photography
Dallas, TX

Bumping Into History: Medicine, Photography and JFK Webinar

Join DCP and Dallas pathologist and photographer, Dr. Tom McConnell, on Thursday, November 19 at 6:30 pm CDT for an online event about his life in medicine and his connection to events associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. A reviewer of...

October 28th, 2020 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
SPE LGBTQ Caucus
Online Event,

SPE LGBTQ Cacus Webinar Series

Join the LGBTQ Caucus on October 14 and 28, from 7:00 - 8:00 pm EDT for artist talks with 6 photographers from the SPE 2020 Combined Caucus Exhibition!On October 14, the speakers will be Theresa Newsome, Jaclyn Wright, and Mona Bozorgi, and on October 28, we will hear from Lali...