The 2016 Peter Urban Legacy Series Presents

Promoting your Photography through Publication: How photographers enhance their business and viewer base by writing books, articles and blogs.

Thursday, September 22, 2016 from 4:00-7:00pm

The Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Rd, Winchester, MA 01890

Speakers: Neal Rantoul and David Bram

Photographic media differs from other two-dimensional disciplines as artwork that documents and represents a higher dimension of reality. Photographers are unique in their processes of production involving taking a snapshot, developing or digitally editing the image and then choosing a format for printing.

How can a viewer know what is really behind the finished product of a photograph based on the type of print and camera?

Writing is the solution. Photographers publish about their work and others by curating the content as they would an exhibit. In this workshop we will hear from two very different professionals in the photography field who share the passion of publication in order to keep modern photography relevant, enticing and distinct as a medium.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP HERE.

About the Speakers:

Neal Rantoul has work in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); the DeCordova Sculpture Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln, MA); the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA); the High Museum (Atlanta, GA); the Kunsthaus (Zurich, Switzerland); the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ), The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and Princeton University (NJ), among numerous other private and public collections. He is the recipient of many awards and grants, including a Whiting Foundation Fellowship; a Lightwork residency (Syracuse, NY); RSDF, FDP and IDF grants from Northeastern University; and he was a finalist twice for the Massachusetts Cultural Council award. Rantoul was an active member of the Board of Directors of the Photographic Resource Center in Boston for many years and is on the Board of Corporators at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Since retiring Rantoul has been teaching workshops, traveling and making new work.

David Bram is the editor, founder, and curator of Fraction Magazine, an online venue dedicated to fine art, contemporary photography. Fraction Magazine brings together diverse bodies of work by established and emerging artists from around the globe. Fraction Magazine was founded in 2008, is published on a monthly basis, and has shown portfolios from more than 350 photographers.  David regularly participates in portfolio review events such as Fotofest, PhotoLucida, Review Santa Fe, PhotoNOLA, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Medium, Filter and others. He was invited to be a curator to the Lishui Photo Festival in Lishui, China in 2011 and travels around the country giving talks, guest-lecturing at universities, leading workshops and hosting photographic retreats.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP HERE.