ART SPEAKS: VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY
This lecture series is designed to engage the community–especially young and emerging artists–by presenting a wide array of guest speakers and professional photographers to the public.
Through a blend of artist talks, demonstrations, slideshows and even workshops, this program offers audiences the opportunity to learn about–and discuss in detail–aspects of photography, image-making and potential career opportunities. Not only is this a supportive learning experience, but also a platform to recognize and celebrate the incredible talent in our local community.
Above, Photographs by Stacy Pearsall, Veterans Portrait Project
COASTAL IMPRESSIONS
ARTIST TALK BY JULIANA ROMNES
SOUTHEAST MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
THURSDAY, ARPIL 28TH, 2022 - 6:00 - 7:30 PM
about JULIANA ROMNES:
Juliana Romnes has spent the past 20 years exploring her home state through the medium of photography and her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at museums and galleries in Florida including the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach; Snap!Space, Orlando; the St. Augustine Art Association, and W.B. Tatter Gallery in St. Augustine, Florida among others. She attended the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona State College and went on to receive a Bachelor of Science in Photography and a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management, both from the University of Central Florida. Romnes regularly exhibits her work at Butterfield Garage in St. Augustine and at Arts on Douglas in New Smyrna Beach, where she is also the Gallery Coordinator.
about the work:
Growing up in Florida, the natural environment along the shore has been a source of constant inspiration for Romnes. She explains, “I have incorporated beach walks into my morning routine for the past 5 years. There is something magical about these fluid spaces where the land meets the sea. Changing seasons, tides, wind, and weather ensure there is always something new to experience.”
Through her mix of black-and-white and color photographs, Romnes captures subtle, fleeting moments in time, such as birds taking flight, footprints in the sand, and the simple elegance of a crashing wave. She pays close attention to the interaction between light and shadow, often emphasizing how light reflects and refracts on water in striking ways.
Romnes explains that each scene she captures is a mix of careful observation and chance encounters. She elaborates, “I have learned to visit the beach without expectation, and this openness often leads me down unexpected paths, allowing me to see the landscape in new and refreshing ways.”
COMBAT FROM BEHIND THE CAMERA
ARTIST TALK BY STACY PEARSALL
daytona state college, BLDG. 115 - HOSTED IN THE EVENT CENTER
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2020 - 5:00 - 6:30 PM
about Stacy Pearsall:
Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended the Military Photojournalism Program at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. During three combat tours, she earned the Bronze Star Medal and Air Force Commendation with Valor for combat actions in Iraq. Though disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as an independent photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. She is a Nikon Ambassador, Manfrotto Ambassador and Ilford Master. Her work has been exhibited at The Woodruff Arts Center, The Pentagon and Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Pearsall was one of only two women to win National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice.
Pearsall is the author of Shooter: Combat from Behind the Camera and A Photojournalist’s Field Guide: In the Trenches with Combat Photographer Stacy Pearsall.
shooter: combat from behind the camera
lecture open to the public - BLDG. 115
Stacy Pearsall’s empowering presentation draws upon the hardships she faced as a photographer, and woman, in combat. She’s documented some of the most dangerous battles of our time, has been injured in combat and survived to tell her story. More importantly, she lives to tell others’ stories. Hers is an amazing visual journey of personal and photographic growth. Not only do the images relate the story of the soldiers she’s documented, but also her own tale of friendships she made and tragically lost. You’ll learn how her path to recovery paved the road to her new mission in life, the Veterans Portrait Project and Forging Forward.
Workshop open to daytona state students
studio unplugged-11:00AM -12:00PM
PHOTOGRAPHY BUILDING 530, RM. 118
There is an art to making meaningful connections with subjects. In this one-hour clinic, students will learn how to create authentic rapports with subjects in a virtually-connected society by putting the phone down and interacting with their subjects in a whole new way. Students will learn about body language, energy dynamics and communication. With visual examples, live demonstrations and hands-on instruction, attendees will surly be inspired to unplug and reconnect in the studio.
about the veterans portrait project
While I’m known internationally for my war photography, it’s the Veterans Portrait Project (VPP) where I now focus my lens. I began the VPP as I recovered from combat injuries sustained in Iraq. After spending hours in VA waiting rooms surrounded by veterans from every generation and branch of service, I was compelled to honor and thank them in the only way I know how, photography. Since taking my first portrait in late 2008, I’ve conducted more than 150 portrait engagements, traveled to 85 cities in 30 states and captured over 7,500 veterans’ portraits to date. My goal is to capture portraits of veterans in every state and province from which the United States Department of Defense recruits.
The Veterans Portrait Project began as an emotionally cathartic, physically healing tool. I’d committed my life to my country and when I could no longer to share the unique stories of military veterans and honor their service in a unique, creative way.
Each veteran receives a complimentary, high-resolution portrait they can share with friends and family. Their portraits and stories are also included in national printed exhibitions, showcased in video productions and shared via social media, thus ensuring their contributions to American military history are never lost.
The Veterans Portrait Project collection represents the over 22 million military veterans in the United States. They’re young and old, male and female. They come from all walks of life and have varied religious beliefs, levels of education and racial ethnicity. What unites them all is their service. It’s a bond that cannot be broken, and I’m proud to be one of them.
Stacy Pearsall
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- PAST ART SPEAKS LECTURES -
AN ARTISTIC TOUCH
ARTIST TALK BY HARRIET BLUM
thursday, october 17, 2019 – 5:00-6:30pm
About HARRIET BLUM:
Blum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 27, 1949. She grew up in Miami, Florida, and moved to New Orleans in 1971 after college. Between freelance jobs, stints as a newspaper photographer, and commission work, she has driven the back roads and side streets, hiked through the woods, or paddled canoes up and down the rivers and through the surrounding swamps and forests, allowing the landscape and old structures to speak to her aesthetic. Since the early 1980s, she has photographed ancient live oaks, gracefully aging nineteenth-century houses, commercial buildings, and churches.
A COLORFUL CAREER IN FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Blum, who describes herself as a self-taught photographer, became fascinated with the darkroom process in 1992 while working in the Louisiana State University Medical Center darkroom in New Orleans. As to her signature approach to photography, Blum says she began using black-and-white infrared film in the late 1980s and added hand-tinting after a few workshops. “I developed a style that became uniquely my own,” she said. In the gradual development of that style, she credits surrealist photographer Jerry Uelsmann, “who opened my eyes to photography as an art form,” and Michael P. Smith, who “fine-tuned my darkroom skills and opened the door to my photography career.”
Seven Sisters © Harriet Blum
“As an artist, my eyes see visual opportunities everywhere, some just for their natural beauty, others because they are so unique or odd. I am fascinated by nature....trees, oceans, clouds, rocks and the expression of human nature. I enjoy capturing the essence of a scene and seek to immortalize that moment when I click the shutter. Only then do I have an idea of where that “moment in time” will take me.”
Sunrise ©Harriet Blum
Garden at Oakley House ©Harriet Blum
Blum’s photographs are in many commercial and private collections across the country and internationally, including numerous hospitals and other medical settings, where they have a "healing art" quality.
Her photographs can be found in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois; the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama; the Loews New Orleans Hotel; Ochsner Foundation Hospitals and Clinics in the New Orleans area; the St. Tammany Parish Hospital and Women’s Pavilion; Covington City Hall; Tulane University Archive Collections; Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal and the Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans; and the Breast Center of Acadiana in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Over the years, Blum has received a number of honors for her work, including an Honorable Mention at the Masur Museum of Art’s 34th Annual Juried Competition in 2007 in Monroe, Louisiana; the 2004 Best of Show at the Jack Swanson Annual Photographic Exhibit, in Covington, Louisiana; and the 1999 Best of Show, at the Third Annual Bethesda Row Arts Festival in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2000 the Ohr-Okeefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, featured her series, Swaying Softly: Trees of the South.
ALCHEMY AND ART
EXPLORING THE TINTYPE PROCESS
ARTIST TALK BY TIM TELKAMP
Tim Telkamp will provide an insightful lecture–and live demonstration–of some of the tools and techniques associated with the early Victorian wet plate (collodion) process.
Tim Telkamp is a photographer, alternate process artist, author and mentor currently living in Central Florida. Wherever life has taken him, from crossing the Arctic Circle to South America and Europe he has gone with camera in hand. His photographs have been published in books, newspapers, and magazines, and he wrote and illustrated “The Place That’s Always with You,” a children’s story set in Central North Carolina that celebrates home and history. In contrast to his historical craftsmanship, he has also been involved in many high-tech designs and engineering projects.
SEARCHING THE SKIES
THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE
Artist talk by SKIP WESTPHAL
Skip Westphal, a retired digital imaging and photo technician, spent nearly 18 years working in the photo lab at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Along with the rest of the scientific staff, he helped process and produce imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope for the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA.
Skip will recount his experiences and share his knowledge about the early years of the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as his duties in preparing images for recording on 35mm and 4x5 inch films, or for large format printing for scientific conferences and public outreach initiatives.
Hubble Space Telescope © NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope, named after Edwin Hubble, was first launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation today. With a 2.4-meter (7.9 ft.) mirror, Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared spectra. Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely high-resolution images, with substantially lower background light than ground-based telescopes. Hubble has recorded some of the most detailed visible light images ever, allowing us a deep view into space and time.
A CREATIVE JOURNEY
ARTIST TALK BY ERIKA MASTERSON
All images © Erika Masterson
"With my photographs, I hope to evoke an awareness of one’s own journey. And to unveil the ethereal beauty of our souls, at the deepest level. I hope to inspire the viewer to look deeper into ones-self and make that quiet connection."
about the photographer
Erika Masterson is an award-winning photographer who specializes in portraiture and fine art imagery.
After receiving her degree in photography from the Southeast Center for Photographic studies in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1990, she has been working as a commercial portrait photographer for the past 20 years in California and Florida. In recent years, Erika has ventured into the fine arts, participating in exhibits and winning multiple awards. Amongst her many accomplishments, her quiet and soulful images have been published in numerous magazines such as Black and White, 2014 & 2017, Silvershotz, Shots Magazine, 5×5 Magazine, Victoria Magazine 2000 & 2016, Bella Grace Magazine, Raine, Shadow & Light and In-Style Magazine. Erika recently has images being sold around the world on greeting cards with Palm Press.
Erika lives in Satellite Beach, Florida with her husband and their four children who are often seen in her creative work.
THE WILDLIFE DEFENDERS
saving species on the brink of extinction
ARTIST TALK BY HARRISON COONEY
Storm and Lunar © Harrison Cooney
The Wildlife Defenders is an ongoing project honoring individuals and organizations centered around a common goal: increasing the public's awareness of the practice of poaching. The eventual goal is to eliminate poaching outright–by educating the public through images, articles and social media outlets.
Photographer Harrison Cooney will present selections from several bodies of work–The Rhino War, The Next Generation and A Vanishing World–that convey the dire situation of endangered species in South Africa, and document the tireless efforts of those individuals who risk their lives daily to protect and save these vanishing species.
In 2008, Harrison Cooney embarked on a yearlong trip around the world, which spanned 22 countries and six continents. Traveling sparked a curiosity and commitment to make a deeper connection with the planet. Needing to find a creative outlet to tell his stories, it became clear that portrait, lifestyle and travel photography was the answer. Harrison strives to create rich and vibrant photographs that evoke a cinematic feeling. The images he creates can tell a story without words, which requires talent, skill and an intimate connection with his subject matter.
Harrison is passionate about wildlife, the environment and helping to save the planet for future generations to come. To learn more about The Wildlife Defenders project or to find ways you can get involved, click on The Wildlife Defenders link.
about the photographer
Harrison Cooney is a portrait, lifestyle and travel photographer based in Central Florida. Harrison has had the opportunity to work and learn from some of the most accomplished photographers in the industry. He has assisted on projects for companies including Adidas, New York Times Magazine, Reebok, People Magazine, Golf Digest, Sports Illustrated, Darden, and Proctor & Gamble among others. Harrison has personally shot for Disney Destinations, Yellow Shoes Creative Group, Orlando Signature Magazine and Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
THE ART OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
ARTIST TALK BY JOE AND MARY JEAN CAMPANELLIE
Boneyard Beach © Joe Campanellie
Join Joe and Mary Jean Campanellie for an informative and practical discussion of photographic techniques that you can use to take your photography to the next level. They will present their award-winning images and discuss some of the technical and creative challenges inherent to nature photography. Whether a seasoned professional or just a beginner, there will be something for everyone in this presentation that you can apply to your day to day photography projects.
Joe and Mary Campanellie ran a high-end portrait studio in Maryland for over 30 years, specializing in families, children and high school seniors. Their move to this area gave Joe the opportunity to concentrate on his new passion–avian and nature photography. In addition to photographing the migratory birds of Florida, he has traveled to Alaska to capture spectacular views of bald eagles and to the Great Smoky Mountains to record other unique species of birds that nest in higher elevations. Joe's avian images have graced the pages of the Professional Photographers of America's Loan Collection for the past several years and have garnered some of the most sought after awards in the industry.
about the photographers
Photo of Joe Campanellie holding an award, standing in front of one of his photographs
joe campanellie
He is a Master Photographer, Photographic Craftsman, and Certified Professional Photographer with the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) He has the distinction of being 1 of only 87 living individuals worldwide to hold the prestigious Fellowship Degree from the American Society of Photographers (ASP). Many of his images are in private collections throughout the United States. Joe maintains an active speaking and judging schedule, addressing professional photography organizations, schools and seminars.
Portrait of Mary Jean Campanellie standing in front of one of her photographs.
mary jean campanellie
She is both an accomplished fashion designer and photographic artist and photographer. As a member of the Professional Photographer's of America (PPA) she is part of a very select group of Certified Photographic Artists who have earned the coveted Master Artist Degree, Master Photographer Degree as well as the Photographic Craftsman Degree. She is an active speaker, teacher and judge for local photography groups, PPA affiliate groups as well as the Flagler Beach & Saint Augustine Camera Clubs. Her programs include topics on basic as well as advanced Photoshop techniques for photographic enhancement and retouching of digital files.