Join us for an artist lecture by Andrew Sovjani, who will be discussing the three bodies of work that make up Fact/Fiction: Constructed Images, as well as his process in constructing these images. This event will take place on Wednesday, November 8th, from 6-8pm. Admission is free and open to the public.

To register for this event in advance, click here.

The Art of Stand-Up is a solo exhibition featuring the work of British photographer Andy Hollingworth, renowned for his portraits of comic entertainers. Hollingworth has attained critical acclaim and success in the UK, having spent almost three decades creating distinctive and engaging imagery of famous comedians, documenting their careers and iconic personas for audiences around the world. This comprehensive exhibition features over one hundred images, from intimate portraits on location to collaborative studio sessions, as well as candid moments backstage or those captured with precision during comedy shows and performances.

Join us in on October 24th for a presentation by Andy Hollingworth about this body of work, and an exclusive showing of the short film, The Last Dance of The Cuckoos, in which Hollingworth’s photography is prominently featured. You can register to attend this event via our Eventbrite here. This event is free and open to the public.

You can view a trailer for The Last Dance of the Cuckoos here.

City Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive beauty of the pre-talkie form. The result was the epitome of his art and the crowning achievement of silent comedy.

This film will be screened in the Madorsky Theater at 6pm on October 19th. To secure your seat, please register via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-lights-charlie-chaplin-film-screening-tickets-706229911677?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Bring your best poker face and stop by our upper gallery for a portrait session inspired by Andy Hollingworth's images of Rowan Atkinson! Props will be provided, and visitors will be able to take their portraits home!

To register for this event in advance, click here.

Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Two features and 17 shorts, including the legendary pie-fight silent film The Battle of the Century, making its video debut and nearly complete for the first time in over 90 years!

Restorations by Jeff Joseph/SabuCat in conjunction with the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Library of Congress.

Using careful photochemical and digital techniques, these classic films are restored to pristine condition. In these stunning new transfers, they look and sound as beautiful as they did when they were first released.

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Sons of the Desert: Stanley (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) want to attend the yearly convention of the Sons of the Desert, a fraternal group to which they belong. When Ollie's wife, Lollie (Mae Busch), objects, he feigns sickness, and Stanley gets a doctor to prescribe a fake trip to Hawaii. After Stanley and Ollie revel with the Sons of the Desert, they return home to find out the ship they were supposedly on has sunk in a typhoon, and they're forced to cover their tracks.

Way Out West: A prospector enlists Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) to deliver the deed to a goldmine to his daughter Mary (Rosina Lawrence) in Brushwood Gulch. When they arrive in the small village and enter the local saloon, Mary's sinister guardian (Sharon Lynne) pretends to be Mary, thus fooling the hapless duo into handing over the deed. Upon meeting the real Mary, the pair realizes their mistake and sets about getting the deed into the rightful owner's hands.

These films will be screened in the Madorsky Theater beginning at 6pm on October 3rd. To secure your seat, please register via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/double-feature-sons-of-the-desert-and-way-out-west-tickets-711398240287?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.”

This film will be screened in the Madorsky Theater at 6pm on September 14th. To secure your seat, please register via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-kid-charlie-chaplin-film-screening-tickets-706227915707?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us on Tuesday, May 2nd at 6pm for the opening reception of Thesis & Departures 2023!

Thesis & Departures is an annual exhibition of portfolios and photographs by the recent graduates of the University of Central Florida B.S. in Photography and the Daytona State College A.S. Degree in Photographic Technology.

CREATIVE CYANOTYPES 

Learn how to create cyanotypes from professional artist and educator, Jillian Marie Browning!  

This enjoyable, alternative process utilizes two photosensitive chemicals and ultraviolet light to make distinctly blue images on a variety of materials (from paper to fabrics). Participants will create imagery with organic materials as well as explore how to make and print cyanotypes from digital negatives. This is a free workshop, and most materials are provided, but spaces are limited. Please register in advance via Eventbrite.

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Instructor: Jillian Marie Browning 

When: Saturday, April 22nd from 10am-2pm 

Where: Daytona State College, Building 530 

What to bring: Bring digital image files along with any botanical specimens (leaves, flowers, etc.) that you may want to incorporate.  

Registrants will be provided with additional details in advance of the workshop. 

All skill levels welcome. 

Join artists Jillian Marie Browning, Jon Wes, eva birhanu, Azya Lashelle, Brittney Cathey-Adams, Lorena Molina, Lorenzo Triburgo, and Sarah Van Dyck for a virtual roundtable Q&A session in which they share their experiences behind creating the works that appear in Threshold: Recontextualizing Self-Portraiture.

This event will be held virtually via Zoom on March 24th, 2023, beginning at 1pm EST. Please reserve your spot on Eventbrite here to obtain the meeting room link.

Threshold: Recontextualizing Self-Portraiture aims to bring attention to the medium of self-portraiture through the act of taking back the narrative of one's own story. Artists including Jon Wes, Lorena Molina, Adama Delphine Fawundu, and many more explore themes of race, class, sexuality, and the body, allowing this exhibition to be a platform for artists to speak about their experiences on their own terms.

Curated by Jillian Marie Browning, Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, this exhibition will open on January 27th, 2023 and remain open through May 27th, 2023. An opening reception will be held on January 26th, 2023, featuring a presentation by the curator and the official opening of the gallery. If you would like to attend this event, please register via our Eventbrite here.

Image credit: "Say It Back," Jillian Marie Browning, 2022, cyanotype on cotton.

The term zine refers to a small, self-published book or pamphlet which is often countercultural or subversive in nature. In the 1970s, zines became the medium of choice for getting the word out about venues and bands in the Punk scene. Join SMP Director, Whitney Broadaway, and learn how to overthrow the status quo with collage, typewriters, and several folding techniques. The workshop will meet in the Days of Punk exhibition to draw inspiration before moving into Classroom 202 to create. This is a free event, and all materials will be supplied, but there is limited space so you must sign up on Eventbrite in order to attend.

Want to learn more about how a photographic collection is built? Gathering Light: One Collector's Journey explores what draws a collector to certain pieces over others, the strange journeys that lead to acquisitions, and what happens when a collector discovers a forgery. Join former Daytona State College photography professor Steven Benson, beginning in the Madorsky Theater and continuing into the gallery, as he details his own experiences in acquiring an extensive personal collection of photographs. This event will also commemorate the closing of the Gathering Light exhibition, which will come to an end after December 3rd.

If you will be attending this event, please register via our Eventbrite here.

The Southeast Museum of Photography invites all guests to join us in the Madorsky Theater and in the gallery on August 30th, 2022, for the opening reception of our upcoming show, Days of Punk, with an artist lecture by photographer Michael Grecco.

There will be an artist lecture in the theater at 6PM, followed by a gallery tour at 7PM. If you will be attending this event, please reserve your seat via our EventBrite here.

What does it mean to collect photography? In this exhibition, SMP presents Steven Benson’s extensive private collection of photography. Over the course of 45+ years, the former DSC professor has amassed nearly 2,000 photographs, from cased daguerrotypes to works by contemporary artists of today. Gathering Light explores what draws a collector to certain pieces over others, the strange journeys that lead to acquisitions, and what happens when a collector discovers a forgery.

Join Steven Benson for a presentation in the Madorsky Theater, followed by the opportunity to peruse the gallery space, to commemorate the opening of this exhibiton.