FREE public talk: open to all
Saturday, December 4, 10am, Hawaii Standard time (3pm EST)
Zoom link below
Please join photographer Lydia Panas and David Ulrich, co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation, for a conversation about her work and her dynamic new book Sleeping Beauty. PNM is especially honored to host Lydia and feature her work. Lydia and David have a decades-long association dating back to The Art Institute of Boston (now Lesley University College of Art and Design) in the 1980’s.
Sleeping Beauty: Photographs by Lydia Panas, with text by Marina Chao, Maggie Jones, and Monae Mallory. MW Editions, 2021
Portraits of women and girls intertwined with the photographer’s gaze, in a rare subversion of photography’s power relations
This volume presents award-winning Pennsylvania-based photographer Lydia Panas’ (born 1958) much-praised series of mesmerizing color portraits of reclining women and girls. In an interesting reversal of roles, the artist’s and models’ gazes are intertwined, incorporating the viewer as participant in an often uncomfortable connection. Critics and curators have praised the work for Panas’ artistic and technical mastery, and all have noted and examined the powerfully affecting gaze of her subjects. Panas notes: “While my subjects do in actuality turn their gaze towards me, it’s as if at times I turn the camera onto myself, both in the present and back in time.” In Sleeping Beauty, her subjects lie down, a metaphor for the position girls and women have been placed in historically. But they look out with self-awareness, in a way that implies a lack of complicity.
In her text, Marina Chao writes about the evolution of Panas’ work over nearly 30 years. “Panas creates a collective portrait of psychological womanhood as it is embodied by herself and the sitters and is understood, or misunderstood, by those who view the work. The portraits in Sleeping Beauty are also a collective mirror, reflecting back our feelings towards women, our assumptions and expectations of them. The space of these photographs is more gathered in, protected and intimate, than in the artist’s previous bodies of work and has shifted from their idyllic, pastoral surroundings to being unmistakably Edenic. Panas’ women—Panas herself, all of us—are moving on, moving forward, and reclaiming the Garden.”
Zoom link:
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Meeting ID: 599 378 1603
Lydia Panas is a visual artist working in photography and video. Drawing on a combination of psychoanalysis and feminism, her work looks at identity and what lies below the surface, investigating questions of who we are and what we want to become. Exploring the roles of power and trust on both sides of the camera, she describes what it feels like to be a woman, a human, and the complex range of emotions we feel. Panas’ work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally. Her photographs are represented in public and private collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Palm Springs Art Museum, Allentown Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, and the Sheldon Museum, among others. Two monographs of her earlier work have been published: Falling from Grace (Conveyor Arts, 2016) and The Mark of Abel (Kehrer Verlag, 2012), which was named a “best coffee table book” by the Daily Beast. For more information, visit: www.lydiapanas.com.
Wednesday evenings, 6-9 pm, October 13 – December 15 + January 5, 2022 (10 weeks)
TAUGHT ONLINE
Fee: $275
Instructor: David Ulrich
Explore the creative process through creating a body of work or visual narrative on a theme. Portfolios and cohesive sets of images—not single photographs—are the currency of the contemporary photography industry, including publications, galleries, exhibitions, and many other kinds of venues.
A project that takes place over time can encourage many things. It can be an enriching learning experience that kindles a deep engagement with the subject through an in-depth exploration. Working on projects builds a momentum, lights a creative fire that awakens your mind, and often results in milestone images. Further, projects provide a useful structure for your work and get you out the door, as well as create opportunities for growth-producing challenges that put your back against the wall.
Explore the entire workflow from choosing a project, to the initial sketching of ideas with a camera, to creating images that best express your concepts or interests, to writing a brief introduction or artists statement, and grappling with editing, sequencing, and presentation modalities. Final class meeting in January allows three weeks from previous class to complete or make progress on your project.
Open to photographers of all levels and all types of photographs: fine art, documentary, family archives, explorations of identity, editorial images aligned with writing, and historical/cultural explorations.
Class takes place on Zoom software. Please submit 6-8 jpg images, representative of your work, for the first class, and start thinking about a relevant theme or project that suits your interests. Instructor will send Zoom link and instructions for submitting images through Dropbox or Google Drive prior to the first class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. His new book, The Mindful Photographer: Awake in the World with a Camera, will be published by Rocky Nook press in February 2022. www.creativeguide.com
Thursdays, October 14 and December 9, 7-9pm
ONLINE with Zoom software
FREE
PNM sponsors ongoing response and critique sessions led by photographer David Ulrich and others. This is a time for photographers and students to come together, dialogue, and share work.
Please prepare 8-10 examples (12 images is the absolute maximum) of your work and place them in a folder. Please be sure to save your files as JPG’s with a maximum file size of 2-3 megabytes — larger files take too long to load. And, please make sure your images are in a folder with your first and last name on it. Do not attempt to upload individual images. Also, please title your images with your initials or name.
Email your entire folder to pnmphoto@gmail.com at least two hours before the critique, by 5 pm, October 14 and December 9. Work that comes in after the deadline will not be reviewed.
The session begins at 7 pm and we are not able to admit those that come late.
Here is the Zoom link:
Pacific New Media is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Pacific New Media’s Personal Meeting Room
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5993781603
Meeting ID: 599 378 1603
Participants are encouraged to join in the dialogue with each other’s work and plan to stay for the duration of the session.
Free. No registration. Please join us.
Wednesday evenings, 6-9 pm, October 13 – December 15 + January 5, 2022 (10 weeks)
TAUGHT ONLINE
Fee: $275
Instructor: David Ulrich
Explore the creative process through creating a body of work or visual narrative on a theme. Portfolios and cohesive sets of images—not single photographs—are the currency of the contemporary photography industry, including publications, galleries, exhibitions, and many other kinds of venues.
A project that takes place over time can encourage many things. It can be an enriching learning experience that kindles a deep engagement with the subject through an in-depth exploration. Working on projects builds a momentum, lights a creative fire that awakens your mind, and often results in milestone images. Further, projects provide a useful structure for your work and get you out the door, as well as create opportunities for growth-producing challenges that put your back against the wall.
Explore the entire workflow from choosing a project, to the initial sketching of ideas with a camera, to creating images that best express your concepts or interests, to writing a brief introduction or artists statement, and grappling with editing, sequencing, and presentation modalities. Final class meeting in January allows three weeks from previous class to complete or make progress on your project.
Open to photographers of all levels and all types of photographs: fine art, documentary, family archives, explorations of identity, editorial images aligned with writing, and historical/cultural explorations.
Class takes place on Zoom software. Please submit 6-8 jpg images, representative of your work, for the first class, and start thinking about a relevant theme or project that suits your interests. Instructor will send Zoom link and instructions for submitting images through Dropbox or Google Drive prior to the first class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. His new book, The Mindful Photographer: Awake in the World with a Camera, will be published by Rocky Nook press in February 2022. www.creativeguide.com
Wednesday evenings, 6-9 pm, October 13 – December 15 + January 5, 2022 (10 weeks)
TAUGHT ONLINE
Fee: $275
Instructor: David Ulrich
Explore the creative process through creating a body of work or visual narrative on a theme. Portfolios and cohesive sets of images—not single photographs—are the currency of the contemporary photography industry, including publications, galleries, exhibitions, and many other kinds of venues.
A project that takes place over time can encourage many things. It can be an enriching learning experience that kindles a deep engagement with the subject through an in-depth exploration. Working on projects builds a momentum, lights a creative fire that awakens your mind, and often results in milestone images. Further, projects provide a useful structure for your work and get you out the door, as well as create opportunities for growth-producing challenges that put your back against the wall.
Explore the entire workflow from choosing a project, to the initial sketching of ideas with a camera, to creating images that best express your concepts or interests, to writing a brief introduction or artists statement, and grappling with editing, sequencing, and presentation modalities. Final class meeting in January allows three weeks from previous class to complete or make progress on your project.
Open to photographers of all levels and all types of photographs: fine art, documentary, family archives, explorations of identity, editorial images aligned with writing, and historical/cultural explorations.
Class takes place on Zoom software. Please submit 6-8 jpg images, representative of your work, for the first class, and start thinking about a relevant theme or project that suits your interests. Instructor will send Zoom link and instructions for submitting images through Dropbox or Google Drive prior to the first class.
David Ulrich is a core faculty member and creative director for Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography. His new book, The Mindful Photographer: Awake in the World with a Camera, will be published by Rocky Nook press in February 2022. www.creativeguide.com