February Guest Speaker : Pamela Klaffke
Pamela Klaffke, a journalist, author , and a local fine art photographer, spoke to the CPS in February’s meeting and shared with us a number of her images.
Her images frequently featured serious light leaks, blur, extreme film grain and distorted colors; attributes which, were they submitted in our print competition, would normally draw fire from our panel of judges. However, it all really worked with her images. They were stunning. Much of her work involves surreal scenes and that subject matter really works well with her techniques.
She shoots film exclusively and uses toy cameras such as the now infamous Holga and a number of others including the venerable K1000 (decidedly not a toy), the Vivitar Ultrawide & Slim and the Vivitar IC101 Panorama. She is the first person I’ve heard of who (a) uses only expired film, (b) intentionally damages her film before use!
Pamela runs a large number of websites including her personal pages (and flickr), a serial-story project, a dollar store doll art project, and a number of websites dedicated to analog photography.
Calgary Fringe Festival 2009 Photography Competition
Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride
28 submissions will be chosen for display.
The selected photographs will be displayed at a public gallery during the 2009 Fringe Festival (31 July—09 August) and at an outdoor exhibit during Bohemia 09 (01 August)
Prizes (to be announced) will be awarded by a judging panel. Public voting will also be conducted by ballot during the exhibition and the winners of that competition will be listed on the Fringe Festival website.
Image form and content is restricted only by your own imagination.
Requirements: Submit unmounted photographs to a maximum size of 10" x 16". Selected submissions will be mounted for display on foam board by festival organizers.
There are no restrictions on the number of submissions. Photos will not be returned at the end of the exhibition.
Submission deadline is 30 June, 2009
Submission Address:
Calgary Fringe Festival 2009 Photography Competition
3 Riverwood Close SE
Calgary, AB CANADA
T2C 3Z4
Please ensure the artist's name, name of the photo, and artist's contact information is included with each submission.
February 2009 Meeting
AGM:
The February 4th meeting will also by our 2009 Annual General Meeting. (We’ll try and keep it quick and painless)
All executive positions are up for grabs (President, Secretary and Treasurer). The other positions are appointed.
We would like to continue the discussion of a venue change. If anyone has any ideas for something central, accessible by transit, with affordable/available parking, allow easier mingling, and allow us to have food and drink (Coffee / snacks) please pass the information to the executive.
We would also like to discuss a change to the print competition where voting is done by popular demand since it’s getting more and more difficult to recruit judges.
You will need to have your membership paid up before you are able to participate in the AGM.
Guest Speaker:
Our next speaker is Pamela Kaffke - her work is seen here http://www.pamelaklaffke.c
Print Competition
As usual there will be both an open and theme print competition. The theme for February is “metal”.