Louis Au
Capture One
Lightroom
Digital Workflow
Introduction to Technical Quality in Digital Captures
As an avid photographer and educator of digital photography, Louis knows first hand how challenging it can be to navigate through the labyrinth of ever-changing capture technologies while maintaining quality and sanity. Since joining Masterfile, Canada's largest stock photo agency in 1993, he has played an important role in the business transformation from traditional analogue to the complete digital model.
Louis also consults and provides educational seminars for Masterfile's ever growing contributing artists in North America, UK and Germany; he implements workflows, provides technical training and advises future direction regarding digital capture technologies for individual photographers and studios with small or large work groups.
Wendy Rombough
Lifestyle and Family Portraiture
Photographing Maternity
The First Moments Capturing the Newly Born
www.wendyr.comAn experienced and versatile photographer who studied at Ryerson University, Wendy has photographed everything from astronauts to cats; from CD covers, books and greeting cards; from wedding resorts on maui beach. Her works has appeared in numerous publications, ad campaigns and galleries. Her favourite images are those that will be cherished as a moment in time by growing families.
A conversation with Donald Weber
Donald Weber, documentary photographer with VII Network talks with piktoNexi about his work, inspiration and life as a documentary photographer in Russia.
More on Donald Weber at: www.donaldweber.com & www.viiphoto.com
Documentary Photography Workshop
Through The Lens with Donald Weber.
Documentary Photography
Donald Weber (VII Network, World Press Winner)
Two day workshop $295
Saturday May 9th 2009 10AM - 5PM
Saturday May 16th 2009 10AM - 5PM
In conjunction with Don's Contact Exhibition at Pikto. April 29th 2009 - May 31st 2009.
Opening Reception Friday May 1st 2009. 6PM - 10PM Originally from Toronto, Canada, Don is an award-winning photographer currently residing between Moscow and Kiev. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and also received the Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize and a World Press Award. Amongst other citations, Weber was one of PDN's 30 in 2008 and named an Emerging Photo Pioneer by American Photo Magazine.
Prior to photography, Don worked as an architect for Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has also received a Governor's General Gold medal for Architecture while working in Canada.
Don has exhibited widely and has shown work during the Voies Off Festval at Rencontres des Arles, France. His work won the Grand Prize for the 2007 PHODAR Photography Biennial in Bulgaria. He has completed assignments for such international publications as: Business Week, Der Spiegel, Maclean's, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Conde Nast Portfolio, Rolling Stone, Stern, Time Magazine and the NGO's Medecins sans Frontieres, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and War Child. Don is represented by the VII Network.
His Guggenheim Fellowship is allowing him to continue work on a book about life in Russia. It's about the curse of power, and the wounds it inflicts on those who don't have it. It's the 18th Century with jets flying overhead.
Day One
Don will start with a presentation/talk discussing documentary in its entire form. He will show examples, talk about how he began, his influences, travel, his working methods, as-well as creating a series/story of work. After lunch the class will hit the streets of Toronto, to observe and take part in photographing the environment around us. You will then receive your assignment. You have one week to create your own series of work, (of your choice!) to bring back for feedback the following Saturday.
Day Two
This will be the review, questions, and editing day. Bring your past portfolio of images, and your assignment series that you have just completed. Pour yourself a coffee and then down to work. Don will help you edit and give you vital feedback. Often the photographs you think are the worst, can turn out to be the best, depending on how you read the image, and how they are edited. Critiquing is how you learn!!
Contact Photography Festival 2009
Pikto presents Donald Weber
Drunken bride, Russia unveiled
April 29th - May 31st 2009
Opening Reception
May 1st. 6PM-10PM
By the time Lenin took power in 1917, there were 16,000 people in Tsarist prisons. Two years later, the Bolsheviks sentenced 70,000 men, women and children to corrective labour camps, as they were now called. Eventually, 30,000,000 people were absorbed into the Gulag before they were abolished in 1960. Their survivors are known as Russians.
The central theme of this project is found in the title: Russia is a desirable woman whom men approach and covet, but who will accept few of her suitors in return. It's a country of exiled lovers. It will send those it finds wanting to a nameless frontier, a place symbolized by the word: Siberia.
Does she exist, this sublimely dangerous woman, whom generations of men have fought and died over? Perhaps it's only a rich and exotic dream, a wild collective fantasy – and the real Russia exists elsewhere, far from this imaginary centre, on the far margins of desire and dread. In many ways, Russia is the original cubist state, fractured and always splitting apart, an ideal kept alive by brute force. Russians clearly understand their centripetal fate, a fate the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov described as the Pageant of Retreat, the history of a people who wander and lust but cannot deal with either.
The camera doesn’t lie, because it doesn’t tell us the truth. Only Nature tells the truth, and we are forced to guess at what it is telling us, about what really happened on those nights, not so long ago.
Lighting for Beginners – New Date
Introduction to Professional Lighting for Beginners
Instructor: Jean Héguy
Session 2 due to popular demand.
Sunday, February 15th, 2009 10am - 5pm
Cost: $225 for one day.
Limit: 12 participants
This exciting one-day crash course will provide students with a hands-on introduction to professional lighting for photographers. This workshop is designed for photographers who are comfortable with their camera but have little to no experience with flash photography and professional lighting systems.
Jean will guide students through the various lighting options available to photographers today including off camera flash, strobe, soft boxes and how and when to use them This course will combine photographic lighting theory with practical exercises that allow students to gain experience setting up lights for different situations, properly metering when using flash, and how to make the perfect exposure when using multiple lights. The emphasis of this workshop is on helping students gain confidence in their ability to use professional lighting and providing them with the knowledge base to continue to use professional lighting in their own photography.
Johan Hallberg-Campbell
Introduction to Photography
Johan H-Campbell is a BFA Photography graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. Awarded Portrait photographer of his graduating year, he has exhibited his documentary style in Scotland and Canada. He has an advanced and extensive knowledge of film and digital cameras. Johan is currently a freelance photographer and Curator at Pikto.
Donald Weber
Documentary Photography
www.donaldweber.comOriginally from Toronto, Canada, Don is an award-winning photographer currently residing between Moscow and Kiev. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and also received the Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize and a World Press Award. Amongst other citations, Weber was one of PDN’s 30 in 2008 and named an Emerging Photo Pioneer by American Photo Magazine.
Tunisian Photographs
Rough, a recipient of multiple Canada Council and New Brunswick art grants has an uncanny ability to connect with people, environment and objects. This reflects strongly in his series of mysterious Tunisian photographic images, from striking portraiture to his scenes of barren landscapes.
Upcoming Workshops
XX Breaking into the Magazine Industry
Instructor: Liz Ikiriko
Sat. Jan. 10, 2009 10am - 5pm
Cost: $225 for one day
Limit: 12 participants
This one day course will cover the fundamentals of landing editorial jobs. Liz will discuss how to approach magazines and build relationships, how to prepare for shoots and how to surpass a magazine’s expectations.
As a current Photo Editor Liz will tell you what she is looking for, and as a photographer, she will explain what she has come to expect. Liz will talk to you about standard fees, promotional material, invoicing, putting a portfolio together, and identifying magazines suitable for your work. Students are requested to bring a portfolio or personal work for critique.
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