Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive photographic processes
Pittsburgh, PA USA
26-29 April 2007

The f295 Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive photographic
processes is being held in Pittsburgh, PA USA 26-29 April 2007. The
event brings eight contemporary "alternative" photographers together
to engage in discussion and debate regarding the rising use of
alternative photographic methods in an age of increasingly
sophisticated technological means.

This multi-day event offers lectures, round-table discussions, and
hands-on workshops held in association with Pittsburgh area arts
organizations. Don't miss this unique opportunity to join fellow
artists, photographers, historians, curators, enthusiasts, and others
to reflect on the state of contemporary photography, the rising use
of "alternative" photographic techniques, and what this means for
both the present and the future of the art.

The lectures and round-tables are being held in association with The
Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. They
will take place in McConomy Auditorium at the University Center as
part of The Perspectives on the Arts in Society Series.

For complete information see the symposium website:
www.f295.org/wordpress

Speakers & Topics Include:

Jo Babcock: Contemporary Pinhole Photography and its Place in
Photographic History
Jo Babcock"s work has been exhibited internationally, including
exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, the Alternative Museum, the Center for the Arts at Yerba
Buena Gardens, and the Sao Paulo Bienal. He is the author of The
Invented Camera: Low Tech Photography and Sculpture (Freedom Voices
Publications, 2005),

Craig Barber: Photography and Memory
Craig Barber is represented in several prominent museum and private
collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London; the Brooklyn Art Museum; the George
Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,
Buenos Aires, Argentia, among others. In 2006 Umbrage Editions
published his book, "Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited."

Barbara Ess: Reality, Representation and Lo-Fi Image-Making
Barbara Ess's work has been the subject of cover stories in Artforum
and Art in America magazines. She has had one-woman shows at the High
Museum of Art, Atlanta; Curt Marcus Gallery, New York; Faggionato
Fine Arts, London; and Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona, and at
galleries in Madrid, Los Angeles, Paris, Antwerp, Cologne, and
Washington. Her book, I Am Not This Body (Aperture 2001), was
selected as one of the ten top photography books of the year by the
Village Voice.

Alan Greene: Steps Leading to "Primitive Photography"
Alan Greene has had numerous solo and group exhibitions,and taught
photography as an adjunct professor and a leader of workshops. In
1998, he began experimenting with the 1840s-era calotype process and
building his own cameras and lenses. This culminated in the 2001
publication of a technical manual, Primitive Photography. He has
contributed to the Encyclopedia of 19th Century Photography and the
Vocabulaire technique de la photographie.

Patricia Katchur: Back to Basics: The Renaissance in Alternative and
Historic Photographic Processes
Currently Patricia is the director of the Center for Alternative and
Historic Processes (CFAAHP). She is also concentrating on the
development of the Ebauche Foundation for the Arts. For the previous
12 years she the driving force behind Sixty Eight Degrees black and
white photo lab.

Terry King, FRPS: Retro-Invention: A Revolution in Gold and Blue
In 1982 Terry King was awarded the fellowship of the Royal
Photographic Society for gum bichromate prints. As a result of the
lectures he was giving, he was asked if he would design and run a
yearlong workshop on alternative processes. This workshop became the
basis of the revival of alternative processes in the UK. The
workshops went under the title of "From Wedgwood to Bromoil". A
significant proportion of those now practising or teaching
alternative processes have now been taught by Terry"s students or
their students. In 1997 he started the Alternative Photography
International Symposium which developed a pattern of meeting in
alternate years in the UK and in Santa Fe in the US.

Mike Robinson: The Daguerreotype: Past, Present & Perfect
Mike Robinson is the proprietor of Mike Robinson's Century Darkroom,
in Toronto, Canada. His daguerreian art is in the collections of The
Portrait Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Hallmark
Fine Art Collection in Kansas City, The Snite Museum of Art at Notre
Dame University, The George Eastman House International Museum of
Photography and in many private collections. His work has also been
reproduced in Discover Magazine, Photo Ed, and Art & Antiques
Magazine. His chapter on albumen printing has been published in
Coming into Focus. His research into the working methodology of
Southworth & Hawes has been published in the exhibition catalogue,
Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes.