Houston Center for Photography

Introduction to Close to Home: Making Your Work More Personal | Wednesday | 1 – 2 pm
2020-05-27 | Online Learning

2020-05-21 22:30 - 23:30 UTC
Houston Center for Photography’s Words & Pictures Lecture Series is excited to bring together Sasha Wolf, independent curator and lecturer, and Malcolm Daniel, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in a virtual conversation on the topic of her recently-published book, PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. Across forty Q&A-style interviews, Wolf poses the same set of questions about photographic approach to forty leading photographers working in the field today, including Alejandro Cartagena, Robert Adams, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Justine Kurland. This conversation will interrogate key insights and discoveries revealed through this impressive cross-section of living artists.

About the Guests
Sasha Wolf represents emerging and midcareer fine-art photographers as a private practice, following a decade of running Sasha Wolf Gallery. Prior to her work in the fine-art photography world, Wolf was a writer, director, and producer in the film and television industries. Her short film Joe (1997) was nominated for the Palme d’Or du court métrage at Cannes.
Malcolm Daniel is the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was previously the Senior Curator and Curator in Charge of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is one of the world’s preeminent curators of 19th-century photography.

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Photoshop Tips, Tricks, & Hacks for Super Users | Thursdays | 4 – 6 pm
2020-05-21 - 2020-05-28 | Online Learning

HCP Annual Membership Meeting
2020-05-19 22:00 - 2020-05-20 00:00
Dear HCP Member,
During these unusual times, when we are separated physically from our community, we are reminded of just how vital photography is to our sense of connection to each other and the world around us. Creating community through our membership program is at the core of HCP’s mission, and every year we ask all of you to join us – the staff and the Board of Directors – to come together to celebrate our recent successes and to look to the future by voting on new Board Members.
Since we cannot gather together in our gallery space, we invite you to join us online for our Annual Members’ Meeting and a virtual happy hour. In addition to voting on the next slate of Board Members, we will provide an open forum to discuss how we’ve shifted our programs online during this pandemic as well as what the immediate future holds.
Thank you for your unwavering commitment to HCP. We look forward to “seeing” you virtually, and celebrating 39 years of connecting people with photography!
To virtually attend the meeting, please register below. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email for instructions to access the Zoom meeting, which you can join through a computer or smartphone. For more information about accessing the zoom meeting, click here.
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For more questions about your membership or the virtual meeting, please contact: info@hcponline.org
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Artist Statement 101 | Saturdays | 1 pm – 3 pm
2020-05-09 - 2020-05-16 | Online Learning

Storytelling through Photography | Thursdays | 6 pm – 8 pm
2020-05-07 - 2020-05-28 | Online Learning

Our Bodies in Nature | Mondays | 2 – 4 pm
2020-05-04 - 2020-05-18 | Online Learning

Smartphone Photography | Saturdays | 1 – 3 pm
2020-05-02 - 2020-05-16 | Online Learning

The Art of the Self-Portrait | Fridays | 2 – 4 pm
2020-05-01 - 2020-05-15 | Online Learning

Photographer's Sketchbook: Building a Daily Practice | Wednesdays | 3 – 4:30 pm
2020-04-29 - 2020-05-13 | Online Learning

Developing Your Photographic Voice Intensive | Sundays | 1 pm – 3 pm
2020-04-26 - 2020-05-17 | Online Learning

Out of the Box: Using Your Digital Camera | Saturday | 11 am - 2 pm
2020-04-25, 2020-03-28 | Online Learning

Words & Pictures Lecture Series: Dr. Tanisha Ford
2020-04-23 00:00 - 01:00 | Houston Center for Photography
Dr. Tanisha Ford
In conjunction with the exhibition, Tools of Revolution: Fashion Photography and Activism, Houston Center for Photography presents a lecture by Dr. Tanisha C. Ford on the under-recognized photographic work of Harlem-based, Civil Rights activist and photographer, Kwame Brathwaite. Having written extensively about Brathwaite’s work in Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019), Dr. Ford’s expertise on the artist combined with her scholarship on fashion and activism will offer our Houston community unique insight into the powerful intertwining histories of the Black Freedom movement and the rise of the global fashion industry.
Dr. Tanisha C. Ford is a foremost voice speaking on the intersection of politics and culture. She is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and Associate Professor of Africana Studies & History at the University of Delaware. A native of a mid-sized Midwestern city most people have never heard of, Tanisha enjoys telling the histories of often-overlooked people and places. Her commitment to social justice and communities of color is evident in everything she produces. Tanisha’s work centers on social movement history, feminist issues, material culture, the built environment, black life in the Rust Belt, girlhood studies, and fashion, beauty, and body politics. She makes connections between the past and the present in ways that shed refreshing new light on contemporary cultural and political issues. Tanisha is the author of three books: the forthcoming Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion, Kwame Brathwaite: Black is Beautiful, and Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. Her writing and cultural commentary have been featured in diverse media outlets and publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, ELLE.com, The Root, Aperture, CBSNews, WNYC, and New York City’s HOT 97.

Focusing Spot(lite): A Creative Space for Teens | Wednesdays | 2:00 – 4:00 pm
2020-04-22 - 2020-05-13 | Online Learning

Photoshop II | Mondays | 6 – 9 pm
2020-04-20 - 2020-05-04 | Online Learning

Virtual Opening Reception: Views from Levy Park
2020-04-18 21:00 - 23:00
© Shunney Nair
In partnership with Levy Park Conservancy, Houston Center for Photography is pleased to present a virtual opening reception for our virtual exhibition, Views from Levy Park. As a culmination of the Levy Park Photography Workshop, our yearlong community education program, this exhibition will include photographic works by artists who participated in our monthly workshops offered free to the community from May 2019 – April 2020. Representing a vast range of styles, all photographs were created at Levy Park under the guidance of teaching artist, Anne Houang. Please join us for a virtual opening reception via Zoom on Saturday, April 18th to meet the artists, hear them speak about their work, and celebrate a successful year of the Levy Park Photography Workshop!
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https://zoom.us/j/663673216
Meeting ID: 663 673 216

Camera Basics | Saturday | 12 – 6 pm
2020-04-18 | Online Learning

Introduction to Developing your Photographic Voice | Monday | 5:30 pm – 7 pm
2020-04-13 | Online Learning

Creating A Website For Your Portfolio | Thursdays | 10 am - 12 pm
2020-04-09 - 2020-04-30 | Online Learning

Photoshop I | Thursdays | 6-9 pm
2020-04-09 - 2020-04-23 | Online Learning

April 2020 Critique Group
2020-04-01 18:00 - 21:00

Lecture and Book Signing: Mike Osborne’s Federal Triangle
2020-03-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Houston Center for Photography
Thursday, March 26, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Houston Center for Photography is pleased to present a lecture and book signing with Austin-based photographer, Mike Osborne, discussing his recent body of work, Federal Triangle. Titled after a government complex wedged between the Capitol and the White House, Osborne’s work depicts Washington DC as a kind of bureaucratic Bermuda Triangle—an impenetrable place of mystery, danger, and disorientation.
The project grew out of the day-to-day experience of living in DC over a period of several years. Banal but intriguing, and sometimes darkly comical, these glimpses of power led to a cascade of questions. If a person were particularly prone to paranoid projections, what kinds of encounters might activate his darker conspiratorial fears and fantasies? If one felt especially dispossessed, what scenes and situations would evoke the paradoxical feeling of being close to yet far removed from the levers of power?
Federal Triangle engages these kinds of questions in pictorial terms. Everyday scenes are tinged with the possibility of violence and conspiracy. Withholding more than they reveal, the pictures invite projections that speak to the fear, doubt, dysfunction, and absurdity of the current moment in American political life.
This discussion is part of Houston Center for Photography’s ongoing series, Words & Pictures, a lecture and conversation series between photographers, writers, and thinkers of the medium.
Mike Osborne is a photographer whose work touches on a range of themes including architecture, landscape, history, and technology, ultimately taking the form of books and exhibitions. His photographs are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Contemporary Austin, and the University of Virginia. Federal Triangle, a project set in Washington, DC, will be published by Gnomic Book in 2019. His work has also appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, and The New Republic.

March 2020 Critique Group
2020-03-25 18:00 - 21:00

Large Format Film Cameras | Monday | 6-9 pm
2020-03-09

Lightroom Classic CC Crash Course | Tuesdays | 6-9 pm
2020-03-03 - 2020-03-10

Natural Light Portraiture Crash Course | Tuesdays | 3-6 pm
2020-03-03 - 2020-03-10

February 2020 Capture Crawl
2020-02-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Hermann Park – Pioneer Memorial Obelisk, 6100 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX, 77030, United States

Out of the Box: Using Your Digital Camera | Saturday | 11 am - 2 pm
2020-02-29

February 2020 Critique Group
2020-02-25 18:00 - 21:00
