Houston Center for Photography

Introduction to Fine Art Printing
2021-07-07 - 2021-07-28 | Houston Center for Photography

Words And Pictures Lecture Series: In Conversation: Briana Vargas (2020 Carol Crow Fellow) and Mauricio Palos (documentarist and cultural promoter, San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
2021-07-09 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | HCP Online
What does it mean to make photographic work about and in a community? What are the ethics of telling others’ stories? How can these stories transcend regional and national borders, and connect disparate communities? Finally, what can pictures do, and what are their limitations? Join HCP’s 2020 Carol Crow Memorial Fellow, Briana Vargas, and Mauricio Palos, award-winning documentalist and cultural promoter, as they discuss these questions around Centro Cultural Tenexcalco, where Vargas realized her fellowship body of work, Dicen. Founded and directed by Palos, Tenexcalco is located in the rural, mostly Nahua community in San Luis Potosí in central Mexico. Its work focuses on supporting and strengthening local cultures, and providing access to creative activities for both Spanish- and Nahuatl-speaking youth.
The conversation will be held in English, and will be moderated by Dorota Biczel, HCP’s new Executive Director and Curator.
Archived conversation will be available for viewing on HCP’s Vimeo page.
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About Briana Vargas & Dicen
For her body of work Dicen, Briana Vargas photographed communities around December 12, the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, in la Huasteca Potosina, a rural region in Mexico’s state of San Luis Potosi. The Virgin of Guadalupe, a ubiquitous symbol in Latin America, is for Vargas also an evocation of her own roots. She has observed that young people may not be as familiar with the legends that have been passed down from generation to generation, but the symbol of the Virgin is a constant. Other symbols abound in Vargas’s images. There are ladders, stone steps, and spiral staircases, which have practical uses (to reach the trees’ fruits during harvest time, for example), but also connect our earthly world with the sacred world above. The series also includes a number of two-part photographs, in which two exposures have been brought together, side-by-side, into one composition, to create a surreal or enigmatic new image. Briana is the recipient of the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship.
About Mauricio Palos
Mauricio Palos (born 1981 San Luis Potosí, Mexico) Documentalist and cultural promoter, works mainly in North and South America.
His work explores a variety of topics related to human rights, historical memory related to political crises and land conflicts. His first book My Perro Rano, Chronicles of Central America, was published in 2010 by Editorial RM with the support of the Ford Foundation and the National Fund for Arts and Culture in Mexico. My Perro explores the causes that drive millions of Central American immigrants to search for a better life by embarking on one of the most dangerous trips to be made in the Americas, the book was chosen as one of the best photobooks of 2011 by the British Journal of Photography.

In-Person Summer Photography Camp
2021-07-12 - 2021-07-16, 2021-07-26 - 2021-07-30 | Houston Center for Photography

Photography I: Learning the Basics
2021-07-12 - 2021-08-02, 2021-08-10 - 2021-08-31 | Online Learning

History of Photography
2021-07-13 - 2021-07-27 | Online Learning

Words and Pictures: In Conversation: Elizabeth Bick and Dorota Biczel
2021-07-16 16:00 - 17:00 | HCP Online
MOVEMENT STUDY III: CIRCLING A HAWK by Elizabeth Bick
In Conversation: Elizabeth Bick (2020 HCP Fellow) and Dorota Biczel (ED and Curator, HCP)
How can photography be intermediatic? What even are the intermedia? How does an intermediatic approach alter customary expectations of distance and intimacy in photography? Artist Elizabeth Bick and HCP’s Executive Director and Curator, Dorota Biczel, discuss Bick’s practice informed by her training in modern dance. At the core of Bick’s work are relationships between architecture, urban fabric, movement, and image, and what it ultimately means to be a body in space.
Archived conversation will be available for viewing on HCP’s Vimeo page.
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About Elizabeth Bick’s Movement Studies
After a childhood dedicated to dance, Elizabeth Bick found a choreographic voice through photography. Movement Studies is a three-volume work that portrays a gridded anonymous street, a chosen corner, and finally, one individual. Movement Study I is a distant, peering typology study of patterned movement in occupied transient urban landscapes. Through this scavenger hunt, Movement Study II, a temporary construction facade, and a populated pedestrian corner was discovered and photographed for years. Movement Study III is dedicated to B Hawk, whom, by chance, Bick photographed at the location of Movement Study II, and then exclusively photographed them as they underwent gender transition. The work operates vertically and cyclically, narrowing a perception of the urban experience. Elizabeth is the recipient of the 2020 HCP Fellowship.

Introduction to Studio Lighting: Still Life & Product
2021-07-17 - 2021-07-18 | Houston Center for Photography

Remix: Reconceiving the Family Photo Album Workshop & Intensive
2021-07-18 - 2021-08-15 | Online Learning

Light Meters & The Lies They Tell You
2021-07-25 | Online Learning

Photographer's Sketchbook: Building a Daily Practice
2021-08-06 - 2021-08-27 | Online Learning

Become a Photoshop Super User: Tips, Tricks, & Hacks
2021-08-13 - 2021-08-27 | Online Learning

Alternative Printing: Cyanotypes
2021-08-14 - 2021-08-15 | Houston Center for Photography

Large Format Fine Art Printing
2021-08-14 - 2021-08-28 | Houston Center for Photography

Camera Basics
2021-08-15 - 2021-08-22 | Houston Center for Photography

Studio Lighting: Portraiture
2021-08-17 - 2021-08-31 | Houston Center for Photography

Photography I: Learning the Basics
2021-08-17 - 2021-09-07, 2021-09-13 - 2021-09-27 | Houston Center for Photography

Celebrating 38th Center Annual: Kris Graves & Artists in Conversation
2021-08-26 17:00 - 18:30
Join Juror Kris Graves and the artists of 38th Center Annual in an online celebration for the show! Over the past weeks, Center Annual has provided a diverse range of works to be viewed by the public at HCP. The show, as Graves states, contains “imagery that has the potential to change stagnant viewpoints about the world we live in.” Save the date and be a part of the conversation!
The event will take place on Thursday, August 26, 5:00–6:30pm CT/ 6:00–7:30pm ET.
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Contemporary History of Artist Books
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Abstract Photography: Exploration & Experimentation
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Photoshop I: Getting Started
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