December 2, 2008, 7 p.m. ASMP/Alaska "First Tuesday" slide lecture. Wasilla photographer Bill Hess will present, Left Handed Photography, The Injured Series, in the auditorium of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center.
Bill Hess is an accomplished professional photojournalist who suffered a fall while on assignment in Barrow on June 12th. While recuperating from a broken shoulder, Bill has been forced to photograph with only the use of his left hand. Despite this setback, he has produced at least one photograph each day since the accident and has been publishing many of them online in two blogs: No Cats Allowed -- Grahamn Kracker's Kracker Cat Blog and Wasilla, Alaska, by 300 ... and then some. The stories of his struggles and the resulting imagery are the basis of his presentation.
Bill Hess launched his career in 1976 when he took the publication of the Fort Apache Scout, the newspaper of Arizona's White Mountain Apache Tribe. As a one-man operation, Bill Hess did the photography, reporting, writing, layout, production, ad sales and even hand delivered the copies to subscribers.
In 1980, Bill Hess wrote and photographed a three part article on the White Mountain Apache for the National Geographic magazine. It was, however, his dream to live in Alaska and in 1981 he and his wife sold most of what they owned, packed up their four children and hit the highway headed north. Over the past 25 years, Bill Hess has invested his time and talents in documenting Alaska's Native communities. His book, Gift of the Whale: The Inupiat Bowhead Hunt - A Sacred Tradition, was published by Sasquatch and his book, Celebration: Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Dancing on the Land, combining Hess's photography with the writings of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian authors, was recently published by University of Washington Press. Bill Hess is a recipient of a W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
The program, in the auditorium at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, is open to the public; admission is free.
MORE ANCHORAGE AREA EVENTS:
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classes With Hal Gage
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November 14-December 30, 2008, Rarefied Light 2008, a statewide juried photography exhibit sponsored by Alaska Photographic Center (APC), exhibited at the Anchorage Museum concurrently with photographs by Juror David Hilliard.
November 18, 2008, 7 p.m. Alaska Photographic Center (APC) "Third Tuesday" meeting. Ward Hurlbut presents Sahara. Ward just returned from a month in the Sahara Desert. His images are of remote and primitive areas in Morocco, Mauritania and north of Timbuktu in Mali. A long time Alaskan artist, photographer, and winner of several All-Alaska Juried shows and other awards, Ward has been in Rarefied Light several times. Ward has traveled extensively, photographing in many undeveloped areas of the world. The meeting, in the classroom at the Anchorage Museum, is free and open to the public.
November 28, 2008, AlaskaWILD 2008, sponsored by Alaska Society of Outdoor and Nature Photographers (ASONP), opens at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. The show will hang through January 2, 2009.
December 4, 2008, noon, "First Thursday" Photo Lunch at The Alaska Bagel Restaurant, 113 W. Northern Lights Blvd. No host, no agenda, lunch for anyone interested in photography, first Thursday of each month. Just come.
December 7, 2008, 5 p.m. ASMP/ASONP/APC/DIG (and guests) HOLIDAY POT LUCK PARTY at Clark and Mitzi Mishler's home/studio, 1238 G Street (second house from NW corner of 13th and G Street). Clark suggests a Mexican Christmas pot luck and that everyone bring something to eat as well as a "stupid" wrapped gift. (Gifts can relate to photography or not, but the "stupider" the better. In any case, please try not to purchase anything; simply wrap up something you would like to get rid of!) Also, photographers should bring digital images to project and share (recent images are good; recent funny images are better). If you get lost, call 279-8847 for directions. Please park on the street and not in Clark's neighbors' parking spots off the alley (behind and north of his house).
December 10, 2008 7:00 p.m., Polar Marine Mammals, Climate Change and Life on Thinning Ice, presented by Mike Castellini, professor and Associate Dean in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, shares research about polar bears, seals, penguins and birds and discusses how ice is important to their breeding, hunting, resting and social systems. This program is part of the Wildlife Wednesdays series sponsored by Alaska Geographic. The program, in the Wilda Marston Theater at the Z.J. Loussac Library, 3600 Denali Street, is free and open to the public.
December 16, 2008, 7 p.m., Katmai -- Beyond the Bears, sponsored by Alaska Society of Outdoor and Nature Photographers (ASONP). ASONP members Ike Waits and Ed Bovy spent 10 days in the Valley of 10,000 Smokes looking for the perfect landscape photo. Did they succeed? Come and see the results of their search. The meeting, in the classroom at the Anchorage Museum, is free and open to the public. (*Please note that due to rescheduling around a conflict this is not the regular ASONP second Tuesday of the month, but the third Tuesday.)
Volunteers Needed for Photographic Opportunity
Julie Decker is organizing a project called FREEZE (www.freezeproject.org). This is a project involving a month-long series (January 2009) of public programs about the north (lectures, workshops, kids activities, book fair, energy fair, health fair...) and a series of large-scale, outdoor installations along the Delaney Park Strip. She would like to have photography play a big role in the project, and is looking for people interested in helping with the project. Activities include creating a calendar, teaching a kids' workshop on photography, working with a guest artist-in-residence, a photography competition, documenting events, etc.
Anyone interested in this project should contact Julie Decker: julied@alaskalife.net
KENAI/SOLDOTNA AREA EVENTS:
January 9-February 4, 2009, Rarefied Light 2008, statewide juried photography exhibit, selected by Juror David Hilliard and sponsored by Alaska Photographic Center (APC), exhibited at Kenai Peninsula College, 34820 College Drive. Opening Reception January 9th, 4-6p.m.
CORDOVA AREA EVENTS:
February 20-March 20, 2009, Rarefied Light 2008, statewide juried photography exhibit, selected by Juror David Hilliard and sponsored by Alaska Photographic Center (APC), exhibited at Cordova Historical Museum, 622 First Street. Opening Reception February 20, 5-7p.m.
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