A Life in Photography

Joyce Tenneson will give the keynote presentation in Philadelphia and Chicago

This will be an unique opportunity to get a sneak preview of Joyce Tenneson’s retrospective, Joyce Tenneson: A Life in Photography.

Joyce Tenneson’s lecture, A Life in Photography, will include works from Tenneson’s entire career, including work from the books Transformations, Flower Portraits, Light Warriors, Illuminations, Wise Women, and Intimacy, as well as previously unseen early images, self-portraits, and writings. This will be a rare walk through the life of an extraordinary talent who has inspired a whole new generation of photographers.

Tenneson will talk about the challenges she has had throughout her career to continue connecting with her creative roots. This is a time to sit back and think about how to re-energize your career.

In celebration of three decades of photographic work, Bulfinch Press will publish a retrospective book by Joyce Tenneson. One of the most respected photographers of our time, she has been described by critics as “one of America’s most interesting portrayers of the human character.” The book will be available in 2008.

The Opened Eye Sees More

Sean Kernan will give the keynote presentation in Los Angeles and Atlanta

You may have worked hard to become a reliable professional photographer, but that was not what you started out to be, was it? Photography, when it first catches us, offers us the thrill of creativity. We don’t know what we are doing with it, but we love that it puts it in the middle of things and lets us see so much in ways that are strange and new.

Ten or twenty years later we know exactly what we’re doing. And that’s the problem. We know just how to make it do what we want. Photography, which used to surprise us and lead us on, has become a routine. So where did that naked excitement go? Can we get it back?

We can learn from our earliest creativity, before we had all the answers and all our habits, even before we were photographing. Real creativity expands our minds, sets us looking for what we don’t know is there, makes us court surprise. It wakes us up, from birth on.

What happens when we set aside the photographer we’ve become and look for what that photographer no longer sees? Let’s look at seeing, just seeing, without the need for the result to be acceptable, or even to be a photograph.

This talk will show you that you already have creativity in you, as naturally as breathing. It will give you ways to locate the creative state and work in it. In the end, you’ll have to take it all home and do the rest.

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