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JCC To Co-Host Photographers’ Symposium

JCC and Buffalo State College will co-host the 48th Annual University Photographers’ Association of America Technical Symposium at JCC June 22-26.

Fifty-three university photographers from across the U.S. and Canada will spend the week at JCC attending educational and inspirational presentations by some of the world’s leading photographers. This year’s symposium theme is “green.”

“We all know that June in western New York is a festival of green with its verdant rolling hills, vineyards, and farms,” noted Deb Lanni, coordinator of JCC’s communication and media arts programs and a co-coordinator of the symposium. “But this year, green takes on the additional connotation of environmental responsibility and the use of photography as a tool for social change,” she added.

Nick Vedros, a Canon Explorers of Light-sponsored speaker, is the one talk during the symposium that is free and open to the public. Vedros will discuss the evolution of his 30-plus year career in a presentation, “Shifting Styles and Staying Current,” from 10 a.m.-noon on June 25 in JCC’s Lenna Theatre.

Environmental photojournalist Gary Braasch kicks off the symposium with his documentation of the effects of global warming. Continuing on the theme will be Kristen Barlett Grace’s “The Green Photographer” and Gary Harwood’s “Visual Storytelling.”

The speakers’ lineup includes National Geographic photographer and The Moment It Clicks author Joe McNally; digital asset management guru and DAM Book author Peter Krogh; Small Strobes, Big Results location lighting specialist David X. Tejada; photo montage master and fine artist Stephen Marc; and photojournalist and multimedia photography specialist Will Yurman.

Member presenters will include Gary Harwood, Kristen Bartlett Grace, John Reid III, Jim Dusen, Mark Philbrick, and Jaren Wilkey. Panel discussion topics will include University Photography Ethics and New Media. Member panelists will include Glenn Carpenter, Kristen Hines Baker, Mark Philbrick, and Kristen Bartlett Grace.

While photographers attend the symposium presentations, their partners will have the opportunity to explore Amish country, visit Lily Dale, and tour Chautauqua County wineries. On Tuesday, they will also tour the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Darwin Martin House, Our Lady of Victory Basilica, and the Erie Botanical Garden.

Supplemental activities will feature early morning photo shoots and a sunset shoot from the top of a Peek n’ Peak ski slope as well as an evening sports shooting demo during a Jamestown Jammers game at Diethrick Stadium. A Nikon Shoot-out will take place at Chautauqua Institution, followed by a dinner cruise aboard the Chautauqua Belle.

Details on the UPAA organization and symposium are available by clicking on the Symposium 2009 link at www.upaa.org.