Next Meetings:
Thursday,
Aug 11, 7:00 PM
Virtual
Where:
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Speaker: Peter Turnley
Subject:
Moments of the Human Condition
Peter Turnley, a renown photographer and
photojournalist who has traveled over the past 50 years to more than
90 countries, will give a visual tour of his life in photography,
“Moments of the Human Condition”.
This presentation will include images from
his witnessing most of the major world geo-political news stories of
the past 4 decades, along with his long term documentation of life
in his adopted city of Paris, and a more than 30 year documentation
of the spirit of the people of Cuba.
Bio:
Peter Turnley is renowned for his photography of the realities of
the human condition. His photographs have been featured on the cover
of Newsweek forty-three times and are published frequently in many of
the world’s most prestigious publications. He has worked in over
ninety countries and has witnessed most major stories of
international geopolitical and historic significance in the last
forty years.
A graduate of the University of Michigan,
the Sorbonne of Paris, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris,
and Harvard, where he completed a Nieman Fellowship in 2000-2001.
Turnley has received honorary doctorate degrees from the New School
of Social Research in New York, Ohio Wesleyan University and St.
Francis College of Indiana.
Among the many international awards
Turnley has won is the Overseas Press Club Award for Best
Photographic Reporting from Abroad. He was a nominee this year for
the Visa D’Or Award for News from the prestigious internatonal
photojourmalism festival, “Visa Pour L’Image” in France.
Turnley has both American and French
nationality, and has published seven books: Beijing Spring, Moments
of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, McClellan
Street, French Kiss: A Love Letter to Paris, and Cuba: A Grace of
Spirit. His new acclaimed book, A New York-Paris Visual Diary: The
Human Face of Covid-19, can be purchased only on his
website:www.peterturnley.com
Meeting Infomation
Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (EDT)
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Outing Planned
Charlotte Camera Club has
scheduled an outing at The Whitewater Center for Saturday, August 20th.
We will meet at Guest Services at 8:00 am. The parking fee is
$6.00. If you want to participate in any activities, that is a
separate fee.
https://center.whitewater.org/
We’re challenging you to get
an action shot using whatever technique you choose. The
River’s Edge Restaurant will be our meeting place for an 11:30
lunch. Hope to see you then.
Please RSVP to Joan Showers
at
jnshowers@gmail.com or
Barbara Gore at
bgorephoto@gmail.com
52 Week
Photography Challenge
This
challenge will encourage participants to take and process an image
each
week for inclusion in the 52 Week Challenge Gallery on the
Charlotte Camera
Club Website.
Rules of
the Challenge
1. Use the attached list of Weekly Themes.
2. Images must be taken during the week of the challenge.
3. The weekly challenge runs from Monday to Sunday, and an image
must be
submitted to the website by midnight on the Tuesday
following the close of
the week. Images submitted after Tuesday will
not be posted.
4. Resize images to no more than 1400 pixels on the long side by no
more than 1050 pixels on the short side.
5. The file name format:
<Week Number>-<Submitter’s Name>-<Image Title>.jpg
6. The image must be uploaded to the following link: NOTE: This is a
new link.
7.https://charlottecameraclub.smugmug.com/upload/cPqS9R/52WeekChallengeUpload
8. Only one
image per week per submitter is allowed.
9. An image does not need to be submitted every week. Some weeks can be skipped, but do as many as you can.
10. There are no prizes beyond bragging rights.
11. Here is a link to the challenge document: 52
Week Challenge
12.
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