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A 2-Day Class
Saturday, September 9th and 16th
10:00am–1:00pm
Ages 16+
This course serves as an introduction to the basics of digital photography. Over the two day workshop, students will learn how to set up and use their digital cameras, the basic methods for properly exposing photographs, and tips for creating compelling images with your camera. This class will also cover the workflow for uploading and editing images in Adobe Camera Raw. It is required that you have a digital camera to participate in this course.
Robert George has a B.A. in English and in Media Studies (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), and an MFA in Studio Art from SUNY at Buffalo. His primary artistic focus is photography, which he teaches both at CEPA and on the University level.
Participants must have a digital camera with the capability to shoot in RAW. CEPA has limited cameras available to rent. Please call or email info@cepagallery.org to arrange a camera rental.
CEPA Learning Center
This class is limited to 8 participants.
Saturday, September 9th and 16th
10:00am–1:00pm
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
Learn about CEPA Membership »
A 2-Day Class
Saturday, September, 23 and 30
10:00am–1:00pm
Ages 16+
This course serves as an introduction to the basics of black and white 35mm photography. Over the two day workshop, students will learn how to use a 35mm camera, load, expose and develop film, as well as how make prints in the darkroom. Day one covers all the camera basics, a photo walk, and film development. Day two introduces students to enlarging and printing photos in the darkroom.
Nate Ely has a BFA in studio art from SUNY at Buffalo and a BA in film/photography from Binghamton University. Nate has taught photography at Buffalo State, D’Youville, and UB since 2017. The particular focus of his work is in traditional/experimental photography.
Supplies are included. Students are recommended to have their own, tested and fully functional 35mm camera with full manual controls for the class. CEPA does have a limited number of 35mm cameras available to rent.
Please call or email info@cepagallery.org if you have questions about your camera or to arrange a camera rental.
CEPA Learning Center
This class is limited to 8 participants.
Saturdays, September, 23 and 30
10:00am–1:00pm
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
Learn about CEPA Membership »
David Levinthal: Heroes, Sluts and Servants
Mis/Representation in Material Culture
● 40 pages full color
● ISBN: 978-0-939784-36-3
● Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery 2022
● Language : English
Exhibition publication from Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive in the Time of a Pandemic (2020) explores the polarity between the mechanical realism of the camera and chance expressionism of time, nature, and the maker’s hand that liberates photo-based images from their formal literalness and launches them into surprising territory.
By dispensing with the classic notion of a frozen photographic moment, wild things happen.
● Spiral bound : 75 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-34-9
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (2020)
● Language : English
Ascension of Black Stillness, Black Existence and Exploration Through The Disruption of Still Photography
An Exhibition of Black Hope, Alternate Realities, and Parallel Universes Curated by Stacey Robinson
● Perfect bound : 93 pages full color
● ISBN: 978-1-939026-16-3
● Product Dimensions : 8.5 x 11 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery 2021
● Language : English
● ISBN: 978-1-939026-05-7
Not sure what birthday or holiday gift to get for the photographer in your life? How about a gift certificate for CEPA Gallery? Good toward classes, workshops, digital lab and darkroom rentals, or limited edition prints.
Select an amount below, or name the amount you want. The gift certificate will be mailed to you within days and is good for one year.
Not sure what birthday or holiday gift to get for the photographer in your life?
We are now offering punch cards for 6 Hours of Digital or Darkroom Lab Time. Perfect for the darkroom aficionado without a darkroom, or someone looking for a place to print their own work. Save a few bucks off the hourly rate for non-members by buying several hours at a time.
Interested in Discounted Rates? Become a member today!
(Want to make a recurring donation to CEPA? CLICK HERE.)
CEPA is supported by dedicated patrons, artists, collectors, and community members. We would not exist without your generosity. We invite you to join us by visiting our gallery, becoming a member, taking a class, making a monetary donation, or donating your time by joining our Board of Directors or Committees.
Your tax-deductible gift of any amount is deeply appreciated. Unrestricted donations allow us to use the funds where they are most needed, but you may designate your gift towards Arts Education, the Contemporary Photography and Visual Arts program, or the upcoming special exhibit Photography and the Holocaust, Then and Now.

Located in Buffalo’s historic Market Arcade Complex, CEPA Gallery is a contemporary photography and visual arts center with impact in both local and national communities.
Originally incorporated as the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts to serve as a community darkroom and exhibition space, CEPA Gallery was founded during the Alternative Space Movement in May 1974 by recent graduates of the University of Buffalo.

Our funders are just one way CEPA is able to continue on this trajectory, meeting the needs of artists and our community with artistic and arts education programming of the highest international caliber and repute.
Learn more about how you can support CEPA and the arts in Western New York today.