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Upcoming Photography Classes & Workshops
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Learn Your Digital Camera
$90.00 – $120.00A 1-Day Class
Fridays, October 6th and October 13th
5:30 PM– 8:30 PM
Ages 13+A 2-Day Photography Class for Ages 13+
Designed specifically for beginner photographers, this course will walk you through the essentials of how to use your digital mirrorless/SLR camera and all the key functions. Take a deep dive and become more comfortable with your camera, perfect for someone who has recently acquired a camera but hasn’t learned it inside and out yet.
You will learn photography tips about everything from shutter speed to aperture, depth of field to ISO. You will get a primer on how to compensate for bad lighting and how to compose your shot for maximum effect and better photos. By the end of the course, you‚ will be ready to take your photography skills to the next level and continue your education with a more advanced photography course.
This class will help you:
- Learn the most essential functions of your camera
- Gain confidence in putting new features into action
- Understand basic photographic terminology including the rule of thirds and the exposure triangle
- Get a solid understanding of lighting and composition techniques
- Figure out how to position yourself and your subject for optimal results
- Learn to take great photos with the camera you have without extra gear.
Location
CEPA Learning Center
Date & Time
Fridays, October 6th and October 13th
5:30 PM – 8:30 PMJoin CEPA Today and Save!
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
Learn about CEPA Membership »Check out the description below to learn more about the teaching artist for this workshop.
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Lumen Printing
$40.00 – $50.00A 1-Day Class
Saturday, October 14th
2:00p.m.–6:00p.m.
Ages 13+A 1-Day Photography Class for Ages 13+
This course is an introduction to a cameraless printing process known as lumen printing! Students will use botanical materials and light sensitive photographic paper to create photograms, AKA lumen prints. This alternative process for photography requires no camera to create vivid and colorful prints. As the plant materials used lie under the sun and glass and release moisture on the paper, they combine with the chemistry to create the colors in paper that would otherwise be black and white.
Learning Outcomes
Students will learn how to employ materials to create a successful lumen print
Students will learn why the chemical process of lumens works
Students will utilize figure ground relationships for dynamic compositionsInstructor Bio
Salem Browning has a BFA in Fine arts with a concentration in photography from East Carolina University and is currently an MFA candidate at SUNY at Buffalo. Salem is an image based artist that works primarily in cyanotype and image transfers and teaches photography courses at UB.Location
CEPA Education Center
Date & Time
Saturday, October 14th
2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.Join CEPA Today and Save!
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
Learn about CEPA Membership »Check out the description below to learn more about the teaching artist for this workshop.
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Phone Photography
$60.00 – $75.00A 1-Day Class
Saturday, October 21st
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Ages 13+A 1-Day Photography Class for Ages 16+
A phone camera is a powerful tool, whether an Apple or Android. This class will help you unlock the potential of your smartphone so you can take awesome photos wherever you go. Discover new apps and practice processing images right on the phone. You can crop, correct color, apply filters, and more.
The best opportunity for photos is usually the camera in your pocket. This class will cover how to find the best light for your subject and tips to add light to make it pop. We will discuss composition techniques or ways to frame your subject, so they are most pleasing in the photo. The ins and outs of when to use portrait mode, HDR, or even filters for more effects. With this class, you’ll be taking photos that make memories last a lifetime.
Location
CEPA Gallery Education Center
Date & Time
Saturday, October 21st
2:00 pm – 6:00 pmJoin CEPA Today and Save!
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
Learn about CEPA Membership »Check out the description below to learn more about the teaching artist for this workshop.
Features from the CEPA Shop
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Odyssey | Warriors Come Home: Combat Veterans Photograph Life After War (2020)
$35.00 – $45.00Through photography, combat veterans explore their journey back from war. Thirty-seven veterans participated in The Odyssey Workshops, a year long collaborative photography project led by artist Brendan Bannon and Marine Scout/Sniper Julian Chinana. This book explores the endless journey home from war in images that reveal the veterans’ challenges and victories over circumstances.
Preview“There is anguish here, and joy, resilience, pain and courage, and experimentation of all sorts with form in the pursuit of discoveries that might make lives better, or at least more vividly real. Here we witness an odyssey of self-introspection, of battles fought and those still being fought. And they resonate.”
~Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus, International Center of Photography
“This is one of the great photo books about the experience of war, one like no other. Every contributor to Odyssey|Warriors Come Home has been there, on the ground. They all came back, bearing memories and deep feelings. These photographs tell us what words could not. They tell us what it was like to have been the warrior, the care-giver, and the person back home when there are no words to express what happened.”
~Bruce Jackson
SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture
Co-director, SUNY Buffalo Creative Arts Initiative● Soft bound : 176 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-35-6
● Product Dimensions : 10 x 9/16 x 8 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (December 2020)
● Language : English -
Ascension of Black Stillness (2021)
$25.00Ascension 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 -
David Levinthal: Heroes, Sluts and Servants (2022)
$10.00David 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
Support CEPA
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Gift Certificates
From: $1.00Not 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.
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Lab Card
$30.00Not 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!
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Make a One-time Donation to CEPA
From: $1.00(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.
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About CEPA
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.
Support CEPA
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.