Hello Friends of the Denver Darkroom !
With the holidays now behind us and springtime not too far around the corner, we have great news of new classes, new faculty, new workshops and other Denver Darkroom events and activities.
The faculty for Digital 1 and Digital 2 now consists of:
Jeffrey Rupp, an old-time friend, instructor and supporter of the Denver Darkroom.
David Speciarich, likewise an old-time DD member, is teaching Digital 1 again after a year or two absence. Welcome back, David!
And newly appointed to the faculty for Digital 1 is Marc Feldman, whose specialties include golf photography! Mark will be teaching a great Digital 1 class starting Monday, March 15th, 6-9 pm. to enroll email Standish at denverdarkroom@comcast.net.
We have just hired a fantastic pro to teach a class on Photoshop. The instructor is Peggy Dyer, a Boulder photographer, a great teacher and is heavily involved in many extraordinary photo projects and endeavors, including a forthcoming exhibition entitled “A Million Faces.” (She’s almost a third of the way done!) Check her out at peggydyer.com.
Peggy’s 4-week Photoshop class starts on Wednesday, 6-9, on March 24th, 6-9 pm, with a class limit of ten students and with tuition of $195. This Photoshop class is the obvious next step after completing the Digital 1 class, and is guaranteed to enormously enhance your digital photographic art skills.
New workshops, as follows:
Large Format Film Photography (March 13), Careers in Photography (April 3), and Wedding Photography (April 17). See the website for more details here.
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The big project right now is raising funds to enable us to offer a summertime class on the Early History of Film. We intend to convert the backyard into a very special outdoor screening area.
Just imagine, what could be more pleasurable—and in such interesting ways—than lying outdoors in a lawn chair amongst friends and fellow class-mates on a delicious summer evening, casual food and drink in hand, while taking in a classic film of the 1920s, film such as Caligari, Potemkin, Nanook of the North,, Man with a Movie Camera,, Sunrise, and others, together with superb live piano music filling the air and propelling and enhancing the moving movie image projected on an enormous luminous screen mounted on the back of the school building?
But why a class on the Early History of Film? For two reasons: 1) it’s my academic specialty; it is what I’ve been teaching most of my life at the university level. And, 2) Well, what’s your favorite film of the 20’s? Huh? You don’t really know, do you? That’s because those fantastic film masterworks of the ‘twenties just aren’t easily accessible. Nonetheless, that period is full of magnificent and powerful works of film art. You’ll see. What a fun contribution to Denver’s cultural offerings!