MAIA SUTNIK: PHOTOGAPHY: Be aware, Be inspired, Be passionate, Be courageous, Be a Collector!
- May 16, 2007

Maia-Mari Sutnik, Curator of Photography for the Art Gallery of Ontario, is in the thick of things as the AGO expands. Under Transformation AGO, photography will be given better play in a much enlarged permanent gallery space. Her talk is sure to rekindle your own involvement in collecting photography. She began developing the AGO photography collection in 1979.

MOVIE MOVIE NITE: Okay, we all need a break! This month we go to the movies
with a film selected by our TVO representative, and fair chairman, Mark Singer
- June 20th, 2007

Come out and join us for a social evening before we break for the summer. The movie is "Dreamland: A History of Canadian Movies". Details are in the E-mail Newsletter 7-3. Free popcorn. Meet your friends, pickup a new gadget for your collection - or sell one to someone else, then sit for a bit and enjoy the movie.

GORDON BROWN: Photography BC and AD - Before Computers and After Digital
- September 19th, 2007

We return from our summer break with a bang! Gordon Brown enjoyed a 33-year photographic career at EastmanKodakCompany where he taught photographic workshops, worked in scientific photography, and coordinated black-and-white products. A MENSA member, Gord has a BS in Photographic Science from RIT, and a Masters in Education. Gord is a photographer, author, consultant and teacher. Join us to hear his views on the transition we have experienced and are experiencing today as photography continues its move to the digital era.

ELIZABETH BRAYER: The Prodigious life of George Eastman
- October 17th, 2007

George Eastman was one of the giants of photography, opening the art to the common people. His innovations brought us roll film, commercial print processing, and small inexpensive cameras. We think of photography when we hear about George Eastman, but he did so much more in the fields of education, health, and music.

Elizabeth Brayer has written many articles on architecture, including a number on George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. In the 1980s, she participated in the restoration of the GEH and grounds. She subsequently wrote her famous biography. Join us in October and meet the author of this definitive biography of the brilliant and secretive man who became a world leader in the photographic industry.

SILVANO VENUTO Jr: Recent Changes in the Professional Photographic Lab
- November 21, 2007

Silvano Color Labs have been serving the photo finishing needs of wedding, social, school, sports and industrial-commercial photographers, wedding couples and consumers for 52 years.

Join us ON SITE to see first hand how a leader in the industry is shaping the future of the professional lab. The tour will start at 8:00 pm. Following this, there will be an opportunity for discussion and Q&A over some refreshments. Of interest will be the changes in the industry that have taken place over the past 10 years and more recently over the past year.

RAFAEL GOLDCHAIN: Recent Shifts in Photographic Education (@ Sheridan)
-January 16, 2008

Mr Goldchain is currently Program Coordinator of the Applied Photography Program at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ontario.

Born in Santiago, Chile, Mr Goldchain received an MFA from York University and a BAA from Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. As an artist, photographer and educator he is well qualified to speak on recent changes.

His photographs have been shown in Canada, Chile, USA, Cuba, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Mexico. Visit his websitewww.rafaelgoldchain.com for an exhibition Familial Ground - digitally altered self-portrait photos.

VINCENZO PIETROPAOLO: The Immigrant Experience
- February 20th, 2008

Mr Pietropaolo is a Toronto based documentary photographer and author.

Born in Calabria, Italy, Mr Pietropaolo moved to Toronto when he was 12. After a 17 year career as an urban planner with the city, he followed his life-long dream and became a photographer.

His most recent publication is "Not Paved with Gold", the story of the Italian Canadian immigrants of the 1970s. The book was supported by "Mariano A. Ellis Chair in Italian Canadian Studies" at Toronto's York University. Please join us in hearing Vincenzo's fascinating story.

ROB SKEOCH: Observations of a large format photographer
- March 19th, 2008

Canadian born Rob Skeoch has been working as a photographer in the Burlington, Ontario area all his adult life.Throughout these years he has maintained his passion for black and white landscape work, and it's out of this love for large format photography that he started the Big Camera Workshops in north Burlington.

Rob travels throughout North America giving workshops and talking with photographers. He has found a huge diversity in what photographers are doing... from those who have gone back to wet plate to those who use digital files and make large format negatives for platinum printing.

This was an informal discussion of the trends Rob has seen and where they might lead.