education programs at the prcWORKSHOPThe Unconventional Portrait:A Workshop withWild Bill MeltonThis program will be a two-part workshop. Theparticipants will meet Tuesday evening at the PRCfor a slide presentation/discussion about portraiture.Melton will present some of his own work,as well as that of other interesting photographers.Participants are encouraged to bring samples oftheir own work to discuss.The second part of the workshop will take placeat Melton’s studio in New Hampshire (45 minfrom <strong>Boston</strong>). This will be a full day of hands-onparticipation with live situations and models. Inaddition to touching upon the technical aspectsof portraiture, Melton will discuss the psychologyof dealing with people. Melton will also talkabout environmental/landscape portraits andstreet shooting, since some of the best portraitsare completely spontaneous.Melton was born and raised in Lake Charles,Louisiana and has been shooting pictures professionallyfor 20 years. He lives in <strong>Boston</strong>, but his business,Wild Bill Studios is based in New Hampshire andNew York City. He shoots advertising campaigns,fashion, and annual reports for clientele worldwide.Some of his most notable clients are Lapham Miller,Cambridge University, Young and Rubicam, TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, Agilent Technologies,Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, and Continental© Wild Bill Melton.Airlines. Most recently he shot the worldwide printcampaign for Schweppes starring Clive the spottedLeopard. Over the years he has become one of theworld’s premier exotic animal photographers bringingthe animals into “human like” situations. Pleasevisit www.wildbillstudios.com for more information.Lucas Samaras, Untitled, 1974, Manipulated Time ZeroSupercolor photograph. © Lucas Samaras. Courtesy of thePolaroid Collections.Creative Polaroid Techniques:A Seminar withDick LombardiWednesday, January 22, 2002, 6-9pmPhotographic Resource Center$55 Members/$75 Non-MembersReservations required.Please call 617-353-0700The most common creative uses of Polaroid filmsand imaging solutions are Image Transfer, whichis a dye transfer process that involves peelingapart the negative prematurely; Emulsion Lift,which involves soaking the Polaroid print andlifting the emulsion off the paper; and SX-70Manipulation, which involves the manipulationof the image-bearing gel within SX-70 film. Thisthree-hour seminar will cover these three techniquesstep-by-step, and will introduce you toendless variations of these basic processes. Thisseminar will inspire you to add an individual creativetouch to your Polaroid images. All participantsare encouraged to bring a 35mm slide.James Nachtwey.FILMWar PhotographerA Documentary Film on James Nachtwey,presented as part of the Human Rights WatchInternational Film Festival. Directed andproduced by Christian Frei-Switzerland-2001.Co-presented by the Human Rights Watchand the Northeastern University School ofJournalism.Sunday, January 26 <strong>2003</strong>, 1pm.Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre. All tickets $9.Tickets go on sale December 15, 2002 at theCoolidge Corner Movie Theatre.In one of the world's countless crisis areas, surroundedby suffering, death, and chaos, awardwinningphotographer James Nachtwey searchesfor a picture that will convey what he sees to therest of the world. He’s a shy man who is consideredone of the bravest and most important warphotographers of our time, but he hardly fits thecliché of the hard-boiled war veteran. If webelieve Hollywood pictures, war photographersare all macho men and cynical old troupers. Howcan they think about "exposure time" in the verymoment of dread? Nachtwey is no rumblingswaggerer, but an unobtrusive man with gray hairand the deliberation of a lecturer in philosophy.(2002 Academy Award nominee, documentaryfilm)Director and producer Christian Frei followedJames Nachtwey for two years into the wars ofIndonesia, Kosovo, Palestine…He used specialmicro-cameras attached to Nachtwey’s own camera.The audience sees Nachtwey looking for thedecisive moment. They see what the photographeris seeing and hear every breath he takes. Forthe first time in the history of movies, this techniqueallowed for an authentic insight into thework of a concerned photo-journalist.Fifteen years ago, Human Rights Watch createdthe Human Rights Watch International Film Festivalin recognition of the power of film to educateand galvanize a broad cross-section of concernedsupporters. Human Rights Watch’s InternationalFilm Festival has become a leading venuefor distinguished fiction, documentary and animatedfilms and videos with a distinctive humanrights theme. The Human Rights Watch InternationalFilm Festival brings its program of challengingand provocative films back to <strong>Boston</strong> fora third season with a four-day festival runningJanuary 23-26, <strong>2003</strong>.LECTURESFinal Exposure: Portraitsfrom Death Row –Newly Republished by AFSCA Lecture and Book Signing by Lou JonesThursday, <strong>February</strong> 6, <strong>2003</strong>, 6pmPhotographic Resource CenterFree to the public.Reservations recommended.Please Call 617-353-0700In 1990, Jones began a six-year odyssey of documentingmen and women on death row. Theresulting photo project and book, Final Exposure,published in 1996 by Northeastern UniversityPress, was soon sold out. <strong>2003</strong> brings therepublication of the book by the AmericanFriends Service Committee. Newly rewrittenand redesigned, it offers additional photographswhile maintaining the sense of stark reality thatdefines its immense impact. Books are availableonline at www.afsc.org/resource/newlist.htm, orby calling 888-988-2372.Jones is one of <strong>Boston</strong>’s most diverse fine art andcommercial photographers. This award-winningphotographer specializes in advertising,corporate and editorial projects, with a uniqueroster of clients such as National Geographic,Paris Match, the MFA, Major League Baseball,and many more. He graduated from collegewith a degree in Physics, but soon after started acareer that would have him taking pictures ofheadhunters in Borneo and guerrillas in CentralAmerica, flying upside down with aerobaticpilots, skulking around opium dens in Singapore,sailing on tall ships and aircraft carriers,and being incarcerated in more foreign jails thancan be counted. In addition to all of this, he hasphotographed ten successive Olympics Games.His work has been exhibited throughout theworld including the Smithsonian and CorcoranGalleries in Washington DC, the San FranciscoMuseum of Modern Art, and the Feuerwagnerin Austria. In May 2000, the International PhotographicCouncil of the United Nations presentedhim with their highest award.PRC CURATORPORTFOLIO REVIEWSBelow you will find dates for our monthly portfolioreviews (and corresponding call-in reservationinformation) with the PRC’s Curator, LeslieBrown. As before, the reviews are 45 minuteslong and scheduled on the hour beginning at9:00 am with the last one at 3:00 pm. Reservationswill be accepted on a first-call, first-servedbasis. It is highly recommended that you bringsupporting materials (resume, images, and statement).Review Date: Monday, <strong>February</strong> 24, 2002(call in for reservations at 10 am, Friday, January17th)Review Date: Monday, March 10, <strong>2003</strong>(call in for reservations at 10 am, Friday,<strong>February</strong>)GUEST PORTFOLIOREVIEWSIn addition to the monthly critiques given bythe PRC curator, the PRC offers regular portfolioreviews with invited experts. This opportunityallows photographers to have their workseen by nationally-known museum professionals,gallery owners, critics, and artists. The January/<strong>February</strong>portfolio reviews are:John GoodmanPhotographerReview Date: Saturday, January 25, <strong>2003</strong>Call-in date: 10 am, Friday, January 10,<strong>2003</strong>Goodman’s work is in many of the country’smost important collections, including those ofThe Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum ofFine Arts, <strong>Boston</strong>, the Museum of Fine Arts,Houston, and San Francisco Museum of ModernArt. He has published and exhibited extensivelyand has gained acclaim for his commercialwork. For more information, visit www.goodmanphoto.com.Karin RosenthalPhotographerReview Date: Monday, January 27Call-in Date: 10 am, Friday, January 17,<strong>2003</strong>Karin Rosenthal’s signature nudes are publishedinternationally and are included in the collectionsof the Museum of Fine Arts, <strong>Boston</strong>, theBrooklyn Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum,and Polaroid, among others. Her work wasrecently published in Karin Rosenthal: TwentyYears of Photographs.Lou Jones, Terry Johnson, Connecticut, 7/94.Jonathan SingerPhotographerReview Date: Saturday, <strong>February</strong> 8, <strong>2003</strong>Call-in date: 10 am, Friday, January 31,<strong>2003</strong>(Call for reservations)Singer is the founder and owner of Singer Editions.Located in <strong>Boston</strong>, Singer Editions is afine art digital printmaking studio specializingin the production of limited edition color andblack and white Iris prints. Affiliated with NashEditions in California, Singer Editions is and hasbeen one of the leading presses in the developmentand proliferation of fine art digital printing.Singer is on the Board of Directors of thePRC and is a diehard fan of the <strong>Boston</strong> Red Sox.James HullArtist and Director of the Gallery at Green StreetReview Date: Tuesday, <strong>February</strong> 11, <strong>2003</strong>Call-in date: 10 am, Friday, <strong>February</strong> 7,<strong>2003</strong>The Gallery @ Green Street is an alternativeexhibition space located in a subway station in<strong>Boston</strong>. The space is non-profit, artist-funded,and artist-run and was made possible by theMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority(MBTA). Its mission puts contemporary artworkinto contact with a wider audience byusing non-traditional exhibition venues in existingpedestrian traffic patterns. Hull has beenorganizing exhibitions and acting as an art handlerand installation expert since 1990. Hull alsoruns the <strong>Boston</strong> Drawing Project housed at theBernard Toale Gallery. For more informationvisit www.jameshull.com.Lou JonesPhotographerReview Date: tba(Call for reservations)See lecture listing for biography.23
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