Each month, except January, PSNWA has a general meeting. Most meetings consist of a guest photographer sharing their work and photographic experience. Locations vary throughout Northwest Arkansas. Join us for the next PSNWA meeting.
Michael Bradley – Photographer who celebrates Maori Facial Tattoos
The 2021 PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series begins with Michael Bradley, a wetplate photographer who celebrates Maori Facial Tattoos and its placement within indigenous culture.
The visible spectrum of wetplate collodion, is insensitive to blue light – which also is the color of ‘ta moko’ facial markings of Maori people, in his native New Zealand. Facial tattoos are an important part of Maori culture, yet the opportunity to reverse tradition created a moment of self reflection otherwise absent.
Michael Bradley is based in Aukland, New Zealand as a commercial photographer specializing in food, editorial and professional sports.
The PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series presents Lou Meluso, a photographer who has worked for museums like the Getty in Los Angeles and the Nelson Atkins in Kansas City. As an expert technician and artist image maker, Lou was also Director of Imaging at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Currently the Director of the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, he is both gifted and creative, facets to the foundation of his talk for PSNWA: “Gaining Impact in Your Images”.
Lou will inspire you, while helping tear down preconceptions that get in the way of great image making.
The PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series presents Beverly Buys, a cyanotype artist from Hot Springs, Arkansas.
A former educator who is listed on the Arkansas Arts Registry, she is a 57th Delta exhibition participant, and has hung solo shows at the Delta Cultural Center, ASU Beebe Gallery, and many other locations. Primarily known for cyanotypes, she is an analogue photographer working with light sensitive materials and chemistry in a traditional darkroom.
Brooklyn photographer Ed Drew was commissioned to photograph Black Arkansas Veterans upon a recent relocation to Little Rock – a work on social equality which is currently on exhibit at the Mosaic Templar Cultural Center.
Since 2017, Carlos Diaz has travelled 30,000 miles photographing Confederate Monuments as they are being removed. As a person of color, he is “bravely attentive” to American history and national shortcomings on race and diversity.
In an effort to better understand the controversy and complexity of Confederate Monuments, Carlos hopes his viewers will engage as culture transforms, and contribute to conversations about our changing American experience.
Since 2018, Eileen Powers has had 11 rounds of chemotherapy, abdominal resection surgery due to lymphoma, a stem cell transplant and a CAR t-cell treatment.
She is a photographer, artist and graphic designer living on Cape Cod who fought cancer with levity and joy. Upon losing hair to chemo, her friends replaced it in the most humorous ways – eventually making nearly 100 heads of replacement hair.
Personal Projects are created from a burning desire to photograph with a message in mind.
The subject of your message could be on identity, diversity, atrocity, or even a pandemic. But how do you get started? How do you gain access to photograph the subjects that inspire you? And what about process? If starting can be hard, how do you know when you are done?
MARCH 17, 2020
The Board of Directors of the Photographic Society of Northwest Arkansas strives to provide benefits to members including the distinguished photographer series, classes, and events. As our region’s leading community of photographers, our primary concern during this unprecedented time is to ensure the health and safety of our members. Because of this, PSNWA is announcing several changes to the schedule in light of the current health risks associated with the COVID-19 virus.
The Photographic Society of Northwest Arkansas is postponing in-person classes and events, but will continue to provide services for members by scheduling online meetings and webinars.
PSNWA Distinguished Photographer Series Speaker Sannetta Marsh is an internationally published, award-winning documentary family and birth photographer based out of Southwest Missouri.
When she is not photographing the real life stories of her clients, you can find her on her 20 acre hobby farm homeschooling her son and raising a fun variety of animals, camera in hand.
Take a trip around the world through stunning travel photography and learn how to get great images for yourself at the first PSNWA General Meeting of 2020!