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Karolin Klüppel / Mädchenland, Kingdom of Girls Opening night talk Tuesday, July 21, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Half King Photography series is pleased to welcome Karolin Klüppel on July 21 for the opening of her exhibit Mädchenland. Mädchenland, meaning Kingdom of Girls, is the result of Karolin’s nine-month stay with the Khasi, a matrilineal people in northeast India. With the Khasi, all business and culture is managed by wives and mothers, inheritance follows female lines, and marriage roles and customs are driven by wives and entirely promote daughters. Karolin’s lively, provocative portraits of Khasi girls in the village of Mawlynnong comprises a formal exploration of the tribe’s future leaders. The opening will feature a slideshow and discussion with Karolin, led by Anna Van Lenten, curator of The Half King Photography Series. Based in Berlin, Karolin Klüppel’s work focuses on gender relations and matrilineal or matriarchal societies. She studied at the School of Art and Design in Kasse...

Developing Your Personal Vision Grant Leighton Thursdays July 9-August 13  6-9pm $247.50 Members, $275 Non-Members Defining a Personal Vision is a workshop designed to recognize and bring out the expression and individual voice of each student. Sometimes we need help seeing exactly what our pictures are about; how do we improve, what do the pictures mean? Over the course of six classes students will be provided with both the time and guidance that will foster a solid body of work and gain deeper insight into their own personal vision. Innovative iPhonegraphy Karen Divine Saturday & Sunday July 11-12  9am-12:30pm $157.50 Members, $175 Non-Members Learn to create amazing composites using the iPhone and focusing on just a few apps. Karen will teach you to integrate images and concepts into a final piece. Through practical demonstrations and a "field trip" in our immediate surroundings, students learn to combine images in order to express your own unique vision a...

ILFORD PHOTO support for National Media Museum Artist in Residence Programme ‘Double Exposure: A Tale of Two Planets in Darkness and Light’ Light Fantastic is part of a year-long Festival of Light at The National Media Museum in Bradford celebrating the UNESCO International Year of Light. It includes an Artist in Residence programme supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. From 18th July to 4th September 2015 the museum will host artists Cherry Kino and Alchemy as they create ‘Double Exposure: A Tale of Two Planets in Darkness and Light’ This artwork presented by Martha Jurksaitis (Cherry Kino, based in Portugal) & Christian Hardy (Alchemy Studio, based in Bradford) will create two fictional worlds – one permanently bathed in daylight and the other in constant dark. It is the first time the National Media Museum has appointed artists-in-residence to a temporary gallery. Christian Hardy said, “For our exhibition we have envisioned as...