Join me for an evening of inspiration as I share my adventures both external and internal in Antarctica (my favorite place), planet Earth’s most remote, coldest, windiest, highest, and driest continent – a crystal desert where 90% of the world’s ice is located, making it the largest body of fresh water on the planet. A place of stunning contrasts, sublimely beautiful Antarctica feels like another planet, but it’s home, and it affects all of us. I can truly say, no place has changed me more.
Online Dec 4 at 8 pm EST, join fine-art photographers Cig Harvey and John Paul Caponigro. In this special hour of inspiration, Cig and John Paul celebrate their deep passions for color, share how they develop projects, discuss the many ways synergy can be struck between photographs and words, and finally, find a unique kind of fulfillment in the form of the book.
Cig and John Paul end their conversation with a lively Q & A session with the webinar audience. If you can’t make the live event, a recording will be available for everyone registered.
“Through prose, poetry, recipes, and lush imagery, Harvey’s work is a fierce reminder that there is a joy to be found in the small details surrounding us; blink, and you will miss them,” says Gunslei Yalcinkaya of Aesthetica Magazine.
Join me Tuesday, May 21 @ 6pm EST on Zoom – Register here.
Photographer David Brommer (Suspect Photography) will guide what is sure to be an animated, wide-ranging, and thoughtful conversation about photography and creativity. David has a knack for asking the questions that most need to be asked.
I’ll share new work. We’ll talk about the importance of printing your images. After that, anything could happen.
It’s been ten years since our last extended conversation. Enjoy it here as a prelude of more to come.
The Nine Poets Collective has been meeting since June of 2020 when they each signed up for a chapbook intensive offered by Maine Media and led by presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco. The group continues to write and support each other with monthly gatherings on Zoom, and an annual poetry picnic.
With the launch of the new literary journal from DownEast books, The Maine Standard, the Nine Poets are featured with selections of poems that speak to each of their “obsessions” and an introduction by Richard Blanco. In this event with The Poets Corner, we celebrate the launch of the Maine Standard with readings from all nine poets.
This special event highlights both the power of poetry and the value of online communities.
Creativity Continues at Santa Fe Workshops with On Beauty, a conversation between Richard Misrach and John Paul Caponigro.
Our hour of inspiration will begin with a short presentation of images by Richard Misrach.
Next, Richard and John Paul will discuss the role of beauty in art (and specifically photography) as a source of nourishment for individuals and as a force for social change.
“Beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.” – Richard Misrach
“It’s hard for art to really solve problems but I’ve come to believe that art is an important way of communicating, not only with current generations, but future generations.” – Richard Misrach
Finally, we’ll finish with a lively question-and-answer session open to all participants.
Join Santa Fe Workshops worldwide community of photographers and writers as Creativity Continues.
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Richard Misrach is one of the most influential photographers of his generation. In the 1970s, he helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are in widespread practice today. Best known for his ongoing series, Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and man’s complex relationship to it, he has worked in the landscape for over 40 years.
His most recent book Notations(Radius) explores the beauty of photographic negatives.
Hosted by Obscura Gallery, Father Paul Caponigro and son John Paul Caponigro will share their photographs, talk about their work, and answer your questions.
Obscura Gallery proudly presents Two Generations: Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, a father-and-son exhibition including over two dozen photographs highlighting the careers of this family of artists.
For both artists, Santa Fe was home for over twenty years (1970 – 1990s) while Paul lived here raising John Paul in a community of artists. Now, decades later, their work will be shown together in this joint exhibition at Obscura Gallery.
At first glance, both artists seem a world apart – Paul works in straight, small-scale, analog, black-and-white gelatin silver prints, and John Paul works in composited, large-scale, digital color ink prints. Upon further reflection, you’ll find their shared sensibilities run much deeper and are far more significant than the surface differences. Both masters, with a strong dedication to their craft and a deep reverence for nature, Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, create mystical spaces with powerful atmospheres of silence that resound with spirit. In these deep moments of quiescence, both rekindle our most primal ways of being and awaken our most essential natures, reminding us that man lives not apart from nature but as a part of Nature.
Join us (in person or online) for this fascinating exploration of changes in the medium of photography and, through it, the ways we see land and ourselves.
For years, the great folks at National Parks At Night have been hosting an online symposium on night photography.
3 Days
35 Speakers
38 Sessions
1 Year To Watch Replays
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Feb 5 at 3:45 EST
I’ll present a new seminar
Naked Eye, Camera Eye, Mind’s Eye.
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I’m delighted to participate this year. I’m also psyched to see many of the presentations, including Joseph DePasquale’s Unveiling The Infrared Universe With The James Webb Space Telescope.
I’ll be cohosting a special event with poet Kathleen Ellis.
Young Maine poets read and discuss their unique perspectives.
Come hear the voices of young poets as they express their views of our world. The poets are University of Maine students active in campus creative writing activities and the campus literary magazine, The Open Field. Readings will be followed by a conversation among the poets facilitated by Kathleen Ellis and John Paul Caponigro, and Q&A from the audience. Poets reading will include Samuel Mills, Iris Lecates, Paige McHatten, Starla Straub, and Rachel Ouellette.
I will be cohosting (with Meg Weston) this event and reading my poetry with fellow Maine poets Kathleen Ellis, Gary Lawless, Iris LeCates, and Meghan Sterling in an intergenerational celebration of our place in nature.
Each poet will recommend a book, share a favorite poem by another poet, and read their poetry.
A lively Q&A with the audience is sure to follow so bring your burning questions.
Ecopoetry (a relatively new term) offers contemporary views of our complex interrelationships within nature, often exploring ways places influence culture. Sometimes celebratory and sometimes critical, ecopoetry looks closely at personal sensitivity and social change.
The poets of this gathering recommend the following books for finding further inspiration.
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Gary Lawless recommends Henry David Thoreau’s Walking
Kathleen Ellis recommends Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
John Paul Caponigro recommends David Hinton’s The Wilds Of Poetry; Adventures In Mind On Landscape
Meghan Sterling John Sibley Williams’ Scale Model of a Country at Dawn
Iris Lecates Bell Hooks’ recommends Appalachian Elegy
Meg Weston recommends Charlotte McConaughy’s Migrations
Please consider supporting your local bookstore by contacting Gary Lawless at his Gulf Of Maine Books in Brunswick. gulfofmainebooks@gmail.com or 207-729-5083