Lecture Oct 26 Doors open at 6:30, lecture at 7pm.

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.

This lecture is in support of the exhibition "Women of Vision" on view at Fernbank Museum of Natural History September 26, 2015-January 3, 2016. (A selection of Lynsey's images are included in this exhibition.) Attendees may view the "Women of Vision" exhibition immediately following the lecture.

Over the last 20 years, pre-eminent American photojournalist Lynsey Addario has documented a rapidly-changing world. Her photographs focus on humanitarian and human rights issues across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine, and is represented exclusively by Getty Images Reportage.

In 2015, American Photo magazine named Lynsey as one of five most influential photographers of the past 25 years, saying she changed the way we saw the world's conflicts.

Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur 'Genius Grant' and the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, both in 2009. In 2010 Lynsey was named one of 20 women on Oprah Winfrey's Power List and one of Glamour magazine's 20 women of the year in 2011.

She recently released a New York Times Best selling memoir, "It's What I Do", which chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world. It is her first book.

This Program presented in partnership with PNC Bank, National Geographic and Fernbank Museum of Natural History. This program is free, however seating is limited and must be reserved through the Fernbank Box Office at (404) 929-6400 or fernbankmuseum.org/ACP

For more info about this exhibition, please see the inside front cover of this Festival Guide or visit bit.ly/women-of-vision-2015

Opening Reception Oct 3 6- 9pm

Born in 1904 in Nashville TN, Dr. Horace Mann Bond was an educator, activist, and scholar.

Beginning in the fall of 1929, Dr. Bond participated in a survey of black schools and the achievement of black children in North Carolina, Louisiana and Alabama. During this time, Bond visited more than 700 urban and rural black schools and administered standardized tests to nearly ten thousand children. The project was sponsored by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Later, Dr. Bond and his wife, Julia Washington Bond, studied an isolated rural community, Star Creek, Louisiana. The Bonds were directed to observe and report on black schools, social and economic conditions and race relations in the rural South. These photographs are products of those studies.

The Schoolhouse series is accompanied by Bond family photographs that bare a stark contrast to the children Dr. Bond was photographing at the time.

This show was brought to life through the collaboration of James Bond, son of Dr. Horace Mann Bond, and Atlanta Master Printer, Barry Blackwell. We are honored as this is the first time these photographs have ever been printed and displayed to the public.

Exhibition Oct 3 - Oct 31

Film Screening Oct 29 6 - 9pm - Tickets here

Lecture & Exhibition Oct 29, Doors open at 6:00, lecture at 7pm.

Thurs, Oct 29, doors open at 6pm to view exhibit, lecture starts at 7pm, followed by a book signing

After photographic beginnings in journalism photography, since the mid-1990s, Kathryn Kolb has focused her camera's lens on the natural forms of trees, plants and natural landscapes. With painstaking attention to composition, Kathryn finds images that resonate with the symmetries found within the fractal architecture of nature. As one viewer put it, "she is playing visual jazz with her camera."

Kathryn will discuss her own journey following nature's designs that includes discussion of the layers of design we respond to when looking at images, and how our right and left-brain hemispheres shape the way we view photographs. In addition to her own work, Kathryn will show the work of other artists that illustrate her thoughtful observations on viewing photographs, from the viewfinder to the final print.

Artist's Talk Oct 29 7- 9pm

With painstaking attention to composition, Kathryn Kolb finds images that resonate with the symmetries found within the fractal architecture of nature. Blending abstract design with details of "realness" she creates images that are perhaps more at home in the genre of painting than photography. Her goal is not so much to tell nature's story by illustrating scenes, but to reveal the universal forms that create meanings within scenes, which she discovers at times in the most ordinary places. Her keen observations and sense of enthusiasm come through with her use of design and lighting. The result is a sense of becoming engaged with nature's swirling, complex perfection that pervades her work in a subtle but addicting way. Kathryn's photographs in this show illustrate the geometric symmetry found in nature as well as the evolution of her photographic eye to more complex forms and compositional design patterns over time.

Exhibition Oct 1 - Oct 30

Artist's Reception Oct 30 7- 10pm

This one night only thesis exhibit features the work of SCAD Atlanta graduate student Cammi Lusk. Her work investigates anxiety in the childlike format of a photographic pop-up book and explores art-making a means of coping with anxiety.

Opening Reception Oct 3 6- 9pm

Proving Grounds is a series of black and white imagery of the United States Marine Corps recruit training on Parris Island SC. Large format prints from vintage plastic cameras from the early 60's are surreal yet hauntingly visceral. In 1994 Maris was embedded with recruits for 23 days and each image reflects this intimate perspective into the transformation our youngest men and women experience as they commit to a life of service to the American public. The large format prints are accompanied by fiber based black and white prints taken with a Hasselblad in 2014. Both series were taken while scouting locations for commercial projects. This is the first time the photographs have been exhibited in their entirety. Jason Maris is a freelance photographer and documentary filmmaker that has been based in Atlanta since 1993. This show is timely as we are still at war although many civilians do not acknowledge it. The show is also part of a larger documentary film project entitled Homemade which addresses issues surrounding Post Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injuries and Suicide.

Exhibition Oct 03 - Oct 31

Dinner with the Artists Oct 11 7 - 11pm

Exhibition Oct 31 - Nov 23

This exhibit features the art photography of Pace Academy students, taken on a recent "Isdell Center for Global Leadership" trip to India. The students traveled and photographed well beyond "The Golden Triangle" (Delhi, Jaipur, Agra), gathering images of the elusive Bengal Tiger and other wildlife in several national parks, photographing the rock-cut architecture of The Ellora Caves and the paintings at Ajanta, and, of course, the fascinating people of India.

Artist's Reception Nov 06 7pm

Opening Reception Oct 16 6- 9pm

In Pas de Deux, artists V. Elizabeth Turk and Charles A. McCullers collaborate with Atlanta Ballet to create a suite of pictures that tap the potential and real energy of photography, process, and performance.

Masters of contemporary and antiquarian processes, Turk and McCullers channel the origins of photography to capture dance - human bodies expressing the exuberance of movement against gravity, serendipity and its risks, art at the moment creation-and its instant ephemeral passing.

This suite of images underscore the artistic qualities and collaborative energies that appeared as paintings thousands of years ago on the walls of caves. The patina and warmth, in these photographs are a bow to the liturgy of the photographic arts, and testimony to an alchemy that defies explanation. The recipe is magical and irreproducible: humanity + expression + collaboration = the sublime poetry of art.

Exhibition Oct 16 - Nov 20

Artists' Talk by V. Elizabeth Turk and Charles A. McCullers Nov 2, 7pm - 8:30pm

Exhibition Oct 31 - Nov 23

This exhibit features the art photography of Pace Academy students, taken on a recent "Isdell Center for Global Leadership" trip to India. The students traveled and photographed well beyond "The Golden Triangle" (Delhi, Jaipur, Agra), gathering images of the elusive Bengal Tiger and other wildlife in several national parks, photographing the rock-cut architecture of The Ellora Caves and the paintings at Ajanta, and, of course, the fascinating people of India.

Artist's Reception Nov 06 7pm

Exhibition Oct 3 7- 12am POSTPONED to Nov. 7th

Flux Projects's annual one-night public art celebration moves to the Old Fourth Ward and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District. Curator Nato Thompson's theme "Dream" pays homage to the surrounding neighborhood where Dr. King served as a leader in a movement that changed the world.

In August of 1963, at the culmination of The March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech that put his dreams for our nation into words. They were sweet, eloquent, hypnotic words that stirred the hopes of a country and its imagination. His dream asked for the best in people and in a sense, asked for the world as we knew it, to become the place we dreamed about.

Fifty-two years later Dr. King's call to action still rings true. Thompson has selected a diverse, provocative, and accomplished group of artists to create projects that invite us to continue dreaming of a more just and peaceful world. These projects will be a mix of visual and performance art that fills a five-block area and flows from the streets, through empty lots, up buildings, and into the sky.

Opening Reception & Book Signing Oct 23, 5:30-8:30pm

Opening of the premier exhibition and book signing for "Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color", published by UGA Press in conjunction with the Georgia Humanities Council with photographs by Andrew Feiler.

A large bell hangs in the clock tower overlooking the now quiet campus of Morris Brown College. Its inscription reads, in part, "Dedicated to the Education of Youth, Without Regard to Sex, Race or Color". Founded by African Americans in 1881, Morris Brown lost its accreditation to financial pressures and scandal in 2002. Today its campus is largely abandoned.

Andrew Feiler was granted unique access to Morris Brown's hauntingly silent campus. His documentary artistic photography portrays a proud past, a challenging present and an uncertain future, not only for this one institution but for all of America's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This significant work surfaces issues at the heart of the debate raging in our society: How do we create opportunity for all in America? How do we create onramps to the middle class?

Exhibition Oct 23 - Nov 29

Artist's Talk Nov 7, 10am

Exhibition Oct 24 - Jan 3, 2016

In the summer of 1974, a young man drove an aging Volkswagen from New England through the South and into the Midwest, camping and photographing people and places along the way to California. The car died in Kansas City and Ray Smith took the train home to New Haven, Connecticut, where he printed some of the 750 exposures he had made with his Rolleiflex and Minolta twin-lens cameras. Few of these rare prints have been exhibited or published until now. These 52 images reflect the subjects, places and people Smith encountered.

Artist's Talk Nov 19 5:30 -6:30pm

Opening Reception Nov 14, 7PM

Over 100 print exhibition, including 30 by Ansel Adams, his predecessors, peers and 13 contemporary photographers. Keynote address by Dr. Michael Adams (Ansel's son) at 7pm will be a ticketed event due to limited seating.

Building on the success of a major Ansel Adams retrospective exhibition held at Booth Western Art Museum in 2009-10, the Booth is mounting an exhibition exploring Adams' influence and highlighting the work of contemporary or living photographers. The living artists selected include those whose work is related to Adams' considerable legacy as well as those who are pushing the boundaries of photography in ways Adams might were he with us today. The exhibition will also include images by those who preceded Adams, influencing his early work, along with photographs made by his peers, providing context for Adams' career and his lasting legacy.

Containing over 100 original prints, including up to 30 images by Adams, the exhibition will shine a spotlight on 15 contemporary photographers who have not achieved Adams' name recognition but are deserving of attention. The opening event for the exhibition will include a lecture by Ansel's son Michael, on November 14. Additional programming will include a day-long symposium featuring contemporary photographers, critics and historians in January 2016, and appearances by photographers throughout the run.

Ansel and After: Before & After is co-curated by Booth Director Seth Hopkins and Tony Casadonte and Bob Yellowlees with Lumiere Gallery in Atlanta.

Exhibition Nov 14 - Mar 20, 2016

Photography Symposium Jan 23, 2016