Club Competition Tonight, March 4, 7:30pm
Our next competition of the season is tonight, March 4, 2015
The assigned subject for March is Food.
Print submissions are accepted until 7:15 pm the evening of the competition. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30pm.
Our judges for this evening will be:
Jeanne McDonagh
Jeanne McDonagh is presently an art teacher at New Canaan High School and has taught Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop to students and teachers for the past several years. Jeanne has her Master of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in Painting and Graphic Design. She has studied at Pratt Graphic Arts Center, the Silvermine School of Art and Norwalk Community College. Jeanne is a professional artist who also works on private commissions and exhibits regularly. She is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and a 2004 winner of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Photo Imaging Fellowship. In 2005 she was recognized by the Connecticut Educators Computer Association as a Presenter of “Digital Photography in the Curriculum ” and in 2006 won the CECA’s annual award for “Incorporating Digital Photography into the Curriculum”.
Jeanne is a returning judge for our Club.
Anne Hall Elser
Anne was assistant to Lee Lorenz, Art Editor of The New Yorker, from 1973 1998, working with cartoonists and other artists. In 1998, she began work for The Cartoon Bank, a division of The New Yorker, developing a new market for original New Yorker cartoon and cover art. She retired from the magazine in 2006.
She has also had, for the past thirty years, a separate career as a portrait photographer, specializing in writers and artists and working mostly in black and white. She has had several one-woman shows and been in numerous group shows. Sixty-five of her photographs of New Yorker artists are at the Morgan Library in NYC accompanying a large private collection of New Yorker drawings.
More recently she collaborated with a writing partner on a well-received book called “At Home in Tennessee” (LSU Press 2009). Her photographs of twenty pre-Civil War houses were shot almost entirely in color using natural light and long exposures to recreate the what the viewer would see, standing in a room in daylight, at a point in time long past.
Anne is a Greenwich resident.
Anne is a returning judge for our Club
And please welcome our judge for the first time at the Stamford Photography Club:
Bob Callahan
Bob is managing principal of Bob Callahan Design, an independent graphic design consultancy specializing in the creation of effective communication for selling, raising awareness, positioning, and informing. Over the past forty-plus years he has garnered awards for his work with IBM, UPS, GE, People’s Bank, Arrow Electronics, Stamford Symphony Orchestra, Yale Repertory Theatre, and many others.
Bob is currently writing and preparing watercolors for a book on the great lighthouses of the world. He has been guest lecturer on “visual thinking” at the University of Connecticut and has given slide lectures on the Windward Maroons of Jamaica.
For the past two years during the month of August Bob has been artist-in-residence at the Ocean House in Watch Hill, RI. He currently has an exhibition titled “The Art of the Sketchbook” at the First Bank of Greenwich in Cos Cob until March 31.
Bob and his wife, Lucile, have been married 56 years, have 6 children, 8 grandchildren and 1 great-granddaughter. Bob is a graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts and is a Korean War veteran.
