EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Join photographers Michael Cooper and Nancy Cole as they discuss the challenges and opportunities facing professional photographers today.
Michael and Nancy will discuss the challenges associated with growing your online presence, the administration of a photographer’s business, how to handle misattribution of your work and much more.
Includes a virtual tour of Imprimo’s tools for photographers.
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Michael Cooper:
Michael Cooper is an award-winning photographer with an acute eye for detail, lighting and composition. A patient teacher, mentor and frequent guest lecturer with over forty years of practical experience. Cooper has photographed for countless theatre companies and commercial clients. His uncanny ability to capture mood and moments comes from his involvement and deep appreciation for the performing arts community. From independent to large commercial productions, his capacity to connect with performers consistently ensures a captivating and emotional image. On the commercial side, Cooper’s work encompasses editorial, advertising, industrial and corporate portraits. Working collaboratively with agencies and direct clients, he approaches assignments creatively, bringing ideas and concepts to light. A consummate professional, Cooper creates a safe and comfortable environment for his subjects, working with passion and integrity.
Nancy Cole:
Canadian artist Nancy Cole uses the French knot embroidery stitch to interpret legacy on an obsessive scale. Her work is intimate even with happenstance encounters with strangers. Legacy, abandonment and nostalgia are the main themes in her primarily figurative, portrait and sometimes conceptual based practice. Her combining of photographic imagery and thread work ranges from hyper-realistic to ephemeral bordering on abstract.
Trained as a journalist and photographer she switched to thread art in order to establish a visual body of work in her search for a narrative based on both faces and form. Her work has been exhibited in traditional and non-traditional spaces including London, Rome, New York City and Guimaraes, Portugal. As well, her thread pieces have been acquired by the Prince Edward Island Art Bank and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. She has benefitted from national and international residencies including the Canadian Forces Artist Program where she spent 10 days at CFB Comox with the Snowbirds and CF-18 Hornet teams as they prepared for the annual air show circuit. Two large textile pieces, Day and Night, resulting from this residency exhibited at the National War Museum gallery.
She has developed a technique that allows her to layer photographs with thread blending colors and establishing tones that resemble the techniques used in post-impressionism pointillism resulting in a hint of dystopia. Each French knot mimics the way brush marks are dotted within a pointillism painting allowing for the illusion of depth, volume, and form. Her stitching is obsessive, with up to 100,000 French knots for each piece. She uses white fibres exclusively and numerous mediums to add colour. These include watercolour, ink and graphite. This freedom allows her to tint the smallest of individual knots and ultimately allows her to visually evoke painterly renditions of flesh, hair, and cloth.
AGENDA:
6:00PM: Introduction from Imprimo
6:05PM: Photographers in conversation with Michael Cooper and Nancy Cole
6:30PM: Virtual tour of Imprimo
6:50PM: Q&A
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