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Local photographer and educator, Aubrey Edwards, will be hosting the first of a series of community photography workshops at her studio in the Treme.
The upcoming series will focus on EXPOSURE, and will explain ISO, aperture, and shutter speed individually, as well as how to combine them. In addition to understanding the elements of exposure, students will also learn how to read their light meter; and will be shooting (semi) comfortably on manual mode by the workshop’s end.
Each EXPOSURE workshop will be capped at 10 students max, and each is donation-based and open to the public; all donations will be used directly for camera purchases for the Veterans Photo Project.
Please email Aubrey directly at aubreyedwards@gmail.com to secure a spot and await details for the EXPOSURE workshop, Saturday February 25th, 12pm-2pm. -
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The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program offers emerging artist an accessible platform to show their work and viewers to spend hours browsing through the extensive catalog of artist’s searchable by media, location, or keyword.
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Former Phillis Wheatley Elementary student Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc, an actress in the HBO series “Treme”, author, and motivational speaker, watches while the school is demolished on 2300 Dumaine St. in New Orleans, La. Friday June 17, 2011. The school, designed by Charles R. Colbert, was considered one of the best examples of modern architecture in New Orleans. The World Monuments Fund placed the structure on its World Monuments watch list in 2009 along with the ruins of Machu Picchu.
When it was designed in 1954 by Charles Colbert, it drew international praise as a shining example of modern architecture. A cantilevered steel truss structure with second-floor classrooms and a play space underneath, the school was mostly unharmed by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters.
But Wheatley had been closed since the storm, and it fell into increasing states of disrepair.
Supporters of the demolition saw the 57-year-old school, built as a segregated school for black children in Treme, as obsolete and a symbol of discrimination, built on the cheap with inadequate facilities. The Dumaine Street campus was only one-sixth the size recommended for its 800-student body.
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You can read the nola.com story here
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Working with the Doe Fund and their Brooklyn-based transitional housing shelter, Aubrey Edwards’, the Veterans Photo Project is under their umbrella of holistic programs that meet the needs of a diverse population working to break the cycles of homelessness, addiction and criminal recidivism.
Through photography classes, our veterans will learn a new form of personal expression, develop technical and creative skills while having the therapeutic outlet to share their stories and experiences with a larger audience through their images.
