LSI 2023 Spring Shoot - Rome Registration
Welcome to the LSI Spring Shoot Rome Registration page!
The conference will take place from Thursday, May 18 - Saturday, May 20 in the heart of Rome, the eternal city. Plan on arriving Wednesday, May 17 and departing on Sunday May 21. Registration is $350 USD for members/$420 Non-members.
Our program will feature Leica on Loan, three scenic Photo Walks with assignments, a Visit and reception at Leica Store Rome, Photo Review, and four fabulous speakers. Scroll down to read details.
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Hotel Accommodations: The LSI has reserved rooms at the Le Méridien Visconti Rome hotel Once you have registered, you will be emailed a confirmation of registration and links to make your hotel reservations at a special LSI rate.
Plan on arriving on Wednesday, May 17 and departing on Sunday, May 21.
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Program and Speaker Bio information below.
Program
Program sessions and times are subject to change.
Session descriptions coming soon!
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Arrival day for Participants.
19:30 Informal Meet and Greet (Hotel Lobby).
Thursday, May 18, 2023
08:00 Leica on Loan
Try out the newest Leica gear. Cameras and lenses galore.
9:00 -9:15 AM President’s Welcome/Conference Chair Welcome/International Leica Society Update
9:15-10:00 Introduction of Attendees
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Light of Seduction with Milan Swolfs
This work is my homage to women, taking us back to the forgotten times or the roaring twenties, old Hollywood glamor with a mix of 50's pin-ups. Think about flapper dresses, red lipstick, corsets, champagne and cabaret!”, he says in a statement, adding that playing with light “teases the visitors with scenes of seduction”. “As a spectator, do we feel like a 'voyeur' caught in the middle of something, or what happens next?
11:15 – 12:15 Unfamiliar with Simona Ghizzoni
In my photographic practice, autobiography has always been of great importance. In fact, my production revolves around two major themes: the social sphere of women and the private sphere of self-portraiture. In this talk, I will share with you two of my best-known works: Odd Days, a documentary work on eating disorders, and Isola, my latest project, which uses self-portraiture to narrate the story of my relationship with my family and the environment in which we live.
12:15 -12:30 Photo Assignment Explanations (Milan)
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch on your own
14:30-17:30 Photo Walk
17:30 Dinner on your own
Friday, May 19, 2023
8:00 Leica on Loan
8:45-9:00 Announcements
9:00 – 10:00 Luck, Heresy and First Stage Thinking with Jono Slack
An examination of the photographic techniques we take for granted, and how changing them can result in better pictures and a better shooting experience.
10 – 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 How to visualize and narrate the invisible? with Marco Casino
Retracing a decade-long professional career in between photography and videography, Marco Casino will talk and share the genesis, development and publication behind his working method. Whether it’s with a rangefinder, archival material, forensic iconography, drone perspective, satellite imagery or neural networks image analysis, Casino practice focuses on how to visualize and create visual narratives that seek to be able to grasp the endless nuances and details of phenomena born in the internet and real-time information society.
11:15- 12:00 Anatomy of a Project – Richard Rejino
The importance of having an ongoing personal project cannot be understated. In this session, Richard Rejino will explore how other creative mediums can enhance your photographic storytelling. Using his highly successful “What Music Means to Me Project” he will illustrate how he combined his three greatest passions, music, photography and writing, and turned them into a book, a museum exhibit, and a means to communicate the transformative power of music. He will also show and discuss project from other photographers.
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch on Your Own
13:30 – 17:00 Photo Walk starting from hotel
17:30 Reception at Leica Store Rome
18:30 Dinner on your own
Saturday, May 20
8:00 Leica on Loan
8:45-9:00 Morning Announcements
9:00-10:30 The SL System with Stephan Schultz, Leica AG
In this presentation, Stephan Schultz will discuss how the SL system came to be and and his vision to make it happen. He will also discuss about how strategic ideas as well how the link to the L-Mount Alliance evolved.
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45 – 13:30 Lunch on Your Own/Last Photo Walk
13:30 - 14:30 Selecting/Editing Your Images
14:30 – 16:30 Sharing of Images with Commentary – Milan and Jono
18:30 Cocktails (cash bar)
19:00 Banquet (must be pre-registered)
ROME Spring Shoot Speakers
Marco Casino (Caserta, 1986) is a cross-media documentary photographer & videographer specialized in long-form social reportages. In the last decade Casino covered stories in Italy, Europe, Africa and South America, often exploring unrepresented contemporary social issues with narratives standing at the intersection of humanist photography, groundbreaking contemporary technological innovations & the internet culture. His works appeared in news outlets like National Geographic, BBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Guardian, Internazionale and some of his pictures and videos have been exhibited in spaces like the Pulitzer Hall - Brown Institute for Media Innovation of New York, the Royal Albert Hall of London, the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz gallery of Les Rencontres d’Arles. He’s been recognized by awards and grants like the World Press Photo (2014 - 1° place Short Feature Multimedia category), selected twice as “30 under 30” by Magnum Photos.
Brand ambassador & media creator for Leica Camera since 2012, Casino have also been working on commercial assignments, cooperating with creative agencies and luxury brands like Havas, TBWA, Sky Arts, Magnolia Digital, Lamborghini, Valentino, Huawei, Motorola, Samsung, Nautor’s Swan, Ducati. Based in Milano and available worldwide for visual productions, editorial assignments, developing ideas together with clients or unrepresented communities looking for communication aids.
Part of his archive is distributed by Archive.luz.it.
Simona Ghizzoni (1977) is a photographer and visual activist for women's rights. Her work is strongly rooted in personal experience, which Ghizzoni reworks and interprets through photography. Her production revolves around two major strands, which often intersect: the social dimension of women and the private dimension of self-portraits. With her first work, Odd Days, she tells in a series of portraits the difficult path of healing from the eating disorder. While her images are often of social inspiration, Ghizzoni tends to employ a personal and participatory narrative, sometimes even fantastic, that arises from the intimate relationship he creates with the subjects. In the series of self-portraits the recurring element is a visceral relationship with the environment, which alternates autobiography and fiction.
Twice awarded the World Press Photo for her work on the condition of women, her work has received numerous awards: Poyi, The Aftermath Project, Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Grant, BBC Arabic Film and Documentary Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Sony World Photography Awards, among others. Her work has been widely presented in solo and group exhibitions, including the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Paris Photo, Photo Espana, Rome Auditorium, Athens Photo Festival, Ex-Mattatoio Rome. In 2022 she is the president of the jury for Europe at the World Press Photo. Ghizzoni is a TEDX speaker and regularly holds lectures in various European schools and universities. She is co-founder of MAPS Images, she is represented in Italy by MLB Gallery.
Jonathan Slack grew up in the seaside town of St Ives in the UK. His father was a doctor, sculptor and a photographer and was a friend to many of the artist community including Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron.
Jonathan is a botanist by training and a software developer by practice, but photography has been his obsession since his twenties when he gave up painting. It even survived some work in PR earlier in the century. If asked nicely enough he will still do weddings and event photography .
He has been testing Leica cameras since 2007, beginning with the M8 and including all the major releases since then. During this time he has come to understand that Leica really is dedicated to the essence of photography, and that the M11 is the pinnacle of reductionist functionality.
Articles and photographs have been published widely including the LHSA Viewfinder magazine, GQ magazine, LFI, various newspapers and magazines and on many websites including his own.
Richard Rejino is the Executive Director of the Leica Society International. He is the author of What Music Means to Me, published by Hal Leonard Corporation. His writing and photography has been published in Viewfinder, Leica NA Blog, Music Inc., American Music Teacher, The Piano Teacher, and other publications. He is currently the Executive Editor for Pony Express(ions), SMU’s Graduate of Liberal Studies literary online journal. His photography has been featured at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California, and he is the 2015 winner of the LSI Annual Photo Contest.
Stephan Schultz of Leica AG is responsible for Leicas S and SL System. His has an engineering degree and marketing education. Mr. Schultz joined Leica in 2007, bringing almost 20 years of professional experience from former jobs at Philips/Pentax/Thomson Multimedia into the company. He proudly boasts that he got his first camera in 1972 and his first Leica (M6) in 1989.
Milan Swolfs is most known for his fine art portrait photography work in the burlesque and vintage styles. His work is a throwback to the memorable Hollywood glamour of the 20s and 30s, often portraying women in a daring and sexy way, but always delicately and glamorously. Milan is an ambassador for Leica Camera Belgium and France. In 2022 he had an exhibition "Light of Seduction'" at the Leica Gallery in Porto. His work has been featured in Viewfinder, LFI magazine and the Leica Blog and he is the official photographer for the biggest Burlesque shows in Europe. Milan also did the official Marketing photos for the re-release of the Noctilux 50mm f1.2. Milan is also a Leica collector focusing on vintage lenses.
LSI 2023 Spring Conference - NYC/NJ Registration
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Welcome to the LSI Spring Conference Registration page! The conference will take place from Friday, April 21 - Sunday April 23 in Teaneck, New Jersey, the home of our conference host Leica North America. Plan on arriving Thursday, April 20* and departing on Monday, April 24.
Our program is packed with an unprecedented line up of artists who will educate and inspire. Sessions and events include Leica on Loan, a tour of Leica USA’s new offices, two photo excursions in New York City, 7 speakers (yes, seven), as well as special appearances from Leica USA & Leica AG representatives.
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Hotel Accomodations: The LSI has reserved rooms at two hotels, The Marriott ($209 USD per night) and The Hampton Inn & Suites ($159 USD per night). Both hotels are across from each other in Teaneck/Glenpointe and across the street from Leica Headquarters. Once you have registered, you will be emailed a confirmation of registration and links to make your hotel reservations.
Plan on arriving on Thursday, April 20th and departing on Monday, April 23.
*Please note that the Leica office tours will take place on Thursday evening, April 20th.
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LSI 2023 Spring Conference Program
Program sessions and times are subject to change. All sessions will be held in the Marriott in Ballroom A
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Wednesday, April 19
Arrival day for Board members
Thursday, April 20
Arrival day for Participants
2 - 5 PM Board Meeting (Board only) (Bergen Room)
7:00 – 8:30 Cocktail Hour and Tour of Leica Camera Office with Laurent Champaign Leica HQ
Friday, April 21
7:30 – 9:30 Leica on Loan
Try out the newest Leica gear for 24 hours. Cameras and lenses are available on a first come first serve basis
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
8:45- 9:15 Program Chair and President’s Welcome / Welcome with Leica President, Mike Giannattasio
9:30 – 10:30 Eyes Wide Open - with Mark de Paola
Focused on "Photography Wide Open" this lecture is designed for creative photographers interested in stretching their imaginations and expanding the traditional definition of portraiture. For over 40 years Mark has used Leica cameras and lenses, especially the 50mm Noctilux, to deliver projects for clients ranging from Vogue and Gucci to Superbowl commercials and fine art photographic exhibitions. His first-hand experience and wealth of still and motion imagery will provide a foundation for the class and serve as a point of inspiration during a lecture of in-depth discussion around the nexus between the neurobiology of human vision and photography.
10:30 -10:45 AM Break
10:45 – 12:00 Presentation with Todd Hido
Explore essentials of Todd Hido’s photographic process by learning the sources and influences that defines his history. Hear firsthand how Larry Sultan mentored Todd and how he and others taught Todd to make critical decisions, deal with the creative process and how to trust ones own artistic instincts, how we give ourselves permission to change or experiment.
12:00 PM Lunch on your own
1:30 -2:45 PM Presentation with Debi Cornwall
Using her two internationally acclaimed photobook projects—Welcome to Camp America (Radius Books, 2017) and Necessary Fictions (Radius Books, 2020)—as a guide, conceptual documentary artist Debi Cornwall will discuss how to develop long-term, purpose-driven photography projects, transform limits into opportunities, establish goals, build community, and think outside the documentary box.
2:45 - 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:15 PM Introduction to Street Photography with Phil Penman
Are you bored with your style of photography or feel you have reached a roadblock? Photographer Phil Penman explains how he has kept his photographic eye constantly searching for fresh ideas. We are surrounded by imagery all day and it’s become more important for us to discover our own identity as a photographer to stand out from the crowd! Phil will discuss the elements that will make your images sing, and also touch on considerations for marketing your street photography.
4:30 PM Meet in lobby for bus pickup to NYC | Bus Pick Up Location: 100 Frank W Burr Blvd, Teaneck, NJ
5:30 – 9:00 PM Street Photography Photo Excursion with Phil Penman / Dinner on your own/ Drop off will be at: 10 Columbus Circle, NYC
Join Professional Photographer, Phil Penman, and the Leica Akademie for an afternoon of discovering Light and Shadow. Following Phil’s lecture, this program is a chance to learn more about how he sees Light and Shadow, on-location in Manhattan. He will provide insights into his process and show us why he has been named one of today’s most inspirational street photographers. Leica Product Specialists will be on-site to help you get the most from the experience.
9:00 PM Bus Departure to Glenpointe | Bus Pick up Location: 10 Columbus Circle, NYC
Saturday, April 22
7:30 – 9:30 AM Leica on Loan (return and loan)
Try out the newest Leica gear for 24 hours. Cameras and lenses are available on a first come first serve basis
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 - 9:20 AM Morning Announcements
9:20 – 9:25 AM Video Message from Dr. Kaufmann, Leica AG
9:30- 10:30 The World Deserves Witnesses with Andrea Pacella, Leica AG
10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM Art & Culture with Kiran Karnani (presenting on behalf of Mrs. Karin Rehn-Kaufmann)
10:50 – 12:10 PM Leitz Photographica Auction Roadshow Preview/ Presentation and Q&A
12:10 PM Lunch on Your Own
1:20 – 1:30 PM What is Leica’s purpose and commitment to Photojournalism with Andrea Pacella
1:30 - 200 PM Introduction to the Committee to Protect Photojournalists with Kerry Patterson
2:00 – 3:00 PM Blood Strangers with September Dawn Bottoms
In 2022, September Bottoms was a recipient of the LWFP Grant. Her winning project has since evolved into the current title, Blood Strangers. In this session, September examines the trauma of sexual and physical abuse she suffered growing up and the history of abuse in her family. This moving and unflinching family portrait show the good that can come from confronting complex family secrets and re-establishing relationships to heal.
3:05 - 4:00 PM Presentation with Cheriss May
4:00 - 5:00 PM Lecture and Book Signing – The Bold Art of Street Photography with Bruce Gilden
Bruce Gilden presents a selection of his work in his almost 60-year career.
5:00 Meet in lobby to load buses
5:30 PM Bus Departure to NYC | Bus Pick Up Location: 100 Frank W Burr Blvd, Teaneck, NJ
7:30 - 9:00 PM Self-Guided Photo Excursion in NYC/Dinner on Your own - Drop off is 406 West 13th Street, NYC
9:00 PM Bus Departure to Glenpointe | Bus Pick Up Location: 406 West 13th Street, NYC
10:00 PM Bus Departure to Glenpointe | Bus Pick Up Location: 406 West 13th Street, NYC
Sunday, April 23
7:30 – 8:30 AM Leica on Loan Return (All loaned products must be returned)
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
8:50 AM Welcome/Announcements
9:00 – 10:00 AM Streetwalker and How to Work with Another Artist Without Killing Each Other - Stan Shire
10:00 – 11:00 AM Portrait Photography Lecture with Manfred Bauman
Find out interesting, funny, or unspoken things from the international star photographer about his productions, exhibitions, or private meetings with the stars at the Artist Talk! Enjoy a morning with Manfred Baumann and dedicate yourself to topics of conversation such as art, success, trends, and many more.
11:00 – 11:15 PM Break
11:15 – 12:15 PM Photo Preparation and Submission for Photo Discussion
12:15 - 1:15 PM Lunch on Your Own
1:15 - 2:40 PM Photo Discussion
2:40 – 3:40 PM Lecture with Eric Luden, owner of Digital Silver Imaging - The Power of Print
Selecting the right paper for your prints. Realizing your artistic vision in print often depends on the paper you select. With dozens of choices how do you start the process and what is the best paper for your work? Two of the industry’s most experienced and respected professionals will take the guesswork out of selecting a photo printing paper. Terminology and paper formulations will be explained, and the strengths and weaknesses of paper types will be explored.
6:30 PM Cocktails (cash bar)
7:30 PM Banquet Dinner (must be pre-registered)
LSI 2023 Spring Conference Speakers
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Manfred Baumann was born in Vienna in 1968. The Leica photographer presents his work worldwide in the form of exhibitions, books and calendars. His photographs are displayed in museums as well as in international galleries. Over the past years, Baumann has taken his place among the most influential photographers of our time.
He lives in Austria and L.A., and works worldwide, having already photographed such greats as Sandra Bullock, William Shatner, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton John, Jack Black, Natalie Portman, Tony Curtis, Lionel Richie, John Malkovich, Bruce Willis, Juliette Lewis, Angelina Jolie and Evander Holyfield, as well as many international top models. His unique exhibitions such as the MUSTANGS, or THE AMERICAN BISON, END OF LINE, LIFE, REBIRTH, ALIFE, SPECIAL are popular worldwide! Manfred photographed for magazines like National Geographic, Vogue, Elle, People Magazine, GQ, Playboy, Bazaar, ….as well as for clients like BMW, Loreal, Swatch, Microsoft, Swarovski, RADO, Red Bull,...He campaigns for animal welfare, is a friend and honorary ambassador of Jane Goodall and also photographs for PETA. Manfred was the star guest & speaker at the largest Adobe MAX Conference 2022 in Los Angeles. He has been with his wife Nelly for more than 25 years, who also does his management! In the last few years the official Leica photographer Manfred Baumann has become one of the most influential photographers of his time! He enjoys a great media interest. In social media its range is over 1 million!
September Dawn Bottoms is a self-taught photographer from Oklahoma. Her work focuses on mental illness, family, poverty, and the intersection of the three. Her award-winning project, Blood Strangers, is an amalgamation of these themes; a visual memoir of the artist’s own family, shot through the lens of sexual trauma. A 2020 New York Times Photography Fellow and a World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass Participant, September is mentored by James Estrin of the New York Times and Ed Kashi of VII Photo. She has twice been awarded TIME’s best photojournalism, most recently in 2022 for her work photographing death doulas.
Debi Cornwall is a conceptual documentary artist and filmmaker who returned to visual expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a civil-rights lawyer. Marrying dark humor with structural critique, she uses still and moving images along with testimony and archival material to examine the staging and performance of American power. Her two photography books, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay and Necessary Fictions, both with Radius Books (2017 and 2020), explore “state-created realities,” from the offshore War on Terror prison and its global diaspora to the domestic military sites hosting immersive, realistic wargames. Her short found-footage films, Pineland/Hollywood (2021) and Jade Helm (2022), are screening at film festivals internationally.
Debi is an inaugural winner of the Leica Women Foto Award and has also been honored with a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Photography, a Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Grant, a Center for Emerging Visual Artists Grant, and Speranza Foundation Lincoln City Fellowships. She is one of eight mid-career photographers shortlisted for the biennial Swiss prize, the Prix Élysée. Her work is held in public collections around the world, and has been profiled in publications as diverse as Art in America, European Photography Magazine, National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, Debi is an ICP faculty member and sits on the Women Photograph board
Mark de Paola is a New York City-based fine art and fashion photographer with over 30 years of experience shooting campaign and fine art commissions for the likes of Vogue Spain, Vogue Mexico, Gucci, Oscar de la Renta, Prabal Gurung, David Koma, Roksanda, and Saint Laurent.
De Paola has directed several hundred television spots in the fashion/beauty sector including those for Giorgio RED Perfume (Bergdorf Goodman windows and MoMA NY), Ducati, Leica Camera, Sony, Neutrogena, and Ford Motorsports.
De Paola's fine art work is included in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Getty in Los Angeles, the San Diego Center of Photographic Arts, and the TOP Museum in Tokyo. His photography monographs Recent Work I (2018), Recent Work II (2019), and Five Years and Sixty Seconds (2020) can be found with Leica Camera retailers in major cities worldwide. De Paola's solo exhibitions have traveled around the world including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dali (China), Tokyo, Milan (Triennale Museum), and at home in New York City. De Paola's pictorialist work as a still and motion artist has been driven by his studies of the neurobiology and cognitive psychology of human vision.
Bruce Gilden is one of the most iconic street photographers of our time. Known for his graphic and often confrontational close-ups made using flash, his images have a degree of intimacy and directness that have become a signature in his work. Though he cut his teeth on the sidewalks of New York City where he grew up, he has since made significant bodies of work in Haiti, Japan, Moscow, France, Ireland and India. “I’m known for taking pictures very close,” says Gilden of his practice. “And the older I get, the closer I get.”
Gilden was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946. He studied sociology at Penn State University but didn’t complete the course. Although he briefly flirted with the idea of being an actor, Gilden decided to become a photographer in 1967, when he bought his first camera. He attended evening classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York, but largely considers himself to be self-taught.
As well as his many acclaimed personal projects, Gilden has worked on commissions for Louis Vuitton, RATP Parisian transportation system, The Climate Group, and Mission Photographique Transmanche as well as publications including Wallpaper, New York Times Magazine.
Gilden has received many awards and grants for his work, including National Endowments for the Arts fellowships (1980, 1984 and 1992), French “Villa Medicis Hors les Murs” grant (1995), grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts ( 1979, 1992 and 2000), a Japan Foundation Artist Fellowship (1999) and in 2013 a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Since the seventies, his work has been exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world. He has published 27 monographs of his work: Lost and Found (2019), Cherry Blossom (2021), and early 2022, Black Country as well as most recently The Circuit. Gilden joined Magnum Photos in 1998. He lives in Beacon, New York.
Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) wanders endlessly, taking lengthy road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique landscape process and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide for a stable façade—implying the instability that often lies behind the walls. His photographs are in many private and public collections, including at the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all of his published works. Hido has published more than a dozen books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting (2001) and Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013), as well as innovative B-Sides Box Sets, which function as companion pieces to his books. His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014) and Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs (2016). His latest book is Bright Black World (2018). His upcoming publication, which was titled before the pandemic, The End Sends Advance Warning, will be published in 2023. Hido is also a collector, and over the last twenty-five years has created one of the most notable photobook collections, which was featured in Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books (2019).
Eric Luden is the founder and CEO of Digital Silver Imaging. Luden started Digital Silver Imaging after leaving Ilford Photo where he was a VP of Marketing. Luden has a long history of innovation and involvement in the photo industry. Luden started in photo retail management and has served on the boards of The Griffin Museum of Photography and the Social Documentary Network.
Cheriss May is based in Washington, D.C. She works as a freelance editorial and portrait photographer and is an adjunct professor at Howard University. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, People, ABC News, and has been published on The White House website, and other publications. Her work is featured in the permanent collections of the African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY. Her current exhibit, Cheriss May – Soul Connection, is running at Busboys & Poets in D.C. through the end of May 2023.
Stan Shire is a professor emeritus of photographic imaging with an M.Ed in Computer Imaging.
He first got interested in photography at age 12 and never stopped. At various stages of his life he’s been a photojournalist (UPI and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin), an advertising (Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, USA) and architectural photographer (Architectural Record and Architectural Digest). When he retired from 27 years of college teaching, he decided to learn to be a machinist and spent a great deal of the next 5 or 6 years building small stationary steam engines. With all of that, his primary love, is photography. His first Leica, was either a IIIf or a IIIg and was purchased in the late ‘60s or early ‘70s from a lovely little shop off Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia run by George Knechtsberger.
About 25 years ago, he began collaborating with Shelly Lependorf (also a member of LHSA) creating limited edition fine art photography which is in many corporate and private collections. Their work is owned by the National Football League, Comedy Central, Sloane -Kettering Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson Medical Center and many others.
Three years ago, Stan and Shelly sold all of their Nikon equipment and replaced them with Leicas. Stan thought that it would be interesting to go back to film and his first purchase was a beautiful M6 which he shot with for a year until he had enough of developing film and scanning. Then came his current camera , an M10. Most lenses were bought from and old friend, the late Ken Hanson. He joined LHSA and Shelly followed not long after. He’s been to the Asheville, ,Boston, Seattle and Colorado Springs events and the Dublin meeting.
Stan and his wife, Dr. Glenna Shire have one son and split their time between Philadelphia and Naples, Florida. He also builds furniture and has been known to play the harmonica, banjo and ukulele. Stan is also retired from The United States Air Force Reserve in the 514th Military Airlift Wing’s Combat Camera where he documented operations in Somalia and Desert Storm. In addition to LSI, Stan is also a member of Mensa.
Andrea Zocchi is a partner at Digital Silver Imaging and head of Marketing and Promotions. Zocchi was an art director at F+W Media and CEO of his own publishing company. Andrea has directed and taught photo workshops in Italy for Massachusetts College of Art, SUNY Alfred, and the University of Colorado Denver.
Phil Penman, UK-born, NY-based photographer, has documented the rapid flux of New York City’s streets for over 25 years. With clients ranging from People Magazine to The Daily Telegraph, he has photographed living legends including Jennifer Lopez and Bill Gates, and captured historical moments such as the September 11th Terrorist Attacks. Penman’s distinctive style, versatility, and dedication to his craft have won him prestigious awards and exhibitions, and a distinction as one of the “52 Most Influential Street Photographers” alongside industry luminaries Henri Cartier-Bresson and Sebastião Salgado. His debut book “STREET” launched as the Number 1 new release on Amazon for Street Photography and has since become a best seller and been featured at MoMA in New York. A curated selection of images from the book were also exhibited in Harrods, London in the fall of 2020.