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The Palm Springs Photo Festival Connect 2020 offers professional, emerging professional and serious advanced amateur photographers the opportunity to study with legendary photographers, show portfolios in our celebrated portfolio review program, check out and shoot with the latest gear, attend cutting-edge seminars, symposiums, networking events and enjoy evening presentations by world famous image-makers. The inevitable relationships that are made or renewed at PSPF are often transformative!
Ben Hassett: Beauty Photography
Matt Mahurin: Pursuing Your Passion
Miranda Penn Turin: Directing Subjects
Nadav Kander: WORK: Master Class
Erwin Olaf: The Power of Creativity: The PSPF Master Class
Frank Ockenfels 3: Looking Beyond the Obvious
Keith Carter: The Poetry of Perception: Finding Your Voice
Cheryl Walsh: Photographing People Underwater
Melanie Pullen: The Fine Art Narrative: Stories & Portraits
Todd Hido: Nocturnal Narratives: The Night Suburban Landscape
Sandro Miller: How to Light Portraits Like a Master
Michael Christopher Brown: Documentary Photography: The Story
Giles Clement: Alternative Processes: The Wet-Plate Collodion
Scott Frances: Photographing Architecture & Interiors
Tim Griffith: Architecture: Finding Visual Literacy
Thomas Holm: The Fine Art Nude in the Landscape
Nino Rakichevich: Street Photography: The Noble Photographic Pursuit
David Fahey: Portfolio Reviews & Gallery Submissions
Michael DeStefano: Astrophotography: The Landscape & Desert Sky
Dirk Dallas: Drones: Advanced Flying, Photography & Video
Art Streiber: Managing A Career in Professional Photography
Michelle Dunn Marsh: Sequencing Photographs
THE FIRST EVER CANON EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER CONTEST
Daily Registration costs only $95 per day and includes our symposiums, evening presentations, all sponsored photo-walks, certain seminars, access to our Sponsor Headquarters and our networking events.
“There is probably no other event in photography that can assemble a broader and more comprehensive faculty of influencers than the Palm Springs Photo Festival.”
SEE OUR PORTFOLIO REVIEWERS
Including an incredible contingent of Advertising Agency creatives, Galleries, Magazine Photo Editors, Book Publishers, Corporate Art Directors, Reps and more.
“Over the past decade, the Palm Springs Photo Festival has grown into one of the most anticipated West Coast photo events of the year, featuring portfolio reviews from a truly rich array of industry experts and artists, as well as workshops, exhibitions, and evening projections in a beautiful desert landscape.” – David Schonauer, Pro Photo Daily
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Our 15th anniversary year Workshop Program will offer 18 intense, hands-on, remarkable shooting classes with world-renowned working photographers. Most are three full days plus a 4th day morning session and begin on September 20th.
The Portfolio Review at the Palm Springs Photo Festival is designed to introduce emerging, professional and serious advanced amateur photographers to key influencers from both the commercial & fine art realms. DATE TO CHOOSE YOUR REVIEWS: September 4th
Our intensive seminars, taught by leading industry experts, are conducted in the form of a two-hour lecture followed by a Q & A session. Topics range from technical to inspirational and business. Certain seminars are included with daily festival registration.
Each day, Monday – Thursday, we present an important industry conference. This is a moderated discussion among experts on subjects of immediate importance to all photographers. These get you thinking about issues affecting you.
Each night, we present our Evening Presentation in the Annenberg Theater of the Palm Springs Art Museum. See our Slide Show Contest selections and amazing presentations by legendary photographers. Don’t forget our raffles!
Attend our Opening Reception, Networking Dinner & our big Epson Gallery festival party! Open bar, great food, wine tastings from great California winemakers and a chance to hang out and make friends.
Send us your slide shows! You can send as many as you like. This is an opportunity to have your presentation shown in one of our four Evening Presentations to the entire festival including all of our influencers. Win incredible prizes from our sponsors! DEADLINE September 1st.
Participate in our Open Portfolio Show! Show your work to members of our faculty, as well as festival attendees, sponsors & the general public. A great way to make new friends and connections!
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JUST ADDED! 1-NIGHT ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY, LANDSCAPE & THE NIGHT SKY
VOLUNTEER OR INTERN AT PSPF 2020 - WE'RE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS NOW
CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR PAGES! - These pages let you know what's being planned for you
PSPF 2020 will again host the Photo / Aperture Foundation Book Prize (In the Hyatt Palm Springs atrium).
COME LEARN & PRINT YOUR WORK AT CANON / FREESTYLE DIGITAL INKJET PRINTING CENTER
INTERESTED IN SHOOTING UNDERWATER? CHECK OUT CHERYL WALSH'S CLASS
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