HOW TO SUCCEED AT PORTFOLIO REVIEWS: A Virtual Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon

HOW TO SUCCEED AT PORTFOLIO REVIEWS:

Professional, Practical, and Personal Guidance

 

A Virtual Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon providing Professional, Practical, and Personal Guidance. Elizabeth is dedicated to helping photographers refine and perfect their portfolios to maximize their time in reviews and other professional meetings.

The Workshop will explore the most important segments of the review process to ensure you make the most of yours, how to customize professional presentations towards different reviewers, and the most effective methods for highlighting your strengths as an image-maker. With a comprehensive view of the industry, the instructor will focus on honing and amplifying your visual voice, and will discuss editing and sequencing your work for different clients. This workshop also includes a personal one-on-one portfolio editing and sequencing session with Elizabeth Avedon.

 

“Some of today’s most notable photographers received their big break at a Portfolio Review."

A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

HOW TO SUCCEED AT PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

February 10, 2024, 10AM - 3:30PM EST

To sign-up: lizavedon@gmail.com

$250. Limited to 8 Participants

Private Consults and Alternate Dates Available

 

Photographer Latoya Ruby Frazier exhibiting her photographs

at Review Santa Fe's Photowalk, 2009 © Elizabeth Avedon

 

A few upcoming Portfolio Reviews in 2024: The Palm Springs Photo Festival Feb. 26-28; New York Portfolio Reviews April 13-14; The New England Portfolio Review & Griffin Museum of Photography April 6-7; Fotofest March 10-19; Review Santa Fe November 1-3 (deadline to enter February 25, 2024). Check them out.

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Elizabeth Avedon is an independent curator, and photography book and exhibition designer. She has a rich history collaborating with museums, publishing houses, advertising agencies, galleries and artists, and is a sought after consultant for photographers; editing, sequencing, and advising towards their exhibition, book, and portfolio projects. Elizabeth continues to participate in international reviews, including the distinguished panel for the International Prix Carmignac Photojournalism Award, Paris; the Icelandic Photography Festival, Reykjavik; Landskrona FotoFestival Reviews, Sweden; Review Santa Fe; Photolucida; Palm Springs Photo Festival; FilterPhoto Festival, Chicago, and the LACP Reviews, among others. Elizabeth received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Griffin Museum of Photography.

 

 

WORKSHOP: Preparing For Portfolio Reviews

Photographer Latoya Ruby Frazier exhibiting her photographs

at Review Santa Fe Photowalk, 2009 © Elizabeth Avedon

Preparing for Portfolio Reviews is a 2-day Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon dedicated to helping photographers refine and perfect their portfolios to maximize their time in reviews and other professional meetings. http://visitcenter.org/preparing-for-reviews/

The Workshop will explore the nuances in presenting multiple projects to different reviewers, customizing your professional presentations, and the most effective methods for highlighting your strengths as an image-maker. With a comprehensive view of the industry, the instructor will focus on honing and amplifying your visual voice, and will discuss editing and sequencing your work for different clients. This workshop also includes a one-on-one portfolio editing and sequencing session with Elizabeth Avedon.

WORKSHOP: PREPARING FOR REVIEWS

October 25 -26, 2017, 10am-5pm

CENTER
Drury Plaza Hotel
828 Paseo de Peralta

Santa Fe, NM

 

CENTER, founded in 1994, honors, supports, and provides opportunities to gifted and committed photographers.

ALINE SMITHSON: The Interview

Arrangement in Green and Black #2

Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother © Aline Smithson 

Arrangement in Green and Black #17

Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother  © Aline Smithson  

Arrangement in Green and Black #1

Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother © Aline Smithson  

Elizabeth Avedon: What sparked the idea for your series, Arrangement in Green and Black?

Aline Smithson: The idea was sparked when I came across a small print of Arrangement in Gray and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother by James McNeil Whistler at a garage sale.  Whistler has always been one of my favorite painters. Revisiting the composition again made me ponder the possibilities of using it in a photographic series. Within an hour, at two other garage sales, I happened upon a leopard coat and hat,a leopard fabric, a cat painting and a chair that was similar to the one in the painting...and I knew it was a sign to proceed.

My patient 85 year-old mother posed in over 20 ensembles, but unfortunately passed away before seeing the finished series. I am grateful for her sense of humor and the time this series allowed us to be together. 

 EA: Which of the 21 was the first?

AS: The first was the leopard coat and hat and the cat painting. I immediately loved the result and it set my imagination on fire.  I would lie awake at night thinking of combinations and scenarios. I was also working on a couple of other series at the same time. It was a period of immense creativity. 
 

Read more L'Oeil de la Photographie here
 

Fur © Aline Smithson  

Lucy with Mountains from Revisiting Beauty © Aline Smithson

As seen in the 2014 PDN Photo Annual 

I first met ALINE SMITHSON several years ago while I was a reviewer for CENTER's annual Review Santa Fe. I was impressed with all of her work using various subjects and styles. I fell in love with her mysterious black and white series, Inside/Out, and Daughter, a photographic journey from childhood to adolescent to adulthood of her daughter Charlotte; and many of her photographs incorporating her family on their yearly vacations on a lake. 

After a career as a New York Fashion Editor, working along side the greats of fashion photography, including Horst, Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier, Arthur Elgort, and Bert Stern, ALINE SMITHSON discovered the family Rolleiflex and never looked back. She has exhibited widely including solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Center of Fine Art Photography, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the Lishui Festival in China, the Tagomago Gallery in Barcelona and Paris, and the Wallspace Gallery in Seattle and Santa Barbara. And her latest exhibition, Arrangement in Gray and Black: Portrait of the Photographer's Mother, opened at the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson New York last week.

Aline radiates her own personal power - she is known as a superstar among her peers. While working full-time on her own photography career, she generously promotes and supports the work of mid-career and emerging photographers daily on her award winning journal, LENSCRATCH; as well as giving workshops at the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) and jurying exhibitions and portfolio reviews around the country. 

I spoke with Aline recently about her ongoing work projects, her upcoming exhibition and her collaboration with her mother. Read our full Interview on L'Oeil de la Photography here.

EXHIBITION
Photographs by Aline Smithson
Arrangement in Gray and Black: Portrait of the Photographer's Mother
May 16 - June 22, 2014
Davis Orton Gallery
114 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 USA
 

Also showing:
Photographs by Meg Birnbaum, Sisters of the Commonwealth
 

CENTER: 2014 International Call For Entries

REVIEW SANTA FE: JUNE 26-29, 2014: Review Santa Fe is designed to facilitate relationships between photographers and leading industry professionals looking for new work. PROJECT LAUNCH GRANT: 2014: Project Launch is presented to an outstanding photographer working in fine art series or documentary project. ENTER NOW!