Highly Subjective

During the month of September PhotoShelter is hosting a series of "town hall meetings" called, Photography 2.0: The business of Photography in the Digital Era.

The events are being held in New York (9/14), Atlanta (9/17), Chicago (9/19), Portland (9/24), San Francisco (9/26), and Los Angeles (9/28).

The events are FREE, but you must register on their site to attend.

In early June I submitting some images to possibly be included in an exhibit at City Hall, here in San Francisco. I didn't make it into the show. If you're a regular reader of this blog you may recall I posted my rejection letter a couple of weeks ago... it was my first.

Today, I received a really nice email about the images I submitted that made me feel really good...

"Paul,

Greetings.

Finally getting around to organizing things from the Our World show. Wanted to send along a thank you for submitting, and a note that it was a challenge to select the work for the exhibition- City Hall is a BIG building, but the gallery space is quite small.

Just wanted to say that even though the whole group didn't select the work, that I really enjoyed your spontaneous and connected images- and appreciated their joyfulness and quirky relation to the street.

Keep makin' the stuff, and always interested to see more.

Best,

Thom

--
Thom Sempere
Executive Director
PhotoAlliance"

Thanks for taking the time to email me, Thom. It made me feel really good knowing you liked my images.

If anyone is interested in checking out the show, it's in City Hall, and will run from July 13th to September 21st. You can find more details on the PhotoAlliance website.

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and you shoot in public, you may want to check this out...

The Legal Landscape of Street Shooting
July 24th, 2007 — 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Description: Whether you are out on the street shooting as a freelance, staff photographer or a private citizen, you need to understand your legal rights and how those rights are interpreted in today’s social landscape. Despite press freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, the government routinely challenges individual journalists and the general public. For example, freelanceer and blogger, Josh Wolf, was jailed and served 226 days in jail for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena to turn over a collection of videotapes he recorded during a demonstration in San Francisco.

This will be a really interesting evening discussion about First Amendment concerns for photographers, principally regarding privacy liability, defamation and copyright. You will have the opportunity to hear in plain English what the issues are, what your legal rights are, and ways to protect yourself.

Fotovision is fortunate to have scheduled the very busy and high powered team at The First Amendment Project, dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom of information, expression, and petition. FAP provides advice, educational materials, and legal representation to its core constituency of activists, journalists, and artists in service of these fundamental liberties.

SUMMER FUN BONUS!! We will have a raffle on the evening of this event. Prizes include, “americans [1940 - 2006]”, an exhibition publication for the eponymous show with work by master photographers such as Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, Larry Clark and more.

Location: The Center for Photography, North Gate Hall
Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, Hearst & Euclid.
J School driving directions and public transportation.

Instructors: David Greene, Executive Director of The First Amendment Project is an experienced litigator for First Amendment issues, a founding member of the Internet Free Expression Alliance, author and lecturer.

Pondra Perkins is a Staff Attorney and Environmental Advocacy Fellow at the First Amendment Project. In addition, she has a background in software engineering which she used to build digital applications for various media companies such as Getty Images.

James Wheaton, is a litigator in cases involving civil rights at the state and federal level, co-founder of the First Amendment Project. He is also a registered lobbyist, and has been involved in the passage of amendments to the California law.

Please refer to their website for full biographies.

Class size: 100 participants.
Cost: $10.00

You can register on the fotovision website.