Demonstration of Photoshop Elements 6 on 3/20/08

Photoshop Elements 6 screen, Pictures by Charles Burkett

The March meeting of the Digital Photography Special Interest Group will feature a discussion of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. We'll pay special attention to the new features that were added in the upgrade from version 5. Charles Burkett will do the presentation.

WHEN: Thursday, March 20th at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: Cuyahoga County Library, Maple Heights Branch
5225 Library Lane
Maple Heights, Ohio 44137-1291
Map: http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Branch.aspx?id=616

3/12: Photographer Chris Jordan to Give Oberlin Gallery Talk

Plastic Bottles, 2007
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles,
the number used in the US every five minutes

Detail at Actual Size
(photos courtesy of chrisjordan.com)

Running the Numbers: Photographs by Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan's photographs are often massive in size and impressive in detail. In the past he has gained access to industrial waste facilities and photographed material and juxtaposed images in a way that gives new insight on our consumption of resources. He will be in Oberlin to talk about the work being exhibited at the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Here's what the museum said about the photographer and his work:

Chris Jordan's photographs investigate contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. The themes of environmental stewardship, mass consumption, waste, public health and social justice are explored through haunting, large-scale images, which cause the viewer to directly confront numbers through a visual medium. Each work portrays a specific quantity of a particular item: 15 million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use), 426,000 cell phones (the number retired every day), 106,000 aluminum cans (30 second of consumption). As Jordan plays with size and scale in these vast photographs, assembled from thousands of smaller ones, he also causes us to examine our role, responses, opinions and actions as members of a consumer society and as inhabitants of both a man-made and natural world. Images representing the quantities involved have a different and more powerful lasting effect than the raw numbers alone, which can often be mind-numbing and feel remote from daily life. As Jordan has stated, "Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing...this project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society. My underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible and overwhelming."Chris Jordan will discuss his career and works on display in his show at the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College. A reception will follow his talk.

Date: Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2008, 5:00 pm
The work will be on display from March 11 - June 8, 2008

Location: Allen Memorial Art Museum,
Oberlin College

87 N Main St, Oberlin, OH

(440) 775-8665
Google Map

Cost: Free

For more information on the exhibit, visit http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/chrisjordan.htm
See more of his work here: http://chrisjordan.com/