For our Summer 2022 exhibition the Atlanta Photography Group is partnering with The Nature Conservancy (nature.org) to produce a member-based exhibition opportunity that will encourage people locally, regionally and nationally to do everything in their power to create a world where people and nature can thrive.This CFE invites photo-based artists to submit work around nature, landscape, environmentalism, nature conservation, flora, fauna, nature-based documentary / Fine Art or work about animals/insects/reptiles/fish and their habitat.Our esteemed juror for this exhibition will be Melissa (Ryan) Dale, Deputy Director of Photography for The Nature Conservancy.  Ms. Dale is planning to be present at the APG gallery for the live juror talk and opening reception, along with local representatives from the Georgia Nature Conservancy branch.

Darnell Wilburn, APG’ s Director of Media and Cultural Outreach will spearhead this initiative called Eyes on Atlanta: Windows into our Community. This initiative will kick off with the first micro- exhibition curated by Wilburn, Eyes on Atlanta: Black Contemporary Photography,  April 18th –April 30th.  Opening Reception is April 21, 2022 from 6pm-8:30pm.

Use your photography to explore the sculptural side of books! Students in this four-week class will learn how to use the accordion book structure to reveal photographic narratives. Demos will be given on how to construct accordion books three different ways, plus a few more variations. Along the way, students will create their own handmade books that express their personal photographic content. All levels of experience are welcome. workshop leader: Cynthia Lollis is a professor of printmaking and book arts in Atlanta.

Use your photography to explore the sculptural side of books! Students in this four-week class will learn how to use the accordion book structure to reveal photographic narratives. Demos will be given on how to construct accordion books three different ways, plus a few more variations. Along the way, students will create their own handmade books that express their personal photographic content. All levels of experience are welcome. workshop leader: Cynthia Lollis is a professor of printmaking and book arts in Atlanta.

Ready to dive deeper into image editing after learning the basics? Understanding color is an important skill in developing our editing techniques. In this workshop we will begin with establishing the right editing environment by learning to calibrate our monitors and looking at the ways that proper calibration can impact on our images. We’ll learn to utilize curves to control our tonality and make subject color choices to enhance our images. We’ll cover advanced editing and masking techniques such as selecting skies, subjects, range masks, smart objects, and Adobe Camera RAW. Finally, we uncover advance skin retouching techniques, smoothing skin tones and texture by using Color Range; skin enhancement adjustments with quick tools such as Texture, Clarity, Dehaze, Sharpen, and getting professional results using Frequency Separation.

Critique: Jennifer Murray (Online) - Members Only is now accepting entries. This critique will be guest curated by Jennifer Murray. Submissions to this curated exhibition is open only to all current members of APG. Our guest curator will choose images 10 from the members entries.

Atlanta Photography Group (APG) is pleased to announce the PORTFOLIO 2022, juried by Karen E. Haas, the Lane Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Eight exceptional artists, and two alternates were chosen to represent the best of contemporary photography from an international call for entries. Each artist featured in the exhibition offers a diverging approach to contemporary photography, ranging from the surreal, to the intimate, and encompassing everything from staged narratives to social documentary work.

The Atlanta Photography Group is excited to announce our next CFE, Tell Me A Story, which is celebrating street and documentary photography of all styles with a strong narrative. We are looking for your most compelling stories – they can be candid depictions of everyday life, shadows of the city streets, the abandonment of a country road, subtle moments of joy, humor, love, fear or anxiety. Think of work like that created by Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Josef Koudleka, Helen Levitt, Baldwin Lee, Roy DeCarava, Mary Ellen Mark, Daido Moriyama, Lee Friedlander, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, and Harry Callahan.