We are excited to announce that we have many incredible classes and workshops scheduled for 2012.

We would love to invite you all to attend as many as you would like and further push your creative work. Attending classes and workshops is a great way to learn, interact, receive inspiration from others, and continue to network with other attendees for future collaboration. Most events, including monthly gallery exhibitions and guest lectures are FREE and Open To The Public. Other, more in-depth workshops have a limited number of spots available and require an affordable fee. These are larger production with more hands-on beneficial experience. Our goal is to educate and further unify the already incredible photography community in Salt Lake City.

Currently, we have announced “Beginner Photography 101″, and will be announcing many more hands-on workshops ranging from Studio Lighting and Photoshop to guest lectures with many of the communities most well established commercial and fine art photographers.

The best way to stay in the loop on upcoming workshops is simple:

-Click below to Join our Meetup Group and we will notify you when new events will be hosted at the SLC Photo Collective.

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We’ll spare you the extensive bio that sums up the hybrid of a commercial/fine artist that is Chase Jarvis. If you have never seen his work, jump on over HERE to check out a clean little video edit that explains his versatility and vision.

I have had the opportunity to meet Chase, and speak with him about many of his exciting personal projects aside from his commercial success’s. He continues to be an inspiration not only as an artist, but as a brand, and a visionary.

Chase Jarvis and Dave Brewer

Recently, I stumbled upon a  blog post where Chase hit the nail on the head covering a lot of topics that have been rattling around in my brain for years without finding the ability to adequate express with words. He calls it, “The Hit List”- 13 Things Crucial for Your Success (In Any Field).

Instead of simply regurgitating the well thought out, well scripted words, it is much more recommended to link on over to Chase’s Blog where I hope you have the chance to browse around after being fed a large spoonful of common sense knowledge that the average creative often overlooks. I hope you find it as inspiring and motivating as I have. And like Chase notes in #11: Seek Out Good People.

-Dave Brewer

SLC Photo Collective.

The day that we finished the creation of the larger-than-life roll of Kodak Ektar 100 film, Kodak ironically announced that they are filing for bankruptcy. Although it is a necessary step in continuing their line of digital products, it is sad to see such a drastic change in the history of film-based photography. “They did indeed file for bankruptcy but the film division of Kodak is still quite profitable. They had double digit growth in sales in 2011. I am not sure where the future of the company is headed, but I would be amazed to see them stop producing film anytime soon.” -Ryan Muirhead (Photographer supported by Kodak) As a tribute to Kodak and to Celebrate the 6 month Anniversary of the SLC Photo Collective,  we would like to invite you to come be a part of an exclusive international exhibit: Film Por Vida: A Print Exchange Program Friday, January 20th. 7pm-midnight. 561 West 200 South. SLC, UT 84101

A huge Thank you to a few specific people that helped in the creation of the Giant Roll of Film: Jake Vivori for the Die Cut Sticker work, Joan Richardson, Adrian Elias, and Jordan Huntington for helping with the many coats of paint!

The Film Por Vida print exchange program is an international exchange
of photographic prints through the mail by over 200 photographers from
around the world. Inspired by Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School.

In the last 6 years Jai Tanju has sent out thousands of photos to photographers,
film lovers and artists. In return receiving over 1500 pieces of mail that will be exhibited
along with  26 framed photographs by: Joe Brook, Tobin Yelland,  Sam Milianta, Jeff Griffin, Matt Winskowski, Sean Winskowski,Adam Dorobiala, Tim Irwin, Dave Schubert Dan Boulton, Takeshi Abe, B. Fonville, J.Siegel, Jai Tanju, Ken Nagahara, Weston Colton, Brad Westcot,  Greg Hunt, Dennis McGrath, Bryce Kanights, Amanda Lopez,  Isaac Randozzi, Mark Whiteley, Dave Franklin, Kingsley Ifill, Phil Jackson, Eric Antoine, Fabrizio Biviano,  and Espen Stokke.
Also including additional local SLC Photographers:
Zuzanna Audette, Jeff Yeats, Ryan Muirhead, Teresa Flowers, Bob Plumb, Jordan Huntington, Karalee Kuchar, Chris Swainston, Angela Brown, Greg Hebard, Duston Todd, and many others.

Film Por Vida has received a lot of media attention including VICE Magazine, The Touring exhibit has been on display in New York, California, London, and now Salt Lake City! So What can you expect to see on January 20th at the SLC Photo Collective? We are excited to hang thousands of images ranging from loose prints, to large scale framed work. We will be creating a few large collage pieces as part of a permanent addition to the gallery. We have been working hard to further update the interior of the gallery with more interactive elements. Come celebrate with us and see all of the new additions on January 20th 2012 from 7:00pm-Midnight.

The 3rd annual Help-Portrait event is scheduled for Saturday, December 10th, 2011 at the SLC Photo Collective!

If you are interested in volunteering or helping out in general, we are still in need of small monetary donations.
Spare the price of one combo meal this week, and donate to our local Help-Portrait fund to help cover the cost of ink/paper/supplies.

Here is a link to the secure donation page. Help-Portrait is a non-profit. You will receive a email receipt for your tax-deductible donation, and good karma.