March HPS Meeting Announcement

Place: Makiki District Park
Date:  Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Time: 6-8 PM

Speaker: Mr. Ryan Sakamoto

I'm a self taught photographer, coming from a graphic design background for me it seemed to be a seamless transition from Photoshop/Illustrator pixels to mega digital photography pixels. In the past year 2011 I've shot more creative images than I have in the past 3 years! Still hungry to learn how to take better images, meeting, other inspiring photographers on this island in person & on the web. I am always happy to share what I have learned through my experiences. I love shooting my daughter who plays basketball for Kalani High School. I also enjoy shooting Sunrise/Sunsets, landscape, sports, environmental portrait photography, street photography, if it looks cool I'll shoot it!

 Subject: Lightroom 3
Join in for this hands-on workshop.  Bring your laptop with Lightroom 3 installed (not required), pen and paper to take notes or have a very good memory.

You can find me on the web:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ryansakamotophotography
Google +: gplusryan.com (I post a Photo of the Day Image everyday on G+, well at least I try to)
Website: www.ryansakamoto.com

Aloha,
Ryan Sakamoto PHOTOGRAPHY

February HPS Meeting Announcement

Place: Makiki District Park
Date:  February 14, 2012
Time: 6-8 PM

Speaker: Ms. Gaye Chan

Gaye Chan is a conceptual artist who is recognized equally for her individual and collaborative work. Her work has taken place on the web, in publications and in galleries. Her recent work often ruminates on how cartography and photography simultaneously offer and occlude information. She has had exhibitions at Art in General (New York City), Artspeak (Vancouver), Gallery 4A (Sydney), Asia Society (New York City), Honolulu Academy of Art (Honolulu), SF Camerawork (San Francisco), The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu), YYZ Artist Outlet (Toronto).

Chan’s collaborative projects include being a part of Eating in Public and Downwind Productions. Eating in Public is an anti-capitalism project nudging a little space outside of the commodity system. Following the path of pirates and nomads, hunters and gathers, diggers and levelers, they gather at people’s homes, plant free food gardens on private and public land, set up free stores, all without permission. Downwind examines the impact of colonialism, capitalism, and tourism. Through agitprop commodities and web media, DownWind takes up Waikiki as an actual specific site/sight and a metaphor for countless other places where self-sustaining peoples have been dislocated for profit.

Gaye Chan was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States in 1969. She received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and is currently a professor and the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai'i.

Chan’s work has been supported by the Creative Capital Foundation.

Upcoming Events for February

HPS Members,

If you want to check out Gaye Chan's prints it's on display at The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Gallery 14 through February 12, 2012. 

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Pacific New Media-Free Public Talk

Photo Critique

Thursday, February 9 at 7pm
Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall 1
This is a time for photographers and students to come together, dialogue, and share work.  Please bring 8-10 examples of your work, either on a thumb drive, CD or in print form.

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UH MANOA PACIFIC NEW MEDIA IS SEEKING ENTRIES FOR THE FOURTH ANNUAL STATEWIDE SURVEY EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY IN HAWAI‘I. WINNERS TO RECEIVE HONORS AND PRIZES AT AWARDS CEREMONY ON OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION.

The Fourth Annual Survey Exhibition of Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i, sponsored by UH Manoa Outreach College's Pacific New Media, is open to all artists using photographic processes: traditional silver or color prints, digital imaging, alternative processes and mixed media explorations. The juried exhibition offers photographers a venue for exhibiting work and provides an up-to-date snapshot of the state-of-the-art of photography in Hawai‘i.

Hawai‘i residents -  amateurs and professionals -  are welcome to submit original works that have been created within the past two years, have not been previously exhibited, and show evidence of a photographic process in their creation. Selected images are exhibited at Frame Arts Hawaii, 627 South Street, Honolulu, April 6 - 27, 2011, with an opening night reception for the public on Friday, April 6 from 6-9pm. An awards ceremony will take place at 7pm.

Prizes and Awards include a Juror`s award for a one or two-day Pacific New Media workshop; a free frame and labor from Frame Arts Hawaii; dinner for 4 at Orchids Restaurant, Halekulani Hotel, Waikiki; $100 gift certificates from Hawaii Photo Rental and Imageworks Hawaii; and fine art photo paper from Kaimuki Camera.
Images must be submitted by March 4. For an entry form and submission details, including entry fees, visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu/pnm or for questions contact pnmphoto@gmail.com or

Upcoming Events

HPS speaker in February is Ms. Gaye Chan.  If you want to check out her actual prints, they are on display at The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Gallery 14 through February 12, 2012. 

Exhibition Overview

The Academy is pleased to debut Frass, the latest project from photographer and conceptual artist Gaye Chan. Chan’s work ruminates on the ways in which cartography, photography, and printed matter simultaneously offer and occlude information. Frass originated in a rare and obscure source: an insect-damaged accordion book of 19^th-century Japanese woodblock illustrations. Intrigued by the complex pattern of wormholes that meandered through the book’s pages, Chan scanned the folios, enlarged them, and superimposed onto their lattice-like surfaces Google Map photographs of approximately 20 miles of the U.S./Mexico Border. The resulting installation is comprised of 10 large-scale digital prints—each a composite of more than 300 intricate screen captures—mounted in the manner of roll-up maps, aligned horizontally, and anchored by a rotating laser that traces the border’s location from one image to the next.

Frass suggests analogies between insect detritus and topography, larvae tracks and the roadways established for the transport of people and goods associated with the Mexican maquiladoras [export assembly plants]. In juxtaposing the vantage points of satellite and worm, authorized cargo and illicit traffic, Frass documents the border as it currently stands and speculates on the imbalance of power between this arbitrary boundary, the individuals who navigate it, and the body politic that transcends it. Scheduled to coincide with the 2011 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, taking place in Honolulu in November, Frass reflects on how economic alliances promote free trade, even as they rely on national borders to criminalize the movement of people.

Gaye Chan is Chair of the Art and Art History Department at the University of Hawaii.—Theresa Papanikolas, Curator of European and American Art

January HPS Meeting Announcement

Place: Makiki District Park
Date: January 10, 2012
Time: 6-8 PM

Speaker: Mr. Ryan Sakamoto

Ryan's Bio:
I'm a self taught photographer, coming from a graphic design background for me it seemed to be a seamless transition from Photoshop/Illustrator pixels to mega digital photography pixels. In the past year 2011 I've shot more creative images than I have in the past 3 years! Still hungry to learn how to take better images, meeting, other inspiring photographers on this island in person & on the web. I am always happy to share what I have learned through my experiences. I love shooting my daughter who plays basketball for Kalani High School. I also enjoy shooting Sunrise/Sunsets, landscape, sports, environmental portrait photography, street photography, if it looks cool I'll shoot it!

I'll be going over the use of a Wacom Intuos pen tablet. We'll cover setting up the tablet button & pen functions in the preferences. Pressure sensitivity & how to set up Photoshop & other applications to use the tablet in your daily functions so you can have a mouse free workflow.
I'll also do a demo on beauty retouching from a previous model shoot using the Wacom tablet.

You can find me on the web:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ryansakamotophotography
Google +: gplusryan.com (I post a Photo of the Day Image everyday on G+, well at least I try to)
Website: www.ryansakamoto.com

Aloha,
Ryan Sakamoto PHOTOGRAPHY