2020 Filter Photo Festival

It's an exciting time here at Filter Photo and we have a few big announcements to share with you. First of all, we are thrilled to announce our brand new website! We've been hard at work redesigning filterphoto.org and hope you'll spend some time perusing the new site.

We are also excited to make the first round of programming announcements for the 2020 Filter Photo Festival, including workshops, the preliminary list of portfolio reviewers, and our featured evening speaker, Liz Deschenes.

The 2020 Filter Photo Festival will take place September 9th – 13th and will be held primarily online due to COVID-19. Online programming will include workshops, portfolio reviews, and artist talks. Additionally, hybrid in-person and online exhibitions will be hosted at Filter Space.

Don't forget that Filter Photo Members receive access to early Festival registration on July 1st. Check the Membership Directory on our website to find out if your membership is current. If not, renew or become a Member today to take advantage of early-bird pricing and reserve your spot for Portfolio Reviews and Workshops before the general public. Public Registration opens July 8th.

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Featured Evening Speaker: Liz Deschenes

Liz Deschenes is a photographer who, in the best modernist tradition, pushes against the basic terms by which photography is conventionally defined: instantaneity, veracity, fixity, or reproducibility,” writes curator and critic Matthew Witkovsky. Indeed, Deschenes uses durational photogramatic exposure to create unique, shifting surfaces that frequently function as sculptural or architectural rather than photographic objects.

She has exhibited her work regularly since receiving her BFA in Photography in 1988, from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. The first comprehensive survey exhibition of her photographs, organized by Eva Respini, was on view at the ICA Boston in 2016; for the occasion of that exhibition, a monograph was published by Prestel. She has most recently mounted solo exhibitions at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Campoli Presti, London and Paris, as well as a group exhibition at the Punta Della Dogana, where her work was exhibited with Berenice Abbott’s series – Changing NY.

Her work is represented in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Date: September 9, 2020

Time: 6:00 – 7:00 PM CT

Cost: FREE

Location: Online