PPOC Canadian Imaging Conference & Trade Show Calgary, Alberta

 By Evelyn Drake

The PPOC Canadian Imaging Conference and Trade Show is Canada’s premiere event for photographers. The 2016 conference will be in Calgary at the Coast Plaza Hotel from April 16th-19th, 2016.

Everyone is welcome to attend the trade show at the hotel on Sunday April 17th 1PM-5PM and Monday April 18th, 2016 11AM-2PM.

Click here to download the Event Schedule.

Click here to Register Online 

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Inspire Project YYC Created a Mini Heroes Portrait Series to Raise Funds

 By Evelyn Drake

INSPIRE PROJECT YYC is a not-for-profit foundation that seeks to increase awareness and raise funds for established charities in a creative and inspiring way. It was started by a group of Calgarian creatives supporting the fight for social justice. They believe in supporting organizations seeking to affect change in difficult areas.

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Safety Third Instagram Photo Contest

 By Evelyn Drake

Hanging off the side of a cliff, wading into the ocean or getting up-close and personal to a wild animal or a mother of the bride on her daughter’s wedding day may sound a little crazy to some. But, we know that photographers put their own safety at risk in order to capture an awesome moment. Enter the photographs that you’ve captured while putting yourself in a strange or risky situation and include the story in you post.

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The Painters and the Camera

 By John Veldhoen

There is a well-known story about the so-called “blue period” of paintings by Pablo Picasso. It goes that Picasso became friends with a Catalan youth that he met in Paris, named Carlos Casagemas, a thoroughly 19th century cliché bohemian obsessive type who ended up shooting himself over an unrequited love. The historian Anne Baldessari conjectured that a cyanotype in a Picasso trove is of Casagemas, and that Picasso is likely the photographer.

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