Final 2008 Meeting of Greene County Camera Club

Final 2008 Meeting of Greene County Camera Club at the Athens Cultural Center on November 19 on Bromoil Process

The Greene County Camera Club invites the public to a talk and slideshow by Palenville Photographer Jill Skupin Burkholder on “The Bromoil Process.” It will take place at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street in Athens on Wednesday, November 19 from 7 to 9 pm.

The bromoil process, using images captured either digitally or on film, is one of the oldest and most painterly of the photographic processes and is cherished for its intensive hand-worked qualities and rich texture. It begins with a bleached silver print and ends with a romanticized pictorial version of the image artistically interpreted using a brush and lithography ink.

Jill Skupin Burkholder began working with photography in 1985 and studied both traditional and digital photography experimenting with various alternative photography techniques. Her prints have been exhibited in Italy, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, California and New York. Her bromoil images have been included in numerous publications and private and public collections. She has taught workshops in Texas, Mexico and Montana.

This will be the Greene County Camera Club’s last guest speaker for 2008 in which free programs offered at the Athens Cultural Center have included such diverse topics as portrait, pinhole, small product and street photography, as well as using encaustic wax with photography, alternative printing from digital files, and HDR photography of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

There will be ample time for questions as well as plenty of parking available in the Athens Municipal Parking Lot on North Franklin Street, just around the corner from the Cultural Center. Admission is free and refreshments available.

For further information: Nora Adelman 945-2866 or brphoto@mhcable.com