Choose and register for the lectures that you would like to attend. You must register for each session individually.
Bruno Chalifour will offer the following lectures on photography during the winter quarter:
- History of Digital Photography:
Enhance your eye by understanding where we started and where the technology is now.
- Film VS Digital:
Starting with a quick historical approach, we will discuss the pros and cons of both approaches to photography, illustrated by examples.
- Digital Camera VS Cell Phone:
What's the best option for your photography needs? We will review various options for format (e.g cell phone, 4/3, APS-C, Full Frame, Medium Format) and sensors: (e.g. Bayer-array sensor, Foveon, Trans X/Fuji, Monochrome).
- Why Shoot Black & White Photography in 2025:
- Making Your Own Digital Prints:
Explore the benefits and how-tos.
- History of Photojournalism & Street Photography:
Learn about the tools of the trade and the photographers that use them.
- History of Straight Photography:
Discover the legacy of an early 20th-century movement to distinguish photography from other visual media that was championed by photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Minor White, and Edward Weston
- History of New Topographics:
Learn how a little-noticed 1975 exhibition at the George Eastman Museum, featuring Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, and Stephen Shore, became a groundbreaking moment in contemporary landscape photography and its lasting influence.
Meet Your Instructor:
Bruno Chalifour has an MFA (photography) from SUNY Buffalo (2001) and a PhD from Université de Lyon 2—thesis: "The Landscape of American Landscape Photography, 1960-1990”— (2019).
He is a fine-art photographer who has exhibited for the past 30 years (including the George Eastman House), a freelance photojournalist and an art critic (published in the USA, the UK, France, Canada, and Australia), a curator, a photo consultant, and a lecturer. He was the editor of Afterimage magazine (2002-2005). In 2014-15 he ran the Spectrum Gallery at Lumière Photo (Rochester, NY).
Bruno has taught photography at the undergraduate and graduate levels (University of Rochester, SUNY Buffalo ((History of Photography and Landscape Photography)), SUNY Brockport/Visual Studies Workshop), and is currently at Empire State College. He has designed and taught numerous workshops in the USA (including Community Darkroom), and France (including for the Rencontres d’Arles). He has been a member of the Society for Photographic Education since 1999.
