About The Centre...An Impeccable Reputation

THE PALM BEACH PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTRE
is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to the enrichment of life through exhibitions, community programs, workshops and other educational activities that promote the arts of photography and digital imaging.

The Centre's programming is divided into five sections:

• Year-round museum and gallery exhibitions
• Master photography and digital imaging workshops
• The annual five-day international FOTOfusion^® festival
• Year-round community education programs
  FOTObasics+, FOTOinsights Lecture Series, FOTOcamp for children, and the Picture My World community outreach program for at-risk youth
• FOTOworkshops PERU

Each year the Centre offers over 300 photography and digital imaging workshops with world-renowned photographers and digital imaging artists such as Arnold Newman, Robert Farber, Laurence Gartel, Douglas Kirkland, Andrea Modica, and Ross Whitaker, and many others. Our learning environment is electric. Under the tutelage of professionals committed to sharing their skills and encouraging the growth of others, participants can develop creative potential, expand their vision, and master a broad range of photographic and digital imaging applications. Centre workshops are different than most others in that we stress the creative, visionary process. We encourage an open forum for ideas. After years of professional immersion, our instructors communicate the intuitive and intangible so vital to personal expression.

Boasting a revitalized historic district and some of the most noted cultural centers in Florida, our quaint seacoast town of Delray Beach continues to attract the arts and artists. The main street, Atlantic Avenue, has evolved from a path to the ocean into a vibrant town center lined with galleries, antique shops, sidewalk cafés, jazz and blues clubs, and restaurants catering to every palate. Working with city planners, the Centre helps our community maintain and develop its rich culture of year-round events, exhibitions and festivals.

Executive DirectorFatima NeJame Managing Director Art NeJame

Board of Directors
Christopher J Brown
Raymond F. Buza Jr.
Katie Deits
F Joan Goldberg
Michael S Greene
Sam Leder
Janice McVay
Elaine Morris
Fatima NeJame
David Frohman
Carol Roberts

Board of Advisors
Robert Brantley
Arnold Drapkin, TIME, Inc.
Daile Kaplan
Dave Metz, Canon USA
Jim Norman
Dr. Richard D. Zakia

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS 

Master photographers sharing professional expertise in a highly-charged learning environment·where creative exploration and technological expertise are given equal weight in classes personalized to meet individual needs – compelling reasons why our workshops are in such great demand by individuals and corporate training programs. Subjects include a wide range of traditional and contemporary applications - B&W photography, color printing, darkroom techniques, studio lighting - in nature, wildlife, portraiture, photo-essay – and other photographic specialties. Our Florida location lends itself to enhanced field trips· to the Everglades, the ocean and other technicolor opportunities. Portals to career enhancement, PBPC workshops can be further customized to meet group corporate training needs.

The Centre's formula for excellence extends to the quality of our equipment. Our studios are equipped with Chimera soft boxes, Dyna-Lite strobes, Bogen tripods and light stands, Gossen light meters and B&W filters. The darkroom features Beseler enlargers, Lektra enlarger timers and analyzers, Beseler enlarging easels, Schneider enlarging lenses, and a Wing-Lynch processor.

DIGITAL IMAGING WORKSHOPS

The mastery of digital imaging concepts and technology is essential for anyone working within the visual arts today. Even the most recalcitrant photographic purists recognize the need to become proficient in digital imaging to enhance control, improve results, and navigate through the business of electronic publishing. Foreseeing the need for training in digital imaging technology, the Palm Beach Photographic Centre began imaging workshops 12 years ago - the first photographic workshop program to do so.

Our workshops are taught by industry pros. Comprehensive instruction techniques, in beginning through advanced applications of the major software on the market covering a wide variety of imaging specialties have bolstered reputation for providing workshops of quality. The software taught: Adobe's Photoshop™, Premiere™, After Effects™, ImageReady™, and GoLive™, Fractal Design's Painter™ and Final Cut Pro. Only the latest software versions are taught at the Centre. Workshops are limited to 10 participants, each having access to their own imaging workstation.

Palm Beach Photographic Centre computer labs are fully equipped with high-performance Macintosh and PC Windows-based Pentium computers. Participants may specify their preference when registering for a workshop. Input devices include the Imacon FlexTight Precision II scanner for repro-quality scanning for films p to 5x7, the Epson 2450 and 836XL flatbed scanners with transparency adapters, and the Canon D-30 and D-60 Powershot digital cameras. In additon, each workstation is equipped with a Canon 2710 or 4000 film scanner, and a Wacom^® tablet, as well as an Epson PhotoStylus 890 or 1280 desktop printer. The labs are also equipped with Epson's Stylus 2200 R2400 and the Epson 9600 wide-format printer. Participants view the instructor's work through Epson's powerlite 811 multimedia projectors.