Stephanie Vermillion Presents our October Meeting: “The Power of Visual Storytelling”
Thursday October 8 @ 7pm Pacific
Stephanie Vermillion is a freelance journalist, photographer, and filmmaker covering outdoor adventure, culture, and nocturnal wonder for National Geographic, Outside Magazine, Travel & Leisure, and Vogue. She hosts a monthly 'Travel Goals' adventure video series for National Geographic Travel's Instagram, and she's Outside Magazine's astrotourism columnist. Her photography has been published by National Geographic, Outside, Travel & Leisure, and Patagonia, among others. Abrams will publish her new book, Under the Stars: How to Explore the Night Sky in North America, in March 2027. Follow her work on Instagram @bystephanievermillion or via her website, stephanievermillionstudio.com.
She will focus on the power of visual storytelling: why it's important now more than ever, how she approaches photography and video work through a storytelling lens, how to find stories, how to pitch stories to media (a very topline overview), and different tips for adopting a storytelling mindset.
Register for the talk here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/k71PBR3wTiqjPVsjUKDihA
About our meetings
Our meetings are held on the second Thursday of even number months (February, April, June, August, October and December) at 7:00 PM Pacific Time. These meetings are free to all interested parties, but you must register in advance to gain access.
Each year, four of our six meetings are presentations by invited speakers and feature special locations or topics, photo techniques, or conservation issues.
We are always looking for high-quality programs and welcome suggestions and referrals. If you have one, please contact our programs coordinator, Susan Manley at ssnmanley@yahoo.com.
The other two meetings are Members Shows, when several of our subscriber-members share a selection of their best photos. It's almost like a photography potluck! Look for Members Shows in June and December. We hope you will attend and share!
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Photographer Nick Brandt brought large scale B+W prints to share for our December 2009 meeting and the best available space to display them was the floor. He had amazing and moving stories of capturing portraits of a variety of East African beasts and of the adversity they faced every day. In 2009, in his book On This Earth, he wrote:
I'm not interested in creating work that is simply documentary or filled with action and drama, which has been the norm in the photography of animals in the wild. What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being. In the state of Being before they are no longer are. Before, in the wild at least, they cease to exist. This world is under terrible threat, all of it caused by us. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera. The photos are my elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."
His work continues. See www.NickBrandt.com