including a special contingent of Advertising Agency creatives, Galleries, Magazine Photo Editors, Book Publishers, Reps and more.
Our 12th year Workshop Program will offer 18 intense, hands-on, remarkable shooting classes with world-renowned working photographers. Most are three full days plus a 4th day morning session and begin on May 7th.
The Portfolio Review at the Palm Springs Photo Festival is designed to introduce emerging, professional and serious advanced amateur photographers to key influencers from both the commercial & fine art realms.
Our intensive seminars, taught by leading industry experts, are conducted in the form of a two-hour lecture followed by a Q & A session. Topics range from technical to inspirational and business. Certain seminars are included with daily festival registration.
Each day, Monday – Thursday, we present an important industry conference. This is a moderated discussion among experts on subjects of immediate importance to all photographers. These get you thinking about issues affecting you.
Each night, we present our Evening Presentation in the Annenberg Theater of the Palm Springs Art Museum. See our Slide Show Contest selections and amazing presentations by legendary photographers. Don’t forget our raffles!
Attend our Opening Reception, Networking Dinner & our big festival party! Open bar, great food, wine tastings from great California winemakers and a chance to hang out and make friends.
Send us your slide shows! You can send as many as you like. This is an opportunity to have your presentation shown in one of our four Evening Presentations to the entire festival including all of our influencers. Win incredible prizes from our sponsors!
Participate in our Open Portfolio Show! Show your work to members of our faculty, as well as festival attendees, sponsors & the general public. A great way to make new friends and connections!
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Check out these two great FREE Adobe Seminars featuring Adobe’s Super Evangelist Julieanne Kost: http://2017.palmspringsphotofestival.com/project/seminar-3-3-2/ & http://2017.palmspringsphotofestival.com/project/seminar-4-2-2/
Dan Milnor, a talented old-school Leica-wielding silver photographer, is expert at making books, having created a non-stop stream of close to 100 individual artist’s books and magazines. He is totally conversant in the many ways photographers can exploit both hand made and machine made books, complete with audio-visual files (rich media). He dreams of downsizing,…
DetailsCome look through over 40 of the titles from the Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Book Prize at PSPF (In the Hyatt Palm Springs atrium).
In addition there are other prizes from Think Tank, X-Rite, Bay Photo and other sponsors!
Sony is offering a free excursion to the amazing Palm Canyons. Grab the latest gear and make pictures with Sony Artisan Andy Katz!
Don’t miss this! Rolling Stone: 50 Years – 2 Photo Editors. Both Laurie Kratochvil and Jodi Peckman will present the best work from the magazine.
Check out these two new MVS Seminars for Fine Art Photographers: Be Strategic: Marketing Your Photographs & Who Buys Prints? A Survey of Markets for Your Fine Art
