TPS Talks: Conversations with Photo ExpertsWe are genuinely enthusiastic about this new FREE online program for current TPS members. TPS Talks are 60-minute Zoom video conferences, moderated by leading experts in the industry, that focus on a variety of topics. The presenter leads the discussion for the first 5 minutes, and the remaining time is dedicated to Q&A.These sessions are just one more great benefit of TPS membership! Pre-registration is required to verify membership status. You will receive instructions for how to access the online Zoom meeting upon approval of your registration. Stay tuned for more details regarding future sessions.
TPS TALKS: Edgar Miller - Thursday, May 21, 2026
Save the date for an evening with artist Edgar Miller, a respected educator and working artist whose practice spans portraiture, commercial work, and community-based photography. Join us for an informative and enlightening virtual lecture. If you are interested, you can also schedule a portfolio review with Edgar here.
Join us online on Thursday, May 21, 2026, from 7 pm – 8:30 pm Central Time for this exclusive Zoom presentation. This event is FREE to all TPS members. Registration is required.
To register for the event, please wait for us to post the link.
TPS TALKS: Steve Goff - Thursday, October 23, 2025
Save the date for an evening with artist Steve Goff, who will be presenting his work, specifically his work regarding night and dark skies photography. Join us for an informative and enlightening virtual lecture.
Join us online on Thursday, October 23, 2025, from 7 pm – 8:30 pm Central Time for this exclusive Zoom presentation.This event is FREE to all TPS members. Registration is required.To register for the event, please Follow the link here:
Register for Steve Goff's Zoom lecture
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Steve Goff, Retired Professor and former Chairman of the Photography Program, taught at Odessa College from 1984 through 2021. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Ohio University and taught at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Lakeland, and Cuyahoga Community Colleges, and Cleveland State University before moving to Texas. He has been awarded the Aid to Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, the Fellowship Award in Photography from the Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts, and represented the Fellowship winners at Mois de la Photo in Paris, France. He has an extensive exhibition record and teaches workshops around the state and the US. Steve currently serves as Texas Photographic Society President of the Board of Directors and on the Board of Odessa Arts.
TPS TALKS: Oliver Klink - Friday, April 25, 2025
Artist, writer, and publisher Oliver Klink joined us for an exclusive Zoom presentation hosted by H. Jennings Sheffield, Associate Professor of Art at Baylor University.
The full talk is now available on our TPS Youtube page.
Although TPS Talks are presented as a benefit of TPS membership, we are eager to make this important talk available to the full photographic community.
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
Poetry in Motion explores the profound bond between humans and horses—a connection that transcends companionship and touches the spiritual. Through breathtaking visuals and heartfelt storytelling, acclaimed photographer Oliver Klink takes us on a journey into the elegance, grace, and silent dialogue shared with these magnificent creatures.
Each image unfolds like a stanza in a poem, capturing beauty, trust, and mutual empathy. As horses gallop freely, their manes catching the wind like whispers of ancient secrets, we are reminded of shared journeys, dreams, and the unspoken strength they bring into our lives.
Whether you're a horse enthusiast or a lover of meaningful stories, this presentation invites you to experience the pulse of life through poetic landscapes of motion and emotion. Discover reflections of our humanity in the soulful eyes of a horse, and the delicate threads connecting us to the natural world.
Bring your curiosity and love for storytelling as we celebrate the beauty of horses and the timeless lessons they teach us.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Oliver Klink's studies in physics and photography were the catalyst for his love of light and the complexity of our existence. As a fine art photographer, he travels the world to capture the intricacy of our ecosystems. He captures our cultural changes, the environments we inhabit, and the insights into our world and ourselves.
Oliver’s work has been published in several highly acclaimed publications such as National Geographic, Days of Japan, Black & White magazine, Popular Photography magazine, and many more.
In 2019, his book, Cultures In Transition won nine awards for best photography book (IPPY, International Book Awards, PubWest, Mifa, Foreword Indies, PX3, IPA, IBPA). In 2018, he was selected as Black and White photographer of the year 2018 by Dodho magazine, Critical Mass Top 50 fine art photographer, and won the SpotLight Award by Black and White Magazine.
In 2017, his project “Circus” was selected as Top 50 projects “Seeing in Sixes” by LensWork Magazine, and by RFotoFolio as “selected artists”. In 2016, he was selected as Critical Mass Top 50 fine art photographer, “Best of the best” emerging fine art photographer by BWgallerist, and received People’s Choice award from Black and White Magazine single image contest for “Stepwell”.
Oliver’s work has been exhibited at solo shows around the world. He is a master of the new digital printing process called Piezography. By using a combination of pigment ink and a proprietary profiling process he produces enhanced highlight and shadow details that exceed what is capable of using silver-based or platinum-based traditional darkroom processes.
See info about our most recent TPS Talks below
TPS TALKS: Christina Z. Anderson - Friday, October 27, 2023
Postscript:
Christina provided some terrific information to share with those who were able to join us for the talk, and for anyone interested in knowing more about how to move forward with alternative processes. We are delighted to share that information HERE.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Christina Z. Anderson’s work focuses on the contemporary vanitas printed in a variety of alternative photographic processes, such as gum and casein bichromate, cyanotype, salted paper, chrysotype, palladium, chemigrams, chromo, mordançage, lumen prints, and combinations thereof. Anderson’s work has shown nationally and internationally in over 120 shows and 60 publications.
She has six books in print which have sold in over 40 countries: from newest to oldest, The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials, Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP, Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers (co-authored with Ron Reeder), Cyanotype, The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice, Salted Paper Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists, Gum Printing, A Step by Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, and Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes.
Anderson is Editor for Focal Press/Routledge’s Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography series and Professor of Photography at Montana State University. To see her work, visit christinaZanderson.com and @christinaZanderson.
TPS TALKS: Marcy Palmer - Friday, July 28, 2023
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Marcy Palmer grew up in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in the historic city, Saratoga Springs, NY. As a child, she spent time exploring the outdoors which fueled her imagination and play.
Marcy’s work explores themes of beauty, history, and social justice through the lens of photo history, nature, and science. She often approaches her work with questions that relate to research and considerations of how the materials in the work can further communicate her ideas. Integrating various approaches to image-making from contemporary to historical practices, Marcy is particularly influenced by the earliest practitioners of photography, and the Surrealist and Bauhaus movements.
Marcy has an M.F.A. in Photography & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a B.S. in Studio Art from Skidmore College. Her work has been exhibited at various spaces including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Center for Photographic Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Ogden Museum of Art and other spaces. Her work has been written about in Lenscratch, The Boston Globe Sunday Edition, D Magazine and other publications. Marcy released a book with Yoffy Press titled You Are Eternity, You Are the Mirror which was chosen as a Photo-Eye 2020 favorite photobook, The Luupe’s Favorite Woman-Made Books of the Year, and Deep Red Press’s Favorite Photobooks. She lives and works in Dallas, TX.
For More about Marcy:
Website: http://www.marcypalmer.com
IG: @marcy_palmer
Book: http://www.yoffypress.com/catalog/eternity
TPS TALKS: Elizabeth Turk- Friday, February 10, 2023
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Artist V. Elizabeth Turk was a student of painting before making a life in photography in the 1970s.
Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the High Museum of Art, the Polaroid USA Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, the Lamar Dodd Art Center in LaGrange, GA, and Il Museo Palazzo Riso, Palermo, Italy–and in numerous private collections. Recently her photography was featured in the High Museum of Art exhibition Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection.
In 2005 as co-author with writer William P. Baldwin, her photographs illustrated Mantle Pieces of the Old South: Lost Architecture and Southern Culture (The History Press).
She holds a Master of Visual Arts Degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta; and as a professor of photography has for decades mentored students (first at the Atlanta College of Art, then at the Savannah College of Art & Design). Turk remains engaged with her colleagues and peers through her membership in the Society for Photographic Education.
Her skill-set ranges from traditional film-based darkroom- and camera work to the rich realm of historical image-capturing processes.
Her work is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA.
The images in her series, Tremulous Anatomies, are about the potential of light and shadow to convey ideas tied to our human nature. At once, they accurately trace and pervert our collective reality. As schematics alluding to anatomical illustrations, they suggest the creation of a strange cyborg. Here the human figure is ever present, but absent the details that convey humanity. Instead, materials from the natural world perform an elaborate mime, as stand-ins for the visceral elements of our make-up: skin, veins, and bone. The ephemeral qualities of these figures evoke the ubiquitous nature of time, questioning past, present and future while presenting us with reminders of morality as stark yet obscure as the Shroud of Turin.
These images, each unique, are produced using antiquarian photographic processes without a camera. That ritual is akin to alchemy. Mixing the chemistry in a dim light, setting up, waiting for the sun, the long exposures, and the final processing (again in dim light) - more often than not render graphic chaos, accidents and fortuitous marvels. That controlled chaos lends humanity to these images and is at the core of their magic.
TPS Talks: Mark Murray- Friday, September 16, 2022
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Mark Murray retired in 2019 from the Arlington Independent School District in Arlington, Texas after 35 years as a classroom teacher and district technology director.
For the past 36 years, Murray has served as the President—and now Executive Director—for the Association of Texas Photography Instructors. The organization of high school photography teachers from Texas and across North America annually sponsors photography and video contests for students and teachers, along with an annual conference for students and teachers. ATPI is currently working on Volume 5 of the Best of Texas Scholastic Photography, a 200+ page book and four instructional posters, that will be released in February 2023.
He has taught workshops from Austria to Hawaii and everywhere in between. And he has worked with staffs around the country to improve their photography.
Murray is a Joseph M. Murphy and Gold Key recipient from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, a Pioneer Award winner from the National Scholastic Press Association, has been awarded the Carl Towley Award and Medal of Merit by the national Journalism Education Association, has been named a Trailblazer and Texas Treasure by the Texas Association of Journalism Educators, the Interscholastic League Press Conference in Texas has named him one of 75 Texas Legends of Scholastic Journalism and ATPI has presented him with their highest honor, the Star of Texas award.
TPS Talks: Scott Hilton - Friday, June 17, 2022
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Scott Hilton is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has taught at numerous institutions including Collin College in Plano and Frisco, TX, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Austin College in Sherman, TX. He was the Assistant Director of the Light & Sie Gallery in Dallas, TX. Scott completed his BA at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1992 and his MFA at California State University in Fullerton in 2005.
Scott’s work reflects his interests in the re-interpretation and re-contextualization of history, and in maintaining an intimacy with the analog traditions of photography. Project Barbatype, his collaborative project with Bryan Wing from 2014 to 2019, made tintype photographic portraits of competitors at Beard and Moustache competitions. Scott’s still-life project De Rerum Natura is a meditation on the tenuous but vital connections between language and sensation - the textual and the textural.
Scott has exhibited his work at numerous galleries and venues throughout the US, and currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education.
TPS Talks: Eric T. Kunsman - Friday, January 7, 2022
Postscript:
During his talk, Eric shared a number of links and we wanted to make sure they are archived and shared here:
Eric's YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWeP6Y6BGspCNvTEOh4AN4w
LaLuz Workshops- Swanee’s Workshop that starts tomorrow
https://www.laluzworkshops.com/
Eric's Websites
http://www.erickunsman.com
http://www.rochesterpayphones.com
http://www.fakenewsarchiveproject.com
MFA Photography Reviews
http://www.mfaphotographyreviews.com
Also, we want to share our most heartfelt thanks to FUJIFILM USA for generously providing a camera from the Fujiflim X100 series to one of our TPS Talks audience members! Congratulations to our lucky winner Greg McIntosh!
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Eric T. Kunsman (b. 1975) was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. While in high school, he was heavily influenced by the death of the steel industry and its place in American history. The exposure to the work of Walker Evans during this time hooked Eric onto photography. Eric had the privilege to study under Lou Draper, who became Eric’s most formative mentor. He credits Lou with influencing his approach as an educator, photographer, and contributing human being.
Eric holds his MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and holds an MS in Electronic Publishing/Graphic Arts Media, BS in Biomedical Photography, BFA in Fine Art photography all from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
Eric is an educator at the Rochester Institute of Technology for the Visual Communications Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences.
Eric was named one of 10 B&W photographers to watch of 2018 by BW Gallerist, B&W Best Photographers of the Year 2019 by Dodho Magazine, and won the Association of Photography (UK) Gold Award for Open Series in 2019, Finalist, Top 200 for Critical Mass in 2019, 2020, & 2021, Top 15 Photographers for the Rust Belt Biennial. His project Felicific Calculus was also awarded a Warhol Foundations Grant through CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY.
Eric has held 39 solo exhibitions and counting. At this point, his work has been exhibited in over 250 galleries and museums and featured in Bloomberg Business Week, Dodho Magazine, Dek Unu, All About Photo, and LensWork.
He has been featured with online articles by Humble Arts Foundation, Analog Forever Magazine, Catalyst: Interview, One Twelve Publishing, to name a few. He is currently represented by HOTE Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, and Malamegi in San Daniele del Friuli (Udine), Italy.
TPS Talks: Jill Skupin Burkholder and Dan Burkholder - Friday, November 19, 2021
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jill Skupin Burkholder is a photographer/artist whose work includes handcrafted techniques such as bromoil printing, an alternative photography process using brushes and lithography ink to create an image, and encaustic techniques using beeswax and resin. She began working with photography in 1985 and studied both traditional and digital photography experimenting with various alternative photography techniques. Recent work includes the series, Hidden Worlds, ethereal photographs of animals taken using a motion-activated trail camera. Jill has taught workshops for Santa Fe Workshops, the International Center for Photography in New York, and many others; she has prints included in private and public collections. Jill’s website is www.JillSkupin.com
Dan Burkholder is known for looking over photography’s horizon to discover new ways of capturing and expressing the photographic image. In the early 1990’s he wrote the groundbreaking book Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing. After Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, Burkholder recorded the chaos of post-Katrina New Orleans in his poignant monograph The Color of Loss, the first coffee table book photographed entirely with high dynamic range (HDR) techniques. In 2012, Burkholder led the mobile photography revolution with his forward-looking book iPhone Artistry. Dan earned his BA and Master’s degrees in Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. His platinum/palladium and pigmented ink prints are included in private and public collections internationally. Dan’s website is www.DanBurkholder.com.