Suzie Katz

4:47 Suzie Katz: Inspiration from Ruth Bernhard PhotoWings President & Founder Suzie Katz tells the story behind a valuable mentorship in her development as a photographer. Find out more about Ruth Bernhard from Women in Photography International: http://www.womeninphotography.org/ruthbernhardAA.html PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings 2:49 Suzie Katz: PF Bently's "Clinton" images Photographers gain access to many situations that most other people cannot. In order to do this, photographers must build trust with their subjects, something that involves a lot of ethical considerations. PhotoWings President & Founder Suzie Katz presents the work of PF Bently covering President Clinton in order to illustrate this point. PF Bently was also the first photographer to be only the floor during a session of Congress. PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings 4:40 Suzie Katz: The Lives of Lee Miller and Lee Miller's War PhotoWings President & Founder Suzie Katz presents two books about a remarkable woman who had been at the front lines of history with photography in so many ways. From the Lee Miller Archives: http://www.leemiller.co.uk/AboutLM.aspx "Lee Miller was born in 1907 in Poughkeepsie, New York USA and first entered the world of photography in New York as a model to the great photographers of the day such as Edward Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene and Arnold Genthe. In 1929 she went to Paris and worked with the well known Surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray, and succeeded in establishing her own studio. She became known as a portraitist and fashion photographer, but her most enduring body of work is that of her Surrealist images. She returned to New York in 1932, and again set up her own studio which ran for 2 years and was highly successful. It closed when she married a wealthy Egyptian businessman Aziz Eloui Bey and went to live with him in Cairo, Egypt. She became fascinated by long range desert travel and photographed desert villages and ruins. During a visit to Paris in 1937 she met Roland Penrose, the Surrealist artist who was to become her second husband, and travelled with him to Greece and Romania. In 1939 she left Egypt for London shortly before World War II broke out. She moved in with Roland Penrose and defying orders from the US Embassy to return to America she took a job as a freelance photographer on Vogue. In 1944 she became a correspondent accredited to the US Army, and teamed up with Time Life photographer David E. Scherman. She followed the US troops overseas on 'D' Day + 20. She was probably the only woman combat photo-journalist to cover the war in Europe and among her many exploits she witnessed the siege of St Malo, the Liberation of Paris, the fighting in Luxembourg and Alsace, the Russian/American link up at Torgau, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau. She billeted in both Hitler and Eva Braun's houses in Munich, and photographed Hitler's house Wachenfeld at Berchtesgaden in flames on the eve of Germany's surrender. Penetrating deep into Eastern Europe, she covered harrowing scenes of children dying in Vienna, peasant life in post war Hungary and finally the execution of Prime Minister Lazlo Bardossy. After the war she continued to work for Vogue for a further 2 years, covering fashion and celebrities. In 1947 she married Roland Penrose and contributed to his biographies of Picasso, Miro, Man Ray and Tapies. Some of her portraits of famous artists like Picasso are the most powerful portraits of the individuals ever produced, but it is mainly for the witty Surrealist images which permeate all her work that she is best remembered. Lee Miller died at Farley Farm House in 1977." PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings 2:18 Suzie Katz: Cross-cultural exchange in photography Speaking about Peter Menzel's book "Material World: A Global Family Portrait," Photowings President & Founder Suzie Katz demonstrates how photography can be an access point between different cultures. From the dust jacket: "In stunning photographs and text, Material World demonstrates the present context for the emerging global economy, what it means to be "statistically average," by displaying families in more than thirty nations outside their homes - with all their possessions in view." PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings 2:32 Suzie Katz: Inspiration may come from unexpected places In this video about inspiration, PhotoWings President & Founder Suzie Katz highlights how the work of Ernst Haas influenced her life and also inspired nature photographer Frans Lanting. Not only does photography provide us with images rich in verisimilitude — representations or mirrors of real life, but the photograph's qualities can lead to fantastic visions and possibilities. Often photography can even take us to wonderful places in between reality and fantasy. PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings 14:04 Suzie Katz: The philosophical sides of photography education Just as there are pragmatic skills to develop in photography, there is a critical, holistic and philosophic approach to consider as well. PhotoWings President & Founder Suzie Katz presents some interesting material addressing such topics in photography. PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings 7:59 Suzie Katz: The practical side of photography education As with any practice, there are definite skills and techniques in photography that can be developed. Here, PhotoWings President & Founder Suzie Katz talks a bit about some helpful books and resources to develop one's practical skills in photography. PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings 13:57 Suzie Katz: Learning from the lives of photographers PhotoWings President and Founder Suzie Katz believes that as direct witnesses to history, photographers themselves — their lives and thoughts — are just as important for the historical record as their iconic photographs. PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings 2:35 Suzie Katz: Remembering Aunt Mickie after Hurricane Katrina My beloved Aunt Mickie lost her home and treasures to flooding from Hurricane Katrina. One of the most important was a painting of her when she was young. This a bittersweet story of restoring its memory. PhotoWings 3:58 Foundry's Eric Beecroft in conversation with Suzie Katz (4/22 Edit) PhotoWings 6:43 Live via Skype: Suzie Katz addresses DCU ILP exhibition Connecting Generations: Dublin City University's InSights grant winning project, "Collaborating on Intergenerational Stories," held an exhibition for the 2014 Bealtaine Festival in Dublin. The Bealtaine Festival celebrates "creativity as we age," so the photos from DCU's project make for a perfect fit. Suzie Katz, President & Founder of PhotoWings, was honored to virtually share the stage with project organizer Dr. Ni Braidaigh for the opening. Learn more about the InSights grant: https://photowings.org/ashokau-photowings-insights-grant-winners/ PhotoWings 25:15 Foundry 2023 - Suzie Katz Presentation PhotoWings 23:16 PhotoWings Presentation | Suzie Katz | Foundry 2021 PhotoWings' mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. They help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. Suzie Katz is a photographer, speaker, educator, producer, and is giving back to the world that has given her so much by creating and running an educational non-profit organization called PhotoWings. Our mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photogra- phy to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved.Through her own photography experiences, she has a developed a deep understanding of the un- der-utilized skills, knowledge, and wisdom honed by the world’s best storytellers and related professionals. These can also be an important inspiration to others’ work and lives both inside and outside the photo silo across generations, cultures, and disciplines. Such ideas can be utilized for self-discovery, better communica- tion, critical thinking, visual literacy, resilience, storytelling and understanding con- text, among others, and are also valued as social emotional learning and executive function skills. To document and more richly utilize that legacy we’ve created, along with our in- novative partners, 100’s of hours of interviews, presentations, and other educa- tional content incorporating these ideas for replication, adaptation, or inspiration. Suzie also thinks a lot about better utilizing the often under-appreciated value and potential of photos. To do that, however, involves saving images from being lost to the world. Photos that may not seem important today can be deeply important legacy later for loved ones, for multiple uses in education, and valued as history. So many photos are tossed, lost to the elements or technology in what is sometimes referred to as the “digital dark ages” that they’re no longer available, so an import- ant aspect of our work is to proactively address this timely issue. As photo curator Malcolm Daniel states, “Each time we lose a photograph that has power, we’ve lost the opportunity to be changed by it”. PhotoWings 1:07:35 “The Value Of Our Photographic Heritage: Five Perspectives” with PhotoWings THE VALUE OF OUR PHOTOGRAPHIC HERITAGE: FIVE PERSPECTIVES presented with PhotoWings Featuring Kamal Badhey, Gail Buckland, Mike Davis, Ron Haviv, and Dr. Lauren Walsh Photoville 2021 Talks On-demand recordings are made possible in partnership with PhotoWings A discussion about the power and perception of photography, the value of saving both personal and professional work, photography’s importance to history and what can be learned through it. Photo Historian and Curator Gail Buckland, Photo Editor Mike Davis, Photography Professor Lauren Walsh, and educators and photographers Ron Haviv and Kamal Badhey with PhotoWings Founder Suzie Katz. This event was pre-recorded, and you can find more from these interviews at photowings.org. photoville.nyc/2021-the-value-of-our-photographic-heritage-five-perspectives/ PhotoWings 1:00:43 The Value of Our Photographic Heritage: Five Perspectives A discussion about the power and perception of photography, the value of saving both personal and professional work, photography’s importance to history and what can be learned through it. Photo Historian and Curator Gail Buckland, Photo Editor Mike Davis, Photography Professor Lauren Walsh, and educators and photographers Ron Haviv and Kamal Badhey with PhotoWings Founder Suzie Katz. This event was pre-recorded, and you can find more from these interviews at photowings.org. PhotoWings 43:52 The Importance and How To’s of Archiving Work and Legacy Featuring: Julie Grahame (Moderator), Mary Engel, Suzie Katz In today’s fast-paced, digital world it’s so easy to put images into a folder and collect hundreds of hard drives. That may be the beginning of a process, but archiving your work and ensuring your legacy is preserved should be a crucial step in your workflow. Julie Grahame, consultant and creator of aCurator, will sit down with two working professionals who know the world of archiving inside and out. Suzie Katz, president and founder of PhotoWings, and Mary Engel, president and founder of American Photography Archives Group, will discuss the importance of archiving, the best techniques and platforms, and how to start thinking about the legacy you’ll leave behind. Photoshelter’s LUMINANCE At PHOTOVILLE 2018 Produced by United Photo Industries Presented in partnership with PhotoWings Additional support for the Photoville Talks provided by Two Trees Management, the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation and School of Visual Arts, Division of Continuing Education PhotoWings 26:48 Suzie Katz: Furthering the Powerful Potential of Photography - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2017 PhotoWings 3:56 Legacy: Reasons To Care About Family Photos PhotoWings Founder and President Suzie Katz shares a personal story about discovering a lost family treasure nestled in her old family photo albums. The experience reminded her of the importance of caring for our old photographs, and the potential for these images to further enrich our lives. PhotoWings 2:56 The Healing Power of Photos At PhotoWings, we are passionate about the power of photography and the many ways it can enrich our lives. In this video, president and founder of PhotoWings Suzie Katz tells us a personal story of how photography was a great help to her, her husband, their friends and family during his challenging illness. She shares how she used old photographs to create a series of Memory Boards -- collections of pictures from her husband's life -- to help him in his battle to fight harder, help conversations with visitors flow easier by giving them comfortable things to talk about, and to humanize him to the doctors, nurses, and hospital staff. Memory Boards are tools which can be utilized in both happy and difficult times for a wide variety of situations, and, in this instance, are a great example of how photography can intersect with the growing field of Medical Humanities. PhotoWings