JMPC photo exhibition - Life in Joensuu II -

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JMPC näyttelyesite juliste kirjasto JMPC näyttelykutsu kirjasto press release

A Musical Journey - special session with Jussi Ratilainen

Joensuu Multicultural Photography Club (JMPC) would like to invite you all to our special session with professional Photographer Jussi Ratilainen.

Jussi is a young professional photographer from Joensuu, who has for the last three years worked in the field of musical photography. He has worked in collaboration with artists such as Pendulum, Insomnium, Neljä Ruusua and Ghost Brigade only to name a few. His work have been featured in professional magazines of industry, for example Metal Hammer, Inferno, Rumba and also in band features and promotional shots.

In this session with JMPC,  Jussi will be presenting an insight on the field of musical photography. Apart from giving a sneak-peak to the nature of the field and technical issues, he will also be providing hands-on knowledge which he has been gained throughout the years. Besides on focusing on the "reality" of the field - the opportunities and challenges, the balancing of various factors - he will also be revealing personal experiences on how to make it in the field, in short, what draws the line between part-time musical photographers and professionals. These challenges include creating personal contacts, skating in the bureaucratic side of contracts and standing out in the highly competitive range of other musical photographers.

Jussi will be more than happy to answer any questions or matters of concern during and after the session, and encourages photographers with interests to the musical field to approach him during the presentation.

Whether you are into event pictures or have always entreated to learn about gig photography, this is one great opportunity you dont want to miss. Also for our members who are interested to be photographers for Ilosaarirock festival with JMPC this year, its a great chance to hear from a guy who have been there for many year.

Date: Monday, 16th of April, 2012
Time : 17-19
Address : VYÖHYKE - nuorisoalan osaamisyhteisö, Suvantokatu 1, Joensuu.
(entrance from the back side of the wooden house. If you dont find the place or could not get in, call 0401590888 )
Map: http://goo.gl/YQWHB

Convey this message around and bring your friends if they are interested. Free entrance for everyone, come along, come with your friends. Coffee and small snacks served.

Welcome! :-)

- the JMPC group

Some highlights from Iso-Myy exhibition

Make difference with photography, a special session with Henna Middeke

Joensuu Multicultural Photography Club (JMPC) would like to invite you all to our special session with professional Photographer Henna Middeke.

How affective a photograph can be? How can you make a difference with Photography? Yes, in this special session, Henna Middeke will be talking a bit artistic impressions stand of photography. Middeke graduated from Turku Academy of Arts and have experience in several photography camps, youths development projects and exhibitions around Finland. She is keen on organizing exhibitions with youths because she finds it very empowering for them. In this session with JMPC, she will be talking about her work called Pelon Paikka (fear place) and another work that she did in a Kakola prison in Turku.

In her work with Pelon Paikka, she have presented different locations where women are afraid of. Descriptions and pictures are taken from Finland, Germany and Netherlands. She interviewed both familiar and unknown women asking what are the places they are scared of, and what are the things they are afraid of in those places. This work was published in Suomen Kuvalehti, and some pictures in the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. Last year it was also in an exhibition in Joensuu. She'd also like to encourage in her presentation about "political art" or using their skills for something one believes in. We had meetings about the technics and seen other works, and now we will talk more about YOU, and what you can do!

Date: Monday, 12th of March, 2012
Time : 17-19
Address : VYÖHYKE - nuorisoalan osaamisyhteisö, Suvantokatu 1, Joensuu.
(entrance from the back side of the wooden house. If you dont find the place, call 0466668714)
Map: http://goo.gl/YQWHB

Convey this message around and bring your friends if they are interested. Coffee and small snacks served.

Welcome! :-)

- the JMPC group

Materials for the exhibition information

A poster and press release was sent out to different places around yesterday :)

Pictures for ISO-Myy Exhibition

Click on the following to look at the pictures that were sent to us by members for selecting for the exhibition. Other pictures were from assignments:

Iso Myy Exhibition

JMPC goes Iso-Myy

We did small photo show in Kontiolahti and now are going to have an exhibition on IsoMyy in the month of march .

We decided that we will have total of 44 pictures and Members can send their pictures before the end of month.

Today we meet in Palaveri to discuss about our future plans and upcoming topics

JMPC meeting and topics 2011/2012

Season: 2012 (Summer) and 2012 plans and activities here

Here is the plan for our topic of each date and meeting until end of this year and for next year. The Club meetings are normally at Suvantokatu 1, Mondays from 17 to 19 . We will also have excursions but they are not dated yet. Also the first photo exhibition is not dated yet.

Please note that changes are possible or even likely due visitors and exhibition times and places can change. Also local happenings can change the plan.

Plan for the Photo club meetings:

2011-Ending

12.12. at 18-20: aperture + ISO

WS: f 1,2 - 4 and f 18+ photos

19.12. at 17-19 Portraits and person photography

WS: portrait and person in environment (place?, not possible in Suvantokatu 1)

2012

9.1. at 17-19 Perspective of photos. Crop the relevant.

WS: lower and higher from eye level

16.1. Visitor photographer Sakari Lindell. Black and white.

WS: B/W

23.1. Document photography, story in 1 photo / reportage

Organizing photoshow of Joensuu & Finland

30.1. Visit + photoshow presentation in Kontioniemi (?)

WS: everyday life in Joensuu 

6.2. Bulb and night photos

WS: stars and x -something else

13.2. Flash and lightning

WS: flash + ambient light, flash stops the motion

20.2. Other topics related to club and talking about Panorama.

WS: Snow activity

27.2. Micro / Marco photography

5.3.  1st. exhibition arranging, planning the exhidition + printing (media visits?).

12.3. Visitor: Henna Middeke: ART photography.

WS: artistic impressions.

19.3. HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos

WS: HDR

9.3 - 26.3. Iso-Myy Exhibition

26.3. High and low key photos.

WS: both high and low key shot

2.4. Photographers: how to guide your models

WS: life and living in Joensuu

9.4. Easter

16.4. Visitor Jussi Ratilainen: Concerts,Events, bands photography

WS: music in photo

20.4  Last date for sending pictures for exhibition in City Library. 21.4 Voting for the pictures for exhibition begins.

23.4. Planning exhibition, selecting photos that were voted most and arrangement for exhibition. 

30.4- 6.5- Public exhibition in city library - "Life In Joensuu- II " : On 30.4. at 10 am we put up the exhibition in library. Its  Vappu eve, so there is no meeting this day in the evening.

3.5 (Thursday): Second visit to Paihola refugee center: Leaving from kanervala ABC at 10.00. Photos session in Paihola 10.30-14.00. 

6.5. (Sunday) Taking down the exhibition in City Library. The entrance hall is open between 11-15.

7.5. Landscape Photography: with and without human impact  (Ewa and Anna will present). Take cameras with you.

12.5. New Finnishness day and photo exhibition in Kerubi. Same pictures from City library exhibition will be setup there.

14.5. Planning "reasons to vote in elections" - project and plans for summer. How to plan and set up/use the pictures. Considering lights, model, place, time of year and weather. The fore-planning of the photo. This session is the beginning of the "reasons to vote in elections" - project. In the meeting we plan and make time-schedule for the project. 

This will be last session for this season. We will also present our next seasons plan during the meeting and look forward to the upcoming meetings during summer.

Season: 2012 (Summer) and 2012 plans and activities here

JMPC - About Us

Joensuu Multicultural Photography Club (JMPC)

Joensuu Multicultural Photography Club (hosted by JoMoni) is an amateur photography workshops/club in Joensuu. Here we share our knowledge and skills, learn from others and have fun while learning and practicing photography.


Ideological background:

The goal of our club is to improve and strengthen communication among people from different backgrounds. This special interest group creates an environment where we can learn as much as possible about photography from others. Improving understanding between people from different backgrounds is challenging, but we shall have the goal to take interesting pictures from the life of people from different backgrounds living in North-Karelia, Joensuu.


For whom?

The club is for everyone who is interested in learning and sharing techniques, knowledge and related to photography. Either you are just learning or want to learn advanced technique on different levels of photography, you are welcome to join. We have regular meetings every week where each sessions are dedicated to learn more about different topics of photography. Sometimes, we will also ask visitors and some professional photographer to come and give us some presentation on special topic that might interests us.

How to become a member of JMPC?

When you become member of JMPC, you automatically become the member of our supporting association Jomoni (www.jomoni.fi). This means you support our activities, you promote tolerance and you augment the influence of the club. Follow two easy step to become our member:

 - Pay the membership fee to the account 104030-344394, reference number 2244. The yearly fee is 15€ (or 10 € for members of JOMONI). 

 - Send email to joemul.photo@gmail.com. Include the following information: first name, surname, email adress, phone number, street adress, mother tongue, other languages spoken, sex and year of birth.

If the membership fee is not paid by yourself, please let us know from whose account we should expect the payment.

What will you get?

Apart from learning photography and meeting cool people in general, you also get an opportunity to display/share your work (personally or in groups) through meetings, competitions and maybe assignments, and we can also learn through other critiques. Our club's mentor and professional photographer Jarno Pääkkönen have many years of experience in different areas of photography. The guest presenters or professionals, maybe once in a month will broaden our photographic horizons. Moreover, we believe that taking pictures in group is fun and resourceful. Thus, we sometimes organize regular field trips or groups excursions and events where we go in groups and put our learning in practice. This helps to get practical experience and socialize with other members. As per the request of many members, we decided to change some of our privileges to membership:
 - Only members will get notes from the meetings, workshops.
 - They can participate in excursions, submit photos for exhibitions.
 - Can make influence to the decisions, and plans for the club.


How to join us?

If you are interested, you can come to our regular meeting on Monday, 17-19 at Vyöhyke seminar hall (first floor), Sovantokatu 1. If you already have a camera, bring your camera with you if possible. Come and check out what is going on and discuss what will be interesting for you, getting to know each others, getting familiar with main aims and goals and organization matters. If you find it interesting after coupe of meeting, you can be a member of the club. To know more information, send email to joemul.photo@gmail.com.


Welcome! Share the word among people/friends/colleague who you think might be interested in.

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Joensuu Multicultural Photography Club (JMPC)

Vyöhyke seminar hall (first floor),

Suvantokatu 1, Joensuu.

email: joemul.photo@gmail.com


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