By Vincent Versace
Pictureline inc. is excited to announce DIGITALFEST 2009 – Utah’s largest gathering of digital photographic equipment, information and experts September 17th and 18th.
Digitalfest is the Intermountain West’s largest and most comprehensive annual trade show featuring the best and newest digital imaging products. Many factory representatives will be on hand to give you a chance to handle the latest products and ask questions about them.
Digitalfest manufacturer attendees include: Adobe, Apple, Canon, Delkin, Elinchrom, Epson, Gitzo, Hasselblad, Hoodman, Lacie, Leica, Lexar, Mamiya, Manfrotto, Mitsubishi, Nikon, Olympus, Pina Zangaro, Sandisk, and Zeiss to name a few. These manufacturers will be available to answer
questions at any time during the tradeshow hours.
David Hume Kennerly has been photographing history for four decades. Contributing Editor for Newsweek Magazine, Kennerly continues to travel the globe to produce insightful images of important historic events.
His career began in Roseburg, Oregon, where he published his first picture in the high school paper when he was just 15 years old. His first official photographer jobs–as a staff photographer for the Oregon Journal and then the Portland Oregonian–led him in to a position with United Press International (UPI).
Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1972 for his remarkable photographs of the Vietnam war. After the war, Kennerly returned to the United States for Time Magazine, and in mid-1973 and threw himself into the domestic battles then raging in Washington. After Richard Nixon resigned, Kennerly was on the South Lawn of the White House as the soon-to-be ex-President departed. His historic photo of Nixon’s wave goodbye, taken when Kennerly was just 27 years old, is one of the dozens of his images that have helped define American photojournalism.
Registration for this event opens August 15th at 9am at www.digitalfest.com.
Nikon USA, Inc. and pictureline are pleased to present Vincent Versace at DiGiTALFEST 2009 – September 18th at 7pm.
Vincent Versace is a recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Media Arts & Entertainment and the Shellenberg fine art award, is a six-time nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame and is the best selling author of Welcome to Oz a Cinematic Approach Digital Still Photography with Photoshop and. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History.
Vincent was the original host of the Epson Print academy and is the photographer of Immediate Assistants Medical Rescue Go team and one of the members of the photographic team of Eco-Challenge. He has been commissioned by the San Francisco Presidio National Park to create a permanent collection of art for the park. He is an American Photo Magazine Mentor Trek instructor. Vincent has led photographic workshops to San Francisco, Burma, Viet Nam, India, Morocco, Costa Rica, Santa Fe, Egypt, Cambodia, Mongolia and Australia.
Vincent is former member of the board of directors of Los Angeles chapter of the American Photographers Association. He is also a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals “Instructor Dream Team” and teaches regularly at Photoshopworld as well as being a regular instructor at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe Photographic and Palm Beach Photographic Workshops. He is currently a member of Microsoft’s Digital Imaging Applications Group and founding member of the Epson Stylus Pros, Xrite Colorotti and Lexar Elite Photographers.
He is the former artist in residence for Altamira Group and former consultant to the president of Kodak’s Digital & Applied Imaging Group.
Vincent is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and on the weekends is a part-time super-hero and short-order cook.
Registration for this event opens August 15th at 9am at www.digitalfest.com.
Below are some images from DIGITALFEST 2008…
