Atelier 35 Panel | Julie Hamel, Lawrence Manning & Heather Walsh

Please join us for a creative conversation with three artists from Atelier 35 online in the Griffin Zoom Room on Wednesday March 30th at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific. We are pleased to have Julie Hamel, Lawrence Manning and Heather Walsh discuss their work.

Photography Atelier is a portfolio and project building course for emerging to advanced photographers taught by Elizabeth Buckley. Participants engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave with a better understanding of the industry and an ability to edit and sequence their own work.

This event is FREE to members and $10 to the General Public.

Julie Hamel – Known Unknown

Known Unknown 08, © Julie Hamel

Julie Hamel is a multidisciplinary maker working with photographic media that speaks of loss and memory. Frequently using what’s found in nature to highlight the distance in human interactions, she marks the importance of connections and the emotional effects of separation. Reflecting on the broader context of exposure, time, and sensitivity, her work simultaneously represents what may be absent or present, whether visually or emotionally. The results reveal associations emphasized by indexical evidence: this work physically happened, whether all at once, over the course of hours, or through an assembly of individual parts; much like our personal relationships throughout our lifetimes.

Hamel received her BFA with honors in photography, and a fellowship from the University of New Hampshire in 2010. After living in the South and Rocky Mountains, she returned to New England and now resides in New Hampshire. She received her MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art + Design in Cambridge, MA in 2021. Hamel has won numerous awards and has shown across the United States, Canada, and internationally including Italy, Budapest, Greece, and England.

Lawrence Manning – Murder in Nampa

© Lawrence Manning

Lawrence Manning is a visual artist whose work builds upon his career as a  professional photographer. He created thousands of images for commercial  clients, specializing in lifestyle images honoring his love of working with  people. Lawrence’s fine art photography is abstract and impressionistic, often  rendering his subjects in an altered state of reality. His work attempts to  create a dynamic between the documentary and the poetic.

Lawrence’s work has appeared in group shows locally and throughout the  country in galleries which include Praxis Gallery, Verum Ultimum, Art Source,  A Smith Gallery, PhotoPlace, SEC4P, Atlanta Photography Group, D’ART,  Center for Photographic Art, Duncan Miller, and Boise Art Museum.

Heather Walsh – Flyover Landscapes

© Heather Walsh

Heather Walsh is a lens-based artist whose creative practice is a balance between documentary and fine art photography. For over a decade, Walsh has worked as a photojournalist photographing stories about our shared humanity for clients including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR. An accomplished storyteller, Walsh excels with photographing individuals dealing with serious illness, sensitive cultural issues, and cause-related projects that merge photojournalism and portraiture. Her portraits exhibit respect, sensitivity, and empathy. During the covid-19 pandemic, she began exploring the more shadowy parts of her life through mixed media photography. Her diverse artistic practice transcends traditional boundaries and focuses its gaze on the resiliency of loss.