The Photographic Life
A Celebration with Sam Abell
CENTER invites you to join us in a very special occasion honoring photographic legend Sam Abell. During CENTER’s annual Review Santa Fe Photo Festival reviewers, photographers, and community members will be present for a reception and dinner that includes a presentation by Sam Abell.
Sam Abell’s photographic career spans decades including a tenure at National Geographic Magazine. He is recognized as a much-beloved educator, speaker, and teacher by hundreds of students who attended his workshops over the years. We are pleased to celebrate Sam’s many accomplishments and recognize all his contributions to the photographic community including the co-founding of the nonprofit that evolved into what is now CENTER. We hope you will join us for an engaging evening with this esteemed artist, prolific image-maker, and advocate for photographers.
WHEN • Saturday, October 28, 2017
RECEPTION • 7 PM
DINNER • 8 PM
PRESENTATION • 9 PM
© Sara Macel
Reserve Your Seat –
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Non-Member
$135
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Member
$121.50
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Festival Pass Holder
$121.50
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Make a Donation in Sam's Name
Donations go directly to our programs that support photographers. We will acknowledge your name or business, and it will appear on promotional materials and our website.
Moderator
© Kari Wehrs
SAM ABELL’S forty-year career has been dedicated to achieving artistic expression through documentary photography. He has pursued his goals primarily through lengthy, in-depth assignments for National Geographic, where for thirty years he was a contract and staff photographer. At the same time, he has maintained a career as a teacher, artist and author. He has continued to inspire students as an instructor at the Santa Fe Workshops for over 28 years.
A one-person exhibit and monograph of his work at mid-career titled Stay This Moment was organized by the International Center of Photography in New York in 1990. In 2002 a traveling exhibit and monograph of his work titled Sam Abell: The Photographic Life was organized by the University of Virginia Art Museum. His other book credits include Seeing Gardens (2000), The Life of a Photograph (2008) and the four volume Abell Library (2014).
Mr. Abell was a founder of the Santa Fe Center of Photography and has been a member of the boards of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY and the University of Virginia Museum of Art.
Special Thanks
Thank you to the contributors who made this special evening possible –
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Platinum
Evan Anderman, Ph.D.
Canon
Joanna T. Hurley -
Palladium
Nathan Benn
Gay Block
Reid Callanan
Joann Carney
Allan Swartzberg -
Silver
Bella Forte Designs
Drury Plaza Hotel
Gruet Winery
Marjorie Kaufman
Marilyn Maxwell
Christopher Michel
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