Sign up now for Cannon Beach Photo Review

Published 4:28 am Sunday, April 15, 2012

CANNON BEACH – The Cannon Beach Photo Review, a weekend-long event which will debut Oct. 12 through 14, has launched its website and is currently enrolling participants. The CBPR is an opportunity for professional and serious amateur photographers to network with industry leaders in the field.

The main focus of the event is the portfolio review, in which participants will sit face to face with editors, museum curators and magazine publishers and have their work examined in 20-minute sessions. This is an amazing opportunity for photographers to establish professional contacts in the field that could lead to job assignments in well-known magazines as well as exhibition opportunities in galleries and museums.

The photo review format is a national trend, often on a large scale with hundreds of participants. In contrast, the Cannon Beach Photo Review will be an intimate venue to network within because it is limited to 48 participants.

Event organizer Don Frank is a professional photographer who thought that Cannon Beach would be the perfect venue for a photo review. The CBPR will bring world-class reviewers to the region in an unprecedented weekend.

In addition to the portfolio review, photographers and reviewers will be part of a group exhibition at the Cannon Beach Gallery during October. The weekend will kick off with a Friday night artist reception in which photographers can view each others’ work and meet reviewers such as Brooks Jensen, the publisher of LensWork Magazine, and Katie Taft, a curator from Denver.

The CBPR weekend will also include a keynote party Saturday, Oct. 13; a peer review session Sunday, Oct. 14; and photo excursions led by professional photographers of Cannon Beach. Registration is $395 through PayPal. Submissions for the nonjuried group exhibition must be in the Plywerk format.

The Cannon Beach Photo Review is being produced by the nonprofit Cannon Beach Arts Association in conjunction with a grant from the city of Cannon Beach. Currently, the event is being sponsored by Plywerk of Portland and LightBox Photographic Gallery of Astoria.

For more information, visit www.cannonbeachphotoreview.com or follow the CBPR on Facebook.