About this Event
This workshop is designed to help photographers understand and prepare for a portfolio review. Whether you’re new to portfolio reviews or returning with a fresh project, this session offers practical guidance on how to present your work effectively and make the most of your time with reviewers.
Led by experienced facilitators from the Exposure Photography Festival, the workshop will cover what makes a strong portfolio, including image editing and sequencing, deciding how much work to show, and navigating one or multiple bodies of work. We'll discuss both printed and digital presentation formats, their practical considerations, and strategies for communicating your practice clearly.
The session will also cover how to navigate the portfolio review itself, including researching your reviewers, introductions, setting feedback expectations, listening productively, and managing nerves. A mock portfolio review will walk participants through the whole process, with opportunities to pause and ask questions.
This workshop demystifies the portfolio review process, so you can arrive prepared, confident, and ready to have a productive, engaged conversation about your work.
We’d love to see you at the Exposure Portfolio Review event in February, so we’re offering a special discount on the cost of the Portfolio Review for anyone who attends this workshop. Workshop attendants will receive $20 off their Exposure Portfolio Review registration. The discount information will be sent upon registration of this workshop.
Sponsored by Hahnemühle.
Please Note:
This is an In-Person, Paid Event. Paid events are non-refundable. Your registration is required. Your registration assists us in gauging attendance numbers and we'll provide you with a reminder and further details about the event. Should you have any questions or issues, please email [email protected].
Dona Schwartz (she/her) received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on photography and ethnography. Her photographic work examines evolving identities, social bonds and boundaries. She is the author of Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997), and two photographic monographs with Kehrer Verlag: In the Kitchen (2009) and On the Nest (2015). Her award-winning photographs have been published internationally and exhibited at venues including the Saatchi Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Her work is held in major collections such as the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the George Eastman Museum, the Musée de l’Elysée, and the Center for Creative Photography. Dona is a Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary.
Stasia Schmidt (she/her) is a fine art photographer based in Calgary whose work explores simplicity, form, and unexpected surrealism within landscapes and portraits. Drawn to themes of femininity and the natural environment, her practice uses photography to push creative boundaries and challenge expectations, creating vivid and resonant images. Her work has been exhibited in group shows across Canada, the United States, and Europe. In 2024, Stasia was recognized as the Canadian awardee of the Leica Women Foto Project and was named Emerging Artist of the Year by the Exposure Photography Festival for her celebrated Ephemerality series. The series also inspired her first photo book, published as part of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize in Photography.
Brady Fullerton (he/him) is a lens-based artist and academic whose work explores trauma, masculinity, isolation, mental health, addiction, and beauty through a documentary approach to the everyday. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and uses photography to investigate philosophical questions while navigating personal experiences of mental illness. Brady’s award-winning work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows, online, and in print. He is currently developing Nowhere, a photographic exploration of trauma and memory in his hometown of Drumheller, Alberta, supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Calgary Arts Development.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Camera Store, 802 11 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Canada
CAD 31.50
