Maine Media Workshops + College

Rockport - 70 Camden St. - ME 04856

For over fifty years, Maine Media Workshops + College has been recognized as one of the world’s most inspiring centers for learning the art and craft of visual storytelling. Located in the scenic coastal town of Rockport, Maine, the institution attracts students from across the globe—ranging from emerging young artists to seasoned professionals seeking new creative directions. Its photography program stands at the heart of this creative community, fostering innovation, technical mastery, and a deep appreciation for the photographic medium in all its forms.

The Professional Certificate in Photography at Maine Media College provides a rigorous yet flexible education in lens-based media. The program combines practical training, creative development, and professional preparation, equipping students with the skills needed to thrive in today’s media-driven industries. Whether studying online or on campus, students receive individualized mentorship from practicing photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists who bring real-world insight to every lesson.

Through a curriculum that blends still and motion imagery, students gain expertise in digital post-production, lighting design, and visual storytelling. Coursework includes mastery of industry-standard tools such as Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and InDesign, alongside instruction in audio recording, video editing, and project management. Assignments emphasize both technical fluency and conceptual strength, ensuring that students graduate with portfolios that reflect a strong personal vision and professional polish.

What sets Maine Media apart is its immersive, hands-on approach and its nurturing creative environment. Each student benefits from small class sizes, detailed critiques, and opportunities to engage with a vibrant network of artists, mentors, and alumni who are active in the fields of photography, filmmaking, and multimedia arts. Graduates leave not only with refined technical skills but also with the confidence and artistic voice to succeed as freelance photographers, content creators, or visual storytellers in an evolving digital world.

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All About Photo Presents ' Civilization' by Damien Aubin

In Civilization, Damien Aubin turns his lens toward environments shaped not by nature, but by ambition. These are places engineered at a scale that exceeds the individual — infrastructures, industrial complexes, vast architectural systems that dwarf the human body and often eclipse it entirely. There are no protagonists here. No narratives unfolding in real time. Instead, Aubin photographs what remains when activity recedes: structures that continue to stand, operate, or simply endure.

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Elliott Erwitt: Gold Standard

Weinstein Hammons Gallery is pleased to present Elliott Erwitt: Gold Standard, the third exhibition of photographs by Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023), one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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FotoFocus Announces Big Tent Opening of FotoFocus Center

This summer, FotoFocus will expand on their vision and embark on a new chapter with the launch of Big Tent, the inaugural exhibition at the new FotoFocus Center, a 14,700 square foot, purpose-built structure to house photographic exhibitions and year-round programs. Bringing together work by over fifty artists (including An-My Lê, Catherine Opie, Dawoud Bey, Gordon Parks, Justine Kurland, Mitch Epstein, RaMell Ross, Sky Hopinka, Tina Barney and many more), the exhibition (on view May 29-August 22) reflects upon the current state of American democracy while also considering the efficacy of photography to be a catalyst for meaningful change.

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The Queering of Photography by Asa Johannesson

Stills are delighted to announce their spring exhibition: The Queering of Photography by Åsa Johannesson; the artist’s first solo exhibition in Scotland. The Queering of Photography takes place from 1 May – 27 June 2026, Preview: Thursday 30 April, 6–8pm. Åsa Johannesson is an artist working across photography and writing. Over the past two decades she has explored the possibilities of queer visual vocabulary within photographic portraiture – a practice that intertwines queer documentary approaches with performative formalist aesthetics.

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Eko: Japan In Two Visual Narratives

From 5 March 2026, The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam presents the exhibition Ekō – Japan in two visual narratives. Curated as artists conversing across time, the exhibit juxtaposes early photographs of Japan from the museum's own collection, including those by Felice Beato, with the contemporary work it inspired as captured by photographer and visual artist Anaïs López.

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Photography and the Black Arts Movement at the Getty

From February 24 to June 14, 2026, the J. Paul Getty Museum presents Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, a landmark exhibition exploring how photographic practices helped shape one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, the exhibition reveals how artists across the African diaspora used images not simply to document history, but to transform it.

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MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) proudly announces its 2026 exhibition, MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades, on view from January 22 through May 16, 2026.

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Brassaï’s Secret Paris

In 1933, captivated by the nocturnal rhythms and hidden corners of Paris, the Hungarian-born photographer Brassaï published Paris by Night, a landmark photobook that forever transformed how the city of lights was imagined. Through his lens, Brassaï illuminated the city’s shadowed streets, smoky cafés, solitary lovers, and night-time wanderers, creating images that were simultaneously intimate and cinematic. Paris by Night did more than document the city—it defined a modern vision of Paris after dark, capturing a blend of elegance, vulnerability, and intrigue that had never been seen in photography before

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Photo Vogue Festival: Women by Women

The PhotoVogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival to bridge ethics and aesthetics, returns to Milan for its tenth anniversary in 2026. From March 1 to 4, during Milan Fashion Week, the festival will take place at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, one of Italy’s most historic and prestigious libraries—a fitting venue for a milestone edition that underscores the festival’s commitment to thoughtful, socially engaged photography.

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