- Dylan Suttles 2. Andrew Armani 3. Michael Calobrisi 4. Mike Brown 5. Mike Brown 6. Baxter Hankin
It’s March 2024 and that means that our little club is officially turning one year old! In short order we went from being little more than a whim, to an exciting little photographic community. In the last twelve months we have visited roof tops, rose garden, cemeteries, and creek walks with cameras in hand. We’ve done street photography, portraits, still-lifes, and lots of experimentation. Members have brought all sorts of fun gear to meetings, as well. We’ve seen everything from cheap point and shoots, disposable cameras, film and digital SLRS and mirrorless cameras, hefty 120 beasts, right up to large format field cameras with bellows and dark cloths. It’s been exciting to see what new bits of kit people will show up with each month.
Nicole Hube
Andrew Armani
As a present to ourselves, we’re celebrating our milestone with this new website and blog. We’re planning to have recaps of our meetings, previews of upcoming events, guest posts from our members on whatever topics they’d like to write about, and lots more. We’ll also, of course, be featuring lots of photos from our members, both from our meetups and other work they’d like to share! We might have some gear recommendations and reviews, tips and tricks, lessons, philosophical discussions – anything our little group feels like sharing.
In our second year as a club we are going to continue in the same vein as our first. We’re hoping to explore more of Syracuse and the surrounding areas, visit and photograph more of the regions many cultural and artistic events, help each other grow as artists, and make new friends on both sides of the lens. Photographers of all skill levels and styles are more than welcome to come hang out with us the first Sunday afternoon of every month.
Dylan Suttles
Baxter Hankin
Nicole Hube
Demetrius Pettway
We have to give a multitude of thanks to Michael John Heagerty and The McCarthy Mercantile building for facilitating our group and offering us a home for our meet-ups, and to Baxter Hankin of the Syracuse Urbanism Club for being a supporter and contributor. Finally, thanks (again) to Baxter and club member Andrew Armani for their work in having the club represented in the Salina St. 10 art installation, which displayed photos produced by our group in a storefront in downtown Syracuse.
All of the photos in the post came from members of our group and were taken at meet-ups during our first year.