October 2025 Meeting — Tuesday 10/14 (NEH Library & Zoom)

Our next meeting will be Tuesday October 14th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in the Mellon Room at the Northeast Harbor Library and via zoom. Please email contact@mdiphotoclub.org for a zoom link.

Presentation

Our speaker will be Howard Zehr presenting “Building Bridges Through Photography”.

Howard Zehr, Ph.D., is best known as one of the founders and early pioneers of the restorative justice field, but he has also been a serious photographer much of his career. His photo work has included marketing for non-profits, international photojournalism, and many documentary photo projects, including a number of photo/interview books that he will discuss in his presentation. Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers 25 Years Later is the most recent of these.

Howard is retired from teaming at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, an international graduate program at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg, VA. He is still connected through the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice at EMU as Distinguished Professor of Restorative Justice and is author of many books on restorative justice including the best-seller, The Little Book of Restorative Justice. He has traveled widely as lecturer and photographer.

Howard will share his powerful images of ‘lifers’ who have transformed their lives within our prison system. Howard’s presentation will teach us how to build trust, a key that might help us transform our own work and maybe our community. He will cover critical aspects of portraiture such as environment and lighting, as well as equipment choices, lens selections and other fundamental aspects of bringing his projects to print. He will tackle some of the special motivations that reveal how we connect to our work at different transitions, and how he has succeeded in sustaining his interest in people and capturing their humanity through several decades of his career.

Assignments

Our assignment for October is: “SPOT OF COLOR”. There are several approaches to “taking” or “making” Spot of Color images. Please refer to this website reference and the definitions and examples of “Spot Coloring” and “Selective Coloring” below.

https://digital-photography-school.com/use-spot-coloring-your-photos/

Spot coloring uses the available colors in a scene and then composes the image so that one color stands out from the rest of the frame. Spot coloring is a technique that is used in-camera (done by the photographer).

Selective coloring is a technique where one color is prominent in the final shot whereas all the other colors have either been changed to monochrome or had their color saturation levels lowered during post-production.