July 19 Monthly Meeting – Brooke Shaden

Networking and hors d’oeuvres begin at 7:00 P.M. Program starts at 7:30 P.M.

Grosvenor Best Western Hotel, 380 S. Airport Blvd., S. San Francisco.

For directions, please call the hotel at 650/873-3200 or click on this link.

FEES:

PPGBA members – no charge

Non-members – $25 at the door

APA, ASMP members – $15 at the door

(non-member DOOR FEE may be applied towards PPGBA dues if redeemed within 90 days – therefore the meeting will be FREE to you if you join PPGBA…please save your meeting receipt for documentation of payment)

You should join us for this month’s meeting! click on this link for a video to check out the cool speaker we had LAST month…

This Month’s Speaker – Brooke Shaden

sponsors:

Click here to read about Brooke’s one-day seminar on July 20 at Mills College in Oakland!

Social Media Marketing & Business

Attendees will learn:

• How to present yourself and your business to the online world
• What sites are best to use to grow your business
• How to use many different social networking sites to the best of their ability (Facebook, Flickr, WordPress, etc.)
• Google analytics, site statistics, Google ads
• Tips and tricks to getting fans online
• The importance of interacting online, but not over-saturating
• How to present your portfolio
• Branding your photography
• How to navigate stock image sites
• How to submit (and get accepted to) magazines and galleries

About the Speaker

Brooke Shaden is a fine art photographer living and working in the Los Angeles area. Her passion lies in creating new worlds through photographs. Her vision extends beyond the realm of the camera, creating images that resemble paintings and speak of an era that is not our own. Each image is a story.

Brooke was born in March 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the “Amish Country” until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with two degrees: film and English. She now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and three cats.

She began creating self-portraits for ease and to have full control over the images, and has since grown into a self-portrait artist. Self portraiture for her is not autobiographical in nature. Instead, she attempts to place herself within worlds she wishes we could live in, where secrets float out in the open, where the impossible becomes possible.

Brooke works to create new worlds within her photographic frame. By using painterly techniques as well as the square format, traditional photographic properties are replaced by otherworldly elements. Brooke’s photography questions the definition of what it means to be alive. View more of her work at www.brookeshaden.com

Exhibitions/Awards

Media/Publications

Education

• ’05-’08: B.A. in Film, Temple University
• ’05-’08: B.A. in English, Temple University