Hunt’s Photo Education’s Film Weekend Extravaganza- Hunt’s Melrose
August 9 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Class Summary
August 9 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Feel free to bring your film camera(s)
- Have something analog that you want to share? Bring it along!
- As always, bring your enthusiasm and creative thoughts!
Refund Policy – Classes / Walks / Workshops
For classes, walks, & workshops, cancellations and postponement can be made up to 48-hours prior to the scheduled time. Refunds cannot be granted for cancellations placed less than 72-hours/3-days before a class or walk, but you can receive a 75% credit toward a future class, walk, or workshop.
For all cancellations, you must contact classes@huntsphoto.com prior to the event. If you register for a class and do not show up, your payment will be forfeited..
Come celebrate the love of film, learn new ideas and techniques, listen to passionate artists using the analog medium, and get inspired at our first ever Film Weekend Extravaganza!
This weekend will be a mix of guest speakers discussing the analog medium, presenting concepts (new and old), the experience of using film and analog, and good old fashioned community building (come meet some new friends). We will have film giveaways and free raffles. Also, the first 40 people to sign up for either day on the weekend will be able to submit a film image that Hunt’s Photo will print and display as part of Film Gallery Opening!
This event will take place primarily on Sunday August 9th. However, we will have a meet and greet, guest speaker, and our gallery show on Saturday August 8th. We recommend signing up even if you can only attend a part of the weekend!
Highlights!
On Saturday, August 8th, our guest speaker will be the author of the DIY book This Book is a Camera, Kelli Anderson, who will be discussing analog experiences in the digital world. On Sunday August 9th, our guests will be Providence-based photographer Jonathan Pitts-Wiley who will discuss film photography as an artistic outlet and photographer Mary Jane Griffin who will discuss adventures in film soup!
Topics Covered
- Film developing
- Medium and Large Format Photography
- Instant Film
- Film Soup
- Cyanotype printing
- Camera Scanning
- Polaroid transfers
- DIY and Plastic Film Cameras
- Anything film and analog–we can’t cover it all, but we’d love to talk about it all!
Schedule of the Weekend (As our schedule updates closer to the event, we will update this page)
Saturday 8/8 Afternoon (approximately 3-7pm)
- Meet and Greet
- Film Gallery Opening
- Talk with author and DIY artist Kelli Anderson
Sunday 8/9 (10am-4pm)
- Talk with photographer Jonathan Pitts-Wiley
- Demos and discussion on topics listed above
- Talk with photographer Mary Jane Griffin
- Hands-on experiences with Hunt’s Photo Educators
Guest Speakers
Kelli Anderson uses design magic to connect people with the depth and possibility of their world. She created This Book is a Camera (MoMA)—which transforms into a working camera—and This Book is a Planetarium (Chronicle)—which houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Alphabet in Motion, an interactive book about typography and technology was published to wide acclaim in the Fall of 2025. Other projects include a viral paper record player and—with The Yes Men—a utopian counterfeited New York Times, which won the Ars Electronica Prix. Doctors without Borders have used the award-winning Tinybop Human Body app she created to communicate illness and treatment nonverbally to their patients in remote areas. Clients include NPR, the New Yorker, the Guggenheim, MoMA, Apple, and the New York Times. She has been nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award three times. She teaches at NYU and Cooper Union.
Jonathan Pitts-Wiley is a portrait photographer and co-founder of the Rhode Island-based Black photographer collective, The Vanta Guild. In the summer of 2021, Jonathan collaborated with renowned photographer Mary Beth Meehan to produce Witness, an exhibition that explores the life and times of his late grandmother, Annye Raye Pitts. In December 2022, his was one of five portraits selected for the City of Providence’s “Who We Are Now?” public art banner project.
A Yale graduate, Jonathan is the Creative Director at Curiosity Store in Jamestown, Rhode Island and has, since 2010, been the Artistic Director of Pawtucket, RI’s Mixed Magic Theatre. Jonathan is married to Mixed Magic’s music director, Kim Morrison Pitts-Wiley. The couple has two children.
Hunt’s Photo would like to acknowledge assistance from the following companies and brands for their support in putting this event together:
-Freestyle Photo
-Roberts Camera
-Harmon Film
-Fujifilm
-Negative Supply
-Lomography
