Erin Debnam Takes Pictures

11/13/2016

I've been quiet for some time and will be for a while longer. I am coping with some health issues that have forced me to take a leave from work. I am not sure how long I will be out, but I will be sure to let you know when I am back.

06/01/2016

I've found that teaching elementary-age kids photography is necessarily teaching iphone/ipad photography much of the time, which is why I am so excited to be adding this to my teaching tools. Polaroid prints right from their devices! Past and future unite! (Also, YAY I JUST GOT AN INSTANT LAB!).
My Arts Together camp for 9-12 YOs still has some spots http://www.artstogether.org/summerprograms/summersparkssr.html

05/23/2016

Bee Ball photo booth images are up! BEEBALL2016 is the password for free, small downloads.

http://www.erindebnam.com/gallery/Photo-Booth/G0000nUfBR.El_PM/C0000vSNB4bb9HoM

04/14/2016

I've been quietly focused on home and work lately, but I just had to pop up to tell you I'll be teaching photography a couple weeks at Arts Together this summer. I went to Arts Together as a kid and I am super excited to get to teach there. More news coming as 2016 rolls along.

I’m so happy to let you know that I’ll be teaching photography for a couple weeks at Arts Together this summer. Their former photo instructor, Laura Mann, has moved on to a full-time teaching position...

11/27/2015

Oh, hey! Looks like I made the print edition of the News and Observer this week. Cool.

highlighted in an article about giving circles in the News and Observer "triangle gives" section

07/21/2015

Here I am in the act. Not pictured: me eating a huge bowl of pho after. Mmmm.

“It's picture day!”

07/09/2015

There is still space in my portrait photography camp at Rebus Works next week (for ages 7-9).

So, how many ways ARE there to make a portrait or a self-portrait? So many, including everything from straight-forward head shots, to Warhol-inspired prints, to photographic mobile self-portraits and photo-collages of our campmates. Action portraits! Silhouettes! Self-portraits in which we aren't allowed to photograph our actual face or body, just things important to us. Portraits of ourselves as the person or creature we wish we could be—that's right, DRESS UP. Cynotypes. We'll modify prints with paint and collage. I'll take the campers' portraits. They'll take mine.

Your child will be working with their own simple point-and-shoot but will get some exposure to my professional gear and will get to handle a DSLR camera. There will be some age-appropriate, light computer-based editing (we'll have several laptops for the camp). The focus, however, will be on the physical photographic object and on the creation of the photograph. We will be making as many prints as we can and working with those.

Let's do this!

06/15/2015

BOOTH PHOTOS! Low-res downloads are free (please tag The Beehive Collective when you share). High-res downloads are $5 with $4.50 per image ending up with The Beehive Collective.
Password 2015

05/06/2015

It's about that time of year: Time for Bee Ball and all the fundraising fun and madness it entails. Buy a ticket and come get your picture taken in your finery!

Raleigh’s best party is on May 16th! We want you there to dance, crown our Bee Ball Royalty winners, and help us raise money to make Raleigh a better place.

04/27/2015

I'm super excited to be teaching three separate photo camp sessions this summer at Rebus Works. I love kid energy and I know I'll get a creative charge from planning projects, teaching new skills and seeing what these young'uns come up with. Sign up soon!

CHILDREN’S SUMMER ART CAMPS 2015 Summer 2015 Children’s Art Camps Register online here. This summer, Rebus Works is hosting nine week-long camps for children ages 7 – 9 and 10 – 12! See below for our camp schedule, course descriptions and instructor bios. More camp details for parents, including sch…

03/25/2015

Greg Cox and I have similar ideas of what makes for good dining.

I am what you might call food motivated. I’ve been underfoot in kitchens since I was a child and I don’t really remember a time before I was helping to cook. I’ve always been curious about how food is...

03/12/2015

First step of getting back to work after extended interruption: Checking FB(?). I think I need to reassess. Still, I am so happy to be rid of the winter bugs that have been plaguing me and mine and back to working with you and yours.