From Personal Photo Projects to Universal Stories - with Forest McMullin

Please join us for our November First Friday meeting featuring photographer and educator Forest McMullin and enter our digital image competition, “PATTERNS" (more information below.)

Forest McMullin will speak about his career as a working photographic artist, from fine art work created more than fifty years ago through projects completed in the last few years. He'll discuss his interest in working with fringe social groups, including a photo story dealing with radical racists and neo-Nazi skinheads that led to his writing a novel. The thriller, Shooting at Shadows, is based on his experiences and was published in June.

Forest McMullin is a freelance photographer, artist, writer, and educator based in Atlanta. He has work in the permanent collections of Hunter Museum of American Art, George Eastman Museum, Georgia Council for the Arts, American Society of Media Photographers, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester Institute of Technology, The Buffalo Museum of Science, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Southern Poverty Law Center.

To see his work and learn more about Forest, visit:
https://www.forest-mcmullin.com/

Please note:

• This month's meeting will be IN-PERSON at our regular meeting location, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, at 2650 N. Druid Hills Road NE.
• Entries are limited to TWO per paid member - one color and one B&W.
• Please see competition rules for more information.
• The deadline for submissions is 9:00PM on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.
• Competition entries are to be sized appropriately, and files are to be re-named using the SPS naming convention: Firstname Lastname - Title of Image
• Images are to be uploaded to the links found on our SPS website.
• All are welcome for the presentation, but competition entries will be limited to paid SPS members only.

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SPS has three standing meetings each month for its members and guests. The First Friday meeting features an guest speaker and a members’ image competition. While competition entries at these monthly meetings are restricted to currently paid-up members, we ALWAYS welcome visitors interested in photography to attend. The Learnshops (fourth Tuesdays) and Coffee & Critique (second Saturdays) are intended for members, but again, we welcome visitors. If you attend regularly, we ask that you help support the club (which pays for the rental of the facilities, supplies, and equipment) by becoming a member!

Signing up on the SPS Meetup page does not make you an SPS member. SPS members pay dues to engage in many activities that are unavailable to guests who only sign up on the SPS MeetUp.

To find out more about SPS visit:
www.spsatlanta.org
To become a member, visit:
www.join.spsatlanta.org