Foundation Rwanda: An Evening of Food & Fotos, taking place at Bonhams’ Madison Avenue galleries on 13 May, will feature art for activism with several top chefs and artists showcasing fine food and photography to benefit Foundation Rwanda. The evening will feature an auction of fine, contemporary photography selected by New Yorker magazine’s Visual Editor Elisabeth Biondi, Aidan Sullivan of Getty Images, and Bill Hunt of HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER gallery. Among the eclectic selection are works by Eugene Richards, Nigel Parry, Jonathan Torgovnik, Gillian Laub, Pieter Hugo, Paolo Ventura, Steve Pyke, Elinor Carucci, Ruven Afanador, Brent Stirton, Martin Schoeller, Platon and more. All proceeds will go to foundation Rwanda. For more information or to buy tickets, visit the website below.

Website: Foundation Rwanda: An Evening of Food and Fotos

The 47th Bièvres International Photo Fair is taking place from 5-6 June 2010 in Bièvres, France. This photo fair is a unique event in Europe that attracts tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world every year. Located 12km south of Paris, Bièvres is the place for camera collectors and other fans of vintage photographic equipment and related photographica. Additionally, the fair offers photography buffs a range of interesting lectures and conferences. For more information, pay a visit to the website below.

Website: Bievres International Photo Fair

Kubota Image Tools are reminding interested photographers that the next Digital Photography Bootcamp workshop is less than a month away. Held from 16-21 May, the 2010 Digital Photography Bootcamp is a 5-day workshop for professional photographers designed to supply all of the technical know-how to run a successful digital portrait/wedding studio. Topics covered include raw shooting, editing and archiving, workflow using Photoshop and Lightroom with Kubota RPG Speedkeys, printing, slideshow creation and business skills. The cost is $2,895 including accommodation and meals.

Website: Kubota Image Tools

Wilmotte Gallery at The Lichfield Studios is launching its 2010 contemporary art programme with new work by French photographer Marie Passa de Safar from 28 April. Marie Passa de Safar’s photography is closer to painting or charcoal drawing, with architecture, nature and still life all reappraised through her eyes and re-presented at the point where figuration and abstraction meet. This is the first UK show for Passa de Safar, who graduated in architecture and design and worked for many years at an international architecture agency before turning her attention to photography in 2007. Wilmotte Gallery at The Lichfield Studios is located at 133 Oxford Gardens, London, W10 6NE. The exhibition runs until 18 May.

Website: The Lichfield Studios

Photographer Toby Smith has carried out an ambitious project to document illegal deforestation in Madagascar. He first identified the logging areas before documenting the activity deep within UNESCO protected rainforests.The project has now been published across 17 pages in GEO magazine (Germany) after being embargoed for 6 months as evidence in international courts. Now, as part of the London International Documentary Festival, Smith will exhibit a selection of his striking images for the first time hoping to draw public attention to illegal deforestation in the island state. The exhibition runs from 17 to 26 April 2010 in Barbican Mezzanine, Silk Street, London. Admission is free.

True Stories is the title of Korean photographer Koh Sang Woo’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Sesame Gallery in London. Koh’s art is part painting, part performance, documented in photography. Carefully choosing his subjects for their personal stories, he paints directly onto their bodies as he works, and then reverses the colours in the final exposure to give his photos an unmistakeable electric vibrancy. In True Stories, all his photographs probe the kind of subtle conventions that restrain and limit their subjects – be it corporate control, racial prejudice, or the pressure to “be the best”. True Stories opens on 6 May at the Sesame Gallery, 354 Upper St, Islington, London N1 0PD.

To illustrate the science of attraction, the Science Museum is looking for photos of couples to feature in its ‘Who Am I?’ gallery that reopens in June 2010. Contributions of couples together can be made by the couples themselves via the ‘Coupling Up’ Flickr Pool. 50 photos from the pool will be selected to appear in a computer display as well as featured in a limited edition book of which all 50 selected photographers will receive a copy. “Attraction is very hard to pin down with scientific explanation alone,” the organisers say, so, when submitting the photo, you’re welcome to accompany the picture with a comment and tell them what made you click. The submission deadline is 18 April 2010.

Website: Coupling Up

Pentax has announced plans organized by worldwide Pentaxians for another global photo shoot scheduled for Saturday, 17 April. Forum members at www.PENTAXforums.com plan to shoot locally on that day and submit images to a central gallery. The photos must be taken with a Pentax camera (film or digital, SLR or compact). The global shoot “Pentax World Day” is not intended as a competition, but it is designed for the satisfaction of shooting and sharing images with other forum members. Photos may be submitted to the pentaxforums.com User Photo Gallery. As an added twist this year, two Pentax K-x cameras are being given away in celebration of the 1 millionth post on the forum; these will be awarded to the two forum members who have posted the largest number of forum messages between April 8 and the end of the week in which the 1,000,000th post is made.

Website: Pentax Forums

The third annual International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) exhibition opens on 1 May 2010 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The exhibition comprises over 100 inspirational garden and plant images from all over the world in a unique outdoor setting. The International Garden Photographer of the Year Collection 3 book will also be published on 1 May, and will be available to buy in Kew’s Victoria Plaza shop as well as online. The exhibition runs until 26 September 2010.

Website: IGPOTY

Manchester Art Gallery will be staging A World Observed 1940 - 2010, the first major retrospective of the London-based photographer Dorothy Bohm. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1924, Bohm has lived in England since 1939. A World Observed 1940 – 2010 opens with a selection of Bohm’s work as a student at Manchester College of Technology (from which she graduated in 1942) and of the portraits she produced while working first at Samuel Cooper and then, from 1946, in her own Studio Alexander in Market Street, Manchester. The next section charts her discovery of open air photography, whiile a smaller section will be devoted to a transitional period in her career, in which she explored the potential of Polaroid photography. Finally, the exhibition also includes her work taken on Kodak colour film, and some of the cameras Bohm used in the course of her long career will also be on display. The exhibition opens on 24 April and runs until 30 August 2010. Entry is free.

X-Rite has announced a free webinar dedicated to the use of its ColorChecker Passport. Taking place on Thursday, 15 April 2010 at 1:00 PM EDT and 3:00 PM EDT, these one-hour webinars will show ColorChecker Passport users, or those curious about the product, how to easily bring accurate colour to their digital photography to a new level, X-Rite says. “ColorChecker Passport provides photographers that are passionate about colour accuracy with a near-effortless tool to capture colour correctly and instantly enhance their images,” said Liz Quinlisk, X-Rite’s Director of Marketing Strategy, Photo. “This ColorChecker Passport webinar will show online attendees how they can achieve greatly improved colour results saving them significant time and effort after a photo shoot.” To register, visit the website below.

Website: X-Rite Photo

Three Stage National Tour from Resource Magazine and Hasselblad has been launched across the US. Three Stage celebrates the release of Hasselblad’s new H4D line of cameras, featuring the innovative TrueFocus technology, and offer photographers a hands-on and interactive experience with this and other selected equipment, from computer to lights to photo software. The event will include “Three Stages”, three separate interactive shooting spaces hosted by world class photographers from different fields of photography. Read on / click through for the upcoming Three Stage events.

Website: Three Stage Tour

Hosted by The Photographers’ Gallery in London, The Family and the Land: Sally Mann is the American photographer Sally Mann’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The ‘family’ element of the title will comprise Mann’s early series Immediate Family and the newer series Faces, both of which depict her children at various ages. The two series Motherland: Virginia and Deep South represent the landscape, portraying images made across the south of the United States. The exhibition opens on 18th June and runs until 19th September 2010. The Photographers’ Gallery is located at 16 – 18 Ramillies Street, W1, London. Admission is free.

Canon has announced the 2010 schedule of Canon Live Learning educational events. In addition to the successful EOS Immersion Seminars and Workshops, Canon has two new intensive workshops for the professional EOS HD video user, EOS Moving Image Workshop and Canon Cinema Caravan.The EOS Moving Image Workshop provides hands-on instruction from industry leaders who currently use Canon EOS cameras in professional film and video productions, while the Canon Cinema Caravan workshops will provide expert instruction on mastering the cinematic capabilities of Canon’s HD video-enabled EOS products for professionals. The six-city workshop tour kicks-off July 7th and 8th in New York followed by stops in Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Portland. The final city will be selected via voting on the Cinema Caravan blog on the Canon Digital Learning Center.

Website: Canon Live Learning

In a departure from his usual genre, British fashion / portrait photographer Rankin is launching his new book and exhibition RANKINJOZI - an insight into South Africa today. Exploring the genres of documentary, social portraiture, fine art photography and reportage, RANKINJOZI is the virtual record of Rankin’s journey to Johannesburg for the filming of South Africa in Pictures, his one-hour documentary for BBC Four. The documentary is airing in Spring as part of Wonderful Africa, BBC Four’s Southern Africa Season. Venturing out onto the city streets and into homes and communities, Rankin’s portrait of Jozi (i.e. Johannesburg) not only documents his own personal journey, but provides an insight into the land and its people. The exhibition will run from 7th May to 6th June at Annroy Gallery, Rankin’s own Kentish Town gallery space. The book is available via www.turnaround-uk.com, RRP £20.

Annabel Williams has joined forces with the organisers of International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to host a one-day workshop dedicated to ‘Photographing People Outdoors’. The seminar will be hosted at the brand new Annabel Williams studio in the Lake District and combine talks within the studio, together with practical shoots out on location using a variety of real people as models. The seminar is designed to help photographers of all levels engage more with their subjects – whether that’s just friends and family, or professional models – and make the most of natural lighting and backgrounds. The seminar takes place on Friday 14th May and costs £195.

Website: Annabel Williams

A stunning collection of photography taken at the Glastonbury Festival, the UK’s largest outdoor performing arts event, will go on display at London gallery, theprintspace, from April 16th. ‘Glastonbury: 40 years’ documents the day-to-day life of a makeshift city with a unique sociological footprint. Photographer Liam Bailey’s images show the spontaneous side of the festival away from the stages. In addition to the photographs of Glastonbury, the exhibition will also house ‘Round & About’, a collection of photographs encompassing footballs and other sports balls found and discarded in locations all over London, and sets of used stamps found at car-boot sales. The exhibition runs until 4 May from 9am-7pm Monday-Friday.

A team of Hasselblad imaging experts will demonstrate the new Hasselblad H4D cameras and the company’s Phocus software to photography students at colleges and universities across the UK. Chris Russell-Fish, Hasselblad UK MD explained: “Students are the future of the imaging business so we decided to plan a completely free of charge, nationwide educational roadshow to enable them to get some real hands-on experience with the 40-megapixel medium format H4D-40”. Hasselblad is also holding evening sessions after each student day event, and these are open to all professional photographers.

Website: Hands On Hasselblad

Tamron USA has just announced a new programme of educational weekend events. Aimed at enhancing the picture-taking abilities of photo enthusiasts, these “TamronExtravaganzas” are hosted by local Tamron dealers at over 50 specified times and locations throughout the United States, and will be listed on the Tamron website in the events section. Each event includes Tamron’s “Eleven Simple Secrets to Better Pictures” two-hour seminar prepared under the guidance of Tamron’s distinguished group of veteran pros including Andre Costantini, Ken Hubbard, and John VanSteenberg. Topics include when and how to use different lenses, making the most of available light, the effective use of flash, and more.

Website: Tamron Events

The Annenberg Space for Photography is hosting a three-month photographic and multimedia exhibit based on the work of six photographers featured in National Geographic magazine’s April issue. The featured photographers are Jonas Bendiksen, with a story on Himalaya glacial melt; Edward Burtynsky, capturing California’s water infrastructure; Lynn Johnson, documenting the burden of thirst on women and children in Africa; Paolo Pellegrin, looking at water rights in the Middle East; Joel Sartore, with a story on freshwater species; and John Stanmeyer, with a moving portfolio of our spiritual connection with water. The Annenberg Space for Photography is located at 2000 Avenue of the Stars, #10 Los Angeles. The exhibit is open to the public until 13 June 2010.

Website: The Annenberg Space for Photography