EXTRAORDINARY IMAGES IN ORDINARY PLACES

July 25 – 31, 2010
Maine Media Workshops, Rockport Maine
Register at www.theworkshops.com

In this workshop we will look beyond the obvious for a new point of view. This is a shooting class designed to challenge how you see and, in turn, how you photograph. Weaving sensible and whimsical assignments with lectures and critiques, as well as a healthy does of fun, it promises to be a week that expands the possibilities of your photographs. All formats, film or digital, black & white or color, are invited to attend. A great opportunity to rekindle your enthusiasm for photographing!

Working in and around The Workshops, as well as visiting locations in the mid-coast region, we will concentrate on bringing a difference to our photographs - a difference in perspective, in viewpoint and in feeling. To accomplish this within the confines of our week together we will employ a variety of techniques to shake up the way look at the world around us. Multiple shooting assignments will be paired with class discussions to strengthen your awakening creativity. Daily reading assignments will serve to feed everyone’s intellectual curiosity of how the “greats” have worked to find their own moments of grace in their work. Daily class critiques will allow us to applaud each other’s efforts as we stretch old boundaries and self-imposed limitations.

Students are asked to bring a small, representative portfolio of current work. On Monday morning you will present two images – one of your own and one image of a photographer (or other artist) that you have been influenced by. During the week you will have the opportunity for an individual critique of the body of work you brought.

This workshop is for anyone making photographs, by film or digital camera, black & white or color. Any size format is welcome but due to the type of assignments it may be best to stick with 35 – 120 mm film for this class. Remember: this is not a workshop about making a perfect print, but rather expanding the possibilities of your photographs. Students will turn their black and white film and digital cards in to The Workshop’s lab staff each evening. (There is no processing available for color film so I encourage you to use an alternative for this class.) The work will be returned the next morning as digital contact sheets for projection, which we will review and critique together as a group. For those working digitally you may wish to bring your laptops so you can spend more time viewing your own images.

Registration

For further information and to register for this workshop contact registration@theworkshops.com