LOVE &
PHOTOGRAPHY
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︎This workshop will serve as an exploration of intimate and collaborative portraiture.
This workshop will serve as a support and critique group.
This workshop will try to challenge all of us - in how to grow our practice and shift our thinking around image making and portraiture.
This workshop will focus less on how to ‘get’ a good portrait & more on how to let one emerge naturally and with care and intention.
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Eyes / Shutter / Hands
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take -> make
shoot -> create
model -> collaborator
diversity -> equity
visibility -> impact
audience -> community
trust
love
collaboration
intention
care
honesty
sincerity
justice
impact
context
audience
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What is a good portrait, beyond formal qualities and technical ability?
How do I make a good portrait? What elements are included in that image?
How do I care for people with a camera?
How do I navigate communication and emotions while image making? w
What is the role of the artist, or art, in justice & survival politics?
What is the difference between witnessing & documenting?
As we reach what we call a ‘tipping point’ in representation - what is photography’s emerging and evolving role?
How can I make instead of take?
What does collaboration actually look like?
How can photography feel urgent?
How can photography be a community based practice? A gift?
What is my community? What is in my lane? What isnt?
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ASSIGNMENT:
For next class - come with 1 new portrait that you made this week & a 1-2 paragraph reflection on the portrait-making. Your portrait can be film, digital, on your phone, etc. but should reflect a thoughtful and collaborative exchange.
Your reflection can be as straightforward or poetic as you’d like - but should also give you insight into the process and/or provide context for the exchange. It can be a poem, a text/email exchange with the collaborator, a descrption of the time spent together, etc.
For next class we will all share our portraits and read our reflections outloud.
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As we wrap up today - lets go around and ask a question we have about formal strategies or ways of going about making a portrait.
And see if we can’t pool our resources, tips, and experiences.
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How can photography feel urgent
How can photography feel urgent