Taught by JIM DOW & CASSANDRA KLOS
with special guests
Virginia Beahan & Peter Moriarty
BigTown Projects is delighted to present its Pilot WORKSHOP/RESIDENCY Project with master photographers Jim Dow and Cassandra Klos.
WORKSHOP:
This workshop focuses on constructing visual meaning through photography, in this case about a place that is meaningful to you. That place can be physical, but it can also be metaphorical, even non existent. Subject matter is an extension of yourself, your interests, and your ideas.
How do you show such a place in photographs to someone who has never been there?
Participants will create a project that is self-reflective and not necessarily specifically descriptive. Moving quickly over ten days, a significant part of the experience will be a week of self-generated exploration using a phone or digital camera with technical instruction followed by three intensive days of in-person analysis and reflection. This process can mean many different things; at its core is the guidance to think through looking – employing images to convey meaning(s).
AUGUST 10th the workshop kicks off with a Zoom call for introductions and workshop preparation and culminates the following weekend AUGUST 16th - 18th in Rochester. The weekend segment immerses you in the history of photography, gaining skills looking and thinking about photography, receiving technical instruction, reviewing photographs, and preparing for the exhibition of all student work to be hung in the Projects Gallery space. Exhibition will be on view to the public for the duration of the American Geography exhibition until September 15th.
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