We'll work on location to make new pictures with models using both natural and artificial lighting techniques. Gorman will be on hand for technical challenges and will demonstrate how he sculpts with light. Greg will review portfolios to help direct your assignments and to enhance your progress. Additionally he will lead a group discussion on how to promote and market your fine art photography and how to integrate it into the commercial world.

GREG GORMAN's personality portraits, advertising campaigns, magazine layouts, and fine art work reveals his great talent and rare ability to successfully integrate personal fine art with commercial work. His trademarks include a bold approach to movement, sculptural lighting techniques, and well-orchestrated compositions. With Herb Ritts and Annie Leibovitz, Gorman is among the most famous of modern portrait and celebrity photographers. His gregarious nature and easy relationship with his subjects infuses his work with humor. His figure work combines sensitivity with allure. His fifth and latest book As I See It was released in the fall of 2000 and featured a collection of fine art male nudes. His work is represented by Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles and has been exhibited throughout the US, Europe, Canada, and Japan. Additionally he has directed music videos, photographed for motion pictures, and made portraits of Sir Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Costner, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Andy Warhol, Robert De Niro, Bette Davis, and music icons Elton John, Bette Midler, Frank Zappa, Grace Jones, Michael Jackson, and David Bowie. Interview, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Details, and Rolling Stone magazines have featured Gorman's images on their pages.

*PORTFOLIO REVIEW REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION Please send 10-15 slides or prints (no larger than 11x14") (labeled with your name, image title, date, size), SASE or return postage for material return, and your completed registration form. You will be notified of status within 7 business days after receipt of material. Note: portfolios will be reviewed throughout the season and may be send at early as March 25, 2002.

Participants please bring: a portfolio of 10 - 20 photographs, camera, and plenty of your favorite film.
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $290/ non-members $310 
model fee: $50
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                             TOP

You will get feedback on the work you make in class and answers to all your questions. Judi will present examples of inspiring photographs and discuss the elements that make a good picture including subject matter, composition, light, pattern, texture, and mood. What begins this weekend may become a new career and/or almost certainly a lifelong passion!

JUDI ESMOND has served as the Center's education and outreach coordinator and teaches in the Hudson Valley at the Children's Home of Kingston, Rockland County Community College, the Children's Annex, Onteora High School, Woodstock Day School, and Poughkeepsie Day School. She offers private lessons at the Center for beginner, intermediate and advanced level photographers. Judi has also taught with Maine Photographic Workshops, Skidmore College, SUNY New Paltz, and Edenwald-Gun Hill Community Center. In addition to her teaching talents, Judi is an independent freelance photographer, custom printer, and has worked as the studio assistant in NYC to photographers Jan Groover and Michael O'Neil. In her personal photography, Esmond pushes limits and employs both experimental and traditional methods. Her wide breadth of knowledge spans a variety a cameras and classic and alternative techniques.

Participants should bring: 35 mm camera. If you don't have a 35 mm camera, please contact the Center and we can arrange to provide one.
Class limit: 5 
Tuition: CPW members $175 / non-members $195 
lab fee: $20                                                                                                                                                              TOP

Held for the eighth season by popular demand! Do you feel that if only you had the correct portfolio you would be a success? Do you wonder what it takes to bring your photographs to a commercial gallery, not-for-profit artists space, and/or museum? Do you know what grants, fellowships, and artist's residencies are available to you? How to price your prints? Are you yearning to have your pictures and words published?

This class is for creative photographers who have produced a body of work they are ready to bring into the world but aren't sure where and how to begin. Our conversation will invite inspiration. The workshop includes portfolio review and each student's images receive Kathleen's undivided attention.

Our group discussion is dreamed about but rarely heard! We build your resume, look at your pictures, talk about how to present a portfolio, and you'll create an artist statement. You will leave this workshop ready to hit the real world, with more confidence and a map for your personal journey. Kathleen's up to the minute how to handbook on galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and grants is presented complimentary to each participant. After attending this workshop past participants have won awards, received solo shows, secured commercial representation, and realized their dreams.

GERALD SLOTA lives and works in the New Jersey. Ricco/Maresca represents and shows his work in NYC. Additionally. Mr. Slota has had shows at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Florida, San Francisco Camerawork, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Katonah Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, and the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.  His work frequently appears in the New York Times Magazine, and has been published in Discover, Blindspot, GQ, Fortune, the New Yorker, Aperture, the Art of the X-Files, and American Photography. Slota has been awarded the Mid-Atlantic Fellowship Grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Polaroid 20x24” Grant, and a MacDowell Artist Residency. He has been a guest lecturer at School of Visual Arts in NYC and Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.

ARIEL SHANBERG is the Center's Associate Program Director where he sees hundreds of photographer's portfolios each year  A member of the staff since 1999, he works on all CPW creative programs including exhibitions, PHOTOGRAPHY QUARTERLY, WOODSTOCK A-I-R a residency program for artists of color, film screenings, portfolio reviews, and the Center's regional fellowship fund which brings him into daily contact with artists and their goals. He has curated Made In Woodstock, a survey of the first two years of CPW's residency program in 2001 and Presenting/Receiving: Subjecting Photography, which explored the varying roles of photography through eight contemporary artists in 2002. He has served as a juror for Media Alliance's Media Action Grant, Catskill Guide's 2001 Annual Photography contest, and Lightwork's Regional Photography Grant. Additionally he has been a reviewer at the 2001 Northeast Society for Photographic Education Regional conference in Syracuse New York and at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

This class is for creative photographer's who have a developed body of work.

Participants should bring: a portfolio of 10-15 prints (no slides), resume or background bio. No drugstore photos or stock pictures.
Class limit: 12 
Tuition: CPW members $120 / non-members $135                                                                                                     TOP

Explore how the digital darkroom allows you to print in a manner that goes beyond the conventional darkroom! You will discover a refined level of control over contrast, tonality, burning, and dodging. Edelman leads you through use of various printers including the Epson, Imacon 848 scanner, and Apple computers. We will begin with high end negative scanning, followed by brief digital refinement of your images, and the creation of either an archival cobalt pigmented black-and-white print or archival-pigmented color print. Adobe experience is helpful but not necessary.

RICHARD EDELMAN, a photographer and graphic artist, has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Polaroid International Collection, and Bibliotheque Nationale. He holds an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute and a BFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. The photographer has received fellowships from the Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) and CPW Photographers' Fund Fellowship. He has been a member of the faculty at the New School, the School of Visual Arts, and the International Center for Photography, all in NYC.

Participants should bring: two negatives or transparencies (35mm, 4x5", 6x6cm, or 6x7 cm). Any existing prints - digital or conventional - of these negatives will also be helpful.
Class limit: 8 
Tuition: CPW members $120 / non-members $135                                                                                                     TOP 

This workshop is for photographers who have a sound foundation in black-and-white darkroom techniques and want two days where the emphasis is "hands-on" with ample printing time and support from Craig. Working from your pre-existing black-and-white negatives (4x5"), you will learn to make a platinum/palladium print. Craig leads you through a combination of demonstrations, discussions, and applications. You will explore paper selection, contrast and controls, dodging and burning, developer variations, and chemical safety. Come prepared to work and have fun!

CRAIG BARBER is a fine art photographer whose images focus on the cultural landscape. His work has been exhibited throughout the US, Europe, and Latin America, and is represented in many public and private collections. He is the recipient of grants from the Seattle Arts Commission, the Polaroid Corporation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Craig has taught workshops from Seattle to the Slovak Republic. For the last two years he has worked in Havana, Cuba, and prior to that he spent extensive time photographing in Vietnam.

Participants bring: three to four 4x5" negatives and a portfolio of 10 prints. Please note - making enlarged negatives will not be part of this workshop - If you need more info on how to make/get enlarged negatives please contact the Center. Additional information will be sent upon registration.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: CPW members $275 / non-members $295 
lab fee: $65
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                 TOP

A teacher who tailors to your specific concerns and interests, she'll help you to map out your goals and focus on your individual vision. This class will challenge you to get out of individual photo routines and try something new. Whether you are just starting out or are more advanced, this documentary workshop is perfect for those who need a shot of inspiration in order to pursue their photographic dreams.

ANNIE GRIFFITHS BELT has been a National Geographic photographer since 1978. While National Geographic has employed many women as freelance photographers since 1953, only four including Annie, have held full time staff positions. She's worked on stories about Lawrence of Arabia, California's Baja Peninsula, the Sea of Galilee, Petra, Van Couver, England's Lake District, Sydney, and Jerusalem. Her images have appeared in Life, GEO, Smithsonian, Fortune, American Photo, Time, Stern, and Paris Match, among many others. Cathy Newman features her stories in the acclaimed book, Women Photographers at National Geographic. Additional book projects include A Day in the Life of Ireland, Baseball in America, The Power to Heal, Women in the Material World, A Day in the Life of Hollywood, and A Day in the Life of Italy. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide and she has received awards from the National Press Photography Association, the Associated Press, the National Organization of Women, and the White House News Photographers Association. In addition to her photography, Annie has been a picture editor on more than a dozen books and is a consulting editor at World Magazine. She was a visiting professor of photography at Ohio University and a featured speaker on the National Press Photographers' Flying Short Course.

Participants should bring: camera, plenty of film, and a portfolio of 10-20 images.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: CPW members $275 / non-members $295
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                              TOP

Amazing light and form is why George Holz's photographs are celebrated worldwide. Join us for this two-day workshop and learn from this renowned photographer and teacher. This class will re-ignite your imagination, help you go beyond the predictable, and address creative approaches to the human figure from both modern and classical art.

Holz will provide his insight during a thoughtful sharing of work, and then we'll set out to make new pictures. You'll expand your creative vision beyond the ordinary and experiment with non-conventional thought processes and techniques. Photographing with male and female models on location with both indoor and outdoor opportunities for shooting, Holz will reveal his signature lighting and camera techniques and discuss how to work with models and the importance of establishing a relationship of respect. As a mentor Holz is graced with a special talent to help participants with individual vision and hopes.

GEORGE HOLZ studied with Helmut Newton and worked in Milan, Italy before opening his NYC studio in 1985. Since then he's gone on to became one of the most respected and sought after photographers in the industry. His photographs have appeared in numerous magazines including Italian Vogue, French Elle, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Zoom, Esquire Vanity Fair, New York, New York Times Magazine, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, and Newsweek. Among many celebrities, Holz has photographed Madonna, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Hopper, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and President and Mrs. Clinton. His fine art pictures have been exhibited at the Staley Wise Gallery in NYC, Fahey/Klein in LA, G. Ray Hawkins in LA, Robert Klein in Boston, and remain on permanent display in the museums at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY and the Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. His latest book is due for publication in the coming year.

*PORTFOLIO REVIEW REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION Please send 10-15 slides or prints (no larger than 11x14") (labeled with your name, image title, date, size), SASE or return postage for material return, and your completed registration form. You will be notified of status within 7 business days after receipt of material. Note: portfolios will be reviewed throughout the season and may be send at early as March 25, 2002.

Please bring: any special fabrics, props, etc, camera(s), film, and a portfolio of 10-20 prints.
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $290 / non-members $310
model fee: $50
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                 TOP