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Shanberg
& Slota: Getting Known / Being Shown
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Sat-Sun,
July 7-8
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 Do
you feel that if only you had the right portfolio, success would be within
your reach? Do you wonder how to present your photographs to a commercial
gallery, magazine editor, not-for-profit artists space, and/or museum? Do
you know what grants, fellowships, and artist’s residencies are
available to you? Are you unsure of how to utilize the Internet to advance
your career? Which portfolio events to attend? How to price your prints?
Are you yearning to have your photographs published? Join Ariel &
Gerald as we explore how to negotiate the art world from the vantage point
of a successful artist and a well-versed curator.
This two-day intensive is for
committed photographers who have produced a developed body of work they
are ready to bring into the world but aren’t sure where and how to
begin. This kind of group discussion is dreamed about but rarely heard! In
class you will learn how to refine your resume, present your portfolio,
and create an artist statement. The workshop will include portfolio
reviews and each student’s images will receive Ariel and Gerald’s
undivided attention. You will leave this workshop ready to hit the real
world, with more confidence and a map for your professional journey.
Past participants of Getting Known /
Being Shown have gone on to win awards, receive solo shows, secure
commercial representation, get published in major publications, and
realize their dreams.
ARIEL
SHANBERG
is the Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock,
which offers year-round programs in education, exhibition, publication,
and services for artists. Ariel sees hundreds of artist portfolios and
submissions annually, and has curated many exhibits, written catalog
essays on contemporary photographers, and served as a juror for various
grants and fellowships. He has been a portfolio reviewer at national
conferences including FotoFest, Photolucida, and SPE.
GERALD SLOTA, a dynamic and energetic artist,
whose work is represented by Hasted-Hunt Gallery in NYC, has
been widely exhibited across the US
and abroad. Most recently he has had a solo show at the George Eastman
House in Rochester,
NY, and has been
included in exhibits at Recontres
D’Arles,
France,
and at Langhans Galerie in Prague,
CZ. His work is also included
in collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the
Whitney Museum of American Art, and has appeared in numerous
publications including the New York
Times Magazine, Discover,
Harper’s, Blindspot, and Aperture. Slota has
taught and lectured at many institutions and has garnered many awards
including a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship Grant from the New Jersey State
Council on the Arts, a Polaroid 20x24” Grant, and a MacDowell Artist
Residency, among others.
please bring: a portfolio of 15-20 prints (no slides, CDs, drugstore
photos, or stock pictures!), artist statement, and resume or
background bio.
Class limit: 12
Tuition: $245 / CPW members $225
PUBLIC LECTURE WITH SLOTA, SATURDAY,
8PM
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Barbara
Ellison: Getting the Best out of your Canon Digital SLR
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Sat-Sun,
July 7-8
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 In
this two-day workshop you will learn from a pro how to produce the highest
quality images with a digital camera. This class is the first step for any
photographer interested in learning about digital SLR cameras and the
benefits of digital imaging - no previous digital experience is necessary!
Ellison will demystify the manuals and offer hands-on instruction on how
to obtain the best results from a digital camera. She will start from the
beginning and cover the basics of how to use a digital camera, including
digital capture, white balance, JPEG vs. RAW files, and color space, in
addition to composition and exposure. Participants will be provided
with a Canon digital SLR for class instruction, but if you have your own
digital SLR you are welcome to bring that for class use. You will
shoot images and Ellison will show basic Photoshop steps to prepare images
for printing, including unsharp masks, levels, and resizing. All will
leave with new inkjet prints and a sound foundation to move forward in the
digital realm. Participants should have a basic photography foundation
and know how to use a standard film based SLR, but no prior digital
experience is required.
BARBARA ELLISON
has photographed and painted since she was a child. As a ProMarket
representative for Canon USA since 1989, she
has a diverse range of experiences - from assisting photographers in their
studios to working events such as the Kentucky Derby, US Tennis Open, the
Olympics, and political conventions and inaugurals nationwide. She has
taught numerous digital applications, technique workshops, hand coloring,
and floral photography workshops. Her photographs have been exhibited at
galleries in Florida,
Ohio,
and Maryland
and have been published
in the books: Digital Photo Art by Theresa Airey, Professional
Techniques for Black and White Digital Photography by Patrick Rice,
and Digital Infra-red Photography also by Rice. She
currently resides with her husband, two dogs, and a cat in Goldvein, Virginia. You can contact her at bellison@cusa.canon.com.
Please bring:
blank CD ROMS to store images – PC or MAC okay and a laptop (if you have
one) is optional.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: $205 / CPW members
$185
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Robert
Glenn Ketchum: Catskills & the Hudson
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Sat-Sun,
July 14-15
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 Spend
two days with the foremost environmental photographer, Robert Glenn
Ketchum, photographing the light and majesty of the Catskill Mountain
region in the height of summer! This class will address the importance of
understanding what you see and how the camera records it, as those are
often very different end results. Open for all level of camera users, both
film based and/or digital, color or black-and-white, camera basics will be
discussed, but the workshop will focus on understanding light, your
film/digital capacity, the importance of the edit - how to use it, how to
control it, and making new work.
Combining lectures, discussions, work critiques, and afternoon field trips
in the Catskill Mountain landscape to make new work, you will be
encouraged to find new ways of looking at your photographs and work
towards developing a portfolio that reflects your personal style. A
recurring theme in the lectures will be simple exercises to overcome the
technology of the camera as an obstacle to the creative process and help
you feel more comfortable with your equipment. Ketchum will also open
discussions about important topics relevant in photography today including
views of the professional climate and digital transitions.
ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM’s work, has
helped define contemporary photography as well as address critical
environmental issues, making him one of the most successful
artist/activists in American history. Ketchum has used color and the
landscape to explore printmaking, environmental media campaigning,
laborious silk embroidered tapestries, and most recently he has learned to
embrace the digital darkroom. His photographs are collected by major
museums and since 1968 have been featured in more than 500 shows
worldwide. In 2006 the
Amon Carter
Museum
presented a
35-year retrospective of his work accompanied by a book, comparing and
contrasting his imagery and accomplishments with photographs from the
Eliot Porter archive. His books Rivers
of Life: Southwest Alaska, The Last Great Salmon Fishery, and Wood-Tikchik: Alaska’s
Largest State Park address fisheries management and habitat
fragmentation in a relatively pristine Alaskan environment now threatened
with oil development. Additional major titles include The
Tongass: Alaska’s Vanishing
Rain Forest, Northwest
Passage
, and The
Hudson River
and the
Highlands. Ketchum received the Lifetime Achievement
Award in Photography and Conservation by Aperture Foundation and was named
by Audubon magazine as one of
the 100 people “who shaped the environmental movement in the 20th
century.” Others on that list included legendary individuals John
Muir, Rachael Carson, and David Brower. Outside
magazine’s national survey of workshops found Robert was widely
considered one of the two finest photography teachers in the country! For
more visit www.robertglennketchum.com
Please bring:
a maximum of ten sample images to share, camera, plenty of your favorite
film or digital memory card, and optional laptop, tri-pod, and camera
filters.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: $315 / CPW members
$295
PUBLIC
LECTURE, SATURDAY,
8
PM
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Sylvia
Plachy: Editing the Photo-Essay
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Sat-Sun,
July 21-22
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 This is an intensive editing class for
those who want to use photographs to tell a story – be it a personal
journey or professional assignment leading to a photo essay for a book,
magazine, or publication. Drawing on over thirty years experience, Sylvia
will guide you to examine your personal voice, clarify what type of
project you want to pursue, and learn how to best create and sequence your
own photo essay.
A photograph can stand alone and be rich in meaning, but when
you string a number of images together, like lines in a poem or phrases in
music - in an essay, show, and especially a book - the pictures become
much more than the sum of their parts. Over the course of our weekend together, we will share
portfolios and learn how to edit, sequence, and paste our pictures for
essays and books. We will examine format, size, layout, and title, as well
as whether words or other visuals are needed. We will look at the big
picture and leave with a clearer vision. This class is open to all
photographers who are currently working on a project, are interested in
learning how to best edit their work, and/or those who are eager to begin
a narrative from an existing body of work.
SYLVIA
PLACHY was
a staff photographer for the Village
Voice for over 25 years. Her photographs have also appeared in the New Yorker,
Grand
Street
,
New
York
Times Magazine, Fortune, and ArtForum. Her first book, Unguided
Tour, published by Aperture, won the 1990 ICP Infinity Award for best
publication. Additional books to her credit include Red Light, a book about the sex industry, Signs and Relics, and most
recently a personal history of
Eastern
Europe
, Self-Portrait
with Cows Going Home. Plachy’s photographs are in the collections
of the
Museum
of
Modern
Art,
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman House, and the
Minneapolis Institute of Art, among many others. She has had solo exhibits
in NYC,
Chicago,
Philadelphia, Budapest,
Berlin, Paris,
Tokyo, Vancouver,
and her work will be shown as part of Photo Espana this June. Sylvia is
the recipient of the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in
Budapest,
Plachy currently lives and works in NYC. She has taught many
workshops at the CPW and we are honored to welcome her back on the
occasion of the Workshop’s 30th anniversary!
Please
bring: 20-30
images from a cohesive body of work or project to sequence, 1-2 books you
consider a successful model, as well as any writing or other visual hints
that you may wish to include in your layout.
Class
limit: 12
Tuition:
$315
/ CPW members $295
PUBLIC
LECTURE, SATURDAY,
8PM
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Doug
Menuez: Art vs. Commerce
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Sat-Sun,
July
28-29
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 In
this two-day workshop you will learn how to find the balance between
personal and commercial work in order to build a satisfying creative life
in photography for the long term. A workshop for all kinds and levels of
photographers, it is designed for those who have reached a plateau in
their careers, who want to move to the next level creatively, and
reconcile the never ending conflict between doing the work you love and
what you must do to pay the bills. Award-winning documentary photographer,
Doug Menuez, will share what he’s learned about keeping your voice in a
commercial world and provide practical solutions for changing your life
and work.
Combining portfolio review, dialogue, and practical applications, you will
learn new strategies for success including how to edit the strongest
possible portfolio, self-financing personal projects, finding sponsors,
landing the most rewarding commercial work, and pain-free financial
management skills that most shooters never learn. You will also review
work by the legends - famous fine art photographers and photojournalists
who have succeeded in taking commercial assignments without compromising
their vision or integrity. Additionally we will examine how money talks:
including proven marketing techniques, cash flow management tools,
budgeting, writing book and project proposals, and other core survival
skills that every photographer - fine art, photojournalist, or commercial
shooter- must know to thrive. You will leave this workshop with a clearly
defined vision of yourself and your work, a refined portfolio, and a
working understanding of basic business and marketing skills you’ll need
to move ahead!
DOUG MENUEZ spent 25 intense years traversing the globe after leaving
art school for photojournalism, and then becoming one of the most
successful advertising photographers in the US.
Starting at the Washington
Post and then freelancing for Time, Newsweek, Life, Fortune,
and People, he covered assignments ranging from the famine in Ethiopia, to sports and
celebrities, to the AIDS crisis. Menuez has made portraits of everyone
from Mother Teresa to Robert Redford and President Clinton. His long-term
personal work covering
Silicon Valley
led him to award winning
commercial work where he was able to bring his documentary eye to
campaigns for Chevy, Coke, Emirates Airlines, Bank of America, Hewlett
Packard, Siemens, and Nokia, among others. These commissions allowed him
to finance his personal work, including his most recent book project, Heaven,
Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México. Recently, Stanford
University Library acquired Menuez’s archive.
He is currently working on two new books and lives with his family
in
Woodstock, NY. His website is www.menuez.com.
Please bring: 20 of your best photographs in a finished portfolio format,
as well as lots of other work you’ve left out or were afraid to show,
laptop or paper notebook, as well as a disc with digital jpeg versions of
all images (no more than 80, jpeg files to fit within 1024 pixels by 720
at 72 dpi).
Class limit: 15
Tuition: $315 / CPW members $295
PUBLIC LECTURE, FRIDAY, JULY 27,
8PM
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