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NEW DATE!!!
Sat-Mon,
August 6-8
The
digital age is giving documentary photographers and photojournalists
extraordinary new ways to tell stories. With these new tools for creating
and disseminating work, we can also exercise a greater level of narrative
than ever before. Still, without an understanding of passionate
storytelling, commitment to our subjects and a concern for making a
difference, these new tools are rendered meaningless.
This
workshop is for the serious amateur or professional who wants to gain a
better understanding of storytelling, creating visual narrative, learning
what new multi-media tools are available, how most effectively to utilize
them, and how to finish a project and get it out into the world for others
to see.
During
these intensive three days, Ed Kashi will show how you can develop an idea,
get funding, create access, determine your goals, and most importantly
disseminate your work to create an impact on the subject, issue and
hopefully society. We will look at photographs, multimedia and short films
to consider the range of opportunities out there at the moment. Students
will have a day of shooting and then review, plus a group critique of each
student's portfolio/essays during the workshop. You will leave this workshop
with a better understanding of how to put a visual narrative together for
both print and online formats, as well as get inspired to be a concerned visual
storyteller.
ED
KASHI
is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to
documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A
sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are the
signatures of his work. Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited
worldwide, garnering numerous awards. His innovative approach to photography
and filmmaking produced the Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook. This creative
and thought-provoking piece has been shown in many film festivals and as
part of a series of exhibitions on the Iraq War at The George Eastman House.
Also, an eight-year personal project completed in 2003, Aging in America:
The Years Ahead, created a traveling exhibition, an award-winning
documentary film, a website and a book.
In 2002, Kashi and his wife, writer / filmmaker Julie Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media. The non-profit company has produced numerous short films and multimedia pieces that explore significant social issues. The first project resulted in a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured.
Please
bring:
a digital camera, a portfolio of no more than 25 images but preferably also
a photo essay or multimedia piece, either in progress or completed
Class limit: 15
Tuition: $425 / CPW members: $395
Public
Lecture:
Saturday August 6, 8 PM
Participants should have a basic working
knowledge of their iPhones, including how to download and launch apps,
pinch to zoom, etc.
DAN BURKHOLDER has been teaching digital imaging workshops for 14 years at venues including The School of the Art Institute, Chicago; The International Center of Photography, New York; Santa Fe Workshops; Anderson Ranch and many others. His award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, is a standard resource in the fine-art photography community. His new book, iPhone Artistry, will be out in late spring 2011. Dan’s workshops are famous for their energy, information, and humor.
Please
bring
your iPhone 3G (or newer) with the latest iPhone system software
installed. Please make sure there is enough free space on your
iPhone for images and new apps.
Class
limit:
12
Tuition: $325 / CPW members: $295
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MARK CITRET studied under Ruth Bernhard and previously worked with Ansel Adams, both in the field and in the darkroom. He makes his living as an architectural and fine art photographer and teacher at the Universities of California at Berkley and Santa Cruz. His work is represented and shown by Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC, amongst other prestigious galleries; additionally his images are in numerous collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His monograph, Along the Way, was published in 1999, and his most recent book, Halcott Center, a Catskill Mountain Valley was published in 2004.
Please
bring
a portfolio of 8-12 prints, camera, plenty of your favorite film,
(tripod and cable release optional but encouraged). Suggested reading
prior to class: Art & Fear, by David Bayles & Ted Orland
(Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA).
Class
limit:
15
Tuition: $295 / CPW members: $265
Public
Lecture:
Saturday August 13, 8 PM
Students will spend the first two days of class in CPW's digital lab editing images and creating digital negatives. A condensed explanation of Photoshop will be included. The third and fourth day will be spent at WSW preparing copper plates, from sensitizing to etching, as well as printing and editioning an image. Each student will leave the workshop with satisfying results for a first photogravure print. Interested students should have some background in printmaking and/or photography.
JEAN
SANDERS attended
Southern Illinois University, graduating with a BFA in printmaking in
1987. Soon after, she attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison and
received an MFA in Printmaking in 1990. While attending graduate school
she received a research assistantship and helped launch Tandem Press as a
student printer. Currently,
Jean is an Associate Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University.
During the past decade Jean has focused her attention on the art and craft
of photogravure in relation to her imagery.
www.jeanmsanders.com
Please
bring:
A complete list will be sent upon registration
Class
limit:
7
Tuition:
$750 / CPW Members: $700
Lab
Fee:
$75
Optional:
If you want to
continue working an extra day after the workshop, you can rent the
printmaking facilities at WSW for only $100.
Supplies included.
Learn more about Women’s Studio Workshop at www.wsworkshop.org
Jona Frank & Alan Rapp: The Photographer/Editor Collaboration - Publishing a Photographic Book
Sat-Sun, August 20-21
Much
more than a portfolio of a photographer's work, a photography book is a
special medium unto itself with a long pedigree and particular
conventions. Photographers who effectively adapt their work to book form
find special insight into the medium and gain unique career-building
skills.
Led
by two inspiring instructors—Rapp, a photography book editor with more
than fifteen years publishing experience and Frank, an acclaimed
photographer with two books to her name (one of which, RIGHT: Portraits
of the Evangelical Ivy League, they produced in collaboration)—this
two-day workshop addresses the process and key creative aspects of
photographic bookmaking.
Throughout
the weekend we will discuss how a photography book is conceptualized,
explore different types of formats, review the edit and sequence in terms
of book conventions, and learn about production factors and costs. You
will also learn about how to research the book market to best identify
potential publishers, and how to work up an effective book proposal and
maquette. Finally, we will discuss useful strategies for marketing and
promoting your book. Important industry shifts such as the economic
pressures on publishers and the rise of print-on-demand publishing will
also be discussed.
This
workshop is for photographers who have a well fleshed-out body of work
that could soon be brought to book form.
JONA FRANK is an
award-winning photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work is
in many private and corporate collections, as well as in museums including
the Getty Museum and SF MOMA. Her photographs have appeared in print and
online in such media as Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The New
Yorker, and Mother Jones. Her films have been screened on the Bravo
Network, PBS, and at the Sundance Film Festival. Her acclaimed first book,
HIGH SCHOOL (Arenas Street, September 2004), explored the lives of high
school youth across the United States. RIGHT, her second book, was the
basis for In the Paths of Righteousness, an exhibition at the California
Museum of Photography. Frank’s third book will focus on the lives of
boys in California. www.jonafrank.com
ALAN E. RAPP
runs ARstudio, a visual book packager and consultancy, and is the former
senior editor of art, design, and photography books at Chronicle Books.
Artists he has collaborated with in bringing their work to book
publication include Jim Marshall, Elinor Carucci, Misty Keasler, Terry
Falke, Stuart Klipper, David Maisel, Linda Connor, Jo Whaley, Nick Brandt,
and Jona Frank. Through panels, lectures, workshops, and portfolio
reviews, he works to inform photographers about the conventions of
photography books and their market. Mr. Rapp is also a writer who has
contributed to Dwell, Photo District News, Design
Observer, and Photo-eye Booklist, among other publications. alanrappstudio.com
Please
bring: A portfolio of work that you envision as a book project and
would like to pursue to publication and two favorite photography books to
be used as a reference point in the discussions.
Class
limit:
15
Tuition: $325 / CPW members $295
Public
Lecture by Jona Frank:
Saturday August 20, 8 PM
Phil Mansfield: Intro to Photoshop
Sat-Sun, August 20-21
This
workshop is the essential and exciting first step for anyone interested in
jumping the digital divide and learning about the basics digital darkroom
techniques. Through demonstrations and hands-on exercises over the course
of these two days, you will be lead step-by-step through the basics of
Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Lessons will cover a range of topics
including selections, layers, image modes, tonal and color correction,
paths, filters/special effects and file formats (i.e. JPEG, TIFF). In
addition, you will receive an overview on scanning film negatives &
prints, ink jet printing, workflow and the importance of color calibration
technology. All students will leave with a sound foundation, ready
to move forward in the digital realm.
PHIL
MANSFIELD joined the CPW staff as
the Digital Lab Manager in the Spring 2008. His photography has
appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Psychology
Today and Scholastic Magazine. His photographs were
recently featured in Eat Fresh Foods: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs,
a children’s cookbook published by Bloomsbury. www.philmansfield.com
or www.cpwdigitalkitchen.blogspot.com
Please
bring: a
digital storage media device like CD’s, DVD’s, thumb drives or an
external hard drive
Class limit:
7
Tuition: $255 / CPW members: $225
Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb: Personal Photojournalism
Sat-Sun, August 27-28
This
two-day hands-on workshop is about photographing the world around you in a
direct and spontaneous way. Above all, it is about seeing, emphasizing the
photojournalistic and documentary traditions, and developing your own
unique vision.
A
workshop for amateurs and professionals alike, the weekend will begin with
careful reviews of your work that will lead to assignments for afternoon
shooting. Alex and Rebecca, a dynamic and gifted team, will engage you in
discussions about how you can be spontaneous and intuitive - the
photographic responses essential to a good picture - and how to build a
body of work that represents your stance or attitude toward the world. In
group critiques we will explore the relationship between images from
sequencing and the interaction of photographs to the emotional
implications of color and pragmatic limitations. This workshop will set
you on course to creating a strong and meaningful body of work.
ALEX WEBB is best known for his vibrant
and complex color work, especially from Latin America and the Caribbean. His ninth book, a survey of 30 years of his color photography, The
Suffering of Light, will be published in spring 2011 by Aperture. Alex has exhibited at museums worldwide, and his work is in the
collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NY, and the Guggenheim Museum, NY. Alex became a full member of
Magnum Photos in 1979. His work has appeared in National
Geographic, the New York Times
Magazine, Geo, and other
magazines. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 for continuing
working in Cuba.
For
the past decade, REBECCA NORRIS WEBB has been exploring the complicated relationship between people
and the natural world. Originally a poet, she has shown her photographic
work internationally. Her photographs are in the collections of the George
Eastman House Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (upcoming), and the
Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Rebecca’s work has appeared in Time, New Letters, Orion,
and other magazines. Rebecca’s
third book, My Dakota, will be published in 2012, and exhibited at the Dahl Arts
Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, fall 2012.
Alex and Rebecca will have a joint exhibition of their Cuba photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from May 2011 to January 2012.
Please
bring:
portfolio of 20-30 images, digital camera,
laptop, and a portable device to transfer
files. (If you do not have a digital camera, a Canon digital SLR can be
borrowed from CPW.)
Class limit: 15
Tuition:
$325 / CPW members: $295
Public
Lecture:
Saturday, August 27, 8 PM
Left image: Alex Webb, from The Suffering of Light. Right image: Rebecca Norris Webb, from My Dakota
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Phil Mansfield: Intermediate Photoshop
Sat-Sun, August 27-28
Are
you ready to take your Photoshop skills to the next level? If you know
your way around Photoshop but need to improve your digital skills, this
two-day workshop is just the ticket. Without rehashing Photoshop basics,
you will take your images from capture to print with new and exciting
Photoshop techniques. In this intermediate-level class, using CS5, we will
go deeper into Adobe Photoshop’s ability to help artists and
photographers create, manage and output their ideas. Working with
this latest version of Photoshop, we will help you learn more of the tools
and tricks available as you strive for greater control of your digital
images.
We
will cover an array of topics including digital workflow, (utilizing Adobe
Bridge and RAW files), advanced selecting techniques, color correction,
advanced blending techniques, retouching, creating actions, understanding
masks and working with text.
You
will leave this class with new skills and renewed excitement for your
personal and professional digital photography!
PHIL
MANSFIELD joined the CPW staff as
the Digital Lab Manager in the Spring 2008. His photography has
appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Psychology
Today and Scholastic Magazine. His photographs were
recently featured in Eat Fresh Foods: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs,
a children’s cookbook published by Bloomsbury. www.philmansfield.com
or www.cpwdigitalkitchen.blogspot.com
Prerequisite: Participants should have a basic working knowledge of
Photoshop CS5. Basic familiarity with Macintosh helps too.
Please
bring:
a digital storage media device like CD’s, DVD’s, Thumb drives or an
external hard drive
Class limit: 7
Tuition: $295 / CPW members: $265