Through image making, critique, historical overview, and editing, this workshop will explore how to tell visual stories and form a cohesive narrative body of work that can be published. The workshop is open to those who may be just beginning this path and to those who may have a project nearing completion.
Students will have opportunities to present work and the class will collectively consider sequencing, narrative, and potential strategies to create a personal vision that resonates. We will discuss what strategy and personal approach will best communicate complex social, cultural, personal, or political issues. Further, we will explore what makes a body of work interesting and publishable.
During the workshop you will be exposed to the work of great documentary photographers, as well as to writings about the documentary tradition. Most importantly, you will photograph and immerse yourself in spirited exchanges of ideas as we attempt to reduce a tiny area of the moving world to a set of still images, creating pictures with strong personal points of view that have the power to tell a story in a unique, convincing, and visually compelling way.
