Photography and Poetry have long been linked. While they are quite distinct art forms, there is a lot to be learned from the traditions of poetry that can help us in our photographic work.
In this workshop, we will look at how we can borrow poetic devices such as metaphor, parallelism and symbolism to create a visual language. Over the course of six weeks, students will be given prompts, brief lectures, optional readings, in-class critique, along with examples of photographers making poetic images, writers whose work is full of imagery, and artists whose work encompasses both. Examples will also be given on ways to create images from words (i.e. erasure poems, collage, etc.) and words from images (i.e. Ekphrasis, a poem that responds to a piece of art).
This class is open to photographers who would like to write poetry (and / or lyrical prose) but also to photographers whose goals are to make lyrical photographs and simply be inspired by writing.
