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The Work Before the Work: Idea-Building Using Photographs and Words (Live Online)

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Overview

This engaging three-day workshop with photographer and writer Odette England is designed to help photographers generate, nurture, and sustain creative ideas. Through a wide range of experimental, reflective, and playful prompts and exercises, participants will learn to embrace surprise, trust their creative instincts, and explore ideas with depth and flexibility. 

Rather than focusing on a specific genre or outcome, this workshop centers on process—how ideas take root, evolve, and find form. Activities will include expansive journaling, collaging, sequencing, basic bookbinding, screenings, presentations, and group discussions, all aimed at unlocking new ways of thinking and making. Collaboration will be encouraged, and most learning will happen by doing. 

Whether you’re feeling stuck, returning to an unfinished project, or just beginning to explore new directions, this intensive offers tools to support a more dynamic, intuitive, and sustainable creative practice. You’ll leave with a collection of exercises and ideas to revisit long after the weekend ends—plus renewed confidence in your ability to generate work that feels both personal and resonant. 

And yes—above all, fun is part of the process. 

This workshop is strictly limited to 12 students.

Taught by

Los Angeles Center of Photography

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