Projects

With the advent of so many means to produce project-oriented work, the process of working through a project from concept to finished piece can be a challenge — especially for photographers who are so used to working with the individual “greatest hits” type image-making that has dominated fine art photography for so many decades.

  • What if your subject leads you to more than one image — indeed beyond the image and into a larger scale project?
  • How does one define a project?
  • How do you manage it?
  • How do you overcome the barriers?
  • How do you get unstuck?
  • How do you keep the momentum flowing and the project progressing toward its conclusion?
  • As far as that goes, how do you conclude it?
  • And when?

These and other issues are all part of the learning curve for project-oriented photography — the kind of work that often ends up as a monograph, PDF publication, an exhibition, or a web presentation.

In this workshop, I’ll be joined by a true contemporary master of photography, Huntington Witherill. His experience and examples offer a practical look at how an accomplished and productive photographer has worked with projects and completed them— in fact, done so successfully for years. Bring your projects to this workshop — finished or unfinished — and we’ll focus on the processes needed to bring your photographic projects to completion.

This workshop will also include critique sessions, so bring work you'd like to have reviewed by the instructors. We'll concentrate on comments that will move your project toward a finished, unified body of work, rather than a series of unrelated prints. We'll discuss style issues, presentation consistency, and elements of finishing a project professionally.

Dates

  • October 1-4, 2008 - four full days

Recap

Yet another workshop concluded with lots of good experiences, full of fun and learning. Huntington Witherill's participation in this workshop made it one of the highlights of the entire workshop season. This was a "creative juices" experience that everyone agrees was a unique and stimulating workshop. Again, thanks to all the participants and especially to Hunter!

- Brooks

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Huntington Witherill

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