Summer Workshop Program 2023
$900-Sustaining Rate, $700-Regular Rate, $500-Student/Teacher Rate
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Explore photography as a universal storytelling language. From its inception the photographic medium has been expected to prove, explain or entertain; its very mechanical nature asks it to be precise. The workshop is designed to challenge your notions of what your photographs can do. During this week, you will concentrate on storytelling and finding clarity within what you make and how you speak about it. You may be a photographer who is compelled to build a narrative or a writer who longs to explore how plot can translate into imagery. Your stories may be fact or fiction, staged or found, poems or novels.
You will be asked to think about, shoot and edit your photographs to most effectively present your ideas and create a moving experience for both yourself and the viewer. You may explore text, multiple images, bookmaking, collage and even the use of audio/music. All working methodologies will be encouraged and explored. This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to challenge your current photographic practice; break old habits and create new ones. We will look at multiple genres of photography such as portraiture, landscape and still life as a visual language with which to tell a story and create a project.
Participants will be encouraged to write a concise artist statement that speaks to their intentions, practices and technical choices. There will be ongoing presentations of artists working with the notion of narrative and storytelling as well as short readings. A portfolio review will also be offered for each participant.
Please be prepare to show samples of work that you would like to discuss and perhaps build upon. A powerPoint or Keynote presentation of this work is preferred.
Biography
David Hilliard creates large-scale multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. He exhibits nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards including the Fulbright and Guggenheim. His photographs can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among others. He is regular visiting faculty at Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and Lesley University. Hilliard’s work appears in many publications and is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in NYC, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta and in Provincetown by the Schoolhouse Gallery.
