Date: November 21st & 22nd

Time: 10am to 4pm (lunch and refreshments will be served)

Held at The Center on 4, this workshop will help students to deepen their practice by first looking at and examining their zone of comfort. Which pictures are perhaps too easy and comfortable to make? What kinds of photos are the students not taking because the risk involved feels like it's too much? Some great photographers, such as André Kertész or Lee Friedlander, mostly remained within their zone of comfort throughout their careers. Others, such as Diane Arbus, overcame personal limitations (such as shyness) to photograph in situations where that must have felt risky. Finally, the workshop will ask questions about the need to photograph - which photographs are necessary for the photographer to seek out?

Students are asked to bring in two photographs that initially inspired them to go into photography and will have class critiques on their work.

‘I will make a presentation of my work as well as a speculative lecture on photographers' zones of comfort. Brief supplemental lectures may be given based on which topics arise in classroom discussions.’

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