The Griffin Museum is pleased to offer this advanced beginner - intermediate level project development program that will help photographic artists to develop their skills, hone their style, and provide the structure necessary to create a new photographic series or enhance an existing body of work. This workshop will provide mentorship, and the framework of group critiques, as students work towards developing or completing a full photographic series.
Participants will define what a series means for them, discuss ways that other artists have approached beginning a body of work, experiment with developing new ideas and styles, explore the ways that writing can support a project, refine how to speak about your work, and learn the importance of editing and sequencing to create a clear and powerful narrative.
Participants do need to have a basic, working knowledge of image capture and print output (whether you print yourself or through a lab), as well as editing and image management software such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom.
Level: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate.
Dates: Jan 30, Feb 27, Mar 26, April 30, May 21, and Jun 11, 2024.
Days and Times: Tuesday evenings, 6pm - 8:30pm, ET. Six monthly sessions (One Tuesday each month, Jan - June 2024, ONLINE).
Course Fee: $695 members / $745 non-members (non-members will receive a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).
About the Instructor:
Judith Pishnery is currently the Photography Director at Kennesaw State University. There she is responsible for the oversight and structure of the university's Photographic Asset Library and she manages a team of professional / editorial photographers who capture the people and stories that make up the rich fabric of the university and the community that surrounds it.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Pishnery was the Executive Director at the Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta's oldest photographic arts center. While in this role she curated multiple exhibitions each year, and provided mentorship, taught many photo-based workshops, and was selected to serve as juror for multiple portfolio reviews locally and nationally, including PhotoLucida and PhotoNola.
As a professional photographer, Judith has worked on assignments for editorial, catalog, advertising, corporate clients and more. As well as, personal fine art projects, and travel photography worldwide.
Ms. Pishnery has over 20 years of teaching experience, having taught photo based art at the graduate and undergraduate level, for Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta College of Art, The Portfolio Center and was the Chair of Photography at Gwinnett College. In addition, she has served on the working boards of APA (American Photographic Artists), and the Advisory Board of Atlanta Celebrates Photography. She also served on the mayor's City of Atlanta Arts Council / Arts Granting Committee.
Judith holds an MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design, and her work is held in multiply private collections.