Do you know where you're going next with your photography -- or where it's taking you? This intensive, IN PERSON, weekend workshop will help photographers begin to understand their own distinct way of seeing the world. It will also help photographers figure out their next step photographically--from deepening their own unique vision to the process of discovering and making a long-term project that they're passionate about. This workshop is for passionate amateurs and professionals, for documentary photographers and fine art photographers, for photography students and seasoned photographers. It will be taught by Alex and Rebecca, a creative team who often edit projects and books together -- including their book and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, and their recent books, Brooklyn: The City Within, and Waves. Included in the workshop will be an editing exercise, either a photographing or editing assignment, as well as an optional pre-workshop assignment. WHAT TO BRING TO THE WORKSHOP THE FIRST DAY: For the first day of the IN PERSON workshop (Saturday October 19), participants should bring about 30 PRINTS (Please bring prints, NOT digital files. The prints don't have to be fine prints, they can be small, inexpensive work prints, such as inkjet prints, or cheap machine prints made at your local drugstore. The main focus is the image, NOT the quality of the print.). Those working in series of photographs should bring a selection of photographs from two or three series, or an excerpt from a long-term project. We are interested in each participant's individual vision, rather than whether he or she can work professionally or not. So bring the personal project or projects--the work that represents your passions, your obsessions--not the set of photographs done simply to satisfy an editor or art director. NOTE: For those who choose to do the editing assignment, they can bring up to an additional 70 small prints of the project that they are working on. WHAT OTHER THINGS YOU'LL NEED FOR THE WORKSHOP: Since we'll be working digitally, we request that participants who choose the photographing option to bring: -Digital camera to bring to the workshop on Saturday, the first day. -Laptop to edit with, which you can leave at your hotel or home. -Thumb drive or portable hard drive to deliver your photography assignment to the digital assistant on Sunday morning at 9:30am. RELATED EVENT (mandatory for participants of the workshop) : Friday Evening, Oct.18, 2024, there will be a kick-off event, which will begin with a joint lecture, and then a Q&A and a book signing, by Rebecca and Alex Webb at the Griffin Museum. The joint lecture will be from 6pm-7:30pm, followed by a book signing and Welcome Reception. Click HERE for more details. *NOTE: This is a workshop for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally. **NOTE: All participants and instructors will respect the current COVID protocols. ***NOTE: You must be 18 years old or older to register for this workshop. (High School students under 18 years old, can take this workshop if they register with an accompanying parent, who is also taking the workshop. Please contact Donna Garcia for details: donna@griffinmuseum.org) Level: All Max Number of Students: 16 Location: Friday's kick off event (lecture and book signing) is at the Griffin Museum in Winchester, MA. The Weekend Workshop is at historic Sanborn House in Winchester, MA, just minutes away from the museum. For more information about Sanborn House click HERE. Dates & Times: (October 18, 2024) Friday evening's kick off event is from 6pm - 9pm, and the Weekend Workshop (October 19 & 20, 2024) is from 9:30am - 6pm daily (times may vary slightly). Registration Timeframe: Registration opens April 30, 2024 and closes October 7, 2024 or when filled. Workshop Price: Member Price, $550.00 / Student or Educator Price, $550.00 / Non-Member Price, $600.00 (Non-member price includes a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value). Griffin Museum Student Scholarship: One tuition-free scholarship for this workshop will be made available for a university photography student, or photography school student, part-time or full time, undergraduate or graduate, (including those who graduated anytime in 2024). Submissions will be juried by Alex Webb, Rebecca Webb, and Griffin Museum of Photography's Executive Director, Crista Dix. Please submit a bio and cv, link to a website, or selection of 5 images and a brief statement of how the workshop would impact your creative practice. Use the Google Form linked here to submit your information. If you have issues uploading, please send this packet of information to photos@griffinmuseum.org. Announcement of the scholarship student will be made in October. Submissions open: Monday, May 6, 2024. Submissions close: Friday, Sept. 23, 2024. Notification: Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. This event is now SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist, please email donna@griffinmuseum.org. There is still one scholarship spot available for a qualified student. Please see above for details. About the Instructors:
Alex Webb has published more than 15 photography books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey book of thirty years of his color photographs. He's exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has been a Magnum Photos member since 1979, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and other publications. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His other books include La Calle: Photographs from Mexico and the collaborations with Rebecca Norris Webb: Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, exhibited at the MFA, Boston; Brooklyn: The City Within, shown at the Museum of the City of New York; and most recently, Waves (Radius, 2022), which will be exhibited at the Provincetown Arts Association and Museum (PAAM). His most recent book, Dislocations, was published by Aperture in fall 2023. Webb is currently working on a project on U.S. cities.
Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her text and photographs in her nine books, most notably in her monograph, My Dakota--an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly--for which a solo exhibition of the work appeared at The Cleveland Museum of Art in summer 2015, among other venues. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. A 2019 NEA grant recipient, her 10th book will be released from Chose Commune is fall 2024, called A Difficulty Is a Light, a hybrid poetry book punctuated by fifteen of her photographs, with an accompanying exhibition at the Alessia Paladini Gallery in Milan, Italy. Norris Webb is currently working on an ongoing series of photographs in the Dakotas, called Badlands, as well as her upcoming book, Glimmerings, a selection of some thirty years of her photographs.
If this event is sold out, please email donna@griffinmuseum.org to be added to the waitlist.